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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1913
Page
9
Eastern markets show strength in wheat while hog provisions rise on offers. May pork set at 19.87 with lard at 10.70 and ribs at 0.67, as corn slips and wheat fluctuates, with late trading easing overall in liberal AGO Illinois scene.
Quotations for wheat and related grains from St. Louis and Pago, with prices for No. 2 red, No. 2 white, No. 1 northern, and durum varieties. May and July futures listed, along with spot figures and regional price differences. Markets show varied declines and steadies across exchanges.
West on Texas and York ports record arrivals of steamers including Greystoke Castle and El Sol with listed routes from London Mexico and New York. Other vessels mentioned are Ocmulgee Ventura de Larrinaga Strathcarron and Maure with arrival dates in February.
York reports unsettled cotton yarns and active dry goods trade with strong demand for cotton fabrics for fall. Louis shows wool prices steady with combing and clothing fibers firm. Orleans notes rough and clean rice markets, while Paris offers three percent rentes with London discounts.
SON February 18 report notes Consols for money or account 747-16, Hiver steady at 28 1/2 per ounce, 4% short bills at 4 15-16, three months' bills at 4 18-16. New York markets show copper weak, sterling futures at 64 pounds, spot around 220 pounds, and Cleveland warrants 60s 4% in Low. New York produce trade: Eyes firmer, receipts 17,966 cases.
Wool buyers anticipate lower duties and seek concessions as new Arizona clip heads to market. Merchants expect to shave old stock prices to clear holdings, while producers hold firm on last spring quotations. Bearish effect on Boston stock if new clip arrives and competes with existing wool.
A compiled list of property transfers shows numerous deeds and quitclaims. Names include W Castle, J M Strayhorn, Mission Cemetery Company, Sarah King, James Monroe, Carlton Crisp, M Milgram, EB Knodel, C W Yeargain, J D Sipple, John Brant, Thomas Barrera, F W Oats, H G Dearing, Minnie Ludlow, D D Sanders, M H Sanders, Los Angeles Heights groups, Riverside Land and Improvement Company, W A Bally, Gus A Mauermann, J E Pritchett, A Belvin, J R Lawrence, J R Lawrence, Cornelia Mitchell, G N Lytle, E C Wandell, and others with dates from 1909 to 1918 and values ranging from $10 to $70,000. The transfers cover various blocks and additions across Los Angeles Heights, Melrose addition, Lynnwood, Beanville, Mission Burial Park, and adjacent tracts.
A Roumpasson inventor integrates a water cooled radiator inside a flywheel. The design sends coolant around the wheel as it spins, promising novel cooling efficiency for engines.
Grocers and jobbers report firmer tea markets with little chance of price declines this year. Imports are light, stocks are short, and demand in the city remains strong. Sugar also rising as refiners lag deliveries and meat prices up on higher hog costs. Edward Lamm recovers from a broken arm after a backfire incident. his wife notes he remains a difficult patient at home.
Dan C. Smith, longtime general livestock agent for the International & Great Northern rail road with Fort Worth headquarters, will resign March 1 to take the top job at the Wichita stock yards in Kansas. He is known in Texas stock circles and has many friends.
Spot cotton in New Orleans remained quiet with prices largely unchanged. Middling and lower grades cited at 12 7-16 to 12 7-16 cents, with 5840 bales bought on spot and 226 arriving. total stock listed at 113446 bales.
Galveston Texas February 18 Spot cotton closes steady to firmer with gains. Prices range from low ordinary at 8 3/4 cents to middling 12 1/2 cents, middling fair 13 cents. Sales total 94 1/2 bales, receipts 16,366 bales, stock 262,457 bales.
The spot market closes with 368 bales sold at f o b prices and shipments of 10,664 bales. Stock stands at 141,786 bales with ranges from low ordinary to middling fair. Prices listed include 11 to 16 cents for various qualities and middling at 12 7 16 cents.
In Memphis on February 18 the spot cotton market was steady with middling at 12 3/8 cents. New York reports quiet activity the same day with middling uplands at 12.70 cents and gulf at 12.95 cents, no sales recorded.
Wall Street opened with gains for Reading and Steel, each up a point, while Canadian and Illinois Central rose. Improved mood followed news that railroads would arbitrate their firemen dispute, but late trading brought weakness in high priced stocks and utilities. Government and railroad bonds remained heavy amid mixed bond action.
