METALS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2010, 26 May 1885, Page 4

METALS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD.

Thk follow in ate the names of thobe metals valued at over $1000 an avoinlupois pound, the figures gi\ en rcptesenting the xaliie per pound :—: — Vanadium — A white metal discovered in 1830, $10,000. Rubidium — An alkaline metal, so .called for exhibiting d.uk led lines in the spceti inn analysis, $9,070. Ziiconiuni — A metal obtained fiom the mineiahi /iico and hyacinth ; in the form of a black yow der, $7,200, Lithium — An alkaline metal, the lightest metal known, $7,000. Uhicinum— A metal in the form of a grayish-black powder, $,'3,400. Calcium— The metallic base of lime, $1,500. Stioutium — A malleable metal of a yellowish colour, §1,200. Terbium — Obtained from the mineral gadolinite, found in Sweden, #4,080. Yttrium — Discovtied in 1828, is of a grayish-black colour, and its lustre perfectly metallic, $4,080. Erbium — The metal found associated with yttrium, $3,400. Cerium — A metal of high specific gravity, a grayish white colour, and a lamellar textuie, Didymium— A metal found associated with cerium, #3,200. Ruthenium— Of a gray colour, very hard and brittle, extracted from the ores of platinum, £2,400. Rhodium— Of a white colour and metallic lustre, and extremely hard and brittle. It requires the strongest heat that can be producd by a wind furnace for its fusion, $2,300. Niobium — Pieviously named columbi num, first discovered in an ore found at New London, Connecticut, $2,300. Barium — The metallic base of baryta, §1,800. Palladium — A metal discovered in 1802, and found in very small grains of a steel-gray colour? and fibrous structure, $1,400. Osmium — A brittle, gray-coloured metal found with platinum, §1,300. Indium — Found natiso as an alloy with osmium in lead giay scales, and is the hcawest of known substances, $1,000.

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THE STOCKYARDS OF CHICAGO. Wk extract the following interesting disruption from the last letter of the Lyttelton Times' Ameiican correspondent : — No New Zetland visitor to Chicago can afford to pass without visiting the stockyard*. They lie south-west fiom the Court-house, about four miles ; they cover 200 act es, and are connected with nil the lailway lines that tun into the city. The live tiunk lines brought in dming the year 1884 1,512,212 cattle from othci souices 3G6.732, or a total of cattle 1,874,044. One establishment, which combines theopeiation of shipping and canning beef, has a slaughtering opacity of 1300 head a day, or over •100,000 head annually . When we add to this the capacity of other similar, though smaller concerns, we have a grand total of ab.mt 2,500,000 head a year. The vast legion ef country lying between the bioad piaiucs of Texas to the south and the immense grass pampas of Wyoming and Montana to the north, in the State of Texas, is the great leservoir from which the bulk of our cattle is diawn. By the late census, about one-eighth of all the homed cattle in the United States was contained within the borders of Texas. There aie se\eial ways of becoming inteiested in the cattle business ou * noi them range. The most common way, perhaps, is to contiact in Texas during the winter for a given number of 1 and 2year old steers, to be delivered on a certain rain in Wyoming or Montana the coming sumniLr. The average cost of lOOOsteets, one half yearlings and onehalf 2-yeai olds, would be about £3 to £4 pei head respectively. With the early starting of grass in April the cattle are on the trail and headed noith ward to their new home, a thousand miles away. If all go well, they will be turned over about the middle of July, and ;n; n the hands of careful and skilful men will come tlnough with little loss of flesh or of number. On auival they are counted and branded, and then turned loose upon the lanpe. If the lange is good, the cattle will be prep.xied to stand the sevuity of the winter — the thermometer often ranging from twenty to forty degrees below zoro, and the winds blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour. That cattle live and thrive under such conditions is one of the mysteries of the business. Throe yeais ago an investment of £10,000 was considered a lespectable amount with which to start business. Since then, large amounts of British capital h.ne been introduced, and there ai c <-e\eral companies whose stock-ledgers foot up a million or more of inonej . The most txpeuenctd owneis do not allow the beef to be stnt to maiket till it has been on the r.uiche two winters The second year is what tells both in the weight and quality of the beef. Suppose at the end ot the second year the owner decided to send 300 beeves to the Chicago stockyaids. He will require for their transportation 24 cais, that will cost from £20 to £25 per car according to distance. Yards for watci and feeding are found at convenient distances along tlio line ; but with tho best of attention theic will lie Koine shiinkagc. The cattle at the railw ay station will be worth from £7 to £8 per head. Tho cost of transportation will add about £1 and £2 per hoad. The trains will arrive in Chicago in early morning The cattle will be unloaded, classified, and entered upon the books at their grade and in the name of the consignee, and, after being fed and wateied, .ue leady for the inspection of buyers. The telling and buyiDg take very little tune. The cattle are vow leady for slaughtering. Theic are two distinct departments iv the large establishments, the "--hipping" and the "canning." To the former the choice corn fed animals and the best from the glass ranges are sent, and the latter obtain the culls and snubs from all "•ouiccb. The «lau<!ht<Ming of each is substantially the name up to u ccitain point, when the inferior is p.isscd to the cinniiippioccsa.

Tiik Popular Science Monthly records tic interesting fact that an Italian ship has been sheathed with glass plate «, oast like lion plates, so has to tit to the hull, to take the place of copper sheatings. The joints of the plates are made watertight by the use of watei proof mastic. The advantages claimed for glass over copper aie its insensibility to oxidation and its exemption from incrustation. A new club, just founded in New York by a group of bibliophiles, deserves the attention of English lovrrs of books. The Grolies Club, the abode of which is to be 64, Madison avenue, has been staited "to promote the literary study of the arts pertainimng to the pioduction of books." Its tiist publication is a reprint of the famous " Decree of Star Chamber concerning Printing," issued on •Inly 11, 1637, the tyranny of which drew fiom Milton, Beven years later, the counterblast of the " Arcopagitica." A copy of this reprint, the entile issue of which amounts to only one hundred and fifty, lias just readied uh, and we have soen no product of the modern press, in France or England, whiih rivals this example of Ameiican typogi.iphy in exquisite execution. It is bound in vellum paper, with a graceful design in gold upon the cover, and the type is that of the first of living Ameiicau printers, Mr Theodore de Vinne. It having been stated that Mr \V. Holman Hnntwas asking £20,000 for his new picture of "The Triumph of the Innocents," Mr Hoi man Hunt wiites as follows :— " I am reminded of a strong loason foi correcting this mis statement. The sum I once offered the painting at was considerably nhort of this although, indeed, had the amount named been paid me, bo great has been the expense in executing the woik, o\\ ing mainly, it is ti tie, to exceptional cucumstances, that j the liberal sum published would scarcely pay me the commonest journeyman's wages. I would not at this time undertake to deliver the pictuic for even twice the money named. The only natural patrons of woi ks for me, as I follow my ait, with costly and unceasing effort to piocure thorough Oriental truth for Eibilical subjects, are the people. On previous occasions the inteicst in the result of my study in Ryiia itself of the nature still there— which best perpotmtea the ehaiacter of the nation from which wo get our religion — has been adequately declared by the public, or I should not have been able to per&evere in my course. It is to them I now look for recognition more than to any einglo individual, be he ever so much a millionaire or an enterprising middleman." The Bad and Worthless

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