Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 29

- PRODUCE CHEAPER INGENTER MARKET Increased Supplies Bring About Lower Prices for Spring Vegetables. Increased supplies of early vege. tables has been a means of reducing many of the heretofore high prices that have prevailed. Liberal supplies of asparagus from California and South Caroiina are being received, prices quoted today being much lower than last week’s prices. None of the asparagus was quoted as high as 35, the highest price for cholcest stock from California being $4.75 for a crate of a dozen bunches. “The lowest price for small to_medium South Carolina asparagus was $1.50 to §2 Spinach, a Winter and early Spring vegetable always In demand, Is excep- tionally plentiful, prices being so low that retailers are able to sell it at as low as 5 cents a pound. Florida cabibage is being received in large quantities. The demand is limited and market steady. Hamper: containing 13 bushels, mostly of the pointed type, were quoted at $2.50, while barrel crates were quoted at $4 and $4.50. Only moderate supplies of tomatoes are being recelved from Cuba and miplkes of peppers from there are light. Cuban growers are sending light suppites of eggplant, while most of the beets and carrots are coming from Texas. Florida is furnishing a light supply of string beans . Meats, butter, eggs and poultry prices this morning were about the same as prices quoted yesterday. Market Prices Today. Butter—-Fancy, 1-pound prints, a50; tub, 47a48; store packed, 30. Eggs—Fresh selected, 30a3 nery, 833a35; current receipt Poultry, alive—Turkeys, toms, 40; Spring broilers, 50a35; mouth Rock broilers, 113 to 2 pound: 55; smaller, 40ad45: White Legho 40a45; Winter chickens, 3 and over, 40a45; fowls 22; ducks, Yyoung, 80a: Turkeys, hens, 60a65; fowls, 33a33; 90a1.00; old, 50a60. Live stock—Calves, choice. dium, 11a12; thin, 7as: hogs, and medium, 13%; light, choice, lambs, 20. Meats—Beef, 16; lamb, 25a28: veal, 32a24; dressed pork, heavy. 19 Fruit and Vegetable Review. Today's market report on fruits and vegetables (compiled by the Market News Service b Eeconomics) sa. Apples—Supplies moderate; demand moderate, market 1 Maryland and Virgi up Yorks, ma Pennsylvania. A mostly around 5.00: New York. A2la inches up Spys and Ruxbury Russets, 4.00; boxes, Washington, medium to large size, fancy Delicious, 3.25a3 3 extra fancy Wines fancy Romes, ° to large size, exir towns. 3.00: bushel bask 215-inch Wageners, L. around 1.25. Asparagus—Supplies liheral: dem:; moderate, market dr {ina, dozen-bunch large size, 3.50u4.00; 3.00; medium size, ° size, 1.50; few 49 pound roosters, brotlers, keats, young, 14; me- heavy 15; reau of Agricultural | I GIVES EMPLOYES STOCK.: A. E. Fitkin Makes Executives Partners in Big Concern. NEW YORK, April 8 (®).—A gift of 10,000 shares of Class “A" stock of the General Engineering & Manage- ment Corporation, operating -branch of Fitkin Utilities, Inc., was distributed among executives and department heads by A. E. Fitkin, organizer and controlling owner of the corporation, at a dinner given by Mr. Fitkin at the Ambassador Hotel last night, at which the 1926 expansion program ‘was outlined. Virtually made partners in the busi- neas, the gift was explained to the re- ciplents as a material expression of Mr. Fitkin's belief that ‘‘those who devote their energies to the upbuilding of a concern are entitled to participate in the benefits which their help cre- ates.” More than 15 of the 85 men present had come from varlous parts of the country. - STROMBERG-CARLSON REPORT. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Apri 8 (P).— The annual report of the Stromberg- Carlson Telephone Co., received by stockholders today, shows get profits for 1925 of $877, 10. Dividends paid amounted to $200,480, and_the surplus as of December 3T, 1925, is estimated at $2.287,998.45. Fixed as- sets, including land, buildings, ‘ma- chinery and other equipment are valued nt $1,031,543.56. | . limited, market weaker; Florida, 1%- bushel hampers, pointed type, 2.15a 2.05; barrel crates, 4.00; Texas, barrel crates, flat type, 4.50a4.75. | eClery—Supplies lig! demand | moderate; market steady; Florlda, 10- inch crates, 4-6 dozen; mostly 38.25; 810 dozen, 3.00. Lettuce—Supplies moderate; demand moderate, market steady: California, Imperial Valley, crates,. Iceberg type, 4-5 dozen, mostly 5 dozen, best. 5.00; fair to ordinary quality and condition, :Mal 50; 6 dozen, 8.00a3.50; Florida, ! 114-bushel hampers, Big Boston type, best, 3.00a3.25; small size, fair qual- ity. 2.00. Onions—Supplies light; demand mod- erate, market dull; New York and Michigan, 100-pound sacks, yellows, U. 8. No. 1, 3.50a8.75. Potato Market Stronger. Potatoes—Supplies moderate; de- mand moderate, market stronger; Michigan, 150-pound sacks, Russet Rurals, U. 8. No. 1, mostly 8.50; Maine, 150-pound sacks, Irish Cob- blers, U. 8. No. 1, 8.75. Spinach—Supplies moderate; demand moderate, market weak; Texas, bushel baskets, Savoy type, 75a1.00; Virginia, Norfolk section, cloth-top veneer bar- rels, Savoy type, mostly 1.50; few low as § . Strawberries—Supplies moderate: de- mand moderate, market weaker; Flor- ida, pony refrigerators, some ordinary condition, best 40-50 cents per quart, poorer low as 25 cents. Cauliffower—Supplies light: demand market firm: California, .65, mostly around 2.50: y crates, broccoli, 2.25a 2.50. Tomatoes—Supplies moderate; de- mand moderate, market steady: Cuba, 3-pan cartons, ripes, pped. repack- choice count. 23.00: fancy . 3.25; Florlda, originals, ripes d turning, wrapped, fancy count, 6.5007.00: choice count, 5.50a6.00. String beans. peppers—Express re- ceipts very light; too few saleg to es- market | pplies light; demand steady; Cuba, pep . best, mostly 7,00, 6.00 Beets—Supplies light: demand mod- market steady; Texas, bushel 2.5082 s—Supplies _ light; demand ate, market steiady; Texas, bush- “0.4% 2 e % K Wi e &% { £l F IH £ i Il ; | If] QI‘ bunched, mostly 2.25, quality 2.00. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C U.5. SUPERPOWER EXPANSION GREAT Demand for Electricity Al- ways Seems to Outstrip the Supply. BY J. C. ROYLE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April 8.—~Consolida- tion of public utility companies is showing no signs of a check. Electric power central stations are producing more current than at any time in his. tory. Huge new plants are being con- structed and earnings of power com- panies are not suffering. , So it is serv- ice that is forcing the meérgers in most instances. It has finally sunk in that the function of public service com- panies is to sérve and many com- panies will continue to make heavy expenditures for expansion purposes. Superpower s: ms are being built up in dozens of séctions. One such 1s the $50.000,000 system which has been announced for Mississipp!, which involves building of a $20,000,000 dam and power plant on the Tennessee River. The bids for Muscle Shoals are being eagerly awaited as bear- ing extensively on direction of power development in the South., Limit to Expansion. The question as to how extensive superpower syatems can be before they become unwieldly and break down of their- own weight is giving electrical engineers no apparent con- cern. One of the chief technical men of the Middle West. Utilities Co., the principal holding company of the In- sull interests, sald today: “The distances which electrical energy may be transmitted In large amounts, while it sounds contradic- tory, has small bearing on the opera- tion of superpower systems because in a superpower system involving many inter-connections, operation does not involve the transmission of energy from end to end of the system “The. immediate function of the superpower system is to prowide sup- port for the next adjoining power-de- veloping neighbor, which in turn supports the system next to it. In reality, energy is transmitted from one end of the system to the other, not directly but by relaying.” This makes if appear that therc is no physical 1init to the oxtent of the suerpower systems, but evident. ly there must be generating stations at frequent intervals to help carry. the load. The laggest steam generat- ing plant in the world shortly will be under construction in the Insull interests on the Illinols-Indiana State line on Lake Michigan. The plant will have an ultimate capacity of 1,000,000 kilowatts or 1,385,000 horse- power and will cost about $25,000,000. Lower Operating Costs. This station. according to Insull executives, is being built in the in- terest of lower operating costs. It is simply another step in the appli- cation of the principle of mass pro- duction. The first units of 200,000 kilowatts will be in commission in 1929. Engineers claim that with its relation to superpower development this plant is likely to take rank alongside the steam turbine for gen- erating electric energy, in -its im- portance to the industry. Engineers are now experimenting successfully in the underground transmission of current at voltages much higher than can now be handled by present above ground lines. 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CLEVELAND.—Two cement plants will be erected here this year to cost about $2,000,000 each. One will be erected by the Universal Portland Cement Co. and the other by the Fed- eral Cement Co. BOSTON-—The United Fruit Co's. canpaign to make the banana & na- tional food has succeeded in selling 1,000,000. bunches more so far this year than in the corresponding perfod of 1925, The prospects are for @ record crop this year. 8T..PAUL—Wool production in Min- nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana increased in 1925 over 1924, and the early 1926 clips are being sold at a.los: TOPEKA, Kans.—The Atchison, To. peka and Santa Fe road will spend $25,000,000 on improvements in its Eastern division from Chicago to Newton, Kans., this year. KANSAN CITY—Berkson Brothers of Kansas City have effected a consoli- dation of women's wear and millinery stores, including the Berkson stores in Kansas City, Topeka and Wash- ington, with ten other apparel stores and 65 millinery stores, under the name of the Consolidated Retail Stores, Inc. READING—There were 12,000,000 cigars made in the Reading-Lebanon district last month, of which more thn:l one-fourth will retail at five cents. POTATOES ARE HIGHER. CHICAGO, April 8 (#).—Potatoes, receipts, 103 cars; total United States shipments, 574; Canadian, 23; Cuban, 4; demand and trading good, market stronger; prices higher. Wisconsin sacked, round whites, 5.10a5.25; few tancy, 5.35; poor, 5.00: Minnesota sacked, round whites, 4.80a4.90, few higher; poor, 4.50; Idaho sacked, rus- sets, 5.26a5.35; fancy shade higher; poor, 5.15, BAR SILVER PRICE. NEW YORK. April 8 (#).—Bar sil- ver, 853 ; Mexican dollars, 50'. CLASS | LINES MADE 4.60 PCT. IN PAST 2 MONTHS Class 1 railroads for the first two months this year earned on thelr property - investment at the annual rate of return of 4.60 peér cent, ac- cording to peperts just flléd by the carriers with the Bureau of Rallway Economics and made public today. This is based on reports from 13§ class I roads representing & total mileage of 237,026, The of re- turn for the first two months in 1925 was 4.76 per cent. The net raflway operating income ., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926. of the class I roads for January and February of this year totaled $129,- 018,865, compared with §$131,211,226 for the same period last year. The net railway operating income is what is left after the payment of operat- ing expenses, taxes and equipment rentals, but before interest and other fixed charges are paid. SN0 Alexander Snyder, 102 years old, a Seneca Indlan of the Wolf clan, who died recently on the reserva- tion in the western part of Genesee County, N. 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