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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1912
Page
11
Heavy rains flood southwest Texas delaying field work and cutting farm receipts. Farmers report booming crops and abundant grazing while merchants complain of scarce eggs butter and vegetables with prices rising on eggs poultry and cabbage.
Butter per pound 28c country 15 17c Poultry Springs 4.00 5.00 hens 5.00 7.00 turkeys per pound 12 13c Eggs fresh country 15 17c Potatoes Idaho 2.75 per hundredweight Onions California sacks 4.50 per hundredweight Oranges California novels 2.50 2.75 Lemons 360s 420s 5.00 5.25 Cheese Fancy cream 25c pound
Associated Press reports price quotes in Chicago as of April 9 for butter creamery products eggs cheese and potatoes with receipts at 25 412 cases and various grade prices. Poultry live market shows weakness with turkey and chicken prices listed and veal weights at 6 50 to 60 pounds at 4 cents per pound.
By the Associated Press in Kansas City, April 9. Quotations were listed: butter at 28 cents for creamery, firsts 26, seconds 24, packing stock 21 and a half cents. eggs at extras 21, firsts 19 cents.
ST LOUIS April 9 Quotations were as Poultry quiet Chickens 12%c springs 16c turkeys 16c ducks 14c geese 6c Butter higher Creamery 28 32%c Eggs firmer 19% c
The Associated Press reports in New York on April 9 that egg receipts reached 27,281 cases. Fresh gathered firsts, regular packed, sold at 21 to 22 cents per dozen.
Raw sugar and related products show little movement with sacs for ascovado at 3.80 cents and centrifugal at 4.30 cents. Molasses sugar trades at 3.55 cents. petroleum molasses and leather hold steady. Hides remain quiet as overall prices ease.
Coffee No. 7 Rio 14%4c futures closed steady in New York. May futures settled at 13.84 dollars and July at 13.93 dollars.
Cotton seed oil prime refined in barrels sold at 6.85 per pound. Choice meal with 8 per cent ammonia priced at 28.00 to 28.50 per long ton. Choice cake with 8 per cent ammonia quoted at 27.50 per long ton. Prices dated April 9 from New Orleans.
Cash wheat prices ranged No 2 red 1.05 to 1.06 and No 2 hard 1.00 to 1.12. Corn quoted No 8 at 80 cents and No 3 white at 80 cents. Oats listed No 2 at 56 4 cents and No 2 white at 58 1 2 cents. May wheat closed at 1.02 5 cents, July 95 5 cents. Corn May 79 1 cents, July 78 cents. Oats May 56 4 cents, July 49 cents.
Quotations listed for wheat corn and oats in Kansas City with bid prices for May July and September contracts. Wheat ranges show No 2 half at around 1.03 to 1.09 and No 2 red near 1.01 to 1.02 per bushel. Corn and oats prices follow with assorted futures bids across months.
Lead quiet at 4.15 while spelter holds 6.75 in quiet tone report from St Louis on April 9.
A strange nocturnal pest burrows into the ground and devastates young cabbage plants in Williamson county and nearby truck farms. An entomologist will be sent by the department of agriculture to investigate the infestation.
Observations from 8 a.m. show unsettled conditions tonight and Wednesday with coastal showers. The report explains air pressure is measured, isobars and isotherms defined, and winds indicated. temperatures and precipitation indicate past 24 hours, noting maximum wind speeds.
Live stock sales remained brisk despite mixed quality. Cows mid grades 3.50 to 4.00 dollars, best 4.50. calves scarce up to six dollars per hundredweight. hogs steady around seven dollars for desirable lots. Eight carloads of Mexican steers from Eagle Pass expected, shipment to Fort Worth, buyers watchful for price. San Antonio competing with Fort Worth for fat cattle prices.
Ed C. Lasater of Falfurrias visits Fort Worth amid bullish talk on Texas cattle markets. He plans five car loads of heavy feeder steers to Oklahoma City and expects to feature prominently in spring sales. Industry slack due to severe winter and drought conditions is cited, with March receipts down at Fort Worth and Chicago. Armour & Co representatives tour San Antonio and report hopes for easier times despite high meat prices.
The city served the choice meat at a recent event. One hotel offered the meat the other night with blue ribbons. Armor attached to each piece an exact duplicate of the stock show ribbon won by the beeves.
Cattle buyers pressed the market with higher steer bids and rapid sales, Oklahoma City interests taking a third of early offerings. Top steer price reached 7.10 with most cattle 6.00 to 6.50, while five carloads of feeders hit 5.65, a yearly high. Hogs eased to 7.75 8.15, sheep demand remained strong with clipping wethers selling around 5.45 to 5.50.
Cattle receipts 7000 including 300 southern. native steers 6.25 to 8.50. southern steers 5.80 to 7.80. southern cows and heifers 3.56 to 6.00. Hogs receipts 14000. market 5 to 10 cents lower. heavy 7.85 to 7.95. lights 7.40 to 7.70. pigs 5.75 to 6.70. Sheep receipts 13000. market 10 cents higher. muttons 4.50 to 6.50. lambs 6.60 to 8.26.
