The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1923, Page 18

BUSINESS—Finance, Produce, aici Shipping, Real Estate, - STATE TO GET [nv ew York Stock Market RECORD CROPS i May Produce One-Fourth of Country's Apples Wash. SPOKANE, July Yngton Is tn line for re wheat and apples, th ects showing a heavy Mast month, G. 8 Ray, f Youltural statistician here » Moday. All crops in the | ported as in “very fine conditi July 1. Potatoes, corn, hay a Mtures were doing well Estimates on July 1 indica fWaahington’s wheat crop will r © 189,382,000, or approximately 1000 bushels more than .in “Feport shows e July 2 also shows an increase of mor¢ J 00 bushels over the rops of Wheat pros: gain in t jeral agri announced tate were re on id pas ate that U 1922, th estimate spect Ray's report follows in part “Ponditions were very favorable ix Wa§hington for winter wheat devel Opotent during the last month, and July 1 the state crop averaged 08 per Sent normal as compared with 92 per fent June 1. * * “The Washington oat crop, averag | ing 98 per cent of normal July 1, ts @xpected to amount to 9,799,000 bush ei * * * The Washington @ereage for 1923 shows an tner of tf per cent over 1 Placed at 74,000 acres. The crop July 3 averaged $8 per cent of normal, in- icating a production of 2,800,000 bushels, against 2,7 1922. “Washington barley Per cent of normal. This indicates a Production of 3,086,000 bushels. The | 3922 crop was 1,813,000 bushels, With | | tame hay crops averaging 99 per cent of normal and wild hay 101 per cent, Washington hay production {5 ex i Pected to arhount 16 2,583,000 tons. | “The Washington pc 8 a 35 per cent de year, 55,000 acres” July 4 estimates indicate that fashington will produce more than fourth of the commercial apple fn the United States, the report 2 corn mod averages 99 at rease from alk ues. The state's apple crop an estimated gain of 670,000 |2 terres since June 1 3 oY The commet- | | Waited States is placed at 33,068000 a while Washington's commer- for 1923 if estimated at §,- a | €77.000 barrels’ New xan state comes second with an estima of 647,000 barrels. « Financial Flashes _James Macfariane & Co. B11 Second Ave. $ ea ) “Twenty industrial stocks averaged , decline .82; 20 railroad stocks )@verage 78.38, a decline of .34, E. L. Doheny announces Pan American new refinery at. Los An-| see Rarbor, with a daily capacity of | 000 barrels crude oil, will be ready | Operation August 1. Ultimately capacity will be 50,000 barrels tay. =) Continental Can declared $1 quar ly dividend on the common stock fable’ August 15, to stock of record | st 4, a5 recommended by the F committee, This is an increase of annual rite of from $3 to $4 on the common. Great Northern railroad, for the year ending December 31, last, net, after taxes and charges, $10,865,672, or $4.35 a share; “ngainst $28,469,962, or $1140 a share, in year, Sinclair Consolidated declared reg Pular dividend: F. W. Woolworth ‘declared regu- Equarterly 2 common stock, payable Septem. | ‘i to stock of record August 10. . American Federation of Labor _ | launches drive to unionize 375,- fron. «0 steel workers for the estab- ~~ lishment of the eight-hour day. Intemational Nickel declared quar- Aeriy 1% per cent preferred dividend. Pig iron in Chicago was quoted at | “from $28 to $30 with a further decline beet expected in many quarters. EW) Schulz stores sales for six months, [Sigh «eMded Jone 30, increasé 25 per cent ‘The steel tonnage figures were altogether unexpected, showing as they did 6,386,261 tons un filled at the