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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
9
Chicago grain and provisions trading opened light due to the holiday. May wheat held near 91 cents, May corn around 48 cents, May oats around 31 cents, with pork at 18.12 and lard near 9.95, while hog runs were lighter than expected and the market showed mixed early moves.
Prices were firm across items with butter at 31 to 34 cents a pound and cheese steady. Receipts included 2053 cases of fresh and refrigerator products. potatoes, turkeys, and chickens showed firm tones with varying live and dressed prices.
Quotation snapshot shows cash wheat prices for No 2 red at 1.04 to 1.09 and No 2 hard at 89 to 92 cents. Corn No 2 46 to 46 1/2 cents, No 2 white 48 1/2 cents. May and July futures listed for wheat at 93 1/2 and 87 cents. Corn May 47 to 48 cents, July 49 cents. Oats May and July 33 cents.
Kansas City market roundup dated December 23 lists cash wheat prices for No. 2 hard 83 87 ¾ cents, No. 1 red 1.01 1.04, corn No. 2 mixed 46 ½ cents, oats No. 2 white 34 4 ½ to 35 cents, No. 2 mixed 33 ½ cents, and futures for May and July with mixed values noted, including wheat and oats price ranges.
New York December reports show a drop in general iron trade but a large backlog of finished steel awaiting year end and early 1913 shipments. Rail shops booked 23 000 cars and 160 engines while last week’s contracts reach 175 000 tons with major orders for Southern Pacific Harriman lines and export sales to Belgium Brazil and Argentina.
New York December 23 cotton goods markets remain quiet yet firm due to well sold mills and restricted output from operative shortages and shorter hours. Demand for late holiday deliveries keeps jobbers busy, with prices expected higher after year end. reports list specific declines and gains across print cloths, browns, denims, ginghams, and cotton linens.
A fragmentary railroad timetable lists arrivals and departures for multiple routes. It references Kerrville, Houston and coast towns, El Paso, Victoria, and the north and south lines with numbers like No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 and No. 9, including mixed and Sunday variants and times ranging from early morning to night. The text resembles a period schedule page with station notes and service directions.
Observations taken at 8 a.m. local time with air pressure adjusted to sea level. Forecast through 7 p.m. Tuesday: San Antonio area fair tonight and Tuesday, freezing temperatures tonight, warmer Tuesday. East Texas fair tonight, freezing except along the coast, frost expected.
At Union Stock Yards December 24 buyers lined up for 182 cattle 49 calves and 38 hogs. Cows topped at 4.60 with bulk 3.50 to 4. Calves high at 5.25. hogs 7 to 7.25. Receipts total 283 head 193 cattle 62 calves 38 hogs. market steady with light cattle flow.
Cottonseed products in Memphis on December 23 show prime basis at 6.4354 dollars per unit, meal at 26.26 dollars, and linters at 4.41 per unit. The figures reflect the day’s market quotations and indicate price levels for traders following commodity trends in the region.
The New York market shows spot prices for cotton seed oil ranging from 6.25 to 6.87 with monthly futures from December to July. Notable activity includes 100 sold at 6.35 in June and 200 May sales at 6.34 plus 100 July at 6.39. Total sales reach 8800 units.
The report lists cash wheat prices for No. 2 red at 1.10 dollars per bushel, No. 2 hard 89 to 90 cents, No. 1 northern 89 to 90 cents, No. 2 northern 88 to 89 cents, No. 2 spring velvet chaff 83 to 88 cents, durum 83 cents, ic. Corn No. 2 yellow 48 cents. Oats No. 2 38 to 43 cents, No. 2 white 35 to 34 cents, standard 34 cents.
Creamery butter at 33c per pound with 29c for seconds and 20 percent packing stock. Vans extras 26 percent. firsts and seconds noted. Poultry prices include hens at 10 1ic, roosters 8c, young birds, turkeys 16 %c, ducks 13 1te.
Poultry prices include chickens nine cents, springs eleven and a half cents, turkeys seventeen cents, ducks thirteen and a half cents, geese twelve cents. Butter creamery thirty seven to forty cents, eggs twenty three cents.
