Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 28

23 _THE _EVENING STAR. \VASH[NGTON, FGGS ARE EXPECTED 70 DRGP FURTHER. Another Dechne Predicted | This Week—Meats Un- changed Today. in the hatrer. e this season Tnterest cente and poultry market at butter and e; for Christmas cake: and turkeys for the Christmas dinner Persons unable or unwilling to pay the price for turkeys are interested in other poultry Recent declines in egg prices have almost demoralized that market. deal ers reported, and additiona) decreases are looked for before the close of the week. Choicest stock of fancy se lected candled eggs brought as 62 cents this morning, ave! ceipts going as low as 55 and 3 ality storage eggs brought selling at 35 and 37 The storage exg market is quite ac e re. tive and a tendency to‘advanced prices is reported Butter prices remain unchanged. and dealers say there is no probability of lower prices the next few weeks. Prices may go hizher. Today's Wholesale Prices. Butter—} 1-pound print tub. I\Pd 40 Eggs— nev selected, candled, receipts, 55 58: storage Poultry—Alive small and thin, 28230: fowls Aucks, 2 hits, top. ney 57 54 hickens. 20a small kens, duc thin. 35a3% fowls, Leghorns, 23 geese, 30 keats. 30a1.00. Live stock—Calves, 14: h Meat—RBeef lamb. 30: pork ulders, 22 pork loins, Fruit and Vegetable Review. Today's market veport on frui vegetables (compiled by the Market News Service Bureau of Agricultural Economics) savs Apples—Sunplies moderate Mght. market dull up. 3 ton, medium fancy Delici 5.5046.00; hoxes, ze size. extra 3.50a3.65: Staymans mostly bushel baskets, no reported, Cabbage—=Supplie: lizzht demand light, market York. bulk per ton, Danish type. 40.00. Celery—Supplies libe moderite B steady erat doz.. Yor! 3.30 Lettuce—Supplies moderate mode rket stead!, (& crates. 1 -5 600, F i1 Big Boston type 3.00; few best, 3 demand lifo: bushel ham T quality Onion Suppli Onions- market 3.00: Lizht. demand licht 1 nmnd Supplies 1 steady: M vellow New ¥ md 6.00a6.15. s Round Whi .00 sacks 1. mostly Cauliflower mand moderar fornia. crates Tomatoes—S afxes. ripes. wrappe:l eount, few les, 2.00 Other Prices Teday. String mand gzood RAIL MERGERS AWAIT NICKEL PLATE RULING ! Dispateh to The Sta ALTIMORE, December 8 —Duniel Lawrence Greer. chairman of the rd of the Western Maryland Roil savs that plans under way v consolidating that property with system would appear put some of the rumor- cireulat the financial district - hout that 10ad. Repor that the New Yok entral had planned to armilzamate the Western Marviand with it= own and in conjunction with the eicctric lines of the Washinzton, Bal imore & Annapolis m entry nto Washinzton had arou‘ed chiet inrerest . Greer tions Nickel Plate case is any erimp in~ in secrr believes all rail will be held di ad con up until EXTRA DIVIDENDS VOTED. NEW YOF December 9 (/). Flliott Fisher Co. has declared an ex tro dividend of 83 and the dividend of $1 on the res. In September Adividend of $1 decla Electric Stora attery Co 1< declared an extra dividend &1 and a quarterly dividend of $1 The previous rate for this comp: was £1 quarterly with an extra dollay 1 the end of each vear. Midland Steel Products Co action of last June by an e dividend of £1 ard 47 cents on 2ddition to the rex dend of $1. uarterly men sk has of repeated declarin: on preferre. common =tock. in ar qua v divi DIVIDENDS. Forn Perind v Power o O Am Brake Shoe Do nid Am Sales Book Anpletan Co Ve Stor Batt Do Tihott-Fisher [ D' Ser B Do. pid rm‘, Sat ep O Nat Bank. O t Sec Co Q T\r‘*d""u Qo © T Conf Co " Q “um ol init L-W Bis 1<t pf Do “nd_fr Marland Oil. Midvale Steel Do. 8 cum pf_Q \w.pe S E3 fohaw = Do. Mahon Coal RR. @ 1 Do. vt A S Mooeis "Sec Carp. @ Do. cum pf.. Q Nagl Licorice Co -4 Do. 3 eis BX To. pi.. Natl City Bank National Cite Co Pan Pw ‘5:) t bf Terney JC 15t f et 21 Westedn Cniodes Dec 23 < high | 3sad0; | | The fresh hams. | nd | - | more " 'cent and the 4 per |SEES EVEN BUSINESS WELL INTO NEXT YEAR CHICAGO, December Net in come of the Chicago and Northwest ern Railroad after charges for 19 | Wil be about $10.000000, which equal about 6 per c n the common quvl\. President W, Sar mxd vesterdav | “For the first half of next year I expect fair business in our territory | With gross revenues on our road show {ing improvement over 11 T do not look for a boom | in the Northwest in the first 6 months ,n, 1926, COTTONTO BRING !into IN'§2,000,000.000 Review Shows Crop Second| & Largest Ever Grown—Mill Buying Heavy | BY J. C. BOYLE. Special Dispaten to The Star | NEW YORK, December 9—The | 1225 cotton crop will bring to planters | { more than $2.000.000.000 in actual their labors. That today when the money return fe tact became evident latest Government