THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1907. PUN OF HOPMEN May Take Over Southern Pa cific Warehouses. ARE NEEDED FOR STORAGE Jtallrond Company FaTors Such an Arrangement Meeting to Be Held In Portland to Con sider the Matter. The hop dealers of this state have under taken to solve the vexed warehouse problem. Some time ago the Southern Pacific served notice on the trade that It would abolish the practice of handling hops on storage, and since then the dealers have been trying to devise some way by which the crop can be handled without Interfering with ship ments. A. J. Ray, of this city, believes the best plan Is for the dealers to take over the railroad company's warehouse, and he has sent letters on the subject to all the dealers in the state. A meeting of the trade will be held In Portland this week to consider the matter. It Is understood that the Southern Paclflo favors this plan, on condition that no par tiality is shown any of the shippers. The warehouses that the dealers propose to ope rate are In Portland, Ealem, Woodburn and Aurora. The Independence warehouse has already been turned over to Joseph Hlrsli berg. There may not be any money In the hop warehouse business, but the movement of the coming crop, will be facilitated If some such arrangement Is made. The market In the latter part of the week has been a dragging affair. Only a few small lota have changed hands and the de mand from the East has practically ceased. George Dorcas, who has returned from an automobile trip through the Marion County hop sections, says there will be no bumper crop of hops this year. He found the yards generally looking fair, but there were plenty of poor ones aiid no end of lice. Aocordlng to the Albany Herald, most cf the growers in that vicinity are inclined to believe that a good average crop will be harvested If present conditions continue. Most of the yards In that part of Bonton County have been well cultivated and cared for, and consist of several hundred acres, owned as follows: John and Ben Harris, of Wells, 25 acres; Lee Brown, 80 acres; Nels & Co.. BO acres; Barney Cady, 13 acres; Dr. Ieeper, 30 acres; Antone Hubert, 15 acres; Mr. Webber, IS acres; Mrs. Brush, 30 acres. A dispatch from Puyallup says that not withstanding the fact 'that many hop growers predicted a short crop this Fall, the vines are looking better every day, and with careful spraying there will be an average crop of first-class quality. About Ortlng are a number of comparatively new yards that show, strong growth. FCTTTVG EGG MARKET IN GOOD SHAPE Front Street Will Meet Eastern Competition and Try to Reduce Oregon Surplus. A meeting of the Wholesale Produce As sociation was called by President W. B. Glafke yesterday afternoon to consider the egg question. It developed that the street was long on Oregon eggs, something like two carloads having accumulated, and It was decided that something must be done Immediately to relieve the situation. The trouble was said to be caused by creameries and other outside firms bringing in Eastern eggs, which could be sold under the Oregon quotation, and while these outsiders were filling up the demand with their stock, the home product was piling up and not moving on the street. To restore conditions to a normal basis, it was agreed that Oregon eggs should be put out at a price that the handlers of Eastern eggs could not meet. Thus, at the same time that the Eastern eggs are being boycotted. It Is hoped the sur plus of Oregon eggs will be reduced. Whether the plan Is successful will de pend largely on the good faith the dealers how in keeping the agreement. If any of them are selling Eastern eggs in Oregon cases, as they allege people off the street are doing, the market will continue in the same muddled condition. Fair play, how ever, will enable them to clear the atmos phere and put the market on as healthy a basis as is possible in hot weather. Melon and Lemons In Strong Demand. The strongest demand in the fruit line yesterday was for lemons and watermelons. The former were quoted very strong. Two cars of melons came in and the dealers had all they could do In filling their local and shipping orders. A car of cantaloupes also arrived. Peaches were plentiful and the shipments were generally better .than those lately received. Turloch cantaloupes "Kill be in by express Monday. A straight car was started from there for Portland yesterday. Buys 00,000 Pounds of Prunes, Banford LasBelle, of the prune packing and shipping firm of LAsselle Bros., sayh the Albany Herald, has returned from a trip to Creswell, where he bought 200,00 pounds of dried prunes from Dr. Scar- borough. This Is considered quite a large deal at this season of the year, when nearly all the prune crop Is contracted for. Mr. LasseUe says that