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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1912)
17 THE 3IORXTXG OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1913. PHKIN6 TO START Oregon Hops Ripening Rapidly With Sunshine. MARKET GAINS STRENGTH While Xo Buying Is Beinsr Pone Iferc. Situation Grows Firm in Sympathy With California Developments. If the present e"her continues but there are chines that it wn't hopplcklns will commence In some Oregon yards In less than a week. Reports from ihe Willamette Valley hop-produclrc districts yesterday are to the effect that the crop Is rlpenine rapid ly undr the steady .sunshine and that the quality, promises to he better than fair. Unless vermin and mould get In their de structive work the Oregon crop this year should be better than usuaL Last week's rain Increased the sire and weight, giving those hops that Jiad been a little backward tome additional growth. All that it re quires cow is steady sunshine. Pending the first definite reports from the growing centers regarding the condi tion of the crop, little buying will be done. Buyers want to wait to learn whether the hops are affected. If they are not the market will stiffen up. Even If the pest has done some damage It Is believed that the market will remain firm unless the damage Is so great as to make the crop partially worthless for commercial purposes. Meanwhile the market Is gaining in atrength every day. While the quotations were not changed yesterday. It was a notable fact that there were no sales at current prices. In California, where picking has been In progress for a few week?, the market is quite active. Many buyers are on the ground and they are forcing the prices up grad ually. , CHAINS FAIL TO ADVANCE HERE Diminished Supply Ha Not Affected Local Market. ' In spite of the rain last week which re duced the visible wheat supply of the Pa cific Coast territory more than 50.000 bush els, the market remains unchanged and dis plays no signs of strengthening. Previous quotations of 76 cents for club wheat and 3 to SO cents for bluestem still hold. In some quarters these figures are considered a trifle low. however. v Carload receipts reported yesterday by the Merchants Exchange were: Wheat Barley Flour pata Hay Mondav B'i 5 12 luerdsv 37 1 5 Vear ago 3 2 15 .. J Season to date.. 749 f4 3 il Ysar ago S2 3-' 3tS "S 3JS Only Rip Grape to .Move. The shipping of green grapes which had commenced in some sections has been nipped in the bud by growers and shippers, of the Pan Joaquin Valley, who have taken a firm stand for standardization. A number of shipping firms, which together control about "5 packing-houses, have pledged their sup port to the movement and have agreed that no Malagas testing less than IS per cent sugar will be accepted fori shipment. In spectors have been stationed In fruit dis tricts of the San Joaquin Valley and it has been decided to apply the sugar test not only to Malagas but to all other grapes as well, the ruies to be In effect for two weeks, after which time all danger of shipping green grapes will be over. Sweet" Potatoes Go Quickly. Few of the sweet potatoes received here in carload lot on Monday remained at the commission hcuses yesterday morning. The car, which was consigned to Pearson, Page & Company and to Bell & Company, arrived Monday morning. By Monday eve ning the entire lot had been distributed. The shipment came direct from Turlock. Cal. It Is probable that Northwestern "sweets" will be In the market before the end of the month. Oregon rescues in Demand. Regular shipments of Oregon peaches now axe being received here. They are of a superior quality and are In much favor, selling at from 6tc to 05c a box. They are grown at The Dalles. Other portions of the state soon will be sending ripe peaches to Portland. Another carload of California peaches was received yesterday and sold at 70 to 73 cent. Flour Prices Vm-uanged. It Is probable that the new schedule of floir prices announced by the millers last week will remain fixed for some time any way, until the new "wheat arrives. The taudard "for patents now la $4.60; for tralghts. $3.'-J: grahams. $4.00: old wheat, t4 o. ' J .Many Cantaloupe Shipped. Shipments of cantaloupes from the Im perial Valley this year have reached the high-water mark of approximately 2900 cars. Last year bat 2581 cars were shipped from the valley. Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of Northwestern cities yes terday were; , Clearings. Balances. Portland Jl.S49.56l 1S0.04 Seattle 2.0S2.240 143.443 lacoma 5S.901 Spokane S18,2U4 61.925 77,410 FORTLAND MARKETS Grain. Floor. Feed. Eta. WHEAT Track prices, new: Club, 76c; bluestem, 79o; fortyfolU. 77c; Valley, 78c FLOUIt Patents. f4.50tH.75 per barrel; Straights. S3.M0; exports. J4: Valley, f4.su. BARLEY Spot. S 24.30& 2i; futures. $23. oil 'jj Zi. MILLS-TUFFS Bran, $25 per ton; horta. 