Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 6

'W A GOOD MEAL CAMERON CURRIE GO CONDITIONS UNCH ANGED Eliair Bray Co i Continued rom Page One PILE BEETS WILL MAKE SUGAR WORTH $47400 gone of RIO IN a NOT STRUCK BY LURRY BUILDING COAL WASHERY EVERY ACTORY IS BUSY SUGAR YIELD IMMENSE MUCH OIL IS INSPECTED VALUABLE MINE IS OPENED 11 Beet in Monroe has been 4 BUYS BUTTER DISH PLANT TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS URNITURE PRICES SAMEnEW LIGHTNING ARRESTER CAMBRIAN IS IN TOW Sate by 114 'i SICK YOUTH IS MISSING MICHIGAN STANDS SECOND Conveniences CRUISE THE 13 ONE XMAS IN IVE YEARS? 1U6U1 cume summer days calling on the makers for as highas 7500 gallons of the cold dainty The Total $190027198 $19867141 79 IWmb free rather vigor takes two repors for October a MILK AND CREAM COSTS THOUSANDS DOLLARS I HANDLE 7 9 17 14 9 to be shop shop steel 123 13 119 I re at in DETROITERS IK CUBAN PROJECT has been this prices are arriving Membera of Nw York Stock Ex Boston Stock Ex Chicago Stock Ex Produce Ex Chicago Bd of Trade 2611093 1020 252 606 $129S1296 118000 757855 Trade is con gain and they look coming year as the the history of the ALL NOT RIGHT WITH LEET reporting manager newspaper man tIieBoston Post and before he went on has been with his Carney Is President of Company to Build New Railroad GAY WELCOME MICHIGAN ACTORIES TO MAKE 200000000 POUNDS Will Open Up Territory Which Has No Transportation acilities TO BUCK COMBINE ALBION IRM BUYS OUT TOWN GROCERIES interest if any delivery entertained for portion of the October Trunk Eastern Trunk Western Coal Other' Eastern Central West Granger Southern Southwestern Pacific MONROE ACTORIES HAVE VERY PROITABLE YEAH received 'Clock Time very dry about 150 completed boarding house the railroad yards and the weighing scales 835612 34060 12981296 14119262 16931871 On Have rush into a store a half an hour before closing and expect to get the same treatment as you would have in the morning Try early shopping and you will tell your neighbors of its advan tages PLANS ARE NOT IXED THREE MORE BUILDINGS Detroit council No 9 has placed itself on record as opposed to the parcels post and has adopted a reso lution calling upon the supreme and grand councils to align all allied organizations against the proposi tion The grand councilor and grand secretary were guests of De troit council Saturday night Three members were added 1 Western to Erect Battle Creek Mich December 22 by a re ts Shows Little Likelihood Is Though Sure Rev Thomas Logan Murphy Dead Plainfield December 22 Rev Thomas Logan Murphy for many years one of the most prom inent Episcopal clergymen in New Jersey died this morning follow ing a few illness which be gan with symptoms of la grippe Only German 384372 5690)3 2685358 286710 2700144 Saginaw Plant Is Turning Out 200 OOO Pounds Daily and Will To tal 15000000 or the Campaign hich Closes in January Gale Manufacturing Company Interested in Its Employes Will Continue to Purchase Outside Until Local Dealers Reduce Prices STOCK 1 DEALS ARE ENTIRELY SPECULATIVE Saginaw Plnnt Will Clean 1000 Tons Every Day When Completed Saginaw Mich December 22 A novelty in this section of the coun try is a coal washery a big struc ture now in course of erection on the west side of the river in a lo cation with the best of rail and water transportation facilities and in close proximity to the busiest uiui ougmare oi tne city It is the property of the Consolidated Coal Co of Saginaw and is to be used for the washing out of impurities and ash making qualities from the coal obtained from the mines in tbi? vicinity Its capacity will be 1000 tons of the finished product a day or 100 tons an hour The Link Belt Co of Chicago has the contract for the erection of the washery and expects to have it completed about the first of April This is the first washery to be erected in the state and greatly improves the quality of the coal that passes through it Sulphur slate and lime which compose the main parts In the ash making qualities of the coal are heavier than the coal itself and when whirled around in the rapidly revolving hopper will work to tiie outside in the same manner as a cream separator oper ates only the materials are some what different to handle Plans are now under way for the three: a foundry 150x250 feet a carpenter 100x200 and an upholstering of similar size all to be of and brick construction While there are few men at the works now owing to a holiday lay off work will be resumed after New and there will be little let up due to winter During the Christmas holidays grading will continue but other work will rest THE RANDOLPH HOTEL Cer Randolph and Champlain Ma in Producing Grind for the Country of the grindstones and Depart rom Home Lightly Clad and Penniless Owosso Mich December 22 Lightly clad and without money Joseph Murray 18 years old left the bed iiv which he had con fined