he has several other or chards In view which he expects to contract tor the output. Spot and Contract Wheat Dull. The little new wheat contracting that is being done is more In the nature of feeling the market than anything else. Buyers, as a rule, are not disposed to take hold for a time yet. and farmers . view the offered prices with indifference. Borne business In spot wheat was reported yesterday at a. de cline from previous quotations. Po til try Market Closes Weak. The poultry market closed easy for the week. The demand fell off yesterday and it was with some difficulty that supplies cleaned up. Cheese was firm at the recent advance. There were no new developments in the butter market. Teasel Harvest Is At Hand. The teasel harvest is at hand, says theOre gon City Courier, and George H. Gregory, one of the most extensive teasel growers in the state, whose teasel yards are In the vicinity of Mollala. will begin the first of next week the harvesting of his crop, which will be very large. ' . Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of the leading cltlee of the Northwest yesterday were: ., . ' Clearings. Balances. Portland $1,087,375 JU7.744 Seattle 1..W.4M 23B.2R7 Tacoma 787.275 2.4'M Spokane 864,466 130,571 Clearings of Portland. Seattle and Tacoma for the paat week and corresponding weeks in former yeara were: ,,t F.rtJV?; Tacoma. JJJ - i'?5-sl2 "B9'-S 5.0S8.6.-!9 1&"6 6.2S0.5N8 8,181. 1(43 3 738 1M 10"5 4.266.43 7.074.849 8 442 2"3 lfH 3.610,532 4.756.418 1 846 420 I1 8.308.0R8 4.W7.23S 1 816'45Q I0O2 S.661.634 3.41S.U8 18tst7T l&Ol 1.817.503 2.S14.813 'Ki2,ZSZ 1 PORTI.AXn QUOTATIONS. Grain, Flour. Feed, Etc MILLSTUFFS Bran, city tlT. countrv (18 per ton; middlings, (24.5025.S0; shorts, city $19, country, $20 per ton: chop, $159 16 per ton. WHEAT Club. 83c; bluestem. 85c; Valley, 80c: red, SOc. OATS Producers prices: ro. 1 white, $27.50428; gray, nominal. FLOUR Patent. $4.80; straight, $4.25; clears. $4.25; Valley, $4.30'&4 40; graham flour, $44.50; whole wheat flour. $4.25 4.75. BARLEY Producers' prices: Feed, $21.50 f 22 per ton; brewing, nominal; rolled, $23.50&24.B0. CEREAL FOODS Rolled oats, cream, !0 pound sacks. $7; lower grades, $5.GO'&6.50; oatmeal, steel-cut, 45-pound sacks. $8 per barrel; 9-pound sacks, $4.25 per bale; oat meal (ground), 45-pound sacks, $7.50 per barrel; 9-pound sacks, $4 per bale; split peas, per 100 pounds, $4.25 4.80; pearl bar ley, $4(4.50 per 100 pounds; pastry flour, 10-pound sacks. $2.30 per bale. CORN Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per ton. HAY Valley timothy. No. 1 $1T18 per ton: Eastern Oregon timothy, $2123; clover, $U: cheat. $'J10; grain hay, $94(10; alfalfa, $13 14. Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Etc. BUTTER City creameries: Extra cr em ery. 27c per pound; State creameries: Fancy creamery, 2527tac; store butter, 10 20c. CHEESE Oregon full cream twins, 15H 16c; Young America, 1614 17c per pound. POULTRY Average old hens. 13 14c; mixed chickens, 13c; Spring chickens. 16 17c; old roosters, 10c; dressed chickens, 1617c; turkeys, live, 1215c; turkeys, dressed, choice, nominal; geese, live, per pound, 8llc; ducks, 814c; pigeons, $1 1.50; squabs, $23. EGGS Fresh ranch, candled, 2223c per dozen. Vegetables, Fruits. Etc DOMESTIC FRUITS Cherries. 812o per pound; apples, $1.50 2.25 per box, Spltzenbergs, $3.50 per box;.- cantaloupes. $2.503.50 per crate; peaches, 60c 6$1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.251.50; blackberries, 812Hc per pound; loganber ries, $1 per crate; prunes, $1.601.75 per orate: Watermelons, l-2c per pound; plums, $l.u01.65 per box; pears, $2.25; apricots, $1.50 2 per box. TROPICAL FRUITS Lemons, $5T per box; oranges, sweets, $3.25 3.50: Valencia. $3.754.50; grape-fruit, $2.503.60; ba nanas, 5a per pound, crated 5 Vic. ROOT VEGETABLES Turnips, $1.75 per sack; carrots, $2 per sack; beets, $2 per sack; garlic, 8c per pound. FRESH VEGETABLES Artichokes, 80 60c per dozen; asparagus, 10c per pound; beans, nominal, 85c; cabbage, 2Vic per pound; celery, $1.25 per dozen; corn, 25(&35o oer dozen: cucumbers. 50c $1 per box; egg plant, 10c pound; let tuce, head, 250 per dozen; lettuce, notnouse, $1.50 per box; onions, 15 20c per dozen; parsley, 20c per dozen; peas, 4 5c per pound: peppers, bell, 12 15c per pound; radishes, 20c per dozen; rhubarb, 8Vio per pound; spinach. 6c per pound; squash, 50i $1 per box; tomatoes, $11.25 per crate; hot house, $2.50. ONIONS Walla Walla, $2.25 per pound. DRIED FRUITS Apples. 88e''pound; apricots. 16 19c; peaches. ll-3c; pears. 11 14c; Italian prunes. 26c; Califor nia figs, white, in sacks, 5 BVic per pound; Hack, 4 5c: bricks, 75c$2.25 per box: Smyrna, 18H20o pound; dates, Persian. 