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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
14
Chicago reports corn for May delivering a new year high as shorts burned by late session rally. May and July corn climb while oats hit their top May price. wet weather and bullish winter crop talk bolster grains. provisions rise and cash wheat prices mixed amid fluctuating market demand.
Cattle receipts 9000 beef steers weak to lower early sales 11.13. best dullest, canners and calves weak. vealers 12.50 to 13.25. feeders steady. Hogs receipts 2400 market steady to 2c lower. top 15.60. bulk 15.25 to 15.50. 250 lb and over 13.85 to 14.60. pigs lower. Sheep receipts 6000 market slow. first sales steady. prime 7 lb shorn lambs 18.10.
Hogs receipts 28. Market steady. Prime mixed 16.75 17, medium mixed 15.75 16.50, rough heavies 13.75 15.50, pigs 15 15.50, stockers and feeders 14 40. From Spokane Cattle no receipts. Market steady. Prime steers 12 13, good to choice 10.50 11.75, medium to good 9.25 10.25, fair to medium 8.25 9.25, common to fair 7.48, choice cows and heifers 9.50 10.50, good to choice 8.25 9.25, medium to good 7.25 8.25, fair to medium 6.25 7.25, canners 3.50 5.75, bulls 6.50 8.50, calves 9.17, stockers and feeders 7 9. Sheep no receipts. Market steady. Prime lambs 16 17, fair to medium 13 15, prime yearlings 13 13.50, prime wethers 12 13, best mutton ewes 7 10.
South St. Paul April 30 cattle receipts 3200, market weak to 25 cents lower. Fat steers 14 to 13.75, cows and heifers 6.50 to 11.50, calves 0 to 0.50 lower, stockers and feeders 5.50 to 12.75. Sheep receipts 200, market steady. Lambs 8.42 to 20, wethers 12.14 to 14.50, ewes 10 to 14.
Omaha reports 7000 hogs with prices steady to 25 cents higher and closing weak on seven grades. Cattle receipts around 2500 with most grades down about 25 cents. best beeves at 12.90, stockers and feeders softer. Sheep receipts 2000 with market steady. top wooled Mexican lambs at 9.50, clipped at 17.35.
New York report shows mercantile papers unchanged, sterling weak with ongoing decline. Bid rates for six month bills around 3.79, demand 3.83, cables 3.83. government and railroad bonds weaker while time loans steady, call money strong at 8 to 15 percent, bank acceptances 6 percent.
Raw sugar centrifugal trades at 11.56 cents per pound while refined fine granulated sugar stands at 17.50 23 cents. Markets reflect firm tone in NYC sugar trade with price levels quoted for current delivery and refined product.
New York price report shows copper steady, iron and antimony unchanged, tin at 61.5 dollars spot with May to July at 60.50. Lead near 9.12 cents spot with July at 8.75, East St. Louis price quoted 7.85 to 7.95 cents.
Liberty bonds in New York on April 30 show final prices for several series. First 4s at 84.50, second 4s at 44.40, first 44s at 85.60, second 4%s at 50, third 44s at 90, fourth 44s at 5.84, Victory 3s at 96.40, Victory 8 at 96.60.
HAR SILVER. YORK APRIL 30. Bar silver one Mexican dollars 84 percent. Law DON APRIL 80. Bar silver 642d per ounce. Money percent. Discount rates: horizons 5% for three months, 6% per cent for six months.
The New York Stock Exchange faces a downturn amid moving day jitters with anticipated volatility. Traders note a continued Federal Reserve tightening stance and bank acceptance probes while leaders like Crucible Steel and United States Steel slide, oils and rails show mixed results, and call money opens higher.
The Heilbronner Company notes improved technical position and continued interest from large investors in acquiring stocks during reactionary periods. It argues stocks and bonds remain the cheapest conspicuous commodities and could yield satisfactory profits despite doomsayers predicting a coming panic.
