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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1901
Page
8
New York traders faced a dull day with little price movement and low volume. Banks awaited weekly cash reserves while call money steadied and railroad bonds showed scant action in a subdued market environment.
New York market report shows money on call firm at 101 percent, last loans three percent, prime mercantile paper 475 percent. Sterling exchange steady with bankers' bills at 4.859 for demand and 4.89 for 0 days. government and state bonds steady. railroad bonds irregular.
The Commercial Advertiser reports a firm but featureless stock market with a holiday impact and a cautious mood ahead of the New York bank statement. Metals trading was quiet with tin copper and lead quoted. European prices and domestic iron markets showed limited movement amid a cautious, holiday influenced week.
Wheat opened firm on improved cables and Northwest weather then faded with markets. Corn rose early then declined as frost fears subsided and shorts covered. Oats traded firmer early but ended lower. January pork and lard rose modestly while rib and soy products stayed near unchanged.
Cash quotations show flour and grain prices, with No 3 open wheat and No 2 yellow corn listed. Cattle receipts total 5,500 with Texans included. values range from 2.40 to 6.50 for steers, 2.20 to 4.75 for stockers, and 1.50 to 2.55 for canners. Hog receipts total 17,400 with top at 6.05 and bulk around 6.30. Sheep and lambs steady to firm with native lambs at 3.40 to 4.85 and western lambs at 4.60 to 4.75.
Cattle receipts 1 000. Market steady to stronger. Native steers 4.20 6.06, Western 5 50 4.70, Texas 4 20 4.25. Cows 2 70 4.70, stockers 2 00 4.00, calves 8 0 5.0. Receipts 3,200. Heavy 6.00 6.55, mixed 6.2 0 8.57, light 8.20 6.57. Sheep receipts 3,100. Wethers 3.27 3.00, ewes 2.08, lambs 3.75 4.0.
Kansas City market receipts show cattle and hog sectors with varied prices. Texas steers around 2700 dollars, native stockers near 2000, hogs trading from around 6.20 to 6.65, packers near 6.40 to 6.65, lambs and muttons priced around 1.50 to 4.00 and 30 to 60 dollars respectively.
A London market brief cites railway shares including Atchison to Denver and Rio Grande options with Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific listings. It notes silver at 26 1/4 to 27 per ounce and copper around 91. Bar silver is described as dull with a 1% per cent money rate.
San Francisco notes mixed fall wool prices with districts including Nevada Gite Estern Oregon Walse Valley Oregon Malic showing activity. Mountain lambs Jase San Joaquin Basin Ga Se Humboldt Mendocino also reported with varying demand across markets.
The census bureau reports Oregon population by race and age with emphasis on school age youths and militia and voting ages. It notes foreign and native white males of foreign parentage as a percentage of the state's population and highlights colored male voters, primarily Chinese and Japanese, among voting age groups.
Foreign born and native white males make up 9.1 percent of voting age males, with 4.8 percent illiterate. Foreign white militia age and native white foreign parentage total 4.9 percent. 3.8 percent of school age are foreign born. For rent unfurnished rooms 488 Ohio Ave Butte. Wanted furnished house 3 or 4 rooms 306 Cedar St Anaconda.
A new Water Mountain Oil company is formed in Wyoming with $10,000 capital. Directors and principal stockholders include Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah, Senator Clarence D. Clarke of Wyoming, Senator Elkins of Virginia, Percy Heath, H. J. Quealey of Wyoming, Richard Kerens, Frank J. Westcott of Baltimore, and E. B. Doheney of Los Angeles. The firm aims to develop fossil field lands south of Kemmerer in the southwestern state, located years ago by Senator Clarke.
Lord Kitchener's dispatch from Pretoria notes 19 killed, 42 wounded or captured. Prisoners include Commandante Lotter Breedt Field Cornet Kruger W Kruger and Lieutenant Shoeman. Among the dead are the Wasters leaders. Casualties total 10 killed and 8 wounded.
The Society of Merchants and Industrials of Berlin sent four circulars to exporters urging protest against U.S. export customs. They call for full details on each case to enable a thorough investigation by the United States.
London dispatch notes the ailing king continues the Hamburg cure of light exercise water and massage. The Candid Friend asserts his heart trouble dating from before his accession shows no improvement despite treatment.
Ninety people who ate clams at a lunch for the opening of a new public building in Cleveland Ohio have been taken ill with suspected ptomaine poisoning. No deaths reported, but many remain confined to bed.
A Topeka woman Miss Eola Hounsom perished when a fire burned her home at 1 1/2 Kline street. Police suspect murder with robbery as the motive since she was known to have some money, origin of the blaze remains undetermined.
Reports from Constantinople on September 6 state the porte is trying to reach a direct understanding with French claimants against the Ottoman government. The aim is to deprive the French government of grounds for action.
Pekin dispatch reports foreign ministers have approved imperial edicts and prepared to sign a peace protocol tomorrow, outlining terms and endorsements from involved powers.
M E Mayer Assayer-Samples offers prompt mail or express service for bullion. Weinert Bros. & Epstein manufacture and sell silk gowns and related garments with prompt mail service. Dr T A Grigg lists eye ear nose throat and chest practice at 28 E Broadway Butte Mont.
A fragmented reading of up front wants and ads lists offers for sale household furnishings loan services palmistry and loan financing. Listings reference Butte Centerville and Park Street locales with names such as Iona Foster Mrs Dr Calder Rutledge and Davenport Kimball.
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