Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1922, Page 6

PAGE SIK WHEAT CLIMBS ON LATE FREEZE Lack of Snow Protection in Southwest Bullish Fac- tor in Market. CHICAGO, Jan. 33.—C tended to send wheat prices upward x of .20w protec Commission Duyers. Some m that all de- tion tn the southwes' houses were the c of them took the p pressing factors in raarket had been discounted. Opening quctations which varied from unchanged “gures to %c higher, with May $1.15 to $1.16% and July $1.03 to $1.03%, were followed by moderate gains all around. Announcement of a 2,775,000 bushel Gecrease in the United States visible supply was s subsequent bullish tn- fluence, but profit-taking sales led to @ setback in prices during the last hour. The close was unsettled tye and lo net lower, with May 31.15% to $1.15% and July $1.02 to $134. Liberal receipts made the corn mar ket relatively oasy. Aftr~ opsaing a! %c off to %o advance, May 53% to 53%o, the market kept close to the initial range. Exporters were after corn here. The close was weak at @ shade to 4c and %o net decline, May 53%c. Oats followed wheat, starting un- changed to Ko higher, May 39% to 39%o and then scored a slight gener- a) advance. Higher quotations on hogs gave pro- Visions a decided lift in value. Open High Low Close May ....116 117% 1.15% July 1.03 1.03% 1.02 Corn— - May - 53% 54 53% July - 5% 55% = 55K Oats— May 39% 39% «39% 39% July - 40 40% 40 40 Pork— May 2 Jan. z Lari— Mar. 9.93 9.87 May ...10.05 10.05 Ribs— Jan. May ....9.27 9.40 9.25 Butter and Eges. CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Butte er; creamery extras. 34c 82%c; seconds. 30240. : Eggs—Higher: receipts, 14,989 firsts, 38c: 0: miscellaneous ry firsts Q5@37c; refrigerator Chicago Quotations 33... 8. CHICAGO of Markets).—C early sales beef steers higher; spots up more; chos steers $9.50; bulk becf steers $ 8.00; she stock and bulls 15 t higher; best heavy bolognas $4 caly higher. Hogs—Receipts 49,000 40c higher than Satu: gome 190 to 225 pound hogs 5: er; shippers buying liberally, most hogs sold out of first hands, but big packers doing nothing, top $9.05; prac tica? top $9.00; bulk $8.35@8.85; pigs mostly 50c higher; ‘bulk desirable around $9.00; few $9.10. Sheep—Receipts 13.000; generally strong to 25c higher; fat lambs to city butchers $13.60; packer top _ early $13.50; strong weight yearlings $11.50; fat ewe top early $7.50; heavy $6.2 le—Reec ip mostly Omaha Quotations. OMAHA, Neb., Jan, 23—{U. 8. Bu- reau of Markets)}—Hogse-—Receipts, '8,- 500; market active, 25c and 40c high- er; bulk 180 to 210-pound butchers, $8.25@8.35; top, $8.35; bulk 210 to 300- pound butchers, $8@8.25; packing sows, $6.50@7.25. Cattle—Re 5,500; beef steers stock active, mostly 150 and “ y beeves, $7.90; bulls and veals ady; stockers and feed- ers strong; spots higher. Sheep—Receipts, 6,0 lambs and yearlings, 15 and 25¢ higher; bulk Jambs, $12.50@13; early top, $13; best 25c higher; ewe 25c hig Denver Prices. Jan. 23.—Cattle — He market 15c higher; beef 5; cows and heifers, calves, $8@11.50; bulls, tockers and feeders, $4.50 Hogs—Receipts, $00; market 2bc ner; top, $8.49; bulk, $7.85 @8.25. Sheep—Receipts, 7,800; market 25¢ ; lambs, $11.75@12 a fie a ORANGE CROP CUT IN HALF SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.—South ern California's orange crop has sut: fered from 40 to 60 per cent damage at cold snap, accord estimates furni the state division of markets here by the branch office of the st depart "The report on tho situation addg that the injury to citrus crops cannot be which will be about the middle of this ‘week. Late frosts and cold weather have unsettled the lettuce, celery. pea pnd citrus sections of the San Francisco Vegetable & Fruit exchange, accord ling to the state division of markets Late Saturday the division issued a re- port from the Imperial valley that , tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and haf suffered severely and Delleyed to be almost a complet oss, while early cantaloupes, lettuce grapefruit had been slightly dam a stockers and feeders strong to | g| Public parking places and in fact, any-|Cared “very unsanitary” ment of agriculture at Los Angeles.| xed definitely until the fruit drys out, | New York Stocks ° | Oil Securities Associated Press Leased Wire | LAST SALES, LOCAL OIL STOCKS. allis-Chalmers . : 4 Bessemer ~.-----—---- 20 ry American Beet Sugar % Big Indian --_--___ 27 30 American . ra soston-Wyoming 2. 77 72 American Buck Creek 20 American Hide and Leather pfad 614% | Burke - —------ -10 eed America: + 40 | Slackstone Salt Creek. ,31 32 American 2 206% | Black Tait American . 