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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
12
Buoyancy in corn came from strong rye and wheat prices with May at 1.24 to 1.34 and July 1.32 to 1.83. Oats rose a notch while hogs and grain firmed with lard and ribs at season highs. Export sales of 1.0 million rye and 0.5 million oats supported the market amid lighter receipts and improving hog conditions.
New York stocks show a mixed session with reserves at a new federal low and a Supreme Court decision on war time prohibitions affecting sentiment. Money markets ease, oil and copper prices rise, while steels and oils face selling pressure. Major names like American Woolen and Baldwin Locomotive draw attention amid thin volume of about 1.3 million shares.
The Lauzier-Wolcott review notes a mild market decline amid profit taking but a firm undertone. Zinc spelter reaches the highest price in about two years at 9 cents per pound, with shrinking surplus stocks. Emma mine development at the 1,000 level of Butte Copper and Zinc Co. shows a sizeable, still-unknown ore width and strong silver zinc lead grades, lifting Butte Copper shares to around 9.75. Tuolumne Copper trades near 1.04 locally, with Boston close at 1.18 bid and 1.31 asked.
Wheat receipts 415 cars, up from 349 a year ago. Cash prices: No 1 northern $3.25 to $3.45. Corn No 3 yellow $1.42 to $1.44. Oats No 3 white 83 to 85 1/2 cents. Flax $4.77 to $4.82. Shipments 98,474 barrels. Barley $1.25 to $1.56. Rye No 2 $1.77. Bran 43 dollars per hundred. Flour unchanged.
Mercantile paper 6 per cent sterling demand 379 cables 380 francs demand 10.76 cables 10.74 guilders demand 37% cables 37% lire demand 13.25 cables 13.23 marks demand 200 cables 202 time loans strong 60 and 0 days and 6 months 7 per cent bid call money strong high and ruling rate 10 per cent low and closing bid 6 per cent offered at 7 per cent last loan 6 per cent
Prices of Liberty bonds at 2 55 p m today list 3tas8 first 4s second 4s first 44s second 4488 third 44s fourth 4488 Victory 3s and Victory 4s with respective bid values and market quotes from New York.
Bar silver rates in New York show a tidy movement as of January 5 with price noted at 121. Macieon AntInwa reported the latest quote amid market chatter.
Money opened at 10 percent and fell to 6 percent while Sterling began at 378 percent, rising to 379. Bar silver traded at 131 in New York. Radio Corporation plans a world wide wireless service with $20,000,000 capital and will take over Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. General Electric expresses interest in wireless project. Railroad car shortage estimated at 400,000 cars. War Finance Corporation announces four loans totaling $17,000,000.
Chicago and South St Paul livestock markets report receipts for hogs cattle and sheep. Chicago hogs to 15.25 with bulk 14.85 to 15.10. cattle strong with beef steers to 20. veal calves to 17.25. sheep lambs up to 18.85. St Paul hogs 14.65 to 14.80 range. cattle kill ers steady. fat steers to 17.50. calves 5.50 to 15.25. sheep lambs 7 to 17.25.
METAL MARKET New York Jan 5 Copper steady electrolytic spot and first quarter 19 19.5 cents zinc strong lead 8 cents bid 9.50 cents asked East St Louis delivery spot 30 cents bid 9.50 cents asked Notes show prices for No 1 northern No 2 northern No 2 southern and different delivery months
Lead prices rose in New York when the American Smelting and Refining company announced an increase from 7.75 to 8 cents per pound. The move affects trading at the market's start on January 5.
Nay Garrett and Kenneth Kerr, British subjects and wealthy Wyoming ranch owners, endured 250 miles of driving snow and 40 below zero temperatures to become naturalized. Judge James Burgess, federal naturalization officer, described their arduous journey lasting ten days and including abandoning a vehicle in the snow drifts at Sheridan, Wyoming.
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