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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1919
Page
7
Fragmentary oil market data shows various quotations and openings for May July and September. Figures include openings and closes with percentages, but many values are garbled, limiting precise interpretation of prices and dates.
The Omaha grain market reports prices for corn and corn meal grades in Nebraska. Prices listed include No 2 white at 68 cents, No 3 white at 167, No 2 yellow at 168, No 4 mixed at 165, with scattered sample readings and miscellaneous notes.
Market snapshot from Minneapolis shows mixed grain quotes with flour barley rye prices and miscellaneous commodities. Unclear figures include No 2 rye and bran corn flax values, plus percentage markers and odd formatting.
Hogs receipts 35,000 with futures higher by about 20 to 30 cents over Saturday’s average. Prices include live hogs at 24.05. bulk 20.75 to 21.00. heavy 20.80 to 21.05. sows 19.75 to 19.00. Cattle receipts 17,000. beef steers steady to about lower. stockers steady. feeders steady. heavy beef steers 49.50 at top.
Receipts show 17 000 sheep with no early trading as prices fall across cattle and lambs. Beef steers and common grades show declines. lambs around 84 lbs drop to about 8141.25 per hundredweight with several quality grades weakening.
Spatz of Hillsdale, agent for Hart-Port 45-20 tractor, completed a new building in Hillsdale. The 30x structure houses his business on the first floor and a public hall on the second floor. The hall is to be dedicated with a public dance next Friday. The project cost about $10. A prior State Leader error about the Hart Parr tractor was noted. The machine tests at 37.5 horsepower brake. Rock Higer is booming. oil prospects noted in Highland and Pierce Addition.
Lance Creek field royalties company, organized by Wyoming bankers, offered stock on the New York curb at start of 1.50 a share, rising to 82.37 percent, with bids near 2 264 in first hour. Company holds 14,000 acres in Lance Creek and earns 2500 monthly from Fenex and Barber leases in Big Muddy, plus Rock Creek rights. By laws require 72 percent of operating royalties distributed as dividends after tax. Sale aims to repay original expenditures to obtain royalties in multiple fields.
In Berkeley a local booster displays signs from a residence garden promoting Victory Liberty notes and a pine laundry service. Passersby encounter a storefront-like garden offering flowers and Victory Bond sales.
ROCK SPRINGS Wyoming May 12 One of the first wool sales in this station was made when T L Howes bought the Lon Poston clip for Jeremiah Williams of Bogton for 52 cents per pound. The clip will weigh some ting over 60000 pounds and is considered as very desirable by the buyers. While the price contracted is not as high as expected by the growers it to an extent establishes a basis for a market price in this section which will be welcomed by the flockmasters.
A historical land office notice lists heirs engagement in military service, protest rights, and final proof dates. It names witnesses Lou M H Micicy Andrew G Webster Melvin Kinneman and Arthur Minasell. Notices concern Nouwh B Moyle and F ederal Wyoming with homestead entries. Official dates span 1949 and earlier, with filings from 1916 and references to June 9.
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