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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
10
On Beacon Hill four and one half lots totaling 225 feet on the corner are described with sewers fas water and phones. The listing notes several beautiful hillside trees and emphasizes the development potential of the property.
A well built city contractor's home offers storm paper inside walls, double floors, plate glass mirrors, beam ceilings, and a roomy kitchen pantry. It has a stairway to a large attic, attractive grounds, a garage, and poultry yard. Priced at $2650 with small payment and rent-like balance. Cheer's shown by LAND DEPT. CENTRAL TRUST CO.
Grocer jobbers expect a sharp rise in coffee after firms at spec centers and strong Brazil demand. Local San Antonio markets show steady prices with quiet activity in eggs butter and poultry. Wheat corn and oats rose on Chicago cues as analysts note crop damage reports and slower farm movement.
Marine intelligence reports arrivals in Galveston including EF Cecidenes from New York, J Oswald Boyd from Freeport, and Wilhelmina from Baltimore. New York coffee market notes futures with values around 6.66 for March and 6.58 for July.
Quotations show the middling grade pricing for cotton delivered at market. Figures listed include San Antonio Houston Galveston New York New Orleans Liverpool and other spots with sales totals noted.
Liverpool sent large orders to the American market boosting spot sales to 18 000 bales and lifting prices while futures closed higher by 11 to 138 points. Dallas and Houston quote higher middling grades with San Antonio buyers paying about 11 290 per bale, amid erratic trade and shifting freight concerns.
Cotton futures in New York opened with a firm advance as Liverpool rallied but buyers were scarce. March traded around 12.59 with May near 2.79 before retreating to about 12.54 for March and 12.72 for July amid mixed demand and local selling.
A confusing note states Liverpool is due to open Thursday from 1 to 2 pointe higher with an eleven o clock call following New York Call Close. Mentions March 3 and dates in May with unclear figures 12 58 and 12 77 12 79.
In New Orleans for January trading the cotton market rose ten points in the first half hour as Liverpool's rise and heavy spot trading spurred buying. Short covers and fresh long buying dominated with a steady tone and months up about 11 points by noon.
The New Orleans cotton futures market opened steady with contracts listed for January March May July and October at 12.08 12.39 12.66 12.83 and 12.49 cents. Prices closed 11 to 12 points higher amid thin or unclear trading signals.
Liverpool Jan 6 cotton prices shown firm with Good middling at 8.614 and middling at 8.284 while low middling stands at 7.844. Sales reach 18 000 bales during the day with 5000 bales speculative and export activity. Receipts total 21 000 bales.
Liverpool January futures show minor firming with values around 8.06 for January and near 8.04 to 7.95 across successive near months. The table lists a sequence of monthly contracts from January through December with slight variations in each period.
New York reports bid ranges for cotton seed from a closed firm named Snot with prices across months from January to August. Total sales recorded 26,809 units.
The Weather Bureau notes local rains tonight with Thursday partly cloudy and colder conditions in the north and east. Yesterday's precipitation was .09 inches, total since January 1 is .83 inches with an excess of .12 inches.
Live stock markets show strong activity across major centers. Fort Worth and Chicago report rising prices for cattle hogs and calves, with receipts totaling hundreds in each yard. Hogs show slower trade in Chicago but higher potential elsewhere. San Antonio quotes hogs at 6 to 6.50 while goats and other divisions yield little today.
Chicago notes a stronger wheat market driven by shrinking hands in the crop and lower exportable surplus, with May and July prices rising. Reports of cold weather in fall-sown fields, greenbug damage in Texas, and shipping difficulties from Argentina and Australia add to the tone. Corn also climbs on a government report of large losses. oats rise slowly. hogs and cereals offer support for provisions.
The Chicago cash grain market on January 5 shows No 2 red wheat at 1.27 dollars per bushel, No 3 hard nominal, No 2 yellow corn nominal, oats at 4 64 percent, and barley at 64 77e, reflecting limited price changes.
Fort Worth Texas market totals show cattle receipts about 1200 with mixed prices from 3.00 to 8.00 for calves and bulls, hog receipts around 4000 with bulk at 6.00 to 6.80, and sheep and goats receipts near 50 cents to 8.75 for lambs. Prices vary by class with steady cattle, strong hogs, and mixed small ruminants as bids move.
