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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1912
Page
12
Weather Bureau forecast for Friday night and Saturday. San Antonio and vicinity expect unsettled conditions with chances of showers. East Texas also sees unsettled weather with showers in the northern portion tonight or Saturday.
New York August 2 stocks opened with minor moves led by National Biscuit up 1 point and Canadian Pacific down 1. Copper and Erie showed slight weakness while Reading and Lehigh Valley advanced. Markets later steadied with Westinghouse and Can issues showing strength but Steel, Great Northern, Union Pacific and Copper fell from earlier highs.
New York money market quotes on August 2 show call money steady at 2 1/4 percent with the ruling rate 2 1/4 percent. Closing bid and offered for call money were both 2 percent, with three month and six month figures cited in the daily ledger.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2 Lead steady at 4.60 to 4.62 percent while Speiter prices slipped to 6.96 as trading notes show a softening in the market.
New York August 2. Almost all lines of staple worsted dress goods were opened for spring yesterday on a basis from 2 to in advance over last year. Cotton goods rule firm with fair business coming forward on prints and bleached cottons. Brown cottons are higher.
ST. LOUIS August 2 Wool market remains steady with mids in the combing and clothing grades quoted at 23 to 26 cents per pound, light fine 19 to 21, heavy fine 13 to 18, tub washed 26 to 36 and 5 cents. market notes indicate steady tone across staple categories.
Temperature and rainfall for the Houston district covering 24 hours to 8 am meridian time. The belt remains unsettled with above normal temperatures. Rainfall exceeds one inch at Marlow Alexandria Fort Worth and Corsicana as noted by Allen Buell Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
Aug 2 report shows total receipts 122 head including 19 cattle, 3 calves, 87 horses, 4 hogs. Trade started active and stayed strong with prices steady vs yesterday, cows up to 4 dollars, bulk 3.50 to 4 dollars, calves around 4 to 5 dollars, hogs around 8 to 8.25 dollars per hundredweight. No sheep or goats offered.
Texas shippers moved a load of 201 pound hogs in Fort Worth today at 8.36 per hundredweight, near the season high. Ireland Hampton of Fort Worth notes Mexico rain shortages but improving Texas cattle prospects. Robert Sutton of Fowlerton visits Cattlemen's Exchange while Schreiner Halff from Frio County tops St Louis beef steer market at 7.26 per hundredweight.
London copper weak with spot at 77 pounds 17s 6d and futures 78 pounds 2s 6d. Tin eases with spot 204 pounds, futures 201 pounds 15s. Lead at 18 pounds 18s 9d and spelter 26 pounds 8s 6d. Tron: Cleveland warrants 69. 1% d in Len on.
Paris markets report three per cent rentes at 2.25 percent for the account. London exchange quotes 251 and 2444 cents for checks. Private discount rate listed at 2 percent.
On August 2 in New Orleans the rough rice market showed no trading activity while prices remained steady. Receipts included 219 Honduras rough at 4.60 and 3910 Japan clean at 3 6.30. Quotations listed Clean Honduras 4% to 6 5/8 and Japan 4 1/4 to 4 3/4.
Observations recorded at 8 a m Friday August 2 1912 show wind direction and speed temperature rainfall and overall weather state. Data column heads indicate wind direction wind velocity temperature rainfall and weather condition.
Burial permits issued for four residents. John Rastapoli, 68, died July 34 on San Juan road. Charles F. Moore, 42, died July 31 at 105 Callaghan avenue. Rita de la Garza, 44, died August 1 at 132 ae street. Paula Sara, 75, died August 1 at 726.
Fort Worth Texas August 2 cattle receipts small but sales rapid with strong prices. Calves light at 400 head sold firm while hogs 201 pound loads reached 8.35 and top hogs 7 25 for cattle 1400 receipts. Sheep 450 head steady with lambs around 7 as buyers and sellers struggled to settle on a basis.
Chicago cattle receipts reach 2500 with a weak market and price ranges from 5.80 to 10.25 for calves. Hog receipts near 10000 with prices 6.75 to 8.40 and bulk sales 7.60 to 8.10. Sheep receipts around 12000 with steady market and prices native 8.30 to 4.76, western 4.50 to 4.65, yearlings 4.60 to 5.65, native lambs 4.50 to 7.65, western 4.60 to 7.80.
