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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1919)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 31, 1919. 23 FURTHER ADVICE III OREGON HOP MARKET on the small sizes. Picnics and cottage roll will be reduced a cent. A. 2-cent decline in fancy bacm is noted and 1 cent in other grades. Dry salt meat prices -will, be low ered a cent. Lot of 60 Bales at Silverton Brings 65 Cents. GROWERS SLOW SELLERS As Hig-li as 73 Cents Is Bid for Fug gles With Supply Nearly Exhaust ed Picking Returns Poor. The hop market has had a further ad vance In th past week. The demand is strong and dealers all have orders, but few growers are ready to sell nnw. Two lots et Gervais str:regatlnK 50 bales were bought at f4 cents, and the Bowen crop of 60 bales at Silverton went at 65 cents. This latter price is now being freely offered. The. California market is in much the same position as here, with growers not disposed to meet buyers on the rapidly ad vancing market. A little business was re ported in the Mendocino section at 63 '.4 cents. The Washington market is quiet with very few hops left to sell. Oregon fusgles are practically cleaned up. only a law small lots remaining in the val ley. As high as 73 cents was bid for the early variety In the latter part of the week. Dealers see no reason, from the picking returns coming in. to change their estimate of the crop. Not to exceed 35,000 bales is looked for in this state. The government figures show exports of bops from the TJnited States for the period of September to July both Inclusive to have been 6,051. 150 pounds. LARGE INCREASE IV BCTTER SUTPLT Carloads Are Received From Colorado and British Columbia, The butter supply was increased by the arrival of a car from British Columbia and another car from Colorado. Good quality Oregon butter was scarce and firm, but with the lower grades plentiful and also In view of the heavy receipts, dealers were disposed to shade prices on the inferior scores in order to move stocks. Demand, however, was lacking, as practically every one was liberally supplied. Trading stocks were increased to 245,548 pounds. Storage holdings were reduced 534 pounds. Re ceipts were: Pounds. California 1,068 Colorado 23.7-"9 British Columbia 25.7SO Oregon 3.HU4 Washington 1.158 Bunk Clearings. Bank- clearings of the northwestern cities yesterday were as follows: Clearinps. iiaianrrs. Portland ......SU.1U7.-::'- l.jilu.oMS Seattle b,l4 1.763 2,5.1"- Tacoma t.4 4.!ii.". l-.i: Spokane 2.576.H07 l.lr.u.OlU Clearings of Portland. Seattle ana ucoum for the past week and corresponding week in former years were: l acoma S5,l'tf.1!t 5.h71.ft: 3.4:mvj5 2.446. 7JS 1.U45.71S 2.0SS.058 2.416.4.-.4 4.3:i',22; 4.4MI,2C4 5,Sil.44." 5,632.2:10 S. 050,574 4,156.585 3.376.008 Portland. Seattle. 1019 J46.07S.755 S52.S20.149 l'.HK 32.261,315 47.S.70,ll39 1917 1U.M92.4B4 26.763.M1 1916 14.031,91 17.5X3.70K 1915 10.35S.S71 12.027. 0U2 1914 11,161,792 11.44S.328 1913 13,937, S70 14.367,059 3912 12.03S.7S8 11.87,90 1911 ll.4O0.424 10.755,260 1910 11.278,184 11,772,514 19(19 Ii.895.414 8.092.790 39"(7 7.S53.693 11.227.233 1906 6,306.047 12.268.570 1005 6,228,957 8.046,286 LOWEST PRICES DF WEEK STOCKS ARE DEPRESSED BY APPROACHING STRIKE. Total 56,223 The Pacific Coast Butter Review, issued yesterday by the bureau of markets, says: "A scarcity of the finer butter was very noticeable during the week just closed, very little 93 and 94-score butter being of fered. Offerings of under-grades were very liberal and had a somewhat depressing ef fect on the butter .-narket in general. The demand of the government the last few weeks is largely responsible for the shortage of fancy butter on the wholesale market at San Francisco. Prices advanced cent on 01-score butter at Portland and ls cents at 92-score at San Francisco during the week. Receipts at Portland and San Fran cisco total 453.069 pounds as compared with 339,808 pounds last week, but heavy t re ceipts this week being due to increased arrivals at Portland. Storage holdings at Portland, Seattle and San Francisco show a reduction of 104,716 this week against a total reduction of 344,440 pounds last week. Fresh Oregon Eggs Scarce. The egg market was firm with little change in prices. Very little select Oregon stock is available. Receipts were 120 ca.es from Oregon, 26 from "Washington and 20 from Idaho, a total of 166 cases. Receipts for the week were 1214 cases against 1421 cases the preceding week. Street stocks yes terday were 2117 cases. Storage withdrawals were 2S2 cases. Dressed poultry receipts were 225 pounds. Storage withdrawals were 215 pounds and 1280 pounds went in, making total storage holdings, 166.380 pounds. Oregon Bartlett Pears hipped Oregon pear shipments Friday were 24 cars, of which nine went to New York, six to Chicago, four to Washington and one each to Ottawa, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Pitts burg and Havana. At the Baltimore auc tion 628 boxes of Oregon Bartletts were sold at S4.90&S5. an average price of $494. Three-Cent Drop tn Cheese. A decline of 3 cents in cheese prices was announced by jobbers. Local receipts were 3416 pounds from Oregon, 1685 pounds from Colorado. 