The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1923, Page 14

PAGE 14 THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1923 TWO STORES BEING BUIL' WILL LECTURE TO RET AIL aot August Auto Output May Hit High Mark _ BUILDING STILL | IS RUNNING HIGH First Eight Months Is Near Total of Highest Year Tobacco Business Br cer | Prosperity of the West York Editor Paints Glowing proximal 1 EB. Sard for a erected at { Fifth ave. iy Agaras, New August bu ne gonstitute a Finances Sound in Farming Districts year, but Aug AS ONE seme PUGET sims what great opr sweep fcr the Pacific ae are ket Re! ~~ MARKETS ctr Yom sly ever EASTERN EDITOR SEES US usual total of 354 pe of $1,251,130 taining the making fe If constr by the first « total would t and building they would not be exceed this figure The record for the ye at $18,142,8 cart 1 growth stores Under Individual Ay 1 fronts are rime . sury ABLES » to = le Dealers It in th VEGE I Prices Paid W (The prices « the recetving will be de de extend, od. Ur biege en are thone made to re Gealers by wh © With « few ‘ ieee 1 now Many os to yprod the whole twelve mc 1h Dui dea 4 . ting the coat of on n Was the ree ¢ and epprosty| | pe P . &, storage and eit Attle attains a populat these eight been issued for 1.5 total f million dollar buildings have « mately three and while hotels and were the chief contr total of $6,456,5 For the month of Av cages : b mi Beet dences totaled $433,050; ten Store buildings came to Warehouses gave a val and two lodging house $72,000. able in describing pre atirely of from previous reports. cost « SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN apart > pref. Ag. Ch Deet Sugar en ways been « a fairly and, if ela 00. rei Caulifiower » Magnet ter invite pe ard the promise of betze mences to material Meetings ‘of Real ‘ itu elie, to pei ah ay Estate Men Begin #nieol at ine ee mas After a summer vacation : far weekly me Real Estate ass Sumed next Thursday. The first]. Meeting of the fall will be held in the |}. Hotel Butler banquet room at noon, Ma and will be devoted largely to busi-| | Corn Mess with a view to getting the work | Se? ef the association started on a great- | May @F scale of activity, x. Ac hoewbaer #8 the country, Says Wheat Yield Mts isegite Is Below Estimate art : i , whe Ribe- 1 E 01% CHICAGO, Sept. 1.—The wi Rent Field this year is considerably ui crop estimates, an appreciably la Per cent of wheat ts being fed to Hiyestock and farmers are prevent ing the annual autumnal dump by farm storage, were conclusio drawn by ©. E. Bradfute, presic : of the American Farm Buren nd | oe 4 @tation, from replies from 125 wheat | pariey 16 ene cometics, counties, | o-. Liverpool ‘Cosi Northern Pacific Friday's Quotations | Pr. Point et rr eer rl omotes Richards °: : a sasha so tue I. B. Richards has ten appointed | assistant general superintendent of transportation of the Northern Pa- cific railroad, with offices in Seattle, At ‘was announced Friday. Richards was formerly superintendent of} transportation for the lines west of Paradise, Mont. become ace Ae Retailers have begun to b i ously. Demand for ¢ Am. Hide & Leathe in an edi do pret. Int conditions in in grow trade show wit WAGES AND TRAVEL | MARK PROSPERITY “Wages are high, If they » Chicago Roa of Trade |= Locemat i. mi pet ; ‘o : wieinasie.te Higeee Meta Friday's Quotations 23% | oor Thr * so@i.s6 | £O0d ia . soos | AB Rad aw Close! Aim. ha ‘ Am. Hat eg iis | Northwent harv #03 | wtory men yment. Ir ern have been bidding other to labor ‘On the rai # and on the How seation tours, mo- | it wou nd the freak an wheat Wheat Rutabagas