The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 11, 1923, Page 14

BUSINESS—Finance, Produce, Agriculture, Shipping, Real JULY T0 HAVE ONE BIG WEEK Combination of Events Will Draw Thousands to City The combination led for the week Promises to b crowd of munities quent attendance Worthwest Mer that may 2 @xposition will be given that we Bt the Bell st. terminal under Paponsorship of the Chamber of Com merce. Last year it drew an Rendance of 300,000, ‘Three thou and merchants from com Pmunities registered and their pur Phases from the exhibitors in rot Pigures amounted to approx $1,000,00. This year the et buyers is expected to pa $6,000 mark and possibly reach ¢ Beside tho exposition fractions wil! in e the great geant “Ameri to be produ at the univer stadiu tire battle fl of the U. Will be in the harbor and Fevelewed on Friday, July President Harding, who the previous day on his return from| his Alaska trip. The president will Smake the most important speech of|¢ this entire tour on Friday. This will Pbe his address on Alaska, the interest of the ent will be centered. © In addition there will be two con- P¥entions in session during the week which will be largely attended by| tai] merchants of the Northwest./ will be the meeting of the| hington-Idaho Retail Clothiers’ Seiation and the other that of Washington State Retail Jewel-|t association. The same week the| hington State Druggists associa will meet at Bellingham, and 1 Northwest Furniture Manuafo turers’ exposition will be held at), PTacoma, All of these will draw HB Northwestern merchants and vir-| | ty all of them will arrange their |; Mirips to take in the big exposition ng 2 resid! reach umber thelt pa. sity t arrive country D Some 30 booths at the Exposition |™ wilt be taken by wholesalers and n turers of Tacoma and keen is being displayed by those 'Of Other sections of the Northwe: Wo contracts for booth space ha Teceived already from Ore | The daily style shows at the expo: this year will’ be even more |p ive than last. ‘will be employed. A number Manufacturers and wholesalers ‘Barments have already reserved hibit space and others have in ted their intention of doing so. ors will put on all of the| shows this year. Financial Flashes Macfarlane & Co. || B11 Second Ave. 51; 20 © Industrials 96.66 off, #. $3.31 up, .30. un reports failures for week of against 268 in the preceding |, Of five days and 449 a year| Bradstreet finds more scasonable father has helped crops, retail fobbing distribution and light ner goods. _ Erlinger & Hubert interests com. | plan for conversion of large | ber of theaters into motion pic- ore shipments from upper | y @ ports in May, 811, 05 tons, oS ae 4s yer, May, 1922. M itinghouse Air Brake declared | Third 4%» (quarterly dividend of $1.40, pay: thle July 31, record of June 30; months ago dividend of| i ied svat. paid, and in April a divi- Pdend of 35 per cent was pa © Department of agric "1922-23 sugar crop to be 20,492,264 | iF few York builders increase wages 85,000 workers $1 per day, avoid strike. ) cents @ pound. It is stated con-| for shipment abroad have | m larger than even the most op. jistic had anticipated. © Daily and monthly production rec- fords for stee] ingots were shattered | Min May, according to American tron | 4 Steel institute, which gives pro- luction for 30 companies, making 3 per cent of output, at 3,5 53 tons, against’ , 3,321,278 in and 3,402,007 in March, the Previous high monthly record. | The United States bureau of for- ign and domestic commerce has re- @eived the following inquiries from foreign firms who are in the market | for American goods. Full informa- tion will be given to American firms on application to S. H. Blalock, dis irict manager of the bureau, Low-| Man building, Seattle: | Australia — (6800) Cc ‘Corn, yellow and red; (6798) “making machinery. (6762) Mrame gilding and finish Belgium—(6713) Wire, copper, “rolled, _ China—(6749) ©: 16761) Cash carrier system. Cuba—(6794) Lighting plant equip. Germany—(6719) Bacon, condensed Milk, flour, meats; (6742) Meat prod. | / sein; \F Hh Ireland—(6720) Casein; fornia redwood, pine, yellow poplar; equiprnent. Mexico—(6720) Coco nds; (6754) Wi De pancinn (6797) (6743) Southern yellow |f (6758) Office . copper, ht Dried beans, potatoes, _Venezuela—(6766) #, coin-in-slot. Planos and FACE VALU | The face value of a xecurity ts the Hue that is stuted in the security | Atself, irrespetcive of uny coupons | hed thereto, it is praotleally Vm nonymous with "par," and | w nately | C! on which | of Sept 1 Professional | b: | Sugar—Easy C Russian 544s, 19 Russian 6igm 3. | French | French 4s, 18it French 5a, 1 <metal continues strong at | British | British British Vici British Ref. 4x Belgium Restor. Belgium Premium |: | Japanese 4x of 1931 Italian Cons. Z— {Canadian Ban ADET- | sfarine Nationa Picture | Metropol | geattte h carrier system. | seattle I | Albers, coin Carnation Milk Prod., | Centennial Milt ali. | Federal Telegraph nut ofl, 190,000 | © on. | 14 superior Portia Saturday's Quotat shed by Logan & d Ave, Sea! Teh hicag July w @ steady under ut th with a fair f buying indu by rep athwest scalping” attitude Cash wheat--N An ea unde rn. was attr act that beneficial ra usually a dr and the larger le crop news. dull and neglected n June weakened after | Chicago Boaid of Trade ‘Saturday's Quotations Wheat— Open High Low uly $1314 $1118 81.20 110.08 . : 1 112% 141M LI sy Hing Chicago Car Lots Saturday's Quote! Furnished by Logan & Bryan Ave., Seattl pore Produce Jay's Quotations Invincible Oil Taland Jewell Tea K. C. Southern | Kelly Bpringtieid | Kennecott {Keystone T Lee Tire & ¥ high Valley Lou. & Nashville Loew Theaters | Mack Truck + | Maxwell Motors A do Bt ay Dept. Stores Middle St mt Mexican Seaboard ‘Saturday's Quotations Raw, 10; refined, quiet 90. ¢ {fee No. ber Denver Live Stock Saturday's Quotations Market steady. | cowa and heifers, | ra and feeders, ; ss8@it market, 10¢; bulk, $6.30@ |» M. ttle $6@7.50; calves, Hoge—Rec Top, $6.49 vale Ka o ptd Missourt Pacific do pta Montgomery Ward Metntyre | Mother Lode | National Miseuit ational Ena hell & Ord ‘larabs, Liberty Bonds Saturday's Quotations Purnished by Logan & Brva $10 Second Avi Series— High rat 3 101.06 Low 161.00 part Nevada Consolidated Norfolk ‘orthern Pacific ‘orth American 3 | Onyx | Phit ac. Ga Pan- Amer. | do B | Pennsylvania | Perce Arrow Pres Pullman Pure Oil Pacitic O11 Producers Refine Postum Reading do ist pfd..... | Rep. Iron fe Steel. 99% | Rock Island 100 do A Reynolds Tobacco B. Seaboard Air Line... do pid... | Binclair Consolidated 4 [Southern Pacific Southern Railway fecond 4s 44a cond 4% 98.18 98.16 98.26 < 98.22 99.27 oe Petroleum & Elec Petroleum 7 urth 4a ew 44s 2 Foreign Securities Saturday's Quotations Furnished by Logan & Bryad® $10 Second Ave., Seattle Bid Asked . +» 10 3 tussian Ste, 1 75 | + 1 49% 39 . 8 . 