People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — FINANCE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FINANCE NOTES.

The first railroad in Siam was opened April 11. Chehalis county, Wash, has 30,000,000 feet of standing timber. The estimated revenue of the French ministry of telegraphs is £1,386,332. The banking system of the world dates from the establishment of the Bank of England, about one hundred and seventy-five years ago. A bulletin of the geological survey shows the production of minerals and mineral substances in Canada last year to have been £19,500,000.