THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1925
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COOPERATIVE
In News Spotlight of the Day
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Chl'-ago, Feb. 11 Heavy ncll
fng of corn and oati turned all
grain shat ply downward in price
during the late trad. rig today.
Wheat for May delivery went as
low us I1.7H. a drop of nearly 10
rent compared with ' quotation
earlier today and about six cents
under yestei day's low point,
Chicago, Feb. 11 The wheat op
ening, whl-h ranged rum 1 ft low
er to 4 advance. May l.i3Vi to
Sl.4 and July fl--r'6 to $1564
wan followed by ma'erlal gains all
round with May riing to $1.86.
Opening a. ',4 to 1 Mi lower, May
$1.29 to $ 1 . 2 'J . corn noon scor
ed a general advance.
The :art was , to 74 off, May
65 to 66 and aubaetjueut ral
lies failed to hold.
Thj wheat close was demoraliz
ed, 4H to 6' lower, May $1,77 4
to $1.78 and July $1514 to 11.62.
Corn closed weak, 2 4 to 3 cents
net lower, May $1 .27 t 1.27 T .
uuoLUtm
BUTTER STEADY;
Portland, Feb. Jl Kgg are a
cent lower In all graded but pul
lets today will extra posted on
the exchange at 33 cents; firsts
32 cents and pullets at 30 cents.
Current receipts are down a cent
at 28 cents net. Hecclpla are liber
al and the market weak.
flutter continues steady and un
changed with demand and supply
well bulirnre-; extrns 43 4 cents
and standard 42 cents; print priced
unchanged at 45 cunts.
Live poultry and country dress
ed meat receipts were light today
and the market steady In all
lines.
MVKSTOCK
Portland, Feb. 11 Cattle mar
ket steady; receipt none; ateers
ood IJ.MI'u 8.00: medium $6.S0&
7.50; common $!i.50 4i 6.50; ca li
ner and cutter steers $4.50ft
& 50; heifers, good (850 pounds
up) $6.50 ft li. 75; com in on and
medium, all weights $4.50 tf
$6.50: cows, good $5.75
rommon and medium $4.6iMf 5.75;
canners and cutters $ 1 .50 fti) 4.50;
bulls, good (beef yearlings exclud
ed) $4.00 j 4.50; coVmtnon to med
ium (canncr and bologna )$3.0O4t
4.00: calves medium to choice (190
lbs. down) $ii.00fa) 11.00; cull and
common (1H0 lba. down) $fi00 i
8.00: medium to choice (ISO to
2('0 lba.) $7.00f((10.00; medium to
choice (200 HK. up) $0.0047. !o
cull and common (ISO lbs. up)
$4.506.50.
Hoga steady; receipts 200
heavyweight (250 to 350 pound)
nicdmm, good and choice llu.J!
ti 11.50; medium weight (200
to 300 lbs.) medium, good and
eholco $1 1.0i)t J 1.75; lightweight
(100 to 200 Ibi.) common, medium
good ami choice $ 1 1.75 in I 2. Oil;
packing hogs, amoutn sio.ou -n
11.50; lacking hogs rough $'.i.50
frlO.00; nlnughtor pigs (130 lha.
down ) mediu'.i, good and choice
$8.00uc9.00; feeder and stocki-r
pigs (70 to 130 lbs.) common, med
ium, gout) and choice $8.50'i S-50.
Soft or oily hogs and roasting pigs
excluded in above quotationn.)
Sheep steady; receipts none;
lambs, light and haudyweight.
medium to cholco $14. 50'i 16.50
heavyweight (2 pound up)
medium to prime J 1 1.00 w 14 ail
all weight, cull and com
non $11. OOftc 14.50; yearling weih
ers, medium to prime $ 1 0.50 ifr
$13 00; wethers (2 years old and
over) medium to prime $9.00 'iv
11.00; ewes, common to choice
$8 00(11.00; can iter nnd cull $:.00
fi8.00. (Above quotations except
lamba on shorn basis.
.POTATO KR
Portland, Dr., Kelt. 11 Potatoes
steady with $ 1 .75 U .85 for orenon
stock; onions weak; f 3..)0iy l7i
raid in country.
iujttih and iitivn:itii
Portland. Or., Kelt. 11 Putter
steady; extra rubes, city, 43 4c;
standards 42c; prime firsts 40c
firsts 3Kc; undergrade nominal;
prints 4..c: cartons 46c.
