2a EOeiEIBQISMiii .26 129H THE MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1923 LIBERTY BONDS FIRMER GAIN'S SCORED BY ALL ISSUES - EXCEPT FIRST Sjls. N E W. E N Dfd 3U0 96 8S 65 O R X UP 10THEB 1TGH! Liberty Issues Rise, Which Is One of Day's Features. EXCHANGE ALSO SOARS do B pfd 500 -t7 88 87 Crucible 3,0l0 81 ttO& tH do pfd &ft Cuban Cane 400 13 13 13 do pfd 1000 38 3ti 37 Cuban-Am Sugar 4,400 23 23 2'A Davison Chem.. 400 2G 25 26 uei c nua i,uuu 13- 131 13a Dome Mines ... 1,500 El St Battery.. 8,600 Endicott John.. 3,700 Erie 6,100 do 1st pfd.... -2,000 Famous Piavera. 2,500 Fed lit & Sm do pfd.... Fisk Tire 6C0 Gen Cigars 44 58 15 11 300 81 434 5ti 57 84 864 y 10 14 14 89 90& 9 51 11 31 81 81 Gen Elec. 3,200 185 179 1S3& German Mar Is About Only One of Foreign Papers That Does Not Experience Advance. 4 DAY'S TRANSACTIONS IN ! STOCK MARKET. Today's total sales, 838,000 shares. Twenty Industrials averaged t 96.75; net gain, 2.72. High, f 1922, 103.43; low, 78.59. J Twenty railroads averaged a 84.51; net gain, .20. High, I 1922, 93.99; low, 73.43. . (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Dec 6. As has hpinea on several recent days, the movements of real significance on today's financial markets were in foreign exchange and liberty bonds. The stock market recov ered rapidly after reaching still lower prices and It closed at respectable net advances for the day, but the stock market's fluctuations are just now pretty negligible as a measure of real condi tions. The day's further a-ance in European exchange rates, however, was at least a commentary on lately prevalent ideas regarding Europe, and the steady rise of the United States bonds, new issue and old ones alike, indicates the character of our own investment situation. Sterling touched $4.56 today, mak ing its advance 5 cents in a week and 10 cents since the second payment of exchequer interest money was made on November 15. Dutch exchange nearly reached parity; Swedish exchange tem porarily went to the highest premium yet Quoted. The franc and the lire both ad yvanced perceptibly. The German mark did not advance; it held around the price of 1 one-hundredths of a cent, from which it has hardly varied in two weeks. The late recovery in stocks, which left the market with some substantial net advances, was ascribed in stock exchange to Secretary Mellon's report, its failure to recommend new taxc and its sugges tion of reduced surtaxes on income. More probably the recovery rras automatic. The secretary's Ideas were known before hand, i For well-known reasons, the condition of the iron market. In regard both to movement of production and movement of prices, Is accepted as reflecting or foreshadowing the course of general business. If output alone is taken as the criterion, today's statement of Novem ber's production is altogether reassur ing. It Is the largest of any month since November, 1920; except for nine months of that excited industrial period, it is the largest since the reaction after the armistice began in the early months of 1919. Compared with November of 1921, average daily output was doubled last month and the daily capacity of Decem ber 1 was larger by 2145 tons or 2 per cent than November's daily average. Although the entire motor group moved pith the general market, certain issues Jn this class- forged far ahead of others. Studebaker, for instance, closed with a net gain of 0 points on heavy buying orders in the afternoon. Chandler gained 1, while the other motors were higher in proportion. In the case of Studebaker, the leader