New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-05

| Ire A+cbison common and preferred Brooklyn
! Rapid Transit, Baltimore and Ohio common oHi-
cago Terminal Colorado and Southern DeiaWa.o
/ and Hudson, Erie common. first and second pr
ferred. Louisville and Nashville Manhattan MIS-
| souri, Pacific, New York Central, Northwest H.
! Northern Pacific preferred. Peoples Gas, heduiii7
/ first preferred, Republic Steel common and pre-
! ferred Rock Island. St. Paul. Southern Railway
| preferred Southern Pacific, Sugar, Tennessee Coa'
! and Iron Union Pacific common and preferred.
United States Steel common and preferred Chlteu
States Leather preferred. Wabash preferred anu
Western Union. 21s and per cent
COPPER STATISTICS.-For the half year emu
ed June go 1902 the domestic production OF cop
per according to statistics compiled by G Mayer
secretary of the New-York Metal t-Nchais
amounted to 14O4S tons against 1884 tons IN ''ie
previous year. increase of 1904 tons me m
portations amounted to % 1877 tons. against Ze'o'
tons +, 1eo1 an increase of S1G6 tons. The totai
supplies were 17O1S5 against 5000 IONS iaS
wear an Increase of 10.160 tons. The Exports %
copper from the United States to June :" anlou'
- as 500 tons against 81 ST last year. or an IN
crease of 1859 OF the total eXpoI III
tons went to Europe against 49.@-5 tons las' S7
an increase of 45.316 tons. Deductfng shipments
from supplies there were apparently LETT TOT no
consumption on June 30 1857 tons, against lV''if
tons in the previous year. or decrease u '''''
tons. n
earding the reports of serious damage 10 the Texas
and Pacific lines by recent foods the loilo"in7
statements from high official OF the rodI' ie
ceived at the company s once III '"io oi''
day. will be of interest:
We lost no important bridges. and the r, daI@ i5
was not so great as had been expected me pm =,
cpaI damage in the washing away OF 1on2 III
m nr Iie hptween Fort Worth and Sierra Blanca
or r many Thousands of dollars during the com
ing winter The stockmen are happF 20 ~ corntrv
along Western line in the last b h%3 WeTe then
and covered Will S'N~if'i
inches inches Of grass
UNITED STATES LEATHER IS reported ,.4u. ~
the lea Their district in Boston that the Lnieo
rea+ber Companv is contemplating the formation
of a new company to take over Its TIMBER Iah"s'
mitch have been found to be rich in coal ana OIL
the United States Company retaining us Darn
rights II is figured that the timber ahds can Nc
sold for sufficient price to a new COMPANY !" -
tire the preferred stock at par and leave '"e w.
$50 300 of common stock to get 'ie LUZ"
the profits in the leather business 49, .r
GOVERNMENT COTTON RFPokI.-lhe "io.'
" renort of the statistican Of the DePa' -
Agriculture shows the average cohuItioH VI -
on MI d to have been $40 per cent coili..'
,., @, nov cont on June -. 77.2 per cent on july
o 1eo1. 76 ner cent on August / 1890 81 per cent OH
August l. 1899 and a ten year average VI 90
cent Fxcept In Texas and Oklahoma ""'Ie
,ort averages of condition July . are f"uf po''
bigber than last month. and the lndlan leIrltoiS'
.L.re +bere has been an Improvement of SIX Poh'S'
and Missouri where there is no appreciapIe ci''i7e
\ more or less marked deterioration Is report
from the entire cotton belt. There Is maFNeu aO-
sence Of uniformity of condition even In the states
making the most unfavorable showing. not d IL"
counties reporting condition far above the aEe. ,
age and some even reaching the high figure OF lV'
per cent. -->,.,
STEEI. EARNINGS LARGER THAN EXPECT
EDIT IS understood that the basis OF earnings
RI date the business on the books and IN sight. the
officers OF The United States Steel Corporation LOOK
for the earnings OF the corporation for the cur
rent wear to be in excess OF $40e0eoo. the amount
named by President Schwab in his AFFIDAVIT recently
filed in a New-York court. The net earnings Tor
Julv are expected TO he not far from $4,000"
either way
PETITION To CLOSE EXCHANGED petition
asking for the closing Of the Stock Exchange on
Saturday in honor OF the coronation OF King Ed
ward VII. put In circulation on the floor or
the Exchange yesterday about ten minutes before
the close OF business and received one hundred
and eighty signatures by o'clock. 1t is expected
that fully two hundred more names Will be added
to-day to the list. special meeting or the gov
erning committee will probably be held to-day TO
take action the petition