Show I Business Barometer I zinc and lead ores are un changed Zinc is quoted at 40 to 50 and lead leae at 60 GO a ton Shipments Ship ments are larger but demand is quiet Secretary of ot Agriculture Houston says farmers planted last fan fall more acres of wheat whet than at any previous time and indications are spring plant will wi be on a very large scle scale raising question queston whether crop can be disposed at guaranteed price of ot a bushel for No 1 winter wheat t I I English government has set aside for use in road building I and reconstruction of ot bridges allowed to deteriorate during the war Work Vork will wi give employment to men mostly discharged so soldiers Distillers Securities is to convert at once three of ot its Is distilleries at Peoria and one distillery at I. I into sugar manufacturing plants I to be devoted to the new process of ot manufacturing sugar from corn The company will wi still have six large plants for manufacture of ot alcohol for commercial and medicinal use capable of ot producing gallons a day Adjustment of ot the controversies Inthe in inthe the new Lance Creek field of or Wyoming Wyo ming has given Glenrock Oil company company com com- pany a half hal interest in eighty acres so that that the company is well wel represented represented in this promising district in a large way The company has one wel well at a depth of ot feet and rigs erected for tor seven more all al of or which will wi be in operation in the early spring Besides this development the company has acquired a third interest In the profits arising from the drilling of ot a acre 2100 lease on the structure in Cook and Grayson counties countes Oklahoma I |