of the entire group, the street was puzzled as to its action during the early dealings when it lost about a poinr The selling in the stock was traced to so-called "Inside sources," but it was later found that the stock which was being sold was merely stock accumu lated last week to support the market According to dispatches from St. Paul late today, the Great Northern directors will take up the dividend question at the regular meeting on December 18. St. Paul officials were quoted as expecting the regular 7 per cent annual rate to be continued, but in Wall street the report persisted that a change would be effected. At the local offices of the company it was reported that no announcement has been received regarding the dividend meeting. Wall street was under the im pression today thaf the presence of many of the Great Northern directors in Chi- cago indicated the holding of the meet ing at that place, but it was explained that the officials were in the city to at tend the session of the association of rail nay executives. Railroad operating officials today were enabled to obtain a more accurate pic ture of the course of the shopmen's strike than they havn had heretofore, through the report of the interstate commerce commission on employ fs and wages in September. The total number of workers curing this month was 1,708.591, an in crease of 114.517, or 7.2 per cent over the number reported for the preceding month, while the total compensation paid these men was more than $238,700,000, an increase of G.l per cent. CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Furnished by the Overbeck & Cooke company oi Portland: 49 14 5 is" 20 19 53 41 42 35 9 76 26 ti-i 20O 169 800 18 13 41 10 31 24 30 77 n" 65 23 32 89 11 47 14 52 ii i 19 53 40 41 34 8 74 25 62 167 18 83 13 45 10 31 51 24 30 80 24 73 68 24 ' 90 11 49 14 52 23 14 20 19 S3 40 34 76 26 64 167 is 200 133V 13.H4 lSSli 1,400 55 54 hi 55 20 26 46 V 48 4 15 15 164 164 226 235 164 164 Mack Truck Mont Power Mont. Ward . . Mo Pacific 27 12 28 15 64 68 20 16 42 Vi 27 12V 27 15 53 68 . 20 Mi 16!4 41 do 6 per cent. Gen Motor 5.300 14 Gen Asphalt ...10,200 4b Glidden faint .. 100 10 Goodrich T &. R. 700 32 & Glen Alden Granby. 200 24 Gt Nor1 Ore 1,800 30i do Dfd .n.4uo KftiL j Greene Cananea. Houstira Oil ... 2,000 C9 Hupp Motor ... 4,JO0 25 III Cent 1,000 108 107 17V4 Inspiration 500 34 33 33 int as uor com T do pfd... 100 32 Interboro 1,500 do pfd.. 1,100 Int Harv 1,200 91 Int. Mer Mar 1,100 11 ao pra ... 2,ow Int Nickel UOO Int Paper 500 Int Comb Er.s Invincible Oil .. 1,100 Is. and Oil Jewel Tea 1,100 K C So 100 do pfd ; 300 Kayaer J 500 Kelly-Spgfld ... l.SOO Kennecotf 11,500 Keystone Tire... 3.U00 Liftlt Steel 100 Lee Tire 200 Lehigh Valley... 2.200 -Lrfjruiara Loew Theaters. L & N Lima Loco .... Marland Oil .... 8,400 27 Maxwell Mot A 700 48 do B - 300 16 May Stores ..... -300 164 Mex Pet . .. 1,800 235 Mex Seaboard... 500 16 viiami t . . 4UU Middle States Oil 3,700 Mldvale Steel ... 3,800 M K & T Wi... 2.500 1,200 100 2,000 800 do pfd 700 Nat Biscuit 245 Nat Enamel .... 200 65 65 65 Nat Lead 800 115 115 115 Nevada Con ... 200 14 14 14 New Haven .... 7,300 21 20 20 Norfolk & W... 1,500 110 109 110 Nor American...-7.500 94 93 93 ivor rao a,oo io ' Nova Scotia Stl N T Air Brake. N T Central 6,500 95 93 ukik rroa ret... l, too Orpheum 700 Ontario & W... 100 Otis Steel ...... 800 Pacific Dev .... 800 Pac Gaa & Elec. 80O Pacific Oil 5,800 Pan Amn Pet.. .49, 000 do B -...30,300 Penna . ..... 1.700 Penna Sea Steel. 900 Peo Gas 1,800 Pore Marquette. 1,300 Philadelphia Co. 300 Phillips Pete ... 