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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
2
Friday market report from Fort Worth and Oklahoma City shows cattle numbers around 6 000 in Texas with calves and fat cows, hogs at a top near 12 90, and sheep prices steady. Oklahoma City notes cattle around 1 500 with cows 4 75 to 5 25 and hogs 12 60 top, 12 40 plus bulk, stockers 11 to 11 50.
Hogs gain about 50 cents with bulk at 12.50 to 12.79. Cattle run 150 head including fifty calves, calves missing to test marked medium and heavy calves $1 lower than Wednesday. Sheep steady. lambs 12 to 13.50. ewes 4 to 6.50. Market details from Wichita.
The Associated Press notes Kansas City market figures with cattle 1200 head and calves 300, steady values. hogs 2500 with gains and top at 13.40. sheep 2000 steady with native lambs at 14 to 14.25 and fat ewes 6.50 to 7.50.
East St Louis market notes hogs sold around 8000 head with tops at 13.90 and bulk 18.75 to 13.85, killing pigs 12.50 to 13.75, packing sows 11.50 to 11.75. Cattle 1200 with steers at 7.60 to the diet, Louisiana steers 4.75, heifers up to 9, light vealers 13.25 to 13.50. Sheep 750 steady with lambs 14.25, culls 9, light fat ewes 7.50, heavies 5.
The Chicago market reports hogs at 9 000 head slow trading with slaughter pigs 11 30 to 13 10 heavy hogs 12 45 to 13 10 medium 12 65 to 13 45 light 11 80 to 13 75. Cattle 2 000 dull with most steers 9 down and some fat up to 11. Vealers 12 50 to 14 00. Sheep 5 000 steady with fat lambs 14 50 to 14 75 and natives 11 to 11 50 for culls and 6 to 7 25 for fat natives.
Chicago cash market notes wheat No 1 hard 1.64 to 1.65 dollars per bushel and No 2 1.60 to 1.66. Corn No 2 mixed 1.05 and No 2 yellow 1.05 to 1.06. Oats No 2 white 40 to 41 cents and No 3 40 to 41 cents.
Wheat No 2 hard traded from 1.64 to 1.74 dollars. No 2 red from 1.73 to 1.75. Corn No 3 white 98 to 100 cents. No 2 yellow 1.01. Oats No 2 white 41 to 42 cents. No 2 40% to 41 cents.
Open high low and close quotes for corn and wheat show shifts as Sept and May contracts move. Prices edge up for some grains while others hold near prior levels amid tentative demand signals.
Amarillo grain prices show wheat per hundredweight for No 1 kafir at 1.70 dollars and millet milo maize and oats per bushel listed at 1.85 dollars for oats. Prices indicate market rates for the period.
San Angelo August 21 There were no known deaths in Thursday afternoon’s 156000 fire that destroyed the Hotel London and damaged a dozen neighboring businesses. Thirty five guests registered at the Hotel St Angelus. Five burn patients were reported recovering. One injured man J M Billings of Fort Stockton left for home. Plans call for a 100 room annex to the St Angelus or rebuilding the Landon on a larger scale.
Spot cotton prices listed for major Texas ports with values 23.60 in Dallas 23.80 in Galveston and 25.55 in Houston reported from Amari llo.
J H Patton, once Amarillo mayor and Randall County clerk, now in Wichita Falls, visits friends in the area during Canyon Texas reunion of the T Anchor cowboys. He helped organize Potter Hale Randall Swisher and Deaf Smith counties and currently serves as Wichita Falls park commissioner.
The August 21 AP News streams report spot cotton closing steady, 12 points higher. Sales on the spot reached 195 to arrive 1, with quotes for good middling at 238.45. Receipts totaled 3,130 and stock stood at 42,371.
Deputies seized a quantity of chocolate beer in an alley on Fifteen Street between Tyler and Harrison Streets and arrested a Black man in connection with the case.