by illness for several weeks and disappeared The boy had been seriously sick part of the time de lirious Murray resided with his uncle John Collard When he left the house he wore no overcoat and his feet were protected by only felts and rubbers Mr Collard after searching the neighborhood for Mur ray notified the police who have been unable to locate him The po lice departments of all cities of the state have been requested to aid in finding the lad His uncle fears that unless the boy is located with in a few hours he will be dead from exposure inancial Situation Betterment and That Improvement Will be Slow contagious has The splendid crop around Bay City has given the farmers heavy acreage niey orm man The tons little even shed feet long 20 feet high and 60 feet wide is also full and the factory rather than stop the farmers from GRAIN STOCKS and COTTON BROKERS Phone Main 1117 or Main 3014 Private Wires 209 210 Hodges Bldg Dotrolt Creamery company now makes all its ice cream by the brine process the cans being submerged In tanks of brine In which ammonia coils are run we have to figure closely on every dollar that can be saved In this said Alfred Easter general manager of the company greatest problem is sanitation Things must be absolutely clean and we must know that they are so and to accomplish this re quires watchfulness and expense all along the line I think that our new plant when 1 State Report for November Deals With 3500000 Gallons Northville Mich December 22 State OH Inspector report for November shows that his depart ment inspected 3500000 gallons of oil that month The net profit to the state after paying all expenses including salaries and expenses of the state Inspector and his depu ties is $2676 which Neal will turn over to the state treasury Grand Trunk Them at Battle Creek A decision has been reached the Grand Trunk Western to build three more large buildings on the locomotive shops site the announce ment 'being made during a visit of I Third Vice President itzhugh Su perintendent of Motive Power Robb and Division Supt Ryan ri day evening Manufacturers to Resist Efforts to Reduce Retail igures Grand Rapids Mich December 22 Grand Rapids furniture manufac turers will block the efforts of re tail dealers to reduce prices will be sold no cheaper next year than it they declare are up to urniture samnles by carloads for the mid winter ex position which wil be fully as large as ever Prospects are that many large orders will be placed Either these men had diseases or something wrong with those HOTEL HERMITAGE European Grand Raptla Mich Rate ter rooms' Boe 75e nnd ft day Meals at Cafe 25 cents May Die rom Pitchfork Wound Midland Mich December 22 loyd Abbey Is at the point of death ntiu tuvnjaw ao liic icbull pitchfork wound in the foot ceived while thrashing There slight hope for his recovery Bay City Mich December Three hundred and ninety tons sugar $47400 at the retail price of 6 cents per pound lie concealed In the huge pile of sugar beets staked up at the Bay City Michigan Sugar Co This pile of beets 700 feet long and from 14 to 17 feet high containing 3000 tons of beets is one of the results of good roads and good weather mainly good roads GEORGE BLODGETT George Blodgett covers south ern Michigan and northwestern Ohio for the Shredded Wheat Bis cuit company reporting to district manager in De troit He was connected with Boston Herald the road and present employers five years Those in the district office have a good word to say for him He is a mem ber of Cadillac council No 143 United Commercial Travelers THREE THOUSAND TONS SUGAR BEETS LIE IN BIG PILE "ESIDE BAY CITY ACTORY READY TO BECOME SWEET STU MARSHALL INDUSTRIES NOT A ECTED STRINGENCY these situa eon trary they seem to be viewing it or at least all those ordinarily ac counted wise are doing so with ex ceeding optimism They say that matters are working out surely and safely even if slowly that the recuperative energies of the coun try are displaying the possession of extraordinary strength and vigor but thev recognize that it time nevertheless for these forces to operate It is notable that while as a rule railroad earnings are decreasing the earnings of certain roads both in gross and in net are increasing This 'seems to be particularly the case with those railroad properties of the land whose business is large ly that of mining and transporting coal Both the Delaware Lack awanna and the Reading roads are at the moment making more money than ever before in their history Several Running Overtime and Old Orders While Others Plans or Additions to the Plants Under Way for Spring Monroe Mich December 22 Notwithstanding the flurry in the money market and the consequent stagnation in many parts of the country the manufactories of Mon roe report the year just closing as a busy and profitable one The Monroe Binder Board com pany is again cramped for room and will