300 Pierce Arrow ... 700 Pierce Oil 300 Pitts Coal 3,300 Pitts & West Va 400 Pressed Steel Cr 76 Punta Alegre .. 200 40 46 46 V Pullman 2.600 125 122 125 Pure Oil 1,400 27 27 27 Ray Cons 500 13 13 . 13 Reading 2.000 76 75 76 Remington 1000 Replogle Steel .. 000 Remiblic I &. S.. 900 ao pra Royal Dutch Oil. 3,100 62 61 52 By Steel Spg 111 Saxon Motors ... 5,100 2 1 1 Sears Roebuck... 300 81 79 81 Shattuck & Ariz 7 Shell T & T 1.100 34 84 34 Slncallr 3,100 81 81 31 Sloss Shef 40 Sou Pacific 3,200 87 86 87 Sou Ry 300 23 23 23 do pfd 1.800 64 84 64 Stand Oil Cal .. 9,500 114 111 114 Stand Oil Ind 117 114 117 Stand Oil N J .. 3,600 107 ,194 197 Stand Oil Ky 120 126 128 St L & S F 400 22 .21 21 Stromberg Carb. 1.300 56 55 56 Studebaker 97,000 131 125 131 Swift & Co 10! 108 109 Tenn Coo & Ch 600 9 9 9 Texas Oil 2,900 47 46 Texas Pac 300 Tex Pac C & O. 1,700 Tob Products .. 1,300 Trail Contl Oil . 1,500 Union Bae & P Union Oil . Del . 1.800 16 16 Union Pac 3,700 138 136 137 United Alloy 34 United Drug ... 300 78 77 77 United Food P 700 5 5 ' 5 United Fruit .. 500 153 153 154 United R of N J 11 do pfd 26 United Retail St 5,000 68 65 67 u a u i ripe . . . aoo U S Ind Alcohol 5,700 U S Rub 2,500 do 1st pfd .. 200 U S Smelting .. 200 U S Steel 26,200 102 101 do, pfd 700 121 121 Utah Copper ... 1.500 63 62 a tjnem :ioo do pfd 100 Vanadium Steel. 700 Vivaudou ....... 800 ion 700 19 20 7 1 85 46 99 94 46 3 82 32 40 43 12 4 0 34 36 24 46 19 20 7 84 45 93 88 46 3 89 32 40 41 12 4 69 34 26 12 28 15 64 68 20 16 42 76 26 28 94 2 19 20 7 1 85 46 99 94 46 3 91 32. 40 43 12 4 60 34 85 35 23 23 45 46 Stock. Adams Express. . Advance Rum... Austin Nichols. , Agr Chm do pfd Ajax Rubber ... Alaska Gold ... Alaska Juneau . Allied Chem . . , AlHs-Chalmera .. do pfd Am Beet Sugar. Am Bosch ...... Am Can .Co. . . ; .1 do pl'd Am Car & Fdy.. do pfd Am Cot Oil .... do pfd Am Drug Synd.. Am Hide St Leat do pfd Am Ioe Ant IntI Corp Sales. Hi ph. Low. 4UV 67 V 67 31 400 32 1,200 5,100 tiiH) 400 700 43 11 1 70 42 300 182 182 800 6'i 6 20 10 14 3tu 200 63 62 400 104 104 1,100 i;h 27 200 '2i V 2ft XL Am Lopo ,3,2JO 122 119 do pfd . Am S:if Razor.'. "00 7 6 Am Smelter .... 1,000 52 52 100 100 100 100 14 149 .. 1,700 44 43 do pt'd Am Snuff Am Steel Fdy Am SuRar Am Sumatra . Am Tel & Tel. Am T'hacco . do "II" .... Am Wool .... do pfd do P pfd ... Am Zinc Anaconda .... Assd Oil Atchison do pfd Bid. C7 13 83 30 6S 'i 71 43 95 39 33 V, 71 110 182 122 18 7 6 10 62 104 2S 2 122 119 7 19 62". 99 149 44 60 75 200 2S 600 123 123 123 oou -La-;s 102 22 20 53 12 21 19 52 11 46 21 20 52 12 69 16 62 51 95 39 24 60 49 95 38 24 58 34 14 9 24 IS 57' 110 Wabash do A pfd do B pfd Wells Fargo Western Pac .. 100 16 do pfd 160 57 West Union 4,260 115 Westlnghse A B do E & M ... 1.200 60 West Md 100 12 White Eagle OH 1,500 81 Whito Motors . 700 48 -48 White Oil 1,600 4 4 Willys-Overland. 400 5 5 do pfd 100 40 . 40 Wilson Packing Wisconsin Cen.. Woolworth 500 207 207 Worthington P. 400 27 27 W & L E 600 9 9 Total sales stocks, 756,500. 61 51 95 38 102 120 62 23 58 33 13 9 24 17 88 16 .57 114 98 57 60 12 11 1 31 24 68 33 13 9 24 48 4 5 39 37 2S 207 9 !,900 93 300 100 1,400 25 13 48 92 23' 15 47 150 94 108 25 13 48 100 115 naii 11s 5.000 100 100 100 3it0 90. 3 SOU 00 Atlantic Coast L 3.200 113 113 11SU At! Gulf & W I. 600 24 23 23 Baldwin Loco. ..23.200 121 116 120 5.300 100 !,600 43 do pfd Ba'.to Ohio. do pfd liarnsdall C "Jl do "B" P.elh Steel "B' Booth Fish .. II R T 1,700 15 Butte C & Z. 900 8 Butte & Sup.... 200 29 .Burns tiros A l.SOO 145 32 zoo . 