Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1925, Page 7

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928 Oi =: Finance Wool Demand Is Limited, So Boston Buyers Declare BOSTON, Feb, i2.—The Commer- cial Bulletin tomorrow will say: “The demand for wool has been very Umlcod this week and prices wenerally ore n bit soft agetn; tn tao: ft fs hard to make quotations with any feeling of certainty. Fine wools are erpecioliy {n the doldrums while qualities are easter in sytapatby. Con- tracting Is Limited in the west with Utile ehanye in prices, Buyers are responding slowly and vaulously {n the matter of the new jeavy weight goods purchased but y ane showing decided tnterewt is well known that except for there are no aur- oth or clothing about fleeces: Deline unwashed 69@70c; half blood combing 68§@68o; % blood combing 69@70c; fine unwashed 60 ae Michigan and New York fleeces: Delaine unwashed 67; half blood un- Washed 68; fine unwashed 57@538c. Wisconsin, Missourf and average New Bngland: Half blood 65@66c; % blood 68; | blood 67@ 680. Scoured basis: Texas—fine months (selected) $1.65@1.70; fine & months $1.55; California northern $1.60@1.62; middle county $1.40@ 1.48} southern $1.35@1.44; Oregon eastern number 1 staple $1.60¢01.65; fine and FM combing $1.50@1.85 Eastern clothing $1.45@1.50; vafey number 1, §1.40@1.42, Territery—Montane. and stmflar: fine staple choice $1,65@1.70; half bdiood combing $1.50@1.55; % blood cambing $1.80@1.35; % blood comb- img §1.25@1.28. ied Delaine $1,69@1.70; A A $1.06@1.68; A supers $1.40@1.45; Mohair best combing 85@90c; best oarding 76@80o, plus iecke of “The foreign inarkets show a five © for tha wesk on fine ight easing in the med- jum qualities. "Mo! is firm on mand." The Bulletin will publiah tha fol- lowing quotations: Doimestio—Ohio and Pennsylvania limited de- ght 1920, Caaper Tribune) Axutomobiies. Cleveland. —Axvtoruo! Copy Monongahela river are holding at 16 per cent of capacity but produc- tion at commercial mines of this dis: trict has dropped to 40 per cent and the output of the Westmoreland field also has fallen off somewhat. *. One company de claves January business wes £0 per cent ahead of January, 19: pad orders this month are at a larger rate than a year ago, Steel. Kansas City.—The Sheffield Stee! mills here has been awarded the contracts for reinforcing bars to be used in the now $4,500,000 Sears Roebuck plant here. The contract is one of tho largest ever placd for re- inforcing bars requiring five thou: sand tons of stesl. The cost will ap- Proximate $250,000. Detroft.—The Paige-Detrolt Motor Car company last year sold Paige and Jewett cars to the amount of $39,851,181. The schedule fer the first six months of this year calis for production of 27,959 cars. oil. Tulsa, Okla.—Six new wells add- 4 4,932 barrels to initial capacity in Kantas this week. Drilling ts active in the Rainbow Bend district. Nine teen new wells wero started in the state in tho last weal Rice. New Orleans.—-Distribution of rice in January totaled 891,000 pockets, according to the Rice Millers’ as: sociation, which reports that stocks left in the belt February 1 amount- ed to only 1,867,000 pockets, one of the smallest supplies on record. Raflroad Equipment. St. Louis—The M. K, & T. rail. road has ordered 10 new locomo- tives to expedite terminal opera- tions. Houston—Average dally crude ofl Production in ths gulf coast and South Texas fields decreased 2,660 barrels to 136,090 in the last week. Nine new producers were brought in in the gulf field. Textiles. Manchester, N. H.—The addition to the worsted dye, house at the Amoskeag mills is now approaching completion. It is reported the company has recently booked some large worsted orders and that pro- duction will be increased. Livestock. Atlanta--The value of. livestock today was placed at $100,000,000 by the state crop reporting service, an increase of 10 per cent az compar- ed with a year ago. The largest gains were made fn the number of milch cows. Fruit. Springfield, Mo.—Peach buds ‘were not damaged by the recent cold snap in this section. Unless there is a late Killing frost, a fine fruit crop ts assured. — Shoes. Philadelphia.