end of June. Last Year the figures were 5,635,531. London bar silver, 20% ‘The American Telephone & Tele- ert _Braph Co. shows net operating in- i come {first five months $13, lof against $11;224,459 in the ; sponding period of 1 > London cable says | moved to avert rupture tente over the reparation tion. At vis reported that a* the @nce between Curzon and th Ambassador that France offered Tecede from its present stand if it gould do so without lors of prestige. fance has of the en TRADE TERMS ACCUMULATED DIVIDENDS Accumulated dividends are the -total amount of dividends due but not paid on any specified stock. Usually applies to preferred stocks, most of which dividends are eu- ive. Ordinarily dividends are not allowed fo accumulate except when the company’ which issues the #tock fails to show satiefactory earn. ings. PORT ANGELES—Results of demonstration plots in using Hairy Vetch as compared with spring vetch, show the Hairy vetch to be two and & half feet high, while the spring | etch is only about four inches high. RAILROADS BEAT ALL RECORDS ON FREIGHT ~ WASHINGTON, July 12.—-Rail- roads of tle United States made history duting the week ending June 30, More cars were loaded fevenue freight in that perlod then in any other week in the history of the railroads, according to the American Railway associa, dion. ‘The total loadings for the week were 1,021,770 cars, ‘This exceeded by 4,231 cars the previ- ous car week loading, established in the week of October 14, 1920, with than | {t int 5 7,000 bushels tn | l This gives a planting of | lal apple crop for the whole .of the | Der cent dividend. on | WALL STREET YORK, July 12—Trading market today p apparent The foreign exchanges were } ering the proximity of an tmp position in the matter of reparat Canadian Pacific, an internation The olls were fractionally high | showing a dee in domentic Opening prices er Pan American | 44%, up America 101 General M CORN BOOSTS GRAIN PRICES «: July 11 neth tn a fr rally in Chicas wheat record NEW stock Ormer igh be an 1 1D Mit s {t sh AGO, umht grain prices ¢ Trade the th today after led market on & downturt Wheat provided the eo day by breaking t sensation of new low lev nally Canadian ver the sponsible rentiment in the the day, Traders bearish on all sides a vi ¢ today’s clearances at nll ta whieh showed only 56,¢ shels of wheat cleared for export s against 959,000 bushels the same ear. Bradstreet’s world Pply showed a decrease of Dushels in wheat Corn prices hit a strong rally before th se, due to higher cash ermiums the gulf and rts of extr anger of draught in parts Oklahoma. It assumed f the market on the up grains swinging into loped atr a hu y fracti and an wheat be for the bearish wheat pit th were extrem F t in ' was dull thruout the session, _p moving down with wheat, Prices were about even with opening figures at the Provisions. were unchanged | higher figures. | Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday's Quotations Open High Low $1.00 $1.00% $ 99% 8 99% 1.008 103 103% ding in Corn July Bept Dee ‘Oats aly tent Dee Lard uly. Sept ibe July Bept us thy us 10,95 M7 “ 10.95 31.15 10.93 1.3 10.98 11.18 bes 2 9.25 Liverpool Grain Wednesday's Quotations t Open High lew Clore Se #ud Oe ORG De Gd De OR Sd oe Ud be ud be ud it dts os Gd Chicago Car Lots Wednesday's Quotations ished by Logan & Hryan 81 Secoad Ave., Seattle Grain te Cont. Kaetd. Lt. Yr. Wheat ; . 