2S; middlings, f?2; rolled barley. '"HAY Eastern Oregon timothy. J15: Val ley timothy. $12913; alfalfa, f lliS12; clover. (10- oats and vetch. flotfU; grain hay, f'.O'sll- CORN Whole. $39: cracked. $40 per ton. OATS Spot. $2S per ton; futures, $24.90. Vegetable and Fruit. FEESH FRUITS Apples, new, $1M.73 per box: peaches. 35 & 70c per box; plums. 7ic41.10 per box; ieara, fl.2utfl.50 per box: apricots. $1.23 per box; grapes. 65c ui $1.73 per crate; blackberries, 50c & 1 1 per craze. TKOPICAL FRUITS Oranges, Valencia. $3 30fr4: California grapefruit. $4.60; l:nor.s. 5.5u per box; pineapple, to per pound. MSLOXS Cantaloupes. 50cfr$1.50 per era.-' witermelons, Slfvl.13 per hundred. ONIONS Walla Walla. 0ctf$i per sack POTATOES Jobbing prices; 2urbaak. new. tsoMoc per hundred; sweet potatoes, 41.. c per pound. VEGETAIUJiB Artichoke-!. 65S73e per eoje-n; beans. 2r. cabbage, lmo per pound: cauliflower. il1.25 per dozen: cel ery 75983c per dozen; corn, 5f25c per d-5i'en: cucumbers. Sue per box: egirplanr. 7luc per pound: head lettuce, 10025c per dozen: peas. 81 9c per pound: peppers, 8 V 10c per pound: radishes. 13620c per dozen; tomatoes. 51573c per box; garlic. Sfilue per pound. 4.CK VEGET ABIES Carrots. $1.50 per sack; turnips. $1.25 per sack; beet. $1.50 per sack. 1 Staple brecerlee. fALMOX Columbia River. oce-pounj tails. $2 25 per dosfn; eight-pound tails. $2.95; one-pound fla. $2.40; , Alaska pink, one-pound tall. $1.21 COFFFE Roarted. in drums. S614C40e per pound. HONEY Choice. $175 per case; strained coney. 10c per pound NUTS Walnuts. 16lWo pet- pound: Brazil nuts. 12c: filberts. 14915a: a. monds. 1721c: peansts. St4c: coootnuts. enerTSt Pr dozen; chestnuts. 124o per pound: hickory nuts. 6-5100 per pound. SAX. T- Granulated, i SIB per. ton: half, groond. 100s $7.50 per ton: 60s. $S ter ton BEANS Small wble. 6.40c: large white 8 20e; Lima, fltte; pink. 4.15c; Mexicans. 4c: bayou. 41c 1 . . . SUGAR Drr erantlated. I5.S5: trull and Keer-v S r TTnnnlnln plantation. $5.S0; beet. 13.65; extra C, $5.35: powdered, bar rels. $6.10: cubes, barrels, $6.25. RICE No. 1 Japan. 6e: cheaper grade SCSKc: Southern head. 7Ve. DRIED FRUITS Apples. 10c per ponna: apricots. 12tfl4c; peaches. SSUo: prunes. Italian. 4in- ailver. lffe: firs white and Mack. 6'4 67c: currants. 9Vjc; raisins, loose Muscatel. B"4F'c; oieacnen inoinimii, HUc: unbleached Sultanas. S'ic: seeded. 7 H SSHc: date. Persian. 8je per pound; Fard. $1.60 per box. Dairy and Country Produce, EGGS Caa count. JJc; cae.Ued. Its; ex tras. 27c per doxen. CHFE3E Triplets and daisies. 17 Vie p pound: voung Americas, ISiic per pound. BUTTER Oregon creamery butter, cubes. 81c per pound; prints. 82fee per pound. PORK Fancy, lute, per pound. VEAL, Fancy. 144 15c per pound. POULTRY Hem, 1313c: broilers. 15 lc; ducks, young, lit? 12c; geese. 10 lie; turkeys, live. I!jj20c; dte&sed. 242Sc Prevision. HAMS All sizes. 17lSc; picnics. 12c: cottage roll. 12,c. ' BACON Jancy. 2627c; choice. 20O21e. DRV SALT MEATS Backs, dry salt. II1 12',c; backs, smoked. 132 14c; exports, dry salt. 12 "je; smoked, 14c LARD Tierce basis, choice. 13tte; com pound. 9iic: leaf, three-pound pails, $8-1 per case. MISCELLANEOUS Pigs1 feet. kits. $1.; sliced beef, insides. $23 per case: tried beef. Insides. 23c per pound: bologna, canvas back. 10Hc; minced ham. 12c. Hops. Wool and Hldee- HOP? 1!12 contract. 1920c; 19H crop, nominal. -. MOHAIR Choice. 32c per pound. WOOL Eastern Oregon. 1418o . per pound according to shrinkage; Valley, 214 622'ic per pound. PELTS Dry. 13c: full wool butcher pelt. $1.2S J. 75: shearlings. 251150c. H 1 ri f.s KaitH kin.. 11M ft 1 2e ner nound: salted calf, 1-6 19c: salted kip. ll!2c: green hides, 11c; dry calf. No. 1. 25c; No. 2. 20c; dry hides, 20922c; salted stags. i wee; green stags. B'.itiC . k CASCARA Per pound. 45c; earlota. t 6314c. - GRAIN BAGS Spot. In car lots. 11c; 1913 bags, nominal at 77iie.. Linseed Oil and Turpentlne. LINSEED OIL Raw. barrels, T8c; boiled, barrel. 78c; raw. cases. 81c; boiled, case. 83c. TURPENTINE Cases, 63c; barrel, 60ttC DM I fi AVHE.T CLOSES SHADE HIGHER AXD STRENGTH GROWS. September Corn Leads and Finishes Xear Top Oats Also Are Firm. Provisions Are Lower. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. Wheat maintained a fairly steady tone, closing from a shade to 1c hlaher. Alternating between strength and weakness at different periods the mar kept kept within narrow limits and display-id some firmness. Weakness of cash demand and negligible Investment buying were off set by shorts covering on Hgni spots wnen prices fell away. Corn finished near me lop, bepiemoer leading. Export demand helped oats values ana tne market ruled firm. Provisions closed from 10 to 2j cents lower. The leading futures ranged as follows: , WHEAT. Open. High. Low. $ .93 .92 Vi .965, Close. $ .93i .92 S .96 Sept $ .93. $ .93 tec 92 .91'- May 96 i .96 CORN. Sept 70 .70 Dec....... .539 .53 May .63 .53 H .69 . .53i .52 .70 .53 .53 hi OATS. Sept .32 .32U .32 .32 .347 .31", MESS PORK. .31 .32 -34V .32 .32 .34 Dec May Sept... Oct.... Jan.... 18.10 18.15 19.05 18.121 1S.17 19.05 LARD. 17 921i 17.97 18.72',- 17.92 17.97 18.721- Sept Oct Dec 10.95 11. 