6 W 7c pound. POTATOES New, lH2c per pound. Groceries, Nuts, Eto. RICE Imperial Japan, No. 1, 654o: South ern Japan, 6.10c; head, 7 Vic COFFEE Mocha, 24 28c; Java, ordinary, 1720c; Costa Rica, fancy. 1820c; good, 16 18c; ordinary, 12 10c per pound. Columbia roast, cases, 100s, $14.50; COS, $14.76: Ar buckle, $16.50; Lion, $15.75. SALMON Columbia River. 1-pound talis. $1.75 per doz. ; 2-pound tails, $2.40; 1-pound flats. $1.10; Alaska, pink, 1-pound tails. 95c; red, 1-pound tails, $1.25; eockeyes, 1-pound tails, $1.70. SUGAR Sack basis, 100 pounds, cube. f0 12Vi; powdered, $6.02; granulated, $5.87; extra C, $5.87; golden C, $5.27; fruit sugar, $5.87 ;' berry, $5.87; XXX, $5.77. Advance sales over sack basis as follows: Barrels, 10c; barrels, 25n; boxes, 50c per 100 pounds. Terms: On remittances within 15 days deduct Vo per pound; if later than 15 days and within 30 days, de duct c; beet sugar. $5.77 per 100 pounds; maple sugar, 15 18c per pound. NUTS Walnuts, 16 20c per pound by sack; Brazil nuts, 19c; fllgerts, 16c: pecans. Jumbos, 23c; extra large, 21c; almonds, 18 20c; chastnuts. Ohio, 17c: Italian, 14 15c; peanuts, raw, 68c per pound: roasted, 10c; plnenuts. 10l2c; rlckory nuts, 10c; cocoanuts, 35 90c per dozen. SALT Granulated. $14 per ton; $2 per bale; half ground, 100s, $10.50 per ton; 50s, $11 per ton. BEANS Small white. 8c; large white, 8c; pink. 8c; bayou, 8c; Lima, 6c; Mexi cans, red. 4c. HONEY Fancy. $3.25 3.50 per box. Dressed Meats. VEAL Dressed, 75&125 pounds, 88v4c; 123150 pounds, 7c; 150 & 2oO pounds, 6c; 200 pounds and up. 56c BEEF Dressed bulls, 84o per pound; cows. 60c; country steers, 6Vi if 7c MUTTON Dressed, fancy, 8 9c per pound; ordinary, 6 7c; Spring lambs, 9 0 9c per pound. PORK Dressed. 100130 pounds, 88c 1506 200 pounds, 77o; 200 pounds and up, tilUiOHc- Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc HOPS 67c per pound, according to quality. WOOL Eastern Oregon, average best, 16 ffZia per pound, according to shrinkage; Val ley, 20a22c, according to tlnenesa MOHAIU Choice, 2930c per pound. CAHCARA BARK Ola, less than car lots. 85c; car lots. 6c; new, 45c pound HIDES Dry, No. 1, 16 pounds and up 18c per pound; dry kip. No. 1, 5 la 15 pounds, 15 l6c per pound; dry calf. No. 1, under A pounds. 20c; dry salted: Bulls and stags, one third less than dry flint; culls, moth-eateu. badly cut. scored. murrain. hair-slipped, weather-beaten or grubby, 2c to 8c per pound less: palted steers, sound, 60 pounda and over, be pound; steers, sound, 50 to 60 pounds, 69o pound; steers, sound, under 50 pounds, and cows, 8(&c pound; stags and bulla, sound, 5 trtic pound; kip, sound, 15 to 30 pounds, 8gac pound; veal, sound, under 10 pounds, 11c; calf, sound, under 10 pounds, 1112c pound: green (unsalted), lo pound less; culls, lc pound lt?B: sheepskins, shearings, Ifo. 1 butchers' stock, 25&30C each; short wool," No. 1 butch ers' stock, 50 60c each; medium wool. No. 1 butchers' stock, $1.251.50 each; murrain pelts, from 10 to 2o per cent less, or 13&14o pound; horse bides, salted, according to size. $212.50 eaehr; hides, dry, according to size, $11.60 each: colts' hides, 2550c each; goatskins, common, 1525c each; goatskins. Angora, with wool on. 3ocl$1.50 each. FURS Bearskins, as to size. No. 1, $5 20 each; cubs, $1513 each; badgBr, prime, 25 dfoOc each; cat, wild, with head perfect, 30 605c; eat. house. 520c; fox. common gray, large prime, 6O70c each; red, $36 each; cross, $515 each; silver and black. $100 800 each; fishers, $5g8 each; lynx, $4.606 each; mink, strictly No. 1, aeocrding to size, $l3 each: marten, dark northern, according 10 elze and color, $10 15 each: pale, pine, according to size and color, $2.5o4 each; mu&krat, large. 1215c each; skunk, 80 40c each; civet or polecat, 5 16c each; otter, for large, prime skins, $010 each; panther, with head and claws perfect, $2 6 each; raccoon, for prime, large, 5075c each; wolf, mountain, with head perfect, $3.505 each; prairie (coy ote), 60c$l each: wolverine, $68 each. . Provisions and Canned Meats. BACON Fancy breakfast, 22c pound; stand ard breakfast, 19c; choice, 18c; English, 11 to 14 pounds, 16c; peach, 15c. HAMS 10 to 11 pounds, 16c pound; 14 to 16 pounds, 16c; 18 to 20 pounds, 16c; picnics, 12c; cottage, 12o; shoulders, 12c; boiled, 25c. SAUSAGE Bologna, long. 8c; links, Tc. BARRELED GOODS Pork, barrels, $20; half-barrels. $11; ' beef, barrels, $10; half barrels, $5.50. DRY SALT CURED Regular short clears, dry salt, 12c; smoked, 13c; clear backs, dry salt. 12c: smoked. 13c; clear bellies. 14 to 17 pounds average, dry salt, none; smoked, name; Oregon exports, dry salt, 13c; smoked, 14c. LARD Kettle rendered: Tierces, 12e; tubs, 124c; 50s, lSc; 20s, 127j: 10s, 13Vc; 5s. 13&c; Standard pure: Tierces, llc, tubs, llHc; 50s. llfcc; 20s. llc: 10s, 12Vc; 6s, 12vc. Compound: Tierces. 