The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1923, Page 14

ae) Pelee roo See Saba verematiatin | ident of American Woole ———— B USINESS—Finance, Produce, Agriculture, Shipping, Real Estate, | Do Biggest Welding Job NEW RESORT IS GO AFTER BIC RADIO STATION Shamber Committee Wants It Located in Seattle Watt? Yes, 5,000 watts! That is the sixe of the new radio telephone broadcasting ‘station the Radio Corporation of America y Poses to build somewhere in the Pa elfic Northwest In Seattle, of course! st It will be built here it Rew committee appointed by the Se Attle Chamber of Commerce can «i 4 fect the corporation's eyes to the Obvious fact that Seattle ts the fal place in which to locate it When? Some time in the near Tuture—but the work of the commit fee is scheduled to start Monday When they announced their meeting will be held. The men i to bring home the bacon—in other words, the com Mittee appointed by Frank Water house, president of the chamber, are &S follows: Dean Stephen I. Mille’ Of the University of Washington. Chairman; William A, Benjamin, M J. Connell, E. M. Corbett, Carl F. Croson, A. I. Elisworth, E. T. Fred: @rick, John A. Homer, M Jones Emerson Knoff, B. 0. &. May, Frank EF Smith, W. Cc. Van Fi M Warren, J. C. Weber ae os Skeel. Financial Flashes Brom: James Maciarlane & Co, cll Second Ave. —_____Y Twenty industrials, 94.85, off. 58; $0 rails $3.65, Strike of 5 Denver & Rio Grande, W Grande, southern railways, Federal income tax collections for New York district est4unated Mt $35,000,000 versus $36,000,000 Jast year, New York Cen for additional Lee tire & Rubber cut price 7 to 10 per cent Larger trade is forecast S. credit men. Fourteen industries report sales. called on tern Rio al seeks out! of tire vw UL ding increases in federal contro! General business condi! continue to show irregularities, according to weekly trade re. Views made public here last even- ing, in some areas retail business has been retarded on account of the weather. The remarks of Wm. Wood. pres were of an optimistic character on the future @utlook for his company, tho no re pone was made by the wollen is ‘Foreign Trade ‘The United States bureau of for- "eign and doniestic commerce has re- ©) ceived ihe following inquiries from foreign firms who are in the market American goods. Rion will be given to American firms On application to S. H. Blalock, dis- ) trict manager of the bureau, Low- | Man building, Seattle. Algeria—(6866) Canned ham, fresh © fruits, lard, meats. Australia—(6871) Electrotype ma. chinery, materials for clectrotype and “stereotype machinery, stereotype Machinery; (6875) Steel panels, in- eluding scuttle. Chile—(6510) Boxes for oranges. ‘(China—(6867) Medicines for hospt- tals. Treland—(6847) Tool handles, ash. > India—(6869) Copper sheets, brass Sheets, iron sheets, steel sheets 6818) Lard, ribbons and trimmings, ‘Stationery goods; (6349) Manganese ore. equipment, shirt pressing and folding Machinery. “Panama—(6: underwear. South Africa—(6845) Soda foun- ‘aly supplies, soda fountain accessor- ) Groceries, hosiery, | Virgin Iclands—(6848) Flour and wheat. New Issues 8. W. Straus & Co. has purchased 4m issue of $1,400,000 serial coupon bonds secured by the new 10-story Coronado hotel, to be erected at the Northwest corner of Linden blvd. an ‘Spring ave., St. Louis. The bonds, Which mature in three to eighteen ‘Years, constitute a direct closed first " Mortgage on the land, building, fur- | nishings and equipment. Interest coupons are payable June 1 and De- cember 1. TRADE TERMS ] | USURY Usuary is the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest, or at @ higher rate than is allowed by Jaw. Contracts in which such a