Important new offerings last week
.were $5,000,000 give to nine year 4Vi
per cent Missouri Highway bonds at
prices to yield 4.40 to 4.45 per cent;
32,500,000 24-year 6 per cent Penn
Public Service corporation refunding
mortgage bonds, series C, at 9R Vi to
yield 6.13 per cent; $1,2F. 9,000'one to
40 year 416 per cent Dallas, Texas,
gold bonds at 98 91 to yield 4.65 per
cent, and $11,115,000 one to five year
'6 per cent Electric Railway equip
ment corporation equipment trust
certificates at prices to yield 5.25
to 6 per cent.
COAL AND COKE MARKET
(Courtesy Adams. Rowe & Norman)
Current spot prices per net ton, r. o. b.
cars mines, are:
Steam Coal
Poor to medium grades.>175 to $$-25
First quality . 2.60 to 3.15
Domestic Coal
Poor to medium grades.$3.25 to $4.f0
First quality . 6.00 to f.50
CORE
*12 hour hand-picked beehivs...$7.60 to $3
High-grade by-product foundry 7.60 to 8
Current prices on other kinds of coke
per net ton, f. o. b. cars ovens, ars:
Gas House Coke
Forked .$8-26 ^
Bun of retort . 8.00
Domestic Nut Coke
Small sizes .$5.00
Egg . 6.60 to $6.50
FURNACE OPERATIONS
Furnace operations in Alabama ars as
follows:
Blast Furnaces
Coke
No. On On On Total
Stks Bsc Fdy Spec. Act
Alabama Co.4
Central Iron . 1
Gulf States . 1
Republic Iron . :t
SloRs-Sheffield .... 8
T. C. I. R. R.12
■\Voodward Iron ... 5
Charcoal
Shelby Iron . 2 0
•Ingot mold.
0
On basic. 8.
On foundry. 12.
On ingot mold, 1.
Total: On coke iron. 21.
MELODRAMATIC
The Heroine—See! I am on my
knees before you, bathing your feet
In my tears.
The Villain—Go so far as you like,
sister. I’ve got my rubbers on.—
Detroit News.
