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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1917
Page
11
Market report lists various price points for eggs and butter including No 1 and No 2 eggs at different net prices F O B, butter Creameries first and second grades, packing stock, and Colorado fancy apples in a box with ranges. Prices shown include per pound and per box figures, reflecting a late session of commodity quotes.
Dry Hides and Flint pelts priced per pound. Includes per lb rates for dry hides, salt hides, horsehides, and wool pelts with variations for green salted, cured, and part cured. Also lists buck, saddles, and glue hides with value notes and weight-based pricing.
New York lead bids 10 cents as copper remains firm with electrolytic spot and second quarter at 31.00 and 33.00 dollars respectively. Iron prices steady with No 1 northern 44.50 to 45.00, No 2 44.00 to 44.50, No 1 southern 40.00 to 41.00. Tin strong at spot 63.50 to 65.00 dollars. Bar silver 74.5 to 75.0 cents. St Louis spelter 9.22 dollars. London bar silver 37. per ounce. Boulder Colorado tungsten concentrates 60 percent valued at 17.00 per unit. crude ores 60 percent 15.00 to 9.40 per unit with other grades 12.00 10% 8.70 10.00 per unit.
New York cotton prices listed for May at 19.62 cents per pound, July 19.43, Oct 18.64, Dec 18.72, Jan 18.78. Middling price cited at 19.80 cents.
Chicago markets show wheat No 3 red at 3.24 plus corn No 2 yellow 1.62 to 1.63 with other grains and fats listed. Minneapolis and Duluth readings cover flour barley rye oats flax and seeds with varied May July Sept and Oct bids and bids on on track linseed. Kansas City notes butter eggs poultry rates and product batches across creameries and market placements.
Lead bids at 10 cents. Bar silver 74 cents. Copper casting brand 26.62 dollars per ton. Spelter 9.22 dollars. Colorado tungsten concentrates 60 percent 17.00 per unit in Boulder. Crude ores 60 percent 15.00 25 percent 9.40 12 percent 12.00 10 percent 8.70 per unit in St Louis and Boulder reports.
The Jackman molybdenum mines near Kingman in the Wallapai mountains are under development with a new camp and work force. West Arizona copper prospects are being developed rapidly since the war began, yielding millions of tons of ore. The Globe district copper mine doubled output to 70 million pounds yearly by expanding mills. A syndicate paid 2 million for two thousand adjoining acres while capital stock and output rise, all to support the U S war effort.
Reports show Silverton shipping 173 ore cars to smelters in April while Pitkin sent a carload of molybdenum concentrates. Julesburg, Milner, Pueblo, Aspen, Breckenridge and other districts announce drilling, milling, tramway plans and rising production with notable profits and dividends cited.
The Bullard Peak silver mines west of Silver City show renewed activity while Magdalena district ores target Waldo’s new processing plant. Copper Jack Mining Company files for $500 000 capitalization in Dona Ana county. Empire Zinc at Hanover employs 150 workers shipping 1000 tons sulphides and 250 tons carbonate ore monthly. A major deal sees 70 copper claims across 1700 acres in the Burro mountains optioned by Chicago and El Paso financiers.
Three or four rigs will work in the Vernon oil field five miles south of Glenrock. Eastern oil men busy in Sparks Butte near Douglas. Superior Oil Company brought in a new well on Elk Basin property. Ohio Oil Company completes its second well in Sage Creek field north of Lander. At current production pace.
A wartime appeal urges soldiers sailors and farmers to boost food production. It highlights feeding troops allies and sustaining nations, notes Canada and Western Canada offer land for farming, and invites willing citizens to relocate if needed to grow crops and raise livestock. It ends with a note on dirt price rise in Winnipeg Manitoba as earth becomes scarce.
Mr. Robert W. Ferguson of Hingham Massachusetts says years of kidney disorder and backache vanished after persistent use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He nearly died in Vancouver but recovered and now occasionally uses the remedy to keep kidneys regulated.
A fragmentary note describes a peeping scene in a parlor with a sister and her beau and mentions gas. It shifts to a Red Cross Bag Blue advertisement for whitening clothes. The piece closes with a wry line about clever men relying on wits and a General grocers ad.
The administration’s war revenue bill, agreed by the Ways and Means Committee, targets about 1.8 billion dollars per year. It adds taxes across stocks, bonds, drafts, deeds, life and marine insurance, travel, auto sales, tobacco, liquor, and luxuries, and amplifies income, estate, and excess profits taxes.
A humorous Euclidean axiom from Stephen Leacock at McGill links boarders, landlady, and weekly bills. If two boarders share a flat and have equal sides and equal wrangles with the landlady, their weekly charges must be equal. otherwise contradictions arise in the argument.
The Sphinx remains active in its field, continuing operations with a reputation for discretion. Its ongoing business presence signals steady activity and enduring relevance in its sector.
Mrs Thos McGonigal of 3432 Hartville Street Philadelphia recounts severe cramps and crippling female trouble ending after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the cure to the remedy after doctors warned of surgery. The letter urges others to try the product.
The Argonaut reports a new explosive Rochambolite recently introduced by the French for Verdun defense. In tests at Verdun the powder turns into molten metal and a vast gas volume, causing immense pressure and wall shattering. It burns flesh to bone on impact, delivering severe pain and destruction, and is now used across the front.
English town guardians refuse aid to tramps citing no man should be unemployed now. They plan to starve the problem by provisioning neither food nor lodging, hoping the tramp population will avoid the town.
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