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17 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST f9, 1914. WAR ONLY GOULD STUNT SUNNYSIDE ft Would Need Be Universal Conflict, at That, Thinks Addison Bennett.. VIEWS OF THRIVING TOWN OF SUNNYSIDE CITY PIVOT OF PROSPERIT In Addition to Canning and Cream cry .Industries, Wealthy, Pro durtive Irrigated District Con tributes to Importance. BT ADDISON BENNETT. srXXYSJ.DE, Wash.,' Aug. 18. Sun nyside Is not on the main line of the Northern Pacific, but on a branch tha runs in from Sunnyslde Junction, 12 miles west of here. The town is on the north side of the Yakima River and about SO miles southeast of North Yakima. Practically every resident of Oregon and Washington has heard about Sun nyside, owing to an irrigation project which Is one of the oldest or me im portant enterprises of that sort in Washington, and perhaps the most suc cessful of any with which the reclama tlon service has ever been connected This project, however, was many years old when the Government took it over In 190S. It was begun in the late '80s or early '90s as a sort of foster child of the Northern Pacific Railway. The Northern Pacific, Yakima & Kittitas Irrigation Company started it. This company watered some of the land hereabouts as early as lf93. Like many sreat irrigation undertakings this met troublous times and in 1899 the com pany sold out to Portland capitalists and the name was changed to the Washington Irrigation Company; this company sold out in 1906 to the Gov ernment and was added by the reclama tion buriau to what is called the Yak ima irrigation project, being what is known as the Sunnyslde unit of the Yakima project. Project Is Extensive. This and its allied projects cover lands practically from the Cascades to the Columbia, a distance ol more tnan liO miles, and embrace the major por tlon of a territory from a mile to more than 25 miles in width. And the irri gated area ' is rapidly growing, this year thousands of acres being added. The Tieton project, which one hears so much about, is a portion of the Yakima project in reality. Tt is only Just to the reclamation service to say that a work to be proud of has been done in this portion of Washington. The prices for water have averaged around 350 an acre, and the yearly maintenance fee is only $1 an acre. Under the present law those who purchase water rights have 20 years in which to pay and no Interest. Adding the annual payment to the maintenance fee makes only $3.50 a year, which is a charge that the reclamation officials may well be proud of. For it must be remembered the work has all been done in a first-class and permanent manner. I see no reason why the 2000 or 3000 square miles in the territory men tioned, with Sunnyslde practically in the heart of the entire area, should, not at a near date be one of the most pros perous and populous agricultural and mineral industry sections In the United States. I have not mentioned fruit, but when the section is fully de veloped that will be one of the profit able occupations also. But I look for the intensive, diversified farmer to take the blue' ribbons and rake In the faekles. No town in the West has a finer lo cation than Sunnyslde. The business and older residence districts are on the level bottom land, which is high enough for good drainage, but just west of town a stretch of high ground, run ning to an elevation of 200 or 300 feet, offers to the homebuilder as fine sites as can be found anywhere In an agri cultural country. This hill is prob ably a mile wide at the base and stretches from the city streets a couple of miles to the west, where it is only separated by a narrow canyon from a larger and higher eminence further west. Splendid Hn Numerous. On this Nob Hill there are already a good many splendid homes. The streets are all laid out, graded and macadamized and the water system covers every foot of it I mean the ir rigation system and nearly all of it Is under the city water system. The view from this eminence is in deed an inspiring one. In every di rection for- six7or-sven miles it is a picture of f tries farms and orchards with beautiful buildings. The tracts are all small, making it more like an urban than a rural landscape. And remem ber that in 1S82, when the Northern Pacific was built through here, look ing from