—Neat but not gaudy is the way local shoe manufacturers describe the style trend in women's shoes. They say wearing qualities will not count against beauty and expected buckles and trimmings to dominate the demand. Coal, Pittsburgh.—Operations at Con- sumer-owned coal mines along the BUSINESS BRIEFS PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13.—The feature in the steel output chipped against contracts this week ts the amount of fabrications for auto manufacturers, The automobile manufacturers lagged somewhat in specifying in January but evidently now are speeding up their produc- tion. The market on steel sheets is not regarded fixed for the second quarter, despite price an- nouncements made by independent producers and the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, Some bar mills of the district have been speed- ed up so they are now operating at 108 per cent of thearetical capa- elty. Finishing mills operations are un- changed and sheet and tin plate mills are running at 78 to pe cent of capacity. Pipe mills are op- erating at 70 to 75 per cent. ATLANTA, Feb. 13,—A valuation of $16,500,000 has been placed on the property of tho local street railway company by engineers as a basis for rate readpustment. Jit. neys and busses have recently been barred from streets on which the company operates cars. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18.—Hun- dreds of men are applying for work on city projects as a result of a decision not to hold off on construe- tion until spring, announced by the city commissioners. Market Gossip North Casper Lease, Lease on 2,520 acres of land on North Casper Creek structure, ly- ing at the closest point approxtmate- ly one-half mile northeast of the Midwest Refining test well, has been secured by Fred Swanson of Casper. Tho lease covers all of ‘sections 17 and 20, and parts of nec- tions 18, 19, 22 and 23 in township 37, range 890. Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Butter high- or; creamery extras 490; standards 40c; extra firsts 38@3%c; firsts 86@ 8 econds 82 and 34%c. Eggs lower; receipta 11,019 casos; firsts 41@41%4c; ordinary firsts 89 @ive. | POTATOES NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Butter ts steady, receipts 10,460; creamery higher than extras 40% @41%o; ditto | CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Early morn-| extras 92 score 40@40%¢; ditto, firsts ing trading slow, market steady;| §8 to 91 score 37% @39%e. steady 86 cars, total U. 8. ship Eggs unsettled, receipts 23,514 ments, 930; Wisconsin sacked round whites, $1.05@1.15; mostly $1.06@ 1.10; bulk §1,10@1 Minnesota sacked round whites, $1.00@1.10. eal Fresh gathered extra firsts 46%@ 460; ditto firsts 44@45c; ditto; seo- onds 43@43%e; Pacific coast whites extras 47@480; ditto, firsts to extra firsts 44@46%; refrigerator seconds 89@Alo. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 13.-— ee ii pte 206,904 Flour prices have receded more than pounds. a dollar a barrel from the recent -_ high record of two weeks ago. The CHICAGO, Feb. 18—Poultry, Almost dally fluctuations ha le, Daeg alive, higher; fowls, 23@260; spring: in reflection of increases or declines! 970,’ roost fc dtipege, 8b6: in cash wheat premiums, ees, 16c, ducks, 26¢; Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Feb, 13.—Foreign exchanges easy; quotations in centa: Great Britain demand 477; cables 477%; 60 day bills on banks 478%! France demand 6,25; cables 5.25%; Italy demand 4.11%; oables 4.12, With mflis quoting unchanged figures today, patent “our of the best grade sold at $9.5009.55 a bar- rel in car lots, as compared with the range of $10.60 to $10.75; Janu- ary 29, tho recent top figure. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE—Canaries, 2 Germa: Ry ‘S, singers. 259 East L. Phone Bonds New York Stocks Laat Gale Allis Chemical and Dye .--... American Can --+e-.-.----- American Car and Foundry American Locomotive ..-~---~ Si 176% American Tel. and Tel, .-- American Tobacco ----.-. 87% American Water Works -.. 