Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1925, Page 29

FINANCJAL, EASTERN SHORE ASPARAGUS HERE * First Shlpments in Extra] Fine Condition—Price of Tomatoes Lower. Fastern are shipping s their product finding than the stock deal re receiving from South Carolina. The Maryland product is reported to be exceptional- 1¥ fine this season, and dozen-bunch crates sold for $6.00. Choicest South Carolina stock brought as much as ) asparagus growers this city, ready sale ipplies to mor s New potatoes are gradually taking the place of old stock, Moderate sup- plies of both varieties are being re- ceived, more_than ample to fill mod erate demands. Increase receip al have made of tomatoes from supplies . liberal lower, prices ranging to $6.00. Moderats supplies veral supplies of cabbage upplies of celery are re- beans and peas are much plentiful, and moderate ship- .ments of heets are being received, bushel hampers coming from Texas, vhile the Norfolk, Va., section is sup- piving hotbed stock. Today's Wholesale Prices. er—Fancy, tub, prints store packed, 0a selected, 3 Roosters, 19, vouhg Winter chickens, 35a38; fowls. 28:| geese, 15a20. Dressed—Fresh killed nter chickens, 35a38: roosters, 19a fowls, 28: turkeys. 35a40: ducks 25a28; geese, 20a: Live medium, Spring, 13 more candled, 30 choice, 111 £a9; lambs 1313 lambs. ; hams, Today’s market report on fruits and | vegetables (compiled by the Market ews Service Bureau of Agricultural >nomics) says: | Asparagus—Supplies liberal; demand lizht, market slightly weaker; South Caralina, doz. bunch crates, very large medium to large size small size, mostl 0: Fast Shore Maryland, two-doz. bunch crates, very large size, large | gize, 4.50; medium size, 3.00a3.50 per doz. Onions—New demand moderate, market Texas, standard crates yellow mudas, c a1 pact 1 and 2 5a , mostly 2 tal white . commerc ixed No. 1 and 2, mostly stock, no sales reported. Potatoes—Old stock, supplies mod- | erate: de nd ight, market fairly { steady: New York, 0-pound sacks Round Whites, No. 1. 1.85a1.90; new stock, supplies moderate; demand | moderate. market unsettled and slight. | 1 weaker: . Florid: double-head bar- Spaulding R S No. i mostly trawberries—Supplies moderate; de | nd good. market firm; North | (arolina, 32-quart crates, various | varieties, bes mostly 8.00a8.50; few higher; some sandy: some green, wide | range in prices, 4.00a7.50 Ton oes—Suppiies liberal; moderate, market fairly steady: | Florida, sixes. ripes and turning wrapped originals, some spotted, fancy | coun best, 5.00a D: mostly 5.00:} choice count, 4.00a4.50; fair to ordinary «uality and condition fancy and choice count, 2.00a4.00. B. & 0. MAY FIGHT | VIRGINIAN LEASE| Norfolk andvWes:r_n-Move St.irs" Up Interests Opposed to 1 Pennsy’s Expansion. | stock, supplies light; | firm Ber. { demand | Special Dispatch to The Star RALTIMORE, April 23.—The Mary- | tand Public Service Commission is | considering whether it should oppose | the leasing of the Virginian Railway | iv the Norfolk and Western when the matter brought before Interstate Commerce Commissi Disclosure of this fact. follo nouncement by the Virginia ion Commission that it will oppose | lease, has served {o emphas the battle now in progress for control of rail transportation in' the East be- [ tween the Baltimore and Ohio and the | Pennsylvania. The matter has been | at stalemate for some weeks, and an- | nouncement that the Pennsylvania Rallroad had stolen a march on its | competitors by negotiating a lease of the Virginian Railway to the Norfolk and Western created a great surprise | in financial and railroad circles here. | Railroad Head Resigns. P the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 23.—C. W.| ntington, president of the Vir: | rian Railway Co. the | hat he had tendered his resignation, | Cits effective April 30. "Mr. Huntington's decision to retire follows the directors’ | & proposal to lease the road to the Nor folk and Western - . What Experts Buy. ined fnvestors always buy les that have a substantial loan | se. One of the surest methods of determining the value of s ek a loan on it. If y to consider it as collateral an rest assured its marketability | does not amount to much ‘ STRAWBERRIES DROP i IN NEW YORK MARKET ! Kpecisl Dispateh to The Star. 1 NEW YORK,. April 23.—The straw-| erry market w today as ve- |’ cipts increased. buik of sales| was made at 15 (o 22 cents per qu 014 crop carrots were a liitle mung | er. making 1.25 per 100-pound inched Southern stock sold at 1.50 0. per. hu\heL basket. FUR PRICES STEADY No Extensive Changes at Auction | in Seattle, i SEATTLE, Wash,, April 23.—Be- 0.000 and $300.000 ‘worth of | auctioneer and zeneral manager, announced . last night. 