Putterfat steady, heat churning
cream 4.(c nt shippers track cone
one; 45c delivered Portland.
Portland, Feb. 11 Wheat bids:
hard white, blue etem, bnart $1.75;
aoft wl.lte $1.70; western white
$1.70; ha'd winter $1.70; northern
Miring $ 1.70; western red $170;
P B it. hard white $2 10. Today"
car receipts: wheat 20, flour 1 4.
corn 1, oati 1. hay 5.
POt 11 It AM !.;. S
Poithind. Keb. 11 Kggs weak;
current receipts 27c: pullets 25
264e: firsts 27 4 i 28c; henner
ies 2hri284C delivered Portland.
Portland. Or., Feb. H Poultry
flim; heavy liens 22 i 2.1c; llht
1 7c: prhu's 22 ii IMc; old
roou'ers 10c; ducks white Pekln
SOWl'lc: live turkeys 23c; dremed
turkeys 334 :16c; gt'tse lUc.
Portland. Fed. It ti. ps firm;
new clusters 1711 he; fugles
15UlSc, old crop nominal.
Salem Markets
Compiled from rrtorts of Ka
teni dealers fttr lltn guidance
of Capital Journal rradcra.
(Kcvlncd dally )
Clraln: No. 1 white wheat $1.68;
No. 1 red wheat $1 58 (Hacked).
W holes fr rnm
M-nt! Top hogs 10 4c; mwi
7 it 9c; drensed hofa 1 5c; top
teers 6 jt 7c; cowa 4 8 be; can
ner cowa 1H up; bulla 3 4f5c.
spring lamba up to 90 lbs., 14c;
veal 9c; dremel veal 14c.
Poultry: Springers ic: light
hens lStll7o; heavy hens toe;
old roost era Ic; ducks 16 6 18c;
turkey 32c dressed; alive 28 if 25c;
s:ce 8Jj0c dressed; live 12914c
white Pekln ducks, alive ?19c
Indla Runner ducks alive 144 Ha
liuttcrfat 44c: creamery butter
4't4'e; eggs 23c; standards 26c;
selec'M 27c; in 11 It $1.80 cwt.
Vegetables; l'otatuea $l.iit?2.25
Th Pacific C oi)n ati e Wool
Growers new board of directors
met yesterday in Portland ami
elected officers for the cnniing
year. Charles L peek ley or l.ux
onville, Oregon, was elected presi
dent, Bucce-juig 1 red W. Ilemn.
Dr. E. JO, lirow nell of Ha n Kran
cicu, vl-jc-presK'ent : E. ' A. Mc-
t'ornack of Kug'iie, secretary
ti easm er.
The new board of directors are:
K. W. IteFord. Ashl.;nd. Oregon;
It. II. Prior, Ulocksburg, Califor
nia; C. h. Peck ley, Oixonville,
Oregon; E. A. McCornack. Eugene.
Oregon; J. W. Smith, Aurora. Ore
gon; T. L. Taylor, Friday Harbor.
Wahingt.i: E. E. BrownHl. San
Kranciwcfi, California; W. E. Hunt,
.:aupin, Or-.'5o;i; Torn Cronin,
Powell Putte, Oregon; C. V. Hates,
Spray, Oregon; S. U. Dorman. On
tario, Oregon; 11. it. Peek ham,
Wilder. Maho; C. J. liurd, Corval
lls, Oiegon; C. H. Doolittle, llkiah,
California; J. II. Peterson, Dixon,
California.
The Pacific Co'Hteratlve Wool
Growers, which Is Mie largest co
operative wool marketing associa
tion in the United 8tats, has Just
completed a veiy auccessful year
In which they handled more wool
than any growers agency went of
Ohio. Prices received by the asso
ciation for the wools of ita mem
bers averaged all the way from
five to fourteen cents net per
pound more than was obtainable
a t con n t ry points for u n g ra ded
wools at shearing time
Ths organization consists of 2800
member residing In Oregon, Wash
Irigton, Idaho and California. Ue
centlv owners of 12,000 heep
have Joined from tlio state of Ne
vada,
The organization has Btrong sup
port of leading wool growers, busi
ness men and bankers on the Pa
cific coast, because of the fact
that uniformly for the past four
years It has handled .wools as
beamy na thev were ever nanuieu
by a private agency and haa re
turned to its growers on twelve
million pounds of wool approxi
mately iiioo.uoo more net man
similar wools sold for In the same
territory.
