The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 16

. Aderwood “made in acre trac’ " Acre tract also near THREE SALES IN SUBURBAN LAND Total of 900. ‘Acres Will Be pemaivided for Homesites "Sale of 800 acres ot logged-oft land Duilder, was announced Saturday by West & Wheeler, The tract is 10 Miles north of tho city lmits, near Manor. Tho purchaser plans to subdivide the land into sub- Gyrean five-acre tracts, Activity in suburban lots and tracts has been unusually active dur- + tng tho past week, West & Wheeler les have been near Echo Lake ‘on the north trunk highway and sev. eral larger sales have been made, Prominent among the sales of large Suburban tracts made thru this firm fs that of 60 acres near Sand Point by Mrs. W. W. Kirkwood to 8, B. Hayes. The same purchaser is just ‘goncluding the purchase of a forty and Point, trom the Moreland estate, He will subdi- Wide both properties into acre tracts. Sales such as these, it is pointed Purchasers in the growth of Seattle ‘uring the coming year, as they are Predicated on the belief that the / population in the near future will be Be hae to create a ready market} SET DATE FOR MANILA FAIR’ Offers Opportunity to De-| velop Philippine Trade ‘The Philippine Carnival assocla- ) ton has set Feb. 16 to 24 as the) [@ate for the Manila Carnival season, Mecording to advice received yester, ‘ay by Manual S. Hustia, Philip- pine commercial attache with offices ‘in the Lowman building, Seattle. The carnival includes a comme! “and industrial fair where private Soncerns and geographical units will display their wares and products. “Business men everywhere, Mercial Attache Hu: y facturers and exporters particularly, Will find in this commercial and in- dustrial fair a splendid opportunity to Introduce thelr products into the Philippine market and to cultivate the raising demand for those already dn the field. Likewise, buyers will find on this occasion the products of the Archipelago in full display. "The Manila Carnival, with which the Philippine Commercial and In- ‘dustrial Fair {s held, is one of the Biggest yearly events in the Orient. Bien from all parts of the Philip- Pines, merchants from the different Moints of the Far East—Hongkong, China, Java, Japan, Straights Set- Wements, Indo-China, and even from “Australia, meet in Manila at this fair. “According to the association, an Average of 62,000 people visited the > carnival grounds daily for nine days i & S during the 1922 celebration—certain- dy @ great advertising force and “Order-taking medium. \SELL FOURTH AVE. CORNER) Tho salto of the ‘CEMENT SHOWS | STEADY GROWTH Production and Use creased During Year Steady growth In southe doubdle | joorner of Fourth W. B.S ave, and Blanch jard st, for evens was |nounced Saturday by Scott-Poor, Inc. |Tho tract comprives 120 feet on JFourth ave. and 108 feet on Blanch lard st., the consideration being ap: | proximately $40,000, : The new omnes of, the roperty ald Wee Ok perdand has taken out a perm! ‘o build @ onestory building covering the en |*20W Im the report just issued by Ure ground at an ostimatod cost of |the United States geological survey. |$30,000, ‘Tho corner 60 fect has al: |For tho firmt 11 months of 1028 Jready been leased to the Harper. | Productions of the 125 mills In the | Megxea Co, distributors of the | United States totaled | Willard storage batterie |Darrels, an compared with 105, in 1922 and 91,734,000 in 1921. During th period, hes Output Gains |menta were 129,148,000. barrels. as | Over 1922 Records amb compared with and 91,354,000 | WASHINGTON, Deor 22.