2 12 ‘Beavers, silver foxes and chatka sable maintained high pric said Agnew. “Ermine declined 10 per cent, No interest was shown .in mar- ten or blue fox skins. Alaskan furs mnlmainod their standard prices.’ CHICLE SALES INCILEASE NEW YORK. April 23.—Sales of the American Chicle Company for the first quarter were 14.3 per cent larger than the corresponding quarter of 1924, Net profit was §256,367 after in- terest, depreclation and Federal {ax gainst net profit of $203.462 a announced today | | | National National Union - THE _ EVENING NEW YORK CURB MARKET Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN, had done little when trade reports NEW YORK, April 23.—The fur.|\Vere\ not as unfavorabie. Neverthe- less the demand was greater than in | e d"""' In American Sumatra To-{qqme time and standard issues were | hacco 715 per cent gold notes today to | carrfed forward fractions to more the accompaniment of heavy selling, |than a pomt. B 3 both in the preferred and commen| Heavy trading in Kay Copper just shares on the Stock Exchange, was above the 2 leével was cause 'for cause for considerable comment in | belief that important developments The notes, amount.| concerning the company were im- 900, are due June 1, and | pending. Placing of Middle West Util- is understood that. the committee |ities on an annhual $5 basis Wednes. working to provide a plan for matur-|day was not a matter of encourage- | ing these obligations has not as yet|ment for holders of the stoek, who been successful. | continued to offer it freely as much as Buying of oil stocks in face of un- |3 points under Wednesday's close. favorable midweek statistics on pro- | Stocks of electric refrigerator manu- duction and a decline of 15 cents a | facturers, like Serv El, Kelvinator, barrel in Corning Crude Oil was dif- | Nizer, and Car Light and Power held ficult to understand when it was tak- | their advantage of the pust week, but en into consideration that these shares | did nothing more. NEW YORK, April Following 11 Am is an official list of bonds and stocks traded In on the New York Curb Market today :u"_- » gEgER o R i W 5b om Pow, Go woar 5 Con Gas Balt new 1 Contin Bak A Contin Bak B Contin Bak ptd 4 Cuban Tob Co vic 1 Davies W 3 e For Ra Co ¥ir 8 Dodge A wi 12 Dubtiter C & R 3 burant Mot Gren Bakeries Happ Can Stor A 10 Mazeltine, rial Tobacio intl Match pfd Keivinator Corn 1 Keystone Soleth 1 Lundgver W € X 1S Rub 825 1 S Rub @158 36 Yacuum o1l % Webster Mill FOREIGN 34Est R R 4 Fiench National M 1 Salesin STANDARD OIL ISSUES Tel Co pfd upits = 3 i Pl onew wi 7500 Anglo-Am_Oi1 =5 5 Nizer A wi P States P pld States P wis 5 Nor "Ohio Pow. 4 Rem Noise Tp A 1 Rem Notse Tp ot 9 Reo Motor. | 2 Rova Ra ¢ tr cfs 7 Seazrave Corp 14 Torn F1 4 5080 € & 1 new 2 %0u_Ca1 Bdison 180 Cal Ed B pid 18pear & Co pfd 5 Stand Pub Co A n INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS. ! Alien_ 01 64 2 Gineon ON Gulf m; of Pa 2 Wick Spen St Co i Wilson A new wi = Wilson A pfd wi MINING 0 « New Mex Land- Peer Oil Corp 3 Pennock O1l Cor 4Roy Can 0 & R 21 Ryan_Con 5 Salt & Venezuelan Pet 13 Wilcox 0 & Gas P f Mouiny. 10 Hawth: Mines inc 30 Y™ Oil 3 Hecla Mine. 10 Iron Blossom 4 Adirondack Pow 1, Adir-Pow pig 1 Allied Pack new Washington Stock Exchange. SALES. Capital Traction Co. \hvtemh?lp'vl l‘_’mn‘l] lFl\'al‘x‘-’ma‘l \(ur- 4\ Imnl pld.—50 at 9%, AF'I‘EK CALL. & Invest. pfd.—200 at 8%, Washington Gus 23100 at 102, Wardman Park Hote Bi—3500 at 101 Potomac Elec. Light #a 1853—%$1.000 at 10 Red Warrior % Tonopah 12 Tonopab Min _ United Verde Ext 54 Wenden (";'mvm 92% 4 at 180, 10 at | 50 West Ul 30 at Bhe I.IVE POULTRY LOWER. CHICAGO, April 23.—Poultry, —Lower: =pring: roosters ducks, alive FEDERAL AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK RESOURCES, $14,000,000 1315 F Street JOHN POOLE, President $2.000 at R54 Money—call loans. 5 and 6 per cent. Bid and Asked Prices. BONDS. PUBLIC' UTILITY. American Tel. & T Tel, i Telga Ana. & Potomac Fuar C. & P. Telephone 5g & P Telephone of Va. 55 FIRST MORTGAGES FOR SALE Denominations of $25 5500 $753, $1.000 and upwards Capital Traction R. R. bs rban 2. Pow Wash.. Alex. & Mt Wash.. Alex. & MtV Washinglon Gas 4% Washington Gas 6s.... . Waeh. Rwy. & Elec. 48 Wash. Rwy. & Elec. gen. 8. MISCELLANEOUS. et All Loans Made on Propecty Located in the District of Columbla .’ JAMES F. SHEA e 643 Louisiana Ave. N.W. R3ig 101 4% 2k 98 Bizes Rea ity Southern et Cold Storag Wardman Park Hotel 6: Doum L 100 83 PUBLIC UTILITY First Mortgage Notes For Sale in Any Amount Security Carefully Selected 637 INTEREST Have Sold Without Loss to an Investor. Wm. H. Saunders Co., Inc. 1433 K Street N.W. Phone Main 1016:1017 Columbia Commercial Federal- Amerl Liberty % Lm:oln National " Metrepolitan R ; National Bank of Wash.. . 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