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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
11
Reports from Chicago and St Louis detail drought worries in India, steady wheat, and advances in grain futures. May pork and lard prices shift slightly while corn fluctuates with weather expectations. Cash grain quotes from Chicago, St Louis and Kansas City show mixed prices across wheat, corn and oats.
London reports a quiet session with irregular price moves in American securities. Later gains led by Canadian Pacific pushed some stocks higher while most remained unchanged to small increases from yesterday's New York close.
New York on February 6 reports steady cotton goods markets with weaker worsted yarns and firmer novelty yarns. Demand remains for staple items, and retailers are buying in local houses.
In St Louis on February 6 wool prices for combing and clothing fibers show 23 percent grade with a possible premium for fine 19 2ic, heavy fine 13 18¢, washed 27 36c.
INCLAY Ohio Feb 6 The Ohio Company today advanced the price of the Lima oil to 1.37 per barrel, South Lima and Inta to 1.82, and Illinois to 1.20 a barrel, a three cent increase.
McFarland frames a stucco building on Bullough Street with a value of 3600 dollars. Bally constructs a six room dwelling on Wilkins tie for 1650. Pfeiffer adds to a property on East Com te Street for 1500. Ruhnke builds a one room store on Paso Street valued at 300.
Records show several automobile license fees with names and addresses including Mrs. W. W. Hood on 315 Man Street and J. E. Yantis at 334 West Mis Avenue. Other entries include A Parker, 824 West Mis, Peter Scherrer on Probandt Street, and A H Pacquard on Twenty-second Garza streets.
M Williams and Laura Irene Austin obtained a marriage license amid general weather bulletin notes.
Forecast for San Antonio and East Texas unsettled with rain tonight or Friday and colder in the northwest Friday. Feature on Eliza beth Townsend Atlantic City controller who handles over 6 million dollars in cash and bonds and supervises bond issues and payroll auditing with a 50 thousand dollar bond.
The National Grocers Association launches a canned goods week from March 31 to April 6 to boost consumption from two cans per person per month to two per week. Grocers, canners, and associations raise funds for advertising. chambers and commercial groups back the effort. Also notes California bean shortages, rising prices, eggs at 22 cents a dozen, butter firmer, and plentiful poultry.
Chicago and Kansas City report butter, eggs, and poultry prices steady with mixed receipts. New York lists eggs firm with steady poultry and butter prices. Notable figures include Butter creamery 27 34c, firsts 24c. Eggs 23 38c. Chickens 13 16c. Turkeys 18c.
W H Pendleton of Kansas canneries told the San Antonio bar trade that Texas lacks canneries despite enormous tomato and vegetable surpluses. He urged establishing canneries in truck growing areas to absorb seasonal and regional shipments, noting northward markets and irrigation projects boost production, while corn prices fall for canners elsewhere but other canned goods rise.
A compilation of property transfers showing buyers, sellers, dates in 1913, and recorded prices across blocks and additions including East End Highland Park Lakeview and Los Angeles Heights. Notable entries include W H Russell to Manuel Morales for lots 7 and 9 in block 2186 at $300 and A L Dickinson to Los Angeles Heights Improvement Co for lot 10 block 45 near San Pedro avenue at $7600.
Galveston reports arrivals by steamers City of Mexico Tampico El Rio and others from February 2 to 6. Cleared ships include Aidan El Cid and City of Tampico while sailed lists show Hippolyte Dumois Thuriand Castie and Concho bound for Antwerp New York and other ports.
Retail price sheet lists eggs at 21 220e per dozen, poultry prices from $6.00 to $6.75 per dozen, and various regional produce. Highlights include California potatoes at $1.60 per hundredweight, onions at $1.75 hundredweight, cabbage $1.75 hundredweight, oranges $2.76–3.26 per box, lemons $8 per box, and bananas at 60 cents per pound. Also shown are nuts, molasses, canned meats, flour, meal, sugar, and coffee prices with multiple package sizes and brands.
The clipping lists prices for house hold items and meats with weights and per pound costs. It shows canned vegetables such as tomatoes corn and various meat cuts with varying grades and discounts.
Raw sugar remained steady with Muscovada 89 test at 2.98, centrifugal 96 test at 3.48, and molasses sugar 89 test at 3.78. Refined sugar steady, petroleum and molasses unchanged, hides and leather firm.
Two groups of travelers totaling 63 people arrive in San Antonio today. The Marsters Midwinter California tourists with 40 are and the Raymond and Whitcomb Company group of 23 are registered at the Menger Hotel. They expect to depart tomorrow for California after sightseeing at the city and missions.
