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Mr. McCarthy's stirring and picturesque story will prove one of the most entertaining of the summer books. For sale by all booksellers; or will be sent by mail on receipt of price by the publishers, D. APPLETON & CO. 72 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK The Week The Business World FINANCIAL The effect of the St. Louis Con- suffering any diminution of output from the plants AMERICAN FIRE vention and its platform on the stock market was less noticeable than many had anticipated, but as the results had been practically certain for a week or more this is not surprising. The course of prices of stocks was upward until the middle of the week, when a cessation of the foreign buying which had been a favorable feature produced a check and some reaction. On Friday a recovery to some extent followed, but the last days of the week were very dull and the amount of business small. The loan market in money was slightly more active, but rates remained practically unchanged. In general trade matters the beginning of the dull season was evidently at hand. There was certainly no improvement in the industrial situation. Prices were lower for iron and steel, lumber, wheat, sugar, lard, and some other staples, while pork, cotton, and petroleum were higher, and flour, coffee, leather, and oats remain about the same. The exports of the week were 3,020,000 bushels-a slight increase over those of the previous week and of the same week last year. "Bradstreet's " reports 265 failures, as compared with 234 the previous week and 231 in the same week of last year. An interesting feature in the industrial situation is related to the cotton crop, which seems likely to be of only moderate dimensions this year, while the supply of unsold cotton on hand is rapidly diminishing. The "Financial Chronicle" says: The visible supply of cotton of all kinds in the world decreased 102,000 bales last week, and now stands at 2,280,000 bales. This amount is 1.156,000 less than last year at this time, is 705,000 bales less than two years ago, and shows a decrease of 798,000 from the supply of three years ago. The total amount of American cotton in the world lost 103,000 bales during the week, and is now down to 1,814,000 bales, or 1,215,000 bales smaller than it was at this time last year. The total available supply of cotton in this country was reduced 22,000 bales during the week. Port and interior stocks here are now down to 390,000 bales, against 523,000 bales last year at this time. The demand for this scant supply keeps well up to the level of the most prosperous years of the cotton-manufacturing era. Anthracite Coal An extremely important and elaborate series of articles on anthracite coal has been published in the "Bond Record" of this city. They have been prepared by Mr. William Griffith, who has collected a great amount of information, and has with much skill summarized and tabulated the results. The maps and diagram accompanying the articles present the striking facts in the history of anthracite coal mining in a graphic way. While the articles include in their scope the history of the discovery of anthracite and its early workings, the chief value lies in the estimates of the probable future supply of the different regions. The final result of the estimates gives the total anthracite tonnage supply of the future as 5,073,786,750 tons. The author states that one hundred and nine years represents the life of the anthracite industry on the basis of the shipments made in 1895. The future tonnage of the anthracite region would completely fill an ordinary city street sixty feet in width to a depth of sixty feet, or say to the tops of the fifth-story windows, for a distance of 8,800 miles. Our readers will be interested in the following conclusions in regard to the capacity and future of the Wyoming and Lehigh regions comparatively: The largest proportion of the annual increase of tonnage has been furnished by the Wyoming region. The Lehigh and Schuylkill regions in 1876 jointly supplied 54.47 per cent. of the tonnage for that year, and the Northern field 45.53 per cent.; but the percentage of annual output has been gradually decreasing in the former and increasing in the latter region, until in 1894 Lehigh and Schuylkill jointly furnished 45.05 per cent. and the Wyoming 54.95 per cent. of the year's output. In other words, the Wyoming region has been increasing its output at the rate of about 800,000 tons or more per year, while the other regions combined have increased but little more than about one-half this amount. In order to maintain this pace in the Wyoming field, it would be necessary to construct, equip, and develop to full producing capacity about six large modern collieries of average capacity per year, without already in existence. With our knowledge of existing conditions, the continuance of such a pace seems well-nigh impossible. We should rather say that the region is nearing the point of maximum output, and the increase of tonnage must soon begin to diminish. region, working 300 days per year, is about 67,000,000 The present annual capacity of the anthracite tons, while the market will take but 46,000,000, or capacity 21,000,000 tons ahead of annual consumption-a situation ofaffairs which requires shrewd and careful management to maintain a profitable business. How long this condition can endure depends on the market and the manner in which the industry is handled by those in control. With the present rate of increase of annual consumption it ought not to continue many years, for the Wyoming and Lehigh regions, which together yield about 70 per cent. of the annual tonnage, seem to be nearing their maximum output (the Hazleton district of the SAFE INVESTMENTS Lehigh region having probably already reached this point). GOOD AS GOVERNMENT BONDS- Made in strictly first-class Real Estate Mort- 5% 6% 7% JOHN P. DORR & CO., Investment Brokers farmers' minds. We quote some interesting Guaranty Trust Co. facts collated by Mr. G. E. Walsh for the "Country Gentleman:" The wide extent of territory over which this crop can be made to succeed gives some assurance for the future that sugar may become one of the leading products of the United States. Hundreds of tests by the State experiment stations have demonstrated the fact that the best sugar-beets can be raised in this country, and that the crop can be made profitable both to the farmers who raise the beets and to the sugar-refiners who convert the roots into the commercial article. Germany began the manufacture of sugar from beets that yielded only 5 per cent. of sugar, and, by selection and long years of careful calculation, the percentage of saccharine matter in the beets was raised to 12 and 14; but here in our country beets yielding from 14 to 16 per cent. are raised without special selection or culture. We pay annually to foreign countries for the sugar consumed in this country about $150,000,000, and should this vast sum be saved by American farmers raising enough sugar for home consumption, the results would be most gratifying. The world's sugar crop for 1894 surpassed that of any other year in the history of the industry, but the increase was the greatest in beet-sugar. The Germans in particular have greatly increased the supply of beet-sugar, and they have succeeded so well in their undertaking that cane-sugar is rapidly being crowded for the supremacy. The building of a beet-sugar factory is an expen of New York Formerly New York Guaranty and Indemnity Co. Mutual Life Building 65 CEDAR STREET, N. Y. Capital, Surplus, $2,000,000 $2,000,000, ACTS AS TRUSTEE FOR CORPORATIONS, FIRMS, AND INDIVIDUALS, AS GUARDIAN, EXECUTOR, AND ADMINISTRATOR. TAKES ENTIRE CHARGE OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATES. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS J. NELSON BORLAND, Assist. Treas. and Sec. Samuel D. Babcock, sive undertaking, and it has required considerable SAFETY DOCUMENT FILE practical demonstration of the wisdom of such investments to induce capitalists to put their money into them. A good factory.costs all the way from two to four hundred thousand dollars, according to its capacity; and in addition to this a guarantee of sufficient raw material to keep the factory going must be obtained. The farmer and the capitalist must work together in order to produce beet-sugar. Unless the factory is built for extracting the sugar from the beets, there is no market for the products of the farmers; but, on the other hand, the best-equipped factory in the world is handicapped unless a specified acreage of sugar-beets is guaranteed. The cost to raise a ton of beets is from $2.50 to $4, and the average yield is from ten to twenty tons to the acre. Factories pay $5 per ton for good sugar-beets, a trifle more or less if the beets vary in their sugar contents. The profits from raising the beets can thus be readily figured out, but, as in all other farming, the actual amount made will depend after all upon the methods and economy of the farmers. 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