add to the finishing de partment another concrete build ing in the spring 100x105 in dimen sion also an 18x24 office This fac tory is still running on old orders in an endeavor to catch up and has business in sight insuring an increase in output for 1908 The Weis manufacturing com pany making office supplies is working three hours overtime every night in the woodworking and fin ishing department and even then it is unable to keep up with cur rent business while orders already booked for future delivery prom ise to soon demand an addition to the factory The Wilder Strong Implement company has just shipped three carloads of agricultural implements to the Argentine republic The trade for 1907 has exceeded expec tations and orders for 1908 are in excess of the usual amount at this time of the year The Amendt Milling company re ports an excellent year and busi ness has increased over $50000 over tne previous year tinuauy on tne forward to the banner one In plant Not a factorv compelled to resort to the pay check system but handed currency over counters regularly every pay day Despite the flurry in the east all report that collections have been good and made with reasonable promptness The history of the past year has been a very satisfactory one and the prospects for 1908 in dicate a healthy growth in every line represented Albion Mich December 22 The Gale Manufacturing Co of this city through Vice President Cdnk lin announced that the shops will be kept running all winter The improvement in the financial situ ation and the prospects for trade while not all that can be desired are such that the officers of the company have decided to keep the plant running instead of shutting down as soon as the orders on hand are filled Every effort will be made to keep the present force at work on the eight hour schedule but if a further reduction is necessary the hours will be reduced as the com pany desires to keep as many men employed as possible A readjustment of the wage scale will be put in effect Janu ary 1 but the workmen understand the situation and appreciate the necessity for a reduction of wages and hours The mon appreciate that they will have employment during the winter even on "lower wages and shorter hours instead of being thrown out of work entirely slight or But on the the premium on cur with little abatement even becoming higher and the banks contin money on net balance in rt I Detroit Creamery Company Is Erecting a Large Addition With New Refrigerating Plant and All the Modem Pay Tribute to Dead King Muskegon Mich December 22 Two thousand Muskegon Swedish residents today held services in memory of the late King Oscar of Sweden a Members of the Knights of the Grip are enjoying the holiday rest by COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS DETROIT EMcanabn Man Gels Old One at Thompsonville City Mich December 22 Lucas of Iscanaba has pur chased the old butter dish plant at Thompsonville and will install twelve wire end machines giving employment to 60 men A large force is now engaged time and a half in order to get the plant in operation by January 1 Air Lucaswa? fovmerly owner of the Esca naba YY oodenware company and is thoroughly experienced He sold his Escanaba plant to St Louis parties sig thft British steamer William Cliff from New Orleans for Liverpool on De cember 19 towing the steamer Cam brian to Queenstown The Cunard liner Lusitania last Thursday evening reported to the astnet station that the Cambrian had broken her shaft and was be ing assisted by the steamer Wil liam Cliff The Cambrian Jeft Lon don for Philadelphia oil 1 December 7 and was almost Vnld ocean when reported developments that might circumstances huvo to excite other buying or of stocks were unusually statemen the export and import trade during November was an al together encouraging document but the feeling appeared to prevail that the character of the return made should be further emphasized by succeeding statements of similar nature before it could be held that the change for the better thus ex hibited was permanent Merchan dise imports for November were $9 000000 less than they were a year ago and as merchandise exports in creased more than $21000000 the trade balance in the 'favor for the month was heavily enlarged being indeed the second largest in any month in thc busi ness history The Bank of Eng statement of condition made during the week too was also verv favorable showing as it did al ar ger cash reserve than at any similar period since 1898 but the effect of this was offset in' some degree bv the impression that the resources bank might perhaps be strained by the general European financial settlements at the end of the year Braxiliau Government Will Enter tain Evans and Other Officers Rio Janeiro December 22 When the American fleet of warships' reaches this port it will be accorded a royal welcome It is not intend ed however