1650 from Michigan and 47 from California. Receipts for the week were 66. 230 pounds against 75.218 pounds in the preceding week. Storage holdings were re duced 1105 pounds. PORTLAND Grain MARKKI QUOTATIONS Flour. Feed, Etc . Merchants' Exchange, noon session: -OIU Sept. ..$50.00 Oct- $51.50 Nov. S52..00 62.00 62.50 62.00 40.50 51.75 62.00 63.00 56.00 HO. 00 52.00 61.00 S6.00 Irregular Recoveries Are Made at Close of Session Steel Re gains Half of Its Losses. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. The approaching steel strike was again the sole factor of Im portance in the stock market today, many prominent Issues recording lowest quota tions of the week with Irregular recoveries at the close. United States steel yielded slightly more than a point at its worst, but regained ovr half Its loss and allied shares moved in much the same manner, but motors and their subsidariee were inclined to weaken. Thrre were a few features of comparative strength, notably Tobacco and such spe cialties as American Linseed arm National Lead. Elsewhere, Including transportations, de clines of 1 to 3 points were recovered. Total sales amounted to 500,000 shares. A deficit of slightly more than S53.000.0OO In actual reserves of the clearing house, the largest ever reported by that institution, lacked definite explanation, but was at tributed to heavy payments' for federal taxes. Bonds were steady, but featureless, liberty issues again supplying most of the activity. Total sales, par value, aggregated S8.5OO.0OO. Old United States 4s were lower by 4 per cent on call during the week, and the others unchanged. CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Last Sales. High. Ixw. Sale. 5uO .5 3t 85 14 85 8.4O0 56V3 55 bim l.-'vMi 131Vi i:io 131 3UO 122 121 U. 12114 16.600 100 103 103 i, 5o0 4.1O0 1.9O0 6o0 2.XOO uiiO loo 25.700 3UO 38..SOO plums, 50C&I1.25. all varieties: peaches. SI small box; melons, crate, cavabas. 504965c; cantaloupes, standard, 9L.&0i 1.7B; ditto pony, SIS 1.25: ditto flats, 60Mlc; figs, black, 50f9t)c single layer box; white, 7kt 85c; raspberries, S15ftl6 chest; strawberries, S11016; blackberries, Sioxll; huckleberries. 13916c pound; grapes. Malaga, H.25O1.50 tokay. 1.23'1.50. Receipts Flour, B588 quarters; barley. 3529 centals; beans. 800 sacks: potatoes, 666 sacks; hay, 329 tons; hides, 335; wine, 2000 gallons. co'ast and eastern dairy fbodcce Butter Market at Sun Francisco and Lead ing Eastern Cities. Boston Butter market very quiet today and feeling somewhat firmer. Chicago Market very firm and i Ic higher on top grades. Underscores still dragging. More activity In general and chief check on business is shortage of stocks, particularly on whole mliks: central ized that are full 90 meet good demand, but arrivals mostly poor stock. New York Market showed little change from yesterday. Fine butter steady, with a little better feeling on cars. No change in prices. Receipts were light. Street slocks were fairly large and storage holdings were increased. San Francisco The market was about steady at yesterday's prices. Trading was fair with considerable offerings ol unaer- -Mi-:.- -"ww" va uf jf t-itJ v. turn 56.50 S2.20 57.00 WHEAT BUYING HAS ALMOST CEASED Coarse Grain Bids Are Reduced at Mer chants' Exchange. There is very little wheat buying in the country for shipment to Portland. The mills arc not disposed to take on any more while the strike continues and dealers are equally cautious. Ooarse grains were lower at the noon ses sion of the Merchants' Exchange. Sacked oats were down 50c&$l. clipped oats 25c$l, old corn $11.50 and new corn 50c&l. Blue barley bids ranged from the same as Friday to 50 cents lower, and feed barley SI lower. Eastern bulk barley orfers were reduced 60 cents. Chicago options closed '.to 2 cents lower at $1.32 for September and $1.23 for December. At San Fransisco $2.02 14 was hid for December barley as against a sale at $2.06 H the day before. "Weather conditions In the middle west, as wired from Chicago: "Minneapolis, Du Juth, clear, cool, 50; Winnipeg, cloudy, 55; Chicago, cloudy, cool; Quincy. clear, fine; Kansas City, cloudy, threatening, 72; St. Louis, clear, fine; Topeka. clear, 70; Hutch ison, cloudy, cool; Kentucky, clear, rains last night at Louisville and Lexington; Tennessee, clear, fine: Ohio valley, cloudy, cool; Davenport, raining; Omaha, clear, 70, no rain; Superior, Neb., reports nearly Inch of rain. Forecast": Illinois. Missouri. Wis consin, probably showers, cooler; Missouri, probably thunder storms tonight and Sun day, part cloudy, cooler; Minnesota, unset tled tonight, cooler, Sunday probably fair, cooler; Iowa, unsettled, cooler; North Da kota, fair, cooler: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, part cloudy, cooler." Terminal receipts, in cars, were reported by the Merchants' Exchange as follows: , Wheat. Bar. Fir. Ota. Hay. mi Liauu, oaiuraay. 41 2 16 4 15 ictir et 7 12 Total this week.... 329 2 105 Year ago 420 71 27 S eson to date. . .. .21 16 101 470 Year ago 2705 286 353 Tacoma, Friday ... 