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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1917
Page
3
The clipping lists graded eggs and butter prices, including No. 1 net rice de eles, No. 2 net eggs, creamery butter grades, packing stock, and Colorado apples in fancy boxes with per box or per pound figures, reflecting wholesale rates and miscellaneous cases.
A dated price listing outlines per pound rates for various hides and pelts. Dry hides such as Flint hides, hogs, and horsehides carry specific fractions and multipliers. wool pelts and short wool pelts have separate per pound values. butcher shearlings and buckskin products list tiered quantities and quality grades. The entry also notes glue hides, partially cured hides, and price differentials between green salted and cured materials.
New York bids lead at 10c while copper remains firm with spot and futures at 31.00 to 33.00 per unit and later deliveries at 28.00. Iron values range from 39.50 to 45.00 per unit, tin soars spot 63.50 to 65.00, and bar silver holds around 0.745. Spelter quotes at 9.22 in St. Louis. London lists bar silver at 37.5 cents per ounce. Boulder Colorado reports tungsten concentrates at 60 percent yielding 17.00 per unit with crude ores at 15.00 25 percent 9.40 12.00 and 10 percent 8.70 10.00 per unit.
New York cotton prices show May at 19.62 cents per pound, July 19.43, October 18.64, December 18.72, January 18.78. Middling priced at 19.80.
Chicago market reports show wheat at No. 3 red 3.24 and corn around 1.62 to 1.63 per bushel with other grains and fats listed. Minneapolis grain quotes include flour at 16.30, wheat May 3.10, corn 1.57 to 1.59, and oats 0.70. Kansas City notes butter at 38 cents, eggs 31 cents, and poultry prices from roosters to broilers.
Lead bids at 10 percent while bar silver stands at 74 percent. Copper Casting brand priced at 26.62 per unit. Spelter listed at 9.22 in St. Louis. Colorado tungsten concentrates near Boulder quoted at 60 percent valued at 17.00 per unit with crude ores 60 percent at 15.00 and 25 percent at 9.40 12.00 10 percent at 8.70 10.00 per unit.
Development spreads from the Jackman molybdenum mines near Kingman to western Arizona districts. Copper output grows in Globe as new mines and mills boost annual tonnage from 35 million to 70 million pounds. A syndicate pays 2 million for adjacent acres while capital stock and production double to aid the war effort.
Reports show Silverton shipped 173 ore cars to smelters in April while Pitkin sent a carload of molybdenum concentrates. Colorado mine output valued at 44 million in 1915. Breckenridge and Ten Mile districts boom with improved dividends and large scale mining activity across multiple companies including Julesburg oil near Julesburg and Sunnyside mill prep at Eureka.
The region sees renewed life in old Bullard Peak silver mines west of Silver City. Magdalena district ores may reach Waldo’s new process plant. Copper Jack Mining Co of Aden files for $500 000 capitalization. Empire Zinc employs 150 at Hanover mill with 1000 tons sulphides and 250 tons carbonate shipped monthly. Major deal: seventy Burro Mountain copper claims totaling 1700 acres optioned by Chicago and El Paso financiers.
Three or four rigs operate in the Vernon oil field five miles south of Glenrock. Eastern oil men work in Sparks Butte area six miles south of Douglas. Superior Oil Co brings in a well on Elk Basin property in Elk Basin field. Ohio Oil Co reports its second well in Sage Creek field north of Lander. At the present rate of production.
The piece urges soldiers sailors and farmers to enlist in agricultural effort across the United States and Western Canada. It highlights feed for troops and allies, the need to grow grain and cattle, and offers assistance to skilled citizens locating on vacant lands both in the US and Canada.
Mr Robert W Ferguson of Hingham Massachusetts describes years of kidney disorder backache and a near death in Vancouver. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with his complete cure and says he now uses the remedy occasionally to keep kidneys regulated. He urges readers to get DODD'S the name with three D's.
A fragmentary late night line contrasts a peeping view of a sister with her beau and a gas finding. A stray note praises Red Cross Bag Blue for whitened clothes and features generic grocer advertising. A moral quip about genius by wit closes the snippet.
Washington reports the administration's war revenue bill, agreed by the Ways and Means Committee, would levy taxes on stock and bonds, drafts and deeds, insurance, travel, autos, utilities, amusements, tobacco, liquor, and more to fund the war effort. The plan also raises income, inheritance, and excise taxes, with a tariff boost and a one third extra levy on June taxes.
A witty Euclidean axiom from Stephen Leacock of McGill, published in Truth, states that if two boarders share a flat with equal side lengths and the wrangle with the landlady is equal, then their weekly bills must be equal. It uses a playful geometric joke about proportion and reciprocity.
A terse note notes that The Sphinx continues to operate quietly, maintaining its craft and presence in the industry. No further details on personnel or location are provided.
Mrs Thos McGonigal of 3432 Hartville Street Philadelphia recounts nearly suffering an operation for female troubles. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief after months of cramps and illness, stating three bottles cured her and she now feels better.
The Argonaut says Rochambolite, recently introduced by the French, creates molten metal and vast gas on ignition. It shatters vessels and spreads molten fragments, causing extreme pain and rapid death among German troops. French forces are deploying it across the front due to its demoralizing effects.
Town guardians refuse aid to vagrants arguing no man should be unemployed. They provide no food or lodging and expect the tramps to avoid the town, ensuring the group keeps away from this community.
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