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2 THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922 FACTORIES BUYING WORSTEDS Demand for Low -Priced Clothes Is Met. PRICES ARE UNCHANGED Three-Eighths, Half and Quarter Blood Purchases Deplete Dealers' Stocks. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 18 (Spe C'al.) The wool market furnishes evidence that worsted mills have old a good volume of "fancy" worsteds, having been able to meet "he demand for low-priced cloth. They are continnlng to purchase medium territory wools, mainly three-eighths blood, and it is not de nied that this grade is used largely in the new lines they are showing. They are also buying half-blood in quantity and considerable quarter .blood at market prices. The demand for these three grades Is such that some dealers whose stocks are depleted have gone into wool-growing districts for more supplies. They have secured a large volume of medium wool at Dillon, Mont., one Boston house buying 300,000 pounds and another 100,000 pounds, at 37 to 39 cents, the landed cost in Boston being 40 to 40 H .-ents, grease, or 90 cents. ean. The fugheest price quoted here for he best three-eighths blood is 95 cents, therefore, some dealers say, the prices paid at Dillon were too high. Eastern Jauyers also have se cured more of the triangle wools ac cumulated at Cokeville, Wye, at advances over the sealed bids re cently made, all of which were re jected. For these wools, which are mostly quarter-blood and below, ' they paid 25 to 35 cents, most of .the purchases being between 28 and 32 cents. Price Are TJnchanged. Prices of territory wool here are unchanged, save that half-bloods is elightly higher at $1.15 to. $1.18 clean. Some holders ask $1.20, while three-eighths f blood remains at 90 to 95 cents and quarter-blood at V5 to 80 cents. Emphasis is placed more on the high figure of .the range. Knitting yarn spinners con tinue to compete with mills for the medium wools. Fine wools remain sather quiet but a sale of 100,000 pounds of good French combing is eported at about $1.25, clean. Other lots sold at $1.15 to $1.20. . Choice fine and fine medium still is quoted at $1.30 to $1.35 and fine and fine medium clothing at $1.10 to $1.15. Eastern dealers have se cured some scattered fleece clips in Ohio but refuse to give prices. Fleece quotations here are un changed, although recent sales have been at the low edge of the market, half-blood at 50 cents, three-eighths blood at 46 cents and quarter-blood at 42 cents. Wools suitable for "woolen" mills are quiet, although pulled and r coured domestics sell slowly, most iy for piecing-out purposes. East India Sale Advanced. The sale of East India wool an nounced for September 15 at Liver pool has been advanced to August 9 on account of tariff. This mar ket is overstocked with East Indies and Boston ians are not expected to compete stronelv at the sale Buenos Aires reports the winter in the River Plate very rainy and that flocks are in very good condition, w-ith good wool, well grown, light shrinkage and very few burrs. The coming Argentine clip is estimated at about 225,000 bales, a decrease if 25 per cent from last season. The wool will run 7 per cent fine, 43 I-er cent fine cross-breds and me dium cross-breds, and 50 per cent coarse wool. Montevideo new clip is estimated at 85,000 bales, a de crease of 15 per cent. There will be 0 per cent merino, 50 per cent fine cross-breds, 15 per cent medium cross-breds and 15 per cent low. Belknap Springs Is Mecca for Ailing Pilgrims. Miracles Reported Performed by Mineral Water Cure. WILLIAM STEINBERG tells, the Monmouth Herald that miracles are performed at Belknap springs. It is a common sight to see a man or woman come hobbling on crutches and after a few treatments dispense first with one crutch and then with the other. This is accomplished by drinking and bathing in the mineral water which comes from the spring. A number of minerals are held in solution in this water which comes from the rocks, boiling hot. feuipnur. radium, aluminum and salt are some of them. It has Wen attempted to bottle this water and sell it commercially but without success. When held for a short time the elements of the water unite in a most horrible odor which unfits it for use. The water comes so hot that eggs can be boiled in a short lime. beans and other vegetables are cooked by being floated in the spring. A stream of very cold water comes from a spring not far away and within 20 feet of the spring, food cooked in the spring can be re frigerated by an icy blast that comes through a fissure in the mountain. Popular rates prevail at this resort at present, but an attempt is being made to finance a large hotel on the spot, when it is likely the rates will be shot skyward, making the place out of the reach of the masses. lira mono flower Show Augusjt 24. The date of the Redmond Flower show has been placed for the after noon and evening of August 24. Miss Helen Gilkey, assistant pro fessor of botany at Oregon Agricul tural College, has consented to judge the flowers. An interesting pro gramme is being arranged by Mrs. M. A. Cunning. The committee in charge hopes to make this, their first flower show, a complete suc cess, and ar asking the co-operation of every grower in Deschutes county. Redmond Spokesman. Crooked River Road Work Stops. Opposition to the location of the Crooked River highway on the north side of the river by some of the property owners has resulted in the filing of five claims aggregat ing $18,000 against Deschutes coun ty. That these claims, iwiless ad- Light Hens 13c CHECKS BY RETURN MAIL. THE SAVINAR CO., INC. 100 Front Street, Portland, Oregon. 