Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902 JUST SCRATCH RESOURCES Development of Mineral Wealth of Wyoming in Its Infancv Only. GETTING GOOD START IN COPPER FIELD Conl the Leading Product at Present, with an Output of Five Million Tons in Year Just Past, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 28.—(Speclal.)— Wyoming is tcday the virgin state of the Union. For many years it has been one of the great producers of cattle and sheep and wool, and many fortunes have been made through the wonderful pastoral con- ditions, but these indvrtries did not tend to establish large t1owns or Industrial plants, consequently the growth of the state bas been slow, and while nelghboring states ‘have increased their population by hun- dreds of thousands Jur.ng the past quarter of a century, Wyomlug ias been struggling along with less than hail hundred thou- sand until 1898-99, wien an unusual amount of ratiroad bullding and jmuigration swelled the total population ro 32,000. But while the population of the ctate Is small in numbers, the shorfage is more than ma. up In Individual energy snd enterprise and great things are expestad of the fututs. During the past yeur wonderful galos were made in the Industrial development of the state, and the proepects for the comn- ing year promise even greater returns. It has long been known that the state pos- sessed within its borders large and rich deposits of coal, oll, sola, buildlug stone and gold, silver, copper ard iron ores, but little or no development work has heea done until the past cw) years. In the carly days of the state's history some rich go'd and copper properiles were worked, but the latter pinched out and the methods employed in the formar were so expensive, and discoveries being meae in flelds in other states that offerel hetter Inducerseats mining for preclous metals la Wyoming ‘was soon confined to ihe working of a few placers, and scatterod prvepecting. Ihe total output of gold, silver, copper and Iron would not average ovar $100.000 worth from the late '70s until the middle '00s. The mining of coal, which was commenced whon the Unlon Pacific railroad was bullt through the state, continued and the output In- creased from a few hundred tons in 1860 to over 5,000,000 tons in the year just clos- ing. Rapld Strides in Mi During the past two years, and especially during the past twelve months, however, rapld strides were made in gold, iron and copper mining. Outside of the placer work- ings, which are located in noitheastern ‘Wyoming, on the Snake river and in the Bouth pass district, the search for gold was confined to the quartz mines of Atlantic City, South pass, Ragged top, Gold hill and the Kirwin district. These mines, to- ‘gether with the yellow metal found in cop~ per ores from other districts, produced ap- proximately $1,000,000 in gold. Great interest is being taken in the search for copper in the state, and during the past two years no less than a dozen shipping mines have been established and hundreds ¢l oihers opened in which ore has been found that runs in excess of 15 per cent copper. A conservative estimate places the total cost of development work on these properties at $10,000,000. Fully 75 per cent of this work has been done in the Grand Encampment distriet, where such mines as the Ferris-Haggerty, Great Ram- bler, Doane Rambler, Osceola, Copper Belt, Kurtz-Chatterton and others bave become shipgers of high grade coppers ore. i1 this district no less than fifty steam plants ‘wepe installed during the paat two seasons, three smelters were bullt, several concen. trators were Installed and the longest aerial tramway In the world—the Wyoming Bouthern Aerlal Tramway—extending from the Ferris-Haggerty copper mine to the Grand Encampment smelter, a distance of sixteen miles, was bullt at a cost of $350,000. Discoveries of Rare Metals. In connection with the copper mining may be mentioned the discovery of platinum, cobalt, palladium and Irridium—all in the Grand Encampment district—making the ores exceptionally rich and establishing the fact that with a little more development southern Wyoming will becorae one of -the heaviest producing copper districts in the ‘world. Copper mining is also in progress in northern Laramie county, where some very rich properties are being opened up. Cop- per s also found in the War Ronnet dis- trict, near Douglas, and In other sections of the state. Iron mining, which is now confined to the Hartville fields, in the northern part of Laramie county, is becoming one of the state’s | leading Industries. Upwards of 1,600 tons of high grade iron ore are belng shipped from these fields dally and arrange- ments have been made to Increase the out- put to 2,000 tons daily during the mnring. The flelds are fitteen miles long by one and one-half miles wide and the ore body ‘s known to be over 500 feet in depth. There are also rich deposits of iron in the Semi- nole district, near Rawlins, but no devel- opment work is being done there wt the present time. The deposits of scda and bullding stone are now being drawn upon. Factories at Green River are produzing a fine market- sble quality of soda and the sandstone quarries near Rawlins are furnishing hun- dreds of tons of fine building stone for the Cheyenne public building and other struc- tures. Coal Most Important. Coal mining is now the most important mining industry in the state. During the year just closing the thirty-five or forty mines produced approximately 5,000,000 tons of coal. Over 7,000 men are employed at the mines, over 5,000 of whom were prac- tical miners and worked underground. Ap- proximately, 10,000 men found employment in mining and handling the coal at the and in transporting the product to s recelved by these men amounted to something like $1,000,000 dur- ing the year. There were no serious ac- cidents in the mines and the percentage of fatal and non-fatal accldents for the year was less in proportion to the tonnage of coal mined than ic any state in the unlon. There w only fourteen fatal and nine pon-fatal accldents during the