Name of trust. Standard Sardine company (consolidation of leading Maine canneries) Standard Shoe Machinery company (to rival the United Shoe Machinery company) Standard Telephone company. Steel Beams association.. Steel Bridge Trust (proposed).. Steel Rail Manufacturing association... Steel Steamers (forming with all manufacturers on great lakes)... Common Preferred stock. stock. $5,000,000 2,500,000 $2,500,000 10,000,000 *20,000,000 40,000,000 50,000,000 15,000,000 15,000,000 *2,000,000 9,000,000 20,000,000 Tanners' Trust 50,000,000 Telephone Trust (opposition to Bell company, embracing 90 per cent factories producing independent apparatus-proposed).. 7,000,000 Tennessee Coke, Coal and By-Product company.. Temple Iron company (consolidation seven anthracite coal companies in Pennsylvania) Texas Cattle Combine (proposed)... 40,000,000 The Art Manufacturing Company of New Jersey. 500,000 Theatrical Trust (fifty big ones work together). 30,000,000 Thrasher Combine (twenty-eight factories).. Tin Sign Combine.. 4,000,000 Tobacco Warehouse Trust (said to have been formed in Danville, Union Bag and Paper company (will control, as claimed, entire paper bag business of the country).. 16,000,000 11,000,000 Union Carbide company (acetylene consolidated). 6,000,000 Union Copper Mining company.. 3,000,000 Union Light and Power company (four companies of Salt Lake and United Fruit company (ten big companies tropical fruits, including United Ice Cream company (four companies in Chicago). United Laundries company. United Lighting and Heating company. United Power and Transportation company (to control street rail- United Railways and Electric company of Baltimore (all in city)... United States Biscuit company (all big biscuit and cracker com- United States Bobbin and Shuttle company (proposed). United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company (ten companies) United States Dry Paint company (forming-mineral paints) United States Dyewood and Extract company (leading manufactur- United States Envelope company (ten companies). United States Finishing company (three New Jersey companies- United States Flour Milling company (nineteen mills, including United States Glue company (forming to control glue product). 20,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 12,500,000 24,000,000 14,000,000 8,625,000 8,625,000 30,000,000 25,000,000 1,200,000 800,000 15,000,000 15,000,000 25,000,000 3,000,000 4,500,000 7,500,000 4,000,000 6,000,000 750,000 3,750,000 5,000,000 35,000,000 5,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 62,854,600 62,254,600 United States Playing Card company (allied with three other companies) 15,000,000 10,000,000 *10,000,000 1,250,000 1,000,000 3,600,000 United Traction company (controls all electric roads in Reading, Name of trust. United States Rubber company. United States Sugar Refining company (glucose).. United States Varnish company (fifteen leading varnish concerns)... United Traction and Electric company (all roads in and near Provi- United Wine and Trading company. Common Preferred stock. stock. $23,666,000 $23,525,500 2,000,000 18.000.000 18,000,000 25,000,000 40,000,000 30,000,000 8,000,000 1,400,000 700,000 United Zinc and Lead company (to unite mills in Missouri and Kansas) Universal Fuel company 1,000,000 Upholstery Combine Valve Manufacturers' Trust (proposed).. Virginia and Carolina Fertilizer company. 24,000,000 Virginia Electric company of Norfolk (consolidation all companies in city) Western Drug Jobbers (western combination). Western Elevator association (forty in Buffalo). Western Pennsylvania Stove Manufacturing Trust (now forming)... Western Strawboard company (proposed combination of strawboard manufactories) Westinghouse Air-Brake company (bought American and Boyden companies in 1898).. *30,000,000 *15,000,000 15,000,000 2,500,000 2,500,000 Wholesale Druggists' National association (twenty-five firms) Wire Cloth Manufacturers' Association of America (twelve firms agree on prices)... 5,000,500 Wire Fence Trust (to compete with Steel and Wire Trust). Writing Paper Trust (forming with thirty-five mills in the Connecticut valley) *40,000,000 Yarn (cotton hosiery) Manufacturers (fixed prices). 2,500,000 Zinc Trust (proposed to consolidate zinc and lead mines in the Jop The following statistics will convey a fairly complete impression of the volume of the world's coffee trade and of the relative importance of the various producing and consuming countries: MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES--1896-98. [United States Geological Survey.] 1896. 1897. 1898. 188,000 81,499 30.765 1,300,000 601 17,170 (none.) 163 PRODUCTS. METALLIC. Pig iron (spot value).....long tons Silver, coining value....troy ozs. Gold, coining value......troy ozs. Copper, value at N. Y. city....lbs. Lead, val. at N. Y. city, short tons Zinc, val. at N. Y. city, short tons Quicksilver, value at San Francisco.... ..flasks Aluminium, val. at Pittsburg.lbs. Antimony, value at San Francisco... .short tons Nickel, val. at Philadelphia, lbs. Tin... ..lbs. Platinum, value (crude) at San Francisco...........troy ounces Total val.of metallic products Quant'ty Value. Quant'ty Value. Quant'ty Value. 8.623,127 $90.250.000 9.652,680 $95.122.299 11.773.934 $116,557.000 58,834.800 2.568.132 460.061,430 Petroleum. .....barrels 60,960,361 Natural gas.. 58,518,709 60,568,081 13,002,512 40,929,611 55,354,233 44.183,359 13,826,422 14,750,000 Brick clay. Clay (other than brick), long tons Cement.. barrels 9,513,473 Mineral waters Phosphate rock.. ..long tons 930,779 Salt..... Limestone for iron flux, long tons 4,120,102 Zinc white... 6,473,213 10,989,463 4,136,192 22,362,282 2,803,372 1,039,345 4,040,839 15,973,202| 2,060.000 4,247,688 1,400.000 25,000 573 344 288.982 675,400 16,000,000 530,455 60,913 326,826 8,178,283 11.968.708 9,781,501 Fibrous talc. .short tons 46,089 *Sheet, pounds. †Scrap, tons. Crystalline, pounds. § Amorphous, tons. Highest, lowest and average price of bar silver in London, per ounce British standard (.925), since 1833, and the equivalent in United States gold coin of an ounce 1,000 fine, taken at the average price. SILVER WITH GOLD. The following table exhibits the value of the pure silver in the silver dollar, reckoned at the commercial price of silver bullion, from 60 cents to $1.2929 (parity of our coining rate) per fine ounce. [From report on precious metals in the United States, 1892, and subsequent ad ditional reports by the director of the mint.] COMMERCIAL RATIO OF SILVER TO GOLD EACH YEAR SINCE 1688. From 1688 to 1832 the ratios are taken from Dr. A. Soetbeer; from 1833 to 1878 from Pixley and Abell's tables; and from 1879 to 1898 from daily cablegrams from London to the bureau of the mint: |