rate 4s specified are known as “usurious and can be set aside or first | Full informa- Mexico — (6874) Dry cleaning ) JOURNAL FINANCIAL REVIEW Tune Some seattored Hquidating orders, which @ ‘ ated over. the nd gavo the industrial Ist y tone In t tal trading on the stock exchange ¢ | n Can il point on the WAL | NEW YORK ning tr n, whil news elopments, #the N.Y. Stock Market rn Product Quotati Slaska Junea almers ‘i CHICAGO, June 16,— Continued aise heavy Mquidation brought further lines in grain receipta at the on the Chicago board of tra¢ Receipt of further fay Wa caused wheat hol avily during the ah day. Harvesting way arts of thern Texas, t to arrive ug hu in Southwester len way moet Ming pres: | A® Coppe with bette A Dr advices N Am N ¢ A Int American Lin Amer, Locomoti Amer, Ship & Com American Sine! nacre & 7 orings Provisions W undertone prevail |Chicago Board of Trade Saturday's Quotations Wheat— Open Mish Low July +01 $142 $21 09% Ley Chose 4 FLO I July De Lard: ated Cigars a dated Cig ey ae Consolidated Gas Ribs July ntinental Can ‘onsolidated Textile Products . ruclbie Btee aba Cane Suger Wheat do pt ne 16.—Cash wheat, | Cuban Amer, Suga ‘o Car Lots "= Quota Furnished by Logan & ¥ yan a 810 Second Ay + Seattle Mastman : Fleischini Famous Players Fisk Tire General Blectri ©) General M n bY} Liverpool Grain Saturday's Quotations ‘ High Low $id $e 6d Oe td | Denver Live Stock Satarda: Quotations Cattle — Receipts, & miarket steady. Beef steer $8@ 10.2) cows and helfers, | $4.50@ 8.50: | !s calves, $4.50@11; stockers and ix | __ feeders, $6@ ° 15% 13% 4% jevada Consolidated ehuc Consolida’ 140; roarkcet,_10e| ot ewrnetiaa $6.70; bulk, $6.65@ | Kennecott. 875; market steady | 1:l:na Locomotive, | to strong. Lamba, $14@15.25; Mas cr a , | yearlings, $10@12; ewes, $4. | nxwell Motors: A 6 | Middle States Otic... a4 78 | N.Y. Sugar and Coffee | exes» seaboard | Quotations i Midvale Sheil & Ord | Su rag (128: , refined | Somtanmery Ward”: jo 'dull: granulated, $9.25 9.90. jeeates | Coffee—No. 7 Pio, spot, 11% @11%; x Y No. 4 Santos, 14% @15c. | oe | Northern Pacific Portland Grain Avge nap eh recut Saturday's Quotations to B Wheat—soft white, $1.09; Western white, | pierce Arrow | $1.09; hard winter, $1.04; Northern | parithe ol | spring, $1.04; Western red, $1.04. Sees Witioads | Cela te le Ire Liberty Bonds Sarvday's Q Furnkhed by Loga 810 Second Ave., Seatth Series— High is... -100.31 | Second 4x | First 444 | Second 44a | Third 445 . | Fourth 44s .. r 44s. esti 98.10 98.18 O84 99.2 Vanadium steel bd | Westinghouse Foreign Securities Satarday's Quotations Furnished by Logan & Bryai 810 Second Ave., Seattle — Asked Foreign Money Status Saturday's Quotations Furnished by Logan & Itryan 810 Second Ave, Seattle ‘ormal value Present . Sterling . »- Canadian .. + French france. Belgian franc. Swine franc -Italian lira.......4.60¢ German maric.0008% ct Swedish krona. .26.62 ste -Norway krone. .16.64 cts +Danish krone...17.80 cts -Greek drachma. .2.05 cts rales Foreign Exchange : NEW YORE, Ju 16.— Foreign # | exchange opened irregular. § - $4.61 1-16: france, $0.0629 $9.0460; Belgians, $0.0539% RET PEE HK OnE aa 115,004 to the dollar. BANK CLEARINGS change cloned | ase [$464 up i; franc 29%, off 000%; lire, 1469%%, off $0.000. Seattle , 117,650 to the dollar, Ste | Russian 545, 1921 Russian 544s, 1926. | Russian 6% 5, 1919 French 5s, 1931 French 4s, 1917 French 5s, 1920 | British 64, 1927 | British 6s, 192: | British Vict. 4m | British Ref. 4s. Belgium Restor, bs. Belgiun Premium ; Japanese 4s. japanese Ist 4ige | - Seeneoee pee SSRRNSSZE—F Japanese Ind 4158... United Kingdom, 192 United Kingdom, 1937, Italian Ss . eady. Sterling. 