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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924. Oil .. Finance ;; Bonds :: Stocks :: Grain :: Livestock :: All Markets WOOL TRADING STILL DULL N BIG MARKET Manufacturers Slow to Purchase and Offer Little Encouragement; Trading in West Continues Erratic. BOSTON, Mass., May 80.—The Commercial Bulletin will say Satur day "Business continues dull for the most part here and prices are. If anything, a bit easier, manufac turers are not disinterested In wool but they are buying little and offer little encouragement to wool buyers based on the goods situation. "In the west the buyers are operating in a • desultory sort of w.y, with prices more or less erratic but in most sections rather lower and buyers withdrawn In not a few cases. "The foreign markets are without material change as compared with a week ago. prices being now ad justed more or less to the bases established in London. "Mohair is steady on moderate demand." The Commercial Bulletin will pub lish the following quotations: Domestic: Ohio and Pennsylvania prices: Delaine, unwashed, 52c; half blood combing, 51052 c; three eighths blood combing, 48& 50c. Commodity Trade News Coal SCRANTON, Pa.—Coal produc tion in the.anthraclto fields will fall off this week as miners will gen erally quit work today, ascension day, or Memorial Day, and few will work Saturday. Most of the miners will corte here June 30, for the un veiling of the John Mitchell monu ment. Electrical Equipment PHILADELPHLV—The Philadel phia Electric company has ordered two 50,000 kilowatt turbo generators for Its new power plant on the Delaware River. The station will be built in thee sections of 200,000 kilowatts each and will be In opera tion before the end of 1925. Shoes AUBURN, Me.—Shoa factories here are operating at capacity again with orders on their books sufficient to assure steady produc tion all summer. Automobiles DETROIT— Retail sales of Willys Overland cars last week amounted X rs TODAY AND TONIGHT u/ GRAND OPENING CASPER’S NEWEST PLAY GROUND Q//wI DANCING bathing A / wW SLIM BRANDT AND HIS IN THE REMODELED POOL / 7 ' J DE LUXE ENTERTAINERS 400 DRESSING ROOMS W RIVERVIEW PARK ROLLER RINK, RIDES AND CONCESSIONS J ROADS NEWLY GRADED FREE PARKING SPACE FOR YOUR CAR LAI Casper-to-Mills Bus Leaves Second and Center Streets Every 15 Minutes ~ T-fr Michigan and New York fleeces: Delaine, unwaahed, 48®49c; half blood, unwashed, 48@50c; three eighths blood, unwashed. 47048 c; quarter blood, unwashed. 45®46c. Wisconsin, Missouri and average New England: Half blood, 46@47c; three eighths blood. 45©46c; quarter blood, 48045 c. Scoured basis: Texaa, fine. 12 months, >1.27 01.30; fine, 8 months, 11.1201.15. California: Northern, >1.2501.80; Middle county, 11.1001.15; southern. >1.0501.08. Oregon: Eastern No. 1, staple, >1.28@1.30; fine and F. M. combing, >1.2001.23: eastern clothing. >1.120 1.15; valley No. 1, >1.1501.18. Territory: Montana, fine staple choice, >I.BO 01.32; half blood comb ’lng, >1.2001.23; three eighths comb ing, >I.OO 01.02; quarter blood comb- Irg. 87090 c. Pulled: Delaine, >1.30 01.32; AA, >1.2501.28; A supers. >1.1001.15. Mohair: Best combing, 75 080 c; best carding, 55 0 70c. to 7,365. The total this year to date amounts to approximately 10.7 per cent more than that of the cor responding period of 1923. Oil TULSA, Okla.—Mid-continent re finers have failed to curtail crude runs to plants as much as the situa tion demands, according to many authorities. Last week In 144 re fineries 1,521,131 barrels of crude and 156,763 barrels of seml-reflned oil were run to «tllls producing 24,- 142,816 gallons of gasoline. 5,066.- 475 gallons of kerosene and 29,312,- 741 gallons of gas and fuel oil. Lumber SEATTLE —Lumber production in tho Pacific northwest continues to decline and practically all mills and timber camps have suspended operations. Night work In practi cally al! mills has been suspended. Livestock KANSAS ClTY—Trade In horses and mules has been limited tho last week because of small supply. Ten carloads were bought and shipped out two to Missouri, two to lowa and one each to Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois and Texas. FORT WORTH—The movement of livestock from West Texas to other states for stacker purposes is now at its height. About 11,000 head of cattle a month are going to other states, principally lowa, Kan sas and Illinois. Tobacco PHILADELPHIA Cigars are still In good demand at local fac tories, but with decrease