4 justed soon, will hold up construc tion work until 1923 Is the opinion of Judge Wallace. The state and county together have spent $425, 000 on this highway. Money for the completion of the stretch now under consideration is available and a satisfactory bid has been received on the contract. Application has been made to the war department for a war bridge, which can be ob tained by paying the transporta tion charges. All work on the high way has been suspended until the matter is settled. Central Orego-nian. ' Jersey Sire Purchased. A. W. Bartlett & Son, of Rickreall, recently purchased from the Ore glow Jersey herd at Oswego, W. M. Ladd. owner, a baby son of Vive's Golden Glows Chief 154815, out of Sunlight's Glow 296336. Messrs. Bartlett are new Jersey breeders having- purchased their founda tion oT females at Pickard Bros. Marion, Or., last fall. They have to mate with this young sire,, two daughters of Darling's Gallant Boy. one daughter of Sir Cuthbert of Ore gon, and one of the first daughters of Pickard Bros." junior srre, Frosty's Valinda's Son. The calf purchased from Mr. Ladd car ries 62 per cent the blood of Golden Glow's Chief, and his two nearest dams are the greatest and fourth greatest daugh ters of that bull and have an aver age record of 920 pounds of fat in one year. Polk County Observer. I - Highway Opens Scenic Section. In Grant and Wheeler counties is a scenic section of eastern Oregon of which little is known, but which is destined to become a mecca for auto tourists. With the 'completion of the John Day highway, tourists by thousands will travel over the highway through the John Day gorge. Few places in the west so arouse the admiration of the travel er. The grandeur and beauty of the precipices with the different color ing of the rock formation are such as to live for years in the memories tf those who make the trip through the gorge. With the completion of the highway between Prairie City and Unity and the connection of the Baker-Bridgeport-Unity post road with the John Day at the, latter point. Baker will have a direct con nection with the gorge. Baker Her ald. Scarlet Shirts and Hats Sell. Red hats and red shirts are selling like hot cakes this week, says the Salem Statesman. It is not the em- bjem of. internationalism, ,of an archy, -of anything political; they don't get that way for any such reason. But the deer season opens On Sunday, August 20. and the woods promise to be full of hunters. The red garment is legal warning in some- states, of the identity of the hunter; hunters are required to wear such protection in justice to their fellow hunters. Green hunters who feel that they must shoot at every movement of the brush can hardly protest ignorance if their victim is a man wearing a red hat or shirt that couldn't possibly be mistaken. ' Lnre of Road Leaves Xad. All hopes of being a buckaroo having gone with the spending of $150 which he admits stealing from his father, Ivan Humphreys, 16-year-old vagabond, is now anxious to put his feet beneath the family supper table and eat his mother's cooking once more. Ivan was picked up by the police. He told a wild tale oi adventure which took in everything from kidnaping to highway, rob bery. While still telling his tale night came on. He had visions of home with his father and mother at the supper table. But they had since left Oregon and left no trace behind. Now Ivan wants them more than ever. Salem Statesman. t'alifornia Buys Strawberries. The fourth carload of preserved strawberries to leave Vancouver this season was loaded and iced at the Columbia street plant of the Vancouver Steam company recently. The big refrigerator cars have taken out 360 barrels of the Clarke county berries so far and it is stated that there are at least two more carloads of strawberries in storage awaiting shipment before several cars of raspberries, loganberries and black berries are reached. The fruit is being shipped by the Oregon Pack ing company to a California packing plant at San Francisco. Ice is fur nished by the Vancouver Steam com pany. Vancouver Columbian. Gray Squirrels Tubercular. The gray squirrels of southern Oregon are badly infected this year. Game Warden Bancroft tells the Grants Pass Courier. He has sent nine or more to the state game war den, who has pronounced them in fected with tuberculosis. The glands of the neck are badly swollen and the fur has fallen out also. Many have been found dead around the woods. This is especially true In the Illinois and Sucker Creek val leys. The squirrels, when infected, are not fit for food, and great dare should be exercised when the season opens on September 15. Apple Growers Meet Auguxt 25. A convention of the apple growers of the valley is called for August 25 in Salem, to talk over everything connected with the apple. The pool ing of apples for marketing pur poses, the matter of pack, of stor age, of shipping, will come up for discussion. The meeting is being called through the Ore gen Growers, but is understood to be open to all apple men, regardless of their pres ent affiliation. Salem Statesman. Hen Lays Record Size Ess;. Mrs. . Perry Moser, who resides about sevfn miles from Silverton on the Abiqua river, brought an egg into the office of the Silverton Trib une which measured 6x7H inches. The egg was laid by a 2-year-old Plymouth Rock hen and is the largest ever seen by any of the poul