Show lk Business Barometer j I tJ 2 I The Dakota Wyoming Oil company has I j j ped d a rig into the Dates Bates Hole oil field where the firm has a tract un- un r lease The work worl of ot erecting the rig Sd I then drilling will be pushed as fast r TO The The Prairie Oil and Gas compan company one i the f the Standard Oil subsidiaries is re- re r-r r a e wildcat to have v district struck a well in Nebraska r Cobalt Coball lias a greater record of ot silver reduction than any other silver mining I p in history save alone the Comstock e. e It is still producing about ces es a year I i W. W S. S McClure secretary of the R lonal nal association esti- esti I potential wool supply at and consumption at O pounds The wool shortage scare he hei 8 work is of alarmists i v Yf Tv i ii High gh ore has been advanced i 20 and is a ton at Joplin J Five lve lower grades range in price from 35 to 1 55 a ton Lead ore Is steady at 80 a ton Shipments are heavy and the mar marr I I ket Is greatly strengthened by price agreement Wl with h sheet h zinc Inc rolling roiling mills 1 I Mass where practically SO j cent of the entire shee sheepskin supplies I th United States are tanned has 1 ed over t j-t se capacity to gogg gov- gov I c contracts for r ra tanning a of I gg f skins to be used s l In manufacture t of coats ePh I de-I I he e St St. Joseph I Ie ead company nY has bas de- de ted a quarterly dividend of SO cents a iII ie jre 8 8 payable a Three J June months 20 to ago stock tc former m of r r record regu- regu I of 75 7 cents cent a share was TC- TC II 1 to 50 cents e s. s tl Davis Daly I in A April produced 6 l Ifil of copper and aud ounces of sll- sll I 1 copper i 0 company In the I and quarter uri produced i ended ounces March of c silver II pounds 31 last 3 |