Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 20 | Merchant Vessels Bring High Prices

MERCHANT VESSELS BRING HIGH PRICES Special Cnble to The Tribune. LONDON, A ug. 14.- Notwithstanding the all-round fall In octaii freights, there is no reduction In the cost nf secondhand second-hand merchant ships. An foreign vhhhIh nro not subject t requisition by the admiralty, ad-miralty, their vaJuo Is higher than that nf Hrltlfdi stonrne: m, a Greek loat changing chang-ing handH the othr day at 50 per ton, compared with $15 per ton before the war. New vtwn arc In-mof Hlblo to oh-taln oh-taln and present conditions Indicate that there will be a dearth of them for some oa i n.