try raisers to whom it had been shown. AMO ASK SCe80OV f & W' f)(A STRAISULER. WERE. BFTLu? Pcj 7 $EC0Hb AHD TrAIROy " SAVORS gscWNOS ALL RKjHT-g ; ABOUT A PlACeto k I L3 lOHAT-$ YOG 6T AJ Vl-EI Ijfu "T- 'JB I ' ' :; AN7 j"" r ' t . -y -- APPLE CROP IN EAST IS Northwestern States Have Lighter Production. ' RESULT OF DRY SUMMER Total Commercial Yield of Coun try Shows an Increase of 12,198,000 Bushels. There is a great increase in the Amer ican apple crop this year over 1921, but in the Pacific northwest tne yield Is lighter than last year. The total apple crop of the United States averaged 76.4 per cent of normal on August 1, giving promise of a pro duction of 201,726,000 bushels against 98, R7.00 bushels in 1921. The commercial apple crop of the country was 68.9 per cent of normal on August 1 and gave promise of a crop of 33.402.000 barrels. The dry season will likely result In small sized fruit in Oregon, except where irrigation is practiced. ' A month ago F. L. Kent, the government statistician In Oregon, estimated the commercial ap ple crop of the state at 5645 carloads, and weather conditions in July will quite likely reduce the crop. Apples in Washington averaged 81 per cent of normal on August 1 and gave promise of a total crop of 2S.012.000 bushels, as compared with the July 1 forecast of 27.000.000 bushels. The 1921 crop was 29,062,000 bushels. The com mercial apple crop of Washington is placed at 23.250,000 bushels against the July 1 estimate of 22,410.000 bushels and the 1921 commercial crop of 24,900,000 bushels. The commercial apple crop of the United States In thousands of barrels (one barrel Is equal to three boxes) is estimated by the government as follows HEAVY THIS.YEIR 1022 Forecasts. Esfm'd Aug. 1. July 1. 1921. Maine 361 428 30 New York 6.529 5.5.M 3,000 Pennsylvania 1,216 1.077 i 221 Virginia 1,478 1,522 136 West Virginia 845 879 130 Ohio 682 642 360 Illinois 1,485 1.326 307 Michigan 1,659 1,542 1,208 Missouri 1,168 1.022 30 Arkansas 860 829 16 Colorado 918 9115 R12 Idaho 1,070 ' 1.06S 1,349 Oregon 1,490 1,451 1.667 California 1,704 1.623 1.280 Washington 7.750 7.470 8.300 Total above 15 states' 29.215 27.42.T 19.536 Total L". S 33.402 31.413 21,204 WORLD'S WHEAT CROP INCREASED Gain Over Last Year Dne to Large Yield in India. According to estimates communicated to the international institute of agricul ture by the governments of . a group of countries representing about one-half of the northern hemisphere wheat crops. their yield in 1922 Is 39.5 million metric tons (exclusive of Russia). -Compared with the production of the same group of countries in 1921 (36.9 million tons). there Is an increase of 7 per cent. This increase is entirely due to the large crop In British India, which surpassed that of 1921 by 3.3 million tons. In the United States the forecast is for a wheat crop slightly superior (by 3 per cent) .to the previous harvest (22.2 mil lion , tons as compared with -21.6 in 1921). On the other hand, the European es timates of production are decidedly be low those of 1921 as regards the few countries which have furnished data. Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, Greece, Hungary and Poland give an aggregate of 7.2 million tons In 1922 against their returns of 8.2 million in 1921. The information to hand from those countries not yet ready to furnish esti mates may be summarized as follows: The June rains somewhat Improved con ditions for the wheat crop in France, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, while the po sition is. fairly good in Bulgaria, Ru mania and the Serb-Croat-Slovene state. The condition of the Canadian wheat crop is reported as generally favorable, apart from some Injury by strong winds and hail storms.. ffHSAT NEEDED FOR NEARBY SHIPS Milling Grades Also Taken to Fill Previous Sales. The need for wheat to complete car goea for nearby ships and also to fill flour sales previously made is the stimulating influence In what would otherwise probably be a very weak mar- . ket. White export wheat was bought- at 91.10 and in some instances at a better price, while Big Bend bluestem was nominally worth $1.30. At the Merchants' Exchange, the lower trend ofthe east err markets was followed and bids on all ' grades were 2 cents lower than Thursday. At Liverpool September wheat closed unchanged at 9s 4d and December 4d lower at 9s 4d. Broomhall cabled from Liverpool: "Very little if any actual new export business in wheat yesterday. However, there was a1 fair trade in cash grain with purchases to fill old sales esti mated at 500,000 to 750,000 bushels. Business In corn estimated at 150,000 bushels to 200,000 bushels." The Chicago wire to the Gray-Rosen-baum Grain company follows: "Very difficult to get enthusiastic on bull side, still prices discount current bearish situation. Dollar wheat should prove incentive for increased Invest ment demand, .which needed to absorb pressure from country. Yesterday's short covering weakened market. -Technically market in position to respond quickly favorable developments. Anticipate bet ter export inquiry." Commenting on the Chicago market, a GASOLINF ALLEY ON AVFPVS, market letter of the J. Rosenbaum Grain company said : "Dollar -wheat before the war, not an uncommon price, represented a pros perous world. Today the price is met with a feeling of abjection and It rep resents a world that cannot find itself. Some time this season wheat will likelr sell higher than today's xalues, perhapf considerably higher, but it will mean that current conditions have changed for the better and if those, who wish to establish wheat prices at a higher level by legislative or other unnatural means would go to Europe and tell the powers to forget their jealousies, destroy their armamenT," work eight hours a day, prices would ' perhaps 'go so high, as to start propaganda - against high prices. Europe needs much of our wheat, but she buys sparingly because of continued unsettled financial conditions." It Is estimated southern Alberta will have a 30,000,000 bushel wheat crop this year. The crop of the entire province will top that of 1920. when 82.712,000 bushels were threshed. Terminal receipts. In cars, were re ported by the Merchants Exchange as follows: Portland : Wht. Bry. Fir. Cn. O. H. Friday 4!t Tear ago 139 Sea. to date 1844 Year ago 4222 .Tacoma Thursday .... 