year. The increase in the output of the mines over that of the preceding year was over 700,- 000 tons. Mineral Produ From official and private sources figures bave been gathered showlug Wyoming's mineral production for the year 1902 to have been as follows: 000 Onyx vl 30,000 SLT8.000 Soap claye. pina- 1,000,000 ter, asbesios, stc 75,000 500,000 ‘The livestock and probably will be for a number of years the state’s leading industry, showed mate- rial gains during the past twelve months. ‘There were shipped out of the state some- thing like 400,000 cattle, valued at $12,000,- 000; 2,000,000 sheep, valued at $4,500,000; 26,000 horses, valued at $137,000; 90,000 hogs, valued at $650,000; 33,000,000 pounds of wool ‘were produced and either shipped or stored 1o local warehouses, valued at $3,960,000. The asscssors’ returns sbow there were 6,600,000 sheep In the state, valued at $19 900,000; 975,000 cattle, valued at $29,500,000 176,000 horses, valued at $8,000,000. The number of sheep increased during the year over 1,000,000, cattle, over 300,000; horses decreased a few hundred head. The total wool clip for 1902 was over 5,600,000 pounds greater than that of 1901. The heavy shipments of cattle, p and horses during the closing months of the year thinned out the herds and flocks mate- rially, 50 that with the opening of the new year there are not so many animals in the state as the above figures would indicate. With promising range conditions in the spring, however, the numbers will increas and the close of the coming year will probably witness larger numbers of sheep and cattle In the state than ever before. 011 Promises Much. An Industry that is growing and soon will be one of the state’s chief sources of {ncome 1 that of the oll interests. During the year no less than twenty-five wells were sunk in the Ulnta flelds alone, and in almost every instance a flow of high grade illuminating ofl was struck. Four producing wells were established. Great excitement exists there now and the coming year will witness a boom in those flelds. In the Salt creek flelds in Central Wy- oming the Pennsylvania company put down several additional wells, giving them about a dozen flowing properties. The ol is lubri- cating and is refined at Casper. 011 and natural gas were also encountered in paying quantities near Dougl High grade {lluminating ofl was found in the Bonanza flelds, in Northern Wyoming. One well was put down and demonstrated that a large sea of the product is to be found there at a depth of about 1,500 feet. In the Popo-Agie flelds the English syndi- cates added four producing wells to their Iist, making eight all told. The ofl 1s a lubricant. ALWAYS HUNG with Thirty Million Dol lars, Never Got Eno to Ea Interesting reminlscences of the late Frederick Alfréd Krupp, says the New York Sun, have recently been made public by a friend who passed much time with him on the island of Capri. Much of his time there was spent in making trips on the water to continue tho deep-sea Investigations in which he was 80 deeply interested. His Invariable com- panions were a noted German sclentist who has a villa at Capri and a young in- structor from the university at Cracow, in whom Herr Krupp took a great interest, for whose future he had already made every arrangement. He never made himeelf popular in the ordinary sense of the word. His chiet so- clal pleasure was to make friends among the people. He was quite inaccessible to the guests at the Capri hotels who soukht him out as a celebrity. So the forelgn colony held him to be disagreeable, which was a wholly unjust verdict. In reall Herr Krupp was a moderate, simple, #imost shy man, who allowed others to follow their own ways of life and without pretense asked for himself merely the same right. One of the greatest paradoxes in the lite of the great ironmaster was the fact that in spite of his fortine of $30,000,000 and his yearly income of $3,600,000, he nearly starved. He ate according to a most rigld Schweninger regime, taking barely enough to keep himeelf alive, and the poorest laborer that he employed enjoyed more comforts of the table than he did. Wine he never touched under any circum- stances, During his whole life his health was poor and that, combined with his great tusiness responsibilities, “gave him at 45 something of the look of an old men. And he always looked more than his age. He was simple and direct in conversa- tion, and the requirements of his business led him to expre: much as possible in the fewest words. He spoke English only moderately well, although he knew the language as well as his own. He was absorbed in all works of art and music, and his generous encouragement to the artists whose pictures he bought helped many of them on thelr career. He was especlally liberal to the artists at Capri and “Sold to Krupp” was a familiar legend in the windows of the ploture shops, in spite of his efforts to put an end to this harmless advertisement. He also took a great interest in the music of the islanders and used to pay the patives to sing their folk songs in the hotel for the enjoyment of himself and the other guests. One year he took back with him to Germany a house painter and 8 mason to sing for hie guests at home the songs of the natlv He also took with him to Essen, In order that he might undergo the Schweninger cure, the keeper of one of the hotels fr. quented by the natives. Many of the In- habitants of Capri are sald to have reason to remember his generosity, which w frequently of the most unostentatious, even secretive character. And his public benevolence was enough to make him milar disputes. It was personally man- aged by Mr. Harding for several years fter bis retirement from active legal work, and the guests were always supplied with Iiberal quantities of broiled chicken. Mr. Beach dled a few weeks ago. Mr. Harding was born in Philadelphia in 1827, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846, and, after readiug law with John Cadwalader, was admitted to the bar in 1849 With Edwin M. Stanton was engaged to argue the McCormick reaper