Coffee futures steady with Rio No 7 at 14.5 cents and May at 14.00. Money on call offered at 6 percent with bids around 5.5 percent. Financial notes include unsettled Eges and Butter firm at 4 cents from Elgin Illinois.
Moderate receipts set cattle at 1250 head and 400 sheep with a generally steady to firm tone. Hogs moved higher on a strong base, top around 7.66 while most hogs sold 7.35 to 7.75, and sheep feeders brought 3.76 with overall steady demand for cows and calves amid mixed carlots and shorter supply.
Chicago today showed cattle receipts at 10 500 with a ten cent rise across the board. Hogs receipts 28 000 with a five cent gain as prices ranged from six ninety to seven forty per cwt. Sheep receipts 24 000 with generally ten cent increases. native and western lambs noted in the quoted ranges.
Cattle receipts 27 000 including 700 southerns with prices 6 50 to 10 00 for native steers and 3 40 to 6 25 for southern cows and heifers. Hogs receipts 6 500 with bulk sales 7 10 to 7 36 and pigs 5 75 to 6 75. Sheep receipts 5 000 with muttons 3 75 to 4 75 and lambs 6 28 to 8 00. Market up about 10 cents for cattle and sheep.
Receipts total 3800 cattle includes 2200 Texans with steady tone. Beef steers 4.60 to 5.10, Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.90, cows and heifers 3.55 to 5.00, calves 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 8000 with prices up ten cents. mixed and butcher 7.20 to 7.50, good heavy 7.50 to 7.60. Sheep receipts 22,200 with steady market. muttons 4.10 to 4.50, lambs around 6.00.
New York reports mixed commodity activity with raw sugar and molasses steady, Muscovado 89 test at 8.42 cents, Centrifugal 96 test at 8.92 cents, molasses sugar 89 test at 8.17 cents, refined sugar quiet. Petroleum and molasses steady. Hides dull. Leather firm.
Capt A B Delaney recalls Panama mosquito menace before and after U S canal work. He recounts a ship cat in Panama that died by its own action to escape the insects, a drastic anecdote used to illustrate the contrast in the region’s health conditions.
Automobile licenses list shows 8 Nichols Grocery Co at 207 Ave. The fragment notes the business name and address, indicating completion of license entry for that entity.
A holiday surge floods produce markets with celery cranberries and fruits selling in record volumes. Turkeys move 12 13 cents per pound on foot and 20 cents dressed while eggs butter and chickens show steadier demand. Market master J H Parker says city market closes all Christmas day but reopens to 10 pm Tuesday for fresh perishable goods.
A printed wholesale price sheet lists eggs, poultry, butter, cheese, vegetables, fruits, syrups, nuts, canned meats, fish, beans, dried fruits, and apples. Prices span per dozen, per hundredweight, and per case with notes that single cases apply and bulk purchases reduce prices by 6 to 100 cents.
New York reports show cotton opening steady with gains of 4 to 7 points on firmer cables and Liverpool buying rumors. Midday trading faded amid Wall Street selling, with prices easing to a net loss of 3.4 points before support from large traders. Spot middling at 13.10, July and December futures around 12.70.
New Orleans December cotton futures opened 2 to 7 points higher on favorable cables and short covering before holidays. Prices moved to 3-8 points up after the call, then fell 6-8 points from Saturday’s close by midmorning as rain eyed the crop. Trading was light with a holiday tone, then slightly firmed as shorts bought back. Encouraging dry goods reports supported early prices. by noon the market was unchanged to 1 up, and in the afternoon ranged 6 points above Saturday’s last quotes.
New Orleans reports cotton futures opening steady with January at 12.81 and March at 12.84. The market closed steady with a net advance of 5 to 9 points, listing highs and lows for the session and December near 12.90.
Closing: Cotton in fair demand at Liverpool with prices steady. American middling fair 7.624, middling 7.084, low middling 6.44d, ordinary 5.964. Day’s sales 8,000 bales, 1,600 for speculation and export, 7,300 American. Receipts 33,000 bales, including 24,800 American.