estimate, which fixed the vield at 15,603,000 bales, was | thorouzhly dissecyed by statisticiuns and manufacturers. The fizures were confirmed by Col. ¥ Hester, [ retary of the New Orleans Cotton Ex- | changze and one of the leading price { authorities of the countr crop was the second larzest ever grown. beinz overtopped only 1914, when 16.135,000 bales were | rown. The $2.000.000,000 return to Erowers for lint and seed is based on e monthly prices thi 1t es with « vield of $1.980.000,000 1. when 13.630.000 bales were turned out. but when prices were { hizher. i p was not evenly distributed. | All the Mississipni Valley States had larze increases, but the crop in Texas jwas reduced nearly a million bales by | { drought. and this also affected some | [ sections in northern Georzia and west jern Carolina | High Premiums Obtained. | "The first third of the crop marketed | brought from 2 to 4 cents a vound for middling. as compared with, the same period last year. In addi-{ tion. the best zrades and long staple | commanded the hizhesi premium ever | known except in war time. They still | 1re brin 1t K cents a pound| hove middling. But recent market inzs have brouzht about 3 cent vound under last year for middling crades, while low zrade estimated there 330 les e bringinz only from 8 to 14 cents. | he avel price of middling in the | th approximately | cents, com with 22 time last ve One of 1he perts South today with wred Mill Takings Heavy. inzs h > heen breakinz indicatinz the probability m of lint and Jinters of des. as compared with 19.000 List vear. So far farmers e marketed a little more than 10 000 hales. of which mills have sorbed nearly £.000.000, mostly of the | Detrer mrades The mills. it is 2stimatcd about 50 per cent of the in existence. and cvervthi continued demand of The frosts and son <everely inju commodity in some State the 3.500,000 bales of Jow grade ar not tenderahle—that i=, thov fall helow | the standard set for deliveries on con They will he houzht up at v many purposes. howaver be used . an| have taken | ood zrades = points 10 these qualitic rms late in the sea 1the quality of the | Much of Stow Marketing Urzed. C. Neill. sales manazer Miseciegippi Farm Bureau sociation. today issued an rmers to market slow the cotton mazed by rains. H>' claims the price would he very much hizher werr it not for the 1 mount of “junk’ of ver: poor zrades in this vear's| cron. He =avs the low e will pass 3 “umy tho 1 - nat of the million hales which I o carried over from the rop will he subtful spinnin= of otton ppeal the As to, 1925 ¢ value Cotton Tufacturers were anxiery by the z> of the cron still is a o far ned. It i ize of the has not been textile m velieved of conside announcement o But the low 1 on factor. cspecially wation = conce cortain that. despite prasent crop. planti timulated in the South. Planters there would far rather raise less cot ton and zet 25 cents or movre a pound for it OUT-OF-TOWN BANKS CALL NEW YORK LOANS YONK. Decemher 2 (A movement of funds from New to the interior was ziven fur ther impet ercay thr the calling of £2 in bank loans by out-of-town institutions. The dif ferential between the New York Fed eral Reserve discount rate of 51z per ates at the | | other reserve centers has tended 1o divert swplus bank funds from the | {1ocal monev market to outside points vhere they can be profitably employed | for commercial purposes the tha York COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY BISMARCK. N. Dak.. December . Liznite coal. of which there are huge | < throughout western North| Dakota. is hecoming popular with; iseholders and . business firme. | h prices of anthracite have v increased the use of this fuel. Consid- | erable tonnage is heing shipped out- side of the State. December 2. —Dealers ‘e not inclined to add to their hol < of hituminous during the mili her and coal trade is holding off | coal brought in to re. stocks of anthracite is beinz owing to lack of demand PHILADELPHIA December <he worsted varn market is active and orders are being booked in zond | volume fe s de for varns. are in better demand. FORT WORTH. Tex., December 9. The grain acreage in Denton one of the best wheat-pro- ducing sections of the State, has been increased 10 per cent. Most of the wheat is up ar? 5 well. PITTSBURG!.. Prices are holding firmly at $3.25 for black sheets, $4.60 for galvanized. 50 for blue annealed and $4.50 for auto sheets. The tinplate makers are now booking heavily for 1926 and the BOSTON, 19: particularl; worsted _ecember 0. | will have the 1814504 R |HOLIDAY HARDWARE i I marke { Collections D, @ \\'EI)NE DAY, DECEMBER 9. 