0 10.80 10.95 11.05 10.80 lO.ROVs 1O.90 10.70 10.S2H 10.90 10.70 SHORT RIBS. Sept 10.90 10.90 10.80 10.85 Oct 10.90 111.90 10.50 10-eO Jan 10.10 111.10 9.97 9.97H Cash quotation were as follows: Flour Steady. Rye No. 2, 7:72':c. Barley Feed or mixing, 42ISc; fair to choice malting, 63 5 70c. Timothy seed $6. Clover seed $10 (if 15. 50. Mess pork S17.S7 u i IS. Lard In tierces, flu. 75. Short ribs Loose, f 10.80.. Grain statistics: Total clearances of wheat and fiour were equal to 206.000 bushel. Primary receipts were 1.U5.000 bushels, compared with 741.- 000 bushels the corresponding day a year ago. The world's visible supply, as shown by Bradstreet's. decreased 1,072. 000 bushels. Estimated receipts for tomorrow: Wheat. 2S!) car: corn, 152 cars; oats, 188 cars; hogs, 26,000 head. Wheat on Puget Sound. TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 20. Wheat: Spot. bluestem, 81c; September and October, Soc; club, 7$c. Receipts, wheat. 82 cais, barley 4 cars, corn 2 can, hay 56 cars. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 20. Wheat, blue- stem. 79c: fortyfold. iuc: club. ,dc: Fife. 76c; red Russian. 74c. Yesterday's car re- re.pts, wneat 4 cars, corn , oat v. oariey 2. hay 30. flour 4. rye 1. San Francisco Grain Market. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. Spot quota tions: Waila Walla. 11.47 ft l.Su: red Rus sian, nominal: Turkey red, $1.5581.57; bluestem, fl.Oj-B 1.0. leea Parley. i.!j 1.27; white oats. $1.6061.05; bran. $24.30 4)25; middlings. $5334: shorts, $2828.30. Wheat at Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 20. Close: Wheat, September, 81 c; December, U2e; May, "6&96c, Cash: No. 1 hard, 97c; No. 1 Northern, 9296c; No. 2 Northern. b894c; No. 3 wheat. 86e91c European Grain Markets. LIVERPOOL. Aug. 20. Close: Wheat, Oc tober. 7s 5d; December, 7 3d. Weather, cloudy. BOSTON WOOL. MARKET VERY FIRM Tendency Appears to lie Upward. Although prices Are Unchanged. BOSTON. Aug. 20. Price held firm in the local wool market during the past week and the tendency appears to be upward. Quotations' Scoured basis, Texas line, six to eigne tnontbs. 53fto5c; 12 months. Son? 62c; fine Fall. 45S46C California, Northern, 51 g 52c; middle county. 4S350c; Southern. 47448c; -Fall free. 45 47c. Oregon. Eastern No. 1 staple. C2ig63c; Eastern clothing. 5557c; valley. No. 1, 30 52c. Territory, fine staple, 6770c: fine medi um staple. 65i67c; fine clothing. 6062c; fine medium clothing, 5S60c; half blood, combing. 62 64c: three-eighths blood comb ing. 57 & 58c; quarter-blood combing, 53 35c. Chicago Produce) Market. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. Butter Steady; creameries. 2224c: dairies, 21 23c. Eggs Firm. Receipts, 9474 esses- at mark, canes included, 16c; ordinary firsts, 17c; firsts. 19c. Cheese Steady; daisies, 15915c; twins. 14feloc; Young Americas, 15 15c; lung horns, 15i15c. Naval Stores Market. SAVANNAH, Ga.. Aug. 20. Turpentine firm. 40c; aales. 455; receipts. 455; ship ments, 5H1 : stocks. 38.900. Rosin firm: sales, 745; receipts. 2000; shipments. 3!00; stocks. 10B.O00. Quote: B. $6::i; D, $6.45: E. $6.65; F, $6.75; H. $6.75; I. $il.0: K. fii.80; M. $6.90; N. $7.13; WG. $7.00 ; WW. $S. Poultry at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. Poultry prices today in the local market were as follows: Hens, $410; roosters, old $4, voung fO.oOg 7.30; fryers. $5.50tf6.50; broil ers, large $3,503 4. small $333.50: ducks, old $.1??4. young $:1.505.50: squabs, 1.50j2; geese. $22.50; pigeons, $1.50. Cotton at New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Cotton closed easy, net decline. 9 to 12 points. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 20. Spot cotton, steady, unchanged. Middling, 11 1316c. Wool ,at St. Louis. r--e . J-.V-TO -n TTrutt CI.,.!.. dium grades, combing and clothing. 23 26c: light fine, lBfi 21e; heavy fino 13tf 18c; tub washed. 