—The de: | month of November, partment of commerce announces} 19,608,000 barrels and shipments that the production of passenger | wera 10,251,000, both being a Kain |automobiles In November amounted | over November of last year and mi |to 284,680, as compared with 215,352 | in November, 1 Production for | |11 months of 1928 totaled 3,362,090, as compared with in the ame period In 19: | an | | cement ts For the production was terial inor During ses over 1 Yovember. the Oregon, Washington and Mon produced 208,000 barrels and shipped 169. For the first 11 months | "3 |theso mills produced 3,878,000 bar rels and shipped 2,915,000 barrels, representing substantial gains over |the same period in 1922 and 1921. Stocks on hand at the ond of || November are reported at 6,964,000 |}for the country as a whole, and 316,000 barrels for the mills In the iflc Northwest, SEATTLE | MARKETS | ‘esther Boreca Report | TATOOSH ISLAND, Dee. 22—S 8 Barometer falling: clear; wind nort | east, 12 miles en hour, Alaska ‘Vessels Wrankel, Dec. 21.—Sall southboun: nine mills in tana |Ship News Tides in Seattle SATURDAY | SUNDAY i DEC, 3 DEC. %3 || First igh Tide | First High ‘Tide 84 a m., 128 ft & fi, TRL ft || First Lew Tide ” Plest Lew Tide 1} 10:32 alm. 7.3 ft Moa, m, Ta tt ||Second High Tide secomd High Tide }} 3:26 pm. 10.8 ft. | 3:09 p.m. 107 ft Second Low Tide Second Low Tide ipl) ees SOT ft. ALO pal OE: tt} oe VEGETABLES Prices Pald Wholesaie Dealers o prices given are thore made to lera by wholesalers, With a few eptions, pr to prod) ed by deducting the co to Seattle and spproxt- haul ing cost.) . &t 2 | Artichokes | Beets—New, }_ Local, | Brussels Sprou! Cabbage—Per 1. ‘arrote—-Local, per doz. New, per « s Caulifiower—Per crate str | Celery—Loeal, per orate Cucumbers 1 Fag Piaat—Per ™ Lettuce—Cal., per © Onions per owt Yaktini a | Arrivals and Departures Arrived—D, ‘Tug Roosevelt tow: ag barge Bayden from Les A moob: str Auyox from mertheemtern Adee ta via WO porta, gt $330 8 mas Iwatesan Mara from Kobe. via porta, Mm: ote Bhidrueka Maru. from Heegkonw via yé Tek im; | Manuka! fre 20 a. m. Dee. i ports at per do dos. trg. bunch agut | Potators— New Britain eal, dow _ mt 190 p. Mutabagns— Per wack Str Hawail Maru for | Spinach. kong via porta, at 10 8. m.: at Squash—-? use Alaska, at 9 &. atr Went Sweet Potatoes. ue shaw for Mantla via po: «| Yama 4 3 Dee. wm. on tor | Tomatoes—Lus 4 rte, at 7 p. mj ate | Turnlpe—Per 150@1 don via ports, at & p. mz str 8 for New York via porta, at & p.m; atr Curacao for San Fra een. et’ Gp tat ote ¥ | via Point Wel burra for Loe Angel bunches. 3¢e FRUITS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Applee— Delicious Bolt sent Jonathane Winter I King Basnsas: Cocoanate. | Cranberries Tassels in Pert at Seattle | ae ae me atUe | cenpe Fratt Mimired, PS rine Mla + Hakata | Orapee—) Strained, per | Hackleberrics— Pe. Lemons Fancy ana Per Per dos Per box bb! Cah a “Every facility is extended by the| Pssociation to foreign merchants, Buyers and exhibitors as well. “This office will gladly furnish ad- @itional information or give any as- Bistance to those desiring to avail themselves of this opportt McCLALLEN IS NAMED AGENT Don C. McCiallen has been ap. pointed Seattle agent for the Or- fental-Pacific Navigation Co., {t was @nnounced by the company Friday. MecCialien has been connected with the Seattle office for a year and a half, having come here after a number of years in the Portland of- fice. ‘The Orlental-Pacific Navigation (Co. are shh operators and agents Who operate vessels in the trans- Pacific trade. The head oft of fig company is at San Francisco, @nd branches are maintained in New York, Portland, Los Ange and Hongkong. Seattle Financial Flashes From James Macfarlane & Uo, 811 Second Ave. Forty bonds crease of stocks ave 37.. Twen increase of Southern operating $4,918,3 London disp says rate of discount of Inperiat Bank of In- dia was raised from 6 to 7 per cent yesterd Plan for readj of holders of of Willys Corp Under the plan ferred stock number of share land Co. at $12 « Ratio of Feder: tem, and 72.8. year ago. N Federal Reserve bank, sus 80.4 week ago and ago. Fiske F ended October charges and tax to 85 « eommor dend & share ca ended Decer Structural steel sales vember 135,000 tons, ” tons in Octob ings for and $ offic! of ret income in No- versus 120, Sir Man ng Works. Moorings—8! per DAIItY PRODUCTS Friees Paid Shippers Buttertat— A grade, 8+ Egus—Fresh ranch Mixed colors nal—Btr New Brit 0.0. Seatt B. condensar DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Butter creame bes. AND MEATS Paid POULTRY Prices Brollers—t Capons—Li tha Anne barges Shippers AND MEATS Paid Wholesale Dealers POULTRY Prie Ducks—t L IVE STOCK at Stockyards ‘DONT Lose cette (THAT PAPER! 