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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
14
Market reports show corn prices firm due to limited supplies and ongoing demand despite profit taking by long positions. Traders note Western stocks and current estimates weigh on oats while corn and rye futures show tentative gains, with export absorption anticipated.
Chicago market summary lists beef steers and feeders with weights and prices, including receipts of 13 000 and 13 632 cattle and butter and eggs quotations. Poultry alive prices hold steady, shipments 49 barrels of flow barley noted with price 1.41 and 1.61 percent.
Spokane trading desk reports steady receipts for stockers and feeders with prime steers bids. Lambs and wethers show strong demand. cows and heifers priced at mixed levels. Separate metals section lists New York silver at 1.00 or Mexican dollars, London bar silver around 83 and copper unchanged with antimony near 11.87.
New York market reports list listless trading as banks warn conservatism in spending. Rail shares led by reconstruction contracts stumble while rails show heaviness despite wage terms acceptance. Steel and oil plays remain pivotal as optimism for postwar ratification and policy shifts tempers with cautious, uneven gains.
NWork March 1 Inspector Owen Fegan of the bureau of combustibles, famed for handling major New York bombing cases, collapsed on the street from acute indigestion. He had served 24 years with the fire department and even lost two fingers during war era explosive work. He aided Judge Rosalsky by inspecting mail bombs.
In his maiden speech Senator Glass of Virginia criticizes some senators for blaming the treasury for the Chicago Speedway hospital delay. He argues that completing the hospital at the estimated cost would be a perpetual eye on the public purse.
March 3 market report notes no real activity with a slight downward tilt. A conservative stance is advised due to money strain and potential banking restraint on enthusiasm. Rails favored by hearsay but no broad movement expected beyond shorts bidding on hopeful news.
C Ed Luckins, after spending over 800000, plans to begin actual ore mining by spring at the Luckins Hazel property seven miles south of Libby. A 250 ton concentrator and hydraulic power plant are nearly in place, with ore blocked out on three sides of the main tunnel and a 4000 foot drive completed. Granite Creek water supply and a new mill and machinery are ready, aiming to operate before snowmelt.
Automobiles crowded toward Willow creek lands near Chateau after word of the oil leasing bill signing. Filing rushes posted open tracts 10 to 15 miles west of Chateau with about 3200 acres claimed by multiple groups. Key players included Frank Oulton George M Coffey Jr Damen of Pennsylv, Arnold Finley, and others tied to a Pennsylvania firm active in Oklahoma. Leases on private lands in the area totalled around 000 acres with expected oil development in the coming spring.
London March 8 The supreme council is expected to finish its labors on Saturday with details of the Turkish treaty to be deferred to foreign ministers and ambassadors. The financial questions will occupy much time and Turkey’s territorial reductions may reduce her population from 30,000,000 to 6,000,000, prompting a readjustment of the Turkish debt. The council will also decide Turkey’s navy fate and leave two revenue cutters. Mexico City March 3 Aesiean embassy and Mexican government gather data on alleged murders of Jeany in the Southern United States to prepare a protest to the state department.
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