1 ” t «10 2 73 ‘ Oats | Barley ‘ San Francisco Produce Wednesda: Quotations Batter—Eit 3 prime fh Ae Th sa ed Cheeso—Cal | s. extra je don. firste, extra pulle! under *, 2640 doz. nia flats, Boston Wool BOSTON. July 11—Altho actual buy ols im the market continues on it is rumored that the nn Woofen H offer their apring 1922 lines of light-welght goods nd the opening prices will be 15 to 29 per cent higher than prices which pro. {valled dast year, ‘There are a number of mill agents tn |the market looking for fine wools, and prices continue steady. In the West, it im reported growers are awaiting the new | spring gooda opening, hoping that a | brisk demand will also stimulate the de | mand for raw wool in the W . . Portland Produce | Wednesday's Quotations | Batter—38 @ 40e ih. | Cheese—29 @ 316 Ib. | Feee—2e je dow. Hens—15@ 2c Ib. N. Y. Sugar and Coffee | Wednesday's Quotations Sogar—Weak. Raw, mulated, $8. fe Ib | © | eile Liberty Bonds Wednesday's Quotations Furnished by Logan & Bryan 810 Second Ave., Seattle High law 100.16 100.12 Series First | First 4s tha | Third ihe | Fourth 4% 98.06 98.08 98.10 98.11 98.27 98.11 | Second corre. | BANK CLEARD Seattle - 87,A97,225.41 1,283,810.33 Clearings Balances . 5 Portland | | Clearings | | Balances .. Total tran ctions.. 3,424,000.00 | * 2) Seattle Stock Market Furnished by H. M. Herrin & Co, 117 Cherry St, | Bank Stocks | American Savings Bank. | Ban f California Canadian Bank of Com Dexter Horton National First National Marine National . Metropolitan National Bank of ¢ National City... | Seaboard Seattle Natio , |Senttle Title ‘Trust Union National Industrial Stocks Albers, com | Albers, pfd | Aero Alarm, com Alaska Steamship Carnation Milk Prod. ptd Centennint Mill | y ‘ederal Telegrap! | er Flouring M naral Petroleum, com ‘ain & Milling, com rain & Milling, pfa odyear Tire & Rubber Cal), pta | Hawatinn Sugar Honolula Plantation Chas. H. TAlly teen New World Lito... | Northern Lite Oahu Sugar. low! Drug, pf. » Alaska Navigation + & Foundry Bincult Gan & Ble, Pat, Tel. & Tel., pa Plowieer Mille (nagar) Puget Hound | Reid Siron., Keld Bro Sperry Flour, con Sperry Vlour, pia. Buperior Portland Comont. ‘old Bhipyarda Gellerbach, com, , Bla $ 75,00 204.00 198.00 220.00 + 100.00 + 115,00 +e. 230,00 + 912.60 + 175.00 + 180.90 280.00 ++ 110,00 + 186.00 Anked 4 45.00 00.00 122.00 240.00 215.00 185.00 | 170.00 Bid 4-45.00 $ 50.00 40.00 82.60 1.60 2.00 20.00 101.50 100.00 30.00 49.00 93.00 + 14.60 140,00 26.26 102.60 40.00 96.00 110.00 49.00 94.60 25.50 40.00 95.00 90.00 60,00 49.00 116,00 47.60 90,00 00 12.00 150.00 | 16.50 103.00 | 45.00 100.00 120.00 49.26 Pacific Pacific ptd 43,00} 97.00 91.60 65.00 91.00 118,00 60.00 0 JOURNAL ne up 225.00 | 310,00 | 116.00 | 142.00 | 0 | 19:50 ots, REVIEW at th FINANCIAL rabl ent date Mer UE 4” Gas. n Pe Utal Rey: Stock Market Wednesday's Quotat Yursished by Logan & 10 Secomd Ave, 5 Heian ner bac in Ajax ka J As Heot Awe klyn Hap. pper & te & | Peaches aba Cane Huger do pa vmp Tab & Rec Lie Electric St | Rastnan Famous F | Mixed Nuts. | invincible Ou | Middie Sates Ol Mexican Seaboard MK a@T Mistourt I Montgomery MeIntyre Mother La New Haves N. Y. Central Nevada Consolidated Nortoik | Northern Pacific rth Anierican = Steel m Cireul ucers Kefiners Heading Republio Iron nie Stee & Stee! uM dated il on Texas Timken 100.13 | Utah Copper | U. & Ind. Alco Vanadium Steel Foreign Securities me Wednesday's Quotation Britian & Birtish British iF Belgium P apanose |dapanese Ist iis Japanese 2nd 41% United Kingdom, | United Kingdom, Italian Viet Ref 4m. | 7.00 | 10 Second Ave., Seattle | Normal valu $4,866 1.00.0 | 19.80 ct 19.30 cts 1 }19 4 erling Canadian -French fran ‘Belgian franc Swies franc Itavfan lira..; erman mark wedish krona, Norway kroi ‘Daniwh krone ..17.45 cts Greek drachma: .3.05 cts | ‘Austrian crown.14%4 ots Holland florin Rumanian Jel.. Spaninh peseta . . 