1 6,100 62 41 31 20 60 'is 7 144 46 80 58 7 110 42 57 ! 624 4 15 8 20 H 14 H 4H 8 SO 93 4 S.100 ,141V 139 140 33 "4 do B' . . 'rx 47 Caddo OH 1,700 S Calif Packing .. loo 80 Calif Pet 8.600 tiOTfc do p?J 100 93 4 Call Ztnc & Lead 4f0 7 tanaaian .rac Cen Leather .. Oerro de Pasco.. 7.300 42 Chandler Motor. 6.300 62 i Chfto & N W..,. 2,700 81Vi Chi Gt W 200 4 do pfd 50rt 10 Chile Cop 4,200 2"4 Chlno 700 24i C M & S P 1,400 23 do pfd 3,50 3tP4 Coca Cola S.300 77 C & 0 900 5 4 Colo F & I mo 26 14 Colo So iih 44 ii Col Gas & Elec 1,800 101 H 100-i 101 Colum Graph... ! 24 24 $t Con Gaa 8.600 1254 1244 15 Con Ciirara tJQO Stlft 33 SSU dO pfQ fifl J Con Textile .... 4,000 12H 12 12 ! 42 60 7i 78 4 , 10 20 234 23 35 75 U 604 23 4 44 4 2 60 4$; 274 38 4 76i 5 4 23 444 liberty Bond Quotations. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Liberty bond prices closed as follows: 4s 100.30 1st 44s 98.60 2d 4 4 98.16 3d 4 4s 98.70 4th 44 98.52 Victory 4s, uncalled , 100.80 Victory notes, called 100.00 U. S. Treasury 4 4s i9.72 Money, Silrer, Etc. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Call money, firm. High, 54; low, 5; ruling rate, 5; closing bid, 54; offered at 5; last loan, 54; cull loans against acceptances, 5. Time loans, steady; mixed collateral, 60-90 days, 45; 4-6 months, 4&5. Prime commercial paper, 4. For-lgm bar silver tio Mexican dollars, 4b4. LONDON, Dec. 6. Bar silver, Z26. per ounce. Money, 14 per cent. Discount 1 atea, short and three months' bills, 2 7-l624 per cent. Foreign Exchange. Foreign exchange rates at the ciose of busln-ss yesterday furnished by North western National bank of Portland. The amount Quoted is the equivalent of the foreign unit in United States funds: Country, Foreign unit. . Fate. Austria, kronen .000016 Belgium, francs 0650 Bulgaria, leva .0082 Caecho-Siovakia, kronen 0322 Denmark, kroner ..... .2000 England, pound sterling 4.Si00 .0260 .0707 .000160 .0177 .3005 00068 .0502 .0035 .1S5 .0535 .0067 .0145 .1555 .2700 , 1SU5 .5445 .7400 .4y25 Foreign Ixans Advance Witli Higher Exchange Kates; Spec- illative Rails Are "Weak. . NEW YORK, Dec, 6. Marked irregu larity continued In today's bond market, acute weakness of a number of the spec ulative railroad mortgages being coun terbalanced by the strength of foreign and United States government securities and a better tone amontf industrial liens, Traamg was again comparatively light, but the restraining effect imposed by the uncertainty of the government's new financing was removed after the market olosed by the announcement of a new issue on December 15 of $700,000,000 in short-term notes. Of this sum $400,000, 000 will consist of two issues ofertifi cates of indebtedness, one maturing in three months with a coupon rate of 3 4 per -cent and the other maturing in one year with a 4 per cent rate, and $300,- 000,000 in 24-year treasury notes bearing a 4 per cent coupon. Cash subscrip tions will be accepted for the full $300, 000,000 in treasury notes with the gov ernment reserving the right to Issue ad ditional notes for ail the victory 4 per cent aotes, $700,000,000 of which mature on that date, that are offered for ex change. St. Paul, Erie and Frisco issues were the hardest hit in the reactionary move ment in the railroad group. St. Paul de benture 4s, the 4s of 1925, general 44s and convertible 44s and 5a dropped 1 to 24 points; Erie general 4s and convert ible 4s, series A, B and D, 1 to 14. and Frisco income 6s and adjustment 6s, 14 to 2 points. Frisco issues were sold on publication of a poor earnings report for the first four months of the