case, and when they went west to try it in Illinois they engaged Abraham Lincoln, because of his familiarity with the methods of the local courts. In order to {llustrate the mechdnical principles at {ssue in this case Mr. Harding showed a mini ture grainfleld in the court. The ac- quaintance thus formed led to Mr. Stan- ton being made secretary of war, while Mr. Harding was offered a supreme court judgeship, which he declined. He was sald to have received two fees of $100,000 each and one fee of $160,000. Mr. Harding leaves two children, a son and a daughter. The former, George J. Harding, practices before the Philadelphia bar. A DETHRONED TYRANT. Ample Evidence that Man’s Position ix Growing Precarious. The position of the dethroned tyrant, Man, is growing precarious, reports the New York Sun. “Woman's Spear,” which Prof. Artemus Ward asked the strong- minded woman not to spear him with, is becoming more and more dangerous. The poor devil is being crowded out. Doubtless he is getting what he deserves. Still, the glant woman should not be tyranmous in using her strength. Every day the head of the ridiculous Samson is shaved a little nearer to the hide. A womaa relieves her husband of $1,000. He has no redress, says the courts. A woman has a right to search her hus- band's pockets and snap up such sums as she choose, says the Missourl Solomon, Judge George B. Sidener. Day by day the law prunes something from man's already beggarly status. Day by day his employ- ment s taken from him. Most of the novels and magazines are written and read by women. A few struggling men still keep their hold upon the typewriter's keys, but they fight In vain against Fate, who is a woman herself. Many men who could write novels i they had a chance are now the pllots of elevators. But the elevator girl has sprung up in Chicago. The woman office holders are numerous in the west. The Missouri woman suffragists have fixed thelr commanding eyes upon the supreme court of that state. They say that women are eligible to be judges of that court. We foresee the triumph of the gown, and man, petty man, thrust from the bench. The physical exploits of the women folks are as brilllant as their intellectual suc- cesses. Women play foot ball. Women belong to fire companies. In St. Louis the other day three factory girls had a fist fight, described as highly sclentific. Last week Mrs. Ernest F. Burmeister, wife of the sheriff of Dane county Wisconsin, took “two burly convicts” to the state prisom, her “38-caliber revolver handy in her pocket.” The country is full of athletic women, trained in many exercises and tall of their hands. Hear this plaint of weak man ruled by a muscle of iron; the plaint of Hon. George R. Conmover of Chicago against the wife of his bosom: “1 married a woman who was a physical culture teacher. She amused herself by throwing me across the room, smashing me with both hands, throwing me down and sitting on me until I was almost suf- focated. We are the same welght, but T couldn't do anything with her. She made a punching bag of me. Once, when she hurt her hands on me, she took a club and put me out, The gradual exclusion of man from his | former vocations and avocations may be compared to the retreat of the red Indian before white civilization. As the fringe of | white settlements widened so does the | range of feminine activities widen. In time will man be isolated upon resorva. tions and gynocracy prevail? Who knows? Women can do what they will. Man is | feeble. In our ears still rings an awful | volce, the volce of that vindictive Kan woman who proclaimed a year or two &go that men must be annihilated. | AN UNFORTUNATE GREETING. Peril of Drawing Conclusions from Casual Remarks. They had not met for many years, and the meeting was naturally cordial, reporta the Brooklyn Eagle. They were both com- paratively young men. “Married?" asked the one with the cane, replied the onme with the um- brella, rather shortly. | “Might have known it!" exclaimdd the man with the cane. “You always were a great fellow with the girls, especially these little demure ones. Say! I have your wife pletured in my mind’'s eye now! &he’ loved by all the island people, whatever the feelings of the forelgn colony toward him may have been. AN ASSOCIATE OF LINCuLN. Patent Lawyer of Note and Builder te Hotel.” George Harding, one of the leading patent lawyers of the United States and at ome time assolated in patent suits with Abraham Linco'n and Edwin M. Stanton, died recently {n New York City, aged 76 years. He was a | man of wyalth, owning, among other prop- erties, the Hotel Kaaterskill, in the Catskill mountains, | The Catskill Mountain house was the ' Jeading hotel in the Catskills and was kept by Mr. Beach, an old friend of Mr. Harding. |it had been the habit of Mr. Harding to ! spend wome weeks with his friend Beach | during the Catskill season, relates the New | York Times. = Mr. Harding generally | brought bis family. That was before the |time when buffets and grill rooms open | until late at night bad been introduced as a feature of large hotels in this country and the hotels in the Catskills had fixed hours for meals and were distinguished for « rigid adherence to & simple bill of fare from which nothing could move them. guests had to take what the hotel set before them “or go without,” and they had to arrive at the dining room before the doors closed or go bungry to bed. As the story goes, Mr Harding wanted some brolled chicken for one of his children who sick. ! “Brofled chicken is the only thing the child can take,” he sald. “There is no chicken on the bill of fare today. “Can’t you send out and kill a chicken?" “No,” was the reply. “You will have wait till chickens come around or be satls. fied with something else. “Well, then," sald Mr. Hardin to the story as generally Catskills, “I will butld a hotel where I can get chicken when I want it.” He was laughed at by the people of the Catskill Mountain house, who thought themselves secure in a monopoly. But within & short time they learned that Mr. Harding bad bought the finest site in the entire reglon—a mountain top commanding & magnificent view of the river and the surrounding country—and almost immedi- ately the construction of the Hotel Kaat- erskill was begun. The Kaaterskill is the most celebrated of the “spite hotels” in this country bullt by guests as the result of petite and unsophisticated—one of the wil- lowy, trusting kind that has to be sheltered and protected.” The man with the umbrella was un but the other did not notice it. “Any children?’ he asked. me.” “Boy or girl?" “Girl."” The man with the cane tully. “A papa!” he exclaimed. ‘A papa! And you so young! Oh, me! Ob, my! Wh I think of that girl sitting in your lap and calling you ‘papa’ it makes me want to marry, too. Say! I'd give a farm for a peep ipto your domestic circle, just to see that girl golng ride-a-cock-horse on your knee and- “Well, you wouldn't see it!" broke in the man with the umbrella, hotly. “I wouldn't?" “No, you wouldn't, you grinning laiot! I married & widow with an 18-year-old daugh- ter, and if you waited 1000 years you wouldn't Jeannette doing stunts on my knee or hear her calling me ‘papa.’ “Well, by thunde: muttered the man with the cank, as the other stalked away. “And I thought I was jollylog him just right, too. A fellow can’t be too careful in this world. ¥ Lucky Fi Twenty-five years ago City Assessor F. I Moore of Lansing, relates the Detroit Tribune, traded off an old watch for an indifferent looking flddle, but in spite of its 11l looks Moore managed to scrape considerable consolation out of it. Having sawed it & quarter of & century—it being thus “quarter-sawed”—the venerable fid- dle was in need of repairs, in the makin of which Moore discovered with staring eyes while great veins stood out on his moist forehead, that the instrument was & Steiner, ¥, “laughed gl | COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL All Oommodities Are in but Slight Demand on Board of Trade. PRICES STEADY IN SPITE OF DULLNESS CHICAGO, Dec. 2i.—There was little do- ing in either grain or provision pits todny, but in spite of the extreme dullness the market exhibited steadiness, May wheat closing unchanged, Muy cofn e higher and oats unchanged. May provisions were e lower to 2@bc’ higher. he only feature in the wheat pit was the steadiness manifested In the fece of a very dull market. Recelpts in_the north- west and at primarly points were agal gmail and helped in maintaining prices There was a tendency early. toward highet prices, but realizing by the bull leader held the market and fluctuations were confined within a very narrow range. May opened unchanged, a shade higher, at J74@7T%c, and sold between Ti%e and Tide, closing unchanged at 77%o. Clearances of and flour were equal to 247,400 bushels. Pri- mary receipts were 676,600 bushels, against 618,000 bushels a year ago. Minneapolis and Duluth reported receipts of 277 cars, which, with local receipts of 59 cars—with on one of contract grade—made the total ri celpts for the three points of 336 cars, eo pared with 488 cars last week and 4%-ca a year 11\1. Corn ruled extremely dull in the absence of Influential news. Nearby deliveries were firmer, due to covering by a few scattered short lines. The weather was a weakening facior, being clear and cold throughout the west. ' May was %c higher at the close at 4344c, after selling between 434G43Hhe and #8fgc. Local receipts were 266 cars, with 7 of contract grade. Oats ruled steady, with only a light trade, and there was little change in prices. The cash situation was again & bull factor and traders were largely on the bull side. May closed unchanged at 3c, after ranging be- tween 33%c and 31i4e. Local recelpts were 172 cars, Provisions were atronger at the opening, influenced by a light run of hogs and higher prices at the yards. Packers were not as active buyers s they had been for several days previvusly, and with no outside sup- port the market sagged and pgrt of the early rise was lost. The trading on the whole was light and the close was steady, Ma ork being 2ic lower at $16.45, with lar 4@bc i {ler at 3955 and ri un- changed at 867, Estimated receipts for Monday: Wheat, 50 cars; corn, 250 cars; oats, 236 cars; hog: 36,000 head. The leading futures ranged as follows Articles.| Open. | High.| Low. | Close.|Yest'y *Wheat Dec. May July *Corn— Dec. Jan. May *Oats— *Dec, May Pork— Jan. May Lard— Dec. Jan, May Ribs— Jan. Mey *No. 2. **New. Cash t}{lolallon! were, as follows: FLOUR—Quiet but firm; winter patents, $3.40@8.50; straights, $310G3.30; spring pat- ents, $3.40@3.70; straights, $2.90@3.20; - ers, X XN Wi EAT-No. 2 spring. i No. 3, 7c; No. 2 red, fi’lsc‘. v A OATB Mo 3" dhvees No. 3 white, 224G 0. 2%c; No. ‘white, P RYE—No. 2, 43¢, BARLEY—Good feeding, 39@i2c; fair to cholce mll(ln‘. 45@85c. SEED—No. 1'flax, $1.16; No. 1 northwest- prime _timothy, $3.75. Clover, ern, $1. contract grade. $10.85. PROVISIONS—Mess pork, per bbl, $17. no.gsgla. Short ribs ry salted shoul: Lard, per 10 Ib: short clear sides o weZ 55 838 2B 8 F=3 p33 23 sides’ (loose), ders (boxed) $8.25@S.50: (boxed), $8.87%@9.00. Following were the recelpt of flour and graln yesterday Recelpts, Shipments. Flour, bbl: 31,300 10,200 Vheat, bu 14,000 orn, bu 103,700 Oats, bu 59,100 Rye,'bu. 1,100 Barley, bu. . 