39 ots dota, G004% ct 26.44 tal 16.25 cta| 80 ota 80 cts 26,80 cts 16.00 cts 20.30 ets 40.20 ets. 19.50 eta. 6, Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, July it—Voreign ex-| change opened higher. terling demand, 44.08 11-16; fran 90,0606%; lira, | 90.0404 260,000 to the dollar, || hag loved steady. Bter-| ling demand o at $4.58%, franc, $0.0691%, up .0004; lira, $0.0 | up .0006; marks, 26,300 to the dol 1hi00 | | TE AES ON EON | Wash.—The loca «| toating ‘saoclation 1s. now fin! hing thelr fifth month of work, Members |” |of this organization take samples of thelr cows' milk and weigh them, at ter which the creamery docs the test= ing and County Agent Holland super- vines the caloylations, ; mark: ign oxch cow rr sevanesreceerrameos | Oats | ‘Turpentine SEATTI Local Markets GETABLIS aid Wholesale Dealers Asparagus ier tb Heane I's Meets Ltogiee Kadishes Miubarh Matabagas Turnip» . PRUITS feos Bald Wholesale Dealers Apricots —4-bas Nananas— ier Captaloupes Cher Bi Hoyal Ar Pie cher Cocoanut Ver er b Oranges Raspberries Ir Vineapple o Feanuts ’ Pecans per Ve 4a. DAIRY PRODUOTS Prices Paid to Shippers Battertat— At Walnuts watt u Seneary DAIRY PRODUCTS Triees to Metall Deslers Loon . Rutter ib trip ue POULTHY AND MEATS Frices Paid by Wholesale Dealers to Shippers Drotiers * It Toeks Capone Lee 1g rT] 4 The. and AND MEATS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Ducks . . Broilers Geese Tarke: 1a Relgta: I Cowe Hogs—¥ Veal—Fan Heavy Medium, ‘ar LIVE Quotations Cattle 6 steers to « STOCK at Stockyards 7i0e 7.008 6.008 4500 FLOUR AND Wholesale Pric atents 40 60 HAY, GRAIN Alfaifa Hay—F Straw Corn Barley—Wh Rolled a Wh AND xrade FEED 0 Wh 100's leaned foe oD ie. | All Grain € | Chick Feed—100' | Chick, B, M, Mash | Growing Veed—100'« Growing Mash —100's i Mash——100's Serateh Feed—100'n c nut Meal—100'% ‘ ed Meal-10 Linseed Ol Meal—\00'9 Soya Bean Meal al 10's 100° wood) Meal—100'n Limeatone, Granito—100° Meat Seraps—Iantorn, Shetl—Kustorn oyate Wentorn oyater, 100° Whent—Mixed feed, §0'% or AND I (Local Market) In druma S-malion cans Linseed Ol haw 100°» 10's 100°» in bartels Holled, S-gallon White Lead 1 rrela 1, kenge, OPPORTUNITY » Star Want Adg'« In J SUG. | | THURS Building *.” DAY, JULY Builders s Are Making Good Record ‘for Speed epee , the firet oO” the Tth of May oncrete was poured in the con it, Vincent's Home for nd time, Aged, now, in about two tha the walls com and the foot is being framed. remarkable the fact considered a speed record, in view of TACOMA GETS BIG PORT GAIN TACOMA, 12.-Tacoma’s ma rine business for the month of June exceeded that of any previous month in the bi of the city as a port This was revealed yesterday in the hly report of W. G. Rowland, harbermaster of the port of Tacoma. During the month the port received largest number of deep sea ar aggregating the greatest ton on record. vease's numbering 137 tons, arrived in rt month, Harbor wiand's indicated 192 ly 99 such Vennels or ith a tonnage are and July nage, Deep sea regating 270,187 i the report put into ord Is nearly 60 per cent in tonnage: Local and ferry arrivals numbered 1,031, with a total tonnage of 194,691 The total arrivals for the month, both deep sea and local, amounted to 1,168, a tonnage of 666,078. Deep sea were 140, with a tonnage Local departures num: . With