fpinach—t. Savings Department Open Saturday Evenings 6:00 to 8:00 0 plo: some 1004 | Am 1.08 lam O% | Am jam. ‘Pernistently Dow bum FRUITS Prices Pald Wholeesic Dealers nes us try han been tol jand dis lwere dec 1 of di Tillers of the terribly content is heavy lared to clouded agricu ern were de and revolt different viewpe naw red d blue ruin mmperity bh departed Chicago Car Lots from Friday's Quotations Pornished by Logan & lryan Seattia there trade ruary to | alle “However int mer ca une Grape Vrait Grapes Mt nded, such ad sto ¢ "| was peroep’ |the upward t “Of all the Huckteberries Per seta: Lewes Fancy Chotes Oranges Feaches.—!er crate Raapbercios Pineapple ‘yume eertos | Watermeton abogats HOG 96) ory 1 Per box Durin Canadian y summer, the ra ing Wy M. & Mt do pret. Calumet & on parts of the whea ed by drouth * |iand obtained moisture enough to sure good crops. Jn many places, thin year, (he viel te double the average. ‘ot only the grain growers gained The cattlemen profited be it | cause of the weather, Instend of dry ling up as soon ax summer came, th grass on tho hillsides and upland |plains kept growing and remained jgreen. For herds and flocks in the [Northwest there was abundance of! jaining. Distributors are bury. | in larger quantities at less expense, |“Tculates. Farmers in Washington | “Tho prices of farm products are| 140 Js developir Much money ay they might be, |* pares res up | iarmers and stockmen, because of in. | *Yer Stown in the state. | t production, will get.a jot of], J2 the famous orchard districts STORENG Me ee b |the trees are loaded down with fruit mo! Sawmills are working full time, In the timber, more men are wanted The wages of loggers average $6.50 ja day. In Seattle the tobacco busl. ness is good."* | . . | erbearing NUTS Prices Wholesaie Dealers ~~ Ate and a higher waviack Tate ties ton cobb now In eapéotedstior: ery miner available is being hired. Workers are welcomed. There is a labor shortage in Butte. ‘All over, Idaho business conditions are sald to be | WASHINGTON HAS | GOOD TOBACCO TRADE | “In Spokane, no cigar man ts com Dexter Horton National Bank Second Ave. and ‘Cherry? St SEATTLE Chea & Onto ‘ |Chteago & KE. Iilinols 76 x tas | do pret. 49% Ya... per | Chicane & 0, W. pref, 1 Per tb ‘ Féwsign Eochange Chicago & NOW ae NEW YORK 3 Foreign | Chicago, R. L @ Pact . Ne, 3 exchange $1 do 6% pret Jumbo, budded. somene, do % pref Fancy budded, per 0.0563 3 ian | ; francs, 30.9461; : L008 to | Gutne cose DAIRY PRODUCTS the dollar, eo b 7 Prices Paid to Shippers Prospects of serious trouble be- Betterfai— From James Macfariane £ Co tween Italy and Greece found its re- ‘A grade, Seattle delivery Seco lection in the ‘orelgn exchange 3 ¥ neh, white shell aun nd Ave. market today, when sterling ex- $ Ee cen, i co eet after hitting on record low | ¢ i enty industrial stocks average | for the year, established another at | Textlis —Cwt., Lob. Heattle suppiy 95.40, a decrease of .30; 20 rail stocks |to's4.5¢'e, off ble nn the ¥. 0. By condensary average $0.01. an increase of .04. * DAIRY PRODUCTS Ratlo Federal Reserve System Prices to Retail Dealers 775 per cent, against 77.9 week Seenees eanee ago and 79.2 year ago; New York regia Freaty raneh waite set. Federal Reserve bank ratio 81.7, as against 95.9 week ago and Portland Produce 5 had ago. ie {Tildar’s, Quotations in Zine & Lead for quarter | Butter—43@4%c 1b. ended June 30 reports a deficit ot| Per “Buying price, 26@32c $42,000, as against a profit of $48,000] Cheese—30@iic Ib. the preceding quarter. Hens—14@24c 1b. | President of American Tel. & Tel. Co. says business is in a very healthy condition, above normal | —Steady to’ te higher per 1... te. ‘per Tb, | per tb. | eee ! Financial Flashes | feed. ice not so high now thd naga dy | Cont Cosden Corn Products 127% | Crucible Bteel 7 | Lo vba Cane Sugar pret an~ Am Cuban. Dora Del., Lack. Davison ¢ Detroit. E Deer! | Dome oot Motors $0.0423%. 