24,100 On the Produce exchange today the but- ter market was qulet and easier; cream- erles, 18G27%c, dalries, 17G25c. Eggs, steady, loss off, cases returned, Zc. Cheese, firm. 13@13%¢. NEW and shipments YORK GENERAL MARKETS, Quotations of the Day on Vark Commodities. NEW YORK, Dec. FLOUR—Recelpts, 30,823 bbls.; exports, 17,002 bbis.: steady. without change; winter patents, $3.60G98.70 winter stralghts, $3.45@3.55; Minnesota pat. ents, $4.00G4.20; winter extras, 32.85@8.15. Minnesota bakers', $3.25@3.40; winter low grades, $2.66G2.95; Tye flour, ‘dull; fair to good, {8.10G340; choice to fancy. §8.80G6.60; uckwheat flour, steady, $2.30G2.35, spot and to arrive; cornmeal, steady; yellow west ern, $110; city, $L18; brandywine, $3.4043. “xc(\tu—qmen; No. 2 western, L. o. b., .Snn, BARLEY—Steady; feeding, 39@40c, c. 1. t. Buffalo; malting, 4G, c.'l. f. Buffalo, WHEAT—Recelp(s, %,%0 bu.; spot, firm; No. 2 red, 8ic, elevator; No, 2 red, 8¢, 1. o. hern, Duluth, nlfi 1 rd, Manitoba, $1ic, A , . bsénce of cables or other important news, wheat was dull all day, but steadily held on the strength of d light offerings; the close was steady: December, %c off, under deliveries; May, S114@81 6-16¢, closed S1%e; July, closed 874 CORN-—Recelpts, 4,400 bu.; exports, 35,899 3 ¥i 'No. 2, 8¢, elevator: 68%e, f. 0. b, i No. 2 yellow, 60c; Decem- ber corh advarnced a cent on covering, and all positions up fo May were also affcctod; stocks being light and grading still poor the December option closed e higher; Jan: :‘-r)‘, e up, ang lgay, u;n‘cn-ng‘za;’.vl.nu-ry, %,@soe, clos: ;' May -16a4S5C, e g Decomber, SUKG®e, closed e OATS—Recelpts, 138,000 bu.; exports, 25,410 bu.; spot, firm; No. 2, 38@G48%c; standard white, ; No. 3, 37%¢; No. 2 white, 9igc; No. 8 white, 38@%c; track mixed west: ern, nominal; white, 38@43c; option market was steady and quiet. HAY—Qulet; shipping, 86@M0c; good cholce, 95c@41.00. HOPS—Quiet; 1902, 29G3TC; 1901, 2 . 1@12%c; Pa. cific coast, 1902, 26@dic; 1901, 3 ola, 1 12%c. HIDES—Qulet: Galveston, 20 to 25 lbs., 18c; California, #1 to % Ibs., 19¢; Texas, dry, 24 to 30 lbs., He. LEATHEH—Steudy. WOOL—Firm; domestic fleece, 25G30c. PROVIBIONS—Beef, steady; family, @18.00; mess, $10.0@11.00; beef hams, 32. 2 cket, $14@16; city extra India mess, cut’ meats, qulet: pickled bellies, 8.70a9, pickled shoulders. $.26G8.50; pickled hams, $11.25411.50. Lard, firm; con- st oot vork: i faonl. und, $7. ork, firm; family, 3 Ehort ‘clear, §31.33; mens, $18.00018.60. BUTTER-Steady; extra creamery, 28c; extra_ factory, 165 creamery, mon to cholce. 21G2iic: held creamer: 6c; state dairy, 20G2c; renovated, ik o CHEESE—Firm; state, full cream, fancy small, colored, 1all made, l4c; late’ made, lgc; small white, fall made, Mc; late made, 134@1%%c; large colored. fall’ made, c; late made, 1 ge white, fall made, : late made, 1 c. EGGS—Firm; state average best, 28c; refrigerator, western, fancy, graded, 2c; western, poor to_prime, city, 6%e; country, TALLOW oasc. flominal “and _ un- chlr#/'ed Dressed, ifregular; western chicks, and Pennsylvania, 184@21c; 2bc. teady; POULTRY—Allve, c; western fowls, 1%c; western tur- Thewinc. manufactured in Germany in 17 By the inscription. which was stamped on the inner side, giving origin and date, the Lansing assessor finds himself possessed of a plece of property worth probably $1,000, and we trust he will place it on the tax roll at that figure. Not Much Better. Philadelphia Press: “I understand you've been giving everybody the impression that I was drunk the other night.” TALS—The metal market was quiet today, but steady, as there wa sure fo sell. Copper, dull_and at $11.00 for standard, $11.76 for $1L62% for electrolytic. and casting, nom- inal; Un, firm, at $26.00026.25; lead, quiet, at $1.12151 speiter, weak, at #.75; lron, quiet and nominal, unchzreged Toledo Graim and Seed. TOLEDO, ©., Dec, 27.—WHEAT—Dull and steady: cash and Décember, 78c; May, S1ic. JRNCDull and steady; Decerber, 451e: May, 4S%e. OATS—Dull and steady; May, M¥c. “Why, my dear man, you were compara- tively sober.” ““But you told some people T was as drunk s 1 could be." “Not at all. 1 said you were as sober as could be.” RYE—No. 2, SEEDS-Clover. dull and steady; Janu- ary. $6.70; March, $6.85. Prime timothy, $L80. Prime alslke, $1.75 Minnenpolis Whe Flour and Bran. MINNEAPO) Dec. 21.—WHEAT—De- cember, To%c; 15%4@7%¢; on track, No. No. 1 northern, T44c; No. 2 herthoin, e FLOUR_First (prtants. .9004.00; second patents, $3.75@3.85; first’ clears, $2.00G8.00; second_clears, 40, BRAN—In bulk, $13 OMAHA WHOLESALE MARKETS, Condition of Trade and Quotations on Staple and Fancy Produce. BOGS-—-Fresn_stock, 24c. LIVE POULTRY—Hens, 8c; old roosters, 4@éc; turkeys, 12@13c; ducks, S@9; geese, TW@8o; apring chickens, per 1b., SG9%c. RESSED POULTRY—Hens, youn, chickens, 9G10c; turkeys, 16@17¢; ducks, 1 e, se, 10@11c, BUTTER—Packing stock, 17@17%c; cholce dainy, In tubs Xgic; separator. HaMc FRESH FISH-Trout, 9@10c; herring, 5¢; pickerel, 8c; pike, Sc; perch, 6c; buffalo, dressed. 7c; ‘sunfish, 3¢; bluefins, Sc; white: fish, vc; saimon, 16¢; haddock, Iic; ‘codfish, 12¢; redsnapper, 10c; lobeters, bofled, per ib., 8dc; lobsters, green, per Ib., 28c; bull- heads, 10c; catfish, ldc; black bass, 200; halibut, 1ic. CORN-~New, 7c. OATS-Me. RYE—No, 3, fc. BRAN_Per ton, HAY. sale Ha 1 uplan coarse, are for hay of good color and quality. De- mand fair, receipts light. OYSTERS—Standards, per can, 3c; extra selects, per can, dc; New York counts, per gan, 4Zc; bulk, éxtra selects, per gal., 0 bulk, standards, per gal., $1 VEGETABLES. NEW CELERY-Kalamazoo, per dogen. 2%c; Utah, .per _dozen, d6c; Callfornia, per {losen, fof ‘stalks welghing frum 1 (o 1% 8., eacl The. POTATOES—Per bu., 60c. EWEET POTATOES—Iowa Muscatine per bbl., $.25; Kansas, $2.25. TURNIPS—Per bu, 0c; Canada rutaba- gas, r 1b, le, BiETs Per basket, d0c. CUCUMBERS—Hothouse, $1.50. PARSNIPS—Per bu., 40c. CARROTS—Per 1b,, lc. GREEN ONIONE—Southern, per dosen bunches, 46c. RADISHES—S8outhern, per dozen bunches, doe. WAX BEANS-—Per bu. box, $3; string beans, per bu. box, $1.50. CAHBBAGE—Miscellaneous Holland seed, per_Ib.. 1ic. ONIONS—New home grown, in ks, per. bu,, 76¢; Spanish, per crate, $1.75, NAVY BEANS—Per bu., $2.60. TOMATOES—New California, per 4-bas- ket crate, $2.75. E%ULIFLO“'ER ~ Californla, per crate, FRUITS. PEARS—Fall varieties, per box, $2.00; Colorado, per box, $2.25. APPLES—Western, per bbl., $2.7;: Jona- thans, $4; New York stock, $3.25; California Bellflowers, r bu. box, $1.60. basket, 18c; $13.60, ted by Omaha Whole- assocation: Chotre No. 3 1 medium, §.