27 Tear ago .... 41 Sea. to date. 723 Year ago 1116 Seattle Thursday R Year ago .... 20 Sea. to date. 602 Year ago . 648 1 1 112 57 3 3 276 187 6 3 54 57 R 188 330 1 18 14 6 30 126 157 66 ; 30 1 1 188 115 5 't "341 13 252 1 54 27 263 17 Bark Buying Price Raised. The local buying price of cascara bark has been advanced half a cent. Buyers are now paying 64 cents for new bark and 7V4 cents for old bark delivered in this city. LIVERPOOL WOOL SALES ADVANCED Purpose Is to Anticipate Passage of American Tariff. BOSTON, 'Aug. 18. The Commercial Bulletin tomorrow will say: The demand lor wool has continued at .a moderate and somewhat Irregular pace, with Interest more especially shown fo.- the medium grades, although fine grades have not been altogether neg lected. Medium and fine scoured wools have been In rather better request this week. Foreign markets are reported firm The East India sales at Liverpool have been advanced from September 19 to August 28 In order to anticipate the passage of the American tariff. Peach Supplies May Be Heavy. Elberta peaches are still coming from California and sell readily at $11.15. Most of the Oregon and Washington peaches arriving are early varieties. A heavy crop is looked for and unless an eastern outlet is found prices are likely to rule cheap. Yakima peach growers are planning a combine, but fruit men here do not see how they can put it through with the growers in other north west sections unorganized. , Poor Butter Coming on Market. There was a ready demand for cube butter that would grade extras, but not much of this was obtained. The larger proportion of the receipts were of Inferior quality and this had a weakening effect on the entire market. . Ranch eggs are ' scarce and on the whole firm. A good many short held storage eggs are coming on the mar ket. Poultry . was steady at unchanged prices. Bank Clearings. Bank clearings, of the northwestern cities yesterday were as follows: Clearings. Balances Portland $4,617,192 $977,848 Seattle 4,653.902 883.075 Spokane,. 1,549.166 666,853 Tacoma transactions, $2.064,000. PORTLAND MARKET QUOTATIONS Grain, Flour,' Feed, Etc, Merchants Exchange, noon session. -Bid- Wheat Aug. Hard white . : $ l.oti Soft white . . .' 1.06 Soft club 1.06 Hard winter . 1.06 Nor. spring -. 1.04 Red Walla 1.01 Oats No. 2 white feed... 32.00 Ko. 2 gray 31.00 Barley Brewing 29 00 Standard feed 27.50 Corn No 2 E Y shipment. 28.50 Sept. $ 1.08 1.06 1.00 1.06 1.04 1.01 31.00 30.00 28.00 27.00 28.25 Oct. $ 1.00 1.00 1.00 l.OG 1.04 1.01 31.00 30.00 28.00 27.00 28.00 FLOUR Family patents. $7.20 per bbl.; whole wheat, $6.60; graham, $6.40; bakers' .hard wheat.$7.40 ; bakers' blue stem patents. $7.20; valley bakers'. $5.90; straight, $5.30. MILLFEED Prices f. o. b. mill: Mill run, ton lots, $31; middlings, $43; rolled barley. $3638; rolled oats, "$44; scratch feed. $48 per ton. CORN White, $37; cracked, $39 per ton. HAY Buying price f. o. b. Portland: Alfalfa, $1818.50 per otn; cheat, $15; oats and vetch. $17; clover. $18; valley timothy, $18; eastern Oregon timothy, $2021. Butter and Country Produce. BUTTER Cubes, extras, 3738c lb.; prints, parchment wrapped, box lots, 44c; cartons, 45c. Butterfat, 44c delivered; station buying price. A grade, 42c. EGGS Buying price: Current receipts, 22 23c dozen ; henneries, 25 fp 26c dozen. Jobbing prices: Case count, 23 24c; candled ranch, 26c : selects, 29c; browns, 20c ; first. 27c: pullets. 25c. CHEESE Tillamook triplets, price to jobbers, f. o. b. Tillamook, 26c ; Young Americas. 27c; longhorns, 27c pound. fULLTKY Hens, i4(6PL'c id. ; springs, ?022c; ducks, 1522c; geese, nominal; turkeys, nominal. VEAL Fancy, 1516o per pound. PORK Fancy. 1717c per pound. FrnitH and Vegetables. Loral jobbing quotations: FRUITS Oranees. Valencias. Sft.50 10.50 per box; lemons, $78.50; grape fruit. $6.758 box; bananas. 8i 9c lb.; cantaloupes,. 42.503 crate; peaches', 90c $1.15 per box; apricots, $ 1.40 2.25 per crate ; plums. $ 1.25 1.50 per box; watermelons. 12c per pound; ca sabas. 3c lb.; pears, $3. Jo 3. 50; black berries, $22.25 per crate grapes. $2.50 $3-00 per box; new apples, 75c$1.50 box. POTATOES New. 22c per pound; sweet potatoes, eastern, $1.75 per crate. ONIONS Oregon yellow, 2H3c oer pound: Walla Wallla, $1.502 per sack. VEGETABLES Cabbage 2c per pound ; lettuce, $1.00 crate ; garlic. 10c per pound: green peppers, 15c per pound; tomaties, 4085c per crate; cucumbers, 5060c per box; green peas, 8(g12c lb.; beans, 78c per pound; green corn, 30a dozen: eggplant, 1012c pound; sum mer squash, 6c per pound. Staple Groceries. , Local jobbing quotations: SUGAR (sack basis) Cane, granulated, 7.80e pound: beet, 7.60c per pound. NUTS Walnuts. 