this same point one would have gazed upon nothing but a. barren waste of sagebrush. It would have been considered a crime then for a man even to maintain that the land had any value whatever. Remember, also, that it was the officials of the Northern Pacific who organized the company that put on the first water and started the country on the road to what it is and what it is to become. Two Banks In City. There are two banks, the oldest, started about 1902. being the First Na tional. It has a capital of $50,000. sur plus of $5500 and undivided profits of $5523, and deposits of $164,351. Its president is R- C. McCredie. cashier H. A. Boon. The Sunnyslde Bank wars started in 1907. Its capital Is $50,000, surplus $18,000, undivided profits $."M5. jnd deposits of $132,409. R K. Page Is president, C. Vincent Cook cashier. The most important Industry In the (wn. from many points of view, is the MacLaughlin cannery. There Is a co operative cannery also, of which Mr. MacLaughlin has been the manager. This plant will soon be in operation. It promises to be a successful concern. The first mentioned is a new plant. built on the site of one operated by the same company last year. There are 85 girls and 29 men at work canning Bartlett pears. The wage of the girls is from $9 to $12 a week, of the men something more, making the payroll now about $1000 a "week. They are now using about nine tons of pears a day. They pay from $25 to $35 a ton. while boxed Bartletts ready for ship ping are selling in nearby markets for $20 a ton, a cent a pound. This can nery will put up something like 300 tons. They will also put up peaches, apples and tomatoea During the next few months they will install an ice and cold storage plant, so that hereafter they can also put up jams, jellies, etc. and manufacture vinegar and fruit Juices. Product Sold Before Canned. This company puts up nothing on a venture everything Is sold before the opening of the season and shipped as aoon as canned. So they know just where they stand every night. The guiding spirit of the plant, R. I. Mc aughlln. is certainly doing a great 'iff iff BMinill! JUTE PRICES RISE Burlap Scarcity Is One Result of War. HOP CLOTH AND BAGS HIGH TOP, CONGREGATION Ali CHURCH ( MIDDLE. STREET SCENEj BOTTOM, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. work for Sunnyside and the entire Northwest. If each fruit center had a uccessful cannery like the McLaughlin oncern, the half of the fruitgrowers' worries would be over. And not only the fruitgrowers', but the gardeners'. or it is known that the growers of tomatoes can, at least around here, raise from 15 to 20 tons an acre and the MacLaughlin plant Is to pay $12 ton for several hundred tons this Fall. There is a large creamery here which s doing well, and the dairy cows are apldly increasing. Also the corn areetr- The whole country is dotted over with cornfields, and I never saw finer corn i in my life. Many of the fields will ck mark"ets Iurther East. in the spot quotation to 6.2 for American middling and quoted January-February 22 points lower at 0.8, while the market at Augusta, Ga., was 4c lower at 10 c for old and 9c for new crop cotton, and local spot market was nominal In the absence of transactions. Japan was reported a buyer In the Southwest, but domestic mills still are said to be buying- only in small scatter ing lqts. HIGH PRICES PREVAIL FOB HOGS Demand Is Good, With Receipts Light and Consequent Steady Market. Hogs continue the feature of livestock trading at the Union Stockyards. The re ceipts yesterday were small and prices ruled steady, with $U.0O paid for tne top. Port land was still higher for negs than live- ndoubtedly yield more than 100 bush Is an acre. It has been shown that corn and alfalfa hereabouts yield & roflt to the landowners of about $35 an acre. Three years ago Sunnyside shipped two carloads of scrub hogs, two years ago there were eight cars sent out. tiring the last 12 months there were shipped 67 carloads of corn-fed porkers, and the increase the coming year will probably be more than 100 per cent. Do not these figures Indicate pros perity? Sunnyside has a good weekly news paper, the Sunnyside Sun, Yancey Free man being responsible for It. The Sun has a splendid office, and it is turning out a large amount of first-class work. The paper has a prosperous look