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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
12
Markets report Chicago wheat prices advancing early on frost fears and export sales, with December futures near 2.31 and March around 2.32. Corn slips after opening lower, later failing to hold gains. wheat cash quotes cited No 2 red at 2.51 to 2.54 and oats and other grains also listed.
Chicago stockyards report Sept 1 with cattle receipts at 11 000 and hogs 14 900. Steers and yearlings show slow demand with prices easing to about 2 cents, top around 17.75, and bulk ranges from 9.50 to 17.50. Sheep receipts reach 33 000 as fat lambs weaken 50 cents. natives at 13.50 to 212.75 with very good native ewes around 7. Feeding stock steady to lower.
Spokane and Omaha cattle hog sheep price summary dated Sept 1. Hogs in Spokane with receipts 152. prime mixed $16.50-17. medium $16-16.50. heavy $14.25-15. pigs $14.50-15. stockers and feeders $14-15. Cattle Spokane receipts 83. primes $9.50-10. cows and heifers $7-7.50. calves $10-13. Sheep no receipts. prime lambs $9.50-10. best mutton ewes $2.56. Omaha hogs receipts 1,000. market opened steady to lower, closing 15-25c lower. good/choice medium and light $14.50-15. top $15.25. Cattle receipts 4,809. best fed yearlings $16. sheep receipts 17,000. range lambs bid $13.50. feeding lambs up to $15.
South St. Paul Sept. 1 hogs receipts 5,000 opening steady, close lower, price range 13.50 to 15.25, bulk 14 to 14.50. Cattle receipts 5,700 weak with fat steers 16 to 16, cows and heifers 5 to 12.50, calves steady to 14.50, stockers and feeders mostly steady 11 to 13. Sheep and lambs receipts 5,500 market steady. lambs 14 to 13, ewes 7 to 7, etc.
New York stock market opened with rails advancing amid broader gains in industrials as several rail and related issues rose ½ to 1% while vans and oils slid. Reports of a motor company embarrassment weighed on some names. late buying by shorts lifted steels and oils as call money slipped, market closed firm.
Butte and Superior Mines shows a three month loss of $147,000 to June 30 due to lower ore tonnage, a three week April shutdown, and a 13% drop in mill recovery. Milled ore totaled 81,619 tons at 13.33% zinc with 93.45% overall recovery, while zinc stocks and silver market dynamics influence future prospects.
Profit-taking in rails and persistent selling of the industrials gave the closing half hour a weak look. A review indicates the transition period may end soon with general improvement in sight. Money and government deposits shifts will affect loans. banks aim to ease conditions.
The New York Stock Exchange showed a typical pre holiday pattern with rails well bought and convertible railway bonds gaining attention. Wire houses urged rails purchases and investors eyed higher priced issues as investments as money market conditions guide future price moves. Notable bonds cited include Atchison fours 1960 Baltimore & Ohio 449s 1983 Chesapeake and Ohio fives 1946 Chicago Milwaukee St Paul fives 2014 New York Central sixes 1985 and Southern Pacific fives 1984. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul issue is highlighted by a slump from 1914 1919 ranges to around 69 dynasty yield about 7.20 percent. Federal Reserve Board said money stringency not expected to be unusual and an improvement in general business is anticipated. August saw a $3 6 million rise in gross business at United Cisar Stores.
The Billings Woman's Club will host teachers entering the public schools for the new term. A series of entertainments is planned and a club committee will meet teachers arriving Saturday Sunday and Monday to escort them to their rooms by automobile. The club is arranging rooms for many newcomers.
Raw sugar nominal and refined market quiet with fine granulated priced around 16 17.10 cents per pound. Market activity appears subdued as traders monitor supply flows and global demand signals for the new month.
Gladys Arneson Lucian Lanphear and Wallace Ryan received state education board scholarships via the cooperative extension service. The freshmen from 1919 earned county awards in sewing gardening and best calf, good for 18 months post high school and usable at any University of Montana institution. Mrs. W C Ryan commends county youth for their effort.
In Red Lodge on September 1 a coalition of Republicans and Democrats in Carbon county formed a Dixon for Governor club to oppose non-partisans on the state ticket. The effort aims to undersee all state candidates while not extending to national or county races. Over 400 party members signed petitions this week to join the league, with officers to be elected and an active advertising campaign to follow. Carbon county favored non-partisan state candidates in the last election, with most county races also leaning non-partisan. Democrats will honor existing positions where unopposed and will not endorse county or national candidates.
New York reports copper, iron, and antimony steady while tin weakens on spot and futures at 45.50. Lead remains easy at 8.90 to 9 cents, vinegar steady with East St. Louis delivery at 8 8.10 cents.
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