of employ ment, the demand has turned from high priced to medium priced brands. Vegetable Oil ATLANTA—The Southern Oil company, a subsidiary of the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical company. Is to be reorganised as an independent concern, provided satisfactory terms of sale can be arranged with the Virginia-Carolina company, accord ing to Atlanta and Savannah bank ing Interests. Steel PITTSBURGH—The Sharpsville furnace will blow in all of Its fur naces next week. The concern Is understood to have contracted for coke at >3.50. Consumption will be approximately 12,000 tons per month. Bailroad Equipment ST. PAUL—Three thousand ad ditional refrigerator cars are being purchased, built and rebuilt by the Great Northern Railroad, thru the Western Fruit Express company which operates the Great Western refrigerators under lease. Textiles CLINTON, Mass.—The Lancaster mills her "have added 1,055 looms to the 600 already in operation. This has raised the output of the mills to 7 per cent of capacity. Standard Oil Stocks Anglo 15% 16 Buckeye 63 64 Continental 40 42 Cumberland 131 134 Galena, 57 68 Illinois 136 140 Indiana 90 91 Nat. Tran. 23 22% N. Y. Tran. — 74 76 Nor. Plpo 85 87 Ohio OH 60% 61% Prairie OH 212 214 Prairie Pipe 102 102% Solar Ref. 193 195 Sou Pipe 95 98 8. O. Kan. 39% 40% S. O. Ky 106 107 S. O. Neb. 240 243 S. O. N Y. 3.8% 38% 8. O. Ohio 292 295 Vacuum 60% 61 S. O. Ind. 56% 56% ? ? ? Wyoming Motorway 7 7? Che CaßDcr ©aflp Crfbune NEWS AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED WIRE- UPHEAVAL SEEN IN DRYGOODS MARKET Revival of Demand for Cotton Goods Is Held Probable; Cloths Now Being Bought And Sold by Speculators. BY J. C. ROYI.E (Copyright 1924, The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, May 30.—An up heaval of the dry goods market in the next, few months, which would affect practically every user »and wearer of cotton goods would not surprise some well Informed experts closely connected with the textile industry. Already there Is some evidence that cotton clc‘hs are being bought and held for specula tive purposes much in tho same way raw Cotten is being handled by trad ers. It Is understood that the ma jority of this trading is being done by men prominent in dealings in the raw staple who are carrying their Ideas as to the coming crop a step further into the goods market. Their belief that a revival of de mand for cotton goods is not far off is based on the fact that the goods prices aro below the relative level at which raw cotten can be purchased through contract markets. Prices of raw cotton, they soy, are more likely to increase than dec'lne as tho season goes on and picking approaches, owing to the poor start the crop received this spring and tho ordinary vicissitudes of the wea ther, insect pests, and foreign buy ing. Many cotten men believe the gov ernment crop estimate to be Issued next Monday will place the condi tion and probable yield even lower than the private reports already made public, owing to the unfavor able weather which has prevailed since the latter were compiled. One of these forecasts, usually ex tremely accurate, placed the con dition at 66.6 per cent of normal, which compares with a five year average of 69.8 and a ten year aver age of 72.8 per cent. The indicated yield with the present condition and acreage figures used wns fixed at 11,210.000 bales. This estimate prob- Oil and Gas Prospectors Permits Issued By State Oil and gas prospector’s leases re- I cently granted on state land are : shown as follows: Grace McDonald, Newcastle, a’l of 1 section 14-47-63. George W. Bates, Cheyenne, SE% t NE%. SEHBWH: SE% of section ably will be lowered materially as • the season advances and the plants reach the stage where the weevil is damaging. Labor seems sufficient In most sections, but hot. dry weath er is regarded as essential. Curtailment of the cotton cloth 1 mills Is drastic in some sections and It Is indicated that the number of spindles active at the same time dur. Ing this month will fall well behind the 81,871,665 reported for April. If this curtailment Is continued, it may mean that the mills will have very light stocks on hand in the late sum mer when the trade needs goods for i fall. It is to meet that demand that the speculators have been buy ing up the production of the Amer ican mill*. With the shortage, next fall, raw cotton men say would probably give the foreign mills an opportunity to gain a firm foothold in American markets since foreign