ST LOUIS April 9 Receipts and quotations today show cattle 3500 with 400 Texas stock and steady markets Native beef steers 5.25 to 3.75 Texas and Oklahoma 5 000 hogs 900 steady to 10 cents up mixed and butchers 7.70 to 8.00 good heavy 7.90 to 8.00 sheep 4000 15 cents higher native muttons 5.00 to 7.10 lambs 6.25 to 8.40
Chicago market report shows receipts for cattle at about 3000 with steady prices across categories. Hogs receipts near 15000 with demand dull and values five cents under yesterday. Sheep receipts about 14000 with market steady and ranges listed for natives Western yearlings and lambs.
A terse fragment notes a query about identity and a number, suggesting a riddle or coded reference. It hints at seeking information from someone about who or what corresponds to the digits seven six. No clear subject or event is established in readable text.
New York April 9. Weakness in American Can and Rock Island shares sparked early unsettled trading, but counter moves in Union Pacific Southern Pacific Reading Lehigh Valley and American Smelting helped a general recovery. Reading rose to 165% and L N to 168 with final prices near day’s best as market closed strong.
New York opened barely steady with an advance of four points on April but fell to two to five points lower as early trading pushed by Wall Street and southern buyers. Flood news and weather outlook boosted selling while support from buyers kept some strength. By midmorning prices dipped, then recovered slightly before afternoon trading faded with a net gain of seven to eight points from the day’s low.
On April 9 in New York primes show mercantile paper at 4 1/4 percent. Sterling exchange stands firm with bankers bills at 4.84 25 for 60 days and 4.86 95 for demand. Commercial bills at 4.83 percent. Silver at 58 1/2 cents, satcats dollars at 47 cents. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds steady.
New York April 9 money on call firm with ruling, closing and offered rates at 3 percent. Time loans show strength with 60 day at 3.44 percent, 90 days at 3 percent, and six months at 3 percent four per cent.
The April 9 report from New York notes firm and quiet cotton goods markets. Yarns show upward price tendency for knitting yarns while dress goods meet steady demand for staples. Jobbers report steady trade but not large volumes.
In New York on April 9 cotton futures opened near steady levels with several contracts quoted across the curve. Prices ranged from January at 11.19 to December around 11.26, with highs near 11.29 and lows near 11.18 as trading started.
Cotton futures opened steady down 3 to 5 points then rallied as large buyers supported the market. By midmorning prices ranged 11 to 21 points above yesterday's close with July hitting 11.59, a new high for this bull run amid rumors of shorts covering and strong Texas seed conditions.
Cotton futures opened steady with April at 11.31, May 11.89, July 11.43, August 11.31, September 11.26, October 11.22, December 11.24, January 11.26. The market closed very steady with a small net advance of 6 to 9 points.
Spot cotton finishes up 22 points with American middling fair at 7.01 and middling 6.39. Trade reports sales of 6000 bales, 500 speculative/export, 5600 American, while receipts total 77,000 bales, including 70,600 American.
Futures opened firm and closed steady with quoted rates for multiple month spreads. Apr 6 144 percent, May-Jun 6.13, Jun-Jul 6.12, Jul-Aug 6.11, Sep-Oct 6.05, Nov-Dec 6.02, Feb-Mar 6.02, Mar-Apr 6.03.
Cottonseed meal priced at 27.00 to 27.25 per ton on prime basis in Memphis. Linters quoted at 2 percent and 3 percent.
Spot and future prices for cotton seed oil listed for April through November contracts with daily and cumulative sales. May through November figures show multiple lots traded, with total reported sales reaching 19 800 units.
Leading spot markets in New Orleans show cotton firm with a 1 16 cent gain. Trade includes 550 bales sold on the spot to arrive 1175 bales, with price ranges from 7 16 to 13 16 cents for various grades and receipts at 5421 against 131 878 stock.
Houston April 9 steady cotton spot market with middling prices unchanged. About 11 percent of sales consisted of 783 bales in a quiet session.
Spots firm at closing with middling unchanged from yesterday at 11 3 4 cents. Total sales 3985 bales as Galveston market reports steady demand and prices in a quiet session.
In New York on April 9 Spot cotton remained quiet while prices rose five points. Middling uplands traded at 11.30 and Middling gulf at 11.55 with no sales recorded.
In Memphis on April 9 the spot cotton market held steady with a 4 cent rise pushing middling prices to 11 1/4 cents. Readings indicate cautious trading and modest price movement amid early-season activity.
Texas agriculture officials announce 81 847 bales of cotton ginned in March. The surge reflects new reports from ginners who had not previously filed season totals, adding to the monthly statewide figure.
The report records a deduction of 1981 bales from the season's receipts as noted in cotton statistics. This adjustment reflects fiber production data for the period observed.
In New Orleans rice demand remained strong with light transactions and mixed prices for rough and clean Honduras. The Port of San Antonio announces public auctions of seized merchandise including mescal alcohol, cigars, cigarettes, and liquor, to be held April 24 1912 at the Custom House and Post Office Building with Deputy Collector H C S Smith overseeing the sale in Brownsville and El Paso listings.
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