New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-14
FINE CROP OUTLOOK.

FINE CROP OUTLOOK.
THE government crop report of conditions
on August l. published this week. showed
deterioration of over points in the condi-
ton of corn since the last preceding report,
on July g. the figures being 1913 as against
s5.4. This indicates a crop of 2.s97.7 900
bushels, which is a drop from last months
estimate of STA 900 bushels. a year
.ago the indication was for a crop Of 2,S54,-
o63.0oO bushels, while the actual harvest in
1909 was 2,772,376.0o0 bushels. With the
increased acreage this year and the i'm
provernent that is said to have taken place
in the crop since August 1, owing to the
break Of the drouth in Kansas and Ne
braska, the prospects for one Of the largest
corn crops on record are still believed to be
good, notwithstanding the deterioration that
/ took place in July.
THE United States Steel Corporation is
sued its first monthly report of untitled Or
ders on hand at the close of the preceding
month II showed total of 3,970,931 tons
of untitled orders on the books on July 80,
which was a decrease Of 2s6.Ss3 tons, as
compared with the total of untitled orders
on June 80, 1910 Heretofore the untitled
orders have been published every three
months, being incorporated in the quarterly
I
directors resolution. introduced by ]. Pier
pont Morgan was adopted providing for the
issuance of such report the 10th of
each month The purpose of the resolution
was to give the stockholders a better idea
as 10 the trend of the Steel Corporation
business.
Manufacturers materials imported dur
ing the first eleven months of the operation
of the Payne tariff bill. August 1. 1909, TO
June 80, 1910. have exceeded in quantity
those of any corresponding period in the
history of the country, according to figures
prepared by the Bureau of Statistics.
.tOf iron ore there was imported during
the period mentioned almost 5,eOO,oOO,oOo
pounds as compared with 2,116,o0O,Oeo
pounds during the same period last year
and Ass 000, 900 pounds in 1907. the former
high record year. The increase In WOOD
pulp was from 451 100000 pounds in 1907
to $4,000. 900 in 1909, and 79l,0o0,000 in
1910; in copper ore and matte, from $685.
eOO, 600 pounds in 1907 to 746.000,000 in
1903 and $4,000, 600 this year; in copper
pigs and bars, from 1s3.oo0,0e0 pounds in
1907 to 20s. 000, 600 in 1909 and 221.o00,oo0
this year; in crude manufacturers mate
rails, from s44s, 000, 600 worth in 1907 and
s426 600 900 worth In 1909 to 1881, 100000
worth in 1910, and IN partly manufactures
materials. from s252, 100000 worth in 1907
and s2oe, o0o, 600 in 1903 to s266,0oo, 600 this
year.
TO LAY RAILS NEAR EDEN.
"A group of New York capitalists have
practically completed plans for the railroad
development of Asiatic Turkey ana stand
ready to embark from s6o.ooo.oeo TO sloo'-
600 600 in the enterprise, which is designed
mineral land oil fields Of Kurdistan and the
ancient Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
Among those identified with the Ottoman
American Development Company which has
been ORGANIZED under New Jersey laws with
a capital OF $500, 900, are: E. c. Converse,
president of the Bankers Trust Company
c. A. Moore, president of Manning, Max
well & Moore; Arthur f. Macarthur, presl-
dent of Macarthur Brothers Company
franklin Remington, president or the ouii-
dalton Company; James L. Lalois"' OF the
Stock Exchange house of LaiolaW d Co.,
and c NJ Chester, tr, treasurer OF Man
ming. Maxwell & Moore.
..Rv formal order of the Interstate Com
rnerce Commission the railroad lines In olll-
cial classification territory, embracing the
portion of the country east of the Mlsslsslppi
and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers,
summoned 10 Snow cause iOi 'i'N'4 -
cent advances in freight rates. Inc near
ing is 10 begin here on August To-
Conditions Of life in the bituminous coal
fields Of Western Pennsylvania retard the
assimilation Of foreigners and at the same
time are not conducive TO a stable form OF
family life Such is the view Of the lHmi-
grafton Commission, of which Senator Dll-
linghan of Vermont, Is chairman II Is
presented in q report made by the coIllmls-
sion as q result OF an inquiry covering
about fifty thousand cases in that section.
The commission found more thanf5 per
cent of the miners to DC foreign born, many
almost half of them incapable of speaking
English The average yearly earnings OF
heads Of families were found to be only
S13I.
Postmaster General Hitchcock made
nreliEninary report TO President Taft regard
ing the plans for the institution of postal
savings banks in different parts of the coun
fry in the near future The experimental
hanks will be located in the smaller cities.
Sufficient money TO establish the system in
cities like New York. Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston and other great centres of population
is not yet available. There is also a desire
To perfect the system through the expert
ments in the smaller communities before an
attempt is made to open the metropolitan
branches. II is hoped that the experimental
banks may be in operation by October Is,
although the date is not definite"
THE DEATH ROLL.
"anv Dersons Of irnpoytapca Ale ~ asked