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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
7
The Weather Bureau forecast frosty conditions across Texas. For San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Sunday expect fair skies with frost and freezing, while East Texas will see frost to the coast and freezing away from the immediate coast, with Sunday turning fair.
American Overall Co. offers a six room cottage at 425 Live Oak St for sale. The building must be moved off the lot immediately to make room for factory construction.
Real estate and lending firm William W. Her ring Realty Rentals Loans and Insurance advertises at 726 BE Houston Street with old phone 8369 inviting readers to visit Sunday sales and services.
Classified ad shows buyer seeking a good diamond as first payment on a fine corner lot at 952 Light. No agents offered. Also offers sacrifice of modern cottage at 415 N San Marcos St, described as artistic with gas electric built in features mirrors and walking distance from location.
Housing sale ads list multiple sacrificial prices from $900 to $4500. Properties include four room bungalow near Beacon Hill car line at $1500, five room near Beacon Hill line at $2000, three room on Porter Street at $900, and a $3000 home described as great sacrifice price. Contact Richey Casey and Anderson at Gunter Building offices.
Seventy five eighty acre tract described as level sand loam soil with 95 percent tillable share. Owner seeks quick sale at 30 per acre though real value 40. Property includes good dwelling, well, windmill, tank, fenced and three-road frontage in artesian belt. See J L Lytle Realty 209 Gibbs Building. Also ten room house at 802 S Presa St with electric lights bath inquire A Saladino White Swan Cafe 404 E Houston St.
Classified notices advertise several large tracts and small farms for sale or trade in Texas. Listings include a 20 acre country home near unspecified location, a 500 acre parcel near Carrizo Springs Dimmit county, and 80 acre plus 20 acre tracts of rich land. Other offers include a chicken ranch, a 3-lot Florida Street sale, and a black lands trade hub in Jackson Victoria Nueces counties. Trade options include city property, house rentals, and partner development arrangements. Contact GEO. C. THOMPSON LAND CO. 226 St. Marys St or P. O. box 837.
Advertisement for a 200 acre irrigated farm in Costilla county Colorado near Mesita with Sanches reservoir. 129 acres cultivated, new improvements including 8 room bungalow and outbuildings, fenced and beets alfalfa potatoes and grains planned. Price 90 per acre with 6000 cash and balance five years at 5 percent or exchange for a San Antonio residence up to 6000. Address Jos F Miller Hamburg Iowa.
New York opened steady to a 4 point drop on weaker cables but quickly rallied as buyers covered. Demand appeared scattered with bullish trade reports and the Memphis Cotton Exchange estimating 13,986,000 bales including linters. After 5 to 7 points of net gain, selling renewed and prices eased back near the previous close with irregular fluctuations.
Market notes Chile weather aided wheat sentiment while corn weakened on country selling. May futures opened near 90% to 90%c. pork traded around $18.87 per hundredweight, lard at $10.25, ribs about $9.97 to $10. Cattle and oats held steady with slight net declines, closing mixed on light weekend demand.
Cotton futures in New York opened and closed steady with futures for December through October quoted around 12.1 to 12.8 cents per pound. Trading featured bids and varied intraday highs and lows as buyers awaited direction.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady with a 4 to 9 point advance as cables largely met expectations. Demand came mainly from early-week sellers not wanting to carry over Sunday while the census bureau figures near publication supported the market. Late morning quotes showed 1 to 8 points gains, but never below yesterday's final levels.
Quotations reported in Chicago show No 2 red cash wheat at 1.00 to 1.08 dollars, No 2 hard 86 to 87 cents, No 1 northern 87 cents, No 2 northern 85 to 86 cents, No 2 spring 83 to 83 cents, velvet chaff 81.5 to 82 cents, durum 1 cent. Oats No 2 white 34.5 to 35 cents, standard 33.5 to 34 cents.
Cotton futures closed steady with a net advance of four to six points after opening higher. Prices showed small gains across the session with values near 12.50 to 12.75 for several contracts while market notation and garbled digits hinder full detail.
