Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-12-12
Tacoma News Notes.

Tacoma News Notes.
Wheat-Marked quiet pervades the
export situation. There is very little
demand from the other side, and small
sales for future delivery are about the
only business that is being worked at
the moment. Most of this is for Oren-
tai shipment, the cargo trade with Eur
ope being comatose for the presnt.
With the subsistence of the scare rel
ative to probable damage to the Ar
gentine crop, there was a slump in the
market during the week, and decidedly
easier advices were received both from
abroad and from speculative centers
Later the undertone became a trife
more stable, however, and the net
changes in local quotations are practi-
cally nil, exporters paying on a basis
of Sic for club and roc for bluestem,
with little support accorded from the
milling trade, which is still well stocked
with wheat for meeting all require
ments. California is buying in a mod
crate way, however, while some wheat
is going east, though there have been
no recent sales of moment on this ac-
count.
While no new engagements have been
reported for some time, the charter
market is quoted Normally weaker,
offers for steamers being around 47c,
which would indicate about 40s for sail
ing bottoms. Receipts for the week ag-
gregated only 1928 cars, the slack move
ment being partly attributed to slow
sales, though there is much delay to
shipments from the interior, occasioned
by lack of transportation facilities.
Flour-Conditions remain about as
previously noted. There are still re-
ports of the shaving of values for the
forcing of business in patents, though
open quotations are still sustained at
previous levels. A fair export business
IS in progress, though contracts for
shipment beyond the first of the year
are rather slow about being placed.
Price is held at $355@3.6O.
Feed-Receipts for the week includ-
ed 10 cars oats, "a barley, corn and
95 hay. Oats are easy around 500 and
barley has slumped, quoting at $25@26
per ton. Corn market is soft. Hay, on
the other hand, is relatively firm, and
timothy is maintaining the advance
noted a week ago.
The harbormaster s report shows a
total foreign shipment of $2,631659 for
October, and coastwise shipments of
$S20,79S, making a total of $3,452 ,457.
The amount previously reported is $27,-
229,343, making a total for the year to
November 1, 1912, $3O,6s1, 800. The
coastwise receipts were $S12,61S, and
the foreign receipts, $2,43 ,034, total
of $3,24S652 for October, which with
$21,910,497 previously reported makes
"a grand total of $25, 159, 149 to Novem-
Der 1, 1912. There were LAG deep sea
arrivals during the month, as against
1877 deep sea departurts, of which there
were 107 for the same period of 1911
The inward cargo tonnage was 52,55e
in October, 1912, and AZ, 142 in October
1911. The outward cargo tonnage fol-
October, 1912, was 1O9,6s2, and for Oc-
tober, 1911, 74,677.
There are possibilities of serious com
plications should the edict of Mayor
Seymour, put forth during the week, be
carried into actual and general effect
The municipal authorities have dfscov.
cred the fact that there are many lines
of package goods whose net content
does not conform to the requirements
of city ordinances. For instance, an
investigation reveals the fact that sup.
posedly pound boxes of candy, exclusive
of box, paper and Irvine, when weighed
in the scales are found wanting to the
extent of ? 1-2 ounces in some instances
while brick butter shows a deficit, and
the edict has been sent forth that re-
tailers who may be discovered dispos
ing of such products after December l
will be placed under arrest. 1t is a
large proposition for a municipal ad
ministration to tackle, when it under
takes to settle the question of weights
for package goods through the medium
of local police regulations. There are
few retail grocers who could conform
to the terms of the ordinance without
subjecting themselves to very serious
inconvenience and actual loss, and tc
be made responsible for shortages OF
this character places them in a position
that can hardly be justified by common
sense.