36% American Woolen - ann= 50% Anaconda Copper .-------0--. 44% Atchison -... senenea 117 Atl, Coast Line ..---....---. 153 Baldwin Locomotive -.. 1 Baltimore and Ohio -. Bethlehem Steel Celifornia Pet, .-.-.----.-- Canadian Pacific -.---.-.---. Central Leather pfd. Chicago and Northwestern Chicago, Mul and St. Paul pfa 23 Chicago, R, 1. and Pacific é Colerado Fuel Congoleum - Consolidated Gas Corn Products Cosden Ol -. Cruciblé Steel - Cuba Cane Sugar pfa - Davison Chemical - DuPent DeNemours Eris Famous Players General Asphalt ---.-—-..... General Electric ...----—. General Motors ~...-..------ Great Northern pfd ------. 69% Gulf States Steel ...---—. 96 Houston Ol) ~..-0----------. 33 Hudson Motors -.. Ulnols Central .. Kennecott Copper Lehigh Valley -.-.--. Loulsville and Naghville --..l0O7TKB Mack Truck ----~----------- 144 Marland Ot! .---. “4 Maxwell Motors A 82% Mex, Seaboard Of] -nenennnee~ 16% Mo., Kan. and'Tex, ~---.---. 37% Missourt Pacifio pfa. -------- 30% Montgomery Ware -.----.--- 50% National Biscult ~----.----- 63 National Lead -...--—~-----. 163% New York Central ~---------- 122% N. ¥., N. HL. and Hartford _. 514% Norfoik and Western ~-----~- 128% North American ---.-----. 40% Northern Pacific -------—--- 697% Pacific Oil ----------------, 63% Pan American Pet B 74% Pennsylvania -----.----- 47% Phila and Rdg. ©, and I, -. 49% Phillips Pet, -..----. 44% Pure Oil -.---.--.--- a Reading ------------------- 77 Rep. Iron and 6teel ---------- 56% Reynolds Tobacod B ~—----- 76% St. Louis and San Fran -... 68% Seaboard Air Line ~—-.-----— 23% Sears Roebuck ..--.-—~-.-—- 1 Binclair Con. —--------0.---- 23% Slors Sheff Steel ---.----.-. 91 Southern Ratlway --—------. 88% Standami Oil, Cal. ...-------- 65% Standard Oi! N, J. -------.-. 45% Stewart Warner ----.-.----. 74 Studebaker ae---: 46% Texas Co. -...---------—-~--- 45% Texas and Pacific -.---.---.-. 62% Tobacco Products .-.-------- Ti% ‘Transcont. Oll -. Union Pacific .. United Drug ex div. U. 8, Cast Iron Pipe . 8. Ind. Aleohol wecenncnn= 9015 Wabash pfd. A ------------ 64% w jouse Electric ------ 72% Willys Overland wnwrenn= 10% Anglo Am. Oil -.------- 18 18% Borne Scrymser .-----~ 235 240 Buckeye ----.---------- 66 68 Chessbrought Mfg. ----- 59 65 Crescent -—-.---------- 14% 15% Cumberland .------.---- 97 98 Gal. Sig Com ---~------ 110116 Gal. Sig. Old pfd -..-.. 109% 110 Gal. Sig. New pfd ---. 102% 107 Illinois Pipe ~ 147 Indiana Pipe BK National Transit ..--.- 33% 23 New York Tranalt 76 Northern Pipe -.. 84 Ohio Ol! --+-. +--+ 15 8. O, Ohio ..-...-.-- 8. ©. Ohio pid. - Swan and Finch Vacuum ..-+-0---- Washington - 8. O. Nel Humble - 46% et MARKET CRUDE Big Muddy -.-. Mule Creek ~.--.. Sunburst Hamilton Dome «. Byron . Notohes ~ ~----------++seese+--- Pilot Butte -----.--~-~-. Creybull » «++. Torchiight ~ Elk Basin .. Rook Creek .. Galt Creek Stocks Che Casper Daily Cribune Buck Creek Burke ....--. Chappell Columbine Central Pipe Boston Wyoming -. Blackstone Salt Cheek Consolidated Royalty . Cow Gulch 02 Domino . 4 Bikhorn 03 B.. T. 1g 18 Gates 08 10 Jupiter 04 068 Kinney Coastal a= 08 09 Lance Creek Royalty. .01 01% Mountain & Gulf -. 140 1.60 Picardy +02 03 Preston 01% 01% 24,00 26.00 Royalty and Producers 04 Ot 01% 02% Tom Bell Royalty ~ 01 Western Exploration — 3.00 Western States -..- .13 = a eae Mountain Produce: Glenrock Oil Salt Creek Prod, Salt Creek Cons. New York Oil ntinental S. O. Indiana LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Feb, 18.—Hogs—43,00; market less active than early Ren. erally 10 to 200 higher than Thurs day's average; hogs showing most advance; desir. able pigs strong to 25c higher; top $11.80; bulk better grades 200 to 290 pound averages $10.90@$11.25; bulk 160 to 190 pound averages $10.46@ 10.90; most 140 to 150 pound weight $9.50@10.25; weight $10.25@ 11.25; bulk pigs choles 180 pound kind $9.2 packing sows spots hogs $10.75@11.80; light more; lght $8.25@9.00; most $10.20@10.40; heavy medium $10.00@1r.00; light light $8.75@10.25; packing hogs smooth $10.25@10.60; packing hogs rough $7.7 $9. @9.25, Cattle—Recelpts. 