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3i The Record and Guide. January 8, 1887 131 121 116 248 318 256 318 318 853 352 364 364 3G4 .364 399 432 494 1011 1019 1019 1019 1031 1035 1035 1035 1035 1035 1066 116 236 Leroy sfcreefc, near Hoi^ton street. Six-story brick dwelling tenements with two stores, 35x75x95. Rent $2,900....... 24,000 East 149th street, between 1st and 2d avenues. Five-story brick tenement, 25x65x100.3. In good order. Rent $2,1C0. 18,000 Cannon street. Nos. 54 and lOy, between Delancey and Riving. ton streets. Old buildings................................ 21,000 Greenwich street, near Frankliu. Pour-story coruer store, threa or five years lease................................... Near Jersey Ferry, on corner. Five-story building, 26x80. To lease for 10 years......................................... East 13th street. No. 131. Three-story house. To rent. Good order and location, all improvements, etc. Rent $1,300,... Full front on 10th avenue, between ll4th and ll5th streets. Eight lots; three frame houses............................ 65,000 Brooklyn, N. Y. At Atlantic basin. Sixteen granite stores, four stories, 50x100 each.................................. 400,000 East 46th street. No. 111. Four-story high stoop brown stone, 20x50x100............................................... 15,000 South, Water and Montgomery streets. Factory property. Nine-story brick buildings. Fif teen lots of ground...... 300,000 10th street, between 1st and 2d avenues. Four-story house, 25 x55x94.6. Rent$l,700.................................... 17,500 West ISOfch street. No. 218. Three-story high stoop brown stone, 20x55x100. Perfect order, papered and painted. Priceasked.............................................. 20,000 Over $100,000 to loan at 4J^ %, or will divide in smaller sums.. Brooklyn, corner Wythe avenue and North llth street. Property 100x100, with factory buildings.................. 18,000 18th street, corner 4th avenue. A furnished apartment (three rooms) in " The Florence," with use of bath, to let. Per week...................................................... 25 00 $1,5C0 to loan on 23d or 24th Ward or Westchester, im¬ proved property......... ................................. South of Canal street, near Hudson street. A large plot of ground 93x100. Has old budding on same renting for $6,000 per year............................................ 75,000 Broadway, on corner, near 23d street. Four lofts over store to lease until May 1,1891. Per month $500................ Single 8th avenue lot, near 113th street........................ 9,000 Sth avenue, near 133d street. Single lot. Neighborhood all built up.............................,.................... 11,000 Ou prominent 6th avenue corner. Choice plot of lots, 75x100. 39,000 The entire property 150 feet front on East street, running to Tompkins street, with a frontage of 200 feet on Delancey street, together with the water right, grant, etc., and half pier No. 59. The frontage on the water is 150 feet. See diagram at the Exchange................................. 17.5,000 Mulberry street, near Park street. Three-story front, four- story rear, brick.......................................... 16,000 West 56th street. Five-story brick tenement, 35x83x100. Will exchange for free country property........................ 25,000 Lexington avenue, near 23d street. Three-story high stoop brown stone, 20x90, AU modern improvements. Easy terms..................................................... 20,000 $6,000 to $8,000 ou good second mortgage. New York city property.................................................. $100,000 (investment funds) to loan on city property in loans of not less than $10,000 at 5 ^.............................. Wesfc 18th street, No, 343. Five-story brick flat with brown stone trimmings, 25x80x100, Annual income $4,200...... 34,000 WITHDRAWN. lllth street near Madison avenue. Three story residence.... East 13th street. No. 131 to let............................... 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 164.0 146.6 151.6 17a.3 159.7 133.5 119.6 135 1 The World of Business. Trade Stmtistics for 1886. Under the head of " Traffic Statistics " the current number of the Rail¬ road Gazette presents an interesting compilation of statistics showing the increase and development of the Uuited States in population, agriculture and commerce during 18£6. Assuming that the country's population in any one year is 2 per cent, greater than the population in the previous year, plus the year's immigra¬ tion, the population of this country since the taking of the last census is thus figured out: 56,955,000 68,493,000 69,991,000 518,592 349,030 3-^8,917 1830................ .?0.1.'^6,000 1884............. 1881................ 51828,0n0 1885............. 188J................ 53.6.'54.00O 1886........... Ib83................ 55,333,000 In these same years the immigration has been: l8Sn................ 4.07.377 I 1884............. ],S81............... 669.4S1 I 1885........... 18S3................ 788,992 1886............. 1883............... 603,332 | The agricultural industry, which occupies by far the largest area of any of the counti'y's industries has steadily developed since 1873, despite the periods of financial depression through which the country has passed in the interval. The record for the last seven years is as follows, the figtu-es given being the acreage devoted to the respective mdustries: Grain. Cotton. Total. 1830.................... n),l03,000 15,475,000 135,57S.O0O ISSl ................... 1:2,559,000 16,^49,000 138,808;00O IKSi.................. 125,721.000 16,277,000 141,998,000 1SS3..................... 129,'i7C,000 16,778,000 146,454,000 18«4 ................ 135,08i,(lOJ 17.440.000 15i,fi22.000 1885 '................. 134,!J64.000 18,3'^,000 l.'i2,865,000 1886..'.................... 14(.',469,000 18,557,000 159,026,000 From the above-mentioned grain areas the yearly product has been in millions of bushels: 1880. l^Sl. 1882. 18R3. 1884. 1885. 1886. H-2,704 2,053 2,688 2,6-43 - 2,971 • 2,9^9 2,826, Or stated in the form of the annual yield for each inhabitant: J • In the same period of seven years the cotton production has been in millions of pounds: 1880, 1381. 1882. 1883. 1S84. 1885. 1886. 3,203 2,586 3,431 2,7.59 2,738 3,179 3,164 The table of the exports of grain, flour and breadstuffs during the first eleven months of each year show an almost steady decline both in amount and v.alue. In detail it is as follows, the amount of the exports being stated in millions of bushels and the value in millions of dollars: 1880. 1881. 1883. Amount........ 275 5 211.7 144 8 Value............ 2.)7.3 210.3 165.6 The exports of pork products have also noticeably decreased since 1880, as is shown by the following table of the first eleven months ineach year, the amounts being given in millions of pounds: 183). 1881. 18S3. 1883. 1884. 1SS5. 1886. 1,079 920 570 681 529 740 751 Including the above-named exports the total exports of merchandise from this country from January 1st to December 1st of each year have compared with the total imports in value as follows: Exports. Imports. I8S0 .................. $790,800,000 $649,400,000 1881.................... 75i,500,000 612,900,000 1833.................... 675,000,000 693.3 0,000 18-3.................... 719,600,000 633,100,000 1834.................... 653,000,000 587,100,000 1885.................... 614.000,000 535,700,000 1886.................. 627,900,000 607,100,000 Whereas the shipments of anthracite coal from the mines has unfalter¬ ingly increased in the past decade (39,335,013 tons being shipped in the first eleven months of 1886 against 18,831,-378 tons during the same period of IbTi) the receipts of lumber at Chicago have been decreasing. This year the receipts have been the smallest since 1880, the figures being in millions of feet: 1880. 1881. 1883. 1881. 188t, 1835. 1886. 1,563 1,879 2,118 1,910 1,839 1,745 1,690 Turning aside from the consideration of the individual branches of com¬ merce and regarding the entire transportation of the country during the past few years, the wide divergence iu the volume of East and West bound traffic is particularly noticeable. Stated in tons, the total transportation on the through lines during the last seven years has been as follows (eleven months in each year being considered): West bound. East bound. 1880.................... 1,738.157 10,472,227 1881.................... l,9.-.9,954 10,131.298 1882................... 2,237.008 8,879,099 1883.................... 1.768,006 9.34,5.59 1884.................... I,8u3.5l7 9,189,8i9 1885................... 1,906,570 10,3-8,130 1886................... 1,797,783 10,.505,665 The total mileage of railroad in the country at the close of each year and the number of miles constructed in each year have been: 183-.'. 1881. 1833. 1883. 1884. 188.J. 1886. Total mileage... 