New York money on call eased with rates at 3 4 percent as ruling and closing bids showed 3 percent. Time loans firmed with 60 and 90 day maturities at around Perth per cent and six months near 4 6 per cent.
Quotations dated Feb 18 show chickens 12 ½ to 12 ¾ cents, springs 14 ¾, turkeys 18 cents, ducks 1 cent, geese 1 cent. Butter creamery 29 35 cents per pound.
Kansas City market prices list butter eggs poultry with figures for creamery butter 35 cents firsts 33 cents eggs extras 17 cents seconds 13 cents hens 12 cents and other poultry prices noted for the day.
A brief license roundup lists numbers 3261 and 3262 with holders Adolf Wegel R F D No 2 Pa and George F Chase 1206 Mason. The fragment provides apenas these entries with no further context or dates.
Robert John Boyle and Carrie Lewis es obtain a marriage license. William P. Sanders and Mora Belle Hart also secure a license. A governor linked to a speed locator hub is described to curb speeding while preserving power for high demand.
Buyers arriving hungry for supplies at Union Stock Yards Fort Worth Oklahoma City and Chicago markets push prices higher. Cattle calves hogs and sheep sold briskly with cows at 4.75 calves 5.50 and hogs 7.50, best month levels. Sheep weighed late with no price yet.
Cattle sold on a strong basis with hogs 5 to 10 cents higher and sheep strong. Beef steers $6 to $7, stocker steers $5.00 to $5.76, cows $3.75 to $5.60, heifers $4.50 to $7.10, bulls $3.50 to $6.25, calves $4.50 to $7.75. Hogs top $8.65, bulk $8.35 to $8.50. Oklahoma lambs $8.15. Receipts: cattle 3000, calves 600, hogs 12,000, sheep 185.
Kansas City reports today receipts cattle 11 000 including 600 southerns and steady market. southern steers and cows and heifers around four dollars. Hogs receipts 17 000 with prices 8.10 to 8.30 on bulk and packers. Sheep receipts 10 000 with market strong. muttons 4.50 to 6.00 and Colorado lambs around 3.00, wethers and yearlings about 5.26.
Cattle receipts 3800 including 1200 Texas steers with steady market. Native beef steers 5.75 to 9.00, Texas-Oklahoma steers 5.25 to 7.90, cows and heifers 3.76 to 6.50, calves 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 10,000 with 10 cent higher, pigs and lights 6.85 to 8.55, mixed 8.56 to 8.55, heavy 8.40 to 8.56. Sheep receipts 3500 steady, muttons 6.55 to 8.10, lambs 7.00 to 9.00.
New York cotton opened firm with an 11 to 18 point advance as covering and buying for a reaction, spurred by stronger cables and reports of heavy English buying. Prices advanced through midmorning, held steady to firm, then pulled back to within a few points of the best as the day progressed. New Orleans and Liverpool showed gains while spot markets were mixed.
New York on February 18 reported firm opening for cotton futures with several active contracts including March 12.20 May 12.03 and others. The market closed steady with bids and prices showing narrow ranges across months and hours of trading.
Cotton futures in New Orleans rose at the open, gaining 10 to 13 points as Liverpool prices surged on heavy arbitrage buying. Traders covered shorts overnight, fresh selling emerged with demand, and by midmorning both old and new crops stood 18 to 20 points above yesterday. By noon, gains narrowed to about 11 16 points, and afternoon activity cooled with prices drifting 9 to 11 points over prior final quotes.
The cotton future market opened steady in New Orleans with February at 12.19 21, March 12.26, May 12.17 18, July 12.22, August 11.96 98, September 11.00 18, December 11.49. Close showed a net advance of 11 to 17 points. Le Wy Open High Close data appears truncated.
Liverpool cotton market reports steady prices with close spot activity. American middling fair 7.314 pence, good mids 6.97d, middling 6.764d, low middling 6.574d, good ordinary 6.23d, ordinary 6.89d. Sales for day 7000 bales, 600 for speculation and export, 6900 American. receipts 22,000 bales, including 12,300 American.
Liverpool reports futures opened steady and closed firm with 6.55% to 6.16% ranges across February to January contracts. Traders note minor shifts between near and distant months as markets digest supply and demand signals.
Cottonseed products market in Memphis on February 18 shows prime basis oil at 5.40 to 5.44, meal priced at 24.75 to 25.00, and linters at 3 percent. The brief item records current price ranges for oil meal and linters in the Memphis market.