new fiscal year, but there was no apparent outside reason for the weakness of the St. Paul and Erie groups. Seaboard Air Line stamped 4s and Louisiana & Northwestern 5s also were under pressure. Oil and copper company liens made good progress in the industrial division. Gains of 1 to 14 points were scored by Mexican Petroleum 8s, Pierce Oil 8a, Marland Oil 7 4a, with -warrants, Chile copper 7s and Cerro de Pasco 8s. Donnar Steel 7s broke 2 points and Cuba Cane 8s a-d International Paper 5s, series A, 1 each. Foreign bonds improved in sympathy with the higher exchange rates. Gains of 1 to 24 points were made by Cuba Railroad 7s, Anton Jurgens 6s. Mexjcan 5s, Framerican 7 4s and Holland Ameri can 6s, but Cuba Railroad 5s were weak. Except for siicfht recessions in liberty 34's and the new government 44s, United states government securities improved 10 to 18 cents on $100. Total sales, par value, were $11,813,000. Announcement was made today that a local syndicate, would be awarded $5,000, 000 road bonds of the state of Missouri, for which bids were received yesterday. The $2,000,000 bonds maturing on Decem ber 1, v1923, have - been disposed of an J the $2,000,000 due December 1, 1924, and $1,000,000 due December 1, 1925, will be offered to the public on a 4.30 per cent basis. Public offering was made today of a $4,650,000 issue of consolidated 5 per cent mortgage bonds of the Dominion Iron & Steel company. The price was 85 and in terest to yield 6.46 per cent. New York Curb Stocks. Furnished by Jordan, Wentworth & Co. of Portland: Industrial Acme Coal Mining 55 Acme Packing 35 Buddy-Buds, lnc 1 13-16 Car Lighting & Power 1 Colombian Emerald Syn. 50 Continental Motors 10 Durant Motors, Inc. . 62 Glen Alden Coal .- 50 Mercer Motors 24 Peerless Truck &, Motor . . . . 66 Phiilp Morris 18 Radio Corp of America 34 do pfd ; 215-16 Schulte Retail Stores 57 Southern Coal & Iron 3 Un Retail Stores Candy 54 Wayne Coal 24 Oils Allied Oil 2 Anglo American ....... 10 4 Arkansas Nat Gas Com 8 4 Boone Oi 3 Boston-Wyoming Oil 92 Carib Syndica 44 Cities Service Bankers 104 Cities Service Com .' IDG Creole Syndicate 1 Cushing Petroleum 3 Engineers Petrol Co 16 Federal Oil 70 Gilliland Oil, Com 24 Glenrock Oil 1 Hudson Oil 10 International Petroleum .......... 204 Keystone Ranger Devel 26 Livingston Oil Corp - 5 Lyons Petroleum 64 Mammoth Oil 414 Maraiaibo Oil Explor 15 Merrit 7 Mexico Oil Corp , 87 Mountain Producers 16 Mutual Oil 10 Noble Oil A Gas 22 . Omar Oi: & Gas 93 Producers & Refiners 7 Red Bank Oil ..,..13 Sapulpa Refining 3 Simms Petroleum. 12 South PetroK &, Refining 9 Southwest Oil 1 Standard Oil of Ind. .......1174 Texon Oil & Land , 84 . Victoria 5 "Y" Oil & Gas '. 8 Mining Alaska Brit-Col Metals . Big Ledge Copper Co.... Canada Copper Co Candalaria Silver Cash Boy Consolidated .. Consolidated CoDDer Cork Province Mines 17 Cresson Con Gold M & M 24 Dean Consolidated Corp 65 Divide Extension 11 EI Salvador Silver Mines 2 Ely Con3olidated 3 Emma Silver 2 Eureka Croesus 20 Fortuna Cons. Mining Goldfleld Deep Goldfield Development ..... Goldfield Florence Gofd Zone Divide Harmill Divide , Hecla Henrietta Silver lndepend Lead Mining .... Jerome Verde Devel Knox Divide Lone Star Consol MacNamara Cresc Min..,.., MacMmara Mining 7 Marsh Mining 8 McKinley-Darraeh-Sav 17 Mexican Eagle 0 National Tin Corp , 23 10 . 5 45 1 . 4 ' 1 !3 12 a 14 9 11 8 40 29 2 2 4 Nevada Ophir NipiSoing Mines Ohio Copper , Ray Hercules. Inc Red Hills Florence , Res Consolidated Mining , Sandstorm Kendall Silver Mines of Amer.... Spearhead Success Mining Teck Hughes Tonopah Divide ......... Tonoj.ah Extension United Eastern Mining .. YVCBfc 1'UlliO UfIH. . . 