4,000; @10.25; slaughter pigs generally trade fully steady with week's un- even decline; quality largely medium; moderate supply stale offerings meet- ing slow outle’ best matured steers offered early $9.85; no well finished yearlings here; feeder dealers taking meaty warmed up steers $7.25@9.50; some fleshy short fed well bred steers upward to $8.00; on account: draggy outlet on heavy fat cows and heavy heifer mostly 60c lower for week: Spots more; most fat cows $4,00@ 5.25; choice weighty kind at $6.00; Mitt heavy Gi. to packers, change in bulls; practical. top bolognes $4. vealers largely $12.00@12.25 mostly $4.50 Shtep—Receipts 11.000; fat lambs. unevenly steady; 25c lower: desir- able shipping lambs around ateady: others showing uneven decline; bulk fat lambs $17.50@18.00; few loads $18.10@18.15; Colorados $17.50@17.00; fat sheep dull, steady; odd lots fat ewes $8.75 @9. 25; feeding lambs scarce, steady at 17.25@17.50. OMATIA, Neb., Feb. 13.—Hogs— Receipts 12,000; mostly 10@15¢ high- er; bulk 200 to $00 pound butchers $10.40@ 10.80; top $19.80; desirable 160 to 209 pound weights $10.00@ 10.40; good 140 to 150 pound aver- ages $9.76@$9.90; packing sows most- ly $10.00; smooth up to $10.28: bulk of all sales $10.00@10.80; cont Thursday $10.87; Cattle—Recetpts 650; steady; scarce; quality plain; average weight 222. fed steers few loads $6.7548.25; other killing class. es mostly steady; stockers and feed. ers nominally steady; bulk butcher cows and heifers $4.25@86, ; bolog- na bulls $3.754§4.00; few heavy beet bulls $4.25@4.50; practical veal top $16.25. Sheep—Receipts 5,000; lambs slow, 10 and 25¢ lower; early sales to packers steady; ewe top $9.00; feed. ing lambs upward to $16.50. DENVER, Colo., Feb, 13.—Hogs— Receipts, 60; run too ight to test market; odd lots 185 to 230 pound averages, $10.15 to $10.60; looks steady to slightly higher; top, $10.60; packing sows, best strong weight slaughter pigs, $8.00; stock pigs, $6.25 to $6.60 Cattle—Receipts, 200; aroun steady; one load good heifers, 5 good cows, $5.00 to $5.26; odd veal ers, $9.50 to $10.50; few heay: calves, $7.50; one load good, $10.90; load Idaho fed steers, $7.00. Sheep—Receipts, dull; no early sales fat lambs; bid- ding around 25¢ lower; 15,100; market, fat ewes, around steady; one deck medium to good kind, $8.00, NEW YORK, Feb, 13.—Call money firmer; high 4; low 8%; ruling rate 3%; closing bid 4; offered at 4% loan 4; call loans 4; call lonns against acceptances time loans steady; mixed collateral 60-90 days 34@3%; 4-6 months 4; prime commercial pa- per 3%, oe NEJV YORK, Feb. 18.—Prices of Wyoming olls at 2 p, m. todey were listed on the New York Curb as follows: Standard Of (Indiana) 65 tain Producers 19%; Salt Cree —— METALS NEW YORK, Feb, 18.—Copper dull; electrolytic spot and nearby 14%; futurers 14% @15, Tin firm; spot and nearby 57,75, futures 68.00 Iron lead ensy; Zine stead $7.60) tucure mon windy c at prices iA be Unchanged, Louls spet Grain EWS AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED WIR OIL SECURITIES ee eer (Lo BnISK IN MARKET TODAY Rise in Crude Prices Cause Rise in Several Issues; Industrials Erratic NEW YORK, Feb. 13.--Violent 15 to 30 point fluctuations in half a dozen high priced specialty issues featured today’s irregular stock mar- ket. Oils made a favorable re- sponse to increased crude and gaso- Une prices but confused price move- ments characterized the fluctuations in other standard industrial and rail. road shares. Total sdles approxt mated 1,150,000 shares. NEW YORK, Feb, 13.—Stock prices moved irregularly higher at the opening of today’s market. Olls were on the brisk demand following the holiday nent advance in mid-eonti- erude prices, Marland, Sin- elair and Standard Ol of California opening. a p pint or more higher. ge Arms moved up 3 points and People’s Gas, 1% United States Cast Iron Pipe, which advanced 14% points Wednesday opened and then broke 2 points lower at 218. American Can assumed the lead- ership of the advance, points to {n ite history. continued in Ti jumping 4 175%, the highest price Heavy accumulation the off shares, Phil- Royal Dutch, Pacific, Pan American B, Independent Oi] and and General Petroleum being added to the list of petroleum shares to advance a point or so while Tidewater moved up 2 points above Wednesday's closing prices and Union Pacific, Mack Trucks, Aliled Chemical and Universal Pipe gained 1 to 1% points, Foreign exchanges openet irregular, demand sterling selling slightly lower around $4.’ Y. Trading in the general let slow- ed down when erratic fluctuations again took place fn the high priced industrial specialties. Nash Mo- tors dropped 15 points to 250 and U. S. Cast Iron Pipe recorded a aimi- lar drop by touching 205 or 45 points below the recon! Wednesday. high established Commercial Solvents A, broke 10 points to 160 and the B fell back to 159. buying support developed in U Towards noon Cast Iron Pipe which recovered its earlier losa by touching 220 while another bulge sent that stock above 176, in American Can Rally- ing tendencies again appearel in the general list despit ethe failure of the directors rallraad to increase dividend. of the Southern Pacific the regular Call money renewed at 3% per cent. ‘There was not much variation in the prices of the popular specula- tive shares in the early afternoon New York Central, Texas and Pa- cific and the minor tobaccos issues were strong. Nickel Plate, heavy. Gulf states Steel end were conspicuously Associated Dry Goods rose 44 to L.71%, @ record figure, Com- mercial Solvents A rallied to 1.75 and the B to 1.70. The closing was irregular, Radio and electrical shares were bid up in the late trading, but renewed heavi- ness cropped out in the independent steels, woe AIRS PIRGT LINE DEFENSE OF THE ENBLlon, CLAIM Former English Official Stresses Importance ica. ice to tur |} Try IBERTY BONDS NEW bonds closed: S%s 101.20; first 4, 101,26; second 4%s 101.2; thira 4% 106.16; fourth 4%® 101.20; t ernment 4445 104,20 42-03; July 69 of Aircraft SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. Thomson, minister of air in the Labor cabinet cf Ramsay Macdon- ald, published here toda t first line of defense had the sea to the alr. is here on a speaking t 18.—Brig. Gen. Lord former British declared in an interview England's ed from 1 Thomson yur of Amer. “England appreciates the import ance of a strong air foree,” Thomeon said, priations were dented was continue gram to strengthen line of defense.” General Thomsen declared he was in favor of disarmament which he charnoterized as of peace.” peerage an Lord Thomason of Card ington during his service in the bor cabinet. L “and even when other appro the alr serv: 00,000 pounds construction pro England's first granted ite the only assurance Ho was elected to the YORK, Feb. 13.—Liberty 8, gov. NEW YORK, Feb, 18.—-Sugar tu- closed steady, Approximate 26,000 tons, March $2.80; May Beptember $3.23. Birmingham, England, tw waid to produce tho largest variety of manu- factured goods of any oity in the world, sai eeadiencaaseein: Tribune Want Adq for Results Livestock :: All Markets GOLLING ALIVE: TUNNEL NOT AVAILABLE; RESCUE UNCERTA GRAIN PRICES. SPURT TO TOP Rise of Seven Cents Opens Trading in Wheat; Ex- ports Increase CHICAGO, Feb. 13—With an- nouncement of export business amounting to 1,500,000 bushels, and with the Liverpool market advano: ing Inst2ad of reflecting reoent de pression of values on this aide of the Atlantic the wheat market here made a vertical rise of seven cents a bushel today almost as soon as trading began. Word that the Unit ed States department of agriculture was authority for a statement that world wheat supplies would be very low at the end of the crop year counted also as a decided stimulating factor, Big selling to realize prof. its developed on the bulge in prices, however, and top quotations fafled to hold, The opening, which ranged from 3%c to 7c higher, with May $1.82 to $1.84% and July $1.56 to 1.57, was followed by a reaction in which May descended to $1.84%. General Mquidation on the part of holders of corn and oats quickly set in when prices went up at the outset In sympathy with wheat. The Uquldation dislodged many others to stop losses and as a result the de clines were greatly