0 nes, $0.0456%4 000 to the | $0.0005 % loft $0.0005; doliar. Union Pacific Taxes $36,306 A Day marke, n the Northwest, practically everywhere, bushiess conditions Ship News. int Sica ahs WA aes || was carried away by his enthusiasm | ae in Seattle | and began hig eulogy, “Famed Pu: lget sound’ * * * quoted at the SATUMDAY | BUNDAY . a ys an | ae, Pulte | Cheese— | Oregon triplete ...... 4 Sugar Sugar doz; Block Swiss Washington triplets mook triplets, o| | Btor, Denver Live Stock Friday's Quotations and steady. 1c ngiie-—Becel pte, 327; Market steady; j Operations of Armour & Co. during} Helters, $466.50, calven, $1@8.0; | Peon payers | July resulted in a net profit of ap-|_ stockers and feeders, $4@8. | Federal M. & 8 _ Proximately $3,000,000 before interest ; Hage —Hece! Dts, hone. Market steady | do pref. ebarges. to 10c higher. Top, $9.20; bulk. | pirth ave " $8.5069. 2,850. | isk Tire $1 cages petted jbeginning of this story, It is the First Low Tide || kin of thing that is good for us 3340 Ae ms 2.4 ft. | 450 a.m 2.3 ft.|/t0 read, for it gives us a perspective re rat io || 9:02 a om, 0.1 f.| 10:10 a m, 9.0 ft.|| at we, who are a part of the pic Hecoad Lew Tide | second Low Tide || ture, often fail to ap [GR EPSIS St) ROSLYN PLANS | BIG LABOR DAY. 8:99 Dam, 100 f.9:22 p.m, 26 ft ROSLY? First phe ride | Union Pacifie System taxes practically trebled be- tween 1912 and 1922, or from $4,668,875 to $18,251,- 552, Our 1922 taxes amounted to $36,306 a day. This would have paid for 17 all-steel box cars every day or” a modern freight or passenger locomotive every other” day. Hens—4% tbe, and up Medium, live, 3% to 4% Ibe Live, light, 3 to 2% the Fancy dry picked 4 cents abo live. &. p. & cents above live, i Geese—Live, fat, 9 to 12 Te. Belgian Mares—4 toa. and up. Tarkeys—Fancy 4. p. young .. Live, fat, per Tt. Roosters—Old, live, per . POULTRY AND TS | | “we | Hus | Sheep — Receipts, ateady Lambs, feeder lambs, $11.50@1 duly net operating income of 66 roads $74,184,600, against $59,- 635,600 Iast year. | 406.75 Secretary Cox of stock exchange see re bdo) % Weather Rana Report 28] TATOOSI ISLAND, Hept. 1.—8 A AL} cloudy; wind south, 14 miles an eiy Market! @ | Foundation Co. ‘|r brands as false rumors that member- ships are offered at $75,000. Says Foreign Securities Purnished by Sean Bale at $82,000 will be announced 810 Second Ave., Seattle shortly. - Btocks— Bid Anked Hogs— Choice light ...6...eseeseee Fancy, jeavy, 169-209 the. POULTRY AND MEATS 1@ 10 ¢ : f Sept. 1.—Tho Labor day Passed tu, utr Rverett, at 12:16.a, m. | celebration ducted under the aus- PORT ANC 4, Kept. L—# A. M.—| ry = >, “, Arrived, str Minnesotan; sailed, str oPrt|Pices of the Cle Elum-Roslyn Cen- Angeles towing barkentine Monterey and/tral Labor council, will be a three. Union Pacific System tax payments since 1900 have been as follows: ik Stato and County taxes Federal Year taxes Total 1d Wholesale Dealers barge Chas, Nelaon. day celebration, commencing Sun Mayor Peter Gavinini, of Roslyn, w start the celebration by an opening ARRIVED—sept. 1-—Btr Bi Bogundo from | address at the city park at 1 o'clock San Francisco via Point Wells, at 11) Sunday afternoon, Music will be fur- atr Admiral Nicholson from | \inea hy Fielvn’ Baste’ | fil puderen taor ce |nished by the Roslyn