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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1919
Page
13
Market notes show oats at 100 lb buys and corn chop sold by sack. White cornmeal and yellow cornmeal priced per 100 lb at 4.00. Gluten feed sold in sacks and bran listed with price. Hungarian patent products and other discounted sacks appear with varying weights and prices.
Quotations from Charles Friend & Co. list dry hides by weight and type, including butchers hides, fallen hides, bull and stag hides, dry salted hides, green salted hides, horsehides, pelts and wool pelts with varying prices per pound. Also noted are headless hides and ponies for glue, plus approximate values for pelts and cured hides.
Miscellaneous markets report metal prices in Colorado markets. Bar silver at 1.014 dollars per ounce, copper at 15 cents per pound, lead at 5 dollars and 25 cents, spelter at 6 dollars and 25 cents, tungsten at 12 to 14 dollars per unit.
Bulk of sales report from Chicago markets with price ranges by animal class. Hogs lead with heavy weight $19.50 to $19.65 and sows $17.50 to $18.85. cattle show high beef steers $11.75 to $20.40 and canners $5.50 to $10.00. sheep list lambs $18.00 to $20.15 and ewes $11.75 to $15.00.
Market notes show corn grades No 3 No 4 and No 5 yellow priced around 1 59 1 56 1 54 per bushel with oats white at 66 to 68 cents and rye No 2 about 65 to 68 cents per unit. Barley 1 08 1 15, Timothy 7 00 10 00, clover and pork listed nominal values with ribs at 25 50 to 26 25.
Sugar prices across varieties in New York reflect steady levels. Centrifugal sugar at 7.28 cents per pound. cut loaf 10.50. crushed 10.25. mould A 9.50. cubes 9.75. XXXX powdered 9.20. powdered 9.15. fine granulated and diamond A 9.00. confectioners 8.90. No. 1 8.85.
The Arizona Bureau of Mines reports the Interior Department refused patent on a mining claim containing uranium vanadium and radium deposits. It grounds the denial on these salts not being metalliferous minerals under withdrawn lands. Also noted is upcoming broader use of geophones in mining to locate sounds and trapped workers.
After more than four months delay Superintendent C C Arata moves toward resuming work at the Pittsburg Jerome plant. A high pressure compressor cylinder to replace the October 26 break has been delivered in Jerome. The Arizona Mining Men association backs lifting limits on exported silver and sends a telegram to Treasury Secretary Glass in Washington. President C P Reiniger announces the move.
The Bethlehem Oil Company of Roswell, capitalized at 100000 dollars, W B Bunton as agent, and partners William McDougall and George Keith of Carthage NM form the Jornado Oil Company also capitalized at 100000. A third firm, the Quay Wichita Oil and Gas Company of Tucumcari, capitalized at 40000, is formed by A D Goldenburg Joseph Israel R A Prentice J A Street and M H Koch all of Tucumcari.
The Hopewell Oil Company, a $100000 Colorado concern, filed its articles of incorporation at the state house in Cheyenne, thereby serving notice of its intention to extend its operations to Wyoming.
Reports claim a rich silver ore strike in the Bryan tunnel at Black Hawk with plans to extend 500 feet. Oil bearing sand found below 2800 feet at Loveland well prompts potential production. A six mile Ironton Ouray rail link follows Sunnyside Mining’s purchase, linking the two camps for a broader mining era.
Budapest reports German officers arrive to reshape the Hungarian army into German lines, with the force at about 100000. A Berlin alliance delegation is sent to seal a pact against the Entente as Bela Kun consolidates power at the royal castle and anti capital measures tighten control.
At Harriman Hariman shipyard near Bristol Pennsylvania a temporary scaffold around the stern of the freighter Waukau collapsed during a launch. Between ten and forty people were killed or drowned as about 150 observers watched, with twenty two injured taken to Harriman hospital. Witnesses say the scaffold turned over sending spectators into twenty five feet of water.
A wireless intercept reports a Bolshevist aimed message to Tchitcherin and Bela Kun noting Bolshevism spreading in the United States with claims of riots in Philadelphia and impregnation in New York Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois and Michigan.
Bolsheviks bombard American and British positions on both banks of the Dvina. At midnight enemy infantry attacked Kurgoman and were repulsed by allied artillery. Allied shelling hits reported around the village of Bolsheia Ozert. An enemy plane dropped propaganda over the lines.
In Seattle on March 31 the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co was transferred to municipal ownership and control. A. W. Leonard, president, handed the property to Thomas F. Murphine, superintendent of public utilities. Fifteen million dollars in utility bonds accompanied the transfer.
The article describes Evergreen in Baltimore as part of a broader U S effort to rehabilitate blinded veterans. It details hospital facilities on the Guilford estate, six buildings costing 250000, and programs in physical training handwork Braille typing and courses in professional commercial industrial agricultural and home work. The aim is to make blinded veterans self supporting with post discharge support from the federal board of vocational education and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.
A Kansas City Star report recalls a man from Jimpson Junction recounting a near miss with a motorcycle that ends in a chaotic spill at a saloon door. He claims he dodged the bike and survived the tumble amid a marching procession and bustling street scene.
The article notes kauri gum as the most prized resin for its high quality and rarity, highlighting that its find has been confined to New Zealand. It emphasizes its value and curio status among collectors and traders.
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