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Show BUSINGS BRIEFS l o v LOS ANGELES, Cal., Fob. J. Gov-1 jernor Stephens, acllhg as spokesman J for numerous consumers arid not an an official, has appealed to the Mjt" railroad commission to revise several of Its recent rulings on gas and telephone tele-phone rates :md. in one instance In-terurban In-terurban electric orvlco. The governor gov-ernor said some relief should be glv-I glv-I en a "long suffering public. OXOSper-lated OXOSper-lated by lack of service, but none the less patient and falrmtn.l- d. t ONS1 Ml R GAINS. CHZGAOO, Feb. c. The two features fea-tures of the meat trad, .luring January Jan-uary from the viewpoint of the consuming con-suming public were the fnct that wholesale prices of fresh pork remained re-mained practically unchanged despitt an increase of about $ oor hundred in the cost of live hogs, and the vigorous vig-orous demand for ham, a statement by the Institute of American Meat I'ack-ei-N said. Light stocks of prk and hogs at market centers Indicates packers pack-ers have refused to accumulate large stocks at present prices, the report said. An effort Is being made to market mar-ket as much pork as possible whll" froeh here than to place it in cure P ICKBRS Mil I IA ISS1 . CHI'A(JU, Feb. i", Morris and Co.. packers, sustained a net loss for the ydOr ending October 23. 1921. of $&.-1 $&.-1 869,506, while this loss and operating 'expenses reduced the surolus account Ifrom $13,271,796.20 to $1,299,256.43. B 'decrease of over $11,900,000, according accord-ing to the financial report made public pub-lic Sunday. Volume Of sales was satisfactory, sat-isfactory, however, the report stated, adding that cash in bank Is over $2,-I'.yO.OOo $2,-I'.yO.OOo and quick liabilities ore about $7,800,000, w hile quick assets are over $39,000,000, a ratio of about 1 to 1. to VRKETS ut l(. VI i i WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Secretary ! Wallace has announced tho designation designa-tion if the Sun Francisco chamber of commerce as a contract market for burley. and tho designation of the lxs I Angeles grain exchange as a contract .market for barley, sorghums and corn 'within the future trading .act. Mem- ben of th.- tM. exchanges, therefore. will he permitted t. deal lh contracts for future delivery of these commo- Jdlties without being subject to the tax i of 2 ee'nts a bushel on each contract for future delivery. Tn two designations designa-tions announced bring the total number num-ber of contract markets so authorized ' by the secretary of agriculture to 11. |