The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 61William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1869 |
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... August 16 was opened to Sheridan , near the North Fork of the Smokey Hill , 405 miles . In operation January 1 , 1868 : . State line t Coyote .... Leavenworth Branch . Wyandotte pur ... State Line to Kaus is City . Total Added during ...
... August 16 was opened to Sheridan , near the North Fork of the Smokey Hill , 405 miles . In operation January 1 , 1868 : . State line t Coyote .... Leavenworth Branch . Wyandotte pur ... State Line to Kaus is City . Total Added during ...
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... August 20 or 25 , and that a further supply of 130,000 to 140,000 bales is required to run up to " new cotton , " say 15th October . Assume the want for home use up to 15th October to be the maximum , say , And that there hal be a ...
... August 20 or 25 , and that a further supply of 130,000 to 140,000 bales is required to run up to " new cotton , " say 15th October . Assume the want for home use up to 15th October to be the maximum , say , And that there hal be a ...
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... AUGUST , 1. Loan " . 266,541,732 Date . February 6 . February 13 .. 284.380.407 February 2 .. 263 42,06 February 27 .. 261.871,897 March 6 .... March 18 ..... 261 , 69,695 8,794,543 34,247,321 34,247 981 84,273,885 34,690,445 34,74 ; 810 ...
... AUGUST , 1. Loan " . 266,541,732 Date . February 6 . February 13 .. 284.380.407 February 2 .. 263 42,06 February 27 .. 261.871,897 March 6 .... March 18 ..... 261 , 69,695 8,794,543 34,247,321 34,247 981 84,273,885 34,690,445 34,74 ; 810 ...
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William B. Dana. THE MERCHANTS ' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW AUGUST , 1 8 0 9 . OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS . We cannot sympathize with the disposition shown in some quarters to underrate the importance of our foreign trade returns , as ...
William B. Dana. THE MERCHANTS ' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW AUGUST , 1 8 0 9 . OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS . We cannot sympathize with the disposition shown in some quarters to underrate the importance of our foreign trade returns , as ...
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... value . Exports , specie inc uded , gold value ..... .... $ 201,306,000 804,995,009 Excess of exports , gold value ... $ 689,00 The statistical results here presented are not such as could 82 [ August , OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS .
... value . Exports , specie inc uded , gold value ..... .... $ 201,306,000 804,995,009 Excess of exports , gold value ... $ 689,00 The statistical results here presented are not such as could 82 [ August , OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS .
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Page 256 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 338 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 338 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 90 - ... people had become unable to buy them, except in very insufficient quantities, there was a great and urgent need of something to replace the cotton seed, and restore to the soil those chief ingredients, indispensable to the production of a good cotton crop — phosphoric acid, or soluble phosphates. In this emergency came the discovery of those natural deposits. , Already too much space has been given to the effort to report faithfully the condition of the cotton culture of the United States,...
Page 427 - The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market.
Page 339 - This coincidence of the two great English commonwealths (for so I delight to call them ; and I heartily pray that they may be forever united in the cause of justice and liberty) cannot be contemplated without the utmost pleasure by every enlightened citizen of the earth.
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Page 86 - annihilation of property," for the whole labor power would have remained as before, only it would have changed owners. Precisely so stands the effect of the decree of emancipation, made as an act of war, with this difference, however, that the laborers of both races were sadly reduced and demoralized by the incidents of the war which wrought the change. The same laboring force still exists, with the exception mentioned, and except, also, that the sudden and violent change in relations between capital...
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Page 89 - ... country. A description of them and of the circumstances leading to their discovery will be found in the Appendix C, in a letter from Dr. NA Pratt, whose researches, aided by others, have opened up a treasure whose value cannot now be measured. This store of phosphates, thus prepared in nature's laboratory and laid up until the day of special need, contains just the chemical properties wanted for the cotton plant, and which the cotton seed had been abstracting from the soil. So long as cotton...