Spot cotton in fair demand in Liverpool on December 7 with American middling fair at 7.424 pence and sales reaching 9000 bales. Of these, 1000 were for speculation and export and included 7100 bales for prompt delivery.
Liverpool reports a quiet trading day with futures opening steady and closing steady. The various contracts ranged from December at 6.64 percent to October at 6.21 percent, showing a narrow, orderly pattern.
Kansas City quoti ons show cash prices for wheat and corn across grades with values for oats. December May and July futures for wheat corn and oats listed with percentages and fractions.
The report lists cash grain prices for wheat corn and oats with No 2 red wheat at 1.03 to 1.08 per bushel and No 2 hard at 7.90 to 7.90 include closing quotes for December wheat at 88 1 4 and May 91 1 using percentages for corn and oats.
New York middling 12.75, New Orleans middling 12% ¢, Houston middling 12%c, Galveston middank 1y%e, Liverpool middling 6.88d, Memphis middling 13c.
Raw sugar grades list prices for Muscovado and centrifugal at 3.65 and 4.05 dollars per unit, molasses sugar at 3.30, refined sugar ranges from 4.90 to 5.60. Petroleum steady at 8.50, molasses in New Orleans at 25 55c, hides steady in Bogota and Central America, leather prices for hemlock grades range 24 to 29 cents.
In New York on December 7 the cotton seed oil market closed steady with spot at 6.20 to 6.40. Futures quotes ranged from 6.25 to 6.46 for months including December January February March April June July. Sales through the day totaled 4620 with March 1200 at 6.36 and other lots noted, reflecting broad buying activity.
North producers press for turkeys as merchants urge farmers to deliver now for Christmas demand. Dealers pay 12 to 15 cents a pound wholesale while eggs hold 28 cents a dozen for country and 21 cents for stored. Trade in the wholesale district remains active as stocks are realigned after Thanksgiving. Bradstreet reports 285 U S business failures this week, vs 267 in 1911. Canada shows 23 failures.
The Union Stock Yards reported a quiet weekend with 246 cattle 62 calves and $2 horses and $9 hogs offered. Sales were few and steady with buyers scarce and pens empty by noon. Week’s top cow prices reached $4.50 and calves $5.50. calves bought $4 to $4.75. Hogs hit $7.50 on rare bids. Main supply shift to steers from Mexico as Texas cattle loosen their holdings.
Chicago livestock quotations show cattle receipts at 500 with steady market, hogs at 138000 with strong tone near yesterday’s averages, and sheep receipts at 2000 with steady demand. Cattle range 2.70 to 11.10, hogs 5.40 to 7.75, sheep 3.65 to 7.75 across native and western grades.
Receipts and quotations for cattle hogs and sheep at Kansas City on December 7 show 400 cattle with native steers priced 6.50 to 10.50 and southern cattle 4.50 to 8.00, 4000 hogs with prices from 6.25 to 7.75, bulk sales 7.50 to 7.70. No sheep reported.
ST LOUIS December 7 receipts total 7000 cattle including 4400 Texans with native beef steers priced between 5.55 and 11.00 dollars. Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.50. Cows and heifers 3.75 to 5.00. Calves in carload ranges 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 6000 with prices up 5 to 10 cents. pigs and lights 6.50 to 7.70, mixed and butchers 7.55 to 7.90, good heavy 7.80. No sheep reported.
The New York stock market opened indecisively with gains for Northern Pacific and Great Northern, while Beet Sugar and Texas Pacific fell. Trading cooled as weeklong activity faded and liquidation neared, with steel and rail issues fluctuating and bonds remaining steady.
The New York weekly clearing house banks and trust companies report $3,015,200 in reserve above legal requirements, up $8,073,150 from last week. Loans shifted to interior institutions as $40,000,000 in net deposits declined likely due to withdrawals by out of town lenders. Cash loss was nominal with a $7,755,000 overall cash decline and a $73,550 deficit in reserves.
New York trading closes with bankers' bills at 4.50 for time and 4.84.55 for demand. Commercial bills at 4.30 and 4%. Bar silver at 64. Mexican dollars quoted at 19. Rate news places Goelees bonds and railroad bonds steady amid general unchanged tones.
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