Evening star., 1922-12-01
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

| PHILADELPHIA, December L.
Seamless hosiery mills here are to-
day booked ahead for deliveries rum
ming through January. February and
March F'uil-fashioned mills also are
we'll booked ahead. although there /.
strong resistance to any price ad-
vances.
ST. PAUL. December six OF the
principal Twin Cities wholesale paper
houses have taken over the st. Paul
branch OF the Whitaker Paper Com
pany Of Cincinnati. The branch VIII
he discontinued when the stock Is
sold
PITTSBURGH, December 1.-MIk
during December will be the same
price as in November. J. cents quar-
and cents pint. retail ButternliK <
will remain at 3 cents. Farmers WIZ
get s2.85 per hundredweight for first
Class milk and $3.50 for second class.
These prices were agreed upon at A
conference of Representatives OF all
interests.
SEATTLE December 1.-Iemand
from Alaska will absorb all the eS-
cess butter production in thus coun-
try and stabilize prices. Butter is
now quoted firmly at "a cents pound
here.
SAN FRANCISCO. December l.
High grade apples from the north,
west are in strong demand mere ana
sell readily today at sood prlces;
Common California stock Is slow. ana
better packing methods are aoV0-
Gated.
NEW ORLEANS, December L.
Orders for lumber at southern mliis
amounted to s1.0o0.000 feet for the
last week. or within a few thousand
feet Of normal production. Prices Tor
most grades of lumber have advanced.
CHICAGO. December 1.-The acute
car shortage is aiding the situation OF
the steel producers in this district.
The St Paul railroad has ordered
$500 cars and is inquiring for 1000
more. Demand for structural steer
also continues heavy.
HOUSTON. December 1.-Tomatoes
grown in hot houses for fall and
winter consumption now are being
gathered in east Texas. The cultiva-
ton of this vegetable is an expert
ment in this section.
HOUSTON. December 1.-Gas oil
prices in this section are holding hrm
and giving some indication OF ad.
vances. All retiners in this district
at the rate Of 10000 barrels Of crude
day.
PHILADELPHIA. December l.
Fruit crops in Pennsylvania next
summer will be extremely short un-
less there are heavy and continuous
rains before the earth freezes TINS
winter. or heavy SHOWS throughout
the winter. according to John Mac
Farlane, professor of botany OF the
University Of Pennsylvania.
NEW ORLEANS. December 1.-The
scarcity of foreign raws Is proving a
great boon to local sugar growers:
The domestic raws have advanced
n cent in the last week. selling at
SIS. with plantation granulateo at
SIS to 7 or 2 cents more than a year
ago
ST. PAUL December 1.-Lumber-
men today estimated winter opera :
tions in Minnesota Wisconsin and
Of last season. Wages are from 25
to so per cent higher than last year,
and there is shortage of men.
PITTSBURGH. December 1.-Inde-
pendents are following the American
ing orders for the first quarter of
next year at $4.75 base price on tin
plate. $3.35 for black sheets. $4.35 for
galvanized and $40 for auto sheets.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, December l..
Thirty three blast furnaces out of
forty-seven in the Sharon Youngs-
town district are active, with monthly
production on 50O,00O-ton basis.
Before the end of the year one or
two more furnaces will be fired, and
the output Is now at high record for
about two years.