30.062: | | Clearings .. j $6,384,329.00 | | || Balances . | eee s « 1,923,031, Portland Megas | Clearings 1] Portland Produce Balances . m Ny! F | Saturday's Quotations | | Hatter—29 @ tte 1 | | Total transactions. 3,073,000.00 | ige—24@260 dor. see Cheese—29 310 Ib, Hene—13@21¢ ib, Seattle Stock Market te Furnished by H. M. Herrin & Co, Chicago Grain 117 Cherry St. Bank Stocks— if Aakea | Price Range for the Week American Savings Bank..$ 75.00 § 45.00| Furnished by James Macfarlane & Co, | Bank of California 210.00 211,60) AIL Second Ave. | Canadian Ban : 09 200,00 Open High Low — Clone Dexter Horton National... 00 225.00) 7 112% 112% 109% 110% 14 First National eey ers 69 310.00) 8 + 110%—% 110% 108 100%-109 Marine National 00 122.90 | Dee. V2 %—113 113 110% 111%—% | Metropolitan 09 240.00 |, Corm | Bank of Commerce 917.60/JUy ees 81M a3 National City ..-,s0:++s 180,00) Sete... 78: 78% Seaboard National 165.00 ony 81% 4 | Baw 170,90 | Pee... . 1 | Oats ie Modified by the party agrinst whom | Seattle National eerie ts . Seattle Tithe Tre iy: the interest is charged. In Washing. | tnion Natoma, 14500 142.00 | ton and other states, penalitios are | Industrial Stocks | Blso provided against those who | Albers, cv 23 ear) charge usurious rat& of interest. | Aero Alarm, com Fal 8 fs J ‘ 4% | Alaska Steamship . bain | Carnation Milk, 1 i i ntennial MIN Winniyeg Grain Federal Telegraph . Price Range for the Week | Parnished by James M: lane & Co. Fisher Flouring Milla,.,.. jeneral Petroleum, com, . 811 Second Ave. High Low lookn as $f the “big fellows” | Cite") retroleum, com are expecting the business be Grain & Mill! pd. |; 18% 1 boom to last longer than the ral), ptd . 110% erepe-hangers predict. | Honolulu Plantation «22, 60.0 4 ‘The movement of iron ore down || Chas. Ht. Wily 95.00 . the Great Lakes, bound from New World Life . . 14,00/ . i + Lake Superior mines to the iron || crthtrn fe :. i 155.00 Minneapolis Grain and steel mills, 18 continuing at || owl vee pea’ 0 ‘farsliied ty teh te pach “a heavy rate that experts Pacific Alaska Navigation BIL Second Ay me hon Predict shipments for the 1923 || Pacific Cer & Foundry. ... “eel Season will be close to 60,000,000 | | pacitic ectrie, pfd ia fons. That would be nearly a || Pacitic Ts! & Tal, pti... ‘ half more than during 1922, And || Pioneer Mitts cw the wire steel men are not apt to be buying 4 stocking high- Briced ore unless they are reason- ably sure of & market for finished products made from the ore, 42% 38% 40% 69% 1% | Wheat Tuly ss " et. 108% ‘Ont July, 48% 103.00 £5.00 100,00 Wheat— 120.00 | July. 59.50 | Sept... 4:60] Onte—- 27.00 | Duly 43,00 97.00 ofoo, Are you tired of the apartment? 70.00) Why not try a place where the 96.00 room and board? Look thr Titop|the Want Ads, Many pleasant 96,00| Places aro Usted from day to day. 110,00 49.95 94.00 26.75 40.00 113% 16% 10% Sperry Flour, pfa Superior Portland © ‘Todd Shipyards Zellerbach, com THE Local Markets VEGETABLES Vaid Wholesale Artichokes: 4, hamper per Ib al Anne Cocoanute--Per a) Hates—-Dromedary, 16-pkg. box, Figs—Dried Cal. 10 4 meberrien—Per Ih rape Vrult—IPiorida, Oranges—Per b neapple Per Strawberries Van [ Marah Watermelons. Trices Paid Wholesale Dealers Sack Le per Ib Mined Nut Walnuts Jumbo bu Fancy budded, per DAIRY PRODUCTS : Prices Paid to Shipper Buttertat— A arade, Seattle delivery Fgee—Freek ranch, white shell Mixed re Prullets Milk—Cwt, fot ¥,0, B eattie supply Seneary DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices to Metall Denters Butter—Local creamery, cubes. Local prints, wrapped Exe—Fresh ranch, white shell Mixed colors lets | Cheese— Or. triplets * Wireonsin eream brick TUlamook trip! 0 | POULTRY AND MEATS | Vrices Paid by Wholesale Dealers Shippers | | Brellers—Leghorns, per ib.... 209 .21| | Rocks and Heds, Ib..... 0.005 eT) | Capons—Live, fat, per to. 0201. ar) Faney, 4. p. teks 6 Hone—44 iba. and up Medium, live, 2% % Ihe. | Live, light, to 24 Ibe Fancy dry picked 2 cents abow live, Grese--Lite, fat, 9 to 12 Ibe Belgian Ma 4 Tha and up #—Fancy 4. p,, § per Ib é . live, per ib heavy. 