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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
10
Chicago markets logged an unsettled close with wheat finishing 2% lower as traders reacted to Secretary Houston's address. December fell to 2.03 and March to 1.95, while corn and oats traded mixed to lower. Provisions varied with hogs drop pushing average lower. butter and eggs steady. Receipts 5,298 cases.
Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was largely a traders affair with a flat close. Activity centered on oils rails shippings and equipment while the market awaited the American Iron and Steel Institute meeting. Total sales reached 14.65 million par value bonds steady United States issues. Miss Mary Hall noted traveler and geographer completed the Cape to Cairo trek in 1905.
Cattle receipts 8000 with good steers 25 cents higher and strong bulls while cows rise to 9.50. Hogs receipts 15000 and prices 25 to 50 cents lower with top at 14.65. Sheep receipts 16000 fat lambs up 25 cents with Idaho and native tops around 13 and 12.25. Market mixed with feeders firm and stockers slow.
Omaha market report shows hog receipts at 5000 with prices 25 to 50 cents lower. Cattle receipts 8500 with good steers steady to mixed. Sheep receipts 20000 with killing classes steady and top lambs around 12.00 dollars.
Spokane notices hogs at 96 with steady quot. cattle receipts 187 and firm quotes. sheep receipts 3,200 and market steady with unchanged quotations.
Cattle receipts 6000 with steady to strong market. beef steers to 46.8, cows and heifers 4.40 to 6.50, veal calves 12 top. Hogs receipts 12500, market 50c lower, top 13.25. Sheep receipts 2500, strong to higher, native lambs 10.50 to 10.75, ewes 5.0 to 5.25.
New York reports domestic bar silver unchanged and foreign at 78 3 4 cents per ounce with Mexican dollars at 59 1 2. London quotes bar silver at 51 1 2 pence per ounce. discount rates show short bills unchanged and three month bills at 5 11 16 percent.
The Heil bronner Company reports a mixed market with English strike talk, rising industrials, and advances by United States Steel and Republic Steel. Copper, silver, and oil shares shift, Mexican Petroleum drills a new field, zinc shutdown looms, and Elk Basin posts six month earnings of 1 020 723. Sterling opens and closes at 3 43 per dollar with money at 7 percent.
Minneapolis grain prices hold steady with flour down 80 cents. Shipments reach 56 886 barrels. bran 830 32. Wheat receipts total 489 cars, below last year. Cash No 1 Northern at 2.09 to 2.14, December 2.04, March 1.99. Corn No 3 yellow 86 87 cents. Oats No 3 white 18 49 cents. Barley 76 to 76? cents. Rye No 2 1.66 to 1.67. Flax No 1 2.71 to 2.73.
Butte and Superior reports zinc production near 23.214 million pounds and silver output of 457,778 ounces for the latest three months. The firm expects a near 150,000 dollar operating loss, with zinc prices and European demand dampening domestic market activity. The Black Rock mine near Elm Ore mine shows deeper development increasing ore richness as copper buying remains limited. Also noted are ore shipments from Little Alma and a U S Smelting expansion into Mexico with the Arevalo properties. The U S Treasury bought 276,000 ounces of silver at one dollar per ounce under the Pittman act, bringing total purchases to about 14.65 million ounces.
Prime mercantile paper unchanged. Exchange steady with Sterling at 3.43 and 2 cables, Francs at 6.46 and 6.48, Belgian francs at 6.84 and 6.85, Guilders 30.79 and 30, Lire 3.76 and 3.78, Marks unchanged, Greece at 9.74. New York exchange on Montreal at 0.5 percent discount. Time loans steady, call money steady at 7 percent.
Metals report shows copper iron antimony lead and zinc unchanged in New York trades on Oct 20. Tin remains firm with spot and nearby at 389.75 and futures at 40.50 dollars per unit.
London is a tonic the city gleams with rebuilt structures. Old Victorian stucco and brick give way to expansive steel sandstone and granite towers that are eagerly snapped up as soon as plans are cleared.
William Jackson endured jail without his mouth organ and pleaded for the instrument as officers took away his prized harmonica during the police station search. The doomed tone notes his belief life became unbearable without the melody.
The American Mining congress meets in Denver November 15 to 20 to address the metalliferous industry decline. A gold producers conference, led by Dr. H N Lawrie, will seek better prices and reduced costs to revive mining and bolster related farming and manufacturing sectors nationwide.
A cautionary verse notes a man who boasted of driving fast and crossing a train before it, narrowly missing the engine. The poem ends with the man no longer alive, a grim warning about reckless rail crossing.
A clipping notes a self starter stance in a Columbus Dispatch patch. It remarks that the female speaker is more ready than the male. The brief item contrasts preparedness by gender in public speaking.
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