The Texas attorney general's department approves a substitute issue of 140000 waterworks bonds for Waco bearing 6 percent interest, maturing in thirty years. The issue replaces a lost bond issue that was found on the Missouri river banks and returned to Waco, where the old issue was burned.
Feb 6 union stock yards reports sparse hog receipts in recent weeks forcing packers to send buyers into the countryside to purchase hogs for direct shipment. Cattle and calf prices held firm with cows at 4.50 and calves at 5.25 while hogs sold around 6.75 to 7.00. Sheep offerings remained light and unsettled.
Fort Worth Texas market Thursday shows boot steers steady while stocker steers dip 10 to 15 cents. Butcher cows rise up to 10 cents, bulls steady, calves steady. Sheep active and strong with receipts 250, mix around 5 50. Beef steers 5 60 to 7 25, stockers 6 00 to 5 50, cows 3 50 to 6 50, bulls 3 26 to 5 25. Hogs 1 300 receipts five cents lower top 7 90, bulk 7 56 to 7 85.
Receipts were 6000 cattle and 27000 hogs and 12000 sheep. Cattle saw steady prices with Reeves at 6.50 to 9.00 and cows and calves up to 10.00. Hogs sold generally ten cents under yesterday with rest at 7.46 to 7.85. Sheep were strong ten cents higher with native and western lambs quoted from 4.85 to 8.90.
Cattle receipts 3500 including 1500 Texans with steady market. Native beef steers $5.75 to $8.00, Texas and Oklahoma steers $6.25 to $7.90, cows and heifers $3.76 to $6.60, calves in carload lots $6.00 to $6.60. Hogs receipts 9000 with market 5 to 10 cents lower. Pigs and lights $6.25 to $7.90, mixed $7.70 to $7.90, good heavy $7.80. Sheep receipts 3300 and market steady. Muttons $5.25 to $5.76, lambs $7.00.
Cattle receipts 2500 with 400 southerns, cattle steady to strong. Native steers 7.00 to 8.50, southern steers 6.00, red southerns 4.00 to 6.26. Hog receipts 9000, prices 6 to 10 cents lower, bulk 7.45 to 7.60, heavy 7.40 to 7.55, packers 7.60 to 7.65, pigs 6.25 to 7.00. Sheep receipts 4000, muttons 4.60 to 5.50, Colorado lambs 7.90 to 8.60, range wethers 5.25 to 7.60.
Cotton opened steady with gains amid firm Liverpool sentiment and optimistic Balkan reports, easing slightly from the best as realising occurred. Spot middling uplands quoted nominally at 12.95, while futures showed a steady to firm tone with March to December contracts listed near 12.35 to 11.59 in various months.
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with gains of 5 to 7 points on strong spot demand in New York. Early activity climbed 6 to 9 points before profit taking cooled prices, leaving most active months about 6 points higher at the end of the first hour.
Cotton futures opened steady with February at 12.33 36 and July at 12.38 39 as traders awaited later sessions. The market closed steady with a modest gain across contracts, reflecting limited movement and ongoing price discovery from the previous session.
Liverpool February 6 report shows steady demand for spot cotton with American grades dominating sales. Prices range from good ordinary to good middling, with sales totaling 12,000 bales including 11,300 American and 1,500 for speculation and export. Receipts reach 16,000 bales, of which 15,700 are American.
In Liverpool on February 6 futures opened quiet and closed quiet and steady with the February 6.66 percent rate and various spreads from February to January next year ranging from 4.31 percent to 6.80 percent across the calendar months.
New York middling 12.95. New Orleans middling 127-16. Houston middling 12 percent. Galveston middling 129-16. Liverpool middling 6.894. Memphis middling 12 percent.
New Orleans cotton market lists steady spot prices with middling at 12 7 16 cents. Receipts total 4,377 bales and stock at 145,164 bales. Various grade quotes range from 9 to 14 3 16 cents with nominal figures for some grades.
Biologists for the United States government will survey the coast waters of Texas arriving in Corpus Christi and Nueces Bays. Under Dr Moore supervision the party sails aboard the steamer Fishdawn. The full coast water survey will take more than a year to finish.
In New Orleans on February 6 rough rice was reported firm. Quotations show Clean Honduras 4 6c and Japan 8 14c. Receipts included rough 1540 and millers 976 bags 141 cleaned. Sales included Rough Honduras 10 at 3.60.
