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Show CRUDE OIL I LIFTSAGAIN Another 7 Cents Tacked On: Pennsylvania Now Quoted at $2.40 Pittsburgh, Jan 31 The rapid ad-vance ad-vance in the prices of principal ' grades ol cnnle oil and continued to-da to-da when at the opening of the market mar-ket anothei seven cents were tacked co the price, rnaking Pennsylvania crude, the basis of all values, $2 .4". Other prices announced were: Mercer blael . $1.93 Newcastle, $l corning, i 95 and Cabell $2.00 Somerset and Ragland were unch:ing. ed Reports from the principal pipe line' companies show that during this month the runs from vvos located in the eastern fields. Including Ohio and Indiana hav.- averaged a ittl more than 115,000 barrels a day, while during the same period ship-ments ship-ments have averaged a little more than IlSJtOO barrels a day. an excess of consumption over production of I about 100.000 barrels during lanuary. So prosperous have some of the oil companies become Ihit a progressive company declaied a 100 per cent dividend |