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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 29, 1911

Page

9

Cattle Market Holds Back as Rain Lifts Texas Outlook

At Union Stock Yards on August 29 cattle dealings were limited with buyers delaying purchases. Receipts totaled about 500 head as ranchers wait for firmer prices with fancy cows not exceeding 3.25 and calves around 4.50, hogs topping 6.75, and some cornfed steers held by sellers.

Union Stock Yards Texas Cvan Price W. H. Holdieman Weatherford J. Tichman Gordon J. W Jackson Graham M. Rickles Grapham

Stock Yards Talk On Rain Shortage And Cattle Market

Officials report widespread drought across Texas ranges with Beeville Refugio and Manard regions hardest hit while cattle body condition declines and stockmen seek rain. A Post City dynamite rain experiment briefly caused a shower and cooler conditions. Packing plants show rising hog totals and pork markets lift on export demand. Texas cattlemen and visiting South American ranchers tour the King Ranch led by R J Kleberg. A Denver observer notes widespread misweighing of cattle by untrained buyers and faulty scales hindering fair price.

Cattle Sales Report From Fort Worth and Sugar Price Rise

Fort Worth reports cattle sales today with varied outcomes across grades. In New York, refined sugar prices rose ten cents per hundred pounds on the market.

Weather Shapes Wheat Decline In Northwest Market

Improved weather in the northwest pushed wheat lower with Winnipeg and Minneapolis down and Chicago weaker. December opened to off and eased to , while December 14 lower at 62%c. Corn stayed quiet and firm as Liverpool spot gains supported late activity. Oats and provisions moved marginally, with January hogs and pork values near steady.

Associated Press Chicago Northwest Winnipeg Minneapolis Liverpool

Chicago market grain receipts report for Wheat Corn and Oats

Receipts today show Wheat 252 cars with 123 contract grade, Corn 626 cars with 229 contract grade, and Oats 12 cars. Total wheat receipts at Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth reach 562 cars, versus 455 last week and 799 the same day last year.

Chicago Til Minneapolis Duluth

Chicago Cash Grain Quotations for August 29

Chicago cash grain quotes list prices for wheat in several classes including No. 2 red at 90% cents, No. 2 hard winter 2.95, No. 1 northern spring 1.03 to 1.10, No. 2 northern spring 92 to 1.05, No. 2 spring 96 to 1.03, velvet chaff 92 to 1, durum 88 to 98 cents. Corn values show No. 2 at 65% cents, No. 2 white 65%, No. 2 yellow 65% cents. Oats quotes: No. 2 41 cents, No. 2 white 42% to 43% cents, standard 42% cents.

Associated Press Chicago Park Ill

Receipts Break Record at Taylor Cotton Market

Taylor Texas August receipts surpass five thousand bales marking the heaviest cotton supply in history. Weather delays have kept more bales in fields while demand for pickers remains high as farmers crowd streets seeking labor.

Taylor Growers Taylor Tex

Late Corn Crop Outlook Indicates Heavier Returns

The week’s reports show a fairly good crop for late planted corn, with early planted corn in poor condition in uplands and sandy soils. Frost risk remains manageable with three more weeks of favorable weather, though ground is drying from heat and some drought. Black rust affects grain quality in places, but yields remain largely intact as wheat harvests progress. Winter wheat planting is well advanced with signs of increased acreage if conditions stay favorable.

Texas Range Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association Beeville Quanah Cincinnati

Chicago live stock market pricing snapshot

Associated Press reports Chicago cattle receipts about 5000 with steady to higher prices. Hogs show about 14009 head with good steady to weak demand and prices from 6.90 to 7.85. Sheep receipts near 22000 with a slow market and bid ranges listed for natives, westerns, yearlings and lambs.

St Louis Market Receipts and Quotations End of Aug

Cattle receipts 6000 including 1400 Texans with a steady market. Native beef steers 4.50 to 8.15, cows and heifers 3 to 7.50, stockers and feeders 3 to 4.75. Texas and Oklahoma cattle 4 to 6.25, calves 4 to 5.50. Hogs receipts 5000 with steady to 5 cents lower. Pigs and lights 5 to 7.50, packers 7.56 to 7.70, butchers 7.40 to 7.72. Sheep receipts 2500, market steady. Native muttons 3.25 to 3.75, lambs 4 to 6.50.