8 : ony oe 8 7 + 60 Steel Cor Pal. ¢ a, 1 ba. -» BH Japanese First 4\%a. . Hd cane ieee ond 4ten, Inited Kingdom, 1929., inited Kingdom, 1937. .103% Studebaker ( andard Ott cee elly O11 BANK CLI mpany cit obacco Produet do A | Transcontinental fi. | Texas Coal & Oil Third Ave | Timken Bearing |Urfion Pacif..1 | Union Pacific Seattle Balances . veers 1,553,410.91 || Portland Clearings | Clearings -$5,894,850.54 | | | | 5,136,476.11 Zalances .. ? $88,192.88 | ‘Tacoma i To transactions. . jt 2,456,000.00 | |v: ——# 8. Rubber 8 1 Corp do pta Weatinghouse Electric & White Motors | Woolworth . Seattle Stock Market Furnished by H. M, Herrin & Co, 117 Cherry St. Bank Stocks— Bid Asked 75,00 $ 85.00 0.00 211.00 199.00 200.00 0.00 225.00 200.09 310.00 + 115.00 128,00 220.09 240.00 115.00 417.60 0.00 180.00 0.00 Saturday's Quotations Fornished by Logan & Bryan B10 Becond Ave., Senttle Yormal value $4,866 $1.00 cia. cts. ots. ota. . . Bwedish krona ‘Norway krone $0 cta.. nish krone $0.00 | 16.00 ets. .Greek drachma 87.00 endl Us 2.09 i 29,00 Foreign Pochbiige © 102,00 Saturday's etations NEW YORK, Jun foreign change opens 3-16; france, marks, 83,3 of Com, Dexter Horton National vational ench franc Igian franc wine franc allan lira tional Bank of Com tional City 115.00 146.00 | Title Trust fon National Industrial Btocks— © 140.00 45.00 42.50 1.50 + 89.00 + 101,00 100,00 4.50 95.00 do pf. vom, Alanka Steamship lower, her Flouring Mille $0.0641; neral Petroleun nbe Grain f Milling do pi jodyenr Tire Rubber (Cal) pfa watlan Sugar onolulu Plan Chicago Grain rice Kange for the Wenk Ay Open High 11 $1. 1.10% 110 1 95,00 | 13,00 155.00 hid 104.00 45.00 100.00 120.00 #9, ty a Low : $1.10 $1 aly. | Hept Corn— Deo.ssss- {Jaty |Bept Onte— Doc | July Hopt Rye Hopte veers July Atnak Navigation eltle Car & Foundry cifie Coun Bxcutt cific Gan & Fi c, Tol. & Te, », 30% 40% 48M 4 f a. rugot Hd. Power, 6% pfa., 1d Brow, coin do pfd | Sperry. Flour, do pfd com 18 Te Todd Shipyards hank, corm, Ontario, \ Foreign Money Status Present, value Sterling, lire, 3 to the dollar. Clone | 1% lake Erie ls $26% fect above Lake | THE SEAT LE STAR MONDAY BUT IT DOES SOUND LIKE A FISH STORY VE heard of the Irishman fond of me e found it diftioult to Frb who eating puld may himae Whale are now on th Han fh em in from the North ‘cooked perfectly in of tenderne fried wh hormen are unknewh to nned North Pacifi hit: whe British Columbia » dixponed of ¢ f the f it wit th article wteaks making a er pro The duced. catch has b before the England you should w offically are early Local Markets VEGETABLES Vaid Wholesale E en took most ¢ rry, he reported that and plentiful’ t whales is yoar Price Onions Local green, per doa per Ib Ver Committees Study Methods Turnips rRUITS Prices Paid Wholesale Deal four hor» Grape Fev’ Cal. Money —Co wb Btrained, Lemons Per box Oranges Per box Vineappie—-Per ease Strawberries Clark Memens 6 Seed 1 oo@ its 1.46562.00 pox 2.609 3.25 NUTS Prices ald Wholesale Dealers Hack Lots La, per tb. per Bb. i Per t. No. if perplexing prob! DAIRY PRODUCTS Vrices Valid to Shippers States Ameri American Sock gi most to | MiIK—Cwe », Beattie F. 0. BB. condensary DAIRY PRODL Prices to Metall Dew Butter—Local creamery, ew Local prints, wrapped neh, white shel te w windmills, m gure | tude. ‘The central stations of the country are making preparations for the ab-| As soon as an} farm power sorption of t appreciable part of the FARM IS CHIEF USER OF POWER ‘: of Supplying Electricity nperate requir |, the total power req 14 0,000 horsepower livered from this one no This is appr capacity of all steam of United 26,000, atral stations utilities in the Added nepower th: s to this combined capacity ernal combustion steam used on the farm the total axsumes a startling magni engines, tors is load. ad « available the mar ma of rur tr now confron public utili will disappear inl committees have been ted by the tric ¥ to cooperate