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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1901
Page
16
The New York market on Oct 5 shows London holiday easing selling pressure and no Saturday loan market. Money conditions remain favorable though interior demand for currency wanes, while Amalgamated Copper weakens sentiment. Railroad bonds dull and irregular with mixed prices across many issues.
A dense list of United States industrial stocks appears with names such as Wells Fargo, Anaconda Mining Co, American Smelting & Refining, United States Steel, and Pacific Coast, followed by bond quotes and a metal market summary. Copper, tin, lead, and zinc prices are noted with current bid and price ranges, alongside iron ore and foundry warrants values reported from New York.
Chicago wheat started dull due to large receipts and good weather but December rose as local buying appeared. May gained on export demand while December and torn showed firmer tones. Oats were flat, December closing a touch higher. Provisions stayed dull but under tone improved with liquidation.
Cash quotations listed for flour and grain items with prices for wheat, oats, rye, flaxseed, and pork products. Also includes receipts and shipments by commodity with figures for barrels and bushels across multiple items, showing totals and recent ranges.
Cattle receipts, market steady to prime. steers and feeders 2.25 to 4.00. cows and heifers 1.25 to 4.75. Texas steers 2.90 to 3.30. western steers 6.25. Hogs receipts 14 000 today, 30 000 Monday. market steady to weak. heavy 4.60 to 6.70. light 6.00 to 6.65. Sheep receipts 2 500. market steady. good to choice wethers 1.25 to 3.75. native lambs 2.06 to 4.75.
Kansas City stockyards report October 5 cattle receipts about 5 000 head. Market steady with bulk sales around 6.50 to 6.75 for heavies, packers 6.50 to 6.75, lights about 4.10 to 6.25, pigs steady near 5.50.
Wool auction sales in London totaled 15 500 bales with fine grades firm and mediums irregular. Withdrawals rose while 233 000 bales have been offered to date with 10 100 withdrawn. Stock exchange holiday noted and bar silver quoted around 26 44 per ounce. Monte 24 2 percent.
The page lists numerous personal and business requests and notices from Butte, including dates, addresses, and contact promises such as divorce services, marriage ads, a Turkish bath house at 41 North Main, safes order, medium readings, and a Perl of advertising. It also discusses petrified forests and geology notes on Holbrook and Adamana with details on deposits and fossilized logs.
Washington on Oct 4 reports available cash balance of 171,795,003 and gold at 102,674,034. New York data shows this week imports of dry goods at 8,504,181 and specie imports of 1,040,721 gold and 64,293 silver, with silver exports totaling 55,635 for the week.
An excerpt recounts Borongo Islands between Calcutta and Rangoon as a snake paradise where giant pythons to venomous karait coexist. The narrator befriends a big cat, survives close calls with deadly cobras, and recalls encounters with locals including Emir Ally and a Burmese sword wielding scene. The piece ends noting Arizona forests as another interesting phenomenon.
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