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Show I PRICES 11 i I TO LEVEL OF '1 3 H J Wholesale Quotations Now ' Near That Average, Says Bradstreet IU i m Kl M'TM i: The cost of living is going to po low-HB low-HB pi than anvont' mix months ago hellcvi .1 I possible. Talk to this effect Is being H heard oniong business men in every 1 trade It explain why business is Ini- 1 proving mere slowly than the experts Hl predicted; 1 Ijist autumn backers and ecpno- Hl mists realised Bhot the present bust- HI nem depression, which began io months ;.ko. is simply a price deprea- 1 sfon. That if. tli.it business continues stagnant until prices reach bottom Calling. friers are xoinc; l fall to wh.it they wen. In lsi:;. according to the Na t tonal Bank or Commerce, or New ! HOLES M i PRH i s l u l?13 Bradstreets' business experts add up the whotesal, prices of one pound . h of the 96 leading commodities This total averaged 99 22 for the yeai 919 I' jumped to a high point of 120.87 Pebruarj 1950 bad dropped lb 111.80 March 1, 1921. That's near the 1913 level METAL TRADES SLTJMP. Copper r fleets downward price ten dency. it now sella at 12 cents pound. That's half a cent lower than 1914. Highest in wartime was 846 bead1 is at four cenle pound lowest in lG reapb, with one excep- lion and steel Industries' ire pro-lin pro-lin ing almost as much as before the world w.u . But their productive Ba-, Ba-, pacity was Increased N per cehi dur-in? dur-in? tho war and that increased capac-it capac-it y is idle. Depression? No. Just return to pre-war or normal condi- (,mI) SEWS Exports to i-'ai i".i-t pfch up. Tbey'r running bigger than ah) tinie. during Banks' rates on loan tend down-ward, down-ward, says Secretary of Treasury Mel-Ion. Mel-Ion. He predicts normal business by summei. Montgomt'i'v Ward & Co. reports that its mail-order Business is getting bark io normal Indicates better money conditions among termers'. Department store trade, country i over, averagirs only three "her cent less than yenr ago, says National Re-tail Re-tail Dry Goods association. inly 293, American business failure? last week, against i 1 3 two weeks be- PAtlM DITIOXS. Cotton acreage Ibis c.ir probably reduced a third. Cotton exports January i slightly more than a year ago. World's consumption of cotton has declined : .fjoo.ojui dales a year and is back to pre-war basis, says United States bureau ot markets. Wheat exports lasl Week over, fifth bigger than the same week in two preceding years. Corn exports .3,454,845 bushels against T.S00 bushclr, same week 1919. Stocks of wheat In country eleva-, tors 30 per cent less than a year nK" Stocks on farms a fourth larger |