In Liverpool on December 23 futures opened softly and ended quiet with quotes from December through October contracts. Notable levels include Dec 6.8146 percent, Jan-Feb 6.77 percent, Feb-Mar 6.76 percent, and Oct-Nov 6.32 percent.
A silken basket aboard the Cambrian brings Don Dai, a Persian chinchilla cat, to the United States from London. Thirteen months old, he enjoys cream on the voyage as Mrs. George B. Brayton of Brighton plans to exhibit him at the Plaza hotel in New York after a prior win in Housley England. Amy Adlam of Southampton arranged the shipment.
A fragment listing assorted commodities with prices for boxes of fruits and figs, raisins, currants, sugar and coffee, canned vegetables, and hides. Items include citron and peel fancy grades, Muscatel raisins in No. 2 to No. 6 crowns, Grecian currants, granulated sugar, Peaberry and Maxwell House coffee, Illinois corn, and various hides with unit prices and packaging details.
New Orleans on December 23 reports quiet cotton spot activity with middling grades around 12 ¾ cents. Traders sold 467 bales for arrival with receipts totaling 9111 bales and stocks at 229,260 bales, amid a range of nominal prices for lower and higher grades.
Spot cotton finishes steady with varying grades listed from low ordinary to middling fair. Sales recorded 16 bales FOB, receipts totaling 22,929 bales and stock at 482,536 bales.
Houston reports a steady close with no sales. linings show 136 bales F O shipments 19 422 bales stock 161 871 bales prices range from 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 to 13 1 0 in uplands and gulf in New York spot cotton also steady with middling uplands 13 10 Gulf 13 35 and 1600 bales sold.
MEMPHIS Tenn December 23 Spot cotton held steady at middling 13 and three quarters cents per pound with no notable change. Market observers note stable prices as buyers and sellers keep to current levels amid light holiday activity.
East St. Louis resident Frank A. Clodon found his rabbit-hunting dog trailing a wild cat near Goose Lake. The cat and dog fought fiercely. Clodon wounded the cat, then killed it after a hard struggle. The animal measured over three feet in length.
Lieut N W Post, who left the Omaha recruiting station last July for the Samoan Islands, writes he is the whole show there. He claims to be chief naval officer and main representative of the United States as well as captain of the yard, customs officer, sheriff, road superintendent, health board member, school board member, pound master, revenue collector, schooner manager and member of auditing boards. He says with all his positions he cannot find enough work to stay busy.
Nine Frisco sleepers arrived in Muskogee from Oklahoma City without trousers or funds after a thief took pantaloons and hundreds of dollars. The conductor ordered the car set out and locked, while a porter bought replacements in the retail district. Eleven year old N. K. Haddad from Syria faces five years of Pittsburg schooling or deportation under authorities’ agreement.
New York December twenty third trading opened dull with minor moves in Canadian Pacific and Western Maryland. Union Pacific and Hill and Copper eased while Steel and Reading advanced strongly amid market uncertainty over the Minnesota rate cases and possible Supreme Court action.
New York reports close on mercantile paper 6 percent with sterling exchange firm. Actual bills show 60 day bills at 481.50 and demand at 485.60. Commercial bills 4804. Bar silver 624 cents. Mexican dollars 49 cents. Government bonds and railroad bonds noted as irregular.
In St Louis metal market news dealers report lead and spelter activity with price indications and trading notes for December 23. Market sentiment shows steady demand for lead 410 and related spelter products amid regional metal shipments and price discussions.
New York markets show copper steady with spot and deferred prices around 17 dollars per ounce and electrolytic and lake copper near 17.62 to 17.87. Tin remains firm with December to February bids near 50 dollars. Iron prices stay quiet with No 1 northern around 18.50 to 19.00 and No 2 northern near 18 dollars, while No 1 southern soft hovers around 15.26 to 18.75.
S M Farris Sr transfers lots 316 and 2023 in block 6 on Albert Street to Isaih Buff for 1000 dollars.
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