and belongs to the better class of country weeklies. Saloon Never Possessed. Sunnyside never had a saloon. I was told that none of the older residents knows what liquor or beer tastes like. Anyhow, If they do they did not learn here, for the town is as dry as Sahara, and then some. I do not know if there is any connection of the two subjects, but there are nine churches here, most of them having fine buildings Baptist, Christian, Congregational. Dunkard. Episcopal, Free Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian and Progres sive Brethren. As to schools the Sun nyside people say they have as good a school system as any town in the West. There are 825 pupils In the schools. The buildings are as fine as any I have seen pn the trip. There are two hotels here, the Sunny sldefand the Planters. I stopped at the latter, with that well-known boniface, W. H. Wright. He knows how to run a hotel. Indeed, the Planters is as good a house as I have found on the trip. There are also several good restaurants and good rooming-houses. Sunnyside is in the Immediate center of an irrigated area of about 60,000 acres of as good land as can be found anywhere. The climate is superb, there is plenty of water, the people arc of a fine class, the town has a good start, the finances of the people and the mu nicipality are in good shape if It does not make one of the best cities along the Northern Pacific, and if it is not about as good a district for the incom ing settler to make a home in for the bringing up of his family the while he prospers in a financial way well, if all of these things do not come about It will be because of universal war, pesti lence or famine. Other livestock was steady at unchanged prices. Among the shippers were the following: With cattle J. V. Holt, Lostlne, 3 cars; Ward & Harrington, Ontario, 2 cars. h WItn sheep i. Matnein. rillisooro, l car; 11. smun, lamnili, cars; i. fi. rest, i tvui- hill. 2 .cars; S. J. Koser, 1 car; W. "A. Durkey, 1 car; Kiter, Corvallis, 1 car. With mixed loads Frank Brown. 2 cars hogs and sheep. Sales were as follows: Wt. Price.)44 hogs 191 $9.30 1 hog 280 $8.0i 4 hogs ....265 9.35 14 hogs 170 B.4012 yrllngs .. 89 8.00 8 hogs .... 193 9.50153 yriings ' . . 95 4.50 8 hogs ....197 .S0 33 ewes ....112 3.50 18 hogs 197 9.50 Current pricas of the various classes of stock at the yards follows: Prime steers Extreme Shortage Already Exists and United States Is Cut Off From Calcutta, Source of World's Supply. An extreme shortage of Jute and burlap In the United States, due to the curtailment f imports by the European war, has been reported to Portland dealers and prices have advanced here considerably as a result. The outlook Is serious in regard to burlap hop cloth, a large supply of which will be required to market the coming crop. Hop men were looking for the cargo on board the Monmouthshire, due to arrive here early next month, but she Is held at Yokohama. Burlap, the cheapest fabric known and one of the most useful, is by way of becom ing more aristocratic. Oat bags, which were 7'4 cents last week, are now quoted at 9 cents each. Wheat Dags nave aa vanced locally from 8 to 8H cents, and tome dealers ask 8. Burlap, which was quoted at M anil 4 cents a yard in New Tork markets before the war. is now o cents a yard, or 1 cent an ounce. Burlap Is used extensively as backing for linoleum, and as a result of the sharp advance in price, manufacturers of linoleum have an nounced tbelr prices are subject to change without notice. Heavy cotton goods are coming Into use In the East as a substotute for burlap. During the first two weens oi August. 14.000.000 yards of this material had been brought into use to do the work of taurlnn. When it is realized that under nor- Jmal conditions. 63.000,000 yards of burlap comes into New i ork every monin. n. m be seen how quickly the continued demand for- nunc cotton goods as a substitute would change conditions in the cotton mar Wet. The American market is now estimated to be short about 60.000.000 yards of Duriap Tk. imnnrted to the Atlantic Coast every year no less than 730.000.000 yards. and 41.000.000 yards come to the Pacific fount. The New York imports supply bur- ion for various lines of manufacture on the Atlantic Coast. besides furnishing large for the Middle West. TUrbn hop cloth has already advanced here from 2i to 3 cents a yard, and is quoted at 15 cents. There will De mucn demand for this next montn tnrougnoui u Pacific Northwest, and California potato growers will require between 2.000.000 and 3,000.000 sacks between now ana tne eariy Winter. Several cars of supplies nave al ready been shipped from Portland to Cali- fnrnl:1 this month, but more win ue in quired, and with such short stocks, it is a question how tne .