2 Medium, heavy, Medium, heary POULTRY AND. Trices Paid Wholesa Ducks; a. per Ib. Hens Broilers—1923. Geese-Dressod Turkeys —Fascy, dressed y, tb Hares—LA ed, por 1b : Cows—Country, dressed, 1b... l06@ Hoge—Fancy, block Ne Veal—Fancy, Nght ... 16@ Heavy, coaree ..... 2: 0@ Medium, dressed Gass UO LIVE sTOcK Quotations at Stockyards | per To. 200 rime steers. . Medium to good Prime cows and heifers Calven 4 Dulles «+. : Pesees.'% Hogs— Prime... 1 Bmooth heavy...,. ot 6 500 0@ 000 -10,50611 + 7,00@10.6 + 7.008 §. : 6.008 8. Ewen . - 2.006 6. FLOUR AND GAR Wholesale Prices Flour—Family patents Sugar—Cane, per cwt!... Beet, per owt Wethers | | | | FEED 18,00@21.00 ++19.00@22.00 17,00419.00 | 11,00@12.00 | 49,00 51,00 29.00 + 41.00 see 46.00 + 48,00 3.00 49.00 48,00 + 64,00 + 66,00 I straw oo. | Corm—Whole, yellow, 120° Cracked and feed meni, Barley—Whole feod, 100°" Rolled and ground, § Oate—Whole feed, 100' Rolled and er | Sprouting, 100" Wheat—Recleaned feed, 1 |All in Chop—0'" Chick Feed—100'8 s5 Chick BM Mash—100'",. Growing Feed—100'n | Growing Mash—100'n . ash—100'# |Seratch Feed—100's | Cocoanut Meml—i00' | Cottenserd Meal—100's . Tinseed O11 Menl—100's | | Soya Bean Meal—100's Ave Altalta Meat—100'* 0000000005) | Bone M | nulated Charcoal (hardwood) Fish Meal—i00'» Grit | sp ranite- Ment Seraps— Shell—Rastern oyster, ie edeaty | 100°" . (Loent Market) Turpentine--In drums irailon cane | Linseed O11—Raw, tn barrete | bemallon cans | Boiled, in barrels S-gallon cans . af White Lead—100-1, kogn,, tb.. Big Bend Farmers Happy About Crops | Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co-Str!| have been t | WATERVILLE, June 18—After | | the rain of Jast week, crop prospects | |for the Big Bend section are looking | specially bright, County Agont A. | R. Chase reports the farmers in high spirits over a bumper crop SEATTLE STAR Amputation The steel bar was repaired. When the big U, 8. shipping board veasel Cromakeys was found to bay a defective rudder ame, she mailed right 0 the la Thermit weld r undertake Pacific Coast Thermit. by the way, in defined by Mr. Webster “A mixture of aluminum in fine « ine with motallic oxide lly of iron or romium, * It i used in steel.” go on with the me n section was found to hes. To replace the id. be expensive 4 it conte hip icking around a dock—enpecially earning mone} ‘OH, WHAT TO DOT" COMES THE 8. 0, 8. All this dough must be eyed! But how? Then came the Ferrofix Brazing Co, of Seattle, disguised as Aladdin }and his wonderful lamp. “Our lamp will repair the break | they told the Todd Drydock Co. and! the U. 8. shipping board. A conference was held and the ver- dict was announced: “We'll try. anything once,” they said ¢ AND NOW LET'S P AT THE LAST CHAPTER a short story long, thin is how they did it—told in their own words as near as the bright young reporter could understand them “Tho veawel waa placed on the dry dock and the work of welding was commenced, which was completed in about three days’ time First, before cutting out the se tion whe the weld was to be ma | Tides in Seattle | Monpay TURSDAY oat eo See | First Low Tide | Pirst Low First Wish Tide Firat High Beg 3 nd Tow ‘Tide | Hecond Law Tide | | Second High Tide | [sae octet Hee Weather Bureau Report TATOOSH ISLAND, June 16.