Associated Press Chicago Reeves Texas ST. Louis Oklahoma

Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices Steady at Kansas City Market

Receipts total and prices listed with steady tone. Cattle include native and southern steers cows and heifers stockers and feeders bulls and calves with varied ranges. Hogs show bulk sales around 7.20 to 7.40 and lights 7.20 to 7.45. Sheep steady with muttons and lambs priced and range ewes and wethers noted.

Market Roundup Silent on Main Trade Shifts

New York July 29. Hides leather steady. Wool steady. Molasses steady. Rice steady. Minor price trends show stability across key commodities with no dramatic movement reported.

New York

Small Gains In Stock List At New York Trading

Aug 29 overview shows mixed results with Harriman issues and St Paul slipping while Canadian Pacific and Lehigh Valley rise. Bears pushed prices lower in late trading. Northern Pacific and others recovered some in second hour as sentiment improved on railroads and July reports. Lead and Spelter steady to quiet in St Louis metal markets.

Associated Press New York O Ae Harriman St. Paul Canadian Pacific Lehigh Valley Union Pacific Southern Pacific Reading U. Ss. Steel Chesapeake and Ohio American Bear Western Erie Northern Pacific Great Northern Rock Island Atchison U. S. Steel International Harvester Missouri Pacific Standard Oil Setae Chi Mil St. P Colorado Fuel and Iron Colorado and Southern Delaware and Hudson Denver and Rio Nashville Kan Tex National Biscuit New York Central Norfolk and Western Le’s Palace Rock Ts Island Co Southern Railway United States Ahey Wabash Western Union Texas Company

Cotton opens steady with late pullback after storm notes

New York initial gains fade as afternoon selling sees cotton slip to about 1 to 2 points net. Liverpool and New Orleans supported early trades but selling by mid morning turns prices down with crop receipts and favorable private crop advice cited. spot unchanged.

New York Carolina Georgia Liverpool New Orleans

Cotton futures open steady in New York market

Cotton futures opened steady in New York with contracts listed for January at 11.42 11.43 preference, March 11.63 11.54, May 11.60 11.61, July 11.62 bid, August 12.30 offered, September 11.43 offered, October 11.39 11.40, November 11.39 offered, December 11.46.

THE Associated Press New York Igi Janener Ener

New Orleans Cotton Opens Steady on August Futures

New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with gains of 20 points on August and slight rises on other months. News from the Atlantic storms hinted crop damage and covering, but overall activity remained quiet as traders awaited the weather bureau’s condition report and pondered heavy selling by bulls linked to a New York brokerage liquidation.

Associated Press New Orleans Atlantics Bears Bull Clique New York Evers Weather Bureau Bureau

Cotton Futures Open Steady in New Orleans

New Orleans on August 29 saw cotton futures open steady with August at 11.95 bid, September 11.43 bid, October 11.31 32, December 11.35 36, January 11.45, March 11.53 asked, and May 11.61 63 cents.

Associated Press New Orleans

Liverpool Cotton Prices Hold Steady After Quiet Day

Close cotton spot quiet in Liverpool with prices down six points. American middling fair 7.44, good middling 7.10, middling 6.80, receipts 8000 bales including 1600 American. Futures opened steady and closed very steady with multiple month prices listed from August to May.

Associated Press Liverpool

Market Briefs for City and Coast Listings

A terse market summary shows mixed bids across ports with steady and quiet quotes. Liverpool gained ease with 6,80 while New York remained quiet at 12.40, New Orleans steady at 11 15 16, Houston steady at 13 00, 5,424, and Galveston quiet at 12 00, 1,800.

Liverpool New York New Orleans Houston Galveston

Spot cotton steady in New Orleans with varied grade prices

New Orleans on August 29 reports spot cotton holding steady with no arrivals and a wide spread of quoted prices from low ordinary at 8 3 4 to good middling around 12 5 16. Receipts total 7 490 bales and stock stands at 26 361 bales.

Associated Press New Orleans

General Rainfall Hits Cotton Belt Amid Storm

Rainfall occurred over most cotton growing regions except extreme Southwest Texas and part of Southeastern Alabama where no rain. Heaviest falls were in the Mississippi Valley and parts of Oklahoma and Western Texas with over three inches in several states. Ardmore Oklahoma recorded 6.60 inches. Temperatures averaged 1 to 3 degrees above normal in the west, east Gulf coast, and Texas, with 74 to 90 degrees across the belt.

Washington Ardmore Oklo Cotton East Gulf Coast Texas Arkansas Cotton Belt Fort Smith Ark del Rio Tex

Cotton Statistics Today

Houston Texas and Augusta Georgia figures shown include last year data with total cotton counts. The table lists Houston 10 927 and Augusta 63360.