-sorrnwesi. nm meet their own requirements. Burlap prom ises to be Increasingly scarce and high un less the usual lines of commerce are re established soon. Fortunately, the bags necessary to r.oia the grain crop are already on hand. They are bought in March and April lor use i the Fall, and this requirement was taken care of before the war started. Calcutta is the source or tne worio s our ap From that city 50.000.000 or 60,000.000 .ards a month are sent to New York and nearly a like amount is wi nual export, to the Pacific Coast. Ships In the burlap Carrying trade to New York come through the Sues Canal and the Mediterra nean Sea. Cause of the shortage now exist ing In this country Is that three ships loaded with burlap were seised in the Med iterranean and are neia hi uimii'. , The probability of receiving runner aug ments soon is regarded as ,., feared in this country mat tne juie ...i... of India are closed and tne trace ueiuurn- ized. The W. C. Noon uag wmuauj a San Francisco representative of 10 Jute mills at Calcutta for advices as to prices and future deliveries, but the information was received that prices were withdrawn and he did not know that the mills were still running, for he had not been able to get Into communication with Calcutta since the end of July. f coming In, due to somewhat cooler weather. It was quoted at 14 cents. Hop Sales Are Reported. Renewed activity In the Oregon hop mar ket was reported yesterday, there being sales In the Salem and Sllverton districts. There was a sale of 244 bales .at Sllverton at 18 cents and 175 bales sold at Salem ut 17 cents. A contract for 250 bales was closed at Salem at 13 cents. The sales were spot hops. Sugar Market Continues Firm. Sugar prices were unchanged yesterday remaining firm at Monday's advance. Coat ings for candies were cent a pound higher to confectioners yesterday, but other sugar products are not yet advanced, ex cept candles, for the reason that Jobbers are waltiag for sugar to reach a settled basis. Bran Prices Are Advanced. Bran made a slight advance in the Port land market yesterday, the price now being $25. Bran Is scarce, there being none on hand- Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of' the Northwestern cit ies yesterday were as follows: Clearings. Portland $1,637,271 Seattle 2,0311.532 Tacoma 402.403 Spokane 531264 Balances. J122.D87 205,793 30,104 71,482 fOKTLtXD MARKET QUOTATIONS Choice steers . . Medium steers Choice cows Medium cows . Heifers Calves . . .$7.00 57.25 . . . 0.75 7.0" . . . 6.25 6.73 . . . 6.00& 6.25 . .m 5.25 5.75 . 5.50 6.00 Bulls 3.00 4. ,10 Stags 4.50 5.78 Hogs Light 9.25 9.50 Heavy 8.35 S.50 Sheep Wethers ......... 4.00 4.75 Ewes 3.50 4.25 Lambs 5.00 6.00 Current prices of tne various -lasses of stock at the yards follows: Grain. Flour, Feed, Etc. Merchants Exchange prices for August SeptemtKir delivery, seller's option: Wheat Bd. Asked. Bluestem 95 97 Fortyfold " 88 Red Russian 84 .... Club 10,000 bushels sold at 86 Oats 1 car No. 1 feed sold at $ $24.85 Bran 24.00 24.50 Barley 20.50 21.50 Shorts 100" tons sold at 25.50 HAY Old timot!:y. 1617; new-crop timothy. $13 15; grain hay, $s10; alfalfa. $11 12. CORN Whole, $35; cracked, 36 per ton. Staple Groceries. Local jobbing quotations: SALMON Columbia River one-pound talis. $2.25 per dozen; half-pound .iats. $1.4o; one. pound flats, 52.45; Alaska pjnk. one-pound tails, S5c; silversides. one-pound tails, 11.25. HONEY Choice. 3.50J.75 per case. NUTS Walnuts, 1420c per pound; Bra zil nuts, 16c; filberts, 1617c; almonds. 19 2Sc; peanuts. 66c; cocoanuts. 41 per dozen; chestnuts, 810c per pound; pe cans, 14lsc. BEANS Small white, Sc; larga waits, 5c; Lima, 8c; pink 5.35c; Mexican, 7c; bavou. 6c. COFFEE Roasted, In drums. 1837c per pound. SUGAR Fruit and berry, 4S.05; oeet, $7.S5; extra C, $7.85; powdered, In barrels. 8.30. to ALT Granulated. S15.50 per ton. half ground. 