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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
10
Bearish action hit the corn market as rail orders favored grain movement over coal. Prices closed lower with January and May futures down, oats and provisions also weak, while hogs led a late uptick in some provisions. Butter and eggs remained unsettled as poultry stayed steady.
Anaconda and Inspiration shares surged with a buoyant market tone as Inspiration declared an unchanged $1.50 dividend and closed at 56.50 while Anaconda rose to 61.25, 60.50 close. Copper agencies forecast higher December sales and foreign copper sold at 19.5 to 20 cents per pound. United Verde Extension paid 50 cent dividend Feb 1 to record Jan 9. Republic Steel and General Motors moved higher. Tuolumne proxy drive secures bond issue adoption. Main Range ore production resumed.
Minneapolis market summary for December 26 shows wheat receipts 742 cars, up from 360 a year earlier. Cash prices: No 1 northern wheat 3.25. corn No 3 yellow 1.46 to 1.48. oats No 3 white 0.81. flax 4.55 to 4.60. barley 1.30 to 1.57. rye No 2 1.76. Shipments total 75,270 barrels. bran 0.43.
Chicago hog market sees receipts of 21 000 with strong demand pushing values to as high as 13 75 for select loads. Cattle receipts 13 000 amid slow demand with beef steers and butcher cattle showing varied gains and steady ranges. Sheep receipts 14 000 and firm market keep lambs and ewes trading between 8 and 18 50 with steady demand.
Hog receipts 4,200 up 15 30 cents with prices $13.15 to $13.40 top. bulk $13.35 to $13.40. Cattle receipts 3,600 with kill prices steady. fat steers $6 to $17.50. cows and heifers $6.41 to $11.50. calves $5 to $15. stockers and feeders steady to slow $5.25 to $12. Sheep receipts 750, market steady. lambs $7 to $7., wethers $8 to $11.25, ewes $4 to $9.50.
Mercantile pager unchanged. Sterling demand 379 percent, cables 381. francs demand 10.60, cables 10.58. Guilders unchanged. Life demand 13.10, cables 13.07. Marks demand 206, cables 208. Time loans strong and unchanged. Money strong with high 15 percent, low ruling rate 10 percent, bid 14 percent, offered and last loan 15 percent.
About 50 Eagle Coal miners in Des Moines area walked out claiming they were not paid the full 14 percent wage rise. They say the scale should be $1.13 per ton, but only $1.11 was being paid.
Bucharest dispatch reports Standard Oil has closed contracts with the Romanian government and private firms for half a million barrels of refined petroleum.
Liberty bonds quotes as of 2:55 p m in New York show 2s at 99.40, first 4s at 92.50, second 4s at 91.44, third 4s at 93.70, fourth 4s at 91.60, Victory 3s at 99.04 and Victory 4s at 99.10.
Trading resumes with broad activity led by railroad shares after President Wilson's March 1 property return order. Market optimism surrounds rails and steels while money rates stay high around 15 percent. total sales reach 32.6 million dollars amid gains in United States Steel and other majors.
Money opened at 10 and rose to 15, holding there. Sterling quoted at 382 and down to 379 percent. Copper for export at 19.18 cents, domestic 18.18 cents. Corn Products declared 1 percent plus 1 percent extra. Belgium seeking 130 locomotives from U S firms on five year notes. Pond Creek extra dividend today in Boston 25 cents. President Ripley of Santa Fe backs private road return on March 1. Stewart-Warner Speedo meter company denies merger with American Bosch Magneto. Railway Steel Springs, American Locomotive, Steel Foundries, Baldwin, Nova Scotia Steel, Midvale, Bethlehem Steel viewed as attractive. Brokers loans down about 40 percent from October peak.
In San Francisco a compromise ending years of litigation over the will of late Senator James G. Fair was filed in superior court. Terms not disclosed. Principal heirs acknowledge the plaintiffs are entitled to restored rights under the will. Debates over a supposed loss to Margaret Fair Crothers and bribery allegations involving Justice Fred W. Henshaw were denied.
Paris reports say Raymond Poincare's successor will be elected January 17 as Premier Clemenceau's cabinet plans to resign that day. The inference in the press is he will run for president and be elected with little opposition.
Kaifeng, China, Dec. 26. Leading citizens form the Heavenly Feet association to stop the ancient practice of binding girls feet. Members compose songs decrying foot binding and urge boys in schools to pledge not to marry women with unnatural feet.
A Seattle note to Santa requested six hack saws. Deputies found the missive pinned to a jail cell bar where Harry Merlin is held for a minor offense.
By president directed action the former German passenger ships of the Imperator group now in New York harbor will be delivered to Great Britain by the Shipping Board.
A Soviet republic envoy, charged with a mission to the Italian government, arrived at Naples yesterday per a Rome dispatch. The arrival signals a diplomatic step in Soviet Italian relations.
In New York on December 26 copper and iron stay unchanged and quiet while antimony shows no movement. Spot copper and January trades around 7.45, and spelter strengthens with spot at 8.65 to 8.75.
Bar silver stood at 1.324 percent and Mexican dollars traded at 1.01 percent in New York on December 26.
Secretary of War Baker remitted the 20 year treason sentence of Private Lawrence Perlmutter of New York. He served in the medical department Ninth Infantry Second division and was convicted of supplying information to the Germans while a prisoner of war. The case notes that only one witness testified against him and the record did not prove treason beyond doubt.
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