15 35c per pound; Brazil nuts, 17Vi19c; almonds, 21 P 26c; peanuts, 10 11c per pound. RICE Blue Ruse. 7c per pound; Japan style. 6.106.25c per pound. COFFEE Roasted, bulk, in drums, 20 39c per pound. SALT Granulated, bales, $2.603.65; half ground, tons. 50s, $17: 100s. $16, DRIED FRUITS Dates, 14c pound; figs, $1.902.75 per box: apples, 15c per pound; peaches, 18c; prunes, 1416c. BEANS Small, white, tHic; pink. 6c; bayou, 6Hc; red, 6c; lima, 11c per pound. Provisions. Local jobbing quotations: HAMS All sizes. 2837c per pound; sklnued. 88c; picnic, 18c; cottage roll, 25 cper pound. BACON Fancy, 39 45c; choice. 29 84c; standards, 24 27c. LARD Pure, tierces, 14c per pound; compound, tierces, 14c. DRY SALT Backs. 2033c; plates. 18 cents. Hides, Hods. Etc. ' HIDES Salted hides, under 45 pounds, S9c; salted hides, over 45 pounds, 7 8c; green hides under 45 pounds, 7 8c; green hides, 45 pounds, 67c; salted bulls, 67c; green bulls. 56c; called or green calf, under 15 pounds, :213c; saltedor green kip, 16 to 30 pounds. 910e; hair slipped hides and skins, half price; flint dry hides, 11 llic: flint drv calf. under 7 nminri: ll12c; dry salted hides, 89c: culls r.nd damaged, half price. Green or salt ed horse hides, $23 each; colt skins, S0c$l each; dry horse, 75c$1.25 each. PELTS Dry sheep pelts, long wool, ?820c; dry sheep pelts, short wool, 9 30c: dry sheeo nelts. nieces. 9(10r- drv sheep shearlings, no value; salted pelts, iong wool, each. $1.502; salted pelts, hort wool, each. 75c (&$1; salt spring lamb pelts, each. 75cll; salted shear ings, each. 10x)20c: salted pna to i.np hair, each, $12; salted goats, short hair, each, 50c$l; dry goats, long hair, per pound. 10(&)12c: .drv eoata. short hair. tach, 25(&J50c; goat shearlings, each, 10 26 cents. TALLOW No. l.S(S)5V.r- No. 2 4tiifi 5c per pound; grease, 364c per pound. CASCARA BaRK. New Deei. 6V,c nr pound: old peel. 7'c per pound. UKEUU. UKAFE UraDe root. c rer pound. HOPS 1921 croD. nominal. 12S15c nop pound; contracts, 15c. VVUUL Eastern Oregon. 20(5)30,. nr pound: valley wool, fine an? half-hlnnrf. S035c; three-eighths biood. 30igi32c; o.uarter-blood, 2o&2tc; low quarter and braid, 2022c; matted. 16(818c. MOHAIR t.nnir stanl. yO90 cred Portland; short staple, 2527c; burry. 20 25c per pound. ukai.n DAUB car lots, 9hic, coast. Oils. LINSEED OIL Raw. in barrels tl ill' 5-gallon cans. $1.25; boiled In barrels, 41.12; 5-gallon cans, $1.27. TUKfKMlNl! In drums. S1.50: five- gallon cans. $1.65. WHITE LEAD 100-pound kegs. per pouna. GASOLINE Tank Wagons and iron barrels. 26c; cases, 37c. Lumber. The following are direct quotations on Douglas fir and represent approximately prevailing f. o. b. mill prices In carlots and are based on orders that have been negotiated: . . Prevailing Flooring . High. Low. Price. 1x4 No. 2 VG $51.00 $47.50 $49.00 1x4 No. 3 VG 43. CM) 39.00 39.00 1x4 No. 2 & B, SG . . 36.00 .... 36.00 lxrt No. 2 & B, SG , . 40.00 39.00 39.00 Stepping No. 2 & B 67.00 05.00 Finish No, 2 and' better 1x8 10-inch 58 00 53.00 Ceiling x4 No. 2 & B 1x4 No. 2 & B 1x4 No. 3 Drop Siding 1x6 No. 2 & B 36.00 38.00 33.00 35.00 36.00 35.00 40.00 38.00 38.00 16.50 Boards and S L No 1 lx8-10-inch S 1 S ... 16.50 lxl2-inch 18.00 Dimension No. 1 S & B . 2x4 12-14 18.50 Planks, small timber 4x4 12-16 S 4 S 21.50 3x10-12 12-16 S 4 S . 20.U0 Timbers, 32 ft. and under-6x6-8x10 S 4 S 28.0O Lath Fir . 4.55 14.50 16.00 15.50 17.50 Oregon Banking and Bond News. Harry De Wolf, cashier of the Bank of Menasha, Wis., is the guest of E. L, Barnes of Portland. Like all eastern visitors, Mr. De voif has been takea over the Columbia highway and, as usual, he said it was the finest drive to be found anywhere. Walter Ringsred. assistant cashier of the Northwestern National bank, is visit ing his mother in Duluth, Minn. He will be away from Portland for another week. George Hardgrove of Spokane, member of the investment banking firm of Ferris & Hardgrove, was visiting the financial district here yesterday. Mr. Hardgrove has just returned from a trip east and i said financial conditions everywhere he went reflect the better business tone throughout the country. He said tne Spokane territory is sharing in the in creased prosperity now so apparent. Pros pects for a good wheat crop in Montana, It was said, have tfiven the Spokane DanKers a much better feeling. Charles H. Stewart, vice-president of tne isortnwestern national bank, will re turn to his desk Monday after helping spread the gospel of the 1925 exposition broadcast over the state with the fair caravan. He has advised his banking associates mat ne la naving a whale of a time on the junket. Mark Skinner, vice-president of th Northwestern National bank is spending the week end at Crescent lake, that in viting sheet of placid water lying up on the ridgepole of Oregon, nestling anions the summits of the Cascades. The fish he Is expecting to share from the waters of the lake are all big. hungry and with the fighting spirit of tigers. -William Duby of Baker, appraiser for the Oregon-Washington Joint stock Jan-i bank, leported to headquarters in the Lumbermens Trust company bank yes terday after a trip to Spokane. He said conditions In the Palouse region are very promising, with crops good and sheep and wool bringing high prices, although cattle quotations are slightly less to the advantage of the grower. George H. Bourhill of Moro, also an appraiser" uf the bank, was at headquarters yester day as well. He said there is a very fair crop of grain in Sherman county, not h record yield by any means, but on the other hand it is not so small