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Amarillo Daily News

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 13, 1934

Page

8

Corn Leads Grain Market Rally Amid Futures Gains

Chicago markets report corn advancing about four cents the day, driven by broad buying and fear of losses from early chinch bug damage in Minnesota. Wheat and oats rise modestly as corn dominates trade. analysts note anticipated weekly rains and corn’s relative cheapness fueling strength across futures and cash prices in Chicago Fort Worth and Kansas City markets.

Chicago Wallace United States

Amarillo Markets Basis and Local Grain Prices 1934

Amarillo markets report carload shipments to Texas common points with receipts of wheat and other grains. Local grain houses list No 1 hard wheat oats barley prices per bushel and poultry prices including colored hens turkeys capons and leghorns with fresh eggs offered.

Texas Lemhorn

Dry Goods Trade Signals Modest Rise in New York

On June 12 the market for gray cotton goods showed modest gains with steady call for sheetings in bag and converting trades. Fall silks appeared but did not sell strongly for immediate delivery while the Woe goods market stayed quiet amid plans to cut output. New rayon fabrics for fall were being sampled.

New York

Market strong on fed steers with prices 256 higher

Midwestern markets see gains as cattle, hogs, and lambs rise. Chicago and Kansas City report higher prices for choice steers and yearlings, with top figures reaching near 8 to 10 dollars for select lots. Hog and lamb values also advance, while receipts lag last week in some regions.

FED Mid-Western Livestock Review Kansas City U. S. Dept. of Agriculture mid-Western Chicago Choice St. Louis Chicarco Omaha

Los Angeles Livestock Market Report June 12

Hogs steady to about 25 cents higher on government purchases. Cattle show 250 higher grade fed steers and mixed stock, with grass steers mostly $4.75 to $5.00 and some $5.25. Good fed heifers above $4.50, common cows around $2.75 to $3.14, cutter grades $1.26 to $2.50. Calves about $8.50 to $7.75. Sheep steady with holdovers 142, lambs quotable at $8.15 to $8.75.

Kansas City Livestock Kansas City U. 5 Los Angeles Angeles Calif U. S. Dept. of Agricultures Wichita Livestock Wichita U. S. Dept. Agr Stronz Tioga Oklahoma City Fancy Springer

Wichita and Oklahoma City Livestock Markets Report June 12

Cattle numbers crowd Wichita and Oklahoma City lots with steady to higher quotes for higher grade cattle. Hog and sheep activity remains active with steady to strong demand and top bids noted for choice lambs and springers.

Omaha Livestock Market Report June 12

The Omaha market shows cattle and sheep activity with higher bids. Hog prices rise to 4.50 top with bulk 3.60 to 3.75, cattle trade mostly steady with steers 5.75 to 8.00, heifers 6.0, stockers 3.25 to 4.80, and fat lambs stronger with top around 8.75 and yearling breeding at 4.00.

Omaha Livestock Omaha

Denver livestock and Boston wool markets report price notes

Denver cattle hogs sheep futures show mixed gains and steady tones across classes with cattle mostly steady to 25 cents higher and hogs up to 35 cents. at Amarillo top hog prices for Wednesday reach 3.50. Boston wool market remains slow with limited trade and fleeces trading around 32 to 34 cents, some bids rejected. metals report copper firm and tin easy with other metals steady or quiet.

Amarillo Pinkney Packing Company Boston UL & Dent

Traders Indicate Renewed Strength In Stock Market

New York traders reported persistent demand lifting the tone of trading on June 12. Volume rose to 947,080 shares with gains across a range of major issues, including American Can American Smelting and General Motors, while corn and cotton futures moved higher and rubbers and fibers showed mixed strength.