Receipts totaled 13060 cattle with Native beef steers at 5.50 to 6.76 and Texas/Oklahoma steers 4.75 to 8.75. Hogs receipts 2500 with pigs 6.35 to 8.50 and heavy hogs 8.25. Sheep receipts 4000 with native muttons 5.50 to 7.25 and lambs 4.75 to 6.25.
Cattle receipts 1500 including 1000 southern. market steady. Native steers 6.50 to 9.75. southern steers 4.75 to 6.75. southern cows and heifers 3.60 to 5.50. Hogs receipts 3500. market 6 to 10 cents higher. bulk sales 8.00 to 8.20. heavy 7.90 to 8.00. packers and butchers 8.00 to 8.20. lights 8.10 to 8.25. pigs 6.00 to 7.00. Sheep receipts 2000. market steady. Muttons 3.50 to 4.60. lambs 6.00 to 7.50. range wethers and yearlings 3.50 to 5.00. range ewes 2.50 to 4.00.
Quotations show butter steady at 23 to 25 cents for creamery daisies 21 to 24 cents Eggs steady with receipts 10 754 cases. firsts 16 cents prime firsts 18 cents Cheese steady daisies 15 4 to 16 1 2 cents Twins 14 1 2 to 15c Young Americas 14 1 4 to 1 5c Long Horns 15 cents Potatoes steady with 40 car receipts Minnesota 71 2 to 75 0 cents Jersey Cobblers 98 cents to $1 Illinois 70 to 72 cents Kansas Missouri 73 to 7 cents Poultry live firm Turkeys 12 cents chickens 13 4 cents springs 17 to 19 cents Veal steady 9 to 13 cents.
Quotations today show poultry steady with chickens 12c and spring 16 18c, turkeys 16 30c, ducks 9% 12c, geese 11% c. Butter at 24% 26c per pound. Eggs higher with unspecified changes.
Quotations today for Butter-Creamery and Eyes items list prices in Kansas City. Butter-Creamery firsts 24c, seconds 22c, packing stock 20c. Extras lic firsts 18c, seconds 14c.
New York reports butter unchanged with receipts of 7332 barrels. Cheese also steady with 2019 axes receipts, while other dairy items show minimal changes and steady demand amid market activity on August 2.
Raw sugar nominal Muscovado 89 test at 3.48 cents per pound centrifugal 96 test 3.98 cents molasses 89 test 3.23 cents refined quiet. Petroleum and hides steady. Molasses quiet. Leather firm.
In New York on August 2 coffee futures were steady for No 7 Rio with September at 12.75 and March at 13.05. The report notes small price stability amid trading activity at the futures bell.
Dolores M dalupe on Garcia frame dwelling valued at 800 and Louis Haas on East Commerce street meat market valued at 100 receive building permits.
Chicago market items show wheat easing on cool dry northwest conditions with September at around 93 cents, corn slipping to about 67 cents, and hog prices weak on a hog quotation setback. September pork at 17.95, ribs 10.56, with mixed early and late session moves and slight net declines across grains.
Quotations show cash wheat and corn prices across grades. No. 2 red wheat at 1.00 to 1.02 dollars, No. 2 southern and northern grades varying, durum around 1.00 to 1.05 dollars, corn No. 2 at 0.78 to 0.82 dollars, oats futures quoted with multiple grades and ranges.
Wheat No 2 red 1.01 at 1.03 percent. No 2 hard 98 to 96 cents. Corn No 2 75 to 76 cents. No 2 white 81 cents. Close: Wheat Sept 92 cents. Dec up 4 cents. Corn Sept 67 1/2 cents. Dec 60 cents. Oats Sept 31 1/2 cents. Dec 32 cents.
Quotations released today show cash wheat at No 2 hard 88 91 cents, No 2 red 7 98 3 4 cents. Corn values list No 2 mixed 77 cents, No 2 white 80 cents, other No 2 white 42 cents, No 2 mixed 36 cents. Futures close: Wheat September 87 3 4 cents, December 88 1 2 cents, May 2 cents. Corn September 67 1 4 cents, December 84 1 4 cents, May 56 cents. Oats September 32 1 2 cents, December 33 3 8 cents.
Leading spot markets in New Orleans report steady prices across grades with fifty sales on hand and arrivals of 17 bales. Quotations show low ordinary at 9 16 to 9 16 cents and middling around 12 to 18 16 cents with various nominal values. Receipts total 2 and stock stands at 26,798.
Galveston notes spot cotton closing steady with revised grades. Low ordinary 8.9 cents, good ordinary 10, lowe ry 12, middling 13.5 to 16, good middling 16, middling fair 13.13 to 13.16. Sales 30, spot at 50, fob 0, receipts 318, stock 21,348.
