Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-29
The Benefits of the Trusts.

| giving the information, So DScrl DSO
and sworn to.
| No commodity was discovered a:
having been decreased in price. The
following is the list in alpha betical
order of goods advanced in price by
the trusts and the amount of the in
| crease:
Agate ware. or enameled, so per
cent.
| Almonds, , cents pound.
Angles, iron, 100 per cent.
Builders hardware, since June, A
per cent.
Beds, iron, 80 to 60 per cent.
Beds, brass, 80 to Is per cent.
Buttons, bone and ivory, 10 to 20
per cent.
Buttons, metal, 20 per cent.
Brass castings, within two months,
335 per cent.
Barbed wire, 81! per cent.
Beams, iron. 81! per cent.
Beef, 80 per cent.
Beef tongue, smoked. % per cent.
Beef, corned and boiled, 3 cents a
pound.
Bolts, 100 to-150 per cent.
Building papers, within two months.
- per cent.
Bags and trunks, on account of adj
vance in stock, 10 per cent.
Brooms, within six months, 40 to
80 cents a dozen.
Brushes, white wash, 80 per cent.
Bright wire goods, so per cent.
Betting, rubber, within one year,
335 per cent.
Brass wire, 75 to 50 per cent.
pound.
Canned goods. general advance.
Canned salmon, Is per cent.
Canned lobster. Is per cent.
Copper wire, 100 per cent.
Copper and brass hollow ware,
about 40 cent.
Copper, since Aug. 81, '9S, so per
cent.
Crackers, to l! per cent.
Condensed milk, Magnolia brand,
% cents a case.
Cotton Innings, II! to 10 per cent.
Cement, Rosendale, Is per cent.
Carpets 10 to 20 per cent.
Combs. rubber, about % per cent.
Chains, q cents pound.
Chairs, ordinary, 25 to 33I per
cent.
Chairs, wood seat. 335 per cent.
Dressmakers' supplies advanced in
everything - to % per cent.
Envelopes, 10 per cent.
Notice out for further advance, pre-
vious prices cancelled. new quotations
not given.
Extension tables. fully 20 per cent.
Edged tools, > to ID per cent.
Flannels, 10 per cent or more.
Furniture, July advance, average %
per cent.
Flour, within three weeks, 80 cents
a barrel.
Files. % per cent.
Felt roofing. 80 to 49, per cent.
Gloves (gents) - to 20 per cent.
Galvanized ware, about 40 per cent.
Glassware, 20 per cent.
Glassware, window, double since
May, 80 per cent.
Glass. window, single since May 40
per cent.
Glass, plate. 50 per cent.
Hats, felt, a to 10 per cent.
Hats, wool, z! to ~ per cent.
Ham (Delicatessen) cents pound.
Hardware, since June, IS per cent.
Iron, wrought, 100 per cent.
Iron, (for horseshoes) about 40 per
cent.
Iron sash weights. within two
weeks, 334 per cent.
Iron pipe. wrought. nearly doubled,
recent advances aggregate 62l per
cent.
Iron. galvanized Cast advance June
~. advance 62i per cent.
Iron, structural, S7l to 100 per
cent.
Iron beams. 81! per cent.
Iron angles. 100 per cent.
Iron beds, 50 to 65 per cent.
Iron. pig. foundry, since Aug. 81,
1898. 100 per cent.
Iron, pig, Bessemer, since Aug. 81,
1898. 125 per cent.
Iron. pig. charcoal. since Aug. 81,
1898, Chicago, 100 per cent
Iron, old material % to 100 per
cent.
Iron, bar, refined. so per cent.
Iron tank plates, 125 to $50 per cent
Knit underwear, to 10 per cent.
Knit wool, 81 TO $50 per dozen.
Innings. cotton, 12l to Is per cent.
Linseed oil, within three weeks, 20
per cent.
Lead, Ii per cent.
Lumber Except oak) 20 to 25 per
cent.
Lumber. oak, 49, per cent.
Linoleum, domestic, 124 to 20 per |
cent.
Lead pencils, cheap grade, 10 to ID |
per cent.
Latterns, June l, advanced % per
cent.
Muslins, about 5 per cent.
Medicines, patent, 5 per cent.
Notions, advance is general through
,ut the line, averaging 3 per cent.
Nails. cut, within twelve months,
rs per cent.
Nails. wire, within twelve months.
- per cent
Pals. wood. 80 per cent.
Pulley blocks, wood, 10 per cent.