New York Stock Exchange CRQ American Can American Smelting American Telephone Consolidated Gas Santa Fe General Motors Ingersoll Ran International Cement Montgomery Ward Dupont U. S. Steel Common Pennsylvania Railroad Fastman Kodak International Telephone U. S Germany Wright Aero Douglas United Aircraft Curtisa Wright A Gulf Oil International Petroleum Standard Oil Indiana Humble Oil Creole Petroleum Quaker Oats Swift & Co Bunker Hill & Sullivan Pioneer Gold Sherwin Williams Teck Highes Wright Hargreaves Newmont Mining Lake Shores Aluminum

Stocks in Spotlight on Active NY Exchange

June 12 closing prices show Kennecott at 25 500 with 22 percent rise and General Motors at 20 500 with 34 percent gain. Int Tel Tel reaches 23 000 up 14 percent, Anaconda Copper 16 700 up 16 percent, U S Steel 12 800 up 42 percent, and Westinghouse Elec 10 700 up 37 percent. Other notable names include Montgomery Ward, Chrysler, Socony Vacuum, Gen Elec, Frans Prod, NY Central, J Curtis Wright A, United Aircraft.

New York Kennecott Int Tel. & Tel Gen Motors Monty Ward Chrysler Int Nickel U.S. Steel Socony Va Sae Pas Lih Ford Glass Lig & Myers Lorillard Eae Lou & Nashville Kan Lou Gaa Elec Mack Trucks Magma Copper Eee Mathieson Alkali Miami Copprates Pt Tree Midland Steel Ween MK &@ T Ry Mo Pacific Ry Montgomery Ward Murray Corp Qi Mis Nash Motors Natl Hiscuit We Aim Bbby Ban Natl Pow & IA Natl Steel Penick & Ford Penney Ween Sey Tenney Peeters Pet Corp Ree Pullman Corp Orlly R Radio Corp Oseeey Keith Orph Reading Corp Remington Rand Oy Republic Steel Reynolds Tob Bas— Safeway Bi St L & San F Ry Seaboard Oil A Seara Roebuck Aeee Seneca Copper Tees Am Shell Union BM Bay Simms P Oa Skelly Oil Shee Socony Vacuum Edison South Cal . Ll South Pacific Cal Stn-Warn TN Stone & Webbough Rly Studebaker Mtrs Texas Corpateeere Texas Gulf Sul T & P Coal & Oil T & P Land Union Carbon Union Oil Cal Union Pacific Ry Uni Aircraft Soos Uni Gas & Imp US Freight Eeeege U S&s Gypsum Nee U S Ind U S Rubber U S Steel Ceees Vanadium Steel Ae Warner Pictures Wesson Western Union Wes Elec & Mie Woolworth Corp Wright Aero Alleghany Corp al Chem & Dye Amerada Corp Am & Kor Power Am International Superpower Tel & Tel Ford Mtrs Gulf Oil Humble Oil Nia & Hud Power AT &S F Ry Az Bam St Rege Atlantic Refve Auburn Autoeeeee Stand Oil Ky Aviation Corp Uni Uni Gas Baldwin Loco Barnsdal Bendix Aviation Standard Statistics Co Beth Steel Teferene Bohn Aluminum Inds Rails Barden Corp Briggs Calumet & Hecla Pacific Ry Cannon Mills Inds Engeleum Nairn & QR Aee Curtiss Wright DRG & W Dupont U. S Fastman Kodak Elec Pow & Lt Mh Liberty Fox Film A Freeport Texas Treasury Gen Foods Gen Mills Szhky Gen Motors Ibe Goodrich Tire Goodyear Tire West Sugar Houston Oi Howe Sound Hupp Mtrseee Central Sane Inspiration Int Harvester Int Hydro Elec A Liempela Tee Johns Manville KC Southern Tee Kelly Springfield Kelvinator Corp Wag Kennecott Cop Kresge Eee Ub

New York Cotton Market Rises After Early Selloff

Cotton futures in New York close 14 to 15 points higher as October. July. and December contract prices rebound from an opening drop amid rain worries in North Texas. Exports and port stocks cited. market volume described as moderate.