%; No. 1 $1.00. Rye straw. $6.00. "These prices per dozen, OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKET Owing to Light Reoeipts Fat Oattle Some Higher Than a Week Ago. HOGS FORTY CENTS HIGHER FOR THE WEEK Fat Sheep and Lambs in Good Demand All the Week at Strong Prices and Not Much Cha: in e Developed the Feeder Trade. SOUTH OMAHA, Dec. 21. - Hogs, Sheep Recelpts wers Official Monday. Official Tuesday . Ofticial Weanesda Thursday (holiday Official Friday. Official Saturday _ Total this week Week ending Dec. 3. Week ending Dec. 13.. Week ending Dec. 6. Week ending Nov. 2 Same week last year. The following table shows the recelpts of cattle, hogs and sheep at Bouth Omaha for the year, to date, and comparisons with Malagas, per keg. $6.0067.00. CRANBERRIES — Wisconsin, per $10; Bell and Bugles, $11; per box, $, TROPICAL FRUIIS. BANANAS—Per bunch, according, to size, 2. &gfl 50. "l;o MONS-—California fancy, $3. cholce, ORANGES—Florida Brights, $3.75; Call- fornia navels. $3.5); Californla sweet Jaffas, all sizes, $2.75. DATES—Perslan, in 70-1b. boxes, per Ib., 6c; per case of 30-b. pkgs., $2.25. FIGS—Californl; per 10-ib. cartons, $1; Turkish, per 35-1b. box, 14@lsc. GRAPE FRUIT-Florida, $6. MISCELLANEOUS. !:IIBONEY-—New Utah, per 24-frame case, CIDER—New York, $4.50; ’por 3 bbl, $2.75. SAUERKRAUT-—-Wisconsin, per % bbl, $2.25; per bbl., $3.75. . POPCORN-"Per ib., 2c; shelled, dc. HIDES-—-No, 1 green, 6c; No. 2 green, bc; No. 1 salted, 7¢; No.'2 salted, 64e; No. 1 0.'2 veal veal calf, 8 to 12% Ibs, 8kc! calt, 12 fo 15 Ibs, 6o; dry hides, sz jhotse hides, $i. x shee Its, 25@75c Nl?’l‘g.— Valnuts, No. 1 soft shell, 16c; hard shell, per Ib., l4c; No. % 8o.. shell, er Ib., 13c; No. 2 hard shell, per ib., 12¢; per ib., i%c; filberts,’ per Ib. 1% oft shell, per Ib., 16c; hard ‘shel per Ib., 15c; pecans, large, per Ib., 12 small, per Ib., 1lc; cocoanuts, per doz., chesthuts, per Ib., 10n- pesnuts, per Ib., B%c; roasted peanuts, per b, 7¢; black walnats, per bu. §100; hickory nuts, per bu., $1.60; cocoanuts, per i METALS, TC.—A. B. Alpirn quotes the following prices: Iron, country, mlxeflP per ton, $11; iron. stove plate, per GRAPES—Catawbas, per bbl., 50, razis, almonds ton, $8; copper, per Ib. §i brass, heavy, per, Ib, $igor brass, itght.’ per Tb. ) ead, -per ib., 8c; #inc, per 1b., 240; rub- ber, per Ib., 6%c. WEARE COMMISSION COMPANY, of Trle, Omaha, Neb— Tele; 1516, CHICAGO, Dec. 21.~WHEAT—The wheat market has been dull and featureless, within %c range. Trade hae been of no importance either way. Argentine reports weather settled and favo New York reports 15 loads taken for export. There were 15 loads of Manitoba wheat sold from lake ports. Argentine shipments only 32,000 bushels. Stocks should_increase liberaily, as recelpte have ben 511,00 bushels and shipments only 6,000 bushels for the week. Flour bids from London are reported 6d higher. Private houses here turned out 46 cars and 5,000 bushels of No. 2 red. CORN—Market has been firm for the near tutures, but only very little change in the May and July. In December there are oceasional trades in emall amounts which are hard to fill and affect prices by good zed fractions. In January there has been some covering by those who sold at higher rices. New York reports 7 loads taken or export. Stocks here will increase liber- ally. Weather Is favorable for movement. Samples were l(elfl{.ee = s n firm and rather OATS8—Oats have active. There has been profit taking by local bulls. The buying has been by com- ‘There has been a g)ondl 000 mission houses. shipping business, with sales today of bushels by one concern. 1t Is said over half the stock of standard oats is under contract for sale. PROVISIONS—The _provision market opened strong; sold off on local offerings. Junuary pork was strong and advanced on ahorts covering ‘Lhere has beea no special featury to the market; trade rather alow. EARE COMMISSION COMPANY. 110-111 B St. Louls Grain and Provis ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21.—WHEAT—Qulet; N 2 red, cash,’elevator, nominal; track, 74 T4%c; May, 76%@76%c bid; No. 2 hard, 'ORN—Steady; No. 2 cash, 46%c; track, #4giNc, December, i6c, TS—¥irm; No.'2 cash, 8e; track, e May, 3%c bld; No. 2 white, —Steady at 19@g49%ec. FLOUR—Steady; red winter patents, $3.3503.50; extra fancy and straight, $3.05G S BED oty steady. 32 W:w R mothy, steady, $2.90@8.40. CORNMEAL—Steady, 3.9, 1 BRAN—Hlgher; ‘sacked, east track, 2@ i timothy, $11.00@15.00; prai- TRON COTTON TIES—$1.07%. e BAGGING—-6 51647 1-16c. HEMP TWINE—! PROVISIONS — Pork, higher; jobbing, standard mess, $18.50. Lard, weak at $10.17 Bry, salt meats boxed extra shorts, $3.i2%; clear ribs, 39! short clears, $9. Bacon, quiet; boxed extra shorts, $10.50; AT Land, “Meteady e | $is5g8 974 2 —Lead, steady at 2. Spelter, dull at $4.454 60, e POULTRY—bteady: chickens, $ic; weyw, lige: ducks, ide; gpeve, f. i — Steady; creamery, 23@%c; dalry, 18@22c. ools d EGGS—Steady at 223c. loss off. Recelpts. Shipments. bbls, 5,000 tur- Flour, Wheat, bu. Corn, ‘bu: Oats, bu KANSBAS CITY, Dec. cember, 63c 3 No. 2 d, [ @88c; No. 3, 64@ e, H “3. @o6'gc; No. 4 hard, 55@60c; re- N CORN-December, 37% May, 37%c; No- 2 mixed, TRGses; Nowd wikie e 0. 3, $Tige. OATS-No. 2 white, 33%c. RYE—No. 2, #e. Wheat, bu... Corn, bu Oats, bu.. Recelpta 8hipments 18,400 3,500 62,200 76,800 13,000 60,000 Fhiladelvhia Produce Market. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. #1.—BUTTER— Scarce and firm; extra western creamery, 30c; extra nearby prints, EGGS—Firm and in good demand: fresh nearby. %, loss off: fresh wastern, Zic, loss off; fresh ‘southwestern, 26g2ic, loss off; tr uthern, 25c. off. CHEESE—Qulet but firm: New York_full creams, prime, small, 13%@l4c; New York full creams, r to good, small, 13@13%c; New York full creams, prime, large, 13 New York full creams, fair to good. large, 13@13%c. Milwaukee Grain Market. MILWAUKEE, Deec. 2.-WHEAT—-Mar- ket steady: No. I northern, Ti@7i%e; No. 2 nerthern. TS May, e RYE--Stea: No. 1, 'Sl¢. BARLBY—}fi'm. standard, G6c; sample, g last yea 1902, 1901 Inc. Dec. Cattie . 811,628 186,847 : Hogs 216,132 2,396,983 Sheep 2 The Price of hog market the parisons with Date. | 1502, |1901. 