1000 Buyers Here With Heavy Orders West Optimistic
A Times survey finds 1000 buyers from the Northwest South and West to New York for Spring and Summer goods. Merchants in Chicago Memphis San Francisco St Louis and Kansas City report sales ahead of last year, low stocks and strong demand. Officials from Marshall Field J W Farwell and others voice confidence while reports from Portland to Dallas indicate healthy regional trade.
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Worth
Northwest
New York
South
Times
Southwest
Middle West
J. C. Smith
Marshall Field & Co
Chicago
West
C. Pirle
Carson, Pirle, Scott & Co
L. Lowenstein
B. Lowenstein & Brother Dry Goods Company
Memphis
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Missouri
Kentucky
Texas
W. H. Lux
Raphael Well & Co
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
William Geissler
Swofford ‘Brothers’ Dry Goods Company
Kansas City
Mendenhall
Sherman Finchof
Finch, van Slyck & McConville
St. Paul
Wm. H. Bruen
F. A. Patrick & Co
Duluth
Minn
H. Wicks
Rothschild & Co
Herzfeld-Phillipson Company
Milwaukee
Mine Promoter Dean Held as Swindler
Dean, owner of the Amalgamated Metal and Exploration Company, is jailed on grand larceny charges for a stock promotional scam run via mail. Detectives say the prospectus promised vast wealth with 10 cent shares. victims include ship crewmen and everyday investors who paid but did not receive stock. The office closed, and Dean allegedly worked as a telegraph canvasser while a 1907 capitalable company swindled dozens into paying small sums.
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Hancock
McConville
Nelson
Dean
Amsterdam Avenue
Amalgamated Metal and Exploration Company
Nassau Street
Gerard Q. Dean
New York
J. Munro
Arizona
Clark's Verde
William Leary
New Bedford
Mass
McCafferty
Western Union Telegraph Company
Joseph Heele
H. J. Peterson
United States
Martha J. Magne
Clinton Street
Brooklyn
William H. Gerrish
van Houten Street
Paterson
N.J
John Hill
West Twenty-eighth Street
John Murphy
Warren Street
Stockholders Meet Near as Illinois Central Ties Fray
Stuyvesant Fish and William N Cromwell arrive in Chicago to prep for tomorrow's stockholders meeting at noon. Two flashpoints may spark contention the plan to issue 30 million dollars in bonds for equipment and the nomination of J Ogden Armour to replace Fish as director. Armour has bought about 1 000 shares and is a stockholder of record for that amount. Fish declines to say if he will oppose Armour, and bond issuance may be kept from stockholders per Harriman policy.
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Chicago
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railway
William Nelson Cromwell
B. H. Harriman
Harriman
J. Ogden Armour
Fish
Armour
Ilinois Central
Fish Parsons
Ssn
Copper costs fall as new mines seek output gains
Boston reports lower copper production costs across majors with use of cheaper ore and richer grades. Estimates foresee 150 million pounds produced by eleven new mines in Utah California New Mexico and Arizona at about 9 cents per pound. Shipping volumes from Copper Range and Osceola rise while Ahmesk Allouez and other shafts push ahead.
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Boston
Orc Oid Dominion
New York
Arizona
Copper Queen
Shannon
Utah
California
New Mexico
Montana
Copper Range Railroad
Dollar Bay
New England
Osceola
Winona
Champion
Massachusetts
Ahmesk
Allouez
Black Hawk
Commandal
Copper Hill
Corbin
Raven
North Butte
Butte
Col. Sellers
Cost of Reports Burdens Railroads for Inter State Commission
A Delaware, Lackawanna and Western executive reports to shareholders that rising salaries and expanded office needs drive higher general expenses to meet Inter State Commerce Commission demands. He notes duplicative data requests from multiple governments, cites New York Central costs about 90000 dollars, and questions the value of providing detailed stockholder lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
New York Central
Commission
Inter-State Commerce, Commission
Ita
Steel rail orders lift iron and steel outlook
Pittsburg reports stronger iron and steel activity with Lackawanna Railways placing large open hearth rail orders. Tennessee and Bethlehem mills show solid order books for the year, pig iron firm at around 17 to 18 dollars, malleable sales support Western shipments, and Midland Steel’s long-running furnace sustaining output. Overall, the week appears encouraging for steel interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Lackawanna Railroad
Bessemer Rail
Tennessee Mills
Ted Beth'shem Mills
Bessemer
Bessemer Jyon
Midland Steel Company
World Gold Output 1907 Shows Small Rise Despite Decline Elsewhere
Global gold production in 1907 reached 10,584,844 fine ounces valued at 404 million dollars, up slightly from 1906. South Africa led gains with Transvaal output rising to 133,860,292 dollars, while reductions in the United States and other regions trimmed total output by about 720,955 ounces, inflicting a $4.57 million drop in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Financial Chronicle
Cecceensescoers
South Africa
Transvaal
London Journal
United States
Australasia
Canada
Russia
Mint
The Diamond Curtailment in South Africa Trade
Leading observers estimate the diamond market will absorb no more than 25 million dollars of rough stones this year. Last year’s output reached about 50 million, with De Beers 30 million, Premier 15 million, and Jagersfontein 5 million. With a glut of cut stones and heavy prior year stocks, dealers are reducing prices to move stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
de Beers
Jagersfontein
London
Joan of Arc Paintings Exhibition at City College
A set of thirty water color paintings by Maurice Boutet de Monvel illustrating Joan of Arc’s life from Domremy to her martyrdom is on display in the City College tower chapel through March 15. The works were brought to this country by Charles M. Kurtz of the Albright Art Gallery Buffalo and have toured Buffalo and Indianapolis institutions.
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de Monvel
The
City College
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Charles M. Kurtz
Albright Art Gallery of
Buffalo
Herron Art Institute
Indianapolia
Domremy
Beauvais
University of Paris
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Lwyer
J. 3. Matthewson
Watt & Shand
Lancaster
Penn
Pennsylvania
R. R. Peebles
William Barr
Hargadine McKittrick Dry Good Company
St. Louis
Quincy
Ill
Otto Stix
Louis Stix & Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
G. Leiner
Rice, Stix & Co
Dean Held
Arizona Exploration Co
Sos
Boston Copper Gossip
New York Time
Railroads
Commerce Commission
Uth
Joan OF Arc
Bull Brothers
Brill
America
Stein Bloch Co
Adler Bros. & A
Hornthal, Benjamin & Reim, the
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Sternshel
Broadway
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Union Square
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3Rd Ave
W.& J.sloane
Ferraghan
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Tabreez Carpets
Nineteenth ST
Curtain Specialty House
Nineteenth Street
Ellen Glasgow
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Doubleday, Page & Co
16Th St
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