The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-22

Seattle, June z&.--W ater DornB
commerce at ttlis port for 1.-THE first
FIVE months of this year Was % Per
cent greater int tonnage than for
the corresponding period OF 1921,
according to announcement today
from the port warden's ONCE.
There has. been a big improvement
In exports SO far this month The
situation as to buying by retail HeF-r
chants has been reversed from what
it was at the end OF 1921. There
is a tendency. now being manifest
ed to carry larger stocks instead
Of buying from hands to. mouth as
hasrbeen the policy so kng.
Estimates made at. Washington
Agricultural centers Indicate that
the Wheatiand apple crops of this
state will exceed $Sa3, 100000 in
valnes AID financial reqaiFements to
harvest and distributeHmay result
in q slight hardening. of money
rates in this section about Aug. L.
The heavy Volume of snew build
ing construction has Sprovided jobs
for the surplus labortheK Build,
ingipermits issued so far;this' month";
in the last year. Reds cedar shin.
giles ,are being shipped Through the
Panama canal to gulf ports in
greatly increased Numbers. I'm
filled domestic and export lumber
orders on the looks of the western
Washington and Oregon mills ap-
proximate ESQ ,0o0, 900 feet 4of water
delivery and 10000 cars for rail
shipment.
KANSAS CIEY.
Kansas City, Mo, June "a
Harvesting of wheat is in full
swing in Oklahoma and southern
Kansas and general trade condi-
tons have improved in conse-
quence. 1t is now estimated that
the wheat crop of Kansas. Okla
homa, Nebraska, Missouri and
Texas will reach 259. 900, 900 bush
els. This. compares with :2SS, 64S,000
bushels for the same states last
year. Generally favorable weather
has prevailed in the southwest, al
though excessive heat did some
damage to the Oklahoma grain.
Reduction ofsthe cost OF producing
livestock andt grain has, helped the
farmers very smaterially.
William H Lewis, state labor
commissioner, reported today that
employment had returned to nor
NAL in Kansas City and st. Louis.
The strawberry season in southern
Missouri, which has just ended,
brought to growers OF that section
more than s., 500, 900. Possibility of
a railroad strike has tended to
check advances in the prices of
zine ore in the tri-state field, al.
though last week the price ad-.
vanced from. $50 a ton to. $3.50.
CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 22.-Sheet
mills in the Mahoning valley are
now running at SO per cent of 4ca-
pacity and many mills are sold up
well through THE third quarter and
cannot make deliveries for three to
four months. The activity of the
sheet mills is attributed to. the
heavy automobile production. The
Newton Steel company today an
nounced plans for an addition of
six mills increasing the companys
total to 16. AS result of the in
creased demand for sheet and alloy
steels prices are hardening.
The Cleveland Trust company in
an announcement i'm Connection
with the automobile business de-
clared that the May production of
252, 900 cars exceeded the total out
put of the motor industry for the
first II years of its existence. Ca
pacity operations are reported at
the Jordan and Stearns motor
plants and the Chandler and CleVe-
land factories are running at
speed far in excess of last year.
The Grant company plans to double
its output and the Whton factory
reports steady Improvement in de-
mand.
Paint companies here are operat-
ing at capacity and because of the
increased demand, prices of raw
materials have advanced. Turpen-
tine and linseed oils have.recorded
price advances this week.