100s, S1U.75 per ton; 5'Js, $11.50 pe' ion; dairy. $1-1 per ton. RICE No. 1 Japan. 55c; Southern head, bi,;7c; island, 55c. DRIED FRUITS Apples, lui4lio per pound; apricots, 14ltc; peaches, sllc; prunes, Italians, iv12Vsc; currants, 9c; raisins, loose Muscatel. b7c; bleached Thompson, llfcc; unbleached Sultanas, 8c; seeded, 8c; dates, Persian, 77c par pound; fard $1.40 per box. FIGS Packages, 3-os., 50 to box. $1.93 package; 10-oz.. 12 to box, 80c; white, 25-ib. box, $1.75; black, 25-lb. box, $1.75; black, 30-Ib. bus, $2.50; black, 10-ib. box, $1.14, Calarab candy figs, 20-ib. box, $J; Smyrna, per box, $1.50. Fruits and Vegetables. Local Jobbing quotations: TROPICAL FBUITS Oranges, $1.7; 0 3 per box; lemons, $0.50 10.00 per box; ba nanas. 44e pel pound; grapefruit. Cali fornia, $2.753. VEGETABLES Cucumbers, 50c per box; eggplant, loc per pound; peppers, 710c per pound, head lettuce, $1.7o per crate; arti chokes, $1 per dozen; tomatoes, 5065c per crate; cabbage, 19A 2c per pound; peas, 5 6c per pound, beans. 46e per pound; coru. $1 per sack; celery, 35 75c per dozen. ONIONS Yellow, $1.25 per sack. UKEEN FRUITS Apples, new. 75c$: box; cantaloupes, 50c$1.40 per crate, peaches, 5075c per box; plums, 60cl; watermelons, 60T5c per hundred; cas&bas. 92.50 per dozen; pears, $12 per box; grapes. 76c$8 per crate. POTATOES Oregon, 11o psr lb.; sweet potatoes, 4c. The First National Bank Fifth and Morrison Streets. Capital and Surplus - $3,500,000 Interest Paid on Savings and Time Deposits Security Savings and Trust Company Fifth and Morrison Streets Capital and Surplus - - $400,000 THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of San Francisco. Founded 1864 Capital Paid In $8,500,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits V .$8,26(3,347.60 Commercial Banking aud Savings Departments PORTLAND BRANCH , Third and Stark Streets Dairy aud Country produce. L.ocal jobbing quotations: tGGS Fresh Oregon ranch, case count. 2'6&2ic, candled, 20to27c per dozen. 1'CXJL.TKY Hens, lilac; Jipringi. 164j-17c, turkeys, J0c; dressed, choice, j-c; uucks. 10-llc; Pekins, J.2(ic; geese, iuc. y TThK Lrcamti 3 unuui, eu 0.0, per pound; cubes. 81c. LhCCi''jLl-'!clU!1 indicia, juuucio UUJ price, loVac per pouua 1. o. u. aoct Port land; Young America, 10Vc per pound. PORK. $iock, J.-C per puuuu. VEAL Fancy, 14t&14VaC per found. LADD & TILTON BANK CstnUK; hed U4SV. Capital and Surplus $2,000,000 Commercial and Savings Deposits WHEAT PRICES RISE Advance of Five Cents Made at Chicago. EXPORTERS GIVE STRENGTH 5o Prlm.e steers . . ChoJce steera . . Medium steers Choice cows . . Medium cows . Heifers Calves Bulls Stags Hogs Light Heavy Sheep Wethers Ewes Lambs .T M 47.23 . 6..S 7.00 . 8.1C tt 6.T5 . 6.00 6.25 . 5.80(9 )!) . 6.000 S ? 8.009 4.5 . 4.S0O 5.75 . . 9.259.50 . . 8.35(3 8.50 . 4.00 4.75 . 3.500 4.29 . 5.00O 6.00 COITON TRADE SHIFTS LIVERPOOL TRADERS TRANSFER INTERESTS. Crop Report Shows Improvement, and Japan Is Said to Be Buying: Heavily. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. A cable received by the New Tork Cotton Exchange an nounced today that practically all the mem bers of the Liverpool Trade were willing to shift their interests here to December, and it was reported that a large number of con tracts, held for both foreign and domestic account, had already been transferred, while a meeting now has been called of all houses whose clients deal with American mills, presumably to discuss further plans for the reduction of old commitments. Meanwhile crop reports show some im provements, today's semi-monthly state ment by a prominent local authority mak ing the condition 7S.3 per cent, against T8 Der cent two weeks ago, while the sum mary of the weekly weather report also was considered generally ravoraDie. Liverpool reported a decline ol au points Chicago Livestock Market. CHICAGO, Aug. 18. Hogs Receipts. 15, 000. slow. Bulk. IS. 75 9 ; light. SS.659.15; mixed. $S.50S.10; heavy, .. ;. ; rough, $8.25fS.40: pigs. 56.75S8.40. Cattle Receipts. 5000, steady. Beeves. 7.15i10.15; steers. S6.309.:u; stockers and feeders, ?5.50S.20; cows and heifers, 53. 609. 20; calves, XS.25&11.50. Sheep Receipts 22,000, slow. Sheep, 5 C: yearlings, 567: lambs. $ii.408.:5. Naval Stores. SAVANNAH. Oil. Aug. IS. Turpentine, new. 45tac; no sales; receipts, 385 barrels; shipments. 