Spot cotton closed steady with grades quoted at 87 16 to 137 16 cents. Low ordinary 87 16, ordinary 97 16, good ordinary 107 16, low middling 123 16, middling 188 16, good middling 137 16, middling fair 131 16. Sales 26, shipments 364, stock 19 062.
Spot cotton closed steady with middling uplands at 13.10 and middling gulf at 1.35. Sales reached 2721 bales as market figures circulated from New York trading on August 2.
The Memphis cotton market reports steady prices with middling quality noted as unchanged in early trading. Details are fragmentary and may reflect local trading conditions in Tennessee.
In New York cotton opened higher on strong cables and profit taking by yesterday's sellers. Swell in rain reports in the southwest boosted optimism about the crop, but a government report and ongoing unsettled weather sparked selling and a late steady close with active months 25 to 26 points above prior close early after the report.
New Orleans August cotton futures opened steady with a one to two point rise, aided by better cables but offset by western rains. Prices fluctuated after the Bureau on condition released bullish but mixed figures, lifting October, December, and January while heavy selling later trimmed gains. By 2 pm, prices stood 17 to 18 points above yesterday's close.
New Orleans markets show cotton futures opening steady with August at 12.86 89 and May near 13.00 13.02. Futures closed easy, unchanged to five points down from yesterday’s close, with several contracts quoted and bids noted.
At Liverpool on August 2 the market showed moderate business with prices down seven points. American middling fair quoted at 8.18d and good middling at 7.734d, with middling 7.2384d, low middling 7.13d, and below at 6.65d and 6.174d. Total sales 7000 bales, 6900 of which were American. no receipt noted.
Futures in Liverpool opened and closed steady with small bids. The report lists contract prices across months from August through May, showing minor fluctuations and consistent demand.
The August crop condition stood at 76.5 with Texas at 84 amid dry weather and mixed rains. New York and New Orleans futures rose while liquidity limited gains as traders awaited more showers and broader rainfall across the belt.
The list shows license numbers 260s for J. F. Carle of 1031 West Magnolia Avenue and 2609-J for J. B. Hall of 2216 Ruiz Street in the local vehicle licensing record.
The USDA reported the United States cotton crop on July 25 at 76.5 percent of normal. State readings include Virginia 85 North Carolina 80 South Carolina 75 Georgia 68 Florida 75 Alabama 73 Mississippi 68 Louisiana 76 Texas 84 Arkansas 74 Tennessee 71 Missouri 75 Oklahoma 0 California 99.
Cotton seed futures and spot prices held firm in New York on August 2 with various months quoted. August to January contracts showed steady to rising levels, with notable sells of 200 September and 200 October contracts and total sales reaching 6100 units.
A roundup of property deeds shows transfers from A H Burts to William Beuhler and wife for Garden street Lot 11 part of block 2877 at 2250 dollars, and multiple other parcels. Transactions include Doebler to Whittenburg, Kirkpatrick to Kaigler, Levy to Gravis quit claim, Christopher to Allen, Boren to Figh, Bechtel to Maturan, Matthews to Haynes, Monton to Stillman, Echterhoff to Toerbel, Kamp to Biggs, and Cadena to Galvan in various blocks and additions with prices ranging from 100 to 2635 dollars.
Birth notices list a boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Leon C. Voight on July 30 at 219 Lafitte street. A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jackson on August 1 at 2413 Roosevelt avenue. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. L. Gonzales on July 29 at 423 Laitilio street. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. C. Silva on August 1 at 231 Camargo street. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. L. Watson on July 3a at 1020 Blanco road. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. T. Dunaway on July 25 at 428 Delmar street. Also a birth noted for In Shanklin on July 2%.
Sugar supplies arrive in car lots easing market strain while prices hold around 6.70. Peaches flood markets prompting lower prices as canning booms. Georgia rains and heat hit local peach outlook but Texas remains loaded with fruit. California crops show strong fruit conditions overall.
Prices listed for poultry butter cheese eggs and vegetables by shipper terms. Notable items include medium hens $4.50 to $6.30 per dozen, turkeys 13 to 14 cents per pound, tomatoes per 5 peck box at $1, and Texas potatoes $1.75 per hundredweight. Also given are nuts, syrups, seeds, beans, meats, lard, sugar, coffee, and canned fruits with various unit prices.
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