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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1921
Page
10
Market report notes May wheat at its lowest price since 1916 amid weak export demand and bearish crops. It closes unsettled with a small net change. March and May prices cited, alongside corn and oats dips and varied futures activity. Cash quot: Wheat No 1 hard 1.59½, Corn No 2 61½–63½¢, Oats No 2 white 40½–41¢.
Wheat receipts 129 cars, down from 173 a year ago. Cash markets show No 1 northern at 1.52 to 1.58, March 1.38, aggregate 1.37. Corn No 3 yellow 50 to 51. oats No 3 36 to 36.5. Barley 46 to 66. Rye No 2 1.39 to 1.40. Flax No 1 1.72 to 1.75. Flour steady. Shipments 54, value 26 barrels. Bran 23.
Exchange figures show Sterling at 3.90 percent demand with cables at 3.91, Francs 6.94 demand and 6.96 cables, Belgian francs 7.26 demand and 7.28 cables, Lire 3.84 demand and 2.86 cables, Marks 1.60 demand and 1.61 cables, Greece 7.50, Argentine 34, Brazilian 15.25. Montreal discount at 12 percent. Time spans steady at 60 and 90 days and six months at 6 7 percent. Call money easier with last loan at 6 percent.
New York March 22 copper steadies on electrolytic spot and March at 12 12%c with second quarter at 12% 13c Iron unchanged. Tin holds at 28.50 spot and 29.25 29.50 futures. Lead dull at 4c spot. Antimony 5.37 5.50c spot. Zinc steady in East St. Louis at 4.70 4.85c.
Raw sugar priced at 6.27 cents per pound for centrifugal and refined sugar at 8 to 8.25 cents for fine granulated, reported by the Associated Press from New York on March 22.
New York stock market showed irregular and uncertain tendencies with many losses reversed at the firm close. Railroads and steel and allied trades faced unsatisfactory conditions while potential rail way investigation loomed. Studebaker, Pierce Arrow, Atlantic Gulf, Pacific Oil, Mexican Petroleum, U S Steel, Baldwin Locomotive and Northern Pacific led a late rebound as 600000 shares changed hands.
The market remains featureless with sporadic movement in favored issues. Vanadium distributions and various metals prices show small shifts while rails stay firm and trading shifts toward motor goods. Analysts note reduced call funds, ongoing bull strategy, and larger selling of securities to fund trade, with optimism for selective stock strength in the east of the Mississippi.
Chicago market reports cattle receipts near 9000 with steady to mixed prices including top beef steers at 10.60 and bulk offerings in the 5.75 to 7.75 range. hogs receipts 20000 with uneven trading and top around 11.25, large weights down. sheep receipts 19000 with lambs steady to higher. Omaha hogs receipts 9000 with prices 9.60 to 10.30 for medium and heavy butchers. cattle receipts 4500 with beef steers steady to higher and tops near 9.75. sheep receipts 9500 with lambs strong to 25c higher and bids around 10.25.
Spokane report shows hog receipts 2 with market steady and unchanged quotations, cattle receipts 80 with steady market and unchanged quotations, sheep with no receipts and steady market. No changes to prior price levels.
United States Bureau of Markets notes March 22 receipts of 4000 cattle with steady tone. Best steers or load at 1308 pounds priced around 9.00. Common and medium beef steers 6.75 to 7.75 with fair up to 8.50. Cows and heifers mostly 4.50 to 6.50, some to 7.50. Canners and cutters weak 2.50 to 4.00. Bulls steady. Veal calves top 8.50, stockers and feeders slow to weak. Hog receipts 7500 down 25-50 cents. range 8.10 to 10.75, bulk 9.00 to 10.25, better grades 11.25 to 11.50. Sheep receipts 500 steady, no choice stock.
New York and London report bar silver prices and currency values with small cents changes. Foreign and Mexican dollar rates listed alongside discount rates for short bills and three month bills, reflecting early spring market activity.
Publication of the United States Steel Corporation 1920 annual report reveals earnings of 185,095,359 with a 32,804,720 rise from 1919. Net income reached 130,002,534, surplus net income 59,059,426, and undivided surplus 498,454,891. Employees numbered 267,345 with average daily wage 6.96 dollars.
A Houghton dispatch reports Calumet & Hecla cut the Kearsarge amygdaloid lode a quarter mile east of the conglomerate while drilling from the 81 level of the Red Jacket shaft. The find promises a potential new large mine if the vein remains uniformly valuable, with exploration centered at the haulage level to reduce sinking costs. Ore receipts total 8,021 tons to Trail smelter, 65,115 tons for the year. Spokane & Alberta Coal and Coke Co.'s mine near Crow's Nest shows a strong, gravity-driven vein system with multiple 4 to 12 foot veins and preparations for year-round operation.
The Unit Eleven Roundup Drillers Miles City wells north of Eleven Fifty-Six are now in oil and could produce any day. Eastward the McDonald rushes to production. Drilling will start quickly on the Eleven Fifty-Six Twenty Acres, prompting urgent orders for units at $50 each before trustees close the books.
Five years after leaving Cleveland for New York, Mrs. A. J. Stasny and her husband invested $75 in a song “I Found You Among the Roses.” They turned a one room apartment into a stock room and office and built a million-dollar enterprise with 18 branch offices and main offices in New York. Mrs. Stasny now earns over $50,000 annually as a leading American businesswoman.
Lewistown March 22 E G Lewis of Atascadero California whose syndicate owns acreage in Cat Creek and adjacent fields arrived and plans to drill more than 50 wells this season in Cat Creek The No 1 well of the Mitchell Petroleum group near the Frantz river well No 2 was spudded in Saturday and progress is reported clear showings seen in several Miles City area wells President Stanley of the Frantz corporation is due in Lewistown tomorrow for a field inspection
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