9Vic; tubs, 9c. 60s. 9c; 10s. 10c; 6s. 10c Dairy Produce In the Bast. CHTCAGO, July 20. On the Produce Ex change today the butter market was firm. Creameries, 21 25c; dairies. 18f4 22c. Eggs steady; at mark cases included, 12(9 14 Jic; firsts, 14 c ; prima firsts, J6c Cheese, 1213Hc, steady. NEW YORK, July 20. Butter and eggs, firm, unchanged. BOSTON PHONE CO. Enter Field With $5,000,000 System Against Trust, Backed by Harrlman. Special by leased wire, the longest In the world. Boston, June 9. IX H. Harriman has entered the local telephone field by offer ing to back an Independent company against the trust. He has guaranteed Jo, 000.000 to Insure the Installation of an Independent - system In this city. In a very few weeks It Is probable the new company will decide upon Its system and the work of installing an exchange of about 1000 subscribers will be begun. San Francisco Examiner. FEW STOCKS ACTIVE Sluggish Movement in New York Market. TONE OF PRICES IRREGULAR Southern Pacific Helped hy Its An nual Statement and Telegraph Companies Benefitted by Settlement of Strike. NEW YORK, July- 20. The bad weather was partly responsible for a large list of absentees from the Etock Exchange today and alao for the languid and desultory move ment of prices. Only a few stocks mide movements of any Importance and the slug gish movement in the general list was in sympathy with these. Southern Pacific moved upwards with some vigor as an effect of the heavy surplus of net earnings for the fiscal year ended June 80, which was reported yesterday. The stocks of the telegraph companies sold op briskly In consequence of the settlement of the strike at Ban Francisco. Union Paclflo did not fully sympathise with Its subsidiary stock and the Hill stocks also were, unresponsive. The markedly easier tone of both call and time money with the progress of the week left no room for solicitation over the present condition of the bankB. Beat prices were made after the publication of the bank statement. Discounts In London were easier today and copper securities, there continued to Improve. Profit-taking made the closing tone irregular and left a mixture of small losses in prices. Total sale of bonds, par value. 1254,000. There have been some active operations dur ing the week, but they were confined to the Western railroad stocks and were interrupted by evidence of weakness at other points. The Harrlman and Hill groups were the leaders of the advlnclng tendency. . The movement In the Harrlmans, which had been in progress ever since the appearance of the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the Harrl man investigation, was helped by the publl- ;-catlon of the estimates of the year's earnings, showing a heavy surplus for bojh roads. Movement in the Hill stocks was the result of Industriously circulated rumors of an increase In the disbursements of the profits and of a readjustment of the Burlington ownership with an intended distribution of the proceeds to Northern Paclflo stockholders. There was no official sanction for these rumors. The easing of the money market also favpred the speculative operations of the long side, although the prospect of an early develop mmt of the interior demand for currency to move the crops is a conservative Influence in estimating the money outlook. The ujisettllng Influences have been the signs of instability in the metal markets. The decline In the price of copper has not yet brought In buying in full volume, although some large takings were reported toward the end of the week. New orders for steel products are reported to be de creasing and the market for pig Iron has be come Intensely dull with talk of a probable decline In prices. There has been no perceptible revival of In vestment demand for bonds. United States 2s registered have advancd 14 and the 8s coupon per cent on call during the week. CLOSING. STOCK QUOTATIONS. Closing Bales. High. Low. Bid. Adams' Express 160 Amai. Copper ... 24.600 92 8114 1 Am, -Car & Foun. 600 44 44 4S do preferred 100 Am. Cotton OH.. 800 83V4 83 8 do preferred ..... ..... 86 American Express ..... :. 210 Am. Htl. & Lt. pf 16 Am. Ice Securi.. 100 62 62. BS Am. Linseed OUT. 10 do preferred 23 Am. Locomotive .. 600 -68 68 68 do preferred .... . 104 Am. Smelt. A Ref. 900 118T4 118 11S do preferred -.. loo Am. Sugar Ref 123 Am. Tobacco ctfs 63 Anaconda 'Mln. Co. 1,600 69 68 68 Atchison S.4lK 82 9lii 92 do preferred 5O0 93 93 93 Atl. Coast Line.. 1 98 9K 98 Bait. & Ohio 800 88 98 97 do preferred Brook. Rap. Tran. 2,600 67 66 56 Canadian Pacific.. 1.400 178 177 178 Central of N. J.. 180 Chea. & Ohio 900 35 86 35 Chi. -Gt. Western.. 600 11 11 11 Chicago & N. W.. 600 161 150 151 C, M. & St. P.. 6.200 135 184 184 Chi. Ter. & Tran 8 do preferred ..... ..... 16 C. C, C. & St. L. 68 Colo. Fuel & Iron 800 82 31 31 Colo. & Southern 2,000 25 24 25 do 1st preferred. 