New York Liverpool Texas

Markets In Brief Summary of June 12 Trading

New York stocks firm as traders rally subtly while bonds rise and curbs steady. Oils and specialties improve with easy foreign exchanges and a firm dollar. Cotton and sugar hold. coffee shows irregular European demand. Chicago wheat advances on corn, corn strengthens amid bug concerns. cattle and hogs rise with highs around 10 and 4.25 respectively.

New York Sestlers Jamea Chicago

Foreign exchange rates rattle markets in New York

New York bond and currency desks report easy foreign exchange, with Great Britain at 5.051 percent in demand and 5.0514 on cables. Other nations show varied quotes for bills and demands, including France at 6.61 and Italy around 0.414 with cables 8.6114, plus numerous European and international rate figures.

New York Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Rumania Argentine Brazil Tokyo Shanghai Hongkong Mexico City Montreal

Bag Silver Quiet in New York Trading

In New York on June 12 the bag silver market remained quiet with prices unchanged at 45.

New York

New Orleans Spot Market Ticks Up in Quiet Week

New Orleans reports a steady tone with thousand selling to close. Prices rise across grades with low middling 11.62 and middling 12.27 while receipts total 3,449 and stock sits at 628.

New Orleans Votentton Associated Press Midg Reds Galveston Mobile Savannah Wrens Charleston Wee Wilmington Norfolk Baltimore Ooon New York RTL Boston Houston Corpus Christ Mide Rats Memphis Augusta St. Louis Fort Worth Little Rock Eben Atlanta Dallas Montgomery

Galveston Spot Cotton Prices Steady On June 12

In Galveston the spot market closed steady with 19 points gains. A range of grades is listed including low ordinary at 9.55, ordinary 18.05, good ordinary 10.55, middling 12.45, and good middling 18.08 with strict variants noted. Sales totaled 48 spots with fabric price at f o b 100.

Galveston F. O

Cottonseed oil prices firm on covering and buying

New York reports bleached cottonseed oil active with firmer prices as buyers cover and commission houses accumulate. May sales reach 114 contracts amid a May census consumption of 258 771 barrels and a visible supply of 2 499 000 barrels. Prices for futures show Oct 6 63, Jan 8 84 and other months.

New York

Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Report

Chicago market update shows firm receipts across grains butter poultry and cheese with specific lot counts and price ranges. Fresh graded firsts and extra firsts feature in butter and eggs while poultry notes include hens Plymouth Rocks and turkeys. potatoes display steady demand and varying regional prices across Idaho Minnesota Alabama Louisiana Oklahoma and Mississippi values.

Chicago Plymouth Rock Idaho Minnesota Alabama Louisiana Oklahoma Mississipni Oklahoma Cobblers

New York Money Rates Steady Across Markets

Call money steady at 1 percent all day. Time loans steady at 41/4 percent for 49 days and months. Prime commercial paper at 4 percent. Bankers' acceptances unchanged. Rediscount rate at New York Reserve Bank 1 1/4 percent.

NEW York Money New York New York Reserve Bank

Salt water shows in Rusk oil well tests in Texas

In Rusk Texas the discovery well began producing 10 barrels an hour of pipeline oil with salt water appearing during a test. Oil men estimate salt water content between 6 and 20 percent while temp suggests origin uncertain. Landowners and Shell Petroleum fear value impact as buyers pause pending more data.

Rusk Tex U.P T. J. Wood Dick Young Wood Houston Texas Company Shell Petroleum Corporation Cherokee County

Shackelford Finds New Wildcat Pool Near Albany

A new Blair Baker No. 1 wildcat on J. H. Nail estate in Shackelford County tests for 40 barrels daily from a good sand at 1422 feet. The well sits seven miles northwest of the Cook pool in the northwest quadrant of section 124 FE T A R Co lands. This is the third oil strike on the Nail ranch in two years, with several nearby prospects indicating a rich sand region. Geo. Callihan operates the Nail production near Albany.

