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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1919
Page
7
Receipts 1 762 head with markets for steers cows and calves. Prime lambs and ewes show higher bids. mixed grades for heifers and canners in a fluctuating range. Prices include steer profit to $9.50 to $10 and cow bids around $7 to $9, lambs $11.80 to $12, ewes and dairy items noted.
Reading shows mixed grain and feed prices with Idaho gems at $2.40 per cental and Oregon beans around $2.15 to $2.96 per cental. Bermuda figures list $2.76 per cental and $4 per crate for cental red feed, plus other quoted rates for cleaned and assorted feed.
Strawberry holdovers sold as low as 2.65 per crate while only top fruit reached 4.00 amid new competition from canneries. Canteloupes weakened with California arrivals. standards at 4.50. California apricots 2.75 per crate. A car of new California fruit to street sale Monday afternoon. peaches plums and apricots new arrivals. Dairy prices steady at week's start.
Wholesale price list shows artichokes lettuce and other produce with local and California origins. Items include cabbage carrots green corn radishes and peppers with per sack per dozen and per crate rates. Dairy products and regional varieties are listed with country cream and shipments to shippers.
Reported movements and arrivals of ships and tugs around Cape Tatoosh Port AngelEs and Puget Sound include passing Shipping board vessels coastal arrivals from Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver. Admiral Dewey and Libby Maine listed among arrivals with inshore towing details and port statuses.
Formerly a practicing lawyer in Beattie with offices in the Lumber MP exchange building Carleton Mueller has been appointed supervisor of supergace for the Shipping Board. He will maintain an office in Washington D C Mueller is 22 years old.
The Metal Trades council plans a referendum among 21 affiliated unions to strike Seattle shipyards on July 21 if no settlement is reached at a San Francisco conference set for July 16. The ballot also asks if the Oakland drafted agreement with a 20 cent wage raise, overtime abolition, and better conditions is acceptable. Uptick of earlier sporadic coast strikes signals mounting discontent.
Struthers z Dixon appoint managers for four steel ships and one wooden craft. West Glen built by Ames to load flour for Europe early this week. West Henshaw a Duthie product set to sail to Vladivostok with railway supplies in July. West Ivins a 5400 ton steamship on the ways at Ames yard to join Struthers & Dixon late summer and head for the Orient in September. Weet Cajo ot an 8800 ton burner loaded at San Francisco for the Orient and to arrive in Seattle to load. J M Lafon French Tor deaux trade rep visits Seattle to study salmon industry and possible purchase. Henry G Seaborne of Skinner Eddy returns from the east optimistic about Seattle shipbuilding prospects.
Prof J B Gould delivers his first lecture on navigation in Masters Mates and Pilots association rooms at the Grand Trunk dock Monday night.
The plan to refuse absorbing terminal charges on imports unless repacked within ten days aroused protest from the Chamber of Commerce Commercial club port commission and Exporters and Importers Association after a Saturday meeting with the North Pacific Export and Import committee of the railroad administration.
Announcement says wartime control by the Federal Reserve Board over export of coin, bullion or currency has been dissolved and exports of gold will be granted. Ban remains for Bolshevik Russia and territories allowed only through the American Relief Administration.
At the close of the 24th annual meeting of the National Association of Credit Men in Detroit on Saturday A. K. Metzger of Seattle was elected to a leadership post and thanked for his service.
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