In Warsaw on August 21 three alleged communists were sentenced to death after a July 17 gun battle with detectives on a busy street and a chase during which many were wounded. Premier Graski received threatening telegrams from French and German communist groups as the sentences were announced.
An oil man touts Garber Oklahoma as a lucky field with an 18000 barrel gusher. Bill Askew predicts Lee Bivins will pay under 350000 for a water plant. Earthquake notes include a Texas well rising from under 100 to over 500 barrels daily. Corinne Griffith and others appear in The Marriage Whirl at Fair theater. Green complains of Athens heat and opposes Amarillo traffic plan.
Col. W. A. Miller notes dire drought conditions in Southwest Texas. Milch cows valued around a hundred dollars elsewhere fetch 156 to 18 dollars there as they weaken from lack of feed. Farmers abandon horses on highways. He also mentions upcoming visitors for the chicken hunting season, including Judge J. T. Johnson, chief justice of Oklahoma, and Judge Stewart of Oklahoma City.
J H Croft says his daughter Evelyn Croft heads to Albuquerque but Amarillo is livelier and growing faster. Walter Crossett notes Tri State field trials movies will be shown in Amarillo next week as the Greater Movie Season opens August 31. Harry Myers commends The Globe on its water question stance.
In a single afternoon at 1204 Harrison street, J. M. Neely and helpers used hot water a pitchfork rocks sticks and a revolver to subdue a fifteen pound badger threatening chickens. Neely plans to mount the skin. Washington news notes a not guilty verdict for two women on Volstead act charges being disapproved by Secretary Wilbur.
A massive brush fire in Big Tujunga canyon area spread beyond control in the northern Pasadena mountains. More than 4,000 acres burned as crews worked to complete a 42 foot fire break between Big Tujunga and Arroyo Seco to protect the Pasadena watershed. About 700 firefighters fought the blaze with additional federal crews expected.
New York August 21 John D Miller president of the National Cooperative Milk Producers federation said a congressional investigation may be asked to determine why Dr Henry C Taylor chief of the bureau of agricultural economics was removed from office at the request of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine.
Geneva August 21 Col E M House former Wilson adviser describes taking an option on 1000 acres by Lake Lem an near Geneva when the league covenant was drafted He recalls plans for a league palace and gateway of peace to honor the war dead but the project ended as the United States did not join He urges American associate membership without covenant obligations.
Amarillo Real Estate board luncheon at Hotel Palo Duro explored prospects for Amarillo and the Panhandle. Speakers included Sid Stinnett Herbert Bookout of Sherman and H C Barber of Chicago, with A Lincoln an irrigation engineer from the U S department of agriculture stressing the Canadian river reclamation project.
The Agriculture Department estimates 250000 fewer cattle will be marketed from range country this fall, with 4077000 head for market versus 4822600 last fall and 4208000 in 1923. Much of the decline centers in the southwest amid dry weather, though feed conditions improve across the west. Demand for feeder cattle and corn for hogs remains hopeful, with higher July prices for feeders. Sweet potatoes sell for 5 cents per pound at C O D Produce.
The piece argues the United States needs self sufficiency in rubber for 30 million tires yearly and condemns radical calls for mutiny. It references British radicalism and notes labor strife in building trades threatening billions in activity, urging unions to seek better solutions.
Hundreds attended the formal opening of Sewell Drug Store at 404 Polk Street. Paul Sewell reported a crowd forming before 5 and growing past 10:30 pm, with gifts of punch, flowers, cigars, and mistletoe icicles for guests. He thanked helpers and invited Amarillo residents to return.
Chicopee Falls August 21 The Fisk Rubber company plant here ended operations for a four day workweek due to high rubber prices and a brisk demand for goods.
Eight people were injured when a freight car crashed into a Sand Springs interurban train in a Tulsa residential area. About 125 passengers rode the two car interurban. none were seriously hurt.
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