as some times happens. H. Marshall, president of the Peoples Sta te bank of Walla Walla, was visiting officials of the United States National bank yesterday on his way back horns from Seaside, where he vacationed. Ht; said Walla Walla county will have three fourths of a wheat crop this year, and while the harvest will be email for the district, the people are by iio means broke nor discouraged. They are all feeling good and doing business, he said. Wheat hauling has started there and th busy season is at hand. Preliminary organization work of the Portland-Pacific coast Joint stock land bank is now practically complete, A. L. Mills, president of the concern and also head of the First National bank, which sponsored it. said yesterday, and extend ing of credit to farmers under the plan of the new institution will be commenced very soon. The Portland bank Is one of four organized in the spring by a group of nine leading banks of the coast and : inter-mountain country. Combined re sources of the nine banks behind the new enterprise are more than $500,000,000. FCOVnMV RUN S CHICAGO MARKET News Generally Bearish and Close Is Weak. EXPORT DEMAND LIMITED Liverpool Wheat Market Heavy at Finish Movement of Corn in Country Is Liberal. . BY CHARLES D. MICHAELS. CHICAGO, Aug. " 17. A decided re versal came in the grain markets, which were weak today as they were strong Thursday. Prospects of a quick settle ment of the rail strike and a partial breaking of the drouth in the corn belt led to general selling. - Stop-losa orders were caught on the way down. Final trades were within a fraction of the bottom, with wheat off 2c to 2c, corn 22c, oats.c and rye c. There was a fair export business at the seaboard, Greece taking 500,000 bushels No. 2 Manitoba and 250,000 bushels win ter wheat also were sold abroad, but the general demand remained slow. Local handlers sold 500,000 bushels to export ers at 5c over September, c. i. f. Buf falo. No. 2 hard, and 4c over for yel low hard. Corn sales here were 300.000 bushels and oats 75,000 bushels. The seaboard sold 350.000 bushels of rye. The reduction In the short interest by the recent advance made the wheat mar ket decidedly susceptible to pressure. With bearish news, there was reinstating of lines recently covered by local pro fessionals. Under $1.02 for December stop-loss orders were uncovered. Houses with eastern connections sold May freely toward the last. Liverpool closed heavy and unchanged to Jd lower, in the face of the upturn in America the previous day. The basis for sales of cash grain to exporters, c. 1. f. Buffalo, was lowered c It was said there was little wheat sold for ship ment after August 20. Spot premiums, however, showed little change. Argen tine new wheat acreage was estimated to show an Increase of 12 per cent. Liquidation was on in corn as the re sult of rains or showers in parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and: Indiana. Septem ber led the decline, touching 59 or 3c under the finish of the previous day. Country offerings were liberal early and hedging sales' found support Limited. Temperatures were lower in all sections and sentiment decidedly bearish. Re ceipts were 114 cars. Oats reflected the weakness in other grains and failed to show any rally ing power. At Minneapolis cash prices were He lower as compared with Sep tember on account of a falling off in the export demand. Domestic call con tinued light. Receipts were 131 cars. Rye showed more strength than wheat, due to the removal of hedges against ex port sales and only moderate hedging pressure from the northwest. CATTLE MARKET STEADY GOOD DEMAND FOIt OFFER INGS AT REGULAR PRICES. Dri-ven-in Hogs Fail to Command Carlot Prices Sheep anil . Lambs Unchanged. ' Only six loads of stock reached the yards yesterday and with the hogs com ing on contract there was not rouch available for the open market. Drive-in hoes did not sell up to full quotations. most of them going at 112.50 to $12.75. I Cattle were steady to strong at uncnangea prices. The sheep and lamb markets were stea,dy. Receipts were 133 cattle, 33 calves and 80 hogs. The day's sales were as follows: GRAIN PRICE DROP Wst. Pee. Wgt. Pee. 14 steers. 805 $5.50 6 lambs.. 65 $9.0O 9 steers. 067 3.0O 4yearl.. 110 7.00 4 cows.. 032 S.50 8 ewes... 127 3.50 22 cows.. 854 5.50 1 buck. . . 10 3.00 12 cows.. 876 4.00 4 steers.. 830 4 00 4 hogs. . 10" 12.75 2 steers.. 815 5.00 lhog... 260 10.25 2 cows , 1125 3.50 1 hog . . . 180 12.75 4 cows. 875 3.00 11 hogs.. 175 12.25 1 cow 720 2.00 9 lambs. 64 0.00 2 cows... 1060 3.25 12 lambs. 65 6.00 29 cows. . . 724 4.00 llamb.. 60 10.50 2 calves. 150 9.0O 7 lambs. 01 9.50, 10 calves. 297 7.00 2 lambs. 0 8.75120 calves. . 198 9.00 llamb . 00 8.501 3 hogs. . . 113 12.25 .8 Iambs. 86 9.50! 1 bull .... 1420 4.00 12 lambs. 85 6.501 Prices quoted yesterday at the Port land Union stockyards were as follows: Cattle Price. Chbice steers . i ' Medium to good steers Common to good steers Choice cows ami heifers .... Medium to good cows, heifers Fair to med. cows, heifers ... Common cows . . . Canners Bulls Choice dairy cajves Prime light calves Medium to light calves Heavy calves Hogs Prime light . . Smooth heavy, 200 to 300 lbs. Smooth heavy. 300 lbs. up ... Rough heavy - Fat pigs Feeder'pigs Stags, subject to dockage' .. .. Sheep East-of-mountain lambs Choice valley lambs Medium valley lambs Common valley lambs 'Cull lambs Light yearlings Heavy yearlings Light wethers Heavy wethers Ewes ! 