35 ... Year ago 17 ... Sf8son to date. ... .4164 46 T" Year ago 1423 17 7! Seattle. Friday .... 54 2 4 Year ago - ... . . 15 ... . reason to date ....1196 88 Year ago 1478 19 3 14 20 216 197 2 134 431 59 59 6 5 lfil 157 41 86 461 768 3 1 237 34S 12 414 760 ENGLAND'! CORN SUPPLY INCREASES Continued Liberal Clearances From Argen tina Are Reported. While the demand for corn 4n the United Kingdom continues to be actively main tained, the gradual increases in the volume of arrivals and the improvement to distri bution appears to be having some effect upon the supply and demand situation. Buy ers' Inquiries are less urgent and there is a tendency among consumers to anticipate larger quantities of this cereal within the near future. European consumers regard the outlook for supplies very optimistically, cables Broomhall. Continued liberal clearances from Argen tina are encouraging and the declining prices in that country serve to reflect the enormous quantities available for exporta tion. There is no doubt Argentina has suf ficient to supply all likely demands from foreign sources, so that exnnrtprs 1 ' . ,oi".7 uu , uosion ...... anxiety about making provision for future I Chicago needs. Oats offerings of both native and 1 New York .... foreign in the United Kingdom show an - 1 Philadelphia . couraging Improvement, but the demand ap pears less active. Oats No. 3 white feed. Barley Standard feed . 61.50 No. 3 blue 62.00 Corn Wn a vfMn-ar 62 00 Eastern oats and corn in bulk: I I U o 36-pound clipped . . . 48. 0O 3S-pound clipped ... ..51.00 Corn No. 3 yellow . ...6L00 Barley No 2 56.00 WHEAT Government basis. bushel. ... FLOUR New crop patents. $10.75; bak ers' hard wheat, $10.5010.75; whole wheat. S10.05; graham. $9.85; pastry flour. $10.25; straights, S10. M'.LLFEED Mill run. f. o. b. mill, car lots, ton lots or mixed cars. $3940: ton lots or over, delivered. $1.60'a2 extra; rolled barley. $68; rolled oats. $00; ground barley, $68; scratch feed, $78. CORN Whole. $70; cracked. $72. HAY Buying prices, f. o- b. Portland: Alfalfa. $304132; cheat. $17(19; clover. $21 ,22; oats and vetch. S21SJ22; valley timothy S26W2B. Dairy and Country Prod ace. BUTTER Cubes, 91-score, 60c; 90-score, 58c; prints, parchment wrappers, box lota, 65c; cartons, 66c; half boxes. He more; less than half boxes lc more; butterfat. No. 1, 65(&3 60c per pound. CHEESE Tillamook, f. o. b. Tillamook, triplets. 33c; Young Americas. 34c; long horns, 34c; Coos and Curry, i. o. b. Myrtle Point, triplets, 32 lie EGGS Oregon ranch, candled, 6264c; selects, 66367c POULTRV Hens, 2327c: broilers. 249 27c: ducks, 2563oc; geese and turkeys nom inal. VEAL Fancy. 25 26c per pound. PORK Fancy, 24tj-25c per pound. Fruits and Vegetables. FRUITS Oranges, $5. 75 6.75; lemons. $6&8.25 box; bananas. Dy-9ViC per pound; apples. $1.25&2.50 per box; cantaloupes. $1.253 per crate; peaches, 7590c box; watermelons. 2c per pound; grapes, $22.75 per box; pears, $2,5043; casabas, 2Vc pound. VEGETABLES cabbage, $3ie?3.ou per 100 pounds: lettuce, $2. 25(3:2.75 per crate; beets, $2.502.75 per sack; cucumbers, 73c & SI a box; tomatoes. 75c$i$l per box; beans. 84j9c; green corn, 30'e:40c dozen; eggplant. 7H&9c pound; turnips, $2. 50422.75 per sack; carrots. $2.25 2.50 per sack. POTATOES New, $2.7o'$ per sack. ONIONS Oregon. 3'i(ji3V;c per pound. Provisions. Local jobbing quotations: HA-US All sizes, choice. 3940c: stand ard 384j39u; skinned. 33iu.3Uc; picnic, 25c; cottage roll, 30c. LARD Tierce Dasis. ic; compouna, zftc per pound. JJKI SAL 1 anon, clear oacas, .o'ooc; plates. 261290; exports, 29fy32c. BACOIN Fancy, 4(tfoc; stanaara, ca' 45c; choice, dbc. Staple Groceries. Local jobbing quotations: SUGAR Sack basis. Fruit or berry. $9.6S; beet, $9.55; golden C, $9.15; powdered. In barrels, $10.25; cubes, in barrels. $10.40. NUTS Walnuts, 2836c; Brazil nuts, 35c; filberts, 30c; almonds. 24 & 30c; peanuts. 1$ SALT Halt ground, 100s, $17 per ton; 50s, $18.75 per ton; dairy, $26.50 028.00 per ton. RICE Blue Rose, 14 He per pound. BEANS Pink. 7c; lima, lOtte pat pound; bayous. 7c; Mexican red, 7c. COFFEE Roasted. In drums, 39050c Hops, Mohair, Etc HOPS 1919 crop, 65c per pound. WOOL Territory staple. 48 58c, accord ing to shrinkage; clothing or French comb lng, 45&Mc; half-blood combing and cloth ing. 45&60c; three-eighths clothing and combing, 4565c; quarter-blood clothing and combing, 40&57c; common and braid, $4 1 00c. MOHAIR 1918 clip, 45c per pound. T4.LLOW No. 1, 13c per pound; No. t, 12c per pound; grease. $S10c per pound. CASCARA BARK New, 11c per pound. GRAIN BAGS In carlots. 19c Oils. LINSEED OIL Raw, barrels. $2.46: raw. cases. $2.56; boiled, barrels. $2.48; boiled, casea. $2.58. TURPENTINE Tanks. $1.91; cases, $2.01. COAL OII Iron barrels. 13 V 4 16c; tank wagon. 13Hc; caseaw 24&31c GASOLINE Iron barrels, 23 He; tank wagon. 23 He; cases, 34c: engine distillate. Iron barrels, 16c; tank wagftn, 16c; rasitTi 26HC Dairy Produce in Storage. Storage holdings of butter, eggs and cheese in the leading markets yesterday were: Butter Pounds. Porltand 9S4.516 Seattle 1.62.787 San Francisco - 1. 