manufacturers already have bought one million more bales of American cotton this year than last. American cotton mill men are not agreed ns to the reasons for-the sit uation which all admit is unsatisfac tory from the standpoint of cotton goods. Some attribute the dullness to "dumping" of foreign cloths on this market and advocate an ad vance in tariff rates to check this tendency. Stewart W. Cramer, chairman of the executive committee of the American Cotton Manufac turers’ Association, placed special stress on tho spread between the prices asked by manufacturers and those asked by retailers. "The cost of distribution Is frankly the trouble." he said. "It Is up to ■tho women to study and Investigate that before there is any real sub stantial reduction In goods prices. So long ns women demand the var iety, quality, credit and service they are getting, just ao long will the cost of distribution remain high." 27-18-65; N%; N%SE% of section 34-12-65: Myron W. Whittemore, Chicago. HL, BE%SW’4 of section 12-34-84. Charles S. Hill, Casper, all of sec tion 16-47-100. Tom Farthing. Iron Mountain. NW%NE%; SW%NW%; NE% SW% of section W%;W% E% of section George W. Hegewald, Laramie, all of section 16-27-101. Oliver Chambers, Rock Springs, all of section 36-17-103. Frank A. Taylor, Cheyenne, all of section 36-14-100. A. C. Rlerlcx, San Francisco, all of section 36-28-89. Red Desert Oil Syndicate, Inc., Rock Springs, a’l of section 36-23-96. Leslie B. Whitehead, Rawlins, all of section 16-44-95. Thirty Six Oil company, Kemmer er, all of section 86-26-l\3. H. B. Gooch, Independence, Mo., all of section 36-15-62. H. C. Foreman, Worland, all of section 36-45-93. Lee Simonson, Thermopolis, N%, W%BE%. BW% section 36-44-98. John !•’. Goolt'y, Savery, all of section 25-13-90. James Doyle. Denver, Colot, all of section 36-31-81. L. A. Miller, Cheyenne, all of sec tion 16-13-65. Margaret M. Miller, Cheyenne, all of section 26-13-65. S. Helen Weston, Cheyenne, all of section 16-14 89. R. G. Diefenderfer, Newcastle, all of section 36-45-64. J. St. A. Boyer, Savery, all of section 36-15-90. Harriet L. Bond. Cheyenne, E% SEUNWU of section 1-14 89; BW%; B%NE%, NE%NE% of section 36- 15- Francis S. King, Cheyenne, all of section 24-15-89. J. L. Baker, Omaha, Neb., all of section 16-25-88. Robert J. Davidson, Casper, all of section 36-33-90. A. 15. Walton, Cheyenne, all of section 36-51-101. M. C. Greenfield. Rawlins, 8% of section 12-20-81; N% of section 13- 20-80. F. K. Johnson, Saratoga, N%SW% of section 22-20-81. Green River Petroleum company. Cheyenne, all of section 16-27-113. L. G. Davis, Saratoga, all of sec tion 16-18-87. T. S. Foster, Casper, all of section 16 34-89. M. A. Boyer, Savery, al! of section 16- Charles C. Dolan, Dixon, all of section 36-13-90. Gilbert F. Hayes, Cheyenne, all of section 16 26-89. Mary Brown, Saratoga, all of sec tion 36-19-87. Jeanette B. Stiles, Denver, all of section 36-39-62. H. A. StHes. Denver, all of sec tion 36-37-63. Insane Negro Cuts Railroad Wires CHEYENNE, Wyo . May 30. John McClease. 27, Negro. Is held here for, inquiry Into his sanity, following his arrest at Pine Bluffs, Wy<».. 40 miles east. whl! e ' neng.• <| In cutting and removing wires of ! the union Pacific railroads block , signal system. He had put several i sections of the system out of com- i mission before he was taken into i custody. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 30. 1 The condition of W. G. Harris, > SATURDAY IS SPECIAL DAY Nice Head Lettuce (large), 2 for2sc Radishes, 2 big bunches 15 Bananas, 2 lbs ~ " _2sc Oranges, doz. Milk, 2 qts ~~~~ Spuds, 7 lbs -‘-11-11-I2Z2ZZ2SC Fresh Killed Milk Fed Chickens THE PEOPLE’S MARKET Rear New Public Market Phone 2627 TRAIN SCHEDULES Chicane A NeHhwMtasa No Xrr ”“ No 1:50 p - m - 2 05 P- m - I.asttxjund— No. 622 —————— 5:15 p. m. 5;30 p. m. Chicage, Burllagton a Qulwr East bound Arri.— - No. 32 Orlvw Dowrts No 16 ; 6«O p. m. Westbouno w *• Jjo' ?? a m - ’• 0 *• “• , SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way LEAVE CASPER—ARKEON BUILDING Salt Creek r . m Bnggage and Express o Called for and Delivered 8 a. m. u a. m. gait Creek Transportation 2 p. m. 2:80 p. m. Company Tol. 144 Bp. m. PAGE NINE State Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection, who collapsed from exhaustion while lost tn a utorm near Laramie, Is slowly im proving, according to report at Memorial hospital here. For sev eral days after Harris was brought to the hospital his recovery was not expected.