Because of the splendid financial
support given tho nss-.iciation by
the Portland bank. tho I'aclllo Co
operative Wool Urowers have this
year been nble to finance wool
growers thiough prcsharing ad
vance as well as making advances
on the wool after It has 'n.n ware
housed. This ha.i enable 1 growers
to take advantage of orderly co
operative marketing w ho would
other wise bo prevented from do
l.ig so because of the need fin
ready cash.
The aflHO'datlon w.ireho'ises wool
In Man Frrincbco ai.tl Portland, the
larger volume being kept at Port
land In or.ler to serve ihe woolen
tnl'.ls of the northwest district. The
r.Ksoclatlon Is the only agency In
the I ; n it I'll -Wate-M that has success
fully scorned wools for its mem
bers. It has juj-t recently complet
ed the scouring of a ha.f a million
pounds 'it Californl t wocds at t be
Western Wool Scouring Mill at
St. Johns.
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Be7i.' Kssmz.xo $ COl. TCr J. DOHOWW. m!
The United Statu Senate haa unanimously dismissed the con
tested .election case against U. 8. Senator Earle B. Marfleld, ot Texas,
ind he has been officially declared elected. Dr. Marlon Lerojr Barton,
president of the University of Michigan, who nominated President
Cool 10 co at the Republican National Convention In Cleveland, It
critically 111 at his home In Ann Arbor. The Federal Court ot Appeals
tn New Orleans haa affirmed the conviction ot Dr. Frederick Cook, ot
North Pole tame, convicted In Fort Worth, Tex., of using the malls to
defraud in oil stock deals. Washington roports that Colonel William
J. Doiiovan, ot Buffalo, N. T. now U. S. Assistant Attorney-General,
will be promoted to first assistant to the Attorney-General after Charles
beechir Warren assumes charge ot the Department of Justice.
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Ilr-por-s are to the effect that
linker. Kt lly & McLaughlin who
have been buying st ra w berries for
ihe past few wi eks hae acquired
about l.'iO acres around Salem,
have pk-ked up tho. an ft berries
around Woodburn in addition to
buying the La Combe pool and
ttith other buys are getttug up
aroun I their reuuiretiieriis nl-'hoiu-h
It Is reported thev ure still
bu Iip:.
Aeoci-ling to reports they have
been payni; ti m s centa for ber
ries. Crown admit ibis firm has
been one of '.be biggest assots to
ihe strawberry growers In this vi
cinity during many ban years and
thin Is one reason they huv. been
able to sign up fast under contracts
aily In what looks like an excep
tionally go mI fruit year, hecaiife
many growers realize that smue
(ais bu: for ibis firm their her
lies would have rotted on the plant.
LE FEVRE POOL
The LeFevre pool, sometimes
known as the New berg pool, one
of Ihe bigt:e-4 fruit pools In Ihe
alby, equalling the Wood burn
pool !n s ze. has reached definite
decision to loin the Sprlngbrook
racking company this year on a
cooperative basis, according to
word received la Salem, providing
It nn rale Its share of the money
nocefwiry to put up the kind of a
plan: that would he needed to
handle the romlvnpd pools
It Is reported :hit $t.(t00 I
the mark tn be shot at In assist
ing tn rutting up the plant. From
the sle of tho pool It Is believed
t lint this mo:iev cm He ritsed to
lit over the deal. The Soring- I
brook pack has been special ilng
n hiacKc.t n t n a larrr extent .
cwt. head lettuce $4rOW4.75 crate
California enhhago 4fC4He; celerv
ht-arta $1 2f2 ti dm: erate $?
00 cwt.; onions $R. No. 1: boiler
2 SO per cwt.: sweet potatoes,
fanev K'fflOe: spinach greens Jo;
repprrs SSr; green IIibbard
squash $3 60 per cwt. rutabagas
2 ;4 cnts; parsnips S cents
sacked cauliflower $2.25 erate:
ackeri carrots I2.&0; brussels
spro'tts tc; local turnip SHe lb.;
California bunch vegetables: car
rots, beets and turnips 80c dozen:
parslev 75c: radishes, rreen onions
f oe; grane fruit $4 0014. ; crate;
fruit $4 00 0 4.75 crate; rhubarb
-hit barb 17H; tomatoes fs in lb.
lur: Texas raVti,? Cc lb ; sacked
beets 4c.
