Arizona republican., 1904-05-02
Articles of Domestic Pro-
 duCtiOn Generally Lower
COMPARISON OF PRICES
Between March of This Year and the Corresponding Month of Year Ago. The Relation Between Price of Beef Cattle and Beef

Washington, May 1.-Prices of nearly all the great classes of domestic p-o- duction have materially fallen durin. the past year, the chief exceptions he ing cotton, wool. wheat. corn. oats. and refined petroleum. On the other hand
 prices of imported articles for use il
 manufacturing have advanced dur.n.
 the same period. This statement sum mariZes in a few words the picture of prices today compared with thos. ot a year ago, as presented by the depart- ment of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics.
 The bureau of statistics has for many
 years published in its monthly sum mary of Commerce and Finance quo tations of prices of about 70 leading articles entering into the markets f the United States. Ore-fourth Cf these perhaps, are impoI ted articles. and include rubber, hemp. sisa, jutc raw silk raw sugar, and raw cofrte l The articles of domestic production which it quotes include pig ircn CBez- semer and Southern). bars of iron and steel, steel billets, steel rails. tin pla e. petroleum (crude and refinetD. refined sugar, copper, lead, zinc. ana leather The quotations presented are in each case those for a given day of each Week , in leading markets for the article named in most cases New York. though in ! few articles; such as beef cattle. Chi | cago prices are named. and. in tHe
 case of certain manufactures of Iron 1 and steel, those of Pittsburg. are D e- | sented.
 I The latest Issue Of the Monthly Sum- mary of Commerce and Finance pre- | of | shows the prices from week to We running back through the entire year, | and thus enables a comparison yt | prices in March. 1904. with those or March 1903, for certain dates fin that i month. in many cases as late as ttc | 18th. study of the prices thus pre- sented, comparing those oS the i1teet | available date with those or the cor | responding date one year ego. shows an l increase in prices of about Cne-haif of 1 the imported articles named and de- | crease in but two Q fthe number. whi-e
 in the articles of domestic production, numbering some' thirty. prices are .ss 1 in March 1904. than those of M1Ich.
 1905. in practically all cases except cut- ] ton. wool wheat, corn. oats. beef cattle | and refined petroleum or kerosene. as i this product is ropularly designated. i while steel rails show no change tl + price.
 i Cautiously, while beef ca,-Y- ~novv an r increase in price. family beef shows a marked fall in price. Texas steers are l quoted in the Chicago marl5e. at gi-sd | per hundred weight for the folrth i week of March, 1903. and at S5 for the i fourth week of March. 1901; and native | steers are quoted at S5.5O in the fcurth NP l corresponding week of March In this 1 year. Yet family beef. which vaa i quoted at s15 per barrel in the New | York markets in the fourth week SF 1 March, 1905 is quoted at Sl25O per basr
 rel in the fourth week of March, lsai: | Mess pork, which was quoted at stg ! Ter barrel in March. 1903. is given SC | S15.50 in March. 1904. Lard which vas | quoted at 165 cents per pound h | March, 1903, is given at 7.2 cents in | March, 1904. Ileostarin also shows a i fall from 10 cents per pound in March.
 1903, to cents in March. 1904: talIow.
 a decrease from 3-4 cents per pound
 in March. 1903. to 7-S cents in March. 1904, and refined sugar from +s i-2 l cents per pound on March T.. 1905. to
 4.s cents on March 10. 1904.
 l Turning to manufactured articles.
 practically all those quoted show a re- | duction- Pig iron (Bessemer) shows a
 fall from S23.1O per ton in March. 1s0s.
 to s14.35 in March, 1904: southern pig
 iron, from s21 per ton in March. 1eo3.
 10 S9.75 in March. 1904: iron bars. form
 ? cents per pound in March. 1908, to 1 1-2 cents in March 1904; steel bars from
 1.e cents per pound in March. 1908. C
 IA 1-2 cents in March. 1904: steel bl- nf frnFVa
 to $23 in March. 1904: tin plate from St
 per box of 100 pounds in March. 1906.
 to s3.65 per box in March. 1904: lelthe- | (oak. middle weight). from & cents Der pound in March. 1903 to B cents in March, 1904: while steel rails. as d.
 already indicated, show no change
 Metals used in manufacturing show in most cases a slight decrease-copre CT
 from 15 cents per pound in March. ls0S
 to 12.S7 1-2 cents in March. 1904: zinc.
 from 5.7 cents in March, 1903. to l-s
 cents in March, 1904.
 The chief articles of domestic D O.
 duction showing an advance in price
 are cotton, wool, wheat. corn. oats. and
 kerosene. Cotton shows. of course.
 the largest advance, from 3-4 cents
 per pound in March. 1903. to 14 3-i
 cents in March, 1904: wool. ohio NN.
 from 31 cents per pound in March. 1909.
 to g cents in March. 1904: wheat. No.
 2, red winter, from Si 3-S cents 7e-
 bushel in the New York markets on
 March 2G. 1903, to S1O7 1-2 on Msrch %.
 1904; corn, No. 2. from 57 1-2 cents oI , March 10, 1903. to 4S 1-2 cents in Ma ch. r. 1904: refined petroleum C<erossn-).
 from 10 1-2 cents in March. 1903. tJ 11.3 1-2 cents in' March. 1904.
 Imported articles do not show the
 general reduction apparent in those f
 domestic production. Coffee Osio No.
 D shows an advance from 1-2 c.nts
 on March 21, 1903, to 5-S cents or
 March 2G, 19Oi; Japan tea chO-ce, from , | 26 cents Der round on March a 1908