8O5.180 Boston 16.8X9.394 Chicago 32.019.OU7 New York 28,348.291, r'nnaaeipnia 3.993,933 Total ....... Eggs Portland .... Seattle San Francisco Boston Chicago New York . . . Philadelphia . Am Beet Sugar. American Can.. Am Car & Fdry Am H & L Did. American Loco. Am Sin & itefg. Am susar Rt lg. Am Siim Tobac. Am Tel & Tel. .. Am Z L & Sni . . Anaconda Cop.. Atchison A G & WISSL baldwln Loco Bait sc Ohio . IJeth Steel B B & S Copper cam I'etrol ... Canadian Paclf. Central Leather dies & Ohio . Chi M & St P. .. Chicago & N W. Chi R I & Pac. Chlno Copper . . Colo Fu a.- Iron. Corn Products.. Crucible Steel .. Cuba Cane Sug. r S Food Prods. trie General Electric General Motors. Gt Nor pfd .... Gt Nor Ore ctfs Illinois Central. . Inspir Copper .. lnt M. M pfd . . . Inter 'Nickel . .. Inter Paper ... K C Southern Kennecott Cop. Louis & .Nash., 5oO 3. loo Sou 7.400 "ion 800 KM) 300 2iH 3.500 6.700 l.lOO 2. 51 HI 0OO 2O0 3.500 700 500 2,300 6. loO 2.500 SOO 4O0 700 2O0 Mexican Petrol. 12,S(0 too 5.0O0 1.70O 30j 200 390 5o0 1O0 300 7. 900 1.300 JOrt 300 800 3.0110 2. 900 oO Miami Copper. Mldvaie Steel . . Missouri Pacific Montana Power. Nevada Copper. N Y Central . .. N Y N H & H.. Norf A West . .. Northern Paclf. Pan-Am Petrol. Pennsylvania .. Pitts & W Va . . Pittsburg Coal.. Ray Consol Cop. Reading ....... Rep Ir A Steel. Shat Ariz Cop.. Sin Oil & Rofg. 10,200 Southern Pacif. 7.1oo Sout hern liy . .. Studebaker' Cor. Texas Co Tobacco Prods.. Union Pacific .. Unit Ret Stores. U s Ind Alcohol U S Steel do pfd Utah Copper . .. Western Union. Westlnsr Electric Willys-Overland Royal Dutch National Lead.. Ohio Cities Gas. 300 22 7O0 1.3O0 3.600 l.rtoO 22.0O0 4on 62.100 :;on 700 100 3.600 3.100 10.900 500 3,000 High. 85 56 Va 131H 122 100 75 it, 129 90 09 H 21 66 89 V 151 129 '4 40 97 24 4S 1-31 05 H ..... 90 H 25 40 T4 43 8. -.4 181 . 33 83 H 15 164 235 84 H 41 H 58H 117H 2. -, 5314 18 3. -.H I08 206 M 26 H 49 H 27 V4 63 1714 71H 31 98 H 1 86H 116H 43 32 H 62 H 22 4 7 H 89 H 1314 58 99 H 24 H 113 264 IOI 121'i 1"7H 131 34 IOI hi 113H 8214 53 H 31 9. -. 81 '4 50 I.O w. 8514 55 130 H 1211 103 74 128 H 88 V 97 H 21H 65 89 151 125H 40 9414 24 H 47 150 93 H "40H 90 25 40 H 43 84 !4 176 33 83 1SV4 163 230 V- 84 41 "5714 116 25 H 53 '4 17H 35 10T 20314 2814 4s H 27 " 62i 17H 71 H 30 98 V 86 113 42-4 32 H 62 22 H 77 '4 8714 13 674 98 24 H 110H 259 H 98H 120 in.-,H 131 IOO ti 113H 81 83 52 H .31 93 81 14 50H 129 88 H 99 20 H 60 89 151 120H 40 95 24 H 47 150S 94 55 ' 40 P0 25 40 H 43 84 H 177 33 83 i-.v, 163 231 H 84 41 H 021, 5H 116H 25 53 U 17 74 35 107 205 ' f 26 - 48 27 ' 62 17 71 30 98 14 80 115H 42 32 62 LIVESTOCK MARKET CLOSES QUIETLY 3.00 4.50 5.00 4 7.50 8.00 1 14.00 17.00 J! 17.50 16.60lS17.00 15.50 is 16.50 p .S0 16. 50 77 89 13 5S 98 2414 111 20 99 H 120 inn 131 lot 1 1.1 ti . 81 83 53 31 H 95 81 H 50 Only One Load of Cattle Received at 2rth Portland lards. Receipts at the stockyards yesterday wera only one load of cattle, 26 head, and trad ing was practically at a standstill. -two common steers, averaging 795 pounds, were sold at S7.50 and one 890-pouna steer at $6.25. The general tone of the market was unchanged and there was no indication of any radical change in conditions for the opening of the week. Quotations at the yards were as follows: Best steers $10.50 4J. 11.50 Fair to good steers 7.50 ro 8.25 Good to choice steers 9.5010.50 Medium to good steers 8.50 39 9.50 Good to choice cows, heifers... 8.50 9.00 Fair to good cows 7 TtO rb 8.6O Medium to good cows, hellers... t.ihj Cannurfl Bulls Calves Hogs Prime mixed ........- ... Medium mixed ....... Rough heavies ............... Pigs Sheep Eastern Oregon lambs ........ 12.25 13.00 Ewes 5.00 7.50 Valley lambs 11.00112.00 Tearlings 7.50' 9. 00 Wethers .7.00 u 8.SO Omaha Livestock Market. OMAHA, Sept. 20. (U. a Bureau of Mar kets.) Hogs Receipts 3200, market active, steady to 15 cents higher than yesterday's average. Top, $17.25; bulk, $16.5017; heavy weight. S16.75fe.17: medium weight. 116.75 ft 17.25; light weight, $16.75 17.25: heavy packing sows, smooth, S16.59Q' 16.75; pack ing sows, rough, S16-20& 16.50 ; pigs. $15 16.50 Cattle Receipts 300, compared with week ago; beef steady. She stock $11.25 lower, bulls and canners, 50 cents lower. Veals steady, heavy calves 25 cents lower. Block ers and feeders unevenly 50c(j$l lower. Sheepi Receipts none, compared with week ago, fat lambs 75 cents lower. Yearlings and sheep 50cf?$l lower. Feeding lambs and ewes $11.50 lower. Chicago Livestock Market. CHICAGO. Sept. 20. Hogs Receipts 800O, mostly steady. Heavy, $16.5042 18; medium. S16.55& 16.25; light. $17.25B. 18.25; light light, $ 16 17.75; heavy packing sows, smooth, $16 U16.50; packing sows, rough, $15.25 15.75; pigs, $15 0-16.60. Cattle Receipts 600; compared with week ago. beef steers, stockers and feeders steady to 25 cents lower. She stock steady to 25 cents higher. Bulls 50 to 75 cents lower. Calves 50 cents to $1 higher. Sheep Receipts 2500; compared with week ago, killing grades Irregularly $112 lower, choice western lambs declining least. Breed ing and feeding sheep and lambs. $1.50& 2.50 lower. f"1'"'!' aniiiijiim, 1 mm j sm.miw '1 11 nn s 1 w.m ti l( isic yms ' "iff 1 '-inm'i. 11 m 1.1 (iaiikshh , u i i i iui t..ny i u 1 .win, .'