with department of an Farm Bureau an be ma ing oc ap power indus the of Agricultural neers to Investig thoroly th the farmer the ired power, Wisconsin cream brick Ke Bwiae Wash, triplets Tillamook triplets, 30 a 0 POULTRY AND MEATS | | wid te Triees Paid by Wholesale Dealers to hippers Drollery—Laghornn, per I, Rocks and Reds, ib % | Capene-—Live, fat’ per. To Panes, 4 Heoe—1'4 ip p. a Medium, live, 2% to 4% ibe Live, light, 7 to 2% Ibe ey Ury pleked 3 cents above live, Geese—Live, fat, 9.to 12 ibe | Delgian Hares—« the, and up | Turkeys—Faney d. p., 8-16 Ibs |. Live, fat, por th, | Roosters—id, tive, | | ups. ; | per ib. olee Light Chotce heavy Veal— 10 09 Nght dijum, he ney, he | Medium, heay 79 POULTRY AND MEATS | Trices Paid Wholesale Des | Ducks—Drersed, per tb, Hens—Dressed, heavy 1| Dressed, lht | 6, heavy, Ib » Hatt, Mh, . | Broilers—1923, per Ib % | Geese——Dresned, per tb. Turkeys—Vancy, dressed Live, fa th Belgian Hi Live, Dreane 13] 09 | | 09 08 @ {7 36 | 40 “ 32 vw 20@ 121 06% 08 126.124 | P. Ge 217 | 5 098 12 AG 19 | per Tb. draawed, block Hight LIVE STOCK ons at Stockyards Prime steers Medium to goo Prime cows and h Calves itera. Prime lamb Common t ariings ' Wethors Ewer medium beeee 100@ 10.00 . 2000 00) UR AND SUGAR De Wholesale Prices | Hour. | Sugar 10, Pier 1 Macfarlane & Co, | -18.00@: 19,00@ 2 + AT00@1 11,0001 49,00 61.00 | 41,00 +00 (7.00 49.00 50,00 | 49.00 | 45,00 12 7 Sy, | Alfalfa Hay 00 4 | Straw Firat grado, ‘ 67 81% Whole | Harley Rolled Oatt—Whole feed, 100° Rolled and «round, 70'n-80' | Wheat—-Recleuned feed, 126% | AM-Grain Chop—s0'n | htek Feed-100's [Chick 1M. Mash ba Growing ¥ 100" " Ay Growing Maxh—100'9 Hat Kge Mash— 100° Korateh Feed 100)" Cocoanut Meal—100' , 80'w- 100% ao | 42% 18% 79% 100' Viest 209 i }o | Second High Tide | «21 yp Second Low Tide 310 p, Pasi | York from Pi yama Maru fo 5:05 laide | Francisco, Yorke Francisco Smith $.00@ 4.00) Americar “He pather, U. Ploy 11-B—atr Owe rie ian | ORE aa TO | Pier B 0 | Per D. Hoffernan'« Drydock Ship News Tides in Seattle MONDAY. JUNE it High Tide Sa, m., 10.6 ft. First Low Tide 09 a. m, 0.6 ft High ‘Tide }2 my 10.4 ft First Lew Tide ft m., 9.9 116 m., Hecond Law ‘Tide 5 ft. |9:87 p.m, 6.7 on, Weather Bureau Report TATOOSIL ISLAND, June 9.—8 A. meter rising; light tain; dense fox ain, UBB, Naw York, at 1:40 Py mr Virgibia Oleons aT a. tne P itr Negulus and str Tiverton, at m, 6 Arrivals and Departures | AKKIVED—June 9% fan Diego vi ate Ruth Al a 8 Peitro, 20 a. m, xa |coma, at 6:30 a, m. D—June 9 tern Ainska, Str at on Alanka. m.; U, 8. 8. Puget Sound Naval Station, tr 1 Alawka) dy Kindersley for st pointe m.; ate Nep via Tacoma, San Frar Iro and Halboa, at 4:10 a, 1 Evorett via Tacora, a 8—Str Tolken for Ade Tacoma, Port Angeles, San fydney and Melbourne, at j mtr Ruth Alexander for Tacoma, a m.; tr Jame B. Duke for vin Grays Harbor, Portland San Pedro, ata p.m isco, Kan j ate To: a.m via m Pp. t San phia, atr Yosemite for San Franclaco via Port Gamble and Port Lud at 10:90 a.m, Alaska Vessels, Seward—June &—sn hbound, 0 8 A ae at 10 p,m, ound, . June 9 at la, m . | Vessels in Port at Seattle Kaka Maru, Cove—Pler 41—Btr sehr Spo i ‘Terminal dova, 1 Htreot 8 1, H, ihohominn 8. ¢ 2-Htr Alanka, atr Redondo, atr La touche Str Dorothy Luckenbach, U. No. 67 ‘Str Admiral Nicholson. Htr Ruth Alexan: str Admiral Rodman. 8, Shipping Board Moorings. 