Evening star., 1921-08-11
MANY MORE ARE RE-EMpLOYED,
BUT TRADE CONDITIONS VARY
Decided Improvement In Steel Industry
Extra Forces at Work In
Cleveland Area.

sumption of 100000 barrels OF fuel Oil
annually.
CHICAGO. August 11.--Storage IA
cilities for oil and gasoline here are
nVerta%ed. Consumption is not keep
ii.g pace with production. and this con-
dition is expected to influence prices
Ia this section
LUMBER.
NEW ORLEANS August 11.--An or
der for 150,000.0G0 feet of pine 1un-
Der, costing between $6.UuO.0O0 and
sl.o0o.o0o, has been accepted from the
French governmen ent by syndicate
of forty sawniiIls IN Louisiana, Texas
and south Mississippi. AS soon as
financial arrangements are completed
the mills viii begin cutting. This
order Will pun most OF the mills on
full time and offer employment to
many additional men.
NEW. YORK, August 1f--'rhe rail-
roads are buying more coal now than
at any time this year, and will enter
the winter with a seventy-five day re-
serve stock on hand, according to
leading railroad executive here.
RUBBER.
AKRON, August 11.-Officiai figures
shoW>11 hat the campaigns of the tire
corpanies here to decrease waste and
incrGase production have increased in
dividual efficiency of workers 100 per
cent and in some cases zoo per cent.
Less than 81 600 rubber workers now
are turning out rs per cent of the
gross production obtained a little
over year ago with 10000 workers.
This week in one factory workers
turned out sixty tubes per man per
day, as against 90 tubes per man last
year.
COTTON.
NEW YORK, August 11.--Bliss
Fabyan &; Co. have sold up and with
zephyr ginghams, Bates seersuckers
and rippletteS.
MANCHESTER, n. H.. August IL
Certain departments of the Amoskeag
manufacturing Company mill here
will begin twenty-four hours opera
ton at once and 400 Operators have
been put en-night shift rbout' 16, 900
hands are now. employed.
LITTLE ROCK,-Ark.. august Ii
The Arkansas Cotton Mills Company
is preparing to establish several tex
tile plants in this state. Little Rock,
EatesVills g. Van Suren and Helena a re
being considered. as locations "
BURLAP.
NEW YORK. August 11.--Local
hurtap traders are anticipating an
upifft in prices now that the harvest
ing seasonfis on and the bag manu-
facturers have bought their lighter
weight cottors. and may turn to the
cheap burlaps,
WOoLENs.
SYRACUSE. n. Y. August 11-As a
result Of the activity. of the. woolen
mills, the teasel industry near here.
the only one of its kind in the United
States, again is fourishing. The tea
sci IS plant whose pod is used as
napier in the finer grades of broad
cloths. \ leading woolen manufac-
turer has contracted to take the prod
uct of 100 acres now being cultivated
to this plant near Skeneateles.
NEW YORK. August 1.-THE Amer
ican Woolen Company has Withdrawn
its fancy woolens priced from 80 cents
to s2.S5 a yard and three-quarter
goods priced from 37h to 5S1a cents.
These have been sold up.
SILK.
CHICAGO. August 11.-Ninety per
cent of the orders in the silk trade in
this section are for i'm m ediate con-
sumption and advance order business
is far below seasonal average. 1t is
well known that a powerful japanese
syndicate has begged the price of raw
means of maintaIniug prices. viii ulti-
mately fail and they are delaying or