Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Price of Lead Advanced. [ARTICLE]

Price of Lead Advanced.

The Iron Age comments as follows upon a significant change <af prices: “While the deal between the National Lead Company and the linseed oil producers has been shrouded in mystery, as usual of late where concentration of interests is involved, a most suggestive move has been made in the shape of a a advance of 2.cents ,per gallon in the price of oil. Net a [particle of evidence comes from any .quarter that would point to a change 4$ ,the relation of .supply to demand as .dictating this advance, nor is the! condition of the market for crude material such as to necessitate higher figures for oil.” The .advance is probably due to the great “economies of production” which ace attained, the professors of trustism say, only by means of a combination that suppresses compe-tition,—-New York Times.