., X- Til I HIS I ml 11 I I I I 1 11 11 1 ' 1 1 1 IjT ' I 11 1 1 rj WITH STEED STRIKE ALMOST CERTAIN, BEARS CONTROL. Bid. BONDS. fj S Lib 3'is lOO.OOlAm T T cv 6s. 100 do 1st 4s unquoted. 'Atch gen 4m .... 77 do 2d 4s 93.84 N Y C deb 6a. . 96 do 1st 414s 95.1 2'N P 4s 77 H do 2d 4s 94.20 N P 3 56 do 3d 4 '4 s. . . .95.70 Pac T c T 5s. . . . 83 do 4th 4 s. . .93.82'Pa con 4Hs t!"3 oils . . . . ji.i. o f cv as. do 4s 99.96 So Ry 5s .. u r rei reg. .-::'-, u 1 4s .... do coupon ...99V.ITT S Steel 5 U S cv 3s reg. . lAnglo-Fr 5s do coupon ...89 1 U S 4s reg 'luB Bld; toffered. do coupoa ..106 J ...85.723.198 Cases ........ 32.067 40.278 101.172 422.129 1.766.349 1.166. S32 249.335 Total Cheese Portland .... Seattle San Francisco Grants Pass Grapes Plentiful. Peach receipts were large but the move ment was slow and prices rather weak. Elbertaa will be available during the com ing week, also late Crawfords and Clings. Tokay, muscat and malaga grapes from Grants Pass are coming in freely and sell well. The cantaloupe season is nearly over and the demand is subsiding. The orange market has advanced and probably will remain firm until navals be gin moving. More Bednctions In Provision Prices. There will be more declines in the pro vision market Monday, according to a new price list just issued. Hams will be one half to 2 cents lower with the largest cut 3.778.762 Pounds. .... 450.983 .... 634.017 . ... 1.402.877 . ... 4.788.496 12.531.1S6 6.557.196 1.615.681 Total 27.980.436 Coffee Trade Waiting. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. The market for coffee futures was narrow today and com' paratively small orders cauped irregulu! fluctuations. The opening was 32 to 39 points hlpher. owing to a rally in Santos futures and covering for over the week end, but after selling at 15c December eased to 14.65c. or within 7 points of last night's closing price under scattering liquidation or local pressure. -mat delivery closed at 11.79c with the gertral list showing a net advance of 21 to 23 pclnts. Sentiment was unsettled by the labor situation in the steel trade, buf the small volume of business was most largely attributed to a desire to wait for further developments in Brazil. Septem ber. 15.39c: Of: to he -, 15.18c; Oecember. 14.79c; January, 14.75c; March. 14.70c; May 14.64c; July. 14.6oc. Spot coffee nominal; Rio Ta 15 H; Santos 4s 25. 103 SS . . . 83 . .. 98 ... 97 Mining; Stocks at Booton. Closing quotations: North Butte Allouez 41 lOld Dom ... Ariz Com 14U Osrenla Calu Hecla...410 IQtilncy Calu 4 Ariz. Centennial . . Cop Range . . r.ast Butto . Franklin Isle Royalle . Lake Cod . . Mohawk .... 71:sup & Boston. 17;Shannon , 51 1, Utah Con 16Winona .. . 4 S3 5 67 Wolverine . . . . tlreene Can . . . 15 . 41 .. 58 .. 61 . 3 - 2'. . 9 . 1 . 23 V. . 41 Seattle Livestock. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 20. Hogs No re ceipts; steady. Prime, $17 It IS. 50 ; medium to choice. $16917; rosgh heavy, $1010; pigs. $15410.50. Cattle Receipts. 30: steady. Best steers. $10,501(1 11.25: medium to choice, $9t9.50; common to good. $6"7: best cows and heif ers. $7 49; bulls. $5$ 7.5o; calves, $7.25 4P 15.50. Kansas City Livestock Market. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 20. Sheep Receipts 400. Market for the week: Westerns steady to 25 cents lower: fat sheep, 50 cents lower; breeding stock, steady: native lambs, $1 lower; feeders, $1 to $1.25 lower. Money, Exchange, Etc NEW YORK. Sent. 20. Vprronllt. 5,514 per cent. ' Sterling Demand. $4.15i: cables. 14 11 Francs, demand 8.94. cables 8.92: iriillrion. demand 37. cables 37; lire, demand 9.96. cables 9.94; marks, demand 4, cables 4. Mexican dollars, 88 c LONDON. Sept. 20. Bar sliver. 2d per ounce. Money and discount unchanged. Decrease in Excess Reserve. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. The actual con dition of clearing-house banks and trust companies for the week shows that the re- rei-erve heia is $03, 186,140 below legal re quirements. This is a decrease of $98,867,420 irom last weeK. Seattle Fred and Hay. SEATTLE. Sept. 20. City delivery feed, mill. $45 per ton; scratch feed, $80: feed wheat. S82; all-grain chop, $74; oats, S62; sprouting oats. $71; rolled oats, S64; whole corn, $76; cracked corn, $78; rolled barley, $71: chipped barley, $76. Hay Eastern Washington timothy mixed, $36'i37; double compressed, $40; alfalfa, 3132; straw, S15&10: Pugct sound, $31 Naval Stores. SAVANNAH. Ga., Sept. 20. Turpentine firm, $1.68 fl.69; sales, 190; receipts, 177; shipments. 133; stock. 10.043. Rosin firm. Sales, tool; receipts, 680; shipments, 118; stock, 49.955. Quote: H $15.75; D, $16.80; E, 17.15; F, $17.65; 1, J17.89; H. $18.20; T.($19.30; K, $19.59: M. $20.40: N, $21.40; WG, S22; WW, $22.70. Eastern Dairy Produce. CHICAGO. Sept. 20. Butter higher; creamery. 47 056c. Eggs Receipts 7049 cases, unchanged. Poultry Alive, unchanged. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Butter steady, un changed; eggs unchanged, steady; cheese steady, unchanged. Dnluth Linseed Market. DULUTH, Sept. 20. Linseed, $4.03. Cotton Market. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. Cotton Spot. quiet; middling. 