1, Morne, tlent Street faret Dollar, #tr Ranta Paula, diana, ate Robin Hoo Waterway Dock & Warehouse Co. Str Gyokoh Mt Docks—Htr Wont Tm to, atr Weat Niluw Ak 8, 5, Eagle ninnd—Str str Ine Gratin ry Villard, “Barge Hortram, oriiKeBtr Keteht bert, rine Rallway—Hehy Melrose Teons, barge Coquitiamn City, whalers Star Now 1, 2) 4 i ately equal to the the 00 engines, electric United agriculture, feration, economical method of affording advantages of tt. | New at r from Ta- for Vancouver, nnet for New | 6 Balboa and Phila- str Queen, tral Rog: Str Str Cor- atr Curacao, Str Anna Mar- atr Bil. Automobile Pistons eee of pistons for auto: aeroplane and a compara- new industry to the North- The Helix Piston Co, at East Madison st, is plonecring teld, providing “Northwest | Product’? to nupply some of the] 0,000 worth of pistons that are| bought in King County every year. The platon they producing ts of many experiments in an find a lightweight piston would eliminate the common troubles of gan engines. About they 1 in perfect opened thelr Making T mobile, makin motorboat, nilar engines is FUEL MEN PLAN BIG CONVENTION Wenatchee “Gathering Will Be Unusual Event are o re to 5 When the fifth annual con of the Wa | | rt | hington Sts , at W June 29. and 30, & program that of unusual combination of business conferences, inspirational addresses and about the last word | jin Western hospitality. | President Browne, of Bellingham, year ng the present iry and 1 hundreds of article, machine shop and pistons in various omobile and other engines as a 1 test, ‘The tests proving + ey are now operating acity of 300 pistons ¥ will enjoy fers an shown one of their specially constructed | ment »| ‘The pleture lather for piston work the ring the + centered, provided by the Wenatchee i | speakers men as H. | Frank -H. W. Cordell, of Pullman; Beckban, of Spokane; W. B. Maltby, Harold N, Moore, W. J. | Hindley, of Seattle; Wellington Pegg and John A. Gellatly, of We- natchee, and will cover a range of | subjects from jthe. Coal Man” to the report of the national coal commission, Present }attendance at this convention will be the largest ever registered by the fuel men of this state. SEATTLE ADS says, see The inthe puts in | People is on without preeetent in coves and pin holes after|th® experience of the fuel mer- on has been moulded and/chants. There will be complimen- | completing the final opera-| tary, luncheons every day, a the- tion on the product. Each lathe has|@ter party and smoker, then, after a capacity of a hundred pistons in| Adjournment, Saturday, the conven- 1 in eight-hour shift, using a water. | ton will form a caravan and motor | cooling system for both the tools and | to glorious Lake Chelan, where they the snaatal: | will be billeted in the tent colony In the picture, left to right, are|“nd in the hotel, Clyde R. Goer and F. A. Tutthitl The annual banquet given the eure ris ery coal dealers by the wholesalers and BIG TT jobbers of the Washington market OURIST | will be served Saturday evening, fol- |lowed by « pavilion dance. Sunday | RUSH BEGINS speciaNy chartered launches will | ‘The Chamber sof Commerce sent | Ary the delegates thru this Swits- 5,000, additional, copies of ita fran. of America, while expert an- b Lepage eee ee repeal | from their dark haunts in the gla-| Pepsin ete |clal waters of these mountain | » they. report, 18 80 | streams, great that they have difficulty in|” Conference leaders and eping any on hand, J. L. Crinwell, who heads a tour-| ist agency in Los Angeles, advised }the chamber that~he has already booked 300 residents of that city |for excursions to Alaska with stop- overs here. Another 10 days, he will a record number of Southern California people headed for Puget Sound jeorge A. Brown, a prominent San Francisco real estate man, con-| firms the prospective