93,349 103,145 114,713 121,454 125,378 128,967 136,467 No.miles built.. G,37d 9,796 11,593 6,819 3,974 3,131 7,500 True Inwardness of Railroad Pools, The Eastern railroad managers and Wall street speculators are bitterly antagonizing the pending Inter-State Commerce biU. Their opposition is especially directed against the anti-pooling provisions, and they are making the most absurd pleas in support of their claim that it will be impossible for them to continue to do business under the regulations of the bill if it should become a law. The claim that the pool system is the only one under which they can treat all shippers fairly is a particularly specious one, but it is the acme of irony as applied to Chicago. It is well known that the pooling plan has been operated, almost fiom the first, in direct discrimination against the commercial interests of this city. The managers have adopted rates to be strictly adhered to in the transportation of property from this point eastward, but allowed them to be cut ad libitum all around us. The plea that they could not help what other lines were doing is the baldest kind of a pretense, but it is the only one that could be advanced to cover up the iniqui¬ ties of the pool syptem under the operation of which business here has for so long suffered as from an incubus that could not be shaken off. Even the so-called "differentials," nominally established by them as equitable, have been grossly unfair, as they are framed on the principle of including the cost of a transfer at this point, while it is well known that the transfer service has to be paid for in addition by the owners of the property. But those differentials have been lived up to only just enough to permit the claim that they are strictly adhered to. The discrimination has been at times so brd as to entirely cut off the shipment of grain from this city for months together, except as it could be done by a very few favored individuals who were " let in " to the charmed circle and allowed equally "good terms" as those conceded to shippers n the country. And this method of " doing business " has not only been grossly unfair to the patrons of the roads, but there is reason to believe it has been used for the purpose of hoodwinking that part of the dear public which invests its money in stocks and bonds. The Chicago rates are pointed to us as the ones on wjiiich the whtl) btisiness of the lines is conducted, and they are used as a basis on which to make up from the admitted tonnage the estimates of weekly earnings. This may not be done in all cases, but that it has been done can scarcely be denied. When the figures are ulti¬ mately corrected the mischief has been already accomplished and the dear lambs nicely landed in the den of the wolf, from which there is no return. One of the most agreeable anticipations of the passage of the new bill is that it will put an end effectually to tbis nefarious plan which has, at one and the same time, discriminated against merchants here, allowed one set of officials to rake in blood money by dividing with their favorites, and permitted another set to scalp fat pickings out of the stock markets by taking advantage of a public misunderstanding about the earnings of the roads. If it do this ifc will have accomplished a grand reform in the inter¬ ests of common fairness and honesty which would amply make amends for any little disadvantage that might accrue to the widow and orphan stock¬ holders for whose welfare the whimpering apologists for a vile swin le appear to be so very solicitous. But no intellgentman can entertain the idea that there would be any such loss. Straightforward business methods are the ones that best pay aU but knaves, and the contrary kind does not always bring satisfactory recompense even to them. The cotmtry wants a law that will allow the charging of rates that will be a fair compensation for services rendered in the transportation of persons and property, abolish imfair di-criminations by making all pay alike for the same or equal ser¬ vice, and give to the patrons of the lines the immense sums that are now annually paid out for commissions or donated in the shape of free transpor tation to those whose influence it is desired to retain in favor of perpetua¬ ting the present iniquitous system of railroad management. The amended Culiom bill promises to accomplish all this, and to do it with the least possible amount of damage to the parties concerned in making the change. Opposition to it can come only from those who fancy their interest lies in the perpetuation of present abuses and should be treated with the contempt it deserves —Chicago Tribune. How It Has S.windled Is. _ It is enough to-make a horse laugh to look back and reflect how the