7.75fS 8.25 7.25 7.75 6.25 7.25 5.75 6.25 4.75 8.50 4.00 4.75 3.50 4.00 2 00GS 3.50 3.00H 8.75 9.0O 9.50 S.50f 9.00 7.50 0 8.50 4.00) 7.50 13 00 13.25 lt.00eil2.0O 10.00 11.00 7.00 9.00 ll.SO 12.50 12.50 13.0O 6.00 9.00 10.0OW tl.OO 9.0(1 Kl. tin 8.00 9 00 6.0O 8.00 5.00 6.00 7.0O 8.00 6.O0 7.0O 6.00 7.0O 5.00 6.00 2.00 5 00 Chicago Livestock Market. -; VJMlUAtiU, Aug. i o. tu. o. department of Agriculture.) Cattle Receipts, 5500; veal calves weak to lower; other classes generally steady; top beef steers, 110.75: bulk, $910.25; beef cows and heifers moutly $57; canners and cutters largely $2.53. to; bologna bulls mostly 4 4.25; veal calves early largely $12(g12.50. Hogs Receipts. 23.000; market fairly active on lighter weights; others slow, 15 to 25c lower: bulk, 130 to liO-peund weight, 9.ooa.oo; if.oa pata tor a few; 175 to 200-pound weight, mostly $9.409.50; 225 to 250-pound butchers, generally $9.109.30: good and choice 280 to 300-pouna butcners. jh.mu.io: packing sows, mostly $7.257.75; pigs 25c lower, bulk around $9; heavy, $3 10 t'9.20; medium, $S.609.55 ; light. $:.15 9.65; light light. $9. 10 9.60; packing sows, smooth, $7.25g8; packing .sows, rough, $6.757.40; killing pigs, $8.75 9.25. Sheep Receipts. 14,000; fat lambs steady to 15c higher; eight cars choic Washington, 413, with 300 out; eight cars good Idahos, $12.70, with 36 per cent sort; feeder ends culls, $12 50; weight 82-pound native lambs, quality plain, bulk, $12.25 12 60 ; no choice na tives sold; early cull natives mostly $; good 121-pound fed western ewes, $7.25; handy medium fat Idaho wethers, $7.50. Omaha Livestock Market. OMAHA, Aug. 18. (U- S. Department of Agriculture Economics.) Hogs Re ceipts, 7000; fairly active; butcher hog steady to strong; bulk 200 to aw-pouna butchers, $88.25, top $9; mixed and packing grades steady to 10c lower; bulk, $77.75. Cattle Receipts. 3000; desirable beef steers fully steady; others slow : top, $10.50 on yearlings and medium weights; veals firm to 25c higher; other classes af stock generally steady. Sheep Receipts. 7000: lambs strong; bulk western lambs, $12.40 12.60. top $12.60; other classes steady; ewes. $6.50. down ; best light feeding lambs held at $12. Seattle Livestock Market.. SEATTLE. Aug. 18. Cattle Steady; receipts, 25; prices unchanged. Hogs Steady; receipts, 80; prices un changed. Swift & Co. Stock". Closing; prices of Swift & Co. stocks at Chlcag-o were reported bv the Overbeck & Cooke company of Portland as fol lows: Swift & Co jo Swift International ' 20 Libby. McNeil & Libby 2 do new " National Leather " 7i RANGE LAMBS TOP THE MARKET Klickitat Growers Experience Good De mand for Sheep. - GOLDB5NDALB. Wash., Aug 18 (Special.) Horace A. White of Roose velt, Wash., owner of several bands of range sheep, was at Goldendale yester day on his way to his home ranch after haYlng -wislted his flocks in sum mer .camps 'on the Columbia national forest reserve. Mr. White reports that the range this season has been very good and that little damage has occurred to flocks from raids by predatory ani mals. He says that Klickitat grass-fed lambs from the mountain pastures in the reserve still continue to top the market for prime stuff. February lambs marketed by the Top penlsh Livestock company weighed 85 V4 pounds in Portland and were sold at 114 cents a pound. A shipment made by Mr. White from the top lambs out of his flocks, delivered in Portland July" 1, weighed 79 pounds and the price received was 12 cents a pound. A later shipment made by iMr. White weighed out 81 pounds the lamb. Buyers are offering 10 cents a pound for mutton lambs on present market to be delivered at Lyle on the main line of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail way in Klickitat county. Spokane mut ton buyers recently have . entered the local market In competition with Port land buyers and local sheepmen are ex pecting an advance over present prices. Coffee Futures Quiet. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. The market for coffee futures remained very quiet, but ruled a shade steadier today owing to reports of a slightly better tone In Bra zil and rather a more optimistic feeling as to business prospects. The market closed 2 to 3 points net higher. Sales were estimated at about 29,000 bags. September. 9.26c; October, December, January, March and May, 9.27c; July. 9 2Jc. Spot coffee, steady; Rio 7s, 0c; San tos 4s, 14 14o. Naval Stores. SAVANNAH, Oa., Atjg. 18. Turpen tine, firm. fl.23H: sales. 151 barrels; re ceipts. 496 barrels; shipments, 409 bar rels; stock. 10,803 -barrels. Rosin Firm. Sales. 987 barrels: re ceipts. 1685 barrels; shipments, 2332 bar rels: stock, 96,996 barrels. Quote: B, V. E, r , t, H, I. 5.205.25; K. 5.35 O.40; M, u. 35o.40; N, $5.455;50; WG, $8.106.13; WW, $.656.75. Metal Market. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Copper, quiet; eleotrolytic, spot and futures. 14c. Tin, steady; spot and nearby. 32.75c; futures, 32.87c. Iron, firm; No. 2 southern, $20(&21. Lead, steady; spot, 5. 75 5. 80c. Zinc, quiet; East- St. Louis delivery. spot, o.lj5-6.2oe. Antimony, spot, 5.25c. Chicago Oil Market. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire ) CHICAGO, Aug. 18. Gasoline Tank wagons. 21c; service stations. 23c; ma chine, 27.9c. Oils Summer. 