The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1921, Page 3

| @ent Harrison of Southern raitway. | Week in United States againat 442 MAY START NEXT BOOM The Star's “Weekly Review | rece of National Finance and Business | RY ALBERT APPLE Biggest dusiness event of past week: President Wilsxo 8 Winslow bill It starts pay gaitroads of about $400,000 der Ov ent guaranty of fixed return to roads. Most re Dehind in paying bills, But there ghould be enough left over to star heavy buying. Next boom may start| with railroad purchases Only 314 miles of new American | mailways built last year, Locomo tives delivered last year only 1,792/ against 6.564 in 1907. Only 23,194] pew freight cars in 1920 ag 370,226 in L907, Railroads at (900,000 tons behind in buying rails. RAILROADS MOVE LESS FREIGHT Railroads in February mo enecighth le dabout freight than same nearly as much ws in| February, 191 Pickup in textile and shoe indus-| E tries is reflected by New England 32,944 cars week, against 22,000 f mame | faiireads moving freight i industry gettir bottom to fall out of steel prices’ Not » Gary of U. S. Steel But 60 days ago Corporation ran 96 per cent capacity—now about 65 per cent. | Mail order trade a third less than | 18%, which was abnormally large Chicago district hardest hit by de pression. Employment there esti fated low as 55 per cent of normal UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUTO INDUSTRY Unemployment most severe in au temobile industry—65 out of every 1 workers idle. But Ford reports geod orders. Says his plants will Fun capacity in few weeks | Price of rough diamonds at Johan mesburg, South Africa, has fallen 10 per cent since last May. Diamonds are scarcer and more precious than gold. Do they truly show trend of values? “Forst part of the financial strin-| ) gency was passed in January. From | Row on there will be a notuble| ehange for the better,” says Prest Oniy 341 business failures last Week before. Bank clearings last week, country rer, $5,782,449,286, against $7,492. BIAS0 week before and $7.347,307,- © © year ago when one dollar ‘t represent as much business prices were higher then. Last week 2.454.500 shares changed | hands on New York Stock Exchange, | one-fourth lew than week before and one-half less than same week NEW CHEASTY STORE OPEN | Cheasty’s new store, at Second ave. and Seneca st., opened for business Monday morning. Formal opening | Will be staged in ceremony later in the month, R. EL Bigelow, manager, has announced. A Colorfni Love Drama of the Tropics! Comedy “WET BUT DRY” 4 BLISS Q | NATIVE "HERBS TURE OM fhe. y dae Over One Million wown Tablets Taken Daily For Constipation which causes ES & BOILS NERVOUSNESS PO calomel on HARTIT YORMING 3 6 DENG M408 ow Roots, nERNS & BARES ONLY WOMET wack (COARANTER IN Race nox 410N70 0. B1 156 MEDICAL =| tar. 1002, WASHINGTON, D.C. 9 4 roads are several months | « MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1921, SEATTLE IN ORIENT Seattle the Orient and sit cording Harbin way bac clared, SKAGIT BIDS RECEIVED furnish the hydro. | Two b 000. ‘The Manufac the Unite bids to « low, with an offer ¢ Westinghouse Electr Proposed to do should be represented in RAILROADS 22552": Manchuria k to the Orient machinery for the board of p Saturday, 1 turing Co. $1,164,804 Neitt 4 an offer to purchase A bid Pike Street and from the General Electric | © | Co, arrived too late laying water mal N, also are under ¢ & Moceri being to ja by branch ow. ully partiet referred to City Hngineer , at | tewtimonials, State Miners Agree ‘The attitude of their leaden: in re. sisting the proposed wage cut and |lowering of living costs which coal mine operators declare will be put who is on his pinto effect March 15, has been ap- Banking onneetions are not sufficient, he de proved by practically all the 35 mine unions In the state, | Brnest Newsham, sec! triet N | of Ame according to tary of Dix 10, United Mine Workers oa Council May Deine | Councilman William Hickman bit | Moore was to introduce In the city «| council Monday a resolution declar ing’ i, “highly dosirable’ to widen | and deepen the channel of the Duwa mish waterway. n Successful treatment of diseased 1 | tontels and throat without operation, Herb Medicine Co. | Mox 861, Seattle.Advertisement. Fifth Avenue | OS Transportation on Monarch Ranges to any station in the State of Washington to Resist Pay Cut : |Widening Waterway, THE | RATES MAY DROP SOON ern ratiroad executives tn Chi » lant Wriday and Saturday, it is be |raten on Northwest forest products near future t JAP IMPORTS DECREASE Mxports to Japan from this coun try in January, 1921, were half of | what they were in January, 1920, the United States Chamber of Commerce haw informed the local board. “PAY YOUR BILLS” ized Pacific Northwest Credit Men's Association will begin activities tn this city soon with the slogan: “Pay |Your Bills.” The association will | hold its 1922 convention here. LUMBER IS UNCHANGED | A review of local lumber conditions for the lant week shows little mate ~| rial change, Mills continue to pro- duce lows than 50 per cent of normal Lumber men feel, however, that the low tide in their industry has been passed, S & result of a conference of | ved that transcontinental rail! | Will be materially reduced in theo | Local officers of the newly organ: | + Font or » 2 Atall 24, ares phe. 0} |oake flour, 200 Stall 10) KCONOMY Mtalle 27-98, 4 phen Wa sparhettl, 2 SEATTLE STAR larket | Public M connmn }m ™ RE peanut butt HUMPHREY URGED Seattle Chamber of Commerce har ela | Wired President Harding urging the | oo wi visit the Hum-| cust Co. plant next Jappointment of William 1 | SHE SAVED A | “RUN ON BANK” Aitalle 49-69, pu fel mar Protected Family Savings by “Diamond Dyeing” old Garments, Draperies 10-™, cai Mazoia ofl, | j 49-1, wack | 5 hangings, ev risk your m *\streake ¢ Dyen"” ything into new. 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