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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
12
Fresh buying led the wheat market with strong seaboard demand and export sales. December and March futures rose, cash wheat firm at 2.55 to 2.57, rye strong, oats firm, corn fluctuated then firm, hog weaknesses pulled provisions lower. Receipts totaled 14 976 cases for dairy and eggs mixed markets.
Chicago market reports receipts of cattle 18 000 hogs 19 000 and sheep 27 000 with mixed moves. steers and yearlings up to 25 cents higher top at 18 dollars, hogs mostly off a dime while lightweight and porkers see gains, fat lambs up 25 to 50 cents. Spokane market steady to stronger with prime steers 9 50 to 10 dollars and prime lambs 10 to 10 50, stockers and feeders 5 to 8 dollars, no sheep receipts.
Omaha reports on September 8 show hogs steady to 10c lower at opening, closing 10c higher with top $15.50 and bulk $14.70-$15.25. Cattle receipts at 7,300 with beef and butcher cattle mostly firm and stockers active. Sheep receipts at 28,900 with lambs strong and feeding lambs commanding around $13.10-$13.65.
Tandon reports bar silver at 59d per ounce with money unchanged. Discount rates cited as short bills at 6 and 813-16 percent and three month bills at 6 613-16 percent. In New York the bar silver price is unchanged domestically and foreign prices for Mexican dollars remain unchanged.
Market activity today remained under professional control with a tilt toward the short account as traders faced easier money trends. About 500000 shares changed hands while oils motors steels and rails posted limited gains except Crucible Steel rising modestly.
New York copper nominally unchanged for electrolytic iron and antimony while tin remains steady at 45.50 a ton. Lead and zinc ease as East St. Louis delivery notes appear. market tone subdued with minor shifts across metals.
The Heil bronner review notes market stagnation with weak public interest. Analysts observe buying power lacking, steel orders backlogged, and a mild sugar stock rally offset by iron and copper declines as investors react to rumors of dividends and government oil protests.
The Boston and Montana smelter now processes 50 tons daily of zinc residue in a blast furnace remodel to improve lead recovery. The remaining 300 tons still go through the old reverberatory plant, yielding only about 50 percent lead. Ores near Nettie and Hibernia claim strong lead ore prospects while Mike Horse mine near Helena advances eight feet daily toward a major vein, with 40 feet to go last Thursday. Sterling Mining and Milling president F W Rader says the mine shows exceptional promise and a large amount of rich lead ore has already been blocked out.
Geologist C N Gerry of the United States Geological Survey reports that if current production rates hold, Idaho mineral output in 1920 will exceed 1919. 1919 saw unusually low figures across gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc. Ore shipments in early 1920 are down from a normal year but up from 1919, with idle large lead mines now operating again and stronger production overall.
In Cripple Creek district Colorado a rich extension of the Lillie vein is entered about 900 feet south of the No 1 shaft on Bull Hill. The vein runs up to 12 feet wide with sylvanite in quartz and assays up to 80 ounces gold per ton, with an average sorted product of 75 to 150 dollars per ton. New record for rapid timbered shaft sinking cited from South Africa.
New York on Sept 8 shows prime mercantile paper steady. Exchange rates steady with sterling at 8.5344 and 3.54 percent on cables. Francs demand 6.78, cables 6.89. Belgian francs 7.23, cables 7.25. Lire 4.31 demand, cables 4.33. Marks 1.99, cables 1.91. Montreal exchange 8 percent discount. Time loans strong, call money steady with rate 7 percent.
In Billings District Judge Spencer ordered the sale of fittings and stock from two former saloons turned soft drink parlors since Prohibition. Bartenders Robert Ross and Anton Jacobucci are jailed for liquor sales while E. Bender was fined 100 dollars and given ten days for selling whiskey on the streets. Major Gen Hugh L. Scott toured reservations with praise for his peacekeeping role. Plans to ease land drainage were debated at Park City by the Valley Drainage association board as thousands of acres require drainage.
Representative Schall charges Japan has fortifed and coal fueled a base on Turtle Island near Baja California, claiming strategic value against the Panama Canal. He cites a fortified position, coal stores, and a naval presence, urging swift State Department action and potential House inquiry.
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