6 2 17 3 45 85 74 3 19-16 15 West End Consolidated 1 7-16 Astoria Butterfat Lower. ASTORIA. Or,, rec. 6. (Special.)- ofonzeOfllj "Mortgage Loan Headquarters" TJ0R 35 years the Portland " Trust Company has been satisfactorily meeting the bor rowing requirements of Port land home owners and builders. Loans on Homes, Flats, Apartments and Business Properties. Portland Trust Company of Oregon SIXTH AND MORRISON e Northwestern Na "An Investment Not a Speculation" -Northwestern Electric Co. 7 Cumulative First Preferred Stock Efficient management coupled with a long record of earning have proven Northwestern Elec tric Co. 7 Cumulative First Preferred Stock to be a sound investment. Price Par to Yield 7 "The Standard Investment Stock of the Northwest" r . G. Tavares I I Mgr. Stock Sales, Northwestern Electric Oov Pittocfc Block, Bdiry. 0580. Name x. ......... .. Address oj Fifty cents a pound for hutterfat is the price set by the directors of the Lower Columbia Dairy association to be paid for the deliveries made to the associa tion creamery during the month of No vember. This la 1 cent a pound less than was paid during the month of Octo ber, but is from 3 to S cents a pound higher than the price prevailing at other points in this district for November. Mining Stocks in Boston. Furnished by the Overbeck & Cooke company of Portland. Bid. Asked. Ariz Com 7 7 Adventure 50 80 Ahmeek 56 5 Algomah 25 40 Allouez 1 20 Arcadian 2 2 Bingham Mine 17 18 Cal & Ariz 53 54 Calumet & Hecla 280 2S5 Centennial 8 9 Cop Rge 36 37 Davis Daly 2 3 East Butte 1 8 Franklin Mfg 1 1 Hancock 2 2 Helvetia 70 71 Island Creek 16 17 Keweenaw 1 1 Kerr Lake 3 3 Lake Cop ;.. 3 4 La Salle 1 1 Michigan 1 2 Mohawk 56 58 May Old Colony 2 3 Mason Valley 1 i North Butte 0 9 NipiEsing 5 6 North Lake 20 40 Old Dom Cop 10 17 Osceola Mng . , , .......... , 27 29 Ojibway 1 2 Quincy Mining 31 33 Pond Creek 20 20' South Lake 38 40 I Supp Boston .1 1 Uni Shoe Mch 42 42 do pfd 26 27 Superior Copper 3 4 ! Shattuck 6 . 8 Tuolumne ,... 47 50 Utah Metals 81 i0 U S Mining 88 38 do pfd 47 47 u. Utah Apex 2 ' 2 Ventura 1 "Wolverine ., 7 8 Wyandotte 25 35 Standard Oil Stocks. Furnished by the Overbeck & Cooke company of Portland: Bid. Asked. Anglo 10 1P Borne Scrysmer ...........585 600 Buckeye 88 00 Cheesebrough ...215 .225 do pfd 112 115 Continental .14G 150 Crescent 43.. 44 Cumberland .............. .100 170 Eureka 09 101 Galena com . GO 53 do Old pfd ....108 110 do New pfd .105 109 Illinois Pipe 165 168 Indiana Pipe 80 90 Nat'l Transit 25 26 N T Transit ;.130 1 135 Northern Pipe 98 100 Ohio Oil ' 72 75 Inter'I Pete 20 20 Penn Mex 18 22 Praire Oil 625 635 Prairie Pipe 313 313 Solar Refg 305 375 Southern Pipe 100 102 South Penn Oil 158 102 S W Penn Oil 67 60 S O Ind 117 117 S O Kansas ................ .655 665 S O Kentucky ' 127 129 S O N X 48 48 S O Ohio 275 285 do pfd 118 120 Swan A Finch 28 30 Vacuum 642 648 Washington 24 28 $6,000,000 Ohio and Northern Gas Company Guaranteed Three-Year 7 Secured Gold Notes Series "A" GUARANTEED BY ENDORSEMENT ON EACH NOTE BY CITIES SERVICE COMPANY PRICE 100 and interest Dated November 1, 1922 Due November 1, 1925 Denominations 1,000, $500 and $100 Authorized $10,000,000; this Series J6,000,000. Interest payable May 1 and Novem ber 1 at the office of -Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc., Chicago, and at the officii or agency of the Company in New Yorfc. Redeemable at the following prices and ' accrued interest: at 105 to May 