California in- vasion “A surprising number of | Californians are coming to the || Sound this summer,” he writes. || Building Permits | “Advertising pa: | UNDER $100 Torlief Torland, wife of a promt. | Merritt, nent Seattle physician, who is now jin Paris, in a letter to the Cham: ber of Commerce of this city “We managed to pick up a Sat- jurday Evening Post and were de- |Mghted to read the chamber's ad- vertisement. We exhibited it to our fellow Amoricaa travelers and what the display did not say about Seattle we did. They were inter- ested and we are going to meet some of them in Seattle G $100, A. L, Johnson, residence, $150. Northwest Steel and Metal Prod. | ucts, Inc, 1660 First ave. 8. altera. tions to shop, $500, Lesseo—Y, Kinomoto, 171 Wash- ington st., alterations to restaurant, $65. C. D, Stevens, 1372 35th’ ave. s., alterations to residence, $200; enn Camp, $436 39th ave. 8. W., » $50, Rainier and Power Go., 45 Wool Market Is i an resi. {Sixth ave, §, alterations. to Stronger Position t BOSTON, June 11.—The local Island drive, gar-|wool market technically is in’ a ronger position than {t was a week ago and thero is more confi- dence along Summer st ‘The burdensome supplies ade wools are being shipped abroad to Germany France, while the domestic ips of good quality are being bought up 4 jin the West. Twelve months Texas y W. Thompson, 1090 Third! woots are apparently fixed on tho Pease a: : i asi Of $1.45 clean landed and less ig te Sh raee , 24th, [desirable Texas and territory wools as £6 Bhat Se of French combing at $1.40, Clara Fenner, Avalon | ss te garage, ev < | A flew casket aaation Errihe 3200, tit man oreo PRET OY, aypaiel hi Mots grb 4 Spokane manufacturer, Clark has \. P. Nolilsen, 1007 E. Marion. at., | jeased. two floors of the building at alterations to apartment house, $75.1 1907 Woeatlake ave for his plant |aition’ Torte ggeemaerson: 8d] rhe industry will employ 3 men, 1 Me, Curtis, 6100) Mond wt, attera.| With an annual payroll of $100,000, i Sty Altera: phe plant will begin operations | tlony to residence, $3 |e D, Huribet ate roan ‘nt, na: { Wbout: Aturunt aa ES son dtah i ts as manager, M.D. Hurlbut, dition to tesidence, $200, | | OVER $100 | W. T. Laughin, 603 Cri ry build ing, frame residence, 26x26, $3,800, H. D. Taylor, 718 1B, Olive st., frame residen 40x24, $4,000. |. John B, Agen extate, Alaska hutld: Jing, mosaic offices, alterations, | $4,000, A. Root, 4500 Stone way, frame idence, » $6,600, J. 8, Evans, Kent, Re. D, me stores, 40x90, $1,500, Raven, 215 17th ave. No, apartment house addition, A 4339 Latona ave., 208 32, addition to Heat 8. 4 $600, 26th Union Bay ‘| Park, 7 fies n, 4080 garage, $100. "} Mrs, Anna Henderson, 426 Harri- |son, addition to gurage, $7: | Rupe, 6310 15th ave. N, ave. 8S. W,, of low lually and E., 168 417 factory will be s., Winniveg Grain } © Range for the Week Furnished by James Maefariane & Co, BIT Second Ave. Open fHigh Low Close | sia2 Hig% H.% $1Ty | LOT% LOR OCW Tn Srary Minreavolis Grain Price Range for the Week furnished by .Vames’ Mocfarlaue & Ca BIL Second Ave, Opes Wieh Low SLIT S11 $1,08% L19% LM& LIOw OT aN Wheat— July ‘Oct. No, 1, Wheat— Wulyses Hept,., OA tm duly, Clowe PLLA 1 Cie ‘| frame $8,000, says that the program of entertain- | |glern will lure the speckled beauties | {at this convention will include such | “The Public Love of} indications are that the | SEEN IN PARIS) 1, with R.M. Collins | Estate, Building °° REPORT GOOD STATE CROPS Washington Wheat Reports Are All Favorable promise WINTER WHEAT t AVERAGE wheat crop is nov el PRING WHEAT GAINS 6 PER CENT | The