80.30c. Dried Fruit at New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Evaporated ap ples, nominal. Prunes, slow. Peaches, dull. UNSETTLED WEEK IN STOCK MARKET Strike of Workers in Steel Industry Para mount Influence in Speculation. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Declaration of the steel strike, effective Monday, was the par amount Influence of a very unsettled week In the stock market. There were occasional wide fluctuations in equipments, tobaccos. motors and other speculative issues of less definite description, but those movements attracted little attention. Respecting the dis turbed labor situation, there was a feeling that the walkout of the seel workers might yet be averted, although surface indications at the week end offered little hoDe for it. In the trade the impending strike caused widespread regret, the more so because large contracts for fabricated steel and Iron were in process of final negotiation and some mills were operating almost ta capacity production. Domestic and foreign money markets pre sented striking contrasts, time funds for home use showing an easier tone, while ex change continued to move more unfavorably against France, Italy, Germany and Austria. The Investment situation Indicated marked improvement, this being especially noticeable in the great strength and activity of liberty and victory bonds. SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE MARKET Prices Current on Eggs, Vegetables. Fresh Fruits. Etc.. at Bay City. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. Butter Solid cubes. 64 He. Eggs Fresh extras. 8614c; extra pullets, 61-c. Cheese New firsts. unquoted; Young Americas. 36 He ' Poultry Hens, 3738c; large. SO 32c; small, young roosters. 3637c; old, 229 24c: broilers, 31&'34c: fryers. 33 35c: pige ons. $2.50 tf 2.75 dozen; squabs, 45o5Ue pound. Vegetables Lettuce. 75c S1 crate: egg plant, 6075c lug box: bell peppers, 5075o box; chile, 50&75c; summer squash, 504P75C, large lugs: cream. 75cm SI box; tomatoes, 75c9$l large lug box: potatoes, garnet. $2.25 &:2.50; new crop, sweet, 6$r5c pound; onions, yellow, $2.25 cental; red. S2.75; cu cumbers. 60r75c box: green corn, $2'2.25 sack; okra, 604r75c box: garlic, 20?22Hc pound: beans, string. 4 41 5c pound: wax, 4 0 5c; limas, 5r6c; peas, 89c per pound; cel ery. S3.50'ij;4 crate. Fruit Oranges, $4 5.60 box; lemon $5(7 6: grape frulte, $5tt6: bananas. 8&,9c pound; pineapples. $2.402.50: Bartlett pears, $3(9 3.50 box; apples. 3H tier. Gravenstein. 75c fa $2.50; Bellefleur, $1. 7542.25: crabapples, 75a jjaoc; small box; quinces. Hi 1.15 lug box; DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 20. Maximum temperature. 68 degrees: minimum tempera ture. 51 degrees. River reading, 8 A. M.. 3.0 feet; change in last 24 hours, none. Total rainfall (5 P. M. to 5 P. M.). none; total rainfall since September 1. 1919. 2.68 Inches; normal rainfall since septemoer 1, .Wtf-incn; excess of rainfall since September 1. 1919. 1.6: Inches. Sunrise, 6:50 A. M. ; sunset, 7:13 P. M. ; total sunshine, 12 hours 17 min utes: possible sunshine, 12 hours 17 minute Moonrise. 3:06 A. M. : moonset. 5:23 P. M. Barometer (reduced sea level I, 5 P. M., 30.1U Inches. Relative humidity: o a. .m., uu per cent: 1 P. M., 52 per cent; 6 P. M., 49 per cent. THE WEATHER. STATIONS. 3s Wind Weatbsr. Baker .... Boise Boston ... Calgary Chicago ... Denver . . . Des Moines Eureka ... Galveston Helena tJuneau Kansas City.. Los Angeles .. Marshfield ... Medford Minneapolis . . New Orleans.. New York North Head . .. North Yakima. Phoenix Pocatello . . . . Portland Roseburg Sacramento . . St. Louis .... Salt Lake .... San Diego San Francisco. Seattle Sitka Spokane Tacoma Tatoosh Island tValdex Walla Walla. Washington -Winnipeg 421 6--"0.00il6!N ICIear 54l 70I0.00 20, NW Pt. cloudy 5 74ii.oo 10 s t-iear 42 60 0.OO14 NW Cloudy Krt Sti ll. 20122.SW Clear 561 so o.oo!. .ISW Pt. cloudy 1 681 8s o.o r.' sw iciouay I... I 6410.00-Jil ." Clear 801 S4 u . 00 A3 r-r. ir-r. ciovdj 50 00 0.001. .ink r-ioudy 4s 50'0. 26 . . SB Rain 72 S40.00I..S Cloudy 62 72:0.001. .SW !Pt. cloudy 50 70,0.00114 Nwiriear .. 86 O.O0 lO'.VWjClear 52 90 O.O0 22 NW Cloudy 7f. 90 0. 021.. is (Cloudy 62l 8O-0.OIV16 S Clear 561 5'00o!lS NW Pt. cloudy 4SI 74'0.oo'i2' w t.iear 6Sj P6 0.90i..W Clear 581 6 u.OO'16 SW Clear r,o 6so.ooi..,n Pt. cloudy 5rtt 74'o.iHi . .i.-s i.iear 70I 98 o.oo'lO NW Clear I S4O.0626S iRain 74 O.WM2.NW 70 O.OO . . w Clear PL cloudy 1 lear Clear Clear 74 0.00 34:W 64 O.OOl. .W . . .10.20!. 0.8 0.00,12 NW;Pt. cloudy Jl'l) 110 . . 1 .