Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-15
! in excess of last year.

for August amounted to 1913 million
dollars compared with 1863 million
dollars for the same roads a year ago,
an increase of nearly 1876 million dol
lars or over 81 per cent. Net earnings
for the same roads were 142 million
dollars compared with 11S million dol
lars a year ago, making gain of "a
million dollars or nearly q per cent.
This considerable gain in net earn
ings was in the face of an increase in
operating expenses over year ago of
Ill million dollars or over 40 per
cent
Pig iron production during Septem-
ser was 3,41S thousand tons compared
y.th 1850 tons month ago and 3,134
thousand tons year ago. Produc-
..on was at the rate Of Ia thousand
ons per day, the highest production
ate in the history of the pig iron in
ustry in this country, and compares
with a daily production of 104 thou
sand tons in September of last year.
Anthracite coal production for the
coal year beginning April l to Septem-
Der % was 51,651 thousand tons COM
pared with 50,570 thousand tons for
the same portion of last year, making
an increase of over 2 per cent.
Production of bituminous coal for
four weeks ending September % was
nearly SO million tons compared with
nearly 43 million tons for the CORE
spending four weeks a year ago. The
known coal shortage for the country
now stands at II million tons and that
amount must be saved by us during
the coming three months. An econ
omy of an average of one ton per fam
lily will accomplish the necessary saw
ing and provide General Pershing
with nearly one million tons of coal
per month which he has requisitioned
for his absolute needs in France.
New oil wells completed in Septem-
Der numbered 2,213 compared with
1894 a month ago and 2,04O a year
ago. New production amounted to
143 thousand barrels compared with
116 thousand barrels of new produc-
ton a month ago and 145 thousand
barrels year ago.
Crude petroleum stocks held by the
pipe line companies on the first of
September totaled 81 million barrels
compared with SO million barrels a
month before and 81 million barrels a
year ago. Crude petroleum produc-
ton for the entire world last year
amounted to sol million barrels COM
pared with 461 million barrels the
year before. The United States pro
duces sixty-seven hundredths or con
siderably more than three-ffths of
the crude oil production of the world.
Cotton ginned from the new crop to
September % amounted to 3,720 thou
sand bales compared with 2,512 thou
sand bales ginned to the same date
last year. Consumption of cotton
during September was 491 thousand
bales compared with 522 thousand
bales in the same month year ago.
lishments on October 1 totaled 1,1S7
thousand bales compared with 959
thousand bales year ago and in pub
lie storage and lat congresses 2,97l
thousand bales compared with 1,57G
thousand bales year ago, all figures
being for lint cotton and exclusive of
linters.
The wool clip for this season is esti-
mated at 257 million pounds compared
with 242 million pounds year ago
and 245 million pounds two years ago.
Production of print paper for the
calendar year to September 1 was
only 764 thousand tons compared with
S45 thousand tons for the same por-
ton Of last year.
The sugar consumption in the Unit
ing July 1 was nearly S,219 million
pounds or more than so pounds per
capita. This is 40 per cent more than
the combined sugar consumption of
France, Italy and Great Britain in
Guiding Canada. 1t is believed that
our sugar consumption is now actually
being reduced.
Latest federal crop reports indicate
an increased production as compared
with year ago of winter wheat
spring wheat, buckwheat, barley, rye,
rice, flaxseed, apples, sugar beets,
BEAMS cotton and tobacco, and de
creased output of corn, oats, white
potatoes, sweet potatoes and hay.
Corn is of better quality and will be
ample for our needs, but the falling
off in the hay crop of nine million
tons indicates serious shortage be-
fore spring.
The average prices paid to produ-
GERS for the principal crops on Octo-
Der 1 were per cent higher than a
year ago, II per cent higher than two
years ago and 90 per cent higher than
the ten-year average at this date.
Prices paid to producers for meat
animals on September Is were Is per
cent higher than a year ago, IS per
cent higher than two years ago and
Sc per cent higher than the eight-year
average on that date.
The one thing which stands out
most prominently in the business
world is the apparent ease with which
the great bulk of industry in this
country has been converted from non
nccaotia1 to essential xUar yporly IF iS