Chicago market data shows hog receipts around 60 000 with bulk hogs at 6.65 to 6.90 per hundredweight and gaps for other categories. Cattle receipts near 16 000 with native beef steers 6.25 to 9.60, western steers 6.30 to 8.10, cows and heifers 3.00 to 8.45, calves 7.00 to 10.50. Sheep receipts about 20 000 with wethers 6.65 to 7.15 and lambs 7.60 to 9.90 per hundredweight.
Quotations today in St. Louis show No 2 red and No 2 hard wheat nominal and No 2 corn and oats prices with minor figures listed. No further legible details available due to damage in text.
Kansas City reports daily grain quotes with Wheat No 2 hard at 1.1491.19 dollars and No 2 red at 1.201 25 dollars, Corn No 2 mixed 68 869 cents, No 2 white 69 cents, Oats No 2 white 431 44 cents, No 2 mixed 39 40 cents.
Kansas City grain futures closed with Wheat May 1 1743, July 1.11. Corn May 72 cents, July 73 34 cents. Oats May 46 cents.
Hogs receipts reach 14 900 with higher day prices. Pigs and lights range from 6.00 to 6.90, mixed and butchers 6.70 to 7.00, good heavy 6.90 to 7.05. Cattle receipts about 5500 steady with native beef steers 7.50 to 9.50 and yearlings 8.50 to 9.40. Sheep numbers 700 strong. yearlings 6.50 to 8.50, lambs 8.00 to 9.65, ewes 5.50 to 6.50.
Kansas City market notes show hog receipts at 13 090 steady to strong with prices 6 46 to 6 75 heavy 6 65 to 6 80 light 6 40 to 6 60 and pigs 5 25 to 6 00. Cattle receipts 6000 steady to strong with prime fed steers 8 75 to 9 25 dressed beef steers 6 25 to 8 50 southern steers 5 50 to 6 75 cows 4 90 to 6 75 heifers 5 75 to 9 00 stockers 5 50 to 8 00. Sheep receipts 5009 steady with lambs 8 75 to 9 40 yearlings 7 25 to 8 25 wethers 6 25 to 7 25 ewes 5 75 to 6 50.
Cattle sale results listing buyers and stocker cattle across multiple origins. Entries include Paula Valley Oklahoma stocker steers averaging 954 pounds at 6.55, Sears Arkansas stocker steers 876 pounds at 7.08, Valley View calves 492 pounds at 5.00, and several other stocker prices and weights from J. D. Alsott, H. McAdama, Roy Goulsby, Ussery and Aston, J. F. Boone, J. D. Harner, with totals in hundreds of head and prices per hundredweight.
Trading in Mexican money in San Antonio on Wednesday showed bids and asks across several notes and coins. State bank notes at 8.1/2 percent, National Bank notes at 17 1/2 percent, Bank of London and Mexico at 17 1/2 percent, and Carranza money around 5 percent.
Lead bids at 8.70 while spelter has no quote. Electrolytic copper remains firm at 23.25 to 24.00. Tin strong on spot at 44.00. Tron steady and unchanged.
Oklahoma City on January 5 reports cattle at 420 head steady and hogs at 3100 steady with bulk prices 6.55 to 6.70, sheep about 600 steady. Ay, Wt, Price list shows James Bros. Oklahoma with 1180 head at 7.00 and 1186 head at 7.35 per hundredweight.
London market notes show lead at 81 pounds sterling per 100 pounds, Spelter 88 pounds, Scot copper 88, electrolytic 112, spot tin 173 252 with futures 174 15s, and Antimony at 125 pounds per 100 pounds as of January 5.
Time loans remained steady at 60 and 0 days with rates around 2 percent. Call money eased to 2 percent high and low, with the ruling rate at 2 percent. The Independent Order of Good Templars traces origins to New York in 1881.
New York stock market opens uneven with gains in specialties and copper shares. Lackawanna Steel jumps 5 percent to 82, Tennessee Copper rises, United States Steel and New York Air Brake advance. Pacifics and eastern lines inch higher, but late selling erases most morning gains.
In New York on January 6 mercantile paper stands at 8 43 and a half percent. Sterling 60 day bills are at 4.71 and demand at 4.75. Cables at 4.745. Guilders demand and cables at 0.44 and 0.44 respectively. Bar silver around 0.56 and Mexican dollars 0.48. Government bonds hold steady while railroad bonds show irregular movement.
Allen Buell notes wind velocities under ten miles per hour and precipitation amounts under .01 inch are not published here. Local forecaster.
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