Show II I BUSINESS BARO mfR I I On March 23 number of ot surplus freight cars on American railroads was an Increase o ot or over March 15 and oV r the tha former high record of ot March 1 1 1919 The Wyoming Wyoming- Refining co com com- plant plantIs Is III again runnIng oil ll art after r VA tt shutdown for tor several weeks for lack of I crude Da Dallas lIs crude Is baing used and no nomore moro more Interruptions interruption am are anticipated ted I Wildcatting Is being res resumed med In tn lb be Moorcroft res region Ion Wyoming with the coming com corn ing log of spring a rig of ot tho the Wyoming High Test Teat Ol OIL company having baring been delivered there for a II well to be ba drilled on the Lathom ranch on Cabin creek a S C CA I A quarter section of government land d in tIme the Elk lUlls Hills oil district Kern county California was sol sold 1 nt at II a United States land office auction to U. U L. L Doheny ot of Los Angeles An- An Angeles geles fog fot a L b nus ot of U In addition to the bonus Doheny must pay the government soy soy- 1 an acre a 1 fi S per cent royalty on the oh produced from the land Three other Quarter sections were sold at prices price almost as a high as a Mineral production In Canada Canada I O. O had a B total value of ot an increase in in- crease creaco of 23 p per pr r cent over ever the preceding n year and the largest est annual output in the dominions dominion's history Consumption O of fuel feel n oil cli I by railroads I of th the United t st States l In 1920 2 was v a approximate approxImate- approximately t t Iy ly barrels a against in 1909 2909 Approximately 50 per pr cent centt of f the tha 1920 1520 n was by railroads of ot the Central West including Southern Pacific Atchison Burlington and Western Pacific c. California supplied 60 per vcr cent rent of the fuel Consumed by American roads and Ird some of ot that thal used b by IY the Canadian roads roada Merchant vessels built buit in the United States State during February aggregated ninety five of gross ton tons This Thle Is ts the the smallest monthly output since February his 1913 when the total was wa four eighty vessels of grol gross gros t tons Largest Laget output during intervening inter Inter- months was wa In August 1 with wih a total rf tf vessels and gross tons tens tons In first three of nt s' s 1921 in new bonds notes anu and stock were absorbed ab ab- ob- ob by Investment ln Interests a d decrease of ot or 23 per cent compared with lh the quarter ended December 31 1920 10 I and a d decrease of or 16 1 per percent i I cent compared with wih first three months month of of 1920 O Of the e total industrials U I amounted n to m 0 ri railroads a G public II I I utilities foreign Issues 83 and ane state BUte and municipals 3 1 |