that the welcome shall be demonstrative but that all court esy shall be paid the visitors as though the visit were expressly made to Brazil The fleet is expected here about January 11 and it will remain at Rio Janeiro for ten days Admiral Alen car the minister of marine has is sued an order for a division com posed of the cruisers Barroso and Tamandare and the gunboats blra Tainoyo and Tiradentes to hold themselves in readiness to meet the American fleet on the high seas and accompany it into thc harbor A number of fetes are being ar ranged among which are dances picnics and banquets The finance minister will give a ball on iscal island in the Bay oi Rio Janeiro and the minister of marine has ar ranged for two excursions one to the summit of Corcovado a moun tainous peak about two miles from Rio Janeiro from which a magnifi cent view of the surrounding coun try can be had and the other to Ti juca park The Brazilian government will give a banquet to the officers at which 500 covers will be laid in the grand salon of the marine ar senal at Yaura In addition the minister of for eign affairs Baron De Rio Branco and the mayor of Rio Janeiro will entertain the American officers and Dr Jose Carlos Rodriguez proprie tor of the Journal of Commerce will give a banquet to Rear Admiral Evans and the higher officers of the fleet Other social events are being arranged to make the stay of the Americans here one to be remem bered Saginaw Mich December The plants of the Michigan Sugar company including the one located here will close the campaign the first week in January a little earlier than was expected The weighing scales throughout the country were closed Saturday night and the last of the beets to be trans ported to the factories have been loaded The slicing will require an other week and then the remainder of the refining will be disposed of in short order probably about ten days The local plant has made a rec ord run having turned out 10000 000 pounds of sugar in fiftv days or 200000 pounds per day The totai output for the season is expected to be close to 15000000 pounds If this should prove anything like an average output of the sixteen fac tories In the state the sugar yield this year should run close to if not exceed 200000000 pounds as against last record crop of 17700000a pounds This would mean that the value of the yield this year will be approximately $10000000 as against I $8000000 last year of which the farmers will receive more than one half Altogether it is probably the most prosperous year yet enjoyed by the sugar interests notwithstanding the sugar content has been a trifle below standard New contracts are now being made and officers of the Michigan Sugar company here say the indications are that a much larger acreage will be grown next season than this which was the rec ord up to this time Three New Plants In Operation and Least 200 More Men are Em ployed Than Ever Before Local Conditions Satisfactory Marshall Mich December 21 The year ending December 31 illy Hotel In city $150 per day per BEUTLER Prep Order for 300000000 Cans Pittsburg December The American Can Co of Pittsburg has closed an order for 300000000 tin cans to be delivered in a period cov ering five years The California ruit association is the purchaser and the contract will be in operation January 1 next running cuntil December 31 1913 New York December 22 Detroit men are interested in a new project which has for its object the con struction and operation of a rail road system between the northeast and southeast coasts of Cuba hith erto without transportation facili ties The Yumuri Rail Tramway company is the name of the enter prise which has been incorporated under the taws of the state of New 1'ork The authorized capital is $l2u0000 of which $l0uO000 is common stock and $2uo000 7 per cent cumulative preferred inan cial arrangements are understood to have been completed There are no bonds In the first instance a broad gauge steam railroad Is to be con structed from the Maya river in the province of Santiago de Cuba 10 miles in ti northeasterly direction through the districts of Monte Cristo Grand Pierra Celete Pueblo Viego Viertienties and Sabana to Yumuri This line will open up an extensive territory where bananas pineapples coffee cocoa etc are now grown in profusion but can not under the existing circum stances be profitably marketed be cause of the primitive means of communication between interior points on the north of the province of Santiago and Baracoa the prin cipal port on the north coast All the transportation not only in this section but in all the ter ritory on the northeast coast of the island is now conducted by pack mules The charge for these mules is 75 cents a day and they can carry but four bunches of bananas in a day and a half The new company will operate aerial tramways for the purpose of carrying the bananas from the Yumuri