the same tonnage als as the arr Drive Shaft Shock Absorber Invented A driveshaft shock absorber for automobiles and trucks has been in vented and patented by B.A Mikkelson of E. Madison at ‘The device js placed on the aft and its to prevent. the stripping of gears and long the life of the car, It is that, the une of the clutch may be without jar ea drtve-nd purpore is claimed with invention, the in quickly new thrown in or Buildin PAE AS Sai ar OS CGR An Re UNDER $1,000 & W., addition bist, altera- addition garage, realdence, T. Bnyart $226 84th BW, anon, 9245 20th B® W., ree tlett Co., erg, 6612 Daweon at, garag 1d Karnage Vilar ' Davis, pe De I tas Constadte, $260. Whitha: to re 2634 Weetmont way, 7036 Mary N, W., sana sale Art Products Seattle ard, alr to Il Realty Co, 5 alteration to residence, J, Bevan renidence, Valfonao residence, B, Willy, $300. Yaifonso, Roe R i addition aye, alteration J, 616 Malden at 7 « gara 904 Wester 431 2rd, garage, ttt 9 20th ave, it nd W Laughlin Co. tion to plant, James M. Webster tion to remld ndberg, 1 6, $100 ale 23rd dN 3400. Othello, altera alteration to s4th, OVER $1,000 4 ON Co. 198 ©. M. garage alteration, D, and 1. L. Everett, piace, frame residence, D. and BE. 1, Everett, ce, frame rexidenc HM. and B, 1. Everett, nee, frame realdonc H. and 1 Stan Marginal way, $3,000, 7103 Woodatde 7108 Woodside 8x26, $2,700. 03 Woodsiae 38th, framo real We frame t Mohring, 99 0, $1,600. Pacific Chalt Co. 1129 plant addition, $2,000, T, Hulbert, 4317 Burke ave, frame residence, 40) 00, I. Birkinshaw, 217 17th, frame real- dence, $1,600. L. Hulbert, ronidenco, 4x2 Fioming, 42 Fleming, 2x36, 4th |B, frame real- W. 47th, thos, A R A 4917 Burke ave., $3,300, $115 16th, 01 frame M done M. J denen M.S dence Herman reside Alfrod B frame rosl- 16th, 000, 6 16th frame resl- 8, frame rent: ou Moridian, 00, ith, frame $2, 48 00, . How BAx00, $4,000. Delmage, 131914 Bth, frame roaldence, HOx24, $1,600, onoph Ainsan, 3939 Morgan, framo roal- donee, 40x24, $3,600, framo reat Dullding, frame is is ono of the largest units | g Permits : | garage, | cage reer epee senreren Le Vincent's Home for the Aged jot construction that has been un- |dertaken in Seattle in recent years of the be gleaned from the 2,000 Each busement con Some idea the size structure can fact that the building has over runnit et of outside wall of five Moors and the tain 60,000 square feet of the build of well floor a total 300,000 over xi space my floor over [SEATTLE HAS NEW BAKERY A new Pacific was born In Seattle Wednesday when 8. B. Asia, president of the new Sun- | turned over the key | shine Bakeries, }to the plant to Mayor Brown, as evi-| dence that it will be open continu: | day and night, while F. Au- guste Gerhardt, presented the first joaf Lieut. ously * the comparty, of Bunshing "Wee" Seattio’s bread to Gov. Ha veteran | Coy bakers, who has been engaged In this business here for st 20 years, was master of Mosler Is of the new Su! located in a modern, 800 13th ave. "We feel that there ts an opening | in Beattlo for another large, modern wholemale baking establishment," raid Asia, “because Seattle and sur- | rounding territory does not use near- y an much bakers’ bread per capita | as other large cities thruout the | country." the ceremo: ma ton, at he produc whine Baker 8. B. Asta is interested tn several | jother businesses in Seattle and Ta- coma, having been active in the bust- ness life of this section for the pas 18 yeare. F. A, Gerhardt, the gen eral manager, recently resigned as| | manager of food departments for the | Bon Marche, to become a part of the new enterprise, He was formerly assistant manager of Pig'n Whistle, having come here from San Fran cisco, where he was associated with this compan: Ship News, Tides in Seattle THURSDAY | JULY 12 First Tide 2:29 a. m., 19.3 ft First Low Tide JULY 13 First Uigh Tide 2:07 «. 