11.4c; win ter, 11.9c. Carbon perfection Iron bar rels, 10'Ac. Linseed oil Raw, 1 to 4 barrels delivery, $1.04; boiled, $1.06. Turpentine, 51.31. Denatured- alcoho 40c. Boston Wool Market. BOSTON, Aug. 18. The Commercial Bulletin tomorrow will publish wool quotations as follows: Scoured basis: Oregon, eastern No. 1, staple, $1.30; fine and fine medium combing, $1.151.20; eastern clothing, $l.051.12; valley No. 1, $1.071.10. Chicago Potato Market. CHICAGO, Aug. 18. Potatoes firm; receipts 29 cars; total United States ship ments 707 ; New Jersey sacked Irish Cobblers. $1.65 1.70 cwt. ; Nebraska sacked Early Ohios. $11.10 cwt.: part ly graded 8090c cwt.; Minnesota sacked and bulk Early Ohios, $11.15 cwt. Cotton Seed Oil Market. Cotton seed oil futures at New York. Furnished by Jordan-Wentworth A Co., Portland: August $9.80 bid, September $9.75 asked. October $8.898.0- Novem ber I7.897.92, December $7.807.87, January, $7.SB7.S9: February, $7.87. Ouluth Flax Market. DULUTH, Aug. 18. Flaxseed. $2.30 asked; October, $2.27 asked; $2.24 asked; Dec, $2.20 asked. Sept.. Nov., Government to Aid Roadway. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 18. (Special.) The Shea hill section of the Kos-ter-Cascadia road now has the offi cial approval of the federal gov ernment. Copy -of the agreement pigned by Secretary of Agriculture Fall has been received by the Linn county court, whereby the govern ment gives $38,000 to aid in the im provement of the roadway. L1nn county will match this sum. All that is holding back construction work now-is securing right of way, which it is understood will be do nated. Timber Officials at Kelso. KELSO, Wash., Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) George S. Long, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, and Minot Davis, secretary of that company, were Kelso visitors Thurs day, conferring with R. H. Barr re garding timber matters. Mr. Barr's company, the Castle Rock Logging company, is logging a tract of Weyerhaeuser timber on the Co weeman river. The Weyerhaeuser officials look for a continued good demand for timber products. Matthew Small' Estate $47.1 :t I. The late Matthew Small left an estate valued at $47,131.80 according to the report of the three appraisers filed in circuit court. Silverton Tribune. Phone your want ads to The Ore- go-nlan. Main 7070 YOKOHAMA. USSB SS West Orowa. . . . Sept. t. 1st 1 . 1st 1 USSB S3 West K.eais ucl YOKOHAMA, KOBE. HONGKONG. MANILA USSB SS Montague. .. .Sept. 16th USSB SS Eastern Sailor. Oct. 15th For rates, space, etc., apply to - TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT Broadway 6360 508-523 Board of R'llJ PLEASES FARMERS .NOKTHWEST GKOWKHS KX l'KESS SATISFACTION'. Prunes, Potatoes, Vegetables and Cereals Feel Beneficial Effect of Moisture. Reactions of the interior coun try, both in Oregon and Washing ton, to the recent rainfall so much needed by growing crops, are given in the weekly crop report Just Is sued by the Oregon-Washinfrton Railroad & Navigation company. Kverywhere there is much satisfac tion expressed because of the mois ture. Bend reported that the potato crop in the Irrigated sections should be the best In the past three years. From The Dalles it was said the rain will plump out prunes and make a better crop, while it also will be of great advantage to growers of vegetables and email fruits. From La. Grande came the repoil. that the rain was of advantage to spring wheat, although most sec' tions believed It came too late toi be of benefit. It was also salil growing crops and fruits showed much improvement as the result of the moisture. Conditions were saiil to be good for pasture In the Wal lowa country and fall seeding has been started because of the rain that dampened the ground. The report from Joseph said indi cations point to a large average of fall wheat. Haines reported stock in good condition, with pastures improved. L.ewiston, Idaho, advised the rain was of much benefit. Oil lued for Irrigation on Pumps. 1 the problem' Fuel oil will solve of furnishing motive power for the pumps drawing artesian water to the surface of the Fort Rock valley to irrigate hitherto arid lands, was the declaratiqn of H. 51. Park, head of the state bureau of mines in Bend from Fort Rock, where preparations are being made for the sinking of a third test well with state funds. The well is to be located on the ranch of Harry Crampton. Test irrigation which has been carried on this sum mer on the ranch of John Ernst, where the first well was put down last summer, has shown that wood cannot be depended on as an eco nomical fuel, due chiefly to the long haul necessary. Bend Bulletin. Prize Offered for Walnuts. Some weeks ago Dave Cameron brought to the Sheridan Sun a wal nut branch on which 14 walnuts formed -one cluster, a cluster size very unusual in'walnut culture. Last week Carl Graves of the Graves Canning' company, met even honors with Dave by bringing In a similar branch from his trees. Both branches are now on exhibition In Dlnsmore's Jewelry store. This has prompted Mr. Dinsmore to offer a prize of a fountain pen to the one who breaks the tie by bringing in a cluster of more nuts. This offer is not re stricted to the Sheridan vicinity, but includes any walnut section In the state. CUNARHi ANCHOR ANCHOR-DONALDSON CANADIAN SERVICE Via Picturesque St. Lawrence Route. Montreal to Glasgow. CAHSANOKA ..Aug. Si Mrpt.S!) Oct. SI SATLKMA Sept. 8 Oct. Nov. 3 Montreal to Liverpool Al'SONIA Ciept. IS Oct. 14 Nov. 1 1 ALBNIA srpi, uci. i -soi.ii TVKKHENIA (new) Oct. 28 'Dec. S Sails from Halifax. Montreal to ri.vinoutli, Cherbourg and London ANOANIA Aug.2 8ept. Not. t ANTONIA(new) Sept. Oct. 12 Nov. I For Information, tickets, etc., apply to Local A"gents or Company's Office, 2l Second Ave., Seattle. Phone Elliott 1632. 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