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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1912
Page
11
Trading in cotton remains listless as both sides await a labor settlement. Tomato canners and growers dispute raw material prices while packers are cautious. Sugar prices fall but local relief is delayed. Eggs and butter steady with limited supply, poultry scarce. Kansas City Produce ships large egg consignments to northern markets.
The report describes air pressure at sea level, isobar lines, and isotherm patterns with norms for temperature. It notes weather symbols for cloud cover and precipitation, wind arrows, and three figures representing temperature, precipitation, and maximum wind gust.
Market listing shows prices for produce poultry and dairy, including hens, turkeys, butter, cheese, and eggs. Aggregates cover vegetables fruits and staples with per unit weights and crate prices, plus regional and packer delivered rates.
Union Stock Yards records a featureless market with limited offerings. Cattle 39, calves 26, hogs 100, sheep 205, goats 342. Best cows up to 4 dollars, common 3 60 to 3 75. Calves to 4 50, generally 3 75 to 4 25. Hogs top at 6 dollars, a few at 6 25.
Judge S T Cowan general attorney for the Texas Cattle Raisers association left Fort Worth for Washington to press claims against overcharges after the interstate commerce commission cut cattle rates years ago. He will also protest the Oklahoma cattle rate case mileage scale that raises rates to Fort Worth Oklahoma City and Wichita for long hauls from other states.
Fort Worth market notes show cattle receipts around 3000 with steers up to 10 cents Higher at 4.50 to 6.00 per hundredweight. Cows traded 2.25 to 5.26 with some pieces at 2.65 to 4.10. Calves steady at 3.50. Hogs receipts about 750 with prices up roughly ten cents to a top of 6.80 and bulky at 6.35. Sheep receipts about 25 with lambs around 6.00.
Associated Press reports cattle receipts at 6000 with prices from 2.75 to 8.25 for natives and westerns, hogs at 11000 with bulk sales 6.20 to 6.40, and sheep at 10000 with muttons 3.50 to 4.75 and lambs 5.90 to 6.40, reflecting small gains in cattle and hog markets.
Cattle receipts total 3000 with 300 Texas, market steady to strong. Native beef steers 4.75 to 8.50, cows and heifers 3.00 to 6.75, stockers 6.75 to 6.00, Texas steers 5.00 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 6000, market up ten cents. pigs 5.00 to 6.50, mixed 6.50 to 6.70, heavy 3.70. Sheep receipts 8600, market steady to strong. native muttons 3.75 to 4.50, lambs 5.50 to 6.66.
Chicago reports grain trading with wheat dipping on weak cables then rally as commission houses buy. May wheat fluctuated around $1.00, corn stayed near 68 cents, oats softening, pork lard and ribs futures showing gains as millers and farm reserves influenced buying. close strong with May wheat up to 69 cents.
Cotton opened steady with a small advance but fell under Liverpool cables. By midday prices rested 3 to 6 points below last night's close as western belts forecast weakness. Spot activity remained quiet with middling Upland around 11.45 cents.
New York cotton futures opened steady with bids and offers across several months from January at 10.46 to August at 10.41. Close readings show generally quiet, steady movement with multiple months exhibiting narrow trading ranges and modest gains or losses.
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with a 2 to 5 point decline as weaker cables from Liverpool weighed on sentiment. The market showed little selling pressure with improved belt weather, traders awaiting England labor news, and prices about 2 points under yesterday at noon.
Cotton futures closed steady with a slight decline of 4 to 6 points. Trading notes show March through December contracts with mixed bids and asks as markets balanced supply concerns and demand signals.
Spot cotton in fair demand with prices up 2 points. American middling fair 6.56, good mids 6.18, middling 5.92, low middling 6.62, good ordinary 6.24, ordinary 4.95. Total sales 8000 bales, 6800 American. Receipts 17000 bales, including 2100 American.
Ameri can National Live Stock secretary T W Tomlinson said U S cattle markets favor producers with top prices for shipments, while warned tariffs on Argentine and Australian beef could swell the bottom. W L Crawford of Dilley Texas noted a bright early spring market with strong signals for cattle consignments.
Cattle receipts 13 000 market quiet with Reeves 3 10 to 8 65 Texas steers 4 75 to 6 00 western steers 5 10 to 7 15 stockers and feeders 4 10 to 6 30 cows and heifers 2 25 to 6 80 calves 5 75 to 8 20. Hogs receipts 22 000 market slow to five cents up light 6 15 to 6 60 mixed 6 20 to 6 52 heavy 6 25 to 6 55 rough 6 25 to 6 30 pigs 4 60 to 6 20 bulk 4 40 to 8 50. Sheep receipts 26 000 market slow generally steady native 3 40 to 4 59 western 3 80 to 4 80 yearlings 5 00 to 5 85 native lambs 4 60 to 7 00 western 7 00 to 7 10.
