TRADE AND FINANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3542, 4 July 1905, Page 4

TRADE AND FINANCE.

m«i4 for Uk price of a Hit *» ti>« New Tork utock exchange was W«b<n recently, whan H. £. Montgomery paid 180,000 for a seat that Wfea bought in Kih'S for WOO. The crops ot 1001 iu Manitoba were vary larg«, official returns showing 50,900,000 bushels ot wheat, 27,706,000 bushels ot onto, $,£36,000 bushels of barley, and 4,800,000 bushels of pota» tom The American Sugar Refining company, commonly called the sugar trust, has recently paid* off its mortgage of $10,000,000, which was mad« In 1891 and would not ha*c matured until 1911. The Association of Merchants in Berlin hat sent to tthe federal council • memorial asking for th<* legislative regulation of trade combinations in order that the artificial raising of priacs may be avoided. According to the estimate of the Railroad Gazette, <l,Bls miles of railrood were built in the United States la 1801, Texas leading (837 miles) in the Hat of states and territories, tilth Oklahoma (308) second, and |f<M Virginia third.