Show Quicksilver Production Washington 4Consul Mosby reports re-ports to the state department that the estimated es-timated stock of quicksilver on hand in Hong Kong is 5500 fiiske and that the amount imported during 1881 was 14 010 flasks at 5675 to 59 per picul Mosby says the consumption per month is estimated at about 1600 flasks in the manufacture of vermillion The prices are governed by speculative transections and consequently unsteady at one time being run up as high as 100 per picul In the consular report just issued Fer dinand Vogelerconsul general at F ank f rnontheMain regarding quicksilver quicksil-ver in Europe siys the production for the world in 1879 was 22300P flask California Cal-ifornia making 73000 Alm den Spain 30000 and Idria Austria 10000 flasks In 1878 9 Calift rnia produced more than onehalf of all the quicksilver consumed in the world Vogeler says Owing to the excess of production over the consumption con-sumption brought shout by the development develop-ment of California mnes the general tendency of the market seems to be downward although the interest of the Rothschilds of London who control the Almaden mines is to maintain the price |