4 Use Our Modern | Safe Deposit aquipment FLOUR AND SUGAK HAY, GAIN a He AND FKED In| the production | ship: | 111,705,000 last year | IN ew York Stock J M arket WALL ST . NEW YORK, | Quiot tradin oral Hat on the #tock exchange at th | falling under the shrinking Influenc Altho #peculative enthusiasm was } a conatatently strong were alinost Invariably Gas favored among the public | grou DUINA wulit icn developed more signa of life | fa burst of atrenkia in. the akcer and Chandler } lun RL theory jahow in Janvary nmolifated Can | dustrial lat, being bid up to @ new } le tompar Central Leather, 1 up ii Norther ‘orn Products, 1 up Mi Marland, GRAINS SUFFER | NEW WEAKNESS iPre- Holiday. Decline More |! | Pronounced Friday conic. Dec, 21,—Grain’ prices | closed sharply lower on the Chicago board of trade today. Pre-holiday — dullness, thruout the seasion, waa | nounced at the clone | Wheat ruled lowest of al! graina.| May wan the weakeat, suffering a| i%e cut, bringing values in that de livery to within a slight margin of the low on the erop. Liquidating in corn, especially tn the December delivery, caused the | weakness in that market. December! |showed the most decline, but re- placement salen in later deliveries | showed @ romewhat firm undertone. | Oats raliled from the’ low point late, due to short covering. but the buy- Ing power appeared too late to re-| }eoup earlier losses and the clone showed fractional declines Provisions maintained | undertone thruout. eee |Chicago Board of Trade| Friday's Quotations evident | more pro- an easy| jing Cash Wheat s Im the wool before the opening The Amert: pany is expected to op avyweisht AUAFY, OF at Denver Lies Stock Produce Jon Prime firsts rota flats, fancy, 24 Y. Super tad Coffee 6 epurte of activity Thin class of # that @ bullish demonatration will NANCIAL VIEW ntinued to characterize the week-end, the volume of a 6 of the presholiday dintract! at a low ebb, the market dl yed whieh developed with Consolidated Aaphait in the ofl gen allnge Ke of rising. prices, low and ¢ ral n the final dealings under the atimus olor shares under the leaderahip of wi Je being accvlerated ul the » winged before the automobile wes another strong stock in the In| nigh on the movement to ob atom Steak 4h joan Can, 1034 up %: Davison Che on Pipe, 66%, up % 1M, off 1 ‘Texas fobacco nal, 70%, National rthweate 71, up %i Anaconda Cop- Anphalt, 40%, up 1 Co! pi 8 O, California, 624, nal Lead, 139%, up % + Cart Iron Pipe, 66, up %i Foreign Securities Friday's Quotations Furnished by Logee & Bryan B10 Becond Ave, Beattie Btocks— nia Asked Runsian Sim, 1921... 9% Biga, 4 Runstan Glen, 19 10 preven British inh Britiah | Britian Jgtum Japanese Jap Unit [United Knigdor Italian Ss . UNEMPLOYMENT IS BEING SOLVED [World Is Gradually Getting Back to Normal BY HENRY Woop The world is steadily way b to normal the matter of unemployr to gathered b fighting Its conditions accord just o International Labor nt, the yearend statistice s point In thin most ne: rious economic af hich the came prese tion led and wh the midd} in still cont the moment, Belgium hot "" record for having come pack to A figures there nemployment r cent of the r of workers covered. next bert, being placed the International bureau ir sory an Belgium, w oyment ran subs the we the nearest to or he » he ques payin less than 1, UNEMPLOYMENT WORST IN ENGLAND England stilt continu worst off, with her unemployment constantly remaining above a mi and a quarter In Den unemployment ally di ing the past year until {t on population. In Austria, the d r ployment has been due largely to er improved conditions | building, wood and metal at Vier unemp' 00 wo to be t ark creased nix months of the remains at from the total ‘working unem, situation has re unemploy easing in several lines, b nent being offest by at stationary solint regime ment, the 