-s 54' 60 O.OOL .lw 40146 0.521. .IN Rain 541 72 n. 001. .IS W (Clear 68l sn'o.oo: . . ;s Clear fi-2' o.ooii4 v iPt. cloudy jr-i. ciouuy o:iear tA. M. today. P. M. report of preceding day FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Fair; gentle north .l.rlv winds. Oregon and Washington Pair; gentle northwesterly winds. .... , . FRANK GILL AM, MeleorologiaC THE coupon clipper brings a feeling of inde pendence and self reliance. He knows that , every so often he can go to his safe deposit box, take out the Government and Municipal bonds which have been so safely placed there, and clip the interest coupons from his bonds. It is so easy and so sure so safe. A Government "or Municipal Bond is just like so much money inthe bank, but with this added advan tage you get a very profitable rate of interest upon your bonds, and idle money in the bank doesn't bring anything. If you want to figure it out for yourself you will find that $1000 invested in Government or Municipal Bonds drawing 6, and the interest invested in the same kind of securities will, at the expiration of 20 years, amount to $3200. Be a coupon clipper. Ask about our Partial Payment Plan. The Premier Municipal Bond House Capital One Million Dollars Morris Building, 309-11 Stark Street, Between Fifth nd Sixth Telephone: Broadway 2151. Established Over a Quarter Century PORTLAND, OREGON A) SELLING IS FREE! Prices Br eat 2 V Cents Before Any Adequate Support Is Encountered. Ou ts Alo Dcp r cssed . CIT7CAGO. Sent. 20. A r invent certainty that the tit eel workers' strika would not be averted put the corn market today under bearish contml. Pric-es cloned unsettled. W lic net lower, with December fl.'Vn' and M iy $1.20 Fr l.liu. Oats lout Si d 1 c. rrovuioDS xinunea uncaaiigea it; $1.10 down. Free selling; of corn on the part of specu lators and commission houses quickly de veloped and values broke about 2V,c before the market encountered any adequate sup port. The majority of traders took but lit tle notice of other factors than the Impend ing (riant disturbance of the steel indnntry. Oats were depressed In sympathy with , corn. j Provision tended sharply downward for I the same reason as ftratn. Cutting of the 1 operated alao aa an evident weight on the market. Farmers Would Hold Grain. CHICAGO. Sent. 0. Uneasiness over the threatened steel strltce and other disturbing Industrial conditions have done much to force dowr. the corn market this week, not- j withstanding farmers movement to hold J back itrmin and livestock so as to obtain ' higher prices. New crop deliveries had fall en to the lowest prices yei mw wa-on. iwi bears putting all the emphasis possible on the fact that values were still far above a pre-war basis when -announcements appeared that Illinois ana inaiajia urmcr. zations proponed to fight for an upturn In the value of rural commodities. For a short time upturns did ensue, but later the atten tion of traders focused more and more on the possible injurious business results of the steel strike. Kainy weather, which seernea likely to delav receipts of corn, proveu sub sequently to be only a transient Influence toward avsrtlng decline of values. Leading futures rangea. as xouow. LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS If you nut ell your Liberty r Victory bonds, eell to na. If you ran buy more Llbertj or Victory bond, buy from us. On Saturday. September I'O. 1PU. th closing market prices were as given below; They are the governing pric for Liberty and V ictory bonds all over the world, and the highest. We advertise these prices rinily in ordr that you may always know the New York market an! the exaict value of your Liberty and Victory honiis. lnt 2d 1st I'd Gd 4th Victory Victory m 4m 4 4 419 4 S 44S o 4.9 Market ,...$100.uo 503.00 $.U.Ki rj $94.4 05 $lo4 $ :! $ Interest b3 1.U7 1.40 1 13 1.4i .07 1 M 1.26 I.60 Total luo.D.T i.;.07 ?.v:in $;; :., $9."i.T3 r5.77 $101. is $loi..r When buying we deduct oT on a $.M bond and 92.50 on a $1000 bond. We Fell at the New York market plu the accrued Interest. Burglar and 11 re proof nfe leponit Boxes for Rent. Open Intil 8 P. M. on Saturdays. MORRIS BROTHERS, INC. THE PKKAIIER KLNieiPAl. BOND HOUSE. CAPITAL.. ON K MILLION HOLLAR? Morris BnildiiiK. 30U-31L Mark Mrert, ltFtorrrn I ifth and Sixth. Telephone Hroauway --M.,l. i-:i.t,n.H..i over Veiin.MMH Open. Low. Close. Ic. May OcC Oct. Jan. Oct. Jan. ...54.r,0 .....19.00 . lT.sa J1.21U 33.S0 23. S.-! 21.13 13.55 17. -45 l.K1 .70 33.80 23. R5 21.15 1R.3T 17.45 HlKh. CORN. 1.22 1.234 l.MX. l.'l4 OATS. .S .7Ui .71, PORK. 34.70 34.75 LARD. 24 0 21. BO RIBS. 1'..K 17.&2 S-?NoC,!2Wm7xU. J1.46V4 01.4T; No. S "'orNowhUe. 69V470c; No. 3 white. Hye NO . nominal, iio. Barley $1 IS 130- ... Timothy 4.MS sll.25. Clover Nominal. Pork Nominal. L.ard 23.P5. Klbs 18.i0 19.50. Minneapolis Oftun Market. wtvn'EAPOLIS, Sept. 20. Barley, 95c flax. $46g4.2. GERMANS BUY U. S. HORSES Auction of Army Mounts Relieves Scarcity of Work Animals, urc-nr vnnir Manv of the horses j v... .v.. AmMvffnn arm v In Franca usu uj are now used in commercial pursuits in Germany, aecorainn it luruicuam Thomas P. Walsh of El Paso, Tex., a ntrtrer who arrived from France recently on the troopship Iowan. He said at w ingore. uermanj'. - hnmAii were auctioned, the French having- first call, the Poles sec ond and the Uermana miru. iuo ucoi horses brought $500 each and tho others approximately half that sum. Ter Ger mans were glad to gret anything; that had four legs to replace men- mnvu cows, which they had in harness. T llifiu - ..wm. arrived on the transport Santa Mal ta with the bigr toe off his right foot as a result of skylarking on the way here from t rance, un r riuy uk - " playfully slapped the ship's butcher on his sunburned shoulders. The butcher had a cleaver in his hand, which he dropped as he Jumpedf. It fell on Rose's toe, cutting it off. GOTHAM'S GROWTH RAPID Population Estimated to Have Be come More Than Six Millions. NEW YORK. The population of New York city July 1, according to a survey of the Newspaper Feature bureau, the result of which was made public re cently, was e. 244,616 as compared with 4.766.883 tn 1910, an increase of 31 per cent. Of the total. 