69 do 2i preferred.. 400 46 ' 45 45 Consolidated Gas.. ' 117 Corn Products ...... 72 Del. & Hudson -. 172 Del., Lack. & Wes. 4H5 D. & R. Grande.. 1.100 28 28 27 do preferred ........... ..... ..... 71 Distillers' Securi 66 Erie 1,000 25 25 25 . do 1st preferred. 100 69 69 69 do 2d preferred.. 2l 42 41 41 General Electric. 1.600 140 137 140 Illinois Central... 800 145 145 143 Int. Paper 14 do preferred ..... 71 Int. Pump 23 do preferred .... ...... 70 Iowa Central 17 do preferred .. 200 89 89 88 K. C. Southern... 600 27 27 27 do preferred 67 Lou'.s. & Nash.... 700 118 11T 117 Mexican Central 21 Minn. & St. L 100 41 41 41 M..St.P A S.8. M. 107 do preferred .... ...... ..... ..... 136 Missouri Pacific 75 Mo., Kan. & Texas 1,300 85 35 . 35 do preferred 200 66 66 66 National Lead ......... ..... 61 Mex. Nat. Ry. pf 60 N. Y. Central 600. 113 113 113 N. T..Ont. & Wes. 200 86 36 36 Norfolk West 76 do preferred 70 North American .. 600 . 68 67 68 Paclflo Mall 1.900 31 81 31 Pennsylvania .... 8,600 124 123 124 People's Gas 91 P.. C. C. & St. L 68 Pressed Steel Car. 100 85 35 8ft do preferred 90 Pullman Pal. Car. 100 162 162 I8O Reading 62,700 105 104 104 do 1st preferred .' 80 do 2d preferred.. 78 Republic Steel ..... 28 do preferred .......... ..... i.... 84 Rock Island Co.. 100 22 22 22 do preferred.... 200 47 47 47 Rubber Goods pf 8 Ft.L & S. F. 2 pf. 200 87 87 37 St. L. Southwest. 21 do preferred 61 Southern Pacific... 42,100 85 82 84 do preferred .... 1O0 112 112 111 Southern Railway. 200 20 20 20 do preferred ..... ..... 66 Tenn. Coal A Iron 144 Texas & Pacific. 100 80 80 30 Tol.,St. L. 8c Wes. 200 27 27 28 -do preferred .... 5O0 49 49 Union Pacific .... 46,100 145 144 1?T do preferred fla II. S. Express 305 U. S. Realty 62 U. S. Rubber .... 7,209. 35 34 35 do preferred ps' U. S. Steel 17,500 87 38 88 do preferred .... 600 100 100 lnou Va.-Caro. Chem... .... 28 do preferred 101 Wabash ..... ... 13 do preferred .... 25 Wells-Fargo Ex... .. 280 Westinghouse Elee. 400 146 145 146 Western Union ... 700 80 78 80 Wheel. & L. Erie 10 Wisconsin Central 17 do preferred 40 Northern Pacific... 11,800 137 136 136 Central Leather 23 do preferred 91 Sloes-Sheffield 67 Gt. Northern pf.. 4,900 138 137 187 Int. Metal 15 do preferred ..... 44 Total sales for the day. 238,700. BONDS. NEW YORK, July 20. Closing quotations: U. S. ref. 4s reg,105HN. Y. C. O. 8c. 90 do coupon. ... 105 North. Pac. 3s... 70 U. S. Ss reg 102 North. Pac. 4s... 100 do coupon. .. .103 , South. Pac. 4s...'87 U- S. new 4s reg. 127 I Union Pac. 4a.. 99 do coupon. .. .128Wls. Central 4s. 84 Atchison adj. 4a 88 Jap. 6s 2d series. 99 D. & R. G. 4s... 93jap. 4s ctfs.... 90 Stocks at 1ondon. LONDON, July 20. Consols for money, 84.; do for account, 84 1-18. Anaconda UTslMo., Kan. & T... 86 . 95 . 96 N. T. Central . . . 116 78 87 37 63 INorfolk & W7est. ,100 ao preierreu.. Ontario West. Pennsylvania . .. Rand Mines Reading Southern Ry do preferred.. .182 39 I . 11! .138 . 22 29 I " 26 . 62 . 43 . 29 14S .120 I 6 63 20 69 S4 148 89 37 103 14 26 Southern Pac... Union Pacific... do preferred... U. S. Steel do preferred . . Wabash do preferred. . ' Money Exchange, Eto. NEW YORK, July 20. Money on call. nominal. Time loans, dnll and easier; 60 days, 4 per cent; 80 days. 6 per cent; six months, 6, fr6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 6S6 per cent. Sterling exchange, steady, with actual Busi ness in bankers' bills at 4.8685ff4.90 for demand and at 4.83654.8370 for 60-day bills. Posted rates, S4.844.87. Commercial bills, 4 834.83. Bar sliver, 68 c. Mexican dollars. 63c. Government bonds, steady; railroad bonds. Irregular. LONDON. July 20. Bar sliver, 81d per ounce. Money, 1T2 per cent. The rate of discount In the open market for short bills Is 33 per cent; for three months' bills, 8ig3 per cent. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. Silver bars, 68e. Mexican dollars, 62a. Drafts Sight, 10c; telegraph, ISo. Sterling on London, 60 days, $4.84; sight. S4.87. , Eastern Mining; Storks. BOSTON. July 20. Closing Quotations: Adventure ..1 Alloues ..... Amalganiatd Atlantic 2.50 45.00 94.87 12.25 Parrot . ..., 19.00 Qulncy ......117.50 Shannon .... 17.37 Tamarack 107.00 Trinity 22.75 United Cop... 64.00 U. S. Mining. 48.25 U. 8. Oil 8.1.0 Utah 43.75 Victoria 7.00 Winona 9.50 Wolverine ...161.00 Bingham 15.60 Cal. 4 Hecla.805.0o Centennial 29.50 80.50 16.50 14.23 2000 5.50 14.25 82.00 2.75 45.00 Cop. Range.. Daly West . Franklin . . . Isle Royale.. Mass. Mining Michigan . .. Mohawk Mont. C. C. O. Dominion North Butte.. 82.87 Butte Coalit. 2o.3 1 Nevada 14.50 Cal. & Arls,. 167.00 Aria. Coml... 25.75 Osceola 128.00 NEW YORK, July 20. Closing quotations! Adams Con..... 9 Alice 390 Breece 20 Brunswick Con.. 23 Comstock Tun... 25 Con. Cal. & Vs.. 64 Horn Silver 140 Iron Silver 223 Leadvllle Con... .8 Little Chief 6 Ontario 400 Ophld .....180 PotosI 16 Savage 62 Sierra Nevada... 