Albany Tex Shackelford Blair Baker No J. H. Nail Cook Pool J. H. Nall Frontier Production Co States Oil Corp New Baker Nail Ranch Geo. Callihan A. H. Richardson-Skelly Oil Co J. A. Matthews R. R. Co. Lowe & Delaney F. W. Alexander T. BE

New York Sugar Quiet as Refiners Hold Prices firm

Raw sugar traded quietly in New York with no reported sales though tone firmer. Refiner offers held at last paid 2.80 for spots with little material below 2.95. final futures little changed. Sales reached 22,450 tons. refined sugar at 4.65 for fine granulated with light demand for nearby needs.

New York

M McMillan pool extension reported in Runnels County

Petroleum Interests Inc No 1 D L Brevard shows a 1000 foot northeast extension to the McMillan pool eight miles northeast of Ballinger Texas The well produced 250 barrels daily and used rotary drilling with drilling fluid on the way to complete The well location sits in subdivision 21 Norvell Trais survey 533 eight miles NE of Ballinger Ballinger area notes include 2 502 to 2 523 feet depth and 45 3 gravity sweet oil in the sands of 2 502 2 523 feet

San Angelo Tex Petroleum Interests, Inc D. L. Brevard McMillan Pool Runnels County Ballinger Brevard Norvell Traiis Survey

Oil Drillers May Strike Over Wages in Code Violations

Washington June 12 U P M Quinn Shaughnessy attorney for the Petroleum Administration Board left for Dallas to probe reports that oil well drillers and some oil companies violated labor and drilling provisions of the oil code. A strike threat arose if wage demands of the International Association of Oil Field Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America were not met as conferences open in Dallas to run through Friday.

Washington U.P M. Quinn Shaughnessy The Petroleum Administration Board Dallas International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America

New Birmingham Well Near Rusk Flows Nine Barrels An Hour

The New Birmingham discovery well near Rusk Texas flowed nine barrels per hour today through a one eighth inch choke with no salt showing. The gravity figure was reported to have increased. South Carolina will omit its slogan Iodine Products State from automobile license tags in 1934.

Rusk Tex New Birmingham Discovery South Carolina

Albany land sale notice with quarter section reference

Feet in the northwest corner of southwest quarter section No. 30 EF T A R Co lands two miles north of Albany.

Southwest Quarter Section No Albany

Lot Auction Sparks boom in Kellerville Texas

Keller ville in Wheeler County awakens to a brisk lot auction on a new town site. Dozens of houses rise as derricks dot the landscape with rigs arriving daily. The booming field draws rigs, lumber yards, a hotel, restaurants, and a free barbecue drawing noon crowds. Kellerville and Belco form the twin towns of the oil field.

Kellerville Texas Belco

Boundary Lines in Yates Field Knotty Problem

Special to The News Austin June 12 The third court of appeals asks the state supreme court to explain its boundary ruling in Yates field litigation The supreme court held to follow surveyors calls from the east line of block Z The Federal Royalty Company Shell Mid Kansas Stanolind Nellie M Moore and H P Davenport seek reversal of the 53rd district court decision Others ask affirm the initial judgment The State neutral The appeals court seeks clarity on whether the high court decision settles the whole survey dispute or only one proposed method and whether the case should return to 53rd district court for trial as State vs Douglas Oil Co with 170 litigants involved

Austin U.P Great Yates Third Court of Civil Appeals State Supreme Court Supreme Court Block Z Federal Royalty Company Shell Petroleum Company Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas State Vs. Douglas Oil Co 53Rd District Court

First Wellington High School Bus Planned for Next Year

Wellington June 12 The first bus in the history of Wellington High School will operate next year. Trustee president L A Manzer announced the bus will carry about 50 students and serve five communities. The board will buy the bus and hire its operation for the year.

Wellington Wellington High School L. A. Manzer

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