10,3 ft. First Low Tide 0.9 ft. | 10:24 am, —13 ft Tide | Second High Tide | m., 11.0 t.| 646 p.m, 116 f | Second Low Tide Is Kecond Low Tide 1 20:16 p. ru 59 p. . | Weather Bureau Report } TATOOS 18.4 11—t A M. rising; Sees dense for: southwest, four miles an hour motorship Donna Lane, at 4] High Barometer wind ned out, see ARKIVED—July U1 | Hamburg via Liverpool, | Pedro and San Francisco, at 6 a. m Hagrall Maru from Vancouver, B. C., }12 0. r Rainier from Tacoma, at 6 | a. m. y 10—Str Robin Gray from New | York Philadelphia, Batboa, San Pedro, Francisco and Portland, at 7:40 p, m.; atr Fred Pedro via San Francisco and Eagle Har- | bor, at 9 p.m SAILED—July 11—Str Walter A. Luck- enbach for New York via Tacoma, Port} Ludlow, Port Gamble, Ban Francisco, San Pedro and Balboa, at noon; str Admiral Rogers for Southwestern via Southe Alaska, at 9 a, om. July 10 Str | | Floridian for York via San, Fra San Pedro, Balboa and Phiiadel- > p.m; ate H, F. Alexander ro via Ban Francisco, at 4p, m.; ate Hawaltlan for t 6:80 p. jatr Manukal for Honol Tp mi |atr Hakata Maru for Kobe via Vancouver, B. ©. and Yokobama, at 4:30 p. m.; mo- |torship Donna Lane for San Pedro, at «| p.m, Str Bochum from Balboa, Ban | ate) at mj via. Ban Alaska Vessels Ketohikan—-July 10—-Sailed, meda, northbound, at 11:15 @ | Sitka—July 10—satled, | southbound, at 6 pi m. Vessels in Port at Seattle | Smith Cove Terminal—Pier 41—Str Bhid~ zuoka Maru, atr Prosident Jackson. American Can Co.'a Terminal—Str Jefter- fon. Bell Street 7. Heather Grand Trunk Pacitio Terminal—Str Ad- miral Rogers | Pier 14—Str J. 1. Luckenbach, | Plor 11-1—8tr Owego, 2—8tr Oduna, Str Walter A. Taickenbach, Pier A—Htr Admiral Sebree. Pier A—Motorship Challamba, etr miral Nicholxon: Plor D—Str Admiral Rodman. Union Pacifio Terminal—Ste Makena. U. 8. Shipping Hoard MooringsStr Anna 1, Moreo, Connecticut Street Terminal Olivia, Atiantio Gray. Albers Bros.’ nier Lander Street Torminal—Str Bochum, Sant Waterway Dock & Warehouse Co,— str Ala- m, str Queen, . Terminal—U. & TH. Aa- Str Santa Btroot ‘Terminal—Str Robin Milling Terminal—Str Rat- ntana, ate San arch Colman Creonope Worke-S8tr red Bax. ter Moffernan's Drydock—Tark Gratin, Btream—U, 8, B Seattle, Winslow Marine Rallway—Sohr Rotay Ronm, achr K. V, Kruse, barge Coqults lam City, whalers Star Nos 1, 2, 3, Northwest industry | general manager of | Mosler, one of} sunlit plant | | Washington, Pullman, bids July | YRIDAY | | ||} county, m, 6.9 f.| |Arrivals and Departures | 1235 Westlake N.,| Baxter from San | jsquare feet In other words, building itself covers more ground than a city block. Tho building 1s being bullt for the Sisters of Charity of the House of Providence, and in addition to con: taining St. Vincent’s Home Aged, it has a large chapel and headquarters for the House of Prov dence. It is situated on brow of the; for the | overlooking the city my, centered in the double between 36th and 37th sta. |N. W., and W. Edmunds and W. | Hudson sts. Its cost will run well over the million-dollar mark. The construction work is being done by A. W. Quist & Co., Seattle | general contractors, who have been identified with many big construc- Ition jobs in the Northwest. Went