88 ISmall Hopes .... 30 Standard ISO PORTLAND LTV K STOCK MARKET. Prices Currant locally on Cattle. Sheep and Hogs. The livestock market ruled steady at un changed prices. Receipts were 48 cattle and 23 calves. The following prices were quoted Id the local market yesterday: CATTLE! Best steers, $3.8534; medium, $3.26'3.60; cows, $3; fair to medium cows, $2. 60S 2. 75; bulls, $22.50; calves, $45. SHEEP Good sheared, $44.25; lambs, $5.25&5.S0. HOGS Best, $8.6696.76; lights, fats and feeders, $6.256.60. ' Eastern Livestock - Prices. CHICAGO, July 20. Cattle Receipts, 800; steady. Beeves, $4.607.25; good to prime steers, $3.7037.25; poor to medium, $4,603? 6.65; stockers and feeders, $2.80 5.00; cows and heifers, $1.505.25; calves, $5.607.25. Hogs Receipts, 10,000. Strong. Mixed, $5.666.10; good to choice heavy, $3.80 6.93; heavy, $5.30 5.95; rough, $5.30 5.60; light. $5.80S6.12; pigs, $5.606.03. Sheep Receipts, 4000. Steady. Sheep, $3.73 09.90; lambs, $5.767.40; Western sheep, $4.006.90; yearlings, $6.00 6.60; Western lambs, $5.75 7.60. KANSAS CITY. July 20. Cattle Receipts, 600. Unchanged. ' Hogs Receipts, 6000. Market 6c higher. Heavy, $5.755.80; packers, $5.80(33.97; pigs and lights, $5.906.02. Sheep Receipts, none. Market, nominally steady. SOUTH OMAHA, July 20. Cattle Re ceipts, 800. Market, unchanged. Hogs Receipts, 8000. Market 60 higher. Heavy, $5.7005.82; mixed, $3.75 5.80; light, $6.82i56.93; pigs, $3.255.85. Sheep Receipts, 100. Market. steady. Yearlings, $3.506.1S; wethers, $5.005.7O; ewes, $4.60 6.35; lambs. $8.00 7.75. New York Cotton Market. NHIW YORK, July 20. Cotton ' futures. quiet. July, ll.T6c; August, 11.48c; Septem ber, 11.86c; October, 11.76c; November, 11.68c; December, 11.76c; January, 11.82c; February, 11.86c; March, 11.91c; April, 11.94c; May 12o. Imports and Exports, NEW YORK, July 20. Imports of specie at the Port of New York for the week end ing today were $200,050 silver and $198,861 gold. Exports of specie for the week were $1,064,251 silver and $92 gold. Atchison do preferred. Bait, k Ohio... Canadian Pac. . Ches. A Ohio.. Chi. Gt. West.. Chi. M. Sl S. P. De Beers D. R. Q do preferred. Erie do 1st pref . . do 2d pref. .. Grand Trunk.. Illinois Central Louis. & Nash. . "Weddings and Strikes "That set 'me for the automatic,' "It might to know that the total maintenance expense of sarts for our entire plant of 3000 switches for the past eighteen months has been $10.24.M writes Superintendent J. A. Duncan, of the Sioux City Telephone Company, Sioux City, Iowa. (This company operates the AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM.) "A like sum would perhaps take care of the repair cost on operators chairs In a manual exchange of the same size," adds Mr, Duncan. It occurs to us that the one Item of switchboard cords alone for a manual exchange of 3001 lines would amount to at least 9150 in eighteen months.- That is fifteen times the cost of all repair parts on the Sioux City automatic exchange. That is only Aberdeen, S. TX Akron, Ohio. Allentown, 'Pa, Auburn, Me. Auburn. N. T. Battle Creek, Mich. Beaver Falls, Pa. Bellinsham, Wash. .Butte, Mont, Cadillac. Mich. Champaign, 111. LAFAYETTE xBLOCK DUMP THEIR WHEAT Longs Are Free Sellers in Chi cago Market. PRICES GIVE WAY SHARPLY Weakness Due to Reports From the Northwest Telling of the Improved Condition of the Crop. CHICAGO. July 20. The marked improve ment reported in the crop situation in the Northwestern part of this country caused a weak market in wheat today and prices de clined sharply. At the close September wheat was llo lower. Corn was down S3fce. Oats were oft c Provisions were 2 to 10b lower. The wheat market, save . for a firmness at the opening due to firm cables, was weak all day. Throughout the session, tired and dis gusted longs dumped lines of wheat on the market. At no time during he session was the support able to meet the selling pressure. So many reports were received from the Northwest telling of the Improved condition of the crop that many holders were fearful of carrying their wheat over Sunday. The close found the market weak. September wheat opened o lower to c higher, at 9293c, sold between 91o and 93c and closed at 91 91c September corn opened a shade to c lower, sold between 6252o and closed at 62c. September oats opened a shade to o lower at 88e. sold between 37o 40 88 e and closed at 38c. Provisions were dull. September pork closed 2o lower, at $16.47. Lard was down 7 lOo, at $9.109.12. Ribs were 2-5o lower, at $8.678.70. Leading futures ranged as follows: . WHEAT. Open. High. Low. Close. July $ .90 $ .90 $ .89 I .89 September ... .93 .93 .91 .91 December .96 .96 .95 .95. May 1.01 1.01 .99 .99 CORN. July .52 .62 -61 September ... .62 .52 .62 December 49 .49 .49 May 61 .51 .60 ' OATS. .61 -S2 .49 .60 July 42 .42 September ... .88 .38 December S9 .39 May .40 .40 .42 .37 Tj .38 .40 .42 .88 .38 .40 MESS PORK. September .16.47 16.47 16.47 16.41S4 LARD. September October . 