120,138 are listed as negroes. The whites of native Commerce Safe Deposit and Mortgage Company ANNOUNCES the organization of the Commerce Mortgage Securities Company a subsidiary corporation, to carry on the mortsace and bond business heretofore conducted by the Commerce Sale Deposit and Mortgage Compan y. The two companies have a combined capital of $245,000.00 91 Third Street. Portland. Oregon. The officers of both companies are li. M. Cake. President. It- F. I'rael. Vice-President. llerbert Bradley, Secretary. parentage are given as 1.206.926; of foreign parentage. ,384,384 and of for eign birth 2,525.292. According to the survey the sexes are almost evenly divided. The num ber of males is given as 3.123,565. The city has 1,878.211 males of voting age and 333.012 illiterates more than 10 years old. Th'ere are 1,337.283 fami lies. The 20 largest cities in the country, with New York leading, are given as Chicago, with a population of 3,059. 396; Philadelphia. 1.936.260; Cleveland. 936.300; Detroit, 936.300; Boston, 830. 625; St. Louis. 824.435; Baltimore. 736. 030: Pittsburg, 667.381: Los Angeles, 574.556; San Francisco, 555.882; Buffalo, 516,932; Milwaukee. 504.707; Cincinnati. 472.66S; New Orleans, 440.797; Wash ington. 430.390; Minneapolis. 421.971; Newark. 416.963; Seattle, 395.323 .and Rochester, 349.038. ADVERTISING IN NEW FIELDS Paid. Publicity lU-cruited in "War Against Lawlessness. HONOLULU, T. H. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Newspaper advertising has found a new field in Honolulu. Paid publicity has been re cruited as an aid to the foes of lawless ness. Judge William H. Heen. who re cently took office as city and county attorney, is buying space in the local dallies to further his campaign against gambling. The following classified advertise ment has appeared: WANTED Any Information afrsinst professional gamblers, owners of gambling Joints and ehe-fa bankers. Such Inform, tlon will he treated confidentially and. If reliable, will be paid for. 'Section 41.N2, R. L. 1915. provides that persons participating in gambling games cannot be prosecuted if used as witnesses. WILLIAM 11. HKK.N-. "City and County Attorney." "Judge Heen became a candidate for city and county attorney while on the federal bench here and made profes sional gambling the issue of the cam paign. Orientals, it is said, are very fond of gambling and so conduct their games that detection and successful prosecution is difficult. $50,000 IN JEWELS STOLEN Burglary at New York Homo Is Re ported to Police. NEW YORK. While Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Paerno of Independence avenue and 252d street, Riverdale. were at tending a masque ball at the Allen hurst hotel. Allenhurst, N. J.. thieves entered their summer home at No. 5 Cedar avenue, Allenhurst. and stole Jewelry from Mrs. Paterno's bedroom valued at $50,000. Mrs. Paterno had taken the Jewels from a vault In an Asbury Park bank. She wore some at the ball and had Intended to wear others at another ball at the Peal inn. After notifying the police of Allenhurst and Asbury Park, Mr. Paterno called in a rew xorit oe tective agency. "The Jewels were valued not so much for their money value as for sentiment attached to them," Mr. Paterno said. "We have not yet completed the list, but among the missing jewels is a dia mond chain and plaque containing 125 or 130 diamonds and worth, when I purchased it several years ago, 118.- 000. Other jewels gone include sev eral diamond dinner rings, a three- stone diamond ring. some solitaire rinps of large caret, bracelets studded with diamonds and a lavalliere." Mr. Paterno is a New York contrac tor with offices at No. 601 West 115th street. YELLOW MEXICANS DECRIED Marriage of Women to Chinese Is Rousing Indignation. EL PASO. Tex. Agitation against tho marrying of Chinese men and Mexican women is spreading in Sonora, Chi huahua and other states of Mexico. This has long been a source of much ill-feeling against the Chinese, aa many have married Mexican women in the north. Villa gave this as his reason for killing many Chinese at the time of his campaign in 1917. and was cred ited with saying the Chinese were try ing to make a "yellow race" of his people. 1 5 OVERBEGK & COOKE GO. Brokers. Stock, Bonds. Cotton, Ormin. Jlvtc 18-217 BOAKU OF TRADE BLDG. MK.MBE1U IHIfAfrO BOARD OF TKAUK MEMBERS Correspondents of Ixican Jt Bryan. Chicmjco and 2w York, New York Stock Exrhanfe. Chicago Htock Exchange. Boston Stock Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade. New York Cotton Exchange. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Coffee Exchange. New York lToduce Exrluuifa. 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