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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1916
Page
9
Reports indicate cotton markets reached their highest levels in three years amid supply concerns while Liverpool saw a dip in performance. Analysts cite weather and demand shifts as driving factors behind the price surge and regional lag.
The Cotton Exchange reports a bull surge lifting prices beyond the last three years' highs. New York and New Orleans led gains after early selling. rains in Texas and Oklahoma weighed as Liverpool and private cables signaled tapering foreign demand. New Orleans and New York volumes climbed with traders hopeful of 20 cent cotton amid market chatter.
The New York cotton market opened unsettled with declines then recovered as bull support and covering pushed December to 14.61 and January to 14.69 before midday. After a morning dip to the low 14.3s, prices surged to near 14.7 with late afternoon activity around 14.67 for December and 14.77 for January. Exports totaled 3094 bales and southern spot markets showed gains.
Futures opened around 14.22 to 14.75 for several contracts with modest gains. Closing figures show steady tone with late 11 o clock call indicating Liverpool set to open Wednesday 11 points higher.
In New Orleans, cotton prices reversed a brief drop after private rain reports from Texas. Prices climbed sharply, advancing 27 to 30 points on the day, lifting futures to new three year highs with middling at 13.82. A 20 cent cotton forecast fueled late-session buying.
In New Orleans the cotton market opened steady with bids showing Oct 13.90 and Jan 14.27. Prices for March at 14.47 and May high. daily closes ranged with Oct near 14.38 and Dec around 14.23. Cotton seed oil quotes in New York showed noon and close figures from 9.10 to 9.80 with notable activity totals of 4,500 to 31,700 bales.
Weather, disease, and insect damage cut forecast wheat by 105 million bushels, corn by 9 million, and oats by 43 million from July projections. The USDA July update lists yields, conditions, and acreages for winter and spring wheat, corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, tobacco, flax, rice, cotton, sugar beets, apples, peaches, and potatoes with figures and comparisons to prior years.
Cattle re empts total about 16 000 head with seven cars quarantined. Market remains steady to strong as buyers and sellers in Kansas City negotiate midweek prices across the day.
Local Kansas commission men reported a decided apple crop shortage this year. California car lot receipts helped ease pressure while peaches grow scarcer and stay near 1.65 a bushel. Butter and eggs steadied with little change from last week.
Shippers reported country produce prices in San Antonio on Tuesday. Butter and creamery butter held steady with creamery at 30 cents per pound and country at 18 to 20 cents. Poultry values were steady with hens at 6 dollars per dozen, large fryers 5 to 6 dollars, broilers 2.59 to 3.00 each, turkeys 15 to 16 cents per pound, ducks 4 to 5 dollars per dozen, and geese 4.50 to 5 dollars per dozen.
Chicago reports higher butter and poultry prices with increased freemarket bids. Milk and egg receipts show several price points for firsts and ordinary firsts, while potatoes stay unsettled with varied car and regional pricing.
Chicago reports show Liverpool cables depressing wheat prices with US outlook and rains in Argentina easing losses. September and December quotes softened, later rebounded on export hopes. cattle hogs and pork markets shown mixed with modest gains and steady demand for choice stock. Local livestock receipts small, prices steady to higher for select hogs.
Quotations listed for Chicago grain markets with wheat No 2 red and No 2 hard new prices and corn No 2 yellow figures, oats standard and barley shown with small percentage changes.
Quotations current in Kansas City list butter creamery 28 cents firsts 26 cents seconds 23 cents packing stock 214 cents. Eggs first 22 cents. Poultry hens 164 cents remix 10 cents, broilers 21 cents. New potatoes firm across states including Louisiana Texas Arkansas Oklahoma Triumphs and a Kaw Valley early Ohios 0 cents.
Steady rains gave way to showers in Seguin and nearby areas as boll weevils start attacking cotton. Despite damage, farmers expect a good crop with hot dry weather boosting yields. projections range up to a bale per acre in some areas, about one third bale countywide.
The Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized a general five cent per hundred pound increase in carload rates on clean rice from Texas Louisiana Arkansas and New Orleans gulf points and Memphis to nearly all U S destinations except the far west and old south. Proposals for rough rice and rice products were found not justified.
Oklahoma City auction data shows cattle receipts around 1800 head with steady demand for steers and hogs about 1200 head with top prices near 9.60 dollars per cwt. Notable consignors Atkins Ramsdale and Lowry Comanche posted steer counts and approximate prices around 6.90 and 6.10 dollars per hundredweight respectively.
In Kansas City on an August day quotes showed No. 2 hard wheat at 1.28 to 1.33, No. 2 red at 1.29 to 1.37. Corn prices ranged with No. 2 mixed at 0.16 to 0.45 and No. 2 yellow at 0.16 to 0.45 with other grades 0.42 to 0.44.
Quotations were set today with mixed results in staples including corn oats and white varieties. Prices referenced include corn around 3201.8 and oats near 41%c with various No 2 and No 2 white designations.
Local packing house quotations list dry galt extras at 15 percent, bacon extras at 16 percent, and dry sale bellies averaging 14 to 16 pounds priced at 18 cents. Fancy breakfast bacon at 27 cents and fancy home bacon bellies 14 to 16 pounds average 19 cents. Pure lard at 14 percent and compound at 11 percent.
Liverpool spot cotton opened strong with good middling at 8.85 pence and middling at 8.694 pence and low middling at 8.53 pence. Sales reached 5000 bales with 500 bales for speculation and export. Receipts were 12,000 bales.
Fort Worth stockyards report cattle receipts 2500 with varied prices for Reeves stockers cows and calves. Hogs receipts 1000 with price ranges from heavy to light and pigs. Sheep receipts 800 show lambs yearlings and wethers with ewe and cull prices.