terminus of the road to vessels which will trans port the fruit to the states Later on the railroad is to be ex tended right across to Guantanamo and then on to Santiago a distance of about 150 miles Construction work on the Yumuri Maya river section will be begun immediately all the contracts having been let for rails locomotives cars etc The first section of the line is expected to be in operation by the middle of March Carney vice president of the Royal Cheese company of Detroit is president of the railroad company ebruary 6 to April 17 1908 Seventy days costing only $400 and up Including shore excursions SPECIAL riera Malta noiy iana vonstantjnopie Ainens Rome the Riviera etc TOURS ROUND IHB WORLD 40 Hours to Europe most comprehensive and attractive ever offered LETDICH 174 Griswold! St Detroit CT Aglfr Tinies Bldg New York oC leet May Co Around World but Orders Are Not Given IV ashington December 22 program for the return of the bat tleship fleet is a matter that has been discussed among the officials of the navy department but as vet iio decision has been reached and VI be for time to said Secretary of the Navy Metcalf i ci 1 The remarks were aled out by' a wireless message trom the flagship Connecticut stat ing that Admiral Evans had given it as his personal belief that the navy present inten tion is to have the battleship fleet return by way of the Suez canal next summer or fall As the presi dent through Secretary Loeb prev iously had spoken to the same effect it seems clear that Admiral 1 vans statement was not suggest ed by any definite move so far de termined upon by those supreme in authority In naval circles the opinion pre vails that at most only a squadron composed of such vessels as the voyage to the Pacific shall have demonstrated to be pick of tiie will be sent home through the Suez canal while the remainder will take the shorter route around thc Horn It is not likely however that nil sixteen battleships will make the return voyage as the ity of a stronger fleet in the Pacific may be met by the retention of per haps several of Admiral ships in those whters But the question of permanently reinforcing the Pacific' squadron has not pro gressed beyond the discussion stage and its final determination hinges upon developments of the next six months poses by expansion of the business The western section of the building 60xlOo feet will be finished in one story 40 feet in the clear as an ice storage house It will be insulated and lined witi ammonia pipes and will be filled with artificial ice hundreds of tons of which are used in ice boxes and aroqnd carts This room will aiso furnish such cold storage as is required The old plant already has a larger ice making capacity than the largest com mercial ice making plant in town its con denser being good for 120 tons a day This is to be supplemented with a new con denser of 165 tons capacity Many of the latest appyances in milk handlingwill be Installed The old part is about 100x300 feet In size and the two together will make the largest tnilk handling establishment east of Chicago daily milk consumption is es timated at 40000 gallons In Ico cream also the figures run high some summer New York December The weekly review of the finan cial situation tomorrow xyill say: Dealing in stocks last week were so utterly professional that the security market as such was well nigh devoid of significance If the operations of one or two specula tive cliques or even one or two speculators had been eliminated the market would have been as dull and featureless as any that has been witnessed for years There have not been the slightest indications recently that substan tial financial interests were taking any part in the course of the mar ket at all The trust companies that have been in trouble hereabouts continue to make very fair progress in pay ing off the loans of money bjr which they were helped during re cent difficulties It is said that western banks ar6 buyers of paper on a little more active scale and that there are some slight evi dences of a return of western stock exchange loans otner nana rency held last week at one time ued to lose in their transactions with the terior of the country Ease in Money Unlikely Tiie clearing house certificates sued locally have been partially tired owing in some degree least to the sale to individual vestors of a portion of the city revenue bonds which were covered originally by $30000000 of these clearing house obligations The general bond market too has been relatively stronger than the stock market and a steady if slow pro cess of investment is plainly visible there Contrariwise again call money is still stiffly held and time money for any period is unobtain able except upon what are ordinar ily considered as prohibitive terms and all these circumstances taken together make it seem perhaps a little more dubious than it did a few weeks before