80S 8.12 9.10 9.17 SHORT RIBS. 9 05 9.10 9.1? 8.17 September ... 8.05 8 70 8.85 8.70 October 8.62 8.05 8.62 865 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour Basy. Winter patents, $4.10!f4.40; straights. 13.704.20; Spring patents, .84.70 4.90; straights, 4.104.60; bakers', 2.60 8.50. Wheat No. 3 6pr!n(f, 98cl; No. 8, 94$ 99c; No. 2 red, 8990c. Corn No. 2, 62; No. 2 yellow. 6252o. Oats No. 2, 42c; No. 2 white, 4344c; No. 8 white, 85c. Rye No. 2, 60(355o. Barley Good feeding;, 6963c; fair to choice malting, 65t963c. Flax seed No. 1 Northwestern, $1.22. Timothy .seed Prime. $4. 66. Clover Contract grades, $15.50. Short ribs Sides (loose), $8.378.62. Mess pork Per barrel, $16.3016.40. Sides Short clear (boxed), $8.959. Whisky Basis of high wines, $1.31. Receipts. Shipments. Flour, barrels ,. Wheat, bushels Corn, bushels ... Oats, bushels ... Rye, bushels . . . Barley, bushels . 23.400 21,400 ... 37,000 ...290.400 ...178.600 ... 4.0OO ... 16,400 20,400 656.600 196,700 "e.'doo GraJs. and Produce at New York. NEW YORK. July 20. Flour Receipts, 22,800 barrels; exports, 8765 barrels. Market was easy and lower to selling. Mlnensota patents, $635.35; bakers', $3.70S4.20; Winter patents, $4.404.90: Winter straights, $4.25 4.45; Winter bakers', $2.104.70; Winter low grades, $34.60. Wheat Receipts, 72,900 bushels; exports, 82.857 bushels. Spot, easy; No. 2 red, 95c elevator; No. 2 red. 97c f. o. b. afloat: No. 1 Northern, Duluth, $1.09 t. o. b. afloat. Under stop-loss selling. Inspired by perfect weather conditions West, wheat broke 1 cent are the bane of a telephone manager's life," said one of the afflicted the other day In our office. "It's hard enough to get operators, anyway, and just when they beg-in to be worth their salt they start something- doing-. One day this Spring- I learned that two of my best operators were going- to get married soon and that a bunch of the worst ones were framing up a labor union. . me thinking about how much we are at the mercy of these girls. And then they're harder to get from year to year. I figured lt all out what we spend for the operator hire, for training them and for the extras for their comfort, and how little we get"7or all this, and I decided that If automatic equipment would wlp out these two Items and the worry that accompanies them, it was (. How many managers are In the same fix? Don't all switches never get married, or go on a strike; they are time," as an enthusiastic automatic exchange manager on 3000 switches in a year and a half, in one instance operators a manager can get. interest you one of the many economies of the AUTOMATIC SYSTEM. These economies all help to swell the proofs. And the AUTOMATIC being the best service, commands the highest rates. Loir production cost plus high selling price equals big dividends. That is what led to the adoption of the AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM in the following cities: Chicago, ITI. Cleburne, Texas. Columbus, Ga. Columbus, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. Denver, Colo. F.l Paso, Texas. F.mass, Pa. Fall River, Mass. Orand Rapids. MkJh. Hastings, Neb, Havana, Cuba. Hazleton, Pa. Holland. Mich. Hopklnsvllle, Ky. Jonesboro, Ark. Lake Benton. Minn. Lewlston, Me. Lincoln, Neb. Ivos Angeles, Cal. Manchester, Iowa, Marlanao. Cuba. Marlon. Ind. LOUIS DOWNING-HOPKINS BROKERS STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN Booths am soU tar sash and e asarets. Prints Wires ROOM 4. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OUT-NUMBER THREE Home Phone Directory Containing SOOO Subscribers To Be Delivered In a Few Days The Home Telephone Plant 13 now on a substantial paying basis. No better time than now to buy Home Telephone Securities. Portland Home Stock Around $45 Portland Home Bonds Around $85 A PiflrI It- Th9 man who ouys on any reaction will pocket f Tt large returns. Many larsre blocks of thesa Home Bonds have been purchased In the last 30 days by Insiders. The prudent and successful Investor Invariably buys when condi tions are such to cause a weak market and timid Investors sell out LOUIS J. WILDE 6 LaFayette Building Portland, Oregon today. July closed at 97a, September at 08c, December at $1.01, May at $1.05. Hops Steady. Paclflo Coast, 1906, SSllc; state common to choice, 1416c. Hides Quiet.' Central America, 22 c. Petroleum Firm: refined New Tork, 8.45o; Baltlitiore, 8.40c; do. In bulk, 4.95c. Wool Steady; domestic fleece, 21(&23c. Grain at Ban Francisco. BAN FRANCISCO, July 20. Wheat Quiet. B