26 35c. Dried Fruit at New York. NEW YORK. Aug. SO. Evaporated apples auiet. Prune ftara. Pewau dni COPPER DEMAND Most Sales on Exchange Are of Metal Shares. RAILWAYS ARE INACTIVE Coal Carriers Show Some Life, but Transoontinentals Are VJnder Restraint Amalgamated Heavy at Close. NEW TORK. Aug. 20. Copper constituted the big bulk; of today's deslings In the stock market, with a sprinkling of kindred Issues and equipment shares. Speculative favorites and the more standard securities were very quiet and narrow of movement. Inquiry for coppers was traceable In part to trade advices, which point to a renewal of last Spring's good demand, together with rumor of probable increase of copper divi dends and prospects of higher prices for the metal Itself. The railway list as a whole did not fig ure prominently. Reading and. Lehigh Val ley were under leas restraint than earlier In the week, but Union "Pacific and Ca nadian Pacific were Inclined to react mod erately. Coalers, such as "Wheeling and Lake Erie and Toledo, St. Louis A Western, were somewhat active. In a comparative sense United States Steel was the heaviest of the better-known industriala and this fact was made prom inent by reason of the better tone displayed by the independent competitors, notably Bethlehem steel. Highest quotations were registered be fore the close, with heavy absorption of Amalgamated the feature. Money was In better demand here, with many call loans at 3 per cent. Time loans were unchanged. The bond market was featureless. Total sales, par value, were $1,475,000. United States Government bonds were unchanged on call. CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Closing Sales. Hleh. Low. Bid. Amal Copper .. 16.0U0 87 Am Agricult Am Beet Sugar. 100 71H American Ciin.. 5,700 41 do preferred.. 700 119 4 Am ar & Fdy.. 2.00O 61H Am Cotton Oil.. 500 54 Am Ice Seturi.. 500 26 Am Linseed ... 100 13 Am Locomotive 2.100 4', Am Smel & Ref 0.500 S7 do preferred.. Am Sugar Kef.. 3M 128 V, Am Tei & Tel.. 500 140 Vi Am Tobacco Anaconda M Co 39.000 45 Vi Atchison 2.900 10:4 do preferred.. 1,200 102 Atl Coast Line.. 100 146 Bait & Ohio 40O lOSVi Bethlehem Steel S.OilO 42 Vi Brook R Tran.." 600 !3 Canadian Pac. 4.400 27SVi &5 'iivi 41 uv; 60 53 25 Va 13 45 86 128 146 43 109 Vi 102 146 10s V4 41 92 277 29 Vi X2 19 107 142 32 146 15 173 22 37 54 46 1H3 140 46 131 . 20 60 121 19 16 87 39 71 41 119 61 53 25 13 48 (-7 108 128 146 26S 45 109 102 143 10S 41 92 277 29 82 19 17 142 32 146 IS 172 22 39 35 37 54 46 182 140 411 131 20 60 ' 121 20 16 27 107 171 167 153 38 136 39 31 117 36 117 86 12l 31 Vi 125 117 109 25 3S 170 170 8 91 26 .12 3.1 23 33 56 112 31 81 43 22 172 91 83 51 llSVs 64 48 4 14 .18 82 V Central Leathac. S0O 29 Ches ft Ohio ... .1,500 o-iii Chi Gt West ... 1.500 10 C. M ft St Paul. 1.000 107 Chicano 4 N W 100 ,142ii Col, Fuel & Iron 300 32 Consol Gas .... 300 146'i Corn Products.. 500 1 5 vi Del & Hudson.. 200 173Vi D R Grande.. 200 23 Vi do preferred. Distillers' Securl 3.700 86 Erie 6.400 87 H do 1st pf .... 10t 54 do 2d pf . ... , 500 46' Gen Eleatrlc ' 000 1S3 Gt North Pf .... 3.300 141, Gt North Ore .. MO 46 Ti Illinois Central. 100 131V, Interbor Met .. 2,70 20, do preferred.. 1.20O 60 Inter Hsrvester. 100 121 ? Inter Marine pf. ' "HO 20 Int Paper l.ioo IrtTt Int Pump l'W 27 ' K C Southern.. 700 2S Laclede Gas Lehigh Valley.. 2,000 171 i Louis & Nash.. 4O0 16S M. S P S S M 300 154 Mo. Kan & Tex. 300 3S Nat Biscuit .T. ' 100 137 National Lead.. 200 60 N Ry Mex a pf N Y Central... 1.10O 1 117S N Y Ont Wes 1.600 36 Norfolk West 1.300 11S North American 3.400 Srt Northern Pac .. 3.700 130 Pacific Mall Pennsylvania ... 4.400 123 People's Gas ... 100 117Vj P. C C ft St L. . 200 110 Pittsburg Coal.. 21.000 26 Pressed 5 Car.. oo 3 Pull Pal Car .. 700 170Vi Reading 21.400 171 Rrp Iron ft Steel 1.40" 2R"4 do preferred.. 1.50O nii. Rock Island Co. 40i 2H; do preferred.. 1.100 32Vi St L A S F 2 pf 100 85 Seaboard Airline 200 24 do preferred.. S0O 53 Vi Sloss Sheffield .. 1.60O 56 Southern Pacific BOO 112 Southern P.y ... 2.0O0 31H do preferred.. 70rt SI Tenn Copper ... 2.600 43 170 167 153 3S 137 60 in" 36 117 8.1 129 124 117 109 37 170 170 28 26 .12 3.-. 23 32 .16 112 31 81 42 Texas ft Pacific. Union Pacific . . 8.900 173 172 do preferred. . U S Realty .... 100 R4 fi V S Rubber ... 400 51 514 U S Steel 29.200 74 73 do preferred.. 300 113 113 Utah Copper ... 7,400 64Vi 63V4 Va-Caro Cbem J. . . . . ..... Wabash -.... ..... ..... do preferred... Western Md ... 1.000 59 5S Westing Elec .' . S.IOO S! S7 881. :si4 Wheel ft L E.. -1.300 Total sales for tho da: 6 6 0 355.400 shares. Stocks at Boston. BOSTON, Aug. 20. Closing quotations: Allouez 46 Mohawk 67 87;.Vevada Con .... 22 30 jNlpissinr Mines. 7 5'Vorth Buttn 30 7 North Lake 5 Amalg Copper., A Z L ft Sm... Arizona Com B ft C C & S M. Cnl ft Arizona.. 77Old Dominion... .19 Cal ft Hecla....540 iOsceol ..118 ..91 Centennial 22 KJulncy Cop Ran Con Co 58 Shannon 16 B BUlte t-Op Jd. l.vfl luijenur Franklin 11 I tp ft Bos Mln.. 2 Glroux Con .... 5 Tamarack 42 Granby Con ... foU S S R ft M... 43 Greene Cananea. 10 I do preferred... 4 I Royalle (Cop) 36!utoh Con 12 irerr Lake 2. Utah Copper Co. 63 Lake Copper.... 35 Winona 5 La Salle Copper 6 Wolverine 106 Miami copper... 29 Money, Exchange, Etc. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Money on call steady 23 per cent: ruling rate, 2 per cent; closing bid, 2 per cent; offered at 3 per cent. ... Time loans steady: for 60 days, 8 per cent: for 90 days. 4 per cent: for six months, S?i Per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5WC Per cent. Pterllng exchange steady, with actual busi ness lr bankers' bills at $4.8430 for 60-day Mils and at $4.8715 for demand. Commercial bi.'u. $4.83. Bar silver, 62c Mexican dollara, 48 c. LONDON, - Aug. 20. Bar silver steady; 2Sd per ounce. Money 1 per cent. The rate of discount in the open market for short bills Is 3 per cent; for three months' bills. 3 per cent. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20. Sterling on London. 60 daye. $4.83; do sight, $4.86. Silver bars, 62c Mexican dollars, nominal. Drafts, sight, 1 per cent; do telegraph, 4 per cent. . SAN I'ltANCISCO PRODUCE MARKET Prices Quoted at the Bay City for Vegre tables, limits, Etc SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. The follow ing produce prices were current here today: Fruit Apples, choice. 73c; common. 40c; Mexican limbs. $5 65-50: California lemons, choice,' $6; common, $2: pineapples, $2 2.75. Cheese Young America, 1315c. Butter Fancy creamery. 33c -Eggs Store, 25c: fancy ranch. 30c Vegetables Cucumbers, 1533c; garlic, 2fc3Vc: green peas, S5c; string beans, 73c?i$l."25: tomatoes. 2573c; eggplant, 33S60c; onions. 50865c. Mlllstuffs Bran, $25.50(526; middlings, $35?3. Hay Wheat. $12iS'21.50: wheat and oats, $1920: barley. $14617; alfalfa. $11 13.50. Receipts Flour. 9706 quarter sacks; wheat. 310 centals: barley. 6400 centals: oats. 960 centals: potatoes, 3975 sacks; hay, 3SS tons; wool, 136 bales. Coffee Futures at New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Coffee futures closed etesdy and from 6 to 15 points net higher. August. 12.8Sc: September, 12.93c; October. 12.96c; November, 12.96c: Decem ber 13.00c: January and February. 13.02c; ,9 n - inHI 1 n rlc Mnv 13.09c: June, 13.07c; July. 13.04c. Spot, firm. Rio 7s. 14c; Santos 4s 13c; mild, quiet; Cor dova. 16ei7c; Metal Market at New York. - NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Copper firm: standard spot and August, 17.25(517.50: Sep tember 17.37 Q 17.50; October. 17.3017.50; electrolytic. 17; lake, 17; casting, 17 ttl" V.. Lead firm. 4.504.60. Spelter quiet. 7.0.1 7.13. ' Antimonv quiet. Cooksons. S.60. Iron firm; No. 1 Northern, 16.50 17.00; No. 2 Northern. 16.00 18 16.73; No. 1 South ern and No. 1 Southern soft, 16.25itJ16.75. Tin firm. Spot, 46.30tf 47.00; August, 46.30 6 46.00; September, 46.25lj40.60. NEW YORK. Aug. 2i. Copper arrivals at Xew York, 70 tons. Exports this month, 14, 738 tons. London copper firm. Spot and futures, 78 17s 6d. London tin firm. Spot 211 15s: futures. 209 10s. Sales on the local exchange, 23 tons. London lead. 19 10. London spelter, 26 10s. Iron, Cleveland warrants. 61s 9d. Hop, Etc., at New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. Hops, steady. Hides, firm. Petroleum, steady. Wool, quiet. Raw sugar, firm. Muscovado. S9 test. 3.554 3.61c: centrifugal. 96 test. 4.03'9 4.11c; molasses, 89 test. 3.30&3.36c. Refined, steady. Has at Duluth. Dl'I.I'TH. Aug. 20. Linseed on track and In ssorc. $1.S7: to arrive, $1.83: September. $1.82 nominal: October, $1.72 bid:' Novem ber, $1.71 Hskid. F I ASTORIA EXGIYEER SUBMITS APPENDIX TO REPORT. Plans for Improvement of Harbor and' AVaterfront Comprehensive and Costly. ASTORIA, Aug. 20. (Special.) In connection with Astoria's proposed har bor'and waterfront improvements, Paul Whitham. engineer for the Port of Astoria Commission, recently prepared a set of maps and detailed plans which provide for the construction of 19 lineal miles of wharves, exclusive of piers and quays in the district between Tongue Point and Fort Stevens, but including Young's Bay. These projects were divided into what were termed initial and subse quent improvements, the former designed to be undertaken in the im mediate future and the latter when the demands of commerce require them. These plans were included in a report which has been approved by the com mission. Mr. Whitham has now pre pared an appendix to that report in which he makes an estimate of the cost of each of the suggested initial . im provements. It is as follows: Project No. 1. This improvement is for a public wharf and motor-boat landing at the foot of Fifteenth street. It includes a wharf 50 feet long with a sheet bulkhead, driveways and two sheds. Its cost is estimated as fol lows: Bulkhead. 555 lineal feet' at $20 a foot. $11,100; wharf platform, 36.970 square feet at 50 cents, $18,485; shed, 3700 square feet, at 65 cents, $2405; open shed, 4000 square feet at 40 cents, $1600; log floats. 