Show I Wall Wal Street Briefs 1 NEW YORK TORK Dec IS AP New AP-New New New- construction contracted in the 37 states east of tile the Rocky mountains from January 1 to December 14 amounted to an In Increase ID- ID crease of more than over the entire year 1927 F. F W. W Dodge corporation reports Last weeks week's contracts totaled slightly under the amount awarded in the tho preceding week Crude Crudo petroleum prices were higher in the week ended December 15 Prices at tho wells in tn In principal principal prin prin- cipal producing fields averaged 1717 a barrel against 1692 tile the previous and 1451 in tile the corresponding corresponding corre corre- week last year according to Oil Paint Drug Reporter Gasoline Gas Gas- oline prices averaged 1997 cents a gallon in ten principal cities against 2027 cents the previous previous pre pre- week and 1905 cents in the tho corresponding week in 1927 Jewel Tea Company Inc of Chicago Chi cago sales in the four weeks ended December 1 1 Increased to from in the tho corresponding 1927 period Struthers Iron Steel company's furnace at Youngstown has made its first cast after a year of idleness idleness idle idle- ness and has enough merchant iron booked to operate six months While midwest steel Industry Is maintaining operations at better than 80 per cent of capacity there will vill be some rolling roiling mill suspensions suspensions next for yearend year re re- re pairs Mills have operated steadily stead stead- ily for past five or six months necessitating overhauling and re i-c. i pairs James T. T 1 Lorec Loree vice president and general manager of Delaware Hudson said said tile the road would earn earit its dividend requirements require require- meats ments despite coal move move- mont ment Davenport Hosiery Mills Inc of Chattanooga Tenn reports for the past eleven months net profit of equivalent to a common cornmon corn com mon share against or a common share in tile the corresponding correspond ing 1927 period President W W. K IC Mcintosh of ot tile the Liquid Carbonic corporation of Chicago Chi Chi- cago eago announced the company sold common shares to bankers at 90 instead of as previously reported Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia has received an order for six locomotives from Great Northern railway |