Eagle's band, | Alexander from Tacoma, at #:15 a under the leadership of Americus ate Kewanee from Han |Doratti, and gene V. Debs. will ‘k vin Antwer by ab { Monday afternoon Mayor Edwin J. | | Brown, of Seattle, will give the La-| |bor day address in the city park | grandstand. A grand ball, with mu- sic furnished by the Clarks’ orches- 5\ tra, Monday evening, will be tho fea-| ture of the celebration, | Field sports will commence Tues day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, and other interesting and competitive sports will feature Tuesday's pro- | gram, lWaterville, Ships. arg nan . eh No. 1 Grade Wheat Alaska Vessels | WATERVILLE, Sept. 1, — Tho} Aug. 81—Salled, str Jefferson, | present Waterville market for wheat | 7 i ate Princess Allee, | is as follows: Hard winter, 82 cents; | |dark hard winter, 83 cents; white, 86 | pnts; flour retails at $7.80 barrel.) Egge are 26 cents a dozen and ranch | butter 45 cents a pound, 5 do 6% deb Russian 5148, 1g Goodrich Com. Russian 64s, do pref, | TRADE TERMS Ve ch 4h : ‘ “ fi $ 3% me ti Status 41900 +1910 t1912 #1917 $ 1,256,839 3,552,761 4,688,875 9,285,196 14,082,098 12,847,155 19,251,552 {Fiscal year ending June 30. *Calendar year ending Dee 31, Union Pacific System taxes for 1922 consumed 6.87 — cents out of every dollar of gross earnings and 27.03 cents out of every dollar of net earnings. Total taxes paid by all railroads of the United — States in 1922 were $304,855,158, which was almos' as much as the cost of digging the Panama Qanalv Taxes exceeded cash dividends paid by the railroads — in each year since 1917, or the entire expense of run- ning the United States Government in 1916, They amounted to 5.4 per cent of the entire gross earn- ings. Railroads are the largest tax payers in many states. In some counties railroad taxes equal one-half the total. ‘ Some of the tax money provided by the railroads is used to build and maintain highways on which track- less competitors operate. Some of these highway. transportation routes serve as feeders for the rail- roads, but in most cases they take tonnage from thi rail lines, and the taxes levied on the railroads an: their trackless compc**tors are often unjustly appoi ~ Dressed, sed, heavy, tb. Live. light, mm. Jorn —Dreased, Geese-—Drensed Turkess— Fancy, Live, fancy, T, Live, per fb. Arrivals and Departures per Ib. per tb. dressed. NOMINAL QUOTATION ‘ene A “nominal quotation” is one that Present value is not based on actual bids or offer- . ings, but is based merely on an esti- mate of the price at which a transac tion might be negotiated. Nominal tions are confined almost exclu sively to inactive securities Belglum Restor. 5a Belgium Premium .« Japanese 4s... Japanese Ist 44a. ‘apanese 2nd 41s. - United Kingdom, 7 y, i 5 ‘ne | United Kingdom, 193 2 | Zeta, i ‘ ‘ 1 Italian Co: 3 "4 Ralboa, | at kan from New ¥ a, Balboa, Ban Pedro und Portiand, at 6:30 p. m Str Alaska for South- heastern Al ato 3 nee for Lin Quotations at Stockya m." Aug. Sl-<Str Craster H Manchester via Vancouver, B. ¢ Francisco, San Pedro, Balboa and New York, at 6 p,m; atr Ruth Alexander for Tacoma, at € p. m.j motorship | Tongkong for Copenhagen via Van and couver, B. C., Portland, San Fra fan Pedro, Balboa, Liverpe Antwerp, at 6:30 p.m: notan for Boston via Portland Ban Francisco, San Pedro, Balboa and York, at 6:30 p.m; atr Silverado Tacoma, at 2:25 jm. | Cattlon~ Prine atee ’ Medium to good .. Prime cows aod helters” Calves . Bulls /16.00 ctw | 20.80 cta,. i Greek mi Austrian crown..0014 6 -Holland florin, Rumanian tel ELECTRICCOMPANY NOTE INTEREST This is to remind the thousands