Evening star., 1922-11-22
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

| marketing Of hogs as well as OF cat
tie. Livestock market conditions to-
day are showing no improvement, and
cattle men are chiefly the sufferers.
In some areas in the state freight
charges are so high that the shipper
is lucky to make enough to pay his
fare back and forth.
NEW ORLEANS, November e.
New Orleans will spend nearly 81
100000 in paving of Central Creek
throughout 1929.
BOSTON. November 22.-Tanners
are complaining that the prices OF
leather have not kept pace with tho
price of hides. They point out that
thay cannot make a profit on leather
with raw-hide prices where they are
today.
SAN FRANCISCO. November 22.-
In spite of the lateness OF the season
California lumber mills report capac-
ity production today. Sales are keep
Ing pace with output to date.
ATLANTA. November 22-Georgia
cane syrup today is in demand at 40
cents a gallon, Is cents more than
| one-gallon cans left the state this
week. and prices received are giving
growers good top.
MINNEAPOLIS. November 22.-A1il-
linery manufacturers and jobbers re-
port that trade is active and its
volume has increased 20 per cent over
the corresponding period of last year.
Prices are slightly higher in some
lines.
PITTSBURGH, November 22.-The
Riverside plant of the National Tube
Company resumed operations on
100 per cent basis this week. giving
employment to 1000 men, All mills
of the United States Steel Corpora
lion at Hampstead, Duquesne. Brad
dock Donora and Clarion are oper-
atng in full. Bars. plates and
shapes are on So base today. with
| transactions light. Makers report Il
steadier market
PHlLA ADELPHIA. November 81
Port statistics for last month show
that 1870 tons of pig iron were
imported here in that period. COM
pared with $50 tons in October, 1921.
Iron ore imports iii october totaled
Al, ,425 tons. while there was no
ore imports in october of the last
year.
BOSTON. November 22.--The de-
! mand for bituminous coal continues
| quiet. Prices TO-DAY are generally
| frm, at about 50 d ton f. o. b. cars.
Boston.
ENIONTOWN. Pa. November 22-
| Coke prices are being shaded today
with S6.75 to s7.25 quoted on furnace.
and $3.50 to $3.50 on foundry.
! LOS ANGELES. November 22-
Oranges and lemons are coming in
slowly from the early growing dis
! tric;s. Fruit for the holidays was
| reported today as of good quality.
, SAN FRANCISCO. November 22.-
The crap" season closed with thou
/ sands of tons still on the vine. These
are going mainly to local distilleries
TO be converted into alcohol
DETROIT. November 2o.-There is
| little optimism in the sugar beet belt
, in Michigan today. Last year when
beans were high. the crop was poor
and there was a large production OF
sugar beets. which brought low
! prices. This year. with sugar beet
| prices well up. the crop has been
Of beans. the price of which is down
NEW ORLEANS. November ee.-
+ Building supply houses here esti-
| mated today that this month sales
would be far greater than those of
, the corresponding month in. 1921.
| MANY dealers are having difficulty in
! filling orders.
! PITTSRt' RcH November 22--1n
| building hardware there is special
demand for brass goods today. The
| buying runs to high priced lines in
housefurniShinsS
; NASHUA. y. H.. November 22.-The
| Nashua Manufacturing Company.
which has been partly closed by d
| strike since last February. today has
| 900 out of $3.50 looms working. The
! 20. per cent wage cut ordered last
| February was rescinded last Septem-
, ber but the company still maintains
; a fifty -four hour week.