accelerated. Af ter opening at %oc to 1%o higher, May $1.28% to 1.28%, the corn mar- ket fell to $1.24%, May dropped to 51% cents, Despite higher quotations on hogs, provisions underwent a sharp tum- ble to the break in prices of feed Subsequently weakness of feed grain led to & further drop in wheat prices, May touching $1.77% but ad- ditional export business in wheat, rye and flour helped to bring about rallies. Wheat closed unsettled at lc to 4440 nét advance, May $1.81% to $1.82, and Juty $1.63% to 1.53%. Later the corn selling pressure ( minished, but the rallies which en- sued falled to overcome more than part of the day's losses, Corn \osed unsettled, % to 1%o net low, May 1.26% to 1.26%, PAGE SEV (Continued From Page One) ono, held in @ tent around which a soldier guard was kept. No one but the members of the court heard the testimony of Bren- ner and Blevins. When the court adjourned General Denhardt moned the newspaper men an the court stenographer-read to then the testimony of the two men. The court then left for Cave City to r sume its sitting there. CAV® CITY, k Feb. 12.—: The Associated Press)—-H. T. Car- michael, in chargo of operations. and other officials who went down into the shaft be dug towards nd Cave, where F 4 Collins has for been imprison two weeks came out of the # clock this afternoon and that the hope of rescuing Collins through a tunnel discovered tn tho shaft fifty feet down, would have to be abandoned, ‘The tunnel exploration failed to disclose a passageway General Denhardt ordered barbed wire stretched across the foot of the ravine to hold back the crowds which began to increaas rapidly. The barbed wire was approximately 35 feet from the mouth of the shaft and was to protect the workmen and the shaft from any sudden rush of speotators should Collins be suddenly located Digging was resumed fn the bot- tom of the shaft itself and Mr, Car. michael said that it probably svould take two or thres days to reach the seventy fgot level, where they plan to begin lateral tunnels in an effort to strike Sand Cave, Hopes of the rescue of Collins by noon today through the new tunnel attracted hundreds of persons to the cave, For a time the crowd, includ ing newspaper men, was kept away from the openings but when the crevice falled to develop into any- thing passable, all were allowed to again approach the shaft, The faflure of the high hopes raised by finding of this tunnel not: iceably discouraged the officials of the rescue party but ‘digging as usual’ began again at once, in the hope of finding a more promising cavern The drill hole tn the cen- ter of the shaft has gone to 70 feet without penetrating the limestone roof, but another more penetrable cavern may be discovered in the sido wall as was the one found this morning. The hours of exploration were tense ones for the miners and spec tators and when hopes faded again Wheat— Open High Low Close May - 182 LB4H 1.77% 1.81% July -.-- 1.56% 1.67 1.49% 1.53% Sept. .. 1446 145% 188 1.41% 1.28% 1.20% L24y 1.29) 1.80 1.25% 129% 1.80 L2do BB 6 o14 56 BS% BS 54 8B May -. 159 1.60 1.54 July pane 184 1,844 1.30% 117 Lis 116% —~ 16.97 16.00 15.87 15.55 July = 18.30 16.87 15.67 15.92 Ribe— May ...-.. 16,95 15.95 16.75 15.75 July -..-. 15.20 Bellies— May ----- 13.00 July ~.--- 18.38 18.85 18.25 18.25 Wheat number 8 hard $1.74; num- ber 4 hard $1.65@1.66. Corn number 2 mixed $1.16%; num. ber 8 yellow $1.164%@1.18, Oats number 2 white 50% @61; number 8 white 46% .@<0. Ryo number’?, $1.51. Barley 90@ $1.02. Timothy seed $5.60096,59. Clover seed $25.00@33.00, Lard $15.07. Ribs $15.55. Bellies $18.12. Mitchell Called By Committee Of Air Craft Probe WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — Brig. Mitchell, assistant army alr chief, was recalled for the fourth time today by the house alreraft committee for further questioning in Ge the aircraft ontroversy stirred up by the committee hearings. Other witnesses summoned | cluded Edward V. Rickenbacker, | army flying ace in the world war, nd a number of officers of the na val alr service, whose appearance suggested Assistant Secre ary of the Navy Robinson