a rl ey S teady . Spot quotations: Wheat 8hlpptng, $1.4549 1.60; milling. $1.6591-65. Barley Feed, $L23i81.26; brewing, $1.23 1.27. Oats Red, $1.371.66; white, $1.40S'1.65; black. $l.ao1.75. Call board sales: v Wheat, $1.584. Barley, $1.26. Corn Large yellow, $1.4731.52. . Minneapolis Wheat Market. MINNEAPOLIS, July 20. Wheat No. 1 Northern, 98c: No. 2 Northern, 9So; No, 3 Northern, 92694c. Wheat at Tacoma. TACOMA, July 20. Wheat Unchanged. Bluestem, 86o; club, 84c; red. 82a. QUOTATIONS AT SAN FRANCISCO. Prices Paid for Products In the Bay City Markets. SAN FRANCISCO. July 20. The following prices were quoted in the produce market today: FRUIT Apples, choice, $1.50: common, $1; bananas, $2.50 3.50; Mexican limes, $4; California lemons, choice, $4.50325; common, $1.5002.25; oranges, navel, $1.25 s 8.50; pine apples, $2.50 3. VEGETABLES Cucumbers. 60S60c; garlic, 834c; green peas, string beans. 2'S3o; asparagus, 4cdllc; tomatoes, $1.00(1.75. EGGS Store, 1923o; fanoy ranch, 233 24o; Eastern, 1719c. POTATOES Sweets, $4S4.60; Early Rose, $2.402.50; Oregon Burbanka, $2.75; new potatoes, $3. ONIONS Australlan.N $44.50; Bermuda, $2 g2.25; young, $38.10. BUTTER Fancy creamery, 26o; cream ery seconds, 23c; fancy dairy, 25c; dairy seo onds, nominal; pickled, 22'-'3c. WOOL Spring, Humboldt and Mendocino, 2325c: Eastern Oregon, 20824c; Nevada, 159 18c; South Plains and San Joaquin, 1318c. HOPS California, 67c; contracts, 103llc. CHEESE New, 15c; old, 14c; Young America, 16c; Eastern. 12c; Western, 15c HAT Wheat, $17.50919: wheat and oats. I9S16: alfalfa, $8.504(13. 60; stock, $7. BOSS; straw, 45 85c. MILLSTUFFS Bran, $1920; middlings, $27 S30. POULTRY Roosters, old, $4rff4.60; young. $6.607.60; broilers, small, 12.50 3; large, $3 4; fryers, $4.60ti5.60; hens, $56; ducks, old, $4tT5; young, $56. . FLOUR California family extras, $5.20 6.70; bakers' extras, $5.205.45; Oregon and Washington, $4.9065.20. RECEIPTS Flour. 8S80 quarter sacks; wheat, 1383 centals; barley, 8230 centals; oats, 640 centals; beans. 114 sacks: corn. 850 cen speak at once, but think lt over, and remember that the automatio never tired, or peevish, or unruly; but they "are all there all the said recently. Their maintenance is small $10.24 for repair parts and, taking lt all around, they are the most efficient and economical Medford, Wis. Mlamlsburg. Ohio. Mt. Olive, I1L New Bedford, Mass. Oakland, Cal. Ocean Park. Cal Omaha, Neb. Pentwater, Mich. Portland, Me. Portland. Or. Princeton. N. J. Richmond, Ind. Riverside, Cal. Rochester, Pa. Rushvllle, Ind. San Diego. Cal. Ban Francisco, Cal. anta Monica, Cal. Saskatoon, Saak., Can. Bloux City, Iowa. South Bend, Ind, Spokane, Wash. &prlnc&eld. Mo. J. WILDE CO. Yhont Main 37 tals; potatoes. 1R60 anV- ba hay, 760 tons; wool. 8 bales. Dried Fruit at New Tork. NEW YORK, July 20. Evaporated apples are firm, but little business Is reported. Fancy. 8c; choice, 8c; prime, 78c; poor to fair, 67c. Prunes are very firm on the Coast, ac cording to private advices, but the spot market is unchanged. Quotations range from 4o to 12 c for California fruit and from 8o to 9c for Oregons up to 80-40s. Apricots steady; extra choice, 22o; fancy, ' 22g28e. Peaches are quiet; choice. 11 12c: ex tra choice. 12013c; fancy, 1813c; ex tra fancy, 1414c. Raisins are quiet on spot. Loose mus catel. 810o; seeded raisins, T18c; London layers, $1.65 1.85. . Wool at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, July 20. Wool Steady. Ter ritory and Western mediums. 2128c; fine medium. lTWlPa: fine. 14Wlc. Quotations Furnished by Roberts & Co. 81SV4 Washington St. BONDS. American Biscuit.... Bid. Ask. $1.00 1.02' .80 1.00 1.00 .99 .85 .80 .80 Oregon Water Power Omaha Ind. Tel Pacific Coast Biscuit Portland Gen. Eleo Portland Railway Portland Home Tel Spokane Home Tel... Tacoma Home Tel BANK STOCKS. Bank of California.. Bank're & Lumb'rm'ns 1.00 Merchants National... Oregon Trust & Sav's Portland Trust Co U. S. National 2.00 German-American ... , 1.60 1.20 .45 .27 .60 .95 .15 42 .40 .40 INDUSTRIAL STACKS Alaska Packehs Assn. .43 Associated Oil Co 26 Omaha Ind. Tel. Pfd Pac. Tel. & Tel Pfd Pac. Tel. & Tel. Com.. Portland Home Tel... .40 Spokane Home Tel Tacoma Home Tel MIMKG STOCKS. Alaska Pet & Coal Treasury ...... Pat - Pnnl .13 Pooled -V Mammoth (Metallne) MkA Mornlnsr (Metallne) 03 Standard Consolidated 06 British Col. Amal. cqh1 ....... Mat. Correspondence solicited Public In vited. $5100 Portland Home Tel. $2500 Omaha Independent Tel. $1000 Portland Home Tel. $2000 Portland Home Tel. 5 shares Portland Home Tel. 4200 mining snares. St. Marys. Ohio. Tacoma, Wash. Toronto Junction, Can.. Traverse City, Mich. 1'rbans. Illinois. Van Wert, Ohio. Walla Walla, Wash. Wausau, Wis. , Westerlv, R. I. Wilmlnston, Del. Woodstock. N. B., Can. PORTLAND, OREGON