1900, 11899, |1898. [1897. [1896] 1) Tc-umamt:u 1] sold on the South Omaha , with com- Dec, - e g By EES VEE_ p—— z2e - & oo taen K S o 3333 5B e et "2z o =8 G =5k 28sEES e 13 P A B8 _222: wxeENcs ‘3EEss s eseacecs BENBRY P 22| 2B 5 25 ¥ 337053 55 3 =8 o £5: et i3 2] A8 e Eannng B BRERE =8 ER2288 G ARLERE SREEE e se 20 G900 ceante coadacs Gacee 1585 °sS e & ‘emy 8 o conocs Q. 3. B 2t e & - 82°% Py SE e z - =i * Indicates Sunda: Indicates holiday. The official number of cars of stock ‘brought in today by each road was _Roads. Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. H'r's. C, M &St. P.Ry.... § 3 . .- Wabash Ry. iis Union Pacifie system. & C. & N. W. Ry. . F,E & M V.R'R . B & M. Ry. ol C. B. & Q Ry. . Ci/R'L & P., east.... Total receipts ... 13 1 The disposition of the day's receipts was as follows, euch buyer purchasing the num- ber of head indicated: Buyers. Omaha Packing Co Swift and Compan, Armour & Co. Cudahy Packl; Armour, Sloux Cit: Cattle. Hogs. Shee e Other buyers Total 416 366 CATTLE—There just a few odd bunches of cattle in the yards this morning and almost nothing was offered for sale. For the week receipta were only about half s large as for last week, but there is quite an increase over the ‘same week of last ycar. The demand was in fairly good shape, 5o that sellers ha tunity for advancing price A good proportion of the offerings all the week c.nsisted of cornfed steers, but the most of them were only short fed and for that reason could not be classed as cholce beef. Packers, though, had to have a few cattle, and, owing to the light offer- ings, they had to pay considerably more money for what they got. Wednesday was about the high day of the week, when prices showed an advance over the close of the previous week amounting to safely . On Friday, however, the feeling WaS not as good and geveral salesmen found they could not get Wednesday's prices. It looked as though packers were waiting for a big run on Monday. This weak under- tone to the trade left the market rather uneven and the udvance for the week could not be put at much over The top price of the week was $6.30, which was paid on Friday for a well fattened bunch of steers weighing 1,610 pounds. The bulk of the cattle are selling from about H to .05, The cow market was active and stronger all the week, owing largely, to light receipts and a fairly good demand. All kinds im- proved and the total advance could be quoted at 25@40c. There did not seem to be any more on sale than packers had orders for, o that the week closed up without any Feakness. Cholce cows sold largely from $.50 to $4.35; falr to good trom $2.80 (o .40, and canners from $2.00 to §2.50. Bulls and stags were also a little stronger for the week, but still they did not as much as cows. Veal calves were also strong all the week, cholce ones selling up to_$6. The stocker and feeder market was very quiet all the week. Shippers evidently re- alized that Christm: k no time to send in stock cattle, and as a result receipts were extremely lght. The demand was of course very small, but still prices showed very little change from the close of last week. Representative sales: B 334441 HEIFERS. 358 BULLS, T B & 100 335 HOGS—There was & very light run here this morning and the market opened right around & dime higher on the’ heavy hogs. The lightweights were somewhat neglected and in most cases did not advance as much as the heavy hogs; the better weights sold largely at $.47% and 3.50, with & we! loads sold largely at $6.45 and from that down to %5 for a load welghing 18 pounds. Trading was fairly active, so that the bulk was soon disposed of. ¢A late train arrived about 11 o'clock, afted puckers had thelr more urgent orders filled, so that the cjose of the market was slow and weak, = es- pectally on the lightwelghts. The receipts for the week have been very ught, showing quite a decrease, ‘both as compared with last week and with the cor- Tesponding week of last year. The table above will show the exact fgures. Owing to the moderate offerings and the good de- mand prices advanced steadily all the week, showing a net gain of HGoc. This gavance carries the market to the highest point reached since November 7. Representative : s Rt LR I 1 E S FFE Essee: EFEd a32aragessrrrbesayaess =+ Eree ¢ Ereasi’ LSS ESERRSSSSSS s NNRRERS: 31 337 There were oniy about of sheep heére today, so there enough with which to make the market. A bunch of ewes sold which was pronounced a good, str For the week receipts have béen as compared with the last meveral weeks, but as compared With the same week of las ear the supply was Dearly three times as demand, thaggh, was sufficlent to take all that was offered at §ood, strong prices. Each day 8 offerings changed hands freely and the week closed With a goo strong undertone to the trade. There ha been very little change in the prices paid all the week, 50 that the market can best be described by calling it active and strong on all desirable grades of both fat sheep sansssanananasnn SETTTESEEAY sxEE L1 0 th wi e cars not 4,28 | load | hing 337 pounds at 30.62%; the lighter | P® The half fat stuff h ot as good demand.’ but held about steady on even oK Feeders have been in very light supply a the week, so that although the demand ha been limited, as Is usually the case at this season of the year, the market has held Just about steady on good stuff. Quotations for fed stock: Cholce lambs, BOGE5: ‘alr to geod lambs, $.60G5 ¢ cholce " yearlings, $.00G4.50; yeariings, $3.7564.00; cholce w 400 fair' to good, $3.33.60. 5040, fair to' good, $.M0GIN; fee. fambs, $10G4.00; foeder yeariings, 1§ g3 er wetkers, $2.750.%: @35 ve No. 208 fed ewes 4 fed wet CHICAGO Av LIVE STOCK MARKET. Hogw Are a Dime Higher—Sheep Steady ~Cattle Nominal. . CHICAGO, Dee. 21.—CATTLE—Receipts, "0 head; market nominal; good to prime steers, $5.50@6.50; poor to medium, 8.000 5.00; stockers and feeders, $2.00644.00; cow § 204,60, helfers, $2.000.85; canners, §1.2 ; buils, $2.0004.40; calves, 33000 Texas fed 'steers, $3.7565.00. HOGS - Receipte today, 12,000 head; esti- mated Monday, 3,000 head; left over, 3, head; market 1ic higher; mixed and bu ers’, $6.1006.80; good to cholce heavy, $ 67, rough heavy, $6.20@6.50; light,” $.9 6.30; bulk of sales, $6.25416.50. SHEEP 'AND LAMES-Recelpts head. market steady; $.00614.50; falr to ¢ 4.00; western she $.00G6.00;, western Ofticial Cattle . Hogs Sheep I 3000 $4.00614.50; native lambs, lambs, $4.25G6.00, sterday: Recelpts.Shipments. 