—8.A, M. Slightly rising barometer; cloudy; wins south, 16 ‘alles an hour. Passed in, etr Robert Dollar, at 4:20, a. mi U. & 3 Cambral, at 6:20 a. 1a. ate Tyo Maru, at Ie 8. tm, Passec out, ate Dorothy Luck qabach, at :88-a. mut ote Myetic, at S140 maj jatr Peateyivanian, at €°h. mf" af Grittay towing barge Henry Villard, at 8 a, mi see Arrivals and Departures ARRIVED—J une 16—Str Dorothy Alex- Toyama Maru from Tacoma, via Rverett, porta, at 7 a, m.; str Admiral Rodman TooBUr Manila Maru from Vancot Gu from ‘Tacoma via Winslow and Bver ett, at 30 pe HAILED—Sune 16—8tr Depers for Ta coma, at 4:10 a. m.; atr Manda for Hong- fong'vis Yokohame, Kobe und Shanghal, AC id anm.; str Almedn fo. Bouthweatern via Houtheastorn Alaska, at 9m, 10, dune Ib_atr Pennsylvania for New York via porte, at Ti48 p.m; ate Grittdu towing Forge Henry Villard: tor Ban Diego, at Dem; str John C, Kirkpatrick for Sax Miro via Bverett, at @:18 p,m Arthinnd OF BansFranciaco vin Tar mn; wtr Everett for. 8 na and Everett, at 1 m.; ® Dorothy Alesander for ‘Tacoma, ai 5:15 p.m . Alaska Vessels otohikan—June 1h—Salted, str Queen, hbound, at 4:40 p. soe Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove Terminal~Pier 40—8tr Presi dent Madison, schr Bpokane, Hell Street Terminal—U. 8. homiah, Grand miral Bi Pler 11-B—Str Owego, 14—8tr Jacob Luckenbach: 6—8tr Manila Maru 2—Str Alamod Plor Plor A ©, G. Bno- Pacific Terminal—Str Ad- Dorothy Alexander, str Ad Aman. ing Board Moorings: He. Str An- Str Will. Atlantic Terminal—Str Howick Hall, Todd Drydooks—Str Blue Triangle, ete Colusa, atr Silverado, atr West Ison, atr Went Nilun Street Patterson. Fast Waterway Dook & Warehouse Co Bir President Harrison, atr Redondo, Harbor Island Dock & Warehouse (Fish- )a8tr Rumulun. Hofternan's Drydook-—Bark Gratin, Winslow: Marine Rallway—Sohr Commo. dors, achr Hetsy Ros, barge Coquitlam City, whalers Star Now, 1, 2, 3, rudder frame of the S. ing the biggest welding operation on the Pacific Coast. The | Dr. W. J arrow points to the place where the break in the massive MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1928 Not Needed BEING PLANNED | Capitalists Have Bought Big Tract on Hood Canal Well, do happen! On the ons well, well! Strange thin: hand we b Land of Etern | Round Vacation Resort, and all sort of thing. On the other hand we have De , in the heart of the American Aips, the Tourl Para | dise and the land where spelt with capital letter | And what of these? Oh, nothir except that capitalists from then« two famous summer resorts ing to Puget Sound to build « sug mer resort! ‘They have purchased Lilliwaup, on Hood }eanal, and will spend a million do} lara fixing it up with a big hote summer cottages, tennis courts all that sort of thing. The men behind the enterprise, ac cording to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, are A. W. Layne, of Lo Angeles, and R. A. Sullivan, of Den ver; the former a Goodrich Tire com pany official, and the banker Moral: If the come to Mahomet to the mountain. Sun, t and latter mountain won't Mahomet will go |Delegates Leave for Ad Convention Seattle delegation to the Pa Advertising associ convention at Spokape Jeft Sunday night strong. Tht del on was headed by Lloyd Spencer, president of the Seattle Advertising club, and | included Dr. Mark A, Matthews and Hindley, who will addre the convention, and 8t on W. Frederick, chairman of the conven: tion committee | The cific Coast ation’s Crosskeys, after undergo. | we securely shored up the t of the frame ck part with 6x6 timbers and trammed the frame in order that we could jack the frame apart, to allow for contr jon wh the work was cooling. We made an allowance of 16 of an inch, which proved ce t trial after cooling down “Th