1050 square feet, at $1.50 a foot, $1575; seven stairways at $50 each, $350; contingencies, $4485; total cost, $40,000. ' Project No. 2. This improvement fs designed to provide accommodations for deer-sea craft at Smith's Point. It in eludes a quay 1400 feet long and 120 feet wide with a shed 90 by 800 iret with driveways and railroad tracks on the north and at the rear, while back of the shed is to be a fire-proof ware house 100 by 500 feet. The cost, ex clusive of the warehouse, but includ ing the filling in of six acres of land, is estimated as follows: Wharf, 1500 lineal feet at $50 a foot, $75,000; shed, 800 lineal feet, at $60 a foot. $48,000; training wall, 2300. lineal feet at $20 a foot. $46,000; railroad tracks, 8000 lineal feet at $3.50 a foot, $28,000; plank roadway, 3000 lineal feet at $10 a foot, $30,000; fill, 541,440 cubic feet at 15 cents, $82,000; contingencies. $31,000; total cost, $340,000. Skipanon Waterway In providing for the improvement of the Skipanon waterway, two plans are suggested: one is for dredging a channel 16 feet deep at low tide and 150 feet wide on the bottom, while the other is for the same depth of channel but only 100 feet wide. The engineer, however, recommends that the wider channel be built. For the 150-foot channel the cost Is estimated as follows: 885,000 cubic yards of excavation at 15 cents, $132, 750; 7000 lineal feet of bulkhead at $15 a foot, $105,000; contingencies, $27,250; total. $265,000. For the 100-foot channel, the esti mated cost is: 708.000 feet of excava tion at 15 cents, $106,200; 7000 lineal feet of bulkhead at $15 a foot. $105,000; contingencies. $25,800: total, $237,000. Floating Drydock A ' modern well equipped drydock, capable of docking a 5000-ton vessel, should not cost over $200,000. A recently-constructed float ing dock capable of handling a 10,000- ton vessel, is reported as having cost approximately $400,000. The dock at St. Johns, owned by the Port of Port land, which is rated as having a lifting capacity of 10.000 tons, is said to hsve cost $364,000, Including real estate. This Is intended to give a general idea of the probable cost of a floating dock. Dredgers At a river port there Is continually more or less dredging re quired, consequently it may prove' an advantage for the port to own and op erate a dredge. A moderate-sized hydraulic dredge, fully equipped, with a capacity, in sand, of from 8000 to 10,000 cubic yards per day, should not cost over $125,000, including towboats, pontoons and piping. "BORAX" SMITH SURPRISED Nevada Man Notes Possibilities of Southwestern Oregon. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 20. (Special.) Among the visitors of note to Klamath Fa3 is William A. Smith, president of the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, more familiarly known as "Borax" Smith from his interests in the borax mines of Nevada, Mr. Smith came by automobile and will visit Har riman Lodge and Crater Lake before his return. He expressed surprise at the possi bilities he sees in this country for farming, lumbering. Summer tourist travel and in other lines, and says that the reality exceeds the expecta tions he had formed. John R. .Moore, County Judge, and R, M. Johnson, County Attorney, of Anderson County, Texas, are also here looking over the ground for possible investments. They will a.lep see the beauties of the scenery around the Upper Lake and the Crater before re turning. ' To parties planning to visit this sec tion by automobile, it is suggested that the trip be made from the north by way of Bend, Or., rather than by way of Medford, as the road over the Cas cades is a difficult one to ascend from the west side, and very easy of ascent from the east side. If it is desired to visit the valleys of the Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette, this can be done on the return trip, going down from Crater Lake to Medford, thence north. Visitors from the south should come to Klamath Falls, and then take the trip over the mountains by way of Medford. going as far north as they choose, returning across the Siskiyous by way of Ashland, for the same rea son. Both mountain chains are more Easily crossed this way. HOGS GO TO 89.25 Grays Harbor Shipment Sets Season's Record. CATTLE MARKET FIRM, TOO Swine Raising Industry in North west Gets Much Encouragement by Recent High Prices. Mutton Weak. Hogs went to 19.25 at the local stock yards yesterday a new high level for the season. The record -hreakers were received here yesterday morninc from the Grays Harbor Commercial Company, of Hoqulam, and were raised in that vicinity. As a living proof of the (act that there is a constant and steady demand or Northwestern pork stock at better than market prices this lot of hoirs Is considered sufficient to satisfy even the most skeptical. A has been asserted quite frequently ot late that packers are willing to pay better than nominal rates for hogs grown in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho. They always are sure- of paying the full market price. Although the hog-raising Industry has been given considerable impetus In the last few years the high prices paid for Oregon stock last week and for Washington products yes terday is expected to encourage farmers of the Northwest even further. The lowest price paid for hogs yesterday was $8. which went to a lot of 12 averaging 302 pounds in weight. The market la ex ceedingly firm. Cattle continue to hoid firm, a pair of 1200-pound staers yesterday going to $6.