The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-04-11
MOTOR and
MAIL TRADE
PICKING UP
The Stars Weekly Review
OF Nationwide Business
Conditions
ny ALBERT APPLE.

pekisea Improvement In business
n reported by mail order houses ana
nutomohllc makers. Sears ltcehucN
,aie- IN March ~ per cent oisger
than February. Indicates farmers
hardest hit by depression. arc back
n market. Normally March man
.ux3cr sales show only small IN
crease.
Ford plants In Detroit on sixdsy
.-rb~au,e. output 5000 cars daily;
work,nr force 40 per cent less than
,ast autumn. Dodge plant similarly
,nsv. Demand for new cars mostly
6pm Eas, and Pacific coast
NEARLY ALI. COPPER
MINES ARE CLOSED
Nearly all American copper mines
have closed down. His surplus BUY
ne dead. Selling prices rule below
cost Of production.
Textile industries have STOPPED re-
wing. curtailing again. Raw Wool
prices dip. Foreign wool arriving
Dosscn greatest In years
Coal production steadily lower
More than ..o0o coke ovens closed In
pennsylvania last week.
steel industry as 80 per cent
capacity. Buyers want 10 see " Gary
vtl cut prices. Average steel price.
Pittsbrg base. now sss.55 ton.
asn,uss war.high of ssi.oi In 1911
end sss.ts IN isis.
Bank elcarings last week ~ per
cent less than same week 1870.
Philadelphia gained II per cent. com
pared with year ago. Pittshurg IL.
Hnltmors is. Kansas city showed
greatest loss--tS per cent
Corporations financing IN March.
cpunsrr over. siss.Toi. 900. Smallest
81 almost two years. and half less
than March. 1890.
DOND DECLINE
N MARCH SLIGHT
The 10 leading bonds In March do
e1lncd only one-fftieth OF a point
Numl,er OF shares sold on New York
cxchanse IN March so per cent
nreaser than March average In 1908
= 1914. The so leading railroad and
INDUSTRIAL shares start April at av.
oBage OF 65.ts. against st.ss at close
- 1914. Wall St sees continued
shortage OF capital. Time money
mnrkse awaits easier money.
Heavy liquidation last week car.
Good al grains. except May rye. low.
~ for the week since 1914. Wheat
GRport4 during week nearly twice as
~ - same week year ago. corn SIX
ooWoD a. big.
LAko grain movement starts April
- pjenty Of boats. due 10 duh Iron
80 Stored at head Of iakes-<5..
0o4ooo bushels. This scares wheat
luogD1ogaL But most OF Il may 90
ODu - export Whenever wheat
oon1nA foreign buyers step In and
= ~ - . few million busheisI
WneoR wheat crop IN excellent
uDnGe1sn. probably larger yield than
- y0ar. Europs's crops getting
4 ~ nGAr normal.
0oG1oo exports last week se.7st
on1o4 1owest In five weeks. Exports
- crop year TO date slightly better
- yoAr ago.
furniture factories quiet Prices
~ Attractive.
Uxpseted building trades revival
uo1gesacked- Prices too high.
CFuds oil output improves. pip<
UDes IN soma fields paying 10 pei
onDt premium for OIL. Fuel oil de
mnn1 falling. Gasoline buying In
0gUnDao- Kerosene market dead.
LEATHER SALES DOUBLE
2l100E or 1920
Many grades Of hides ana skin,
- oeliing at half to two-thiris Of
uRewar prices." Rays president Of
0u1ft 4 Co. Leather sales improv
ne, - far this year double those Of
0ost quarter 1890.
Chemical prices continue down
vnrd Have declined so to rs Pc,
emit since last summer. TRADE dead
oxcspt inportE especially from Ger
many. She cuts our prices. For In
o(ance. German oxalic acid delivered
New York 10 cents a pound agains
American price OF Is cents. Drus
Georo chemicals at wholesale now Nv
ogage about twice 1914 prices.
Gene raj business about same n,
0onth ago. on average. except foi
Oore optimism. European condi
lions not as bad as Americans think
nys Dwight w. Morrow. Of J. +
uorgan a Co. He says depression