of persons in the Puget Sound District, who own any of our Five-Year Hight Per Cent Coupon Notes, to cut off the coupons due Septem- ber 1, 1928. Coupons are payable at par High 100,91 Low Clone 100,00 100 00 Yoarlings Wethe: Ewes FLOUR AND Wholesale tid Flour—Local blends . Sugar—Cano, por owt, Boot, per owt a Fi GRAIN AND FEED My—Firat grade .., Becond 44s Juneau |Third 449 | Fourth 4a |New 44m ..,, IN.Y, Stiga ‘a Coffee Friday's Quotations be) delay i ch Kaw, 4.605 refined, rm; granulated, $7 Coftee—No. 7. To, spot, 10% @10%0 Wi No. 4 Santon, Beotite Ib. Vessels in Port at Seattle Tern Pier distr Kaga Hor 40: Hakorafield, pe Naber I } ‘0 | Great Northern Terminale Toyama), The Waterville Union Grain Co Maru, {has already shipped over 60 cars of Pler 14--8tr Tyndareun | wheat from the varieus stations. It) Plor 11-H—Atr Owego. tg all No, { at the Dexter Horton National Bank, Seat- tle, Wash., and may be deposited for col- lection at any bank in the Puget Sound District. %- is | le | | a aah in ~ BANK OLEARINGS Cleari Balan ‘Total San Frankiscs vt gd Friday's Quot Hutter—Hxtras, 6\Ge Ib; 466 do: 1b. ng con transactions 0 Bile firn extra Seattle Clearings «64. Balances , ‘Tacoma {primo i thrata, extra, fanoy, —~lh | Herateh Veod: 6,807,673.00 | 1,716,347.00 | 2,794,000,00 | Onte—Whole toed, Rolled and «round, Bprouting, 100'@ is... Whoeat—Hooleaned food, 1 Mixed food, 80's... All-Grain. Chop: Obiek Chick Growing Veed Kge Mantis 100'n 100'n 100' 100's oi BMC it Meal Meat iy Menl—100'n Grit—Limontone, 100 arent best 100’ ..4y lent Berape--Wastern, 100'm Mianlcstmatern ovator’ 100's —i — Wustern oyster, 100s ,,,, Plor 7—Motorahip. Anvil. i grade, Pler 2—Htr Alanka Pier 1—U, BB Plot H—Motorship Chailambn U. B. Shipping He Moorings —8tr Anna | FB. Morse, ate Went Nilus, atr Weat Jos ter Ansoolated Oil Docks Atwey Btroot Torminal Lander Mtreet minal bark Guy ©, Gon | Duthte's Docka—-Motorship Oulburre | Todd Drydocks—Wktn at Friend, ship ale No. 67, IN Building Permits | 4904 Brakine, 000, Ate Kewanee. Atr Tals, Ht Nebraskan, Jos, 8 Harrington, residence 08x26, $ Mea Win, Bebt 27 Sixth ave, proof atudto, alteration, $1,000 H. Cannon, 208 Columbia, frame realdence 40xi4, $1,000, | W. Du frame | fire 4018 W. Marginal sind Bridge & Dredging Cor!” frame residence S4x24, $1,860, 0 H.W, Boulos, 4aa1 University way, O. M orminal Company—Hhip Abner | stron 104440, $18,000. Liventey 8005 18th Ne | way, | wa] Hargo Henry Villar, | _Drydock=-Htr Ratner nie Mill (Roy. #t)—arge Dacula Halmon Tay Dook—#tr Mrockdale, Htream--Buoy No, T-#te Madiaon Winslow Marine Rathwaye#ehe Hetay Rows, wohir K. Ve Ketae, barge Coqult Jam ' ity, motorehip Donna Lane, whalers Blur Now, i bark Wirat, frame roa That nice, cosy, comfy apart: mont can be found by watehing the Want Ad Columns, Turn to them now. tioned. Senator Borah, speaking in Congress last Decem: ber, said: “It will be very difficult te reduce freight rates if we continue in this country to increase taxes upon the railroads as we have for the last four years... These public utilities must collect this | money from but one source, and that is from those who ship." Railroads, like other business, must pay taxes, ‘They are wil || ing to pay thelr share, but they ask that the tax burden be | equitably distributed, and that the public appreciate that taxatior in an element of increasing Importance in ratlway co ‘Tho price of transportation is bound to Keep paco with the coat of transportation, We are bending every effort to reduce the costs Constructive suggestions are always welcome, C, BR. GRAY, Omaha, Nebraska, President. September 1, 1928,