The speaker argues production in the country lags behind consumption while raw materials remain abundant for the world, suggesting that current difficulties should not prompt alarm and that a calmer market is needed now.
The stock and commodity market downturn signals widespread credit pressure. A sustained rally in investment demand will indicate liquidation has run its course.
The market is poised for a heavy stock influx from current levels while specialties continue to suffer poor attention. A conservative stance dominates representative stock exchange institutions in market activity at present.
A great deal of satisfaction is noted in high financial circles over the all led fixing of a definite German indemnity, which will form a basis for international credit.
The article notes worldwide high prices signaling international troubles, with rail stock gains amid low market mood and London forecasting credit curtailment. It cites credit strain as the market mystery, rail delays dampening industry, and possible consolidation in independent steel to rival United States Steel, with British oil interests rising through joint foreign ownership.
In banking channels it is pointed out that the exceptionally strained credit position is emphasized by the high figures exacted in financing even for concerns of good credit, and note withstanding the shipments of gold received in this country from Europe. Regardless of big profits money is not.
A local tale of Reinhold Thompson hiding 3910 dollars in a pigpen to preempt alimony, watched by Henry Lance who was later sent to reform school after tapping the stash. William Lance convicted of receiving stolen funds. 1400 dollars remain unrecovered. In market notes, steady to mixed gains and losses across sectors amid labor worries and cautious sentiment. Production figures note Bloomfield, New Jersey safety pin output around 15,000,000 gross.
In Freeport Illinois a man who sold his house could not find rental housing and was forced to pitch a tent on an adjacent lot for his family's shelter. The housing shortage in the city prompted his unusual remedy illustrating the local shortage.
The 1919 average surplus honey yield per hive was 50 pounds, higher than 45 pounds in 1918 and 41.6 pounds for 1913–17. Of the 1919 harvest, 59 percent was extracted honey, 31 percent comb honey, and 10 percent bulk honey. About one third of the product went to outside markets.
Washington dispatch reports Rothschild firms may establish a large electrolytic copper plant in Mexico, with multi million investment. In Colorado, the Shields Ironside property near Boulder is now owned by P A Danaher and Milton Leyding of Helena. mine has 50 ton plant, unwatered, ore samples favorable. Harmony mines near Pope Shannon show extensive development, a crosscut tunnel reaching five veins at 800 to 900 feet, plus a 1200 foot aerial tram to a 100 ton mill under construction.
The Montana Idaho Copper company ownership of the Monitor mine at Adair Idaho increased from 6000 shares at 100 dollars to 250000 shares at 10 dollars each at a Spokane stockholders meeting held last Saturday. W J Kirby secretary treasurer said the move provides for a concentrator and contingencies. A large working tunnel is being driven to the Monitor shaft with over 6750 feet completed and 3150 feet to the objective.
The Clarksdale Arizona United Verde Copper plant is finishing major improvements begun in late 1917. Three new reverberatory furnaces and six new waste heat boilers have been installed. A powdered coal plant, dryer and pulverizer for 500 tons daily, and a 12 furnace roaster plant are under construction to raise capacity to 2 500 tons of calories daily. A Cotterell smoke treater is in development with start soon.
Pittsburg Kansas widow Jennie Pozhun, mother of four, was sentenced to an indeterminate term at the Lan sing women's farm prison after officers found 14 cases of whiskey in her cellar during a raid. The judge rejected a parole plea, citing her false trial testimony.
Violators of national Prohibition laws in Honolulu paid 86.88 in fines and costs in March per U S district court records. Court clerk Albert E Harris estimates year receipts could exceed 75 000, covering salaries of federal judiciary and prosecuting branch officials in Honolulu.
Doughnuts are paying the expense of eight Kansas boys at Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan. They organized as The Perfect Bakery with capital of $15,000 in 150 shares at $10 each. The bakery produces bread, small cakes, cookies, and doughnuts as its specialty.
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