as to the likeli hood of pronounced ease in money shortly after the beginning of the new year Bank clearings from one end of the land to the other are running now about one third less than they were a year ago with a tendency for the reduction to increase This tells the story in a word and it arranges too like a mathematical proposition the question that must be settled concerning the future of the stock market in the few months immediately ahead It may be as sumed that money in this period can be obtained with much greater free dom than during the five or six months before that time But to how great an extent will purchasers of stock be retarded by diminish ing railway and industrial earn ings? New Business' Plenty a It is manifest at a glance that in certain vrtry important lines of business notably those of the iron copper and metal trades a great awakening only waits upon the time when the investment market improves There is any quantity of new business here that will speed ily be undertaken the building and completion of railway trolley en terprises and the construction and extension of plants of multitude forms as soon as their owners and promoters can negotiate tiie sale of securities but this meins in turn that the investment must first be relieved from the i weight of old and unsold securities now pressing upon it So far as the mere speculative stock market is concerned any real and substantial forward movement in it means necessarily that a large number of banking houses firms and individuals must run tem porarily into debt To start bull means the use in one way or another under present conditions of not less than $100000009 Now whatever the situation may be at a later period banking houses firms and individuals in the country do not seem to be inclined to shoulder a responsibility of this sort and if anytning seem to wish to themselves of existing debts than to incur new ones Situation Needs Time This does not mean that people are looking upon the tion with pessimism On th 16000 tons fine large MM unusually steady 0 THE ORIEN I and the matter lent interest last week to the renewed discussion that went on in the financial district over the amendment to the inter state commerce law passed at thc last session of congress requiring all these roads to stop the busi ness of transporting commodities actually produced by them on and after May 1 next I No Outside Developments No doubt one reason why the stock market last week was of such unwontedly professional specula tive character was the fact that under ordinary served selling few The IT Roads $177 154 5S3 Canadian 703500 Mexican 5837655 Torpedo lotilla Ges RioS Port of Spain December 32 Tho American torpedo boat Eptilla sailed for Rio Janeiro at 84 clock this morning The flotillaJsbould Jiave left yesterday but wai delayrtl on account of the late arrival oz the supply ship Arethusa frth provis ions and other necessary supplies All on board are reported well Gifford Manufacturing Company Will Make at Traverse City Traverse City Mich December 22 A new motor and other machin yviiasenlilSrtaUe in the Plant of the Gifford Manufacturing com pany here and things are rapidly being gotten into shape to start This company will make lightning arresters and will be the only plant of its kind in the being the invention of William Gifford The lightning ar rester is desjgned for powerhouses ana street tear lines for the pro tection of motors and other 'elec trical machinery will be thc most notable in industrial cir cles in Marshall It is the first time in at least 30 years that every avail able factory in Marshall has been running and the total number of men employed is at least 200 more than in previous years The opening of three new factories naturally added much to the indus trial activity but all of the old ones are also running and the re cent financial stringency has not af fected any of them The New Process Steel company has just received an order from a Denver firm for 15 tons of its pro duct and this will keep the entire force of molders busy for a month Trto automobile ousiness is not as as usual and this business which the New Process company has been doing exclusively has given away to a large and more profitable However this company Is still taking the business of seven automobile companies who assert that the steel castings made here are the strongest made The development of the Dobbins urnace company has continued steadily and Thursday A Wagner president of the company purchased the controlling interest in the com pany of George Barrett and A Seeger Mr Wffgner will enlarge hTibusAneA? iung the coming year Hie 1 Hardy company which has been sued by the Toasted Corn flakes company bCCauSe lt ls aeged i that they have secured certain se I crets of the plaintiff and used them I to the disadvantage is doing a land oflico business with its corn flakes in the south This