080 59 New York Live NEW YORK, Dec. ceipts, 397 head; a #0ld at 33 per cwt.; dressed b clty dressed native ‘sides, T@llc Texas beef, B4%@Tl4c; cables lust uoted American ‘steers at Ib oreaned welght; refriger v reported 513 sheep, Yeet and 3,000 carcasses ¢ VES—No fresh arriy stalé’stock on sale; no trad veals, 11@l4c per Ib. HOGS- Recelpts, 40 ported. SHEEP AND LAMBS--Recelpte, 831 head; sheep and lambs steady but_slow: pens about clear; sheep sold at $1.%; lambs at $6.75@6.00; a'few head at $6.25 Stock Market. BEEVES—Re- nd helfers steady ; few buils head; no sales re- Kansas City Live Stock Markes, KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21.—CATTLE-Re- celpts, 70 head; market unchanged; native steers, $2.75@6.15; Texas and Inc ows and helfers, §1 $1. 704, 2 X bulls, 80; estern ateers, 88,0006 $2.756M4.25; tive cows and_helfers. and feeders, calve vs, $2.000 the week, 21,000 heac HOGS—Receipts, higher: bulk of ackers, . @ 106G6.45; Yorkers medium, $0.400 week, LAMBS-—Recelpts, none: market steady and nominal; muttons, $.00 @4.10; lambs, $.60@o.45; range wethers, $3.00G4.60; ewes, $3.0004.20; receipts for the week, 6,000 head. St. Louis Live Stock Market. ST. LOUIS, Dec. ATTLE—Recelpts, 100 head, including Texans; market steady; native shipping and export steers, $4.65@6.00, with strictly fancy worth up to $0.75; dressed beef and butcher steers, $1.00 @.75; steers under 1,00 Ibs., §3 1 stockers and feeders, $2.6G4 heifers, $2 .00; canners, $1.50) i bulls, $2.50@4.00; calyes, $4.00G7.00; Texas and In dian "{9’"' $2.5004.90; cows and helfers, HOOB—Rac‘lpln, 1,000 head; market ac- tive and 5@10c higher; ;)Igu and lights, $6.25@6.50; packers, $6.40G%.6 butchers, $6.50@8.75. St. Joseph Live Stock Market, 8T. JOSEPH, De¢. 21.<CATTLE-Re- cel‘fu, 376 head; natives, $3.75@%.25; Texs and westerns, #5.75; cows and heifers, g.m,m; Vi $2.50416. bulls and stag . .65, yearlings and calves, $2.50@4.25; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.35. HOGS8—Recelpts 4,144 head; light and light mixed, $6 62%4; medium and heavy, $3 6.60; pgn. 6. bulk, $6.421646.65. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Recelpts, NH“G; active and stronger; top western lambs, $5.40. Stoux City Live Stock Market. BIOUX CITY, Ia., Dec. 27.—(Special Tele- gram)—CATTLE—Recelpts, 30 head: mar- ket steady; beeves, $.50@6.60; cows, s and mixed,' $2..008.75; stockers and_fee $2.008.5; calves and yearlings, $2.2543.75 0GB Recelpts, 10 hend; market it er, at $5.! 16.50; bulk, $6.20@6.35. EHISkP AND LAMns—n.m--uus, 100 head; steady; 13 lambs, %cGH.75; 29 mixed, 31310 Stock in Sight. The following were the receipts of live stock at the six principal cities yesterday: Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Omaha . 20 3,043 6 Chicago. 8,000 Kansas City ... Feiih 8t. Louls 8t. Joseph Sloux City . Totals .... 888 10 4,161 Berlin Bourse Looks Up. BERLIN, Dec. 28.—Prior to the holidays trading on the bourse was light, but yes terday trading was uncommonly stron with ‘an_increased business. Ail depar ments shared In the upward movement. Iron shares rose at a result of better con- ditions {n the Rhine country and Silesia, indicating good business for next year. Some iron shares scored sensational ad- vances. Coals also were very strong, Elec- trical shares profited by the alllance of the Aligemeine Electrical company and the Unton Electrical company. It 18 now sald that the Slemens & Halske Electrical com- pany of Berlin and the Schuckert Electrical company of Nuremburg will make a price arrangement with the new combine. Money_showed an easler tendency last week. The statement of the Relchsbank issued yesterday showed greater pressure than is usual At the monthly meeting of the central committee of the bank, President Koch announced that the demands on the bank were heavy. He sald, however, there was no occasion to raise the rate of discount The pressure for money during the finai week of the year 18 expected to be extraor- dinary. London Grows Stromger. LONDON, Dec, 28.—The market Is wind- ing up the year with increased evidence of strength, Business on the Btock exchange last week was moderate, owing to the holl ys and the settlement, but there was a reeptible inelination to speculate on the | anticipated improvement In all high-grade securities. The rate for money has hard ened and money was in strong demand. The upward tendency on the exchange was noticeable on American and African shares. Large buying orders for American shares were received in spite of the disap- pointing New York bank returns. The pres ence and purpose of Colonlal Becretary Chamberlain in South Africa buoyed mining shares. Venezuelan =bonds sharply on reports of arbitration. The belief that money would be ple whe Tose early in January has ‘created con that the rate will be maintained bueiness begins. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—DRY GOODS-In dry goods today there was no change in the character of the home demand in any department. General business qulet, but prlces firm. There is continued buying for In hiavy brown cottons. Cotten in fair demand. Westerns firm; linen yarns, steady; export yarns woolen yarns, steady; jute yarns, firm. Wool Market. ST. LOUIS, Dec. #1.—WOOL-—St, ; medium’ grades and combing, 17 :‘l’.’:\‘( 'l'lll\r. 16@19c; heavy fine, 13@lse 156 29¢. "}'}?fidfi(,pff Dec. 21.—~WOOL~The arriva of wool for the first series of the 1902 auc- flon sales amount to 9545 bales, including forwarded direct to spinners. Pres. C, A Weare, V-Pres. Established 1862 WEARE COMMISSION CO., CHICAGO Members of the Principal Exchanges. Private Wires to All FPolnts. GRAILN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS, BONDS Bought and sold for cash or future delivery. OMAHA BRANCH, 10-11 clephone 1516, W. B Ward, Local M~nager ard of Trade, SHIP US YOUR STRANGE BROS. HIDE CO0. Sloux City, lowa,