CHRISTIAN ALLHUSEN 



reconstruction there is no enterprise that has 

 been so conspicuously successful in this 

 neighbourhood as the Consett Iron Works." 

 Were we permitted to enter more minutely 

 into the story of this transaction, we may say 

 it would be a very entertaining and instructive 

 one, and one that would bring out the 

 remarkable astuteness of Christian Allhusen, 

 how well he knew "what he was about." 



The following facts may indicate the mag- 

 nitude and prosperity of this great concern 

 with which Allhusen had so much to do. 

 The Consett Iron Co., Limited, was regis- 

 tered in 1864. The original capital of the 

 Company was ,400,000, but it has since been 

 increased at various times (viz., 1866, 1872, 

 1880, and 1886) to its present nominal amount 

 of ; i, 000,000. On the old shares the 

 following dividends have been paid: 



1880-1 ... 26^ per cent. 



1881-2 ... 20 



1882 3 ... 



1883-4 ... 



1884-5 10 



1885-6 ... 10 



1886-7 .-. " 

 1887-8 ... II 

 1888-9 ... 20 