Flat denial was made by Genéral Mitchell yesterday of charges that he disobeyed orders in the 1921 bomb ing tests off the Virginia Capes The asntstant aircraft chief, also as serted he would continue his fight for unification of all government air services Rickenbacker told the committee today that the air policies of the war and navy departments showed a lack of knowledge, Developments of an alr program, he said, also had been retarded by selfishness and jealousy, but when asked to name those responsible he said ho could not do #0. Ho disagreed with army general staff testimony as to the effectiveness of anti-aircraft guns. am SIX SOUGHT | IN MURDER PONTIAC, Mioh,, Feb, 1%—Sher- ift's forcos sought six men who to- day fled from Oxford, Michigan, in an automobile after shooting and KUling Jay Gould, @ night watch man, Barly reports that Gould waa killed while frustrating an attempt to rob the Oxford Savings bank were the chances of ling alive were admitt duced. The 70 f Promising crevices on the way down, will not be reached until Tuesday, Mr. Carmichael sald, because of nc’ ng difficufties being encountered. The depth of the shaft from the low slide was fifty feet at 1 o'clock, Carmichael admitted he still clung to the hope that a cavern or tunnel will be encountered again in the side wall before the 70 fot level {s reached by the ahaft extricating ( Aly unter CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb, 18.—Andy Bisig, Louisville, sald he heard Floyd Collins cough twice at 4:30 o'clock this morning. Bisig told this after. noon of going into the main pas sageway to Sand Cave with several ther men and said ¢iat while in thtre he heard faint coughing. He called to Collins several times, he aid, but red no answer. rece! N, Feb. 13—False re- yd Collins had been from his Ken tue Cave prison sertously upset business In Washington The most widely desseminatea piece of misinformation was that Colims had been rescued alive, weighing only 80 pounds. Even the White House took steps to run down this. rumor. Nowspapers were flooded with tn quiries, one seeker for information declaring that Collins had been res cued, came “through the state de partment." CAVE ¢ The Ase h the nd Foy the discover cavern ling wa lwer side of the Sand Cave rescue st early today. Timbering was rushed on the fifteenth s# n and pr Parations made to drive piling into tho side wall, around and above the tunnel hole, 90 4 rescue party could enter It with. safet The hole unmistakably a pas fagoway down into a ime Nught up rook to exhibit to stone cave miners br pieces of cavers H. T. Camichael, the medical staff and other officl who » hu riedly awakene While the miners felt that {t might be severa} hours before a 40 party would be permitted to explore this tunnel, there was ady keen competition among the diggers fo: the honor of going down on the next shift. The down draft in the shaft was #0 strong that the miner lampe were blown out when they lcoked down the new tunnel The bole was first discovered about 1:30 a, m. and.Carmichael, in charge of the shaft and a doctor were awakened. Meanwhile, the dig gere had uncovered a hole which acemed two or three feet high ex- tending downward/at a rather sharp slope. Their lamps were blown out by the downdraft when they looked down the hole. The bototm of the hate was hurriedly cleared for the sixteenth section of timbering so short piles could be driven in the sidewall parallel to the new tunnel The discovery of the new tunnel Waa clotely guarded, the miners r¢. diseounted when it was found no effort had been made to enter the building, fusing to talk about it, but looking down the mouth of the shaft, the shadow of the hole was clearly seer, | ] The downdraft had cleared out shaft of the thin fog which has fi the shaft since the cold snap, ¢ ed the mi breathing and warmth of their bodies and the in the flickering light of the min lamps, appeared to extend nr half across one side of the eixs shaft le was fc t about the ¥ foot mi the fitt measuring from the low side, or f five feet measuring from tho h side of the shaft away from mouth of the