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ST. JOHNS HERALD LATEST IHRKE QUOTATIONS Furnished by U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS Washington,. D. O. (Western Newspaper Union News Serrica.) HAY. Market generally fair at unchanged prices. Receipts liErht except in sduth- . west where pastures have lessened the demand for hay. Quoted: No. 1 timo thy. New York. $30.50: Philadelphia. $24; Pittsburgh, $24; Cincinnati, $23.50; umcaco. SZ6.5U: Kansas City. 518.50: Atlanta. $30; Memphis, $27. No. 1 al- raira, Kansas City, $22.50; Memphis, $27.50. No. 1 prairie, Kansas City, $11.76. Feed. Wheat feed market slightly weaker. juemana very liffht. Holders apparent ly anxious to sell for future shipments but offerings for prompt shipment light. New alfalfa weakening feed market in southwest. Linseed meal and corn feed prices practically un changed. Cottonseed meal firm but demand dull. Exporters are reported out or the market and domestic de mand very limited. Quoted: Spring oran, $31 Pmiadelphia;- winter bran, $21.50 Kansas City; May shipments $20; gray shorts, $24.50 Kansas City; stand ard middlings. $31.50 Philadelphia; 36 per cent cottonseed meal, $44 Memphis; $54.50 Kansas City. White hominy reed, $24.50 Cincinnati. Gluten feed. $32.65 Chicago. Linseed meal, $53 Philadelphia. Linseed cake, $54.50 Kansas City. Fruits and Vecretnble. Potato markets are stronger in mid dle western cities. Northern round whites gained 40c in Chicago, closing $1.80 to $1.95 per 100 lbs. North cen tral shipping points up 35c at $1.60 to $1.75. New York and northern sacked round whites firm in eastern markets at $1.65 to $2.05. Maine Green Moun tains generally higher at $1.65 to $2. Florida Spaulding Rose stronger in most eastern markets, closing $6.25 to Yi per Parrel, up 25c to 50c at Hast ings, closing $5.25. Texas yellow Ber roudas commercial pack recovered 25c. reaching $2.25 to $2.75 per crate in northern markets and $1.75, f.o.b. ship ping points. Arrivals heavy in Phil adelphia and Chicago: light elsewhere. Best grade New York Baldwin apples firm in New York, general range steady at $7.50 to $8.50 per barrel: up 50c in Pittsburgh at $8. Northwestern extra fancy boxed Winesaps generally steady, prevailing range S3 to $3.25 Arrivals decreasing. Louisiana straw-, oerry ayuin aavancea ioc in nicago, closing $4 per 24-pint crate. North Carolinas firm in northern markets, generally 20c to 30c quart; basis top 40c in Boston. Livestock and Ments. Chicago hog prices advanced 10c to 15c. Beef steers and butcher cows and heifers up generally 15c to 25c. Stockers and feeders up 15c; v.eal calves generally 50c higher. Fat lambs advanced 50c to 75c. Fat ewes from 25c to 50c. Yearlings firm to 50c higher. Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $10.50. Bulk of sales, $10.25 to $10.70. Medium and good beef steers, $7.65 to $8.80. Butcher cows and heifers, $4.65 to $8.60. Feeder steers, $6 to $7.75. Light and medium weight veal calves. $6 to $8.25. Fat lambs. $12 to $15. Yearlings, $9.75 to $13. Fat ewes, $7 to $9.50. Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices were generally sharply higher. Mut ton advanced $3 to $5; lamb, $2 to $3; fresh pork loins, $2 to $2.50. Beef, 50c to $1 per 100 lbs. Veal was generally steady. Prices good grade meats: Beef, $13.50 to $15; veal, $13 to $17; lamb. $30 to $33; mutton. $20 to $24; light pork loins, $23 to $26; heavy loins, $16 to $23. Dairy Products. Butter markets have ruled steady to firm with prices practically unchanged. Supplies have been well cleared and more fine butter is arriving. Some shipments show considerable grass flavor. If weather conditions continue favorable for increased production a break in prices is expected. Closing prices, 92 score: Boston. 40c; New York. 39; Philadelphia. 39c; Chicago, 39c. Cheese markets active at present prices. Demand good. Prices at Wis consin primary markets: Twins, 14c; Daisies, 15c; Double Daisies, 14c; Young Americas, 16 c; Longhorns, 15c; square prints, 16c. Grain. Market had heavy undertone during the week and prices closed lower. Chi cago May wheat down 8c, closing at $1.39. Chicago May corn down lc at 61c Big export business had only temporary effect. Principal market factors were: Heavy liquidation on im proved crop conditions, slow demand, and lack of buying support. Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.40; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.39. No. 2 mixed corn. 61c. No. 2 yellow corn, 62c No. 3 white oats, 38. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa, 48 c. No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota, $1.42. No. 2 hard win ter wheat in central Kansas, $1.23. For the week, Minneapolis May wheat down 4c, closing at $1.53; Kansas City May wheat down 10 c at $1.24; Winnipeg May wheat down 5e at $1.38. CottOB. Spot cotton prices advanced 9 points during the week, closing at 17.03c per pound. New York May futures ad vanced 30 points, closing at 18.21c DENVER MARKETS. Cattle. Trade has been good in the beef steer section and a new season top es tablished. The feature of the market was the sale of three loads of choice to fancy grade animals, averaging bet ter than 1,200 pounds, for $8.10, freight paid, which is the highest price that has been paid here this year. Choice steers sold generally from $7.50 to $8 and a good grade found outlet at $7 to $7.50. The demand for good she stuff was even better than the demand for steers and values in the female section en joyed the full advance. In some cases the prices were 10 to 15 cents better. Choice to fancy cows were quotable from $6 to $6.50 and good quality ani mals sold for $5.75 to $6. Heifers changed hands at $7 and $7.25. Hogs. A good active trade, with prices gen erally a dime higher than the close of last week, was' reported from the hog section. City butchers paid the top price of $10.25 for one choidb load of hogs and bulk of sales were made from $9.85 to $10. Packers heavy throwout hogs sold generally at $8.50 and rough, heavy stags at $7.50. Sheep. Choice fat lambs sold at $15.35 and good grade killers sold from that prico down to $15. Heavy stock was find inir a fair outlet at 514.25 tn xix.KO. CAPITAL NAVAL BOARD RECOMMENDS SALE OF CRAFT UNDER CONSTRUCTION. WILL JUNK CRUISERS ESTIMATED COST OF TREATY FULFILLMENT IS $70,000,000. (Western Newsptper Union News Serrice.) Washipgton. Recommendations that capital ships to be scrapped under the navul limitation treaty be disposed of by sale on the stocks in the case of thoue urider construction, and by sale for junk or sinking by gunfire in the case of completed ships, are contained in the report of the board of naval of ficers appointed to consider ways and means of carrying out treaty provl sions. A preliminary estimate of $70, 000,000 as to the cost of operation Is included in the report. The board recommends that the ship ping board battle cruisers Lexington, under construction at Fort River, Mass., and Saratoga, building by the New York Shipbuilding Company at Camden, N. J., be concerted into air plane carriers under the treaty pterins, the other four battle cruisers to be sold on the stocks to the highest bidder. The board in its report urged that the $70,000,000 be made available im mediately, stating that a considerable saving on ships building under con tract ond to be scrapped could be made if the terms of settlement were worked out promptly with the contrac tors. It was pointed out at the Navy Department, however, that the figure. of $70,000,000 was purely tentative. Existing battleships, which the board recommends for sale or for destruc tion by gunfire, are the Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Georgia, Nebras ka, Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, Minnesota, Kansas, New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina and the Del aware or North Dakota. One of the last two ships, to be designated later, is to be used as a target ship under the treaty.- Ships under construction and recom mended for sale as junk on the stocks or to be cut up under contract with the builders include the battle cruisers Constellation, at Newport News; Ranger at Newport News, and Consti tution and United States, both at the Philadelphia navy yard. As to the battle cruisers the board says none of the four to be scrapped is near enough finished to be com pleted and launched and that all four must be "disassembled or cut up." The hoard considers it possible, however, that the Constellation can be sold on the stocks. The ships building at navy yards are recommended for sale as they stand to private firms for disposition as re quired by the treaty, but the board urges that "usable material" from all ships , such as guns, machinery and other equipment "be reserved for use in the proper accounts." Fires Sweep Massachusetts Forests. New York. The seriousness of the forest fire situation in Massachusetts was emphasized by William L. Bazeley, commissioner of conservation, who an nounced that more than 2,000 fires had been reported, two lives lost in fight ing fires. Every available., state and town agency was mobilized to meet conditions which were described as the worst in years. Underground Hotel Is Planned. San Francisco. An automobile ho tel, several stories deep, under Union square, a plaza in the heart of the downtown district, is proposed by A. H. Rhine, owner of an automobile parking station, to the board of super visors. Rhine has asked the board to submit the question to the voters in November. Rhine advocates removing the statue in the center of the park, the trees and the sod while excavation is being done. He would make the automobile