is the first company in the north that has induced successfully southern people to eat flake breakfast food Its agents are now working in the south and carloads of the corn flakes beinff shipped south every week nlh 1noyal of the Bor Bo0fJ Buggy company to Jmii1 Jnd has been fore stalled and that company will re Dalo arsbaU ith the probabil ity that a large factory building will be erected next spring THE MICHIGAN INDUSTRIAL WORLD Disabled Liner Reported British Stcpmer Cliff Queenstown December 22 The Leyland liner Atlantian when pas sing Brow Head this evening nailed that she had spoken along the railroad track The fac tories do not like to expose the beets to the weather as they are apt to deteriorate and this is said to be the biggest pile of beets ever heaped in the state Then one of those little things inconsequential in itself but big in the aggregate it costs 25 cents per ton to move the beets to the flumes which means $750 extra expense because the factory accom modated the farmers Ohio Leadstones The value pulpstones produced in the United States during 1906 was $744894 or $32712 less than in 1905 As the value of the pulpstones was prac tically the same ($51070 in 1905 and $50000 in 1906) in both years the great decrease was in the value of the grindstones produced The production is accredited to Ohio Michigan West Virginia Montana Missouri and Wyoming Ohio furnished the bulk of the Out put (value $641720) Michigan the second state being far behind (value $78500) The total value of the product of the other four states was but $21674 Doss With the exception of the classified statement is complete and embraces 137673 miles 'of road in the United States showing'a total gross earnings of $177154533 an increase of 70 pT cent over October last year There is a gain on all groups of roads roads leading with an increase of 132 per cent On trunk lines there is a good gain and on the coal roads earnings increased 121 per cent Central YVestern and Granger lines show a gain of'51 and 38 per cent respectively The gai on the southern roads is 123 per cent "and roads 119 per cent The small increase of 13 per cent on the southwestern group is due mostly to the falling off in the cot ton movement in that section The statement is printed below: Gross Earnings 37088559 19570601 '10311073 6072865 7975773 15633182 24557987 231622351 33782143 MUNICIPAL AiW PUBLIC SERVICE BONDS LOCAL STOCKS MOSS CO Phone Main 170 no UNION TRI ST III 1 1 DING BANKERS AND BROKERS Department for BONDS And other high grade investment securities 118 Griswold street DHTROTT PROPOSALS WANTED CITY DETROIT Controller's Office December 23 1907 $250 Ono Public School Bonds of the City oi Detroit Sealed proposals will be at this office until 11 (6ntrai January 6 1908 at which time they will be opened for the purchase of $250000 Public School Bonds Said bonds are of the denomina tion of one thousand dollars each bear interest at the rate of three and one half per cent per annum payable semi annually will be dated January 15 1908 and will mature in thirty years Principal and in terest payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the current official bank of the City of Detroit in the City of New York or at the office of the City Treasurer at the option of the holder These bonds are authorized by the charter of and laws relating to the City of Detroit and by resolu tions of the Common Council of the City of Detroit adopted March 2 1906 and by resolutions of the Board of Estimates of said city adopted April 30 1906 By authority of an Act of the Legislature as amended by acts ap proved June 6th1901 and June 1 1907 they are exempt from all tax ation in the State of Michigan Said bonds will be issued in cou pon form but will bo exchanged for registered bonds at any time upon application of the owner Bonds can only be delivered at the office of the City Treasurer in Detroit ana accruea will be charged on Proposals will be the whole or anv issue but no proposal will be con sidered for less than $1000 Pro posals must be accompanied with a deposit in money or certified check on any national bank in the United States or a state bank in the City of Detroit for two per cent of the amount of the bonds bid for as an evidence of good faith Proposals must be endorsed posal for the Purchase of Public School and addressed Controller Detroit A set of papers evidencing thc legality of the proposed issue also form of bonds and coupon and a statement of the financial condition of the City of Detroit may be had upon application at this office Underthe law these bonds cannot be sold for less than par The right to reject any or all bids is expressly reserved RANK DOREMUS Controller THE DETROIT REE PRESS at the club rooms provided State President Schram and Clarke at 36 Kanter building meeting of Post will be held there Saturday at which several matters of interest will come up