Fruits- Apples 11 !16 hm. fnee
find 'III: fanev S7.00tf2S0; extrs
fancy $2.;of).(0.
Regardlcs of efforts to throw a
rosy hue over 1 he flax situation,
nevertheless P. C. Miles, president
of the new twine and linen factory
here, has ex; tressed sumo concern
over the possibility of not receiv
ing a sufficient amount of flax to
handle the situation during the
first vear, and has asked that
growers be reminded of the ne
cessity of supporting the home In
stitution up tu the capacity of the
plant.
It Is estimated that the local
plant will require 2000 acres of
l lax and up tu date 1150 acres have
beim signed up, according to fig
ures received from Warden Dairy in
lo of tho st.ite penitentiary.
There Is no question that In cer
tain districts farmers havo been
hanging ba"k waiting for the prop
osition P. K. Thomas may havo to
put up for them for tho Starling
plant which is talked about at
Vancouver.
Attention is called to the fact
that ihe Starling plant his not yet
been built a;d that it is material
ly different from the Salem plan!,
as the Vancouver outfit Is a stock
selling proposition while tho Salem
plant has the money all .subscribed,
t ho machinery bought, the site
bought, nnd will have its build
logs erecl",i ns soon as contracts
can be awarded and the work
done.
While rosy things have been re
ported ab-ut the Starling plant,
those familiar with starling's prop
ositions here say there Is no defin
ite assuriuce yet that the Starling
plant will be constructed.
Starlinj; put up a pure stock
propositi. m here, offering one lo
cal bustne.-w man $2,(HM In stock
In the phuit, !f he would lend his
assistance to Its promotion. The
business man refused. Starling
wanted to have a company here
capitalized at $(100,000 with the
community putting up Ihe main
share of sto.-k. The Ktarilng idea
was to start off with a bang, put
ting up a big proposition nnd go
ing Into the game strong. The
Miles bleu has been to start on a
Mnall basts an I expand as the busi
ness -lexeloped and warranted ex
pannn an.! that is the Idea being
carried out bv the Salem nl.mt
The S'tlem plant figures employing
.mi iieooic hi tno start, mo Starling
Vancouver boosters have been talk
lug about st i-tl'ig off with 2000
people. Some local men are so un
kind io say that the Miles plant
wilt bo operating with nearer 2000
people when the Sinning scheme
is forgotten.
At nny rate, local nennle nre
pressing no objection to farmers
signing nn in the Vancouver pool
tf thev wish. All that they urge
Is that a sufficient aereaiie be as
sured the Salem plant for Its first
years operation. If that Im ,.r-
cd no one Is protesting against
v, iiu ii acres Pel no- utirne.l
aroun.l Silem with the Vancouver
Pian: u inev want It.
HARE AND EDDY TO
DRAFT CLEAVER REPORT
Ren a tors Ilnm nnd v.i.tv k....
been anno! n ted hv rhiirm.n
liartand a a n"'commlt tee of
tbe joint special committee Investigating-
the atate prohibition de
oar t men t In rnrnniU I K. I J...
of the committee memberi Into ft
report that will be agreed to by
all members. Tha commlttes held
an executive session last nifrht
and found Its Ideas no divergent
that It waa ImrwvMlhl in i in.
get her. It l said that one report
sou muted xor the general com
mutes a conaideral-lon last night
was ton drastic and th nth. WM
not drastic enough.
Robert Wilcox, formerly district
manager of Ll'iby, McNeil & Llbby
who is a frequent visitor to Salem
this year and Is now superinten
dent of the canneries at Newberg
nnd Lebanon for Die Davidson in
terests states that both of the;e
plants will be run to capacity this
year, so m e t n i n g t na t t tiey no ve
not been doing for the past three
years.
H. F. Davidson Is now In the
ojiHt putting up his fences there.
He has established his family at
Newberg and will reside there.
Tho acquisition of Wilcox by
Davidson, according to local can
ners, means that the Lebanon and
Newberg plants will be big factors
in the field, as Wilcox is known
as one of the big fruit men In the
northwest. Wilcix is well known
here where he came on frequent
buying trips for the Llbby canner
ies at Tho Dalles.
CUCUMBERS
HAY BE POOLED
A matter of inrerest to local
farmers Is the rumor coming from
Portland that the Sterling Pro
ducts company, which has been a
subsidiary to Wad hams & Kerr. Is
about to be eold tn other parties
who plan to operate It independ
ently as a pickle and syrup produc
ing factory.