474 | Capxal Pete American + 66%] Columbine ~ -..___. 1p 21 American 2 33% | Consolidated Royalty ~ 1.18 1.20 American Da217a | Chappell — kak Sua 28 Amerian . 834,] Cow Gulch. au as Anaconda . 60 | Domino 02 oo Atchison ...,. 2 93% | Elihorn 06 7 AtL Gulf and W. Indies . 29%|2- T- Wilitams______ 48 5o Baldwin Locomotive . . 96% | Frantz —— 3.00 Baltimore and Ob‘o o 34% | Sates - - 22 | Bethlehem Steel “B - boy% | Jupiter ... . 03 Canadian Pactfic 124 | Kinney *. * ay Sentral Leather a2y% | Lance Creek Royalty. 06 Chandler Motors... Chesapeake and Ohio . . Chicago, Mil. and St. Paul . Chicago, R. I., and Pac. .. Chino Copper ....... Colorado Fuel and Iron . 594, | Lusk Petroleum 6 | Mike Henry - Mountain & Gulf PATE a rennswianiss 06 Corn Products . Riverton Refg. ers Crucible Steel ¥ Red Bank ... 33 Cuba Cane Sugar 4 Royalty & Producers_ 16 Erie . . x Sunset 4....0856 4 General Electric . Tom Bell Royalty 5 0s General Motors A Western Exploration. 2.50 2.35 Goodrich Co. ...... r Wind River Rerg. .... -01 03 reat Northera- pfd. United Pete x Great Tilinols Central .. Western Exploration . 2.26 2.50 Inspiration, ( =~ g taf ag. Ay *: pte Western Oil Fields .. 1.08 1.08 International Paper . ai _ Cennecott Copper - . at Louisville and Nashville ok! Mexican Petroleum Miam! Copper Middle States O! Midvale Stee! 112% NEW YORK CURB CLOSING. Marine Of] .....+-«-8 1.87-$ 1.63 314, |Mcuntain Producers . 11.50 11.75 16% Merritt ..... oe 9.12 9.25 74. |Glenrock Oil ae ETRE: it Creek Producers. 13.87 14.12 —} i$ t- é Ik and Western .. 99%, | Salt Creek Con. + 950 10.25 nern Pacific ........ 77% |Pro. and Refrs. ... 5.50 6.00 homa Pred and Ret. S ggg | Mutual .......,¢ sees 6.00 6.12 Pan-Amerian Petroleum 7 gq {Cities Service Com. .. 170.00 172,00 nsylvanial : g4y]8- 0. Indiana ++ 86.76 87.00 Gas 694 and West Va. 2 : LIBERTY BONS. Ray Consolidated Gopper Utah Blectric Westing KINNEY OFM MEETING. weal 8 Overiana CHE NE, Wyo., Jan 23.—The ae * annual meeting of the Kinney Oil com | Tintte pany will be held at the company's Cal Petroleum z offices h F ee ere February 7. ———<—$_~ Shattuck Arizona Jewelry and watch ‘repair ng by e> Pert workmen, All work guarantee Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co., 0-8 Bid a6tt VEX DUPLGATES OTHER. TOWNS SENSATIONS TOWN WHICH SPRANG UP CHER MIGHT HOLS THRLS| MEXIA, Texas, Jan. 23.—Overnight know hi a tented city arose. From an appar- ,,, BS, nacre rire Moma cpt: oy tas were lucky, enough to get in one of the ulation in October, 1921, where old ai) were nee ee, ware but settlers farmhod for'a living and oxea 4, Were igh’ enough” to ant: out a peas Coeds from their lands, But men aie gina tore peat ae where they rode cow horses to “tow shelter and hitched them to a hitching post Bieta i peovided"ty Batarest and where oven the town hall bell had| “pay pe Lip Arana Bt or sh hot tolled for years because of the cob |, Fail traffic Jumped hundreds of per webs and bird neste to @. hustling etme, There are two trunk lines the city of €0,000 people, and all ina few zouston & Texas Central and the ‘Trin: months, this is the recent record of i}. See Besson veer. ene tana Mexia, an old time Texas town, which |pere ®n4 Passenger traffic is very ts feeling the effects ot one ot thelZevy While freight trains are tre. humerous oll developments dn tuajaquently seen running three abreast, so numerous, heavy 1s the demand for oll machin: population now consists of Pure Oil ..... [Invincible Olt neral Asphalt ery. Ono road {s said to have spent jortment of ofl field followers |#600.000 in enlarging its facilities. and thousands of men and women seek-| The water situation is not altogeth- ing employment, leaving an old fiela|®™ What could be desired. The water for the new, coming on trains from|W&* Procured from a spring a short all parts of the United States, or in|@!stance trom town, and although goot wagons, trucks or “horseback.' some|Water, it was nearly as high in prices bréiging thelr assortment of household *% Sascline. Some oll man however, goods and camping outfits and finding C#™me along and drilled an oll well right ten to a hundred men for every job,|Side by side with the spring. “tapping” and no place availeble for spending, the water supply so badly that Iately pie it has been entirely stopped. Water Want Place to Flop. wagons have been requisitioned and al- Consequently because of the ex-|though they aro busy all day and| orbitant priges charged for a room,|Pight hauling water to homes, restau {f one were lucky enough to secure/Ténts and improvised “bunking’ one, hundreds of men, favored by the;houses, they are not sufficient to cov long-continued mild winter aro sleep-|er the field. ing on the grass along railroad tracks,| Consequently. the town as been de- by citizens where they could. Overnight a bed in|in heated arguments gt the meeting of a tent marked “ place to flop” soared|the city countil, which is makfhg. from 50 cents to $3. A night in ajevery effort to remedy the situation. crude plank structure where one didn’t Mayor Riddle informed the trate cit!