$5. The cattle market was strong in all lines. As on the previous day there was no activ ity in the mutton division. Aeceipts yesterday were: 115 cattle. 2 calves. 166 hogs and 60 horses and mules. Among yesterday's shippers were: W. C. Eddon. Terrebonne. 3 cars of cattle; M. T. Sherrltt, Drain, 1 car of cattle and calves; Utah Construction Company, Matin, Utah, 3 cars cf horses and mules, and Grays Har bor Commercial Company, 2 cars of hogs. Yesterday's sales were aa fellows: Weight. Price. 3 steers ., 1213 15.75 2 steers 1200 6.S5 2 steers 1120 6.50 1 cow 920 3.50 6 cows ...................... .1015 5.75 X cows 9S6 4.73 5 cows 96 4.00 S calves 395 6.00 2 cows 1O10 4.00 12 hogs 352- 8 00 19 hogs 240 8.50 135 hogs 201 9.25 The range of prices at the yards was as follows: Choice steers $6.75'? $7.00 Good steera 6.00a 6.65 Medium steers 3.75 6.00 Choice cows 3.75W 6.00 Good oows 5.."0-i 5.7,1 Medium cows 3.00 'f? 5.50 Choice calves 7.U0 8.0O Good heavy calves .onj 6.50 Bull 3.30 Sj. 5.00 Stags 4.73 6.00 Hogs. . Light -.. 5.00 9.25 Heavy 6.25'd' 7.5U Sheep Tearlings 3.fl0i 4.00 Wethers 3.00 4.60 Ewes 2.S.-.I8 3.75 Lambs 4.00 5.25 Omaha Cattle Market. SOUTH OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. 20. Cattle Receipts. 5000: market steady. Native steers, 5.7rif7 10.:iO: cows and heifers. $3. 25 37. 7.1; Western steers. $0.00 -9.30 : Texas steers. $4.50 i&i 6.30; cows and heifers, J3.00(ffi7.0O; canners, $2.7.14.00; Blockers and feeders, $4.00!S7.7S: calve.", $1.258.25; bulls, stags, etc.. $4.00fi5.7.1. Hogs Receipts, 7200; market steady. Heavv. $7.00Si S15: mixed, $8.0P5 8.1.1: light, ss.iofc x.:i.i: pigs. $U.50Hj7.50; bulk of sales, $8.00 '8. 15. Sheep Receipts. 2.1.00O; market slw. Feeders, flow; fed muttons, $4.50 5.25; wethers. $S.50ra4.25; ewes, $3.O03.65; lambs, $3.50&6.75. Chicago Livestock Receipts. CHICAGO. Aug. 20. Cattle Receipts. 1500; market steady. Beeves, $5.85a 10.50: Texas steers. $3.00i-65: Western. JSS.t 8.70; stockers and feeders. $4. 2.141 7.30: cows and heifers, f 2.U5'8.15; calves, 6.30a.l5. Hogs Receipts, 9600: market steady. Light, ss.iofi 9.72 : .mixed. $7.R.1'g:S.70; heavy, $7.701 8.60; rough, $7.70f7.90; pigs, $0.75ifiS.2o: bulk of sales, $S.15fi)S.5.1. jjl,ep Receipts, 2500; market steady. Native- $3.2.1'i 4.25: Western. 53. 2oig 4.2.1; year Unas. $:i.uiii 5.2.1; lambs, native, $4.407.00; Western, $4.:i0f 7.15. WHEAT SUPPLIES LOWER KRALSTREETS F1XD 1,0 7 2,000 DECREASE IX WEEK. Canadian and Western Crops Re duced While Floating Stock Is Absorbed Oats Supply Grows. NEW TORK. Aug. 20. Special cable and telegraphic communications received by Bradstreets show the following changes in available supplies, as compared with previ ous account: Available supplies: Bushels. Wheat, United states east of the Rockies, inrreased United States west of the Rockies, decreased Canada, decreased Total United States and Canada, ef-rensed ....................... 517.000 5S.OO0 731,000 272.000 Afloat for and in Europe.' decreased SOO.OOO Total American and European sup plies, decreased 1,072,000 Corn. United States and Canada, de creased 735,000 Oats. United States and Canada, in creased 293,000 SEATTLE CHAMBER "ACTS Commercial Body Would Head Off Gold Going1 to San Francisco. SEATTLE. Wash., Aug-. 20. In order to divert Alaska gold from the San Francisco nint, where it is firoing in great quantities because no fee is col lected there, while a rate of $1.25 a thousand is exacted at the Government assay office here, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce today decided to pay a differential of 75 cents a thousand on all Alaska gold deposited in tne Se attle assay office. This differential together with the 50 cents express charges on gold shipped to San Francisco will offset the as saying fees and bankers and business men believe that the stream of gold, which for more than a year has been flowing to San Francisco, instead of to Seattle, will be turned into that city again. When you think of Newberg hereafter classify it in your mind as a progres sive city. It has adopted bitulithic as the best pavement with which to im nrove her streets. Call at room 700 Journal bldg. for "Bitulithic WHYS." lumbersv5ens National Bank : 1 BONDS Yielding 5 to 6 Per Cent Capital - - 1,000,000 First National Capital Surplus Oldest National Rocky LADD & TILTON BANK Established 1859, Capital Stock Surplus and Undivided Profits........ Commercial and Letters of credit, drafts and able in all parts of the vorld. OFFICERS VF.ti. Lniti, IVestdent. Robert S. Howard, Asst. Casfcle EdTrard Cookinsham. VtcePrea. W. Ladri, At. Cnsbtir. W. H. Duncitley. Caahlcr. Walter M. Cook. AmU Cafcle& The Canadian Bank of Commerce INCORPORATED 1SIS7. -Toronto. Canada. New York 16 Exclmnse rlace. London 2 Lombard Street. Head Office Over three hundred other branches in the United States and Una. a. EveVy care taken of collections. Drafts pn all foreign countries and prindipa cities in United States and Canada bought, and sold, and a general banking business transacted. Interest allowed onTime and Special Deposits. PORTLAND BRANCH, SECOND AND STARK STREETS F. C. MALFAS, Manager. The record of years of satis faction of BAEBER asphalt: compels- the at tention pf ob servant tax payers. It sets the stan d a r d by which all other street pavements are judged. J.C.WILSON&CO. STOCKS, BOXDS, GRAIN AXD COTTON MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE, CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. THE STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE, SAN FRANCISCO. PORTLAND OFFICE: -Main Floor Lumbermens --Bank Bldg. Fifth and Stark. Phones Marshall 4120 A 4187. TRAVKLEIIS' Ct'IDE. SHORT LINE 19 DAYS IS DAYS nlpn-ntecf nnrl mciR mmfnrtublc of ell OCC.in VOy- jyres trip arrosJ the Pacific to the Antipodes. Splendid Manners "SONOMA" and "VENTURA", 10,000 tons displacement. 44 davs San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, and back, with a day at HONOLULU each ay. stops at PANG0 PANG0 (SAMOA) and six days at SYDNEY, the most beautiful and healthful city in the world. For rest, recreation andpleasure no other trip compares with this. Stevenson said of Samoa, "No part of the world cterts the same attractive power upon the visitor. Round trip rates, 1st class, from San Frann'co: HONOLULU $110: SAMOA $240; SYDNEY $30(1. R0UN0 THE WORLD $W0 1st cabin; $375 Sd cabin, via Ceyion Ecypt, Italy, etc. LiberaUton-overs. Sailings every two weeks: Aue.13, 'u, Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8. etc. "Write or wire X0JV for berths. OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO.. 673 ktokrt St. Sin Frinckeo NEW YORK - PORTLAND REGULAR FREIGHT SERVICE. Low Rates. Schedule Time. AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN S. S. CO, 215 Railway tulianje BidK Portland, Or. Main 83TS. A 3022. COOS BAY LINE STEAMSHIP BREAKWATER Sails from Ainsworth Dock, Portland, at 8 A. M, July 24, 29; August , 8, 13 IS, 23. 8. Freight received- at Ainsworth Dock daily hp to 5 P. M. Passenger fare first-class, 10; second class, J7, including berth and meals. Ticket office Ainsworth Docit. PUon&s iivain 3600, A 2332. CBR1F Bank $1,500,000 900,000 Bank West of the Mountains . $1,000,000.09 800,000.09 Savings Accounts travelers checks issued, avail TRAVELERS GUIIE. nnnii AMERICA In the World Larsett S.S. Co- 1.210.000 TOSS Atlantic Service London, Paris, Hamburg Knlserin Auk. Vic.Auk. 2, 11 A.M. Pres. Lincoln Auk. 31, 12 noon Cleveland Sept.. 5, 12 noo (I'atricla Sipt. 7, 3 P. JI. r Hamburg direct. Second cabin only. ' - MEDITERRANEAN GIBRALTAR, NAPLES. GENOA. S. S. MOLTKE OCTOBER 1,1P.M. S. 8. Cincinnati. ..Nov. 2, 12 noon TWO IDEAL CRUISES AROUND THE INLAND EXCURSIONS and SIDE TRIPS WORLD IS DAYS IN JAPAN 18 DAYS IN INDIA From New York i From San Franrlsco OCT. 19, 1112. 1 I'IB. 6. 11)13. VI. S. S. CLEVELAND "j, DURATION OF EACH CRUISE 110 DAYS 650 j I Including all rieee.i ? 1 rary expenses anoar 1 up ami ashore, railway hotel, shore excursions, carriages, guides, feea. etc. Write for booklet of any cruise. Steamer Anvil Sails from Coucli-Strcct Dork wetlncsuny. Aueust 21. 7 r. M. For Newport, Florence and Kandou. Freight and l'ussenscrs. Frank Bollam. City Ticket Agent. 12S Third. Phones Main ti2S. A 4.i'.)tl. C. E. Brown, Frt. and Pass. Agt., Couch- St. Dock. Phnnec M iin Will. A 41111. San Francisco, Los AnjelsJ and kn Diego Birecl S. S. Roanoke and S. S. Elder Sail Every Wednesday Alternately at 6 P. JL NORTH PACIFIC S. S. CO. 122 A Third St. l'honen Main 1314. A 1311 rww is ira ' a EXPKESS STEAMERS FOR Ean Francisco and Los Angeles WITHOUT CHANGE S. S. BEATER, 8 A. M., August 20. THE SAN FRAN. PORTLAND 8. 8. CO. licket Ofllce 142 Ihird Mreet. l'lioue Main g05. A 1402. Drain to Cogs Bay Auto Every Day. Wire Heervationa ta O. MATTOON, Drain, Or. I HAMBURG - AMERICAN 3 LINE I I Powell St . San KrRnrisco. ""'! 3 6.-W. K & S. Co.. Nor. Pacific, f, 3 Route. Milwaukee & Pncet f" Sound B- Great North- IJ ern Railway Co.. Dorsi-y Of Y B. Smith, li!) Fifth St.. Af A Portland, Or. yf iQv Copyright. 11)12. yft'