4 having mploymoent. RMANY FACE | SERIOUS SITUATION Portland Prodass y's Quotations if Ratter Kees pri Cheese Hens—15@ apne 35400 4 Foreign Money Status Friday’s Quotations Normal 18 ton & Bryan Seattle Low Close 18 99.18 ‘ond Ave High Chicago Car Lots Friday's Quotations BANK CLEARINGS Seattle Clearing Balances $5,679, 1,648, 388.58 Portland Tacoma ermany Is t the iner be Unemploy th 5,000,000 u 1 from 3 t 7 per The has also in period from The ipal 0 of try where en really re amongst kme has in yer cent in July to t for the end of the short-t om 1 the reased dyring th 14 to over 20 per Industries affects metal, clothing, bull experts To Plan Series of Ads for Northwest Oregon Railroad Wants Extension HINGTON SOME FISHERMAN BY W. B. FRANCE Instead of going up in smoke, Sea‘tie's community hotel is rapidly going up in ateel. In fact, it ts going up in stecl tho rate of about 100 tons a| |day. And along about the middie | lor the latter part of January, a| mere matter of 34,000 tons of mtocl | will be in place, and then the next | » will be tackled. wonder how much that piece | of steol welghs’—perhaps you have | said it yourself. Well, {t all do- | pends, If it ts a truse—and you| may have cailed {t a “girder” or a “beam't something like that—it might weigh 927 pounds, That would | be a very tiny one; if It was a big| ne it might weigh 30,869 pounds ximately 16 tons. Thene are the official figures from ations that show the ight. With the columns stand upright & t They pounds to 4,285 at from 1,500 1 are looking for something | , you can find It in the} big trusses that will span the main room on the Fifth ave. side, ball room on the Fourth the hotel There are nd they each weigh 00 pounds—about however, are | They are a top chord | one weighing half the total, | Theso main truene | not solid pleces of steel. made of two “chowias”. and a bottom chord, a little more than and littio lens, They aro put together by numerous small | braces, and riveted into what ts | a solid ploce of steel 50 one a practically feet I ‘Twenty-seven men and several) guy-line derricks are busy rushing | the steel frame to completion under | the supervision of Gerrick & Ger- | Seattle contractors, who have | for the steel work. another hundred tons | eattle ived as dream of {ts forward-looking citt- |eenry, gets nearer and nearer the realm of accomplished fact. FAILED TO SELL | “OIL STOCK ISSUE WASHINGTON, Dec, 22.—How an | effort to “market” for an oft ause the publi would not by 1s told yesterday committee tnvenstigat Dome naval oll re contract Above: One of the big trusses ™m Seattle's fast-growing community hotel, being swung into place by a guy-line der- rick and a crew of men who don’t get dizzy when they look down. low: George Nelson, foreman for Gerrick & Gerrick, steel contractors, giving directions with one hand and holding in the other the blueprint on which every piece of steel that goes into the building has its own number and location. New Issues } CNRS SUM IO RO MES , Stuart & Co, as syndicate n have been 1 rs, announce a new issue of &@ Ol! Co., In $15,000,000 Commonwealth Edison Charlies W. Litt First Mortgage Collateral 5% M and DanC. 1 0 onds, Series A, due July 1, t reeves “ The bonds are being offered 92% and interest, yielding over and constitute the initial is- a new mortgage of the recently created to allow in the ma: ny’s financial ig the nervy ri ‘ nore New York broker Sinclair, ¥ float Mammoth © public would ught it back In n loss. public to ompted Sinc ie r only respond rege on n have been 6 of the ound Lim: "The noted sto before the com operator appeared mitter a ret el and good all the inue couns ed " com diversifications the of com the narke tified th the bonds are secured by ler the new mortga: of the company’s age gold bonds, and upon re-+ » the latter, bonds will red by a di first mort- The com of st electr ing and the world, Va 'o Nees th n Me r r » year end- regating H of Blair stment com. her of the oration, who lertake to make 9 Mammoth Ot! 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