Copper quiet with spot at 66 lb 17s 6d and futures at 66 lb 1s 6d. Tin steady with spot 222 lb 5s and futures 219 lb 15s. Lead at 16 lb 15s and spelter at 26 lb. Iron warrants in London Cleveland 628 10% in rate.
Galveston spot cotton closes steady with a one sixteenth gain across all classifications. Prices range from low ordinary at 8 6 16 to middling fair at 13 5 16. Sales reach 1125 while receipts total 5767 and stock stands at 264,576.
In Memphis the cotton market remains steady. Meanwhile the Lyceum network grows: existing branches span Berlin Brussels Florence Milan Paris Rome with new sites planned in Stockholm and a Swiss Lyceum club soon. Russia Athens Budapest are potential future branches as a global sisterhood expands. A new automobile fuel funnel claims copper screens block water but let gasoline pass.
The Stewart bill prohibiting interracial marriage faces strong disapproval from Wisconsin’s Negro community. The Booker Washington Men's Forum in Milwaukee petitions the legislature, calling it a vicious bill and class legislation contrary to republican civil economy.
Houston, Feb 6 The spot market closed quiet and unchanged with sales 1358 f o b 200 shipments 5170 stock 145380. Quotations ranged from low ordinary 7 percent to middling fair 13 percent across grades including low ordinary ordinary good ordinary low middling middling good middling and middling fair.
A New York report shows No. 7 Rio coffee at 13 percent with May at 13.92 and July at 13.58 as futures stay level. The piece also notes two thefts at the old Bailey London including a broken housekeeper’s office and later a clerk’s loss of an overcoat a mackintosh two umbrellas and gloves.
Export totals show Great Britain 15 324 this week and 11 322 year to date. France 5. Continent 62 779 this week and 142 823 year. Mexico and Japan 9 786 this week and 6 074 year. Data reflects cotton shipments across major markets.
At Memphis on February basis, meal priced at $30.00. Futures show April through September bids ranging $6.31 to $6.48 with various lots sold at $6.33 to $6.49. March and May purchases noted, totaling 17 000 in overall sales across periods and months.
Chicago shopkeepers claim local women wear the largest shoe size on average a five B, yet their feet are the most shapely because they favor sensible shoes. President J B Sheehan of the Retail Shoe Dealers Association cites Chicago as superior in foot form while criticizing New York and other cities for size over shape.
Chicago superintendent Mrs. Ella Flagg Young proposed creating a dean of women in each high school. She noted deans exist in colleges and private schools and argued a public school dean would provide female pupils with guidance in culture, manners, and poise alongside their intellectual education.
Albany trolley cars will install hobble steps lowered about three inches to ease loading for women in skirts. The United Traction Company received many letters urging the change. General Manager Hamilton said tests confirmed the three inch modification would work.
Floresville Texas reports the formation of the Floresville Civic Club with 35 members. Elected officers are Rev I J White president Mrs L B Wiseman vice president Sam Fore Jr secretary and M M Hughes treasurer. Camden New Jersey plans a city electric light plant.
Trading fell about 60 percent from averages in early hours as copper weakness and foreign activity pressured prices. Amalgamated held near yesterday's close while Harriman stocks drifted. later gains in transcontinental and steady late trading left the day with a cautious, uneven recovery.
New York early market shows prime mercantile paper at 4 percent, 5 percent. Sterling exchange firm with actual business in bankers' bills at 4.83 75 for six days and 4.87 70 for demand. Commercial bills at 4.83 percent. Bar silver at 62½ cents. Mexican dollars at 48½ cents. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds irregular.
Copper spot and futures mixed with February at 14.50, March and May around 14.50 to 16.25. Electrolytic copper quoted 15.75 to 16.26, antimony nominal at 9.75, iron unsettled. Lead around 4.22 percent. spelter weak at 6.40 to 6.55. Metals markets in New York and St. Louis report varied week bids and spot tensions.
New York reports money on call steady at 2 1/2 percent with closing bids at 2 1/2 percent and offered at 2 3/4 percent. Time loans show easy terms with 60 days at 3 1/4 percent 90 days at 3 1/2 percent and six months at 4 percent.
Sheriff Tobin labels a man the king pin in a blue sky syndicate that allegedly sold two Brooks county towns and 200000 acres of land without title. Eleven men are now in custody as the grand jury focuses on indictments while Brooks county officials and citizens are subpoenaed to testify.
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