The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-30


 raw silk. raw sugar and coffee. The articles of domestic production which 1t quotes include pig iron tBessemer and Southern). bars of iron and steel. steel billets. steel rails. tin plate. pe- troleum (crude and refned) refined su- gar. copper. lead. zinc, and leather. The quotations presented are in each case those for a given day of each week in the leading market for the ar ticle named--in most cases New York. though in few articles such as beef cattle. Chicago prices are named. and. in the case of certain manufactures of iron and steel. those of 1Pittsburg are presented.
 The latest issue of the Monthly Sum- mary of Commerce and Finance pre- sents a study of these prices and also shows the prices from week to week. running back through the entire year. and thus enables a comparison of prices !n March. 1904. with those of March. 1903. for certain dates in that month, in many cases as late as the 18th. A study of the prices thus pre- scented. comparing those of the latest available. date with those of the cor responding date one year ago, shows an increase ir prices of about one-half of the imported articles named and a decrease in but two of the number. while in the articles of domestic pro- duction. numbering some thirty. prices are less in March. 1904. than those of March. 1903. in practically all cases except cotton, wool. wheat. corn. oats. beef cattle, and refined petroleum. or kerosene as this product Is popularly designated. while steel rails show no change in price,
 Cautiously. while heef cattle show an in crease in price, family beef shows a m a a6 fQ1 tf1 vaYtN a
 quoted in the Chicago market at s43o per hundredweight Tor the fourth week
 of March. 19(9. and at s for the fourth
 week of March. 1904: and native steers
 are quoted at $50 In the fourth week
 of March. 1905, and s5.75 for tho cores
 bonding week in March of this year. Yet
 family beef. which was quoted at sl5 per
 barrel in the New York markets in the fourth week of March. lsos is quoted at s12.5o per barrel In the fourth week of March. t9A. Mess pork. which was quoted at s19 per barrel In March. 1903,
 Is given at s15.5o In March. 1904. Lard,
 which was quoted at l0.5 cents per pound
 In March, 1908, Is given at 7;2 cents In March. 1904. Oleostearin also shows a fall from 10 cents per pound in March, 1903, to cents in March, 1904; taliow, decrease from 3-4 cents per pound in March. 1903 to 7-s cents in March, 1904. and refined sugar from 4e 1-2 cents per pound
 on March l2, 1905 to 4.5 cents on March
 10 1904.
 Turning to manufactured articles. prac- tically all those quoted show reduction. Pig iron (Bessemer) shows a. fall from
 s23. 10 per ton in March. 1908. to sl4.35 in
 March, 1904; Southern pig iron. from $2l per ton in March. 1905, to $s.7S fin March
 1904: iron hars. from 2 cents per pound
 In March. 1903, to 1 1-2 cents in March.
 1904; steel bars, from 1.6 cents per pound
 in March. 1903. to 1.4 1-2 cents in March.
 1904; steel billets, from ss2.50 per ton in
 March. 1908. to s23 in March, 1904; tin
 plate. from M per box of 100 pounds In March, 1903, to $3.65 per box in March. 1904; leather (oak, middle weight9. from 3S !, cents per pound in March. 1908. to s5 cents in March, 1D04; while steel rails, as aircady indicated. show no change. Me< alo4 used in nnn1fA fAesmring ew In most cases slight deere sn-1c0pf rom i5 cents per pound in March, Ha1ss to fl. .s1 f-2 cents in March. 1901: lead. from | l6T 1-2 cents in March, 1903, to f2- 1-2 cents in March, 1904: zinc, from 5s1 cents in March .l90s. to 5.12 1-z cents in March. 1904
 The chief articles of domestic pro- 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 3-4 cents in March, 1904; wool, Ohio xxx. from 31 cents per pound in March, 1903. to S3 cents in March, 1904; wheat. No. red winter, from S1 3-s cents per bushel in the New York markets on March 2s, 1903, to SLOT 1-2 on March 24, 1904; corn, No. 2. from 57 l-2 cents on March 19, 1903, to 5S 3-4 cents on March IT. 1904. and oats, No. 2. from 43 l-2 cents on March 19, 1903, to AS 1-2 cents on March IT, 1904; refined petroleum (ker- osene), from. 10 l-2 cents in March, 1903, to 11.3 1-2 cents In March, 1904.
 Imported articles do not show the general reduction apparent in those of domestic production. Coffee (Rio, No. 9 shows an advance from 1-2 cents on March 21. 1903. to 6 5-s cents on March 26, 1904; Japan tea choice, from 26 cents per pound on March 2S, 1903, to 2S cents on March 21, 1904; sugar. centrifugals of 96 degrees polarization. very slight reduction-from 3.62 1-2 cents per pound on March 26, 1905. to S. GO cents per pound on March "A. 1904: manila hemp shows a slight increase from cents per pound on March zS. 1903, to Is cents on March 21, 19O4. Sisal hemp decreased in price. from 8 Is cents per pound on March 23, 1903. to ! 1-2 cents on March 21, 1904. Jutc shows no change in price during the year. India rubber. Para, fine, new, advanced in price from S4 cents per pound on March 21. 1903, to SLIP on March 26, 1904. Raw silk and pig tin show in each case a slight decrease, silk from $4.45 per pound in March 1903. to $3S0 in March, 1904. and pig tin from 3O.5 cents per pound in March
 1903, to 2S.9 1-2 cents in March, lso4'