Show t i Business Barometer I Cost of or living advanced nd 71 70 per cent since Jul July 1914 This figure applies aplies to communities where there has lias been no radical talking raising or of rents Food Increased l SI 81 per por rent ct clothing 93 per cent fuel tuel and hl r r. 11 pet per cent tent shelter sheller 20 21 per cent centam am and aid sundries 5 i per her Vent Food Is la 43 per cent of total otal expense British Iti capital Is about to establish In itt Mexico a P. bank to 11 be Known as the Mineral Min Mitt eral bank Lank to 10 make a specIalty ty of loans on mining properties and also allo purchase S I Partly artl developed Haims S S Lead ci Bit situation I unchanged consumes consumers 5 buying only for or current requirements requirement which they have bave cut down to a minimum Liggett lit Myers l Tobacco company will run a 1 doze close second to the American Tobacco Tobacco To To- bacco company In volume of business for or 1918 Sales Salet for the first nine months were or at the annual rate of about T Pitts PIttsburg burg ierome Pla plans 8 to lb resume development development de de- de during the next two Work will be continued on the foot level where a strike of at high grade ore are was cut off by a fault In Jn an attempt to locate the continuation of this Submarine Boat Hoat Corporation ended the year with a total of twenty vessels launched under Its contract with the Emergency Fleet Corporation for tor ves yes sels Company plans to complete the en entire entire entire en- en tire order by March 1920 Texas Pacific Railway company plans to drill three wells In the Ranger Texas district on property not on the right of way owned by the company In Ina Ina ina a proven district This Is a few hundred acres In extent The right of the company company com corn pany to drill on its own right of way is under examination by counsel |