Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-15 | Page 9 | Nation's Livestock Declines in Value

NATION'S LIVESTOCK DECLINES IN VALUE Washington, rib 15, -vilui j livestock on fitrms and ranges of thi t-nlted .States showed a decrease of ?. -27.000 or 41 ,'. 1 er cent on Januar IS this year, us compared with that dull-two dull-two years ago. the department of agriculture agri-culture announced todsv In Its annual livestock report. MEW YORK SILVER NEW YORK, Feb. Io Foreign bar -il-ver 66Vc. Mexican dollars -0tc. POTATO MARKET. dHOAt 'O, Keb. 15. Potatoes weak; reeelots jO mra. total I" SJ hlnmenta I ! 4IH iais. Wisconsin !-a l;e.l round whitox lfl.7SOl.06 cwt.; Minnesota and North ' Iiakota sacked round whites $1 6-0 i . ?r. cwt.,- iduho sacked riirau s 00q j 'J. 10 cwt. METAL MARKET N'RW YORK, Feb. 16 Copper eaqy; electrolytic gpot and futures 13"ic Tin oasler; spot and nearby $30. .0; futures $30.12330 25 Iron steady, prices unchanged, lead 5tead spot 1 70j 4 SOc. 71no quiet; East St. Loui spot 4 SO (3i4 55c. Antimony spot 4 40c. MONEY MARKET new Turk, Keb. 15 Call money easier; high 4'-. per cent; low 4 per cent, ruling rate 41 icr cent; closing bid :t4 oftr cent, offered at 4 per cent; last li'an 4 per cent, call loans against .icccft,. 11. , s 4'.. per i-enl. Tims loans firm GO days 44 ft". rer BO days 4 "4,(9 rr cent, vis monthc 4fJ5 per cent. I'rlrne inenrantile paper 44 fo rT cent. LIEERTY BONOS. NEW VOrtK. Feb. 15. Liberty bonds closed ; nis ? 94: fir-sir 4s SG.I5 bid. oecond 4 96 IS: flr.it 4V;. ?t 86. Gdcond 4tio 1 third 4'4' ?7 5C fourth 4-;s 97 '" Victory 3is 99. DS; Victory 4;s 100 is PAPER COMPANY PAILS. NEW YORK. Feb 15. Federal .Iud'o Learned Hand today appointed a receiver re-ceiver fcr the Hercules Paper corpora tion. The company's book ussets were estimate at U.81B,4t7 ond Its Indebtedness Indebted-ness at $1,790 50?. but It was claimed extraordinary depresi.sion in the pupoi buelness had Impaired Its abillp to ps debts. OFFICER ELECTED NF.W VniUC. Feb. 15. Directors of the American Brasu compan today elect- Sd c'ffic ers of the company as followr ' .airman of tho board. Charles F. Brooker. vice chairman and first vloe president, John p Elton; president. John fjoe: exseutive vies presidents! Bd-1 ard I, grlahie, Thomas B Kent and Qofdon W. Burn ha m; treasurer, Clifford ifr.iiister. secretary, Edmund rt. Yates