192 14,500 BARREL DECREASE IN WEEK’S OIL OUTPUT NEW YORK, December % () The daily, averaze gross crude | production in the United States | creased 4,500 barvels for the week ;omled December totaling 2,04¢ | Larrels, according to the weékly sum mary of the American Petroleum In- in | stitute. The daily average production | of Smackover Arkansas | field ihcreased 2,800 barrels. | daily average production In | United States excluding | heavy, decreased 7.300 by | daily average production east of Cali | fornia w: 1.405,750 barrels, a de. crease of 2,500, BRITISH BUYERSARUSH FOR NEW GERMAN BONDS Potash Issue Taken in 15 Minutes. American Bankers Not in Market. By the Associated Prese LONDON. December 9.—British uyers made 4 rush for the £5,000,000 nd issue of the German Potash ndicate, the sale of which opened sesterday and which was subscribed witkir minutes. | The issue had been strongly adver- tised, and there were many advance subscriptions hefore the sale opened The bonds bear 7 per cent interest and the issue sold at 941 They are secured on all German potash sold outside Germany Dutch and Swedish bankers also are offering the same amount of the | svndicate’s honds for sale. American barkers did not participate, bec it is understood, they did not desire to strengthen the German monopoly ot the pot m NEW CLEARINGS RECORD. | Baltimore Hn‘ Mor- Thnn 15 Per Cent Gain Over Last Year Special Dispateh 1o The Star BALTIMORE. December 9 h ecord in bank cl cured f laltimore in 1 en out vesterday by the lo house show total ¢ ot 11 months of These are the hizhest vet Dlished | that pertod and renresent an rrease of £723 212,653, or 15.8 pe) over the 4 ezate of $4.570.353 for the comparative period last rrevious hizh vear in total eleay SEABOARD AIR LINE BUYS 50 ENGINE Florida Traffic Results Orders by Several Roads for Equipment. il he the Br the Associated Prese NEW YORK, December 9. The | Seaboard Air Line Railroad has come the market for 30 locomotives The order of the Seaboard Air Line | follows orders for locomotives | from the St. Louis-San Francisco and 45 for the Atlantic Coast Line, The | substantial buying of equipments by ers servinz the South, partict ¢ the Florids roads, is said to re ect {he larze increase in traffic there. “eahoard’s order cal for 40 Mi nd 10 mountain type engines to be made as soon as pos Durant's Latest Move. Street hears that William (. hem of Durant Motors, has 25 per cent interest in the capital stock bf the Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation. Circulation of the report raused a sharp rise in Stewart-Warner stock on the New York Stock Exchanze vesterday m\uned Company Fobmed. Hulswit, president of the United Lizht and Power « has an nounced to stockholders of that company the organization « the Americun States Security (e The new companyv will deal with ec ra tions associated with the utility in dustry ckholders of United Light rizht to acquire share | for share on share of class A com mon and one-half share of class B commen of the Securities Corpora tion NOVEMBER EARNINGS FAR ABOVE LAST YEAR Western Maryland Railroad Alcn( Reports Good Gain for Eleven Months A new 11681 for oAl Dispateh 1 BALTIMOR rease of $104.455 the estimated earninzs of the West ern Maryland Railroad Co. is shown for the week ended November 30. i compared with the correspond period of last year. The total fc eok this year was $305.312 inzs the estimated earni ven ot nt December . In per eent. in he ings As these Ml economic dustry. they that 1925 will he n the | Baltimore in finaneial This | activiry. SEARS- ROEBUCKiPIV_ANS zarded as of Iocal to indicate banner vear in and comm ; as co Novembher Estimated ~arnin November 30 Fist 049650, as compared with an increase of & per cent. mptniea: ATLANTA. Gi.. December 8 (@) — ears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicazo pi 1 locate a southeastern branch herc entiling an appre $3.000,000, ¢ M Kettle. presid Work will bezin at upancy will he had in the ¥ The branch wHl comprise wareLouse distribu point and 1etail store TRADE VERY ACTIVE - Dispateh o The Star YORK. December say Toliday merchandise | = very active in all hardware | & Consistently rzes in 1 ficids. satisf cron ood employment has made for the American people te mas zifts thic vea re trade is alvo b the heavy huildinz pr te of the country al lines fairly most but dema 1y staple ftems is limited needs. due to the appr tory time. 1 Prices are firm zenerally Hard ntinue tor the industri ces and help. | € by grams in all s Letive in d for strict sch of inven LLI'.AR iUUR SKIN of disfiguring hldchn and | irritations. Use in all market are betrer. now made to and hetter Another carload of those wonderfu) Wenatchee GREAT NORTHERN AN interesting and dnfl‘erem route. 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