The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-12-23
CHRISTMAS TRADE
HELPS MERCHANTS
BUYERS HOLDING OFF FOR
LOWER PRICES-LUMBER
ORDERS IMPROVE
Iron and Steel Lower-Sugar Is
Down-Eggs and Butter Slip on
New York Reports.

Good Christmas trade with prices
still settling and tendency OF buyers
to hold off until they are certain there
will be nothing gained by waiting is
the report from the trade centers for
the week. Wage adjustments are be-
ing made throughout the country to
meet the lower prices and are being
generally accepted by workers anxious
to keep up production. Taking stock
will begin next week following which
1t is expected there will be a steady
increase of legitimate business.
Iron and steel continue on the down
grade with the composite average OF
prices at S53.57 as compared with
$54 "a last week and $68.87 in August.
Competition between the independent
steel producers and the steel corpora
ton is becoming keener, the independ-
ent people cutting wages and taking
other means Of keeping on compel
ing basis.
Iumperin0 improves
Production in 118 mills of the West
Coast Lumbermens Association dur
ing the week was 38 per cent below
normal, but the new business showed
a slight increase over the previous
week. Actual production was 51,229,-
lisa feet and now business for the
week totaled 33,669,171 feet.
Sugar took another drop in Seattle,
being sold by the refiners at eight
cents a pound. Saturday retailers
were getting rid of their surplus
stocks before the cut went into effect
at around nine cents pound at spe-
cial sales, the general rate being four
pounds for 35c or 36c. Butter is still
unsteady, having fallen off two or
three cents during the week. A break
in the New York egg market is being
felt here as there was heavy call for
hen fruit from the metropolis and it
is expected to be followed by a sharp
decline here unless cold weather
should set in.
Saturday Seattle Prices
Alfalfa hay. %; alfalfa hay, D. c.,
1874; No. mixed hay, $35; No. mixed
hay, d. c., Sal; timothy hay, Eastern
Washington, $3S; straw, $18; alfalfa
meal, $33; barley, rolled and ground,
$52; barley, clipped, $57 beet pulp,
SCI.
Bone, granulated, ST.; chop, all
grains, $50; cottonseed meal, SCI;
corn, $50; corn, cracked or meal, $52;
developing mash, $76; digestor tank
age, $1s1; flour, patent, $11 net; fish
meal, $114; grits, $40; linseed oil meal,
$76; mash mixtures, $66; meat scraps,
Eastern, 1927.
Mill feed, $38; oats, $51; rolled, $52;
oats, sprouting, $55; scratch feed. SOL;
California poultry shell, $25; soy bean
meal, $57; wheat, 125-lb. sack, $62.
Prices are by wholesalers to pro-
|ducers:
Eggs-Puget Sound select ranch, 53c
per doz.; pullets, 48c per doZ.; Eastern
Washington, Oregon and Idaho, NOM
inal.
Butter fat-F. o. b. stations, Sic per
h.; raw milk, $1.7O per cwt.; dairy,
35c per h.; bakers, soc per Id.
Poultry-Broilers, lbs. and under,
35c per lb.; springs, over lbs, 25c
per h.; hens, 8 to 3A lbs, tic per lb.;
4 lbs. and up, &c per h.; old roosters,
tic per lb.; geese, live, fat, 26 to &c
per lb.; ducks, live, fat, 3Oc per lb.;
Belgian hares, 3k lbs. and up, 15c per
h.; guineas, $3.50 per doz.; squads, 81
per doz.; turkeys, fat, to 20 lbs, ACC
per Id.
Hogs-Choice block, SO to $50 lbs,
ID to 15c per h.. do heavy, 12c to lac
per Id.
Beef-Steers, fat, &c per h.; rough,
4c to sc per Id.
Veal-Fancy light, Ice to tic per
lb.; do medium, 12c to 13c per lb.
Mutton-Fat, &c per lb.; spring
lambs, fat, dressed, 12c to lac per lb.