128 barrels; stocks, 32.453 bar rels. . Rosin, nominal; no sales; receipts, 1481 pounds; shipments, 451 pounds; stocks, 120, 7S7 pounds. Quote: A, B. 53.30; C. D. tt.Ua! E. F. O. H. I. 53.55; K. 54.15; M. 54.50; N, 56; WG, 56.25; WW, 6.3S. DEAD MAN'S KIN INQUIRES Sister of Kooney Says Photograph Is Elder Brother's. That Frank J. Rooney, whose muti lated body was found near Troutdale last week, has a cousin residing; in Portland is Indicated by a telegram re ceived by Deputy Sheriff Beckman yesterday from a sister of Rooney, Mrs. Vincent Doody, 600 South Montana av enue, Butte, Montana. The dispatch reads: "Send me details of Frank J. Rooney. Picture in Telegram not of Rooney. but of older brother and wife, of Chicago. Frank is 24. Has be been buried yet? Just heard from an aunt here, who has a daughter residing in Portland. Letters follow." WALNUT PBICES WILL BE HIGHER Usual Import Shut Off if War Continues and Quotations Not Yet Made. If the European war continues through out the Fall walnut prices will be advanced considerably, it is expected by the trade. Front-street commission men have not yet oeen advised of the cost of stock, as prices are not usually quoted until an estimate of crops ore made and deliveries are due in October or November. Intimations have been given, however, that high quotations will rule. The Atlantic Coast Is largely supplied with walnuts imported from France, while of late years the Pacific Coast stocks have come for the most part from Manchuria. California and Oregon growers supply lim ited quantities and they should benefit from war conditions this year. The cantaloupe market Is down on Front street because of the very large shipments that continue to be made. There seems to be no stopping the shippers. Prices are 51.25 for singles and 51.15 for five-crate lots. Fancy pickling onions arrived on, the street yesterday and were selling at 51.35 a basket. These were the first shipments in baskets and came from Selah. Wash. Ground cherries were received, coming a month earlier than usual from Vancouver, Wash. They sold at 51 and 51.25 a box. More carloads of bananas will reach Port land today from the south. Siberian crab apples are in good supply and are selling at 4 cents a pound. Melons are being cleaned up and will soon disappear. WHEAT PRICES STRONGER LOCALLY Rise in Eastern Market Is Reflected Here and Demand Is Good The rise reported In wheat at Chicago yesterday was effective in Portland and there was considerable demand. At the Merchants' Exchange offers were brisk and although business was not heavy, the bids showed dealers were eager to get supplies There was a sale of 10.000 bushels of club at 60 cents, but much more been sold at this price. were made. Grain receipts this week and for the sea son to date, compared with the same pc riod last year, in cars, arc: Provisions. HAMS 10 to 12-pound, 2114 22(40-. 11 to 14-pound. 21!422V4c; 14 to 18-pound, I1V4 2214c; skinned. 18V422c; picnic. 15c. BACON Fancy. 3032c; standard. 26 "JrY SALT CURED Short clear baoks, 13V41614c; exports, 14916c. plates. 11 13c. LARD Tierce baais: Pure. 12ltc; com pound, Sc. Oils. KEROSENE Water white, drums, par rels or tank wagon, 10c; special, drums or barrels, 13V4c; cases, 17V42014o. GASOLINE Bulk, 15c: cases. 22c; motor spirit, bulk. 1514c; caaes, 3214c. En gine distillate, drums, 714c; cases. 1414c; naptha, drums. 1414c; cases, 2114c. LINSEED OIL Raw. barrels. 72c; boiled, barrels, 74c; raw, cases, 77c; boiled, cases, 78c could have as many offers Monday i Tuesday 4s Year ago 3T Season to date.. 1202 itJ Year ago . -m 13 6 8 3 4 9 4 4 10 283 120 158 816 IXS 361 Alaska Bends $200,000 in Gold. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. IK. The steamship Victoria, from Nome, Alaska, today brought $200,000 of gold bullion from the placer mines of Seward Pen insula. The gold output this year will be large, owing to aJSundance of water. LEATHER PRICES ARE ADVANCING War Is Reason for Lighter Imports and Conseqnewt Rise. Wholesale leather dealers have been no tified of an advance In leather prices amounting to approximately 8 per cent through the whole list. The United States usually Imports latge leather stocks from abroad, hides from Australia and Argentina going to English tanners for treatment. Many raw hides are Imported direct, to American tanners as well. Italy also sup plies considerable