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Trading in grains was light, price fluctuations small, on the St. Louis Merchants Exchange during the Saturday session, January 23, 1915. The brokers, as they stood in small groups around the sample bins and the quotation boards, had opportunity to discuss the sensational venture on which one of their Exchange members had embarked. The newspapers that morning carried the story that the W. L. Green Commission Company, one of the oldest and most respected firms on the Exchange, had the day before shipped a cargo of foodstuffs on board the steamship Wilhelmina from New York, bound for Hamburg. This was reported to be the first food shipment from America to Germany since the war began, and would furnish a test case involving the British "blockade".

The growing importance of the mining industry in the State of Washington calls for a consideration of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State as to the status of mining locations in the State. Are mining locations on unpatented land, the fee of which remains in the Federal government, real or personal property? The questions involved in considering the problem are many and various. Would property descend as real estate or be distributed as personal property in the case of the death of the owner ? Does our statute requiring brokers' agreements for the sale of real estate to be in writing apply to mining locations? What is the proper form of transfer of a mining location? Do mining claims come within the terms "lands, tenements and hereditaments"? What is the status of buildings and other structures on mining claims, which on ordinary land would become fixtures? Should the interest of the owner of a mining claim be attached as real or personal property?