hotel of cement, then re place the statue, grass and trees. Fire In U. S. Treasury Building. Washington. Flames which burst from the roof of the Treasury Depart ment, eating their way through a su perstructure and spreading to the cen tral portions of the roof, were brought under control after threatening heavy damage to the building. Leaping thir ty feet or more in the air, the flames lit up a large part of the downtown section and sparks were wafted across the street to the White House lawns. President and Mrs. Harding watched the progress of the flames from a win dow. Southwest News From All Over New Mexico and Arizona (Western Newspaper Union News Serrice.) J. A. Kempton, former Bisbee chief of police, was killed when his automo bile left a mountain grade a mile from Bisbee and plunged t the bottom of a ravine 100 feet below. The famous Vermijo Park ranch, near Springer, N. M., one of the finest in the entire West has been sold to parties from Colorado and St Louis. The ranch contains over 350,000 acres. Brandy Brock, county jailer at Gal lup, shot and killed himself in. his room in the county jail following 'his indict ment by a grand jury on a statutory charge. He was 54 years old and un married. The Grant county, N. M., Chamber of Commerce is now considering the advisability of circulating a petition in the county for a special bond elec tion, for the erection of a new court house and jail in Silver City. Stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage while delivering an address to the Scot tish Rite Masons at their thirty-ninth reunion in Santa F6, the Rev. C. M. Collins, pastor of the Presbyterian church, collapsed and died two hours later. Reports of a big gold strike, which has sent a large number of prospec tors and mining men scurrying to the district, were brought to Tombstone, Ariz., by E. C. Bradshaw, mining man, who has taken an option on the mine where the strike was made. Arizona is to have a state fair this year. As a result of a general ousi- ness revival throughout the state and the coming of more prosperous times, the State Legislature has appropriated money for the financing of an exposi tion of state products and achieve ments to be held at the fair grounds at Phoenix next November. The great diversion dam in the Gila river known officially as the Ashurst Hayden dam, will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on the 10th day of May. Several speakers of na tional reputation are expected to be on the program, and it is planned to make the occasion one of the greatest In the history of Arizona. The Arizona & Swansea Railroad Company, whose line is twenty-one miles long and whose equipment con sists of rails, road bed and one loco motive, has been denied permission by the Arizona Corporation Commission to dismantle its road. The road ex tends from Swansea to Bouse, where it connects with the California branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F6. A requisition for the extradition to Arizona of J. M. Reynolds, Guy L. Rog ers and J. E. Cox, all of Albuquerque, N. M., has been issued by Governor Campbell of Arizona. Indictments ara pending against the three men in Hol brook, Ariz. Reynolds and Rogers, president and vice president, respec tively of the First National Bank of Albuquerque, arev charged with per jury and conspiracy. Announcement of the dates of the rifle matches for the state of Arizona has been made by Maj. E. C. Linton, inspector instructor of the Arizona ca det organization. The high school and normal cadet matches will be held at Phoenix, May 16, 17, 18 and 19. These will be followed on May 20 and 21 by the Arizona State Rifle Association matches, in which civilian and military teams from all parts of Arizona will compete. The New Mexico State Fair Associ ation, capitalized at $30,000, with Na than Salmon, president; John B. Mc- Manus, secretary, and Jake Levy, treasurer, was organized at a recent meeting of nearly 150 prominent San ta F6 men. A thief or thieves entered the test pens at the State University at Albu querque and stole an experimental test sheep which was completely inoculated with all kinds of germs with the view of using Its blood for scientific tests. Dr. O. C. West, city health officer, has sent out warnings to report at his of fice in Albuquerque at once, any per sons who may have eaten any of the flesh of the sheep. Arizona state tax anticipation bonds aggregating $1,500,000, bearing interest of 4& per cent per annum, and expir ing in sixty days, were sold at par to the Bankers' Trust Company of New York by the State Loan Commission. The sale followed a meeting of the commission in Governor Campbell's of fice. Commission members asserted the terms were exceptionally .good la view of the short length, of time speck fied. 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