Seattle, jand t | block NEW CALLS FOR BIDS orthwest construction work and Jimprovements were reported |W ednesday by C, B, White, Seattle |munager of the National Surety company ate Highway Commission, Olym- bids 10 a, m., July 31, grading and surfacing 6.08 miles Olympic highway, Grays Harbor county; re inforced concrete bridge over Lewis river, surfacing 448 miles highway, Skamania ing and surfacing Bank highway, Skamania highwa |reinforeed concrete bridge over Al |powa creek, Inland Empire high- |way, Garfield county; .72-mile pay- |!n Pacific highway, Lewis county. | City council, Spokane, bids July lis, construction’ sewer, Stevens st.; jeurbing Pacific ave. | County commissiopers, King coun- |ty, bide 10 a. m., July 30, paving E. | 65th at. permanent highway No. 33. W. J. Barden, colonel engineer, U. ., SFM, Burke, bidg. Seattle, bids m., Augtst 6, dredging Lake shington ship canal, County commissioners, Multno- mah county, Portland, Ore., bids 10 jp. m., July 16, clearing and grad- ing Thompson road. Ira T. Wolfe, architect, Vancou- |ver, bids 9:30 p.m, July 14, com struction high school, |echoo! district No, 1, Onalaska. B. Bagley, board Seattle, bids 10 a. m., Jul 70th st. sewers and water |mains; 63rd ave. 8. W., paving and} sewer reconstruction. Board of regents, State College of 14, struction two-story brick or tile poultry building, Western Washing- ton Experiment Station, Puyallup. City comptroller, July 16, improvement I st., d Donovan ave. County commissioners, Lewis Chehalis, bids July 21, con- ruction bridge over Nisqually riv- er near Ashford. County commissioners, county, Kelso, bids July 16, con- struction new bridge over Hatchery | creek. on? |? North Bank county; grad: is. Ik Te v free bi H | Decline "Shain t in The total value of leather exports jduring May, 19 exclusive of fin- ished leather belting, was $3,711,602, }a decreaso of $258,841, as compared | with April, and a decline of $169,304, compared w<th March, according to figures compiled by the department of commerce. | Exports of finished leather belting amounted to 64,162 pounds, valued at $108,784, a decrease of 34,339 pounds, as compared with April. { Total imports of hides and skins | during May amounted to 60,151,107 | pounds, valued at $13,945,658, a slight increase over April. cattle hides and kip skins show a | slight decline, There has been an in. | crease in calf skins, kangaroos and wallaby skins over April. Building Costs Are | Faith in the growth ana stability of attle Was expressed Wednesday by 8. J.T. Straus, of Chicago, vico president of S. W. Straus Co., in- vestment bankesr. Straus {s on a vacation trip thru the West with his family, “The present cost of construction is not likely to bo lowered for sov- eral years," he declared, “and prices of material and labor seem to be |fairly well stabilized in the building | Industry, Everything considered, this |seems to be an advantageous time | for building.” POCKET MICE RITZVILLE—Indications are that pocket mice will bo bad again this year in the southern section of Adams county, Crop prospects in that section are good and consider able poisoning is done. One farmer who has 1,900 acres of wheat esti- mates that the poisoning will save him at least 2,000 bushels of wheat. IMPORTED E RICITY Denmark, which fs flat, is consid: ering buying her electricity trom Norway and Sweden, which are mountainous and have plenty of water-power, Tho current would go. by cable under the sound, connecting the Kattogat and the Baltlo sea, The following new calls for bids