- DON’T TELL EVERYTHING The Casper Manufacturing and Construction Ass’n. Burlington Ave. and Clark St. Announce That They Are Now Engaged in Building Truck Bodies and Cabs OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT AND PRICES PROVE IT Special Attention Given to Repair Work. DAY AND 1096-J NITE | Telephone | Crude Market | ; i Bath, Next to Impossible. But as for oll, there are “a soliagi mated 650,000 shares. outfits, tents, wooden buildings anu|did also Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke, people where once there was the open| but olls, equipments and tobaccos were prairie. A survey of all local lum-jlower. The closing was trregular. ber men shows that buildings com-| Liberty bonds eased and railroad bonds pleted or contracted for since October] Were featureless. i, totals between $3,500,000 and $5,- Mourishing of these. Here it is said fortunes have ‘seen lost overnight at the dice and roulette tal 5 pacts AoE | The California "Manufacturers’ asso- ‘a1 ciation has asked the state to reduce the women's weekly minimum wage|iaxation from last SatuMay's selling; Iron—Steady; No. 1 northern+14.500 Re pressure. Gulf States, Replogle, Mid-| 20.50; No. 2 northern 19.00@20.00;; N T TEI I EVERYTHING vale and United States Steels rose|No. 2 southern 16.00@16.59. i ese SSS eee eee ese ny NY Sa OE oe Meet mo at The Smokehouse. Che Casper Daily Cribure Seems. | Sas |SPEONTIES UP S| ONGMALYSILES = Gambling and drinking halls filled |/S>Fupt fall in Gul States Steel and 01% | with dancing girls are open every| Manhattan Elevated of nearly § points night, and one may buy openly “red| from the high level of the morning and “corn” whiskey at 60 cents a|®24.8 drop of almost 10 potnta in Vir} @rink. ‘There is no effort at closing} #'™!* Iron, Coal & Coke unsettled the them. The Winter Garden Pra Me Tmome {list for a time. but subsequent active | Tver. €4%e; Mexican dollars, 49%. from $16 a week to $12.50, enouga “Ciean-| stocks yielded to speculative issues to- next to godliness,’ |day. The independent steels resumed but @ bath in Mexia is next to impos-[iast week's erratic movments, record- Cheyenne Country club, which recent- |ty considered pians for & $35.00 build- NEW YORK, Jan. 22—Great Bri ing at Lake Absaraka. which tt sea tain—Demand 421, cables 421%. _ |from the city, has decided not ro bud cables 8.04.)a new structure, but merely to 4 ‘large its present small clubhouse. ——————— on Steels and Equi ments Relieved at Open- ‘g ing Today. NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Standard ing Wide fluctuations. Sales approxi- Gulf States Steel rallied later, as Montreal 94.875. To Cure a Cold in One Day +|Take Laxative BROMO QUININE tab- lets, The genuine bears the signatu.e of E. W. Grove. (Be -sure you get “WpBueys pue yMors SupUTa}ep JeYy SJUSUIETS esou) YIM 930[d02 St UOISINUNY $ 098 ‘sroyjo uey e10ul ore ‘suMeyA UL ots osoy} ‘Spooy UTeLI9:) ed Conflicting movements characterized the early afternoon trading. An Prime mercantile paper 4% Silver. NEW YORK. Jan. 23.—Foreign bar bidding for the sugars and equipments ‘ infused a steadiner tone all around. Metals. NEW ORK, Jan. 23—Gdpper— NEW YCRK, Jan. 23—Speculattve|Steady; electrolytic, spot and ‘nearby, {ssues rallied moderately at the open-|13% @ii; later 14. ing of today’s stock market, Steels} Tin—Weak; spot and nearby, 81.37; and equipments manifested some re-| futures, 30.75. —— large fractions. Sugats, coppers and” Lead—Steady: spot. 4.70@4.86 PROSPERITY IS JUST ROUND THE CORNER —— r[HE ONLY OBSTACLE to broad business revival — pessimism — stands balanced ready to be pushed aside. Add your strength now to that of hundreds of thousands of other busi- ness men and remove it. Confidence— Optimism—will do more than Business is reviving —as it did after the depressions of 1896, 1904, 1908, 1914. The volume of manufacturing and trade is increasing daily, unemployment is decreasing, loans are expanding. Business is ering momentum — Space Contributed by The Casper Daily Tribune in co-operation with the ROFARY CLUB PROSPERITY CAMPAIGN Advertisements contributed by Frank Presbrey Advertising Agency, New York