dimensions of the steel moulding box were 40 inches high by |Mialkan Purchases 70 inches long at the top and 36 the Lennon Shops inches wid while the bottom was ‘The Lennon shops have been pur about 6 nehes long and held to- gether by bolts fea: axed by Matthew Malkan, until re 7 inches | ¢ buyer for the “A reinforcing pa’ a h wan built around the work cot Sans ning was cut out cording to an announcement made r * °" | Saturday. Malkan js a former Seat tle resident, who returns to the city full of faith in its future. He has plans convent ear’s convention will go to outhern city, by virtue of an ment alternating the con ntions b tween the northern and southern Feet | cities of the Pacific coast dep artme nt store In other words, they did the Job, it passed Inspection, it saved the money, and the rudder frame in now as good as new, with an arrow point- ing to the spot where the accident j occurred. for over 25 years, and was at one |time connected with Frederick & | Nelson. Bay Building Is Ready for Tenants The work of remodeling the for. mer Arlington bullding, at the south- west: corner of First ave. and Uni- versity st., has been completed, ac- | American Demand Is for Fine Wool | BOSTON, June 18—The wool |market continues quiet, but local [houses are said to be contracting | |more freely in the West. Some that wools have ad-}| vanced one cent a pound during | the past week, which resulted in dealers sending limits to thelr buy. out Went houses report Arcade Bullding and Realty Co. agents for the building. It is now the Bay building, transformed, at a [cost of over $75,000, into a modern The demand for fine wool contin. | office structure, with rooms suitable ues, but the lower grades continue | £0 Offices, sample rooms and manu- to be exported to the continent and | /@cturers’ agents quarters England. The Ameriean consumer | continues to demand finer good, 1n-| Railroad Gives Big dicating prosperity to many. | | Job to A. W. Noyes Dairy Plant Makes |. W- Noyes has been appointed |general passenger agent of the Chi- New High Record caso, Great Western railroad, with | The tota) | offices in Chicago, according to in-| CHEHALIS, June 18 value of milk and cream at the Che. | formation received by E. EB. Harold, halis plant of the Lewis-Pacific|Seneral agent of the system in Se- Dairymen's aswociation was greater | “ttle. Noyes has been general trav. in the month of May than in jeling passenger agent, and is well other month of the association's his: | Known in Seattle and Northwestern tory, according to an announcement | Mailroad circles. in the concern’s monthly bulletin. | eee Tt ord day was May 30, whon| cin the plant, bandied beprery finite ci | Grunbaum Leaves for Grand Lodge milk, The association also has an-| nounced the payment of another] Otto §, Grunbaum, general mat $15,000 on its bonded indebtedness of |ager of Grunbaum Bros, Furniture |Co., leaves Monday for Salt Lake $200,000, Good Seed ‘Crops |the Independent Order of B'nai . . B'rith, to Which he is a delegate. in Skagit County | irvom thera he wil continue iat MOUNT VERNON, June 18—The|to visit vatous Eastern furniture vegetable seed crop in this county is | centers. looking fine for the coming season. | eens | It is reported that there e 400 acres Horticulture (Enst side) — Finish jot turnips, 150 acres of cabbage, and he apple thinning promptly. Thin jmany acres of raddishes and other | enough. Don't have to go over the |warden seed planted in the county. | trees again, (West side Clean out Nearly three-fourths of the seed is| the garden weeds and cultivate well. being handled this year by the Skagit |Gardens bring higher returns per County Seed Growers’ association, bacre than any other part of the farm. Agricultural Experts _ Try to Conquer Nature | ‘Seeking to Produce Blight-Proof Pear to Take Place of Bartlett WASHINGTON, June 18.