Wash acreage shows t over that of | the area for harve be 1,060,000 | been favorable | wince plant time an jon June 1 averaged 92 per cent of normal, Thix condition forecasts a fotamvey 3 of 17,066,000 bushels, compared with 9,200,000 bushels in }19 000 bushels, the for 1917-1921. tes is estimated to acres of spring This acreage is than 6 per cent ¢ acreage, wh crop per of normal on June 1, and gives promise of pro- | ducing 00 bushels, This production is considerably less than the bushels produced last and also less than the average production for 1917-1921, which was 244,943,000 bushels, The combined acreage of winter vat and spring wheat in Wash. | ington this season is 2,443,000 acres, red with 2,426,000 acres in 2,317,000 acres, the aver- | creage for the five years, 1. June 1 conditions | forecast a total production of 62,- | 819,000 bushels as compared with | 32,444,000 bushels in 1922, and the | average production for the five year | period, 1917-21, of 40,000,000 bushels. TIN SMELTERS TO SHUT DOWN NEW YORK, June 11.—The Amer ican Smelting & Refining Co. has an- |nounced that it will close its tin |smelter at Perth Amboy,-N. J., July j1. The reason assigned is an inabil- ity to get further supplies of Bolly. |fan tin concentrates in competition | with English tin smelters, which are able to smelt at lower cost. It is stated that the failure of congress ta | place a tariff on tin caused the pres- acres ons have wheat crop for ited 18,503,000 ar. more with ease of &s compared 0, cent ar sent situation, | 1t ts understood that the only other jtin smelter still operating in the | United States will close about July 31. First Avenue Men | Want Improvements Cluster lights on First ave., from King to Spokane sts., is the present | goal of the First Ave. Improvement club, according to Ray lL. Hodgdon, president. A committee of the club i 3 been circulating petitions for ithe improvenrent, and it is expected that the necessary number of signa- tures of property owners will soon Ve obtained, ‘The club is also working fer the jextension of First ave. S, from pokane st. to E, Marginal way. | "This," says Hodgdon, “will provide ja shorter route into the city from the south over the Pacific highway. It will also make possitle the ex- ension of the city’s manufacturing and wholesale southward from Spokane st. Lumber Shicmente Crowd Port Docks Early June lumber shipments are taxing the present capacity of the of ttle, according to W. fic manager. “Since y all of the output of the Snoqualmie Lumber Co. has |been handled by our Smith Cove | docks," said Cahill, “and this adds | between eight and ten million feet to the port's output.” | ‘The new bond issue for Smith Cove will be used chiefiy to con- j struct sheds for dry storage, Cahill said. Certain markets require dry |storage before shipping. Present plans call for facilities for handling lumber second td none on the Pas cific coast. | Port S. Cahill, June 1, pract Cannery Doubles Operating Force The Kirkland cannery, which shipped 200,000 cases of canned fruit last year, will begin operations this week, with a force twice the size of jlast season's. This ‘will entail a | payroll of approximately $4,000 a week Indications point to a good berry Jorop this year. Prices are said to |e such as to give the grower a reasonable profit, without making | the price too high for the consumer, | Lumber Exchange Purchase Closed Negotiations for the purchase of the Tumber Exchange building by A. SB. Ke Seattle lumberman, were concluded Satuntay when. the title was transferred, The purchase price was approximately $200,000,