Sand Cave. In original exploration of the diam drill, a few feet distant from shaft, a soft spot was indicated 1 feet and anct! wn last night, followed by loast ten fect of lim Tho ¢ was boring further this, ¢ morning, when the top of new tunnel was uncov a. Deny was at once stopped to concen: on clearing out his tunnel. ‘The engineering staff made tm diate preparations to timber aro and down into the new tunnel, finish the sixteenth section of st timbering only sufficiently to vent sertous cave-ins on the wall posite the new tunnel, Carmichael explored the mout the new tunnel at daybreak and he hoped they would have Col The ne nel as the mouth was further cleared away, was lly large enough to accommodat good sized man and as far as t could peer down into !t, ran strai| toward the mouth of Sand Cave. ‘Tho tunnel was discovered just derneath a thick Mmestone giving the offictals hope the new t| nel was part of the same honeyo: working in which Collins is trap) From his prejiminary explorat| of the new tunnel, Carmichael {J cated he believed the tunnel wo lead down to a huge pit located behind Collins, Entering this t could roll the rock off Collins’ }} and release him. The high hopes of the diggers engineers shone in their fal when the mouth of the tu! was completely exposed, and miners confidently predicted t would have ‘Collins out by noon. The use of rope slings around diggers, previously arranged when the hoped for tunnel was closed, was found unnecessary, the tunnel appeared in the side |of the shaft, underneath a he | limestone ledge. The workmen at bottom of the shaft are atanding | @ ten foot lodge of tlmestone, #0 aro in no danger of breaking throy into a cavern. When the first exp] ing party enters the tunnel, the r probably will have ropes aro} their waists, so they may be b safely if the new tunnel drops o| ® cliff. The original Sand Cave tim nel drops over a ten-foot cliff, a feet inside the mouth. liminary exploration of the 1 tunnel was tho determinat of the fresh shift which went in the shaft at 9 o'clock, one si determined digger vowing that no orders,” he propesed explore that tunnel a ways michael! this morning admitted sérvatively, that “a lead hos found with a strong down dr air, which we hope will lead to so} ___ LEGAL NOTICES _| NOTICE OF COMPLETION ADDITION TO ROOSEVE SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 THE COUNTY OF NATRON AND STATE OF WYOMING Report having been made to Board of Directors of School I trict No. 2 in the County of }} trona, and State of Wyoming, t! the work contemplated under contracts between said school I trict No. 2 in the County of } trona and State of Wyoming, the persons, firms and corpo tions hereafter named for the c struction of the Addition to Roosevelt School building, { School District, has b and that said entitle final therefore 1 arsen & ders or i . the cont settle Jorgenson, Inc ation, for the f s and labor the construction of such wi (except heating, plumbing, fitting and ventilation:) Wyom 2. B, J. Kane, for the furni ing of the materials and the stallation of all heating, -plu ing, gas fitting and ventilation suid building NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE That all persons, firms or corp ations who have any claims work done or materials furnis! on such work in the construct thereof shall within thirty di from the date on which this not| shall be last published and app in the Casper Daily Tribune, a verified statement of his, its their claim with the said Sch District No. in the office of Clerk of said Schoo! District, Ro 15, Stockmen’s National Bad Building, in the City of Casp| Wyoming, and that if he, it or t shall fail to file their claim wit the time prescribed by this not! the said School District, shall no wise be liable to any such p| son, firm or corporation for al claim he, it or they may have material furnished or work d in connection with such cons tion. Dated at Casper, Wyoming, 18th day of February, A. D., 19 School District No, in ff County of Natrona and State Wyoming. (SEAL) By M. P. WHEELER, Attest. WILLIAM 0, Wilson Pub, Feb, 18, 20, 27, 1925