—Year ready in and year out, experts at the de. partment of agriculture's bucau of plant industry here are» trying to beat old Mother Nature at he jown game, y: | It's a slow grind, this business of | trying to produce new and sturdy | varieties of fruits and plants, be- cause the seasons come around only jonee each year, and therefore one |must wait a long time to see how | his development is progressing. S K SUBSTITUT, VOR BARTLETT PEAR Take, for instance, the effort. te develop a Southern substitute tor the Bartlett pear, which was driven | of the South many yeats ago by jPeach, for which Georgia is now | the eady advance of the fire. famous, is a good example of this, blight, he condition is becoming | Fifty years. ago a Chinese cling more serious, because only 10 years | peach tree stood in the yard of Dr ‘go it was driven out of Ssan/s, H, Rumph, at Marshall, Ga, It jJoaquin valley, Callfornin, where | produced a more or lees undesirable there Were thousands of acres, | whitefruit cling peach, Near by | Wor nearly the experts | stood an Early Crawford peach ng to develop a sub-| tree, A ! . An aceldental union bet |stitute that will have all the deli. rabttiatieanetn | cacy of the Bartlett pear and at the same time resist the bilint the development has reached the stage where some highly promising young seedlings, the result of long and careful to be taken from the green houses and tried out in the open orchards, The basis of the development is |@ cross between the Kietter pear, of high quality but little resistant Strength, and the Chinese sand pear, Of poor quality but very great re. #istant strength, ‘The goal ts to combine the best features of the two. into one high-class, sturdy variety, ELBERTA PEACH | WAS ACCIDENT The answer may be years in com: ing, or {t may come suddenly, as the result of in accidental plant in vention, like so many aceldental ma hanical inventions. ‘The Elberta years yellow-fruit freestone peach of high quality, Rumpf named this berta,” in honor of his pets, and today countless thou: sands of Hlberta peach trees dot breeding,* are almost Georgia and other Southern states, Now been in the merchandising business | \cording to an announcement by the} | City, to attend the Grand Lodge of} jthem produced a tree that gave a! Building °, NEW BUILDINGS CAIN ON COAS Permits in Pacific Citi¢ Lead in Gain Percentage record of 1922 and that of 1 of th permits Der insue coast eitiel nd indleate a mor in building op observed in udvancement tions than 4 4 of the othe a4 shown by Iding survey of § From the report shown that the country, as 4 gain r cent ove May of 1922 in the total of build ing projected, but decreased 12 pe cent from the totals of April, Low An ith @ total of $18, s 61, led Western cities by April of 23 per cent, and record of last May of 12 Steady se in popula. creastn lly re| program, olume of uction 1s thereby countr national raus & Co, gain over over its per cent tion and den for housing is part ponsible for this building tho a precedented commer¢ under way n Frar of building ved a permits for gain of 12 per cent c but a loss of 2 total of Apri slight response to t influence which has been #0 thruout the country. cent over the 5 per cent shown by the of building permits issued in Oakland, ity being forced by 4 rapid growth in population and an expansion of its comercial dis triet The nine cities included In the Northwest district report a total of $5,395,036, being a slight gain over the totals for April and for the pre- it from the jvious attle, per reporting $1,867,280, shows it-gain over the previous May, but a per cent decrease from April, while Portland, with a total of $2,594,620, shows a decrease of 11 per cent from the figures of last May and a 3 per cent increase April | of building permits issued during May jn Washington cities re- ported in the survey 1s as follows: Seattle, $1,8 ; Everett, $123,195; pokane, $47. couver, $164,716. Sugar Outlook Is Reported Dubious || NEW YORK, June 18.