Houston Tex Augusta

Cotton Gossip Hits Market With Bullish Weather Hint

The market lacked vigor as traders awaited the bureau report and weekly weather data. Cotton movements through Galveston and Houston worried the trace, with prices closing lower in New York and Liverpool, while spinners appeared to wake up and weekly sales reached about 4 to 5 thousand bales.

Bureau Galveston Fnd Houston New York Liverpool

Texas ports report heavy new cotton receipts today

Texas cotton arrivals are strong with Galveston at 28 272 bales and Houston at 10 927 bales as markets rally on high demand. Gins report record outputs amid a notably early season with rains helping in Goliad and Brownsville showing promising totals while wind damages impact nearby crops.

Texas Galveston Houston

Weather Outlook for Oklahoma and West Texas

Oklahoma fair and warmer in the west with Wednesday expected to stay fair. West Texas mostly fair, while Far Texas experiences generally cloudy skies with showers tonight or Wednesday, cooler tonight except in the south.

San Antonio East Texas Oklahoma Texas

Seed Trade Booms As Fall Planting Nears In San Antonio

The San Antonio seed market reports record sales across cotton, corn and cane seed with high demand for fall planting. Onion sets rise, Bermuda onions are scarce, and seed potatoes are hard to obtain as growers hold stock. Pickle stock tightens supply and canning demand surges around the fair season, while buyers rush for new crop cucumbers and cucumbers.

San Antonio United States Seed Company Bermuda Laredo Canary Islands Gulf Coast Texas

Tomato Market Tightens Amid Short Supply Across Nation

The week opens with coast tomatoes at 1.50 per four basket crate, up a quarter from last week. Tomato shipments shrink nationwide with canned corn and beef prices firmer. cattle receipts drop, and meat markets foresee a harsh winter with higher prices.

United States Baltimore

Sugar prices rise on New York market and local retail

The Associated Press reports a ten cent rise in all refined sugars on the New York market today, totaling a 36 cent advance since last Monday. The higher price will apply immediately on the local market, lifting the robber to retailer rate to six dollars and ninety cents per hundred pounds.

Associated Press New York

San Antonio Produce Prices and Dairy Rates

Prices from San Antonio produce report show butter steady at 25 cents per pound for creamery and 14 to 16 cents for country butter. Fresh country candled 16 to 17 cents. Cheese firm with various varieties from 17 to 24 cents per pound. Poultry values list large hens at 6 dollars per dozen, medium hens 4.75 to 5.00 per dozen, large springs 4.00 per dozen, medium springs 2.75 per dozen, small springs 2.26 per dozen, guineas 3 dollars per dozen, ducks 6.00 to 6.50 per dozen, squads 1.00 to 1.25, turkeys 16 cents per pound.

Chicago Produce Quotations Report August Prices

Chicago market notes show butter steady with creamery at 20 25c and daisies 18 22c. Eggs steady at 10 14c, firsts 10c, prime firsts 17c. Cheese steady with daisies 13 4%? and Young Americas 18c, Long Horns 13c. Potatoes steady from 1.05 to 1.30. poultry steady with turkeys old 20c, young 20c, chickens 13c, springs 11c. Veal steady 50 60 lb at 7 8c and 85 lb at 10c.

Associated Press Chicago

New York Seed Receipts Reported in August

The AOSeed of New York reported August receipts totaling 24,183 with 22 cited as seed. The brief note notes the period and figures without further context.

Aoseed New York

Also Mentioned on This Page

Post City Aftrao McKenzie Trinidad Cal King Ranch R. J. Kleberg City M. Samans Jr Hidalgo G. C. Taylor Dilly M. Jinens Martindale Jim Jinkens Staples J. Odom and Family Stockton W. T. Stout F. C. Chevalier Fred Weinert Nixon Denver Fort, Worth Fort Worth N. Flores Street U.S. Department of Agriculture Willis L. Moore Chicago Grain Market Chicago Grain Movement Shinm’ts Chicago Cash Grain Chicago LivesTock Kansas City Livestock Kansas City ST. Louis Metal Spelter NEW York Futures Havre France Memphis Tile Associated Press Tenn Cotton Statistics U. 5 U. 5S Interion Movement Mobile Ala Savannah Wilmington N.C Norfolk Great Britain Continent Rales Tor Great Goliad Wires Brownsville Macon Texas and Kansas Ste M. Marucheeau Grain CO Main Ave
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