Pacific county; grading and | ' miles North | Union high | of public} Bellingham, | Cowlitz | Leather Exports May imports of | Stable, Says Straus! PRODUCTION OF LUMBER DROPS Holiday Week Brings Output Below Normal Level One hundred and twenty-one mills reporting to West Coast Lumber- men’s association for the week end- }ing July 7th, manufactured 54,681,- |616 feet of Iumber; sold 69,089,808 | feet; and shipped 67,620,806 feet. Production for reporting mills was 34 per cent below normal. New business was 26 per cent above pro- |duction. Shipments w 2 per cent below new business. Forty-five per cent of all new business taken during the weck was for future water delivery. This amounted to 31,064,615 feet, of |which 21,626,813 feet was for do mestic cargo delivery; and 9,537,502 feet export. New business by rail amounted to 1,182 cars. Forty-nine per cent. of the week's lumber shipments moved by water. |This amounted to 32,805,613 feet, jot which 20,116,178 feet moved coastwise and intercoastal; and 12,- | 689,485 feet overseas. Rail ship- |ments totaled 1,025 cars. Local auto and team deliveries totaled 4,065,193" feet. Unfilled domestic |total 136,186,170 feet. Unfilled ex- port orders, 60,857,919 feet. Un- | filled rail trade orders, 5,962. cars. | In the first 27 weeks of the year, |production reported to West Coast |Lumbermen's association has been 2,646,601,163 feet; new business 0,535,931 fect, and shipments, 2,916,960,010 feet. cargo orders Dexter Project to Be Discussion Topic | At the monthly meeting of the |Denny Hill Improvement club, Fri- day evening, in Sacred Heart hall, Sixth ave. and Bell st. addresses will be made and discussions held on the proposed Dexter ave. ex- tension. W. D. Perkins, Seattle banker, | will speak in opposition to the plan jot extending Dexter ave. over Den- ny hill, connecting with First ave. at an angle. Alvin Bravender will |talk on the question “Is Stoneway Bridge Connecting With Dexter ave. | Feasible?” This {s expected to be one of tho most interesting meet- jings for property holders in the Denny Hill district held so far this year and a large attendance ts pre- | dicted. |Good Business Is | Foreseen for Fall NEW YORK, July 12.—"“Readjust- ments in wholesale commodity prices over the summer period,” says the Financial Review, “will probably amount to 10 or 15 per cent, which would take us back to the levels of January, 1922. Stocks of manufae- turing companies should remain at prevailing fairly moderate levels and retail merchandise on hand will prob- ably be no larger than at present, which Js of extremely small volume compared with previous active pe- riods. “The *most severe, but impartial, | survey of this situation would justify tho belief that retail consumption for the fall and winter periods will be exceptionally large and that pro- nounced general business activity is inevitable,” May Salmon Catch Is 424,000 Pounds According to statistics announced Wednesday by the bursuu of fisher: les of the department ot commerce, 549,284 pounds of fish, with a value 5, were taken in Puget Sound and landed at Seattle during May. Salmon made tho bulk of the total, with 424,000 pounds, valued at $58,000, and steelhead trout was second with 64,000 pounds valued at $2,880, Opticians | Reopen Office in Seattle Drs. H. C, and M, Curry have re- jepened their optical office at their old location’ in the Arcade building, after an absence of noarly four years, They came to Seattle in 1908 and established an office, which th later sold, and to which th returned, afte