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Show IVORY COMES HIGH Record Price of $835 Per Hundred Pounds Is Quoted. LONDON. Aux. 24. An Increased demand for billiard bails has sent the price of fvory up to heights never before reached- Th's week, at tin salesrooms of Messrs. Hate A Son. billiard ball Ivory reached the record price of J3o per hundredweight. Tho previous highest price waa reached lost year, whon some, of, tho boat Ivory waa sold at $385 per hundredweight. On one day Messrs. Hale & 80 n sold five and one-half tons of tho billiard Ivory, not julte up to the highest standard, and It fetched an average of 4 JO for each hundredweight. hundred-weight. A member or the firm said thai the uncertainty uncer-tainty of the supply and the fact that It was not unlimited might have Tint nomo effect In raising the price of Ivory, bxi the principal 1 canon for the Increase vss to bo found in the growing demand for billiard balls. The great-ent.eall great-ent.eall for-them cam from America. The price of Millard ball Ivory, with spasmodic lluciuottons, hai risen greatly In tho last ' thirty-Ave years. |