1, 1923, and thereafter at 105 less 1 for each ex pired six months from date of issue to May 1, 1925, and at 100 during'the last six months. The Company agrees to purchase through Halsey, Stuart- & Co., Inc., if ob tainable at or below par and interest,' $375,000 principal amount of these Notes during the' period ending October 31, 1923, and $600,000 principal amount during each of the v periods ending October 31, 1924 and 1925. The amount of these funds will be in creased or decreased de pending upon the issuance of escrow Notes or reduc tion of this indebtedness under release of property provisions all as set forth in the Trust Indenture. Mr. Henry L. Doherty, President of the Cmpany, svaunmrlzes trmm Us letter to a. as follows i The Company, through stock ownership, will control The Central Ohio Gas Company, Northwestern New York Gas Company, and Manufacturers' Natural Gas Company, Ltd., and will have associated with it (through ownership of bonds) Dominion Gas Company and Southern Ontario Gas Company, Ltd., which com panies directly or through subsidiaries distribute nat ural gas without competition at wholesale and retail "to about 125 diversified communities in central Ohio, northwestern New York and southern Ontario, Canada. Cities Service Company will own directly or indi rectly all the Capital Stock, except. directors' qualify ing shares, of Ohio and Northern Gas Company; and its equity in that Company and Companies to be owned by it (including investment of bonds of associated com panies) is conservatively valued at . substantially $11,000,000 above all indebtedness to the publis, includ- ing this series of Notes. This 6eries of Notes, the proceeds of which will be used to repay certain advancements, will be, in the opinion of counsel, tha direct obligation of Ohio and Northern Gas Company and will be secured by pledge of at least $9,475,000 principal amount of Bonds and Notes of subsidiary and associated companies (which amount includes 90 of all funded debt of subsidiary companies) and all common stock, except directors' qualifying shares, of the three subsidiary companies, and furthermore! will be guaranteed as tot principal, interest and purchase fund payments by Cities Service Company, which had outstanding in the hands of the public on October 10, .1922, $78,798,796.24 preferred stock, $3,512,220 preference stock and $46,593,786.40 common : stock, having' a market value at present quotations in excess of $140,000,000. The replacement property value of the companies to be controlled by and associated with Ohio arid Northern Gas Company is about $26,500,000, . The proportionate value of the properties of these companies to be repre sented by the pledged collateral securing these Notes is approximately ?J.7,O00,000. . , 4 The Trust Indenture will provide that the collateral Becuring these Notes must be so maintained that the earnings (as defined in the Trust Indenture) accruing thereon shall for any twelve month period equal at least twice the annual interest charges on all Notes of this issue outstanding, also that if any collateral shall be released or any escrow notes issued, lie value (as defined in the trust indenture) of the properties represented by pledged collateral must thereafter always remain in the ratio of at last $2000 for each $1000 Note outstanding. The combined gross earnings of subsidiary companies of Ohio and Northern Gas Company, as it will be constituted, including annual income from Bonds to be owned of associated companies, for the twelve months ended September 30, 1922 (as certified