The Art Stove company had Its annual convention of salesmen last week with several entertainment features on the side The men offer assurances that next busi ness will be fully up to last Some hint of the equipment neces sary to supply Detroit with milk and ice cream is gained from the new building being erected by the Detroit'Creamery company at Adams avenue and Clifford street supple menting their present plant The building is the second addition to the establishment within two years and will cost $140000 equipped It is of brick mill construction to be three stories high and 100x160 feet ground size The floors are 2x6 pine stuff set edgewise and spiked together and will be covered with asphalt so as to provide no lodg ing place for germs Along the east side of the build ing is a covered driveway 25 feet wide and running the full depth so 4 11 1 214 111 KATURES1 CCTir SvllU AU 'IL i 7 ue uuxie wiuiuui vusuuuuiik 1U tho street Receiving tanks will be pro rlv Iann nnRTfiTirinnnln Arnma viaea in tne aajoining section on the ground floor and the milk will be pumped up stairs where it will be pasteurized and run down again to a model bottling plant The bot tles will be sent up stairs on an endless chain and kept until they go to the wagons The third floor of this section will be used as a store room until required for other pur BIIhh Coal Company at Swan Creek Has Large Deposits Saginaw Mich December What promises to be one of the most valuable and most productive coal mines in Michigan his just been opened up by the Bliss Coal Co at Swan Creek this county The plant is about completed and expects to be shipping coal the coming week There are now at the mine sixty men at work and this force will be increased gradually for the next two months when 150 men will be employed Next sum mer the company will extend the entries and a force of about 300 men will then be employed when the mine is in full operation About 3000 tons of coal were tak en out in making the entries and this was all sold to farmers as fast as it was removed The vein is from three to four feet in thick ness and there is a large acreage The mine has an excellent roof is ana lies at a aepth of feet The tipple has been as also have the mine Weil cooked and daintily serve! Is a mighty aid to civilization it sort of makes a man feel that thlv bld world Is not such a bad nlaca after all nnd Inspires him with a new ambition We furnish the civ ilization aid and ambition ammu nition Splendid Orchestra A complete shutdown would calamity to the city be a thlVhth been charged many times that the grocers and butchers Albion have a sort of SinCerAlighbore lowing the recent but foi salaries it is said thn 21 waSes and vestigated to lb cost more in Albion Provisions Places VVreponehlt prices were found higher Soipe An order for $300 worth ceries and supplies is sIct ro been sent to a retailer todotp bave boring city and fs that the Gale companyf will sending out of town Mr continue and meats for thmeln thniCerea Ploy if such Provisos "an chased cheaper in some Pur' The company does nowish CToPice local business men bu it hurt the living expenses of Its be reduced In every nos must Incidentally all the Deonle1 city will benefit for If theroibbe combine among the 18 a butchers of the city and the steps taken pany wHl result in breakup RAILROAD EARNINGS Total gross earnings' of all rail roads in the United States reporting for the first two weeks of Deccmbe: are $9310810 a decrease of 82 per cent compared with the correspond ing time last year While there is a fair movement of general freight traffic in some leading products is reduced and this affects railroad earnings in all sections of the coun try Jn the following table is given earnings of alUUnited States road reporting for the two weeks of De cember and the same roads for a like period in November also the more complete reports for October and the two preceding months: Gross Earnings' laun Dec 2 weeks 9310810 Nov 2 week 10329810 October 177154533 Septembef 1651O1449 August 166745966 MONDAY' DECEMBER 23 1907 Shout Kids When Muske gonite Broaches New Plan Muskegon Mich December 22 A A Linderman president of the Muskegon Chicago Navigation company today expressed his views on Christmas in a local paper He stated that he wished the day would not occur more than once in five years Before the morning had fairly started the at Mr Linder I ssn nmrv wv 111 a 4cv pittUl wnen luan duhw nao utto Wiiu Calls completed vs ill meet the requirements aslfrom Muskegon children who well any in I wanted him to change his mind the beets in faster the factories can eat them up Bay City factory slices 700 per day it would only take a over four days to go through this monster pile But the seen behind the pile and 450 is also full and the factory delivering had them pile the beets opMnRsrnTTi KI I tCT Tr Wk' A A Am plan Batea i 1 I a i1 im I I I 'M A.