Receipts show 16000 cattle 16000 hogs and 6000 sheep with market strength noted. Prices list prime fed steers dressed beef and southern cattle ranges plus stockers and feeders and lambs with several figures and ranges.
Chicago stockyards receipts show hogs 13000 with a strong market and mixed price ranges. Cattle receipts 7000 with a weak market across native beef stockers cows and calves. Sheep receipts 15000 with a steady market for wethers and lambs.
ST LOUIS Mo Ane Receipts 9500 market steady hogs various weights at 8.75 to 10.10 dollars, mixed and butcher 9.75 to 10.07, good heavy 9.95 to 10.05, bulk 9.75 to 15.00. Cattle receipts 800 market slow native beef steers 7.50 to 10.25, cows 5.50 to 8.00, stockers 5.30 to 8.25, Texas steers 5.50 to 9.10, prime southern steers 9.00 to 10.09, cows and heifers 5.00 to 8.00, prime yearling steers and heifers 8.75 to 10.26. Sheep receipts 9000 market steady spring lambs 7.00 to 14.5, slaughtered ewes 5.00 to 7.25, bleating ewes 9.00 to 10.00, yearlings 6.00 to 9.50.
SHREVEPORT La Aug 8 The fourth cut of ten cents a barrel on light crude production in North Louisiana since July 25 was posted by the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana reducing Caddo to 1.15 dollars and De Soto to 1.05 dollars Red River and Caddo heavy production remain unchanged at 0.65 dollars, having dropped from 1.05 and 0.90 dollars respectively in recent weeks.
New York coffee futures held firm with No. 7 Rio grade quoted around 8.61 64 for September and 8.72 for December. Trading showed cautious demand as buyers eyed weather and crop reports.
Futures in Liverpool trade show steady tones with listed contracts across nearby and forward months. Rates include August at 8.5214 and various 8.4x levels for September through July, reflecting a narrow trading range and stable expectations for price paths.
Lightning struck three tanks holding 112,500 barrels of crude oil owned by Gulf Pipe Line Co at Rivista near Beaumont. About half the oil can be saved by pumping from the bottom. Loss estimated at 100,900 dollars with no danger of the fire spreading.
The first bale of the 1916 cotton crop arrived in Pine Bluff Arkansas from Rison in Cleveland County and in Waco Texas from the Cameron farm four miles north of Waco. The Pine Bluff bale came from the county farm and arrived two days earlier than last year while the Waco bale arrived two days later than the prior season.
In New York on August 8 cotton goods remained strong and active with yarns firm. Raw silk held steady and Canton grades were readily purchased by cotton mills. Burlaps stayed firm as mills continued buying.
In Savannah on August 5 the Turpentine firm posted notable activity with 42 sales, 429 reraioun, and 365 shipments impacting stock of 14 438. Spelter hull and spot resin from St Louis referenced alongside sales 1681 and receipts 1286, indicating varied market turnover.
A Louisville Times theatre note recounts audience confusion during a show. Rev Seelig Twivers asks for a plot hint as the act opens while fellow patrons explain a muddled love triangle involving a daughter, a father, and a would-be killer with slang filled phrasing.
New York trading opened with few material changes as gains in inactive specialties continued. Consolidated Gas rose modestly, while International Paper preferred and other issues advanced, yet overall market interest remained tepid amid mixed early gains and a late but modest pullback after the crop report noting corn and wheat damage.
Mercantile paper at 3 and 4 percent. Sterling bills 60 days at 4.70 and demand at 4.75. Guilders demand 4 15 16, cables 4 14 9. Bar silver 6. Time loans steady with 2 to 4 percent ranges. Call money firm at 2 percent, last loan 2 percent, closing bid 2 percent. Government bonds steady railroad bonds irregular. Mexican dollars unchanged.
Mercantile paper 3% to 4 percent. Sterling sixty day bills 4.71%, demand 4.75%, cables 4.767-16. Bar silver 65½ cents. Mexican dollars 50 cents. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds easier.
Lead prices at New York market quoted at $6.00 New asked with dull Speller. copper steady around $25.27 to $27.00 electrolytic. tin steady at $37.07 spot. iron unchanged. Fast St Louis delivery cited at $43c.
Lead prices stand at £28 15s with spot copper £107 and futures £105. Tin shows spot £167 5s and futures £168. Electrolytic copper priced at £124 and zinc or related figures noted.
G W Nutt and his wife of Clinton marry 72 years after meeting in Ohio. She 91, he nearly 92. They have 12 children and about 135 descendants, with quilting skills and a reused garden legacy. He shares odd jobs after stock raising retirement and a modest pension. Passing Show.
The Cotton Region Bulletin from San Antonio reports 24 hour weather ending 7 a m along the Houston district. Temperatures near normal with rainfall exceeding one inch at Galveston and Hazlehurst, Miss. Allen Buell, Meteorologist Weather Bureau.
Meteorologist Weather Bureau issues a weather bulletin detailing atmospheric conditions and forecasts. The bulletin provides temperature ranges humidity and precipitation expectations for upcoming days and regional impacts.
Raw sugar steady in New York trading. Molasses quoted at 5.00 per unit. Refined products unsettled with fine granulated sugar at 7.25.
Berlin reports that the royal material testing office at Gross Luchterfelde has announced a method to manufacture paper from cotton stalks. The find, while of little use to Germany which lacks cotton, could aid the United States facing a paper shortage.
A Kansas Oakley column muses on balancing obituary duties with joyous news and public ads. It weaves scenes of a newborn, a theater promoter, a fight, a wedding, and a taxi tale as life’s moments shift between grief and mirth. The piece ends with a quoted London taxi anecdote about knowing the city.
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