Chicago market notes receipts: cattle 4000 slow. cattle with bars and calves range 3.10 to 10.60. hogs 17000 strong with prices around 8.30 to 8.60. sheep 15000 steady with native and yearling bids from 4.80 to 8.75. St Louis reports lead and spelter prices at 4.20 to 22% and 6.25 respectively.
Copper remains steady with spot and near term contracts around 14 dollars, electrolytic and casting grades at 14.75 to 15.25, tin eases with spot near 48.50 to 48.75, lean steel holds at 4.25 to 4.85, spelter softens to 6.40, antimony trades dull at Cookson’s 9.30 to 9.40, iron unchanged.
Chicago dated market round reports weaker butter creamery quot at 28 35.5 cents with 9240 cases received. Firsts at 17 cents. Potatoes show weakness with 58 railroad cars of arrivals. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota turkey and poultry prices noted. live turkeys 15 cents, chickens 14 cents, springs 14 1/2 cents.
Raw sugar remains steady with muscovado 89 test at 2.96 dollars per hundredweight and centrifugals 96 test at 3.45 dollars. Molasses sugar 89 test and refined products also steady. Petroleum and molasses hold firm along with hides and leather.
The action seed oil market in New York closes with bids around $6.33 to $6.47 for February through September contracts. Transactions show 200 at $6.37 for February, 100 at $6.43 for July, and 600 at $6.47 for August, with additional bids and counts across March and March.
Directors of the Fiesta San Jacinto Association meet to hear committee reports and discuss the festival. Final race meet plans and driver access are expected. Rep Morris introduces an anti fraud bill promoting printed carton contents. officials consider implications for office holders.
Fred Adams and Mike Tariso told Judge Buckley they were only playing when police arrested them on Zavala Street after noon. Policeman A Valdez testified they were found bleeding as a crowd gathered yesterday afternoon.
Police court proceedings report fines for speeding and disturbing the peace. Dr Wangemann and another man paid five dollars each after judge Buckley noted a possible fight. A. Armstrong blamed a banana on his horse for reckless driving and paid five dollars. Fred Hoff fined ten dollars for disturbing the peace.
In marketing copy the ad urges buyers to call two ninety two for favorable prices on hams bacon lard and compound noting the goods are made at home and claiming top quality from Union Meat Company without offering any other justification.
The notice questions consumer reliance on meals delivered from Chicago Kansas City or Omaha urging readers to choose home cooking instead. It presents a consumer guidance stance and contrasts local meal options with distant suppliers.
To Mr and Mrs Fred R Owens a boy born February 12 Nathan street To Mr and Mrs J M Coulter a boy born February 16 1409 North Pine street To Mr and Mrs B Blackstock a boy born January 29 506 Lubbock street To Mr and Mrs Louis Giovanazzi a boy born February 6 1613 Avenue B To Mr and Mrs L Brown a boy born February 10 806 Avenue C To Mr and Mrs J Cuevas a boy born February 14 Cameron street To Mr and Mrs L F Ellsworth a boy born February 7 1826 North Flores street To Mr and Mrs F J Ferguson a girl born February 12 125 Sweet street To Mr and Mrs A Garcia a boy born February 16 Sabinae street To Mr and Mrs Van A Petty Jr a girl born February 15 Tenth street To Mr and Mrs EB Brown a boy born February 13 814 Crosby street
Burial permits list several deceased individuals with ages and death dates including Arthur Pickthall 33 Corey, February 15 in Oakland and Ninth streets. Mick Villareal 80 February 17 Kenwood addition. Jesse Lee Utley 18 February 17 Baylor hospital. Philip Brosseau 81 February 18 207 Third street. Howard D. Blacklock 24 February 16 San Juan road. Araye Marie Camier 26 February 17 221 Adams street. Mrs. Carmen Maldonado 65 February 11 and other details indicating local burial actions.
W. L. Thompson alters Augusta street for 1750 dollars. R. Rangel plans an eight room dwelling on Chihuahua street for 350. Clifton Mills adds a two room extension on Speed Street for 100. G. J. Grobe builds an eight room dwelling on Mississippi street for 450. Otto Klaus adds a two room extension on Mason street for 300. Alfred Reed adds on Roosevelt avenue for 126. Victor Almarez adds a one room on South Brazos street for 100. Despite the Chinese revolution, Hai s commerce set new marks immediately afterward.
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