The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-05
EARLY DECISION
 IS EXPECTED ON
 FREIGHT RATES


 E w McKenna on the financial needs nf the Rock Island system, made for inc bondhoIders. committees places Ire amount at $s5 00o. 900, exclusive of construction of additional lines The .u,Iesfior1 of shortening Rock islana s Chica cago-kxansas City line has peen discussed from time to time by tsoch Island Interests, and the nacr>ensl<A report recommends that work be un- dertaken. which it is estimated wouid require an Additional s22sooo. coo <
 New England Telephone & Tele- a,rarhs Co.'S statement for 1913 shows total gross earnings of SIT s46s anounted g, les. ASS as compareu with ss.1x4515.s ,1rpl6s was stS2.5ae, compared with ss12. .25s in che pFecsa- ing year.
 Members of the ra1lroad rate con- con- r1tftee who listened to the oenclslqE- snr- xlzufne1ltss in the rate case do net accept reports from " Washington 70 the effect that a decision need not pc i ,s.rnected before Jzize s1- Neither d1- Fesltl afss .sssise they able to sta4e connnerce cornrnissterl had ss1a I1 that no decision would be rendered
 .li5s 95n the other lssfid. iis their i'm nression that the decision will pc made within ten days They Wosate e. | down any day this week. and will pc s-r-,ssfIxz s1zrprised if it is delayed oeT fvn,,d the middle of the month
 Ifs is ezfznnalted that eqaiprnelat com ,s-,ses in general are opera ting at nor more than % per cent of eapaelss. e. ae' rgsr azsxs Practically every ma lzer or le<s155r,r1erf began &te current calendar krear win, less than half the total or hers on its books than 1t had at; s the same time in 1913. and since the hrsl rs sL1f zaz,uaxv orders have shown a de de- kcii1e instead of an increase. With ane decline in orders has come drop E- r,r5cess so that the profit on cars E,r7sit at present is materially Jess khar those built last year
 aa s-ff1e handwriting on the wall ls Ethe cut in the Crescent Pipe Line %. i.7r,arterax dividend from $1 50 to Nzo a share The az7nOuncezne4t has 5nst rseex,a1 made by the naanage11ent CT the tcnnapeiztT .uza5ch was one Of the stlp- ss1sz-ysSs e,f tlle Standard 0dl Go Of New Jersey until 1t was ordered Fdis- solved by the federal court
 That the prices of oil shares heye s,seD boosted without wazre nt, of late, H,as come to be a generally Teeognazed EfaEt in EVa11 street, flor the prices 1,sTe sp1arss,sly been ma 5e without rzferezscez or knoyzledge as to what ,fhs actual fnancaa1 and operating .couaikions of the concern affected really were
 111e persistent cuts in oil prices ,tlar0ass.aa1rsr14 the United States win of course be reflected very m zaterially In ' earnings of oil producing and pipe line corupaniHss
 z An7condae CepHer Mining Co., ch4ef ops-atin1E .s11ts[i ryo6 1s ss's, Alaalsa- ga, snare during 1873 against s, s6 in the r r,r,eVIs,.,s year zccordfnE Co the am s1ua1 rezsort just made public The | ror,16anv prpduced 242 eoQ poo pounds of copper against 2s5 coo 900 pounds sn 1872 its silver yield wzs less than B.o00.oaG ounces against Il GOO, GOO [ nunces in the preceding years while \ tlsA. 9Dffa rec07ery Increased to 65s 600 X ounces as compa red with a f,000 in 1s1z
 The repoK1 ref7ected the rather un- 7 zsatisfactory conditions existing in the copper trade last year as its total sales were but 100000 against s51,- 700.Beo in 1912 A deficit Of $16s4, 002 occurred after the payment of divi- sdsnds where's the year 1912 ended 71fts, a surplus of s5,025, ,0s5.
 The extensive Improvement program continues at sAnaconda and President ;Thayer says that several new plants -xill be erected to care for material which has heretofore gone to the dumps x