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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1906
Page
9
General selling by longs drives a weak wheat day with September closing near the day’s low. Corn and oats firm, led by strong demand and weather signals. Provisions quiet as traders await tomorrow’s supply receipts and market cues.
Friday market in Cincinnati shows Minneapolis cash wheat at 84%c, with light offerings and steady tone across wheat corn oats and flour. Reported sales include corn 2 cars No 2 yellow at 5c, timothy hay prices, and assorted prices for clover, oats, and whiskey. Grain inspections list various grades and quantities, alongside extensive commodity and livestock figures and regional price notes.
The June 29 dispatch reports the United States closed a highly successful fiscal year with rising optimism. Crops progress, more manufacturing on books, and larger planned enterprises mark the period, while wages rise and textile disputes near settlement. Rail earnings and bank payments show strong figures across major cities.
Prices move on mixed receipts and crop optimism. Wheat futures faltered on weather news while corn and oats held firm. spot markets showed uneven activity with refined and crude markets reacting to demand signals. Major exchanges include New York, Baltimore, Toledo, and Minneapolis with modest shifts in prices and shipments.
Orleans producer notes sugar steady with kettle centrifugal around 37 16 per cent. Centrifugal prices hold firm as molasses market shows resilience in the trading day.
Prices shown for apples lemons oranges potatoes and sweet potatoes with ranges by origin and type. Apples 4 a 4.50 per barrel lemons from Messina Palermo California 4.50 to 5.50 per box or 4.50 to 5.50 others oranges California 2.75 to 5 potatoes old 1 per bush new 1.50 to 3.25 a barrel sweet potatoes 2.50 to 2.75 per barrel.
The final Burley market of the week saw ease in common tobaccos while medium grades held firm at good prices. Strong competition persisted with high quality leaf, including a hogshead at 27 cents per pound, a season high. Daily offerings across warehouses totaled 306 hhds with varied price distributions. overall week receipts reached 1 741 hhds with no rejections and market unchanged at close.
The Kentucky Warehouse offered 22 hogsheads of tobacco all dark with prices from 7.60 to 5.95 per unit. No rejections and the market was a shade stronger. Pickett House sold 12 hogsheads. 11 Burley and 1 dark sold between 5.65 and 10.75 with 7.70 realized on the remaining lot.
Lead held at 5.80 while spelter eased to 5.87 in New York and London copper closed steady at 81 5s per ton. Tin declined in London to 177 550 tons sold. copper rose in London to 81 5s with futures higher. Local markets showed mixed quotes for copper lead spelter iron and foundry grades across both continents.
New York market reports butter firm with 8 069 receipts and cheese steady at 5 548 boxes. Eggs steady with 8 735 cases. poultry quiet with Western spring chickens 17 18 cents and turkeys 11 12 cents. Chicago shows butter 15 20 cents, eggs 12 14 cents, cheese 17 18 cents. Kansas City notes steady cheese and souri Kansas white wood cases 144 cents per case. Philadelphia reports butter 20 cents, eggs 18 cents at mark, cheese 10 11 cents.
In Toledo on the 29th Clover seed priced at cash 6.80 and October 6.65. Mothy seed listed at 2.10 prime. Alsike priced 8 in August. Rye not specified.
Receipts and shipments for the past day and four days show cattle hogs and sheep activity. Cattle quality was uneven with plenty of unsold stock and weak demand while hogs moved actively and prices rose from the previous day. Sheep and lambs eased slightly as overall market conditions remained soft.
Articles of incorporation filed include The Walker Mutual Aid Association Cincinnati by multiple founders, The Autofiller Pen Company Toledo with 10000 dollars by listed organizers, The Ohio Valley Woolen Mills Company Cincinnati with 26000 dollars by named stockholders, The Vacuum Cleaner Company Cleveland with 60000 dollars by listed shapers, and Dayton and Western Traction Company increasing capital stock from 1,890,000 to 1,750,000.
The river schedule lists departures from Pomeroy Charleston and Louisville with multiple advertised services including Mayeville and Memphis routes. Ships Georgia Lee and Peters Lee show Wednesday dates July 4 and July 11 at 6 p.m. The Ohio River at Cincinnati stood 12.2 feet and rising at 6 p.m. yesterday.
Friday arrivals included The Greenwood and Courier from Chesapeake ports with departures to Gallipolis Maysville and Louisville. New arrivals The Queen City from Pittsburg to lay over. Henry M Stanley from Pomeroy. Courier from Maysville. Towboats Otto Marmet J B Lewis and T J Hatfield moved coal to mines. A survey of the Ohio below Owensboro starts next week with fifty workers, and a new dry dock will be moved to Vicksburg by local capitalists. Forecast: Ohio River falling from Pittsburg to Maysville with no rain in the watershed. Paducah Towing Ok ae liabilities listed at 519, assets 29100. The Pittsburg Weather Bureau plans an automatic water gauge at Smithfield Street Bridge to record river levels.
Special Dispatches note river gauges across ports. Warren reports 1 foot, Morgantown 7 feet rising, Greensboro 7 feet 11 inches falling, Pittsburg 4.3 feet and falling, Steubenville 4.5 feet rising, Wheeling 4.9 feet rising. Vessels depart including Ben Hur and Bessie Smith. Bedford and other craft move between Parkersburg Wheeling Pittsburg.
The Episcopal Society of Christ Church buys 320 and 322 East Fourth Street for 30000 to add a parish house and gymnasium, expanding to match a larger membership and new church activities. The deal is described as one of the month’s largest real estate transactions with plans for a like-new counterpart structure.
Property transactions across Cincinnati area include Isaac Stokes Estate selling parcels to August Lin and others, Rufus King gifting to the city, and numerous lots in Elmwood, Norwood, and Avondale traded or assigned. Building permits list two and one half story dwellings on Ruth Avenue and Leger Place, plus alterations to St Xavier's Parochial School and a Sycamore Street site.
The bulletin notes river levels in multiple towns including Gallipolis Evansville Cairo and St Louis with levels ranging from 2.2 to 21 feet and rising or falling. It also records arrivals and departures such as Katherine at Memphis and the Sun at Memphis with times noted.
Steamer Henry M Le Pomeroy departs Main Street today bound for Louisville and intermediate points. Other boats leave from foot Main street at nine daily except Sundays. freight received daily.
The Georgia Lee, a steamer offering fare to Memphis with meals and berth, will depart from the wharfboat foot Lone Way on Wednesday July 4 at 6 p.m. It serves freight and passenger routes to Lower Nashville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Pine Bluff. Ellison is superintendent and general manager.
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