Reliable reports from the range indicate cattle survived Sunday’s blizzard in good shape. The railroads through Dalhart remain blocked by snow, stranding many cattlemen.
The United States ships shoes valued over one million dollars monthly to foreign markets. Leather shipments abroad for eleven months ending November 1911 almost reach one million dollars more than 1910 and about five million more than 1909. Hides and skins imports continue rising.
Three carloads of Mexican mail totaling over 2000 sacks are held in El Paso awaiting disposition. Local Juarez mail is delivered to Mexican Consul B C Llorente who will oversee delivery of distant Juarez mail, but mail for Chihuahua and Sonora remains held as train traffic increases.
In St Louis on February 28 the defense rested after presenting photographs of George A Kimmel and the claimant. The Niles Michigan bank suing on Kimmel's life began its rebuttal and expected all testimony to end tonight with arguments to follow tomorrow.
Wool market reports steady values in Boston with less demand for old fiber. Interest focuses on the new clip in the far west with sales ranging 14 to 18 cents. Territory sales slip across grades but pulled wool remains active. quotes list Kentucky Indiana Missouri three eighths blood 28c quarter blood 29c. Texas fine scoured 48c six to eight months 48c. fine 12 months 68 654e. fine fall 43c.
Quotations list for cash wheat including 2 red, No 2 hard, No 1 northern, No 2 northern, No 2 spring and durum with prices. Velvet chaff and oats quotes shown with No 2 and standard oats ranges.
Quotation report from St Louis on February 28 lists cash wheat prices for No 2 red at 1.01 and No 2 hard at 1.01 1/1, corn per bushel for No 3 at 64 65 cents, No 8 white at 65 66 cents, oats No 2 at 52 58 cents, No 2 white at 63 for 1/2, with May and July wheat at 100 1/4 and 95 1/4 to 95 1/2, corn July 70 1/2, oats May 53 1/2 and Jut 47 1/2.
Kansas City market update shows cash wheat and corn prices with bids. No. 2 hard wheat range around $1.00 to $1.05, No. B red near $7.98. Corn No. 2 mixed about 66 to 67 cents, No. 2 white around 67 to 68 cents. Oats No. 2 white about 53 to 54 cents, No. 2 mixed 62 to 63 cents. May wheat about $1.00, July wheat bid at $2e. May corn about 69 cents, July about 68 cents.
Memphis reports prime basis 4.67 and 73c, meal at 25.00 to 25.25, linters two lec. details indicate commodity price notices with brief figures for buyers and traders.
New York market reports spot cotton seed oil at 5.48 and futures rising through 6.75 for August. March 1900 at 6.49 and 500 April contracts at 5.56. total reported sales 10,500 across a range of months.
In Liverpool on February 28 futures opened steady and closed quiet with readings across several monthly spreads including February 5.68 percent and transitions through March-April 6.69, May-June 5.69, Sept.-Oct 6.64, and Dec.-Jan 6.61.
Paris reports three per cent rentes 94f Sec for the account with exchange on London at 25f 24e for checks. Private discount rate stands at three per cent.
In St. Louis on February 9, lead prices held at four dollars with a firm tone. Spelter meanwhile showed strength trading between 6.60 and 6.65 per unit as buyers remained active.
Wool prices hold steady in St. Louis trading with medium combing and clothing wool at 20 21 cents, light fine 16 19 cents, heavy fine 12 15 cents, tub washed 27 23 cents.
Georgetown Texas February 28 The jury in the G P Noack lynching case was secured today after two days of work. Noack is charged with participating in the hanging of Antonio Gomez a Mexican boy who killed Charles Ziechung at Thorn dale Milam county last June the case having been sent here on a change of venue.
A Tablet writer recalls three days among Monte Cassino's community. He describes the monks’ serenity above the clouds and the view over Campania Felice, with vistas of Naples, the Gulf of Gaeta, the Rapido River, and the Appian Way winding across the plain.
London report states 105000 pounds sterling in bullion was deposited into the Bank of England on balance today.
The data show bicycle production dropping from 260 628 in 1904 to 233 707 in 1909, a seven percent decline. Most bikes came from specialty plants, with 27 establishments in 1999 and 12 in 1904 producing bicycles as a by product. Motorcycle output rose from 2 328 in 1904 to 18 628 in 1909, while motor tricycles increased from five in 1904 to 132 in 1909.