—The out- |look for improvement in the sugar |industry 1s regarded as dubious, in view of the impossibility of selling to | England and also because of the dis- appointing demand here, according jto the weekly review of trade by | Federal Sugar Refining Co, | samuel || Building Permits UNDER $1,000. ines, 8809 12th S. W., garage, | A. B. Rania, 2856 W. 64th, addition to residence, $600, A. R. Cummings, 2101% Northlake, houseboat, $109, Theo. A. Johnson, 101% W. Comstock, 6 W. Sith, garage, $55, 013 Corliss, alteration | garage, Mra. Ada Nelson, 4908 Tolly, addition to residence, $100. OVER $1,060. Mra A. B. Blackwell, $04 20th S., frame warehouse, 100x54, $2,000. D. W. Brown, 4860 Rainier, frame ato: dition, $7,000. Public Markets SANITARY Stall 109, 8 Tha, best cane sugar, $2 Stalis 21-33, fresh King salmon, 20¢; ge uine fillet of sok red snapper, 15¢; skinned sole, ma Stalls R-12-15, cantaloupes, 200 each, |for 35c; oranges, 30c, 40c, S5c doz; a |paragus, 20c, 250 1.; strawberries, 100 jbox; Telephone peas, 15c tb.; tomatoes, doc M, Stall 47, Teagarden strawberry and raspberry preserves, 330 Ib.; Tet |mwarden blackberry preserves, 250. Tb. Me-gal. $1.79 gal, Stall 45, Searchlight matches, Sc pkg.; Hire's root beer extract, }i8c; 8 big bare white Imundry soap, 26c. |Jams, jellies, 1, Stalls 24-36-37, 3 dars Patmollve soap, 2tc; 6 bars Crystal | White roap, 28¢; 1 fb, bulk Hills’ coffee, 380; de pt; 906 Stall 2, 2 Ths, 25c} veal chops, 2 pork steak, 16c; beef | at ; hams, 23%; bacon, 251 | Stal . fresh churned butter, creamery butter, 4c; large eggs, 30¢ do: | fresh pullet eggs, 36c; brick Swiss cheese, 270; fresh Wisconsin cream cheese, 2c. | Stalin 102-110, New York sharp cheese, 350; 4 tall cans milk, limit 4, 35c; 4 Tbs, coffee, $1.01, Hmit 4 Ts, Stalis 94-96, Pike #t., short ribs, 6c; leat lard, 12% [airioin steak, 160; back bones, Tibs | liver, Go; sugar cured bacon, 16¢. | TIKE PLAC Stall 62, § ths. best cane sugar, §2c. fancy butte } mild chee dest catmup, 18¢ bottl ‘elbow mac- aroni, 2$c; corn, peas, tomatoes, 2 cans Bbe. all 36, fresh salmon trout, 15 fresh skinned sole, 2 Tb » Stall 55, mayonnal 400 %b.; Thousand Island dressing, 500 %b.; Boston steam brown | bread, ; Boston baked Deans, 200 pt. Stall 39, 6 bars Crystal White soap, 25 T bars Polar White soap, 25c; Sweet corn, 100 n; Bakery Girl flour, 49-Tb, sack $1.65; Fisher's Blend, KBCONOM Stall 35, § Tbs, best cand Stall 40, pure black pepper, 1 1 soft shell almonds, 30¢ %.; excel spring leaf Japan or gunpowder tea, 600: delicious Orange Pekoe blend black tea, Gc Ty best 350 coffee, 1% Ihe 500. Stall 20, cantaloupes, 2 for S60; straw~ berries, 3 boxes 26c; home grown axpar- us, 15c; Tew potatoes, 3 Ths, 260; oxtra sweet oranges, 25c and 250 doz. Stalls H 3 large cans good salmon, 200; agar corn, 10c; black figs, 2 Ibs. 2Sc: 9 The, choice prunes, 260. Stall 380 IMuo Ribbon tea in lead pk, 68e Tb.; Low Cobin ayrap, small 28e, medium oy ee Se: G bare Crome ON soup, 2e3 an Wesson’s best coffee, $1.15, with ry ister free. ere WESTIAKB 1, 6 bars Crystal White Same dural, Co-operative, Borden't oF $4.85 case; scratch, 100 tbs, 50 corn and wheat, 100 Ibs {sals0 feed, 100 Ma, $3.2! 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