New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08
TOPICS OF THE STREET.

NEW EQUIPMENT ORDERS - ORDERS
have been placed by the Erie for $40 auto
mobile cars with the American Car ana
Foundry Company, 100 refrigerator cars
with the Pullman Company and 100 reiTlg-
orator cars with the western steer 81
and Foundry Company. ms ConlPile =.
the placing of orders for 100000 worth OF
eoIlir ment for which the road has Deeh III
the market since July. Orders nave oeen
received by the Pressed steel Gar NoinI
pany for 80 hopper and 90 nat cars 80 ~
bv the Pullman Company for 10 COdclV ,
from the Florida East Coast Railway. An
order has been placed with the America
Car and Foundry Company py tns Slls'
souri, Pacific for 1000 all steel coal % s55 q.
The road is still in the market Tor 1000
cars Of various types The Buffalo. Roches-
ter G. Pittsburgh has placed an order VIII
the Standard Steel Car Company LOT ~,
all-eteeI homer cars. This makes a tolal
of 80 hoppers ordered by the road last
week. Specifications have been issue1 10
ealIipment companies by the New lorh
Central for construction OF 2VD Dog ca - ,,
II is reported IN equipment clIcles tHde n
road Is contemplating the purchase OF ~
locomotives.
Utah CONSOLIDATED. 90 At special
meetlng of the directors OF the Utah Con-
soliGated Copper Company DIVIDEND OF ~
cents a share was declared out or tne earn
ings of the 1911 fiscal year, payaDie NJ
MEMBER IA to stock of record October q.
Trrban II Broughton resigned as president
and Roscoe r. Claiming, genera lIldlaec 81
was elected i'm his place. JlNlu pA'
ments were discontinued after 90 Ceh1S r. q
share was distributed in January lylo. 10 81
di,,idard record follows: 1893 50; lD4 81
1905 81 %: 1905. s.; 1901. 81; 1905, -; !Ss, a.
100 81 cents. The capital stock IS $l,5"'Vo'
par $, all outstanding.
BANK CLEARINGS. - The total banh
cIearings for the United States Tor tn'
week ended October Z, 1911 Zone day estiI
r,atedl according 10 The lnaucId
9,hronicIe." were So $50, 95S 202. which com,
mares with s32i5es4,T68 for the week enuso
october s. 1910. Compared with last yea
the total bank clearngs have Increased =
nor cent New York City shows an IN
crease of 2.S per cent, Chicago or 20 pSSl
cent and St Louis Of 1879 per cent, WhiI.
BOSTON reports a decrease Of 90 per GEM
and New Orleans Of o. per cent
DIVIDENDS DECLARED. - D DIV emu
have been declared as follows: me MIS-
souri, Kansas & Texas Railway, rex uldI
eemiannual per cent on the preterred
pavahIe November TO- the lnternatlohal
Cotton Mills Corporation quarterly h,pC -
cent ON the preferred, a reduction OF three
0uarters of / per cent from the last pre-
cediro navment uayable October %; tnt
TTtica Shenango e. Susquehanna Nalley
Railroad. semi-annual 3 per cent payG,
November l. and the Norris a. Essex TX
tension and the PaSsaic & Delaware EX'
tension. semi-annual per cent each' paS@
bic November /.
SEPTEMBER ANTHRACITE PRODUC;
TION-The production of anthracite CO..
In September was the largest e'Tr a. t ON
I'm that month. J.72093J tons. This Is an
Increase of 763419 tons over the output OF
tbe same month in 1910. The productlon
FOR nine months this calendar year, to sep,
tenber 90 is 5l376,319 tons, as compared
yvitb Is $50 367 tons an increase of 1895 OF
tone This Is the largest production ever
made IN the first nine months Of any calen-
dar year.