leather to this country. With these usual sources cut off, prices are going up. Some shoe dealers in Portland have been notified of an advance in prices from 25 to 35 cents a pair, beginning with the first of the year. There was an advance yesterday of M cent a pound-on Sisal rope and 114 cents on Manila. Egg Market Is Firm. Eggs were firm on Front street yester day at 27 cents for best candled. The sup ply is light and demand continues strong. Hens were selling at 15 cents, with more liberal receipts, while Springers were sell ing from 17 to 17 1 cents. More veal is j Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc. HOPS 1913 crop, nominal; 1914 contracts, lt(t 15c. PELTS Dry, 13c; dry short wool, to; dry ahearlngs, 10c; green shearings, laOJiic, salted sheep, 51. 25-. 50; Spring lambs, 15 35c; green pelts, short wool. 30Oc; lambs, August take-off, 6070c. HIDES Salted hides, ISc per pound; salt kip, 14c; salted calf, 18c; green hides, 12c; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 28c; salted bulls, iuc per pound; green bulls, 814c. WOOL Valley, 18142U14c; Eastern Ore-,-cn, 10201sc. MOHAIR lull clip. 2714 c per pound. FISH Salmon, 8uc; halibut, jjtc smelt, 8c; black cod, 7c. rock cod, 5c. CASCARA BARK Old and new. 414o V" pound. NO TRADING IN COFFEE MARKET General Holiday Conies to An .End With Prices Unchanged. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. The coffee trade received cables from Rio today announcing that the general holiday In Brazil termin ated last Saturday, but there had been no trading in the coffee market. These cables also announced that the freight rate from Brazil to New York had advanced from 40 to t;0 cents per bag since Monday inornlnK. A moderate demand was reported in the lo cal spot market, but buyers showed no spe cial urgency and prices were unchanged with Rio 7s quoted at SJc and Santos 4s at 1314c Progress is reported In the matter of clos ing out old commitments on the exchange and the voluntary committee on liquidation has advised the transfer of all remaining contracts into December ut a premium of 30 points over August and September, of 20 points un October 'and 10 points on November. The committee reports that it has secured the support of the largest Sep tember Interests In these operations. SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE MARKET Prices Quoted at the Bay City on Fruits, Vegetables, Etc. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 18. Fruit Pine apples, $1.503; Mexican limes, 54g6; Cali fornia lemons, choice, 57.50I&8; fancy, $9; apples. Gravenstelns. 50r80c. . Vegetable Cucumbers. 2540c; string beans. l2Hc; peas, 8c. Eggs Fancy ranch. 35c; store, 30c. Onions Y'ellow. 75 90c. Cheese Young America. 13 1514c: new. 111414c; Oregon. 1514 16c. Butter Fancy creamery. 28c; seconds. SSc Potatoes Delta, new crop, Burbanks. per sack. 75cfri$l: sweets, l4!2'i per pound. Receipts Flour, abi3 quarter sacks; bar ley, 5430 centals: potatoes. 496 sacks; hay. 180 tons. New York Produce. NEW YORK. Aug. IS. Evaporated apples quiet. Prunes steady. Peaches dull and easv. Hops eieaay. nicies iirm. ooi steady. Xew York B'Hiks Huj Grain ship ping Bills- and New sup plies Are soulit Traders. CHICAGO. Aug. IS. The price of wheat today Jumped 5 cents over yesterdays close on evidence that the export situation Is clearing. September wheat touched 9414 and then dropped back 1 cent. The demand came from exporters, mostly those who sold their holdings when ship ping stopped, and who today were replac ing their lines on the strength of the action of New YorK banks In buying grain shipping bills, which Is about the same thing as getting payment on this side for grain consigned to Europe. The close was strong. 