by independent auditors), amount to $2,848,039.42, "and the net earnings after deducting operating expenses, in cluding maintenance and nil taxes, amount to $1,024,448.71. Deducting from these net earnings the interest on Divisional Bonds and other interest, charges of such subsidiary companies and annual interest requirement of $420,000 of this series of Notes, the balance of earnings available for depreciation, depletion and dividends amounts to $517,427.76. These Notes are offered for delivery when, as and If Issued and recedved ty us, and 6Ubject to approval of counsel and such public authorities as may be necessary. It is expected that temporary Notes or interim receipts later ex changeable for definitive Notes will be ready for delivery on or about Decem ber 20, 1922. All statements herein are official or are based on information which we regard as reliable, and while we donot guarantee them, we our selves have relied upon them in the purchase of this security. Halsey, Stuart & Co: Carsteris & Earles; Chicago Incorporated New York St. Louis Seattle Incorporated. San Francisco Los Angeles S O Nebraska Imperial Oil . HMT 1&5 113 114 Swift St Co, Stock. Swift & Co. stocks of Chicago as re ported by the Overbeck & Cooke com pany of Portland; Swift & Co. ..108 Libby, McNeil ft Llbby 6 National Leather 7"4 Swift International . 194 Coffee Futures Irregular. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The market for coffee futures closed net eight points lower to six higher. Sales . were esti mated at about 55,000 bags. December, 9.85c; Januray, 0.74o; March, 9.54c; May, 9.21c; July, 8.92c; September, 8-45c. Spot coffee steady; Rio 7s, 11c; Santos 4s, 1515& ' " Cottonseed Oil. Cottonseed oil futures at New York furnished by Jordan-Wervtworth & Co.: December, $9.469.50; January, $9.55 9.B8; February, $9.269.24; March, $8.709.72; April, $9.759.81;. May, $9.879.88; June, $9.889.97; July, $9.8 10.03. Spot, $9.48. Total sales, 2500. - Naval Stores. SAVANNAH, Dec. tt. Turpentine Firm; sales. 1788 barrels; receipts, 193 barrels-; shipments, 159 barrels; stock, 13,243 barretB. Rosin Firm; sales, 1187 barrels; re ceipts, 2145 barrels; stock, 108,222 bar rels. Quote: B, D. E, $5.10; F. G, J5a2; H, I, $5.15; K. $5.20; M. $5.30; N, $5.50; WO, $5.85; WW, $6.50. Chicago Oil Market. CHICAGO, Dec 6- Gasoline Tank wagons, 18c; service stations, 20c; ma chine, 27.7c Oils, summer, 11.4c; win ter, 11. 9c Carbon perfection, iron bar rels, 11 Mc. Linseed oil, raw, one to four barrels delivery, 79c; boiled, 99c, Tur pqntlnft, $1.76; denatured alcohol, 42c. Finland, finmark France, francs ............ Germany, marks Greece, drachmas Holland, guilders .......... Hungary, kronen , Italy, lire Jugoslavia, kronen Norway, kroner Portug'-tl, escutlos Roumania lei Serbia, dinara Spain pesetas ............. Sweden, kronor ... ... ...., Switzerland, francs .., China Hongkong, local currency , . Shanghai, taels , Japan, yen NEW YORK, Dec 6. Foreign ex change irregular. Great Britain, de mand $-56Vi ; cables $4.56 ; 60-day bills on banks $4.54: France, demand 6.99; cables 7.00; Italy, demand 4.96; tables 4.9&; Belgium, demand 6.43H: cables 6 44; Germany, demand 013-16; cables .01 "4 ; Holland, demand 39.93: 23NLcables 39.96; Norway, demand 18.87; Sweden, flemana ae.yu; Denmark, de mand 20 50; Switzerland, demand 18.87; Spa in d eraand 1 5. 50 ; G reece, d emand 1.02; Poland, demand 00 ; Czecho slovakia, demand 3.10; Argentina, de mand 37.68; Brazil, demand 12.30; Mon treal. 100. Sugar Market. 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