This company last year took nil
of the cucumbers which were
handled out of Salem for pickling
purposes and ft Is barely possihk
another cucumber pool may be at
tempted here this year. The pool
was not a howling success last
year because of the dry season, but
in a few localities tn this section
cucumbers did fairly well.
Speaking of cucumbers It Is re
ported that 1 ; 0 acres of them have
been signed tip in the Molalla sec
tion for pickling purpsf, and as
reported recently Woodburn sec
tion will handle a large amount of
them this year thiough the Oregon
racklmr company. 'ihe Molalla
section Is said to be developing
rapidly ns a fruit center. with
Kreat potential possibilities In that
line.
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 11 Earl
Holt, J7. who was found wander
ing about streets of Fremont, pen
niless and eating raw corn for sus
tenance, police say, h.is been Iden
tified as a member of a prominent
southern family of Reidsvllle. N.
C. A brother, C. W. Holt, haa ar
rived here taking charge of hi
brother preparatoiy to taking him
to his horns in Keidsvllls.
According to C. W. Holt, Eni I
was head of a number ot larg
textlts mills and business worries
affected his mind to such an ex
tent that hs became a victim of
amnesia about seven months ago
and disappeared from his horns.
In Fremont, broken tn health
and without fiinda, hs declarsd
himself too proud to beg and. ac
cording to police, hs was found
living from corn hs took from the
talks In ths fields. '
Rumors coming up to Salem are
to the effect that the Clackamas
County Canning association oper
ating canneries at Carver and Can
by Is not fully decided as to wheih
er the can'icios will be operated
this yenr, and the matter is caus
ing almost as much discussion in
the communities as the marriage
of school teacher and pa pi I which
upset them several weeks ago.
Peake, who was the guhl;ng
genius in getting the canneries un
der way and acted in a managerial
capacity, is said to be out of the
proposition because of friction in
the board of directors. The under
lyUtH caue of the difficulty Is said
to have been too many promises
and slow fulfillment which caofced
growers to become restless and a
general dissatisfaction to spread
around among those Interested.
A consider 1'ole quantity of fruit
is handled in the Can by and Car
ver section which would have to
go elsewhere if the cannerbs fail
to function this year.
!0
ill!
BE ASKED BY
Whllo John McNary, attorney
for the Phez compaiiy In the cases
once more decided by the supreme
court, this time for the growers,
statea that he does not know what
will be the nexi move in tiie legal
gamo which has been going on for
years, representatives of the Salem
Fruit Union and loganberry grow
ers today were figuring out the
salvage under the latest decision.
While beiore the decision was
handed down, and under the terms
of the previous supreme court de
cision, the Salem Fruit Union had
been virtually wiped off the map,
its largest asset, the building at
Trade and High streets, held in
yawn, and growers standing to lose
$123,000 if judgment could be en
forced, today they find themselves
apparently sitting on top of the
world.
Definite figures are not yet ob
tainable but the 10 cent a crate
penalty imposed on the fruit union
probably will not exceed $10,000,
which the union will be able to
pay. It Is stated, and the building
kept for tiie stockholders. Under
the former decision the building
undoubtedly would have found its
way into the pot as an asset of the
Northwest Fruit Products com
pany, successor to the Phez and
Loju companies.
Under the old decision the dam
ages against growers amounting to
$1,230,000 could not have been met
by the growers, this Is admitted on
all snles, ami In that eventually all
that the growers could not pay,
would have come out of the Salem
Fruit union. This Is what would
have eaten up all of the assets of
the union.
So far none of the growers paid.
A few of them did not Join in on
the last appeal to the supreme
court and executions were secur
ed against these growers, but they
had nothing on which to enforce
the executions.
It la considered extremely like
ly that a rehearing will be asked
by the l'hez company representa
tives, and efforts made to have all
the litigation re-opened.
WILLAMETTE LOSES
TO IDAHO 50 TO 31
The Willamette university Ijar,
ketbnll quintet was defeated by
the fast University of Idaho .'.earn
by a score of 60 to 31 on the loeal
floor last niRh'.. The Vandals had
their characteristic faet passing
same, relyinK little on dribbling
or long shooting.
The first half ended 17 to 12 In
favor of Idaho.
Numerous lubstitutlona were
made by both eides. Fasna:ht,
stellar Hearea. forward, was high
point man of the game with 15
points to his credit.
L. T Dick and L, M. Hum
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