1 over yesterday. The trade In corn was small, but In oats It was somewhat more liberal. London was reported buying oats In English markets for the army. September pork dropped an extreme oV cents at the opening on a correction of the stocks on hand showing that the statement of last Friday was about 5000 barrels too small. Lard and ribs were a few cents either way of yesterday's close. Leading futures closed as follows: WHEAT. Onon. High. $ .S9'4 $ .9414 .94 l.OOH 1.02 1.07 CORN. .7874 -SOVi . .68 -"04 OATS. .4814 .45 M . .45 .4614 MESS PORK 31.60 22.30 21. SO 22.30 LARD. 9.C2 Sept Der. Dec. Sept. Dec. Sept. Jan. Low. Close. .891s 5 !4 .99 44 1.02 1.06 H .784 .684 . .4314 -4814 .45 46 The Canadian Bank of Commerce in in omcK Toronto, Ii KalablUheil is... arnernl linnklnit i --- tranaiirtetl. Interest paiil oa llsir ilrpoklfx Merllna ilrnftn for moderate i nils i sue. on I.OIMll.U. Knalaad. Traveler' rberkx .1 pa- ablr In (he I ailed Matea and (Kiln. Pt.ll I I, t Ml llll M II. I'lirnrr Hefond nml Mark Ma. I. . M4.I.P4. i. IRA I Lt Its UVIUB, San Francisco LOS 4M.I I I s UNO ,N DIsMM S. S. YUCATAN Sails i. Vsil.ua. Illth. M1UI II PAI II Ii Tirkr Offlre I USA 3d Si. .Main 13 H. A 13 14 s i i:msiiip co. Frelstht Office, Foot Northruii St .Man 533, A S42I 21.80. 21.35 22.27 21.45 Sept. Oct. Jan. Sept. Oct. 9.52 9.65 9.50 9.115 9.95 10.05 SHORT RIBS. .12.65 15.75 12 65 .12.12 12.27 12.12 9.82 .77 10.05 12.75 12.27 St. Louis Metal Market. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18. Lead, quiet: 53 73. Spelter, quiet: 1 3. 50 5. 70. rnfj Mercantile Paper. XEW YORK, Aug. 18. Mercantile paper, b&7 per cent. Minneapolis Orals .Markets. MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. IS. Wheat Sep tember. 51.0214: No- 1 1"""0. 1-1'W; No. 1 Northern, $1.0814 to 51.1114: No. 2 North ern. 51.0614 to $1.0914; No. 3 wheat, $1.0214 to 510614. Barley 5261c. Flax 1 1.6614 to $1.7014. San Francisco t.ruin Market. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 18. Spot quota tions: "Walla Walla. $1.50; red Russian. 51 55'1.56V ; Turkey red, $1.55 1.6614 ; bluestem. $1.571.60; feed barley, 8714c 0T$1; brewing barley, nominal: white oats. 5L1SOL2714; man. SI'- minunns. o shorts, 27o 27.50. "Call board Wh. at. shipping. $1.5..'.i 15714 Barley steady; December. $1.02; May.' $1.0714; new. 98 c bid, 9Sc asked. Fusel Sound (jrain Market. SEATTLE. Aug. 18. Wheat September and October delivery quotations: Bluestem. 93c; forty-fold. 86c; club, 85c; fife. 56c; Tli.H.Hn. 83c. Yesterday's car receipts Wheat, 7S; oats. 4; barley. 3; hay, 49; flour, 4. TACOMA. Aug. 18. -Wheat Bluestem. 91c- forty-fold. e; club and fife, Sic. Car receipts Wheat, -:; barley, 1; corn. 54. Livestock Prices at Soulli Omaha. SOUTH OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. 18. Hogs Receipts 7800, lower. Heavy. $8.8605.80; light. $8.609; pigs. 5SHf8.75; bulk of sales, $8.65(6 8.75. Cattle Receipts 44O0. steady. Native steers, $7.7S10.15; cows and heifers, J68; Western steers, $6.50 9: Texaa steers. $ 7.S5; cows and heifers. 6jS; calves. $8.60 dp 10.50. ghrep Receipts 2I.0O0, lower. Yearlings, $6'6.50; wethers. $6.6506.15; lambs. $7.S0 8.40. Merchandise Exports. NEW YORK. Aug. 18. Exports of general merchandise from the port of New York for the week ending August 15 were valued at $10,723,082. against $12.071. 0S last week and $14,834,851 a year ago. HONOLULU $110. 1st class, round trip. i:. days rrota San Francisco). The most attractive on entire world tour. Splendid toamr (10.0UU ton dlapl.) of OCEANIC LINE salt to Hawaii, every 2 weeks You can u.aaa this trip In 16 days from San Krati'-lsco, giv ing 5 days on the Islands. Sydney, lt dn from San Francisco. $800 ruunti trip IS', class. $.00 2d class. Send Ut folder. Sydney Slinrl Una. $73 Market St- an Franclscn. COOS BAY LINE Steamship Breakwater Sails from Alnseorth dock. Portland, I A. If. July 7. 12. 17, 22, 27. AUS. 1. . 1L IS. 21-2a, Freight and ticket offices. Lower Alniwum dock. Portland Coos Bay S. 8. Lias. L. II. KEATING. Agent, Phone Main aOoo. A 2383. S. S. BEAK I Oil SAN FKANCISCO LOS ANGELES A. M.. Aug. tO. The San Fruncln-o It I'nrtlanil S. S. 4 a.. 3d and Washington sts. (lth 4.-W. R. N. Co.). Tel. Marshall !5o6. A m. NIGHT BOAT Foit Hit: llii I Sir. State of Washington loaves Tnvlor-sl. . lock daily, except Thursday. at 11 P.M. for The Dalles. Lyfe. lood Ktr, White salmon, iinaerv. 000. Carbon. Stevenson. Kami nl-ig leave. Tito Dalles 12 o'clock, noon Tal. Mala 1413. American -Hawaiian S. S. Co. TIIF. PANAMA NI. I ISF-. Sailings From New York Abonl Augu-I i7-s,pt is nnrt F.cr 3 lnjs. Fast bound Iron Portland About Aug. 25,-Nrpl. 18. C l. KENNEDY. Agsnt. 270 Stark Ht. Steamer Georgiana Leaves WMhinlon-itr-t Dork at 7 X M Dally- Sunday. T :.o. for Astoria and Way Landings Returning. Leaves Astoria Fare. $1.00 Kach Way. st 2 on r. Main 1422. DRAIN TO COOS BAT. Auto run dally. 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