A. Luyken publishes a fiction in Esperanto titled Paul Deben ham presenting the world language as a literary medium across three volumes.
Leading spot markets show Liverpool steady with sales around 5,928,000. New York quiet at 10.45. New Orleans steady about 107 16 with 1,500 units. Houston steady around 18 16 with 377. Galveston steady at 1,037.
Spot cotton in New Orleans remains steady with 1500 bales sold. Prices list low ordinary to good middling ranges and receipts total 11,817 bales with stock at 279,425 bales.
New York spot cotton markets close quiet with middling uplands at 10.45 and gulf at 10.70. No sales reported.
New York on February 28 reports No 7 Rio coffee futures ending steady with March contracts at 13.23 and May at 13.26.
MEMPHIS SPOTS reports spot cotton remained steady in Memphis Tennessee on February 28 with Middling at 10 cents.
Butter steady with creamery quotations 25 28c and Daisies 22a 26c. Kegs weak with 5591 cases received, firsts 24 25c and prime firsts 28c. Cheese steady with Daisies 17%c and Long Horns 17% gc. Potatoes steady Wisconsin 1.05 1.10 and Michigan Minnesota 1.08 1.16. Poultry steady turkeys 13c chickens 6c springs 5c, weights 60 to 60 pounds 7a.
The Associated Press notes higher prices across poultry and dairy. Chickens up 12 cents, ice and turkey lines gain, ducks 14 cents, geese mentioned. butter increases to 24 to 29 cents. Magazines rise to 264 cents.
In New York on February 28, eggs are listed with fresh gathered extras 31 32 cents, dirties 28 29 cents, checks 26 27 cents. The brief market update records price ranges and quality grades for buyers.
Butter prices show creamery 27c firsts 24c seconds 22c packing stock 22c per pound. Eggs list extras 28c firsts 26c seconds 20c per dozen.
Clean Honduras rice held steady yesterday with other grades unchanged. Quotations show 34% and 5% for Clean Honduras, and 3% 4% for Japan. Receipts totaled 1510 rough, 1137 millers, and 23 114. Sales reached 921 Clean Honduras and 374 Japan at varying prices.
Raw sugar steady with Miscovite 89 test at 4.23 and certifugal 96 test at 4.73. Molasses 89 test 3.98. Refined, petroleum, molasses and hides steady. Leather prices firm in New York trading.
Folke E. Brandt, once valet to Mortimer L. Schiff, was released from jail after a 30 year first degree burglary sentence. He left the Tombs with a crowded scene as bail details were finalized and he departed the criminal court.
A Geneva issued consulate notice informs travelers returning to France may bring duty free tobacco for the journey by declaring it to customs. The allowance is ten cigars twenty cigarettes and forty grams of tobacco to be consumed on the trip.
In 1909 telegraph and telephone companies and related electric wire users in the country expended more than 7 million dollars on pole purchases.
Wall Street opened high then fluctuated as Bethlehem Steel fell and major shares paused. By noon activity picked up with L N Atlantic Coast Line American Sugar American Telephone and Telegraph and Copper shares rising. The market cooled later but finished strong with Union Pacific Lehigh Valley and Reading leading two point gains in places. Bonds remained steady as the market ended with buying momentum and a slight late rise in Reading and others. Government and railroad bonds held steady and mercantile rates were steady.
Money on steady, 24 percent ruling rate 2 percent with closing bids and offers around 2. Time loans firmer. 60 days 2 percent, 3 months 38 percent, 90 days 34 percent, six months 34 percent.
The Associated Press reports dull lead at 15 pounds 158 3d, dull spelter at 26 pounds 15s, tin steady at spot 195 pounds 6s with futures 191 pounds 5s. The New York metal exchange says a new pigtin contract will take effect March 12.
The Associated Press reports New York cotton markets are steady with firm prices. Wash goods trade shows quickening demand while men’s wear linens stay moderately active and yarns remain steady.
The report notes Consols for money and account at 78 138 16 with bar silver steady at 76 15 16 and money of short bills at 37 16 %. Three months bills stand at 3 %.
A dense hotel arrivals list shows numerous guests at St Anthony and Menger including Mr. and Mrs J H W from Albuquerque, Mrs F G Dean from New York, Mr and Mrs Brows Rogers from Russellville Arkansas, and many others from Dallas Fort Worth Houston and Chicago. The roster covers guests from cities across Texas and the United States with multiple states represented.
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