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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1913
Page
7
Chicago and Kansas City reports show firm opening for wheat with May at 94% to 94%c and closing easy at 98% c. Corn remains under pressure early then weak by close. oats steady with minor shifts. Cash prices list No. 2 red wheat around $1.12 to $1.16 and No. 2 yellow corn about 49% to 50c in Chicago.
Quotations show cash red and white grain prices and futures for corn and oats. No. 2 red and hard wheat trading around 92 to 97 cents and 1.12 to 1.15 for cash, corn No. 2 around 50s, oats No. 2 white around 34 cents, with May and July futures listed.
Copper remains steady with spot at 70 pounds 19s 6d and futures at 71 pounds 5s. Tin holds at 228 pounds 10s spot and 227 pounds futures. Local tin sales reach 15 tons while London lead trades at 16 pounds 10s and spelter at 26 pounds. Iron warrants for Cleveland show 65894 in London.
New Orleans reports rice receipts with rough 4222 and clean 1236 bags and 4222 to millers. Sales list includes clean Honduras and Japan lots with varying prices. quotations show rough Honduras at 2.50 to 4.65, Japan at 2.75 to 4.25, and clean Honduras around 4 to 5 cents per pound.
Galveston reports arrivals yesterday including Santurce San Juan and Havre with cargoes from December and January. Cleared vessels include Clencliffe Amsterdam Manchester Kendal Castle and Mongibello bound for Antwerp Genoa Hamburg and New York. Sailed vessels include Anselma de Larrinaga Cayo Bonito and Santiago bound for Manchester Bremen and New York.
In New York on January 18 the market for cotton goods was quiet while yarns slipped. Jobbers report generally fair business for the season and stable demand across textiles.
The statement shows New York clearing house banks and trust companies hold 21,104,300 in excess of legal requirements, up 5,965,000 from the previous week.
Brookline Country Club officials favor moving the national golf championship date from June 4 to September to allow participation by Edward Ray the British champion Harry Vardon George Duncan and several French professionals. The shift would also let American professionals compete in the British championship late in June.
Edward L. Hofheinz aged 44 died January 16 at 515 Avenue B. Rafaelo Sauceda aged 69 died January 17 at 806 South Flores Street. Martha P. Gregory aged 78 died January 16 at 1507 North Pine Street. Herman Turoff aged 64 died January 16 at 130 North Mesquite Street.
Dun’s review notes overall gains in key trades with improved activity in railroads and dry goods. Railroad rolling stock expansion and terminal upgrades boost earnings, up 11.6 percent in the first week of January. Copper lags while wheat and cotton show irregularities and foreign trade expands with other nations.
Cotton stocks show yesterday 996 650 bales, down from 1 087 244 last week and 1 306 893 a year ago. Chicago market reports prices for butter and creamery items, eggs with receipts 4709 cases, and potatoes with regional price ranges across Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota and Nebraska. Live poultry steady with turkeys at 16c and fowls at 13c.
Butter pricing lists show firsts and seconds with different percentages for creamery products and packing stock. Poultry figures include hens roosters young turkeys and ducks with varied percentages and weights.
New York report shows No. 7 Arabica coffee rising 13 percent with futures firm. March contract at 13.48 and May at 13.38 as steady buying persists.
In St. Louis on January 18 poultry prices were weak with chickens at 12 cents, springs 12 cents, turkeys 18 cents, ducks etc, geese 11 cents. Butter creamer y 27 to 36 cents. Eggs higher at 22 cents.
New York markets report Peges steady with unchanged prices as receipts total 5167 cases on January 18.
New York notes on raw sugar and molasses steady with refined sugars firm. Petroleum steady at 8.60 per barrel. Hides and leather hold firm across Bogota Central America markets. Cotton market closes easy with a 7 to 16 point decline.
Wool steady in St Louis with medium grades at 23 ¼ to 23 ¾ cents, light fine 19 ¼ to 21 ¼ cents, heavy fine and tub washed 27 to 31 cents. Prices reflect orderly market conditions for combing and clothing fibers.
Sandusky Ohio farmer Harry McCoy appeared in police court as defendant after refusing to buy a motorcycle license tag. He invoked a Supreme Court of Ohio decision saying non residents cannot be compelled to invest in a motorcycle license tag. The mayor read the section and dismissed the case.
Weather Bureau forecast issued by Willis L. Moore predicts fair but cold weather across San Antonio and East Texas. Frost expected tonight and Sunday, with colder conditions especially in the south and extreme northwest portions.
At Union Stock Yards on January 18 business was quieter with light receipts and a featureless day. Quoted values held firm. best cows at 4.50, calves 5.25, hogs about 7, with no sheep or goats offered. Demand for beef remains good and a stronger market is expected next week.
In Fort Worth on Saturday, receipts totaled 1400 cattle and 200 calves with 26 stockers counted but not for market. Hogs numbered 800 with a steady market and top at 7.66. Cattle included 750 stockers off market, cows steady from 3.25 to 5.26, bulls 3.25 to 5.00, calves 2.00 to 4.50, and 7.65 as top hog price with bulk 7.10 to 7.66.
Receipts and quotations show cattle at 200 head with mixed classes and a steady market. Hogs 2000 head, market steady to strong with bulk sales around 7.20 to 7.40, pigs 6.26 to 7.00, packers 7.25 to 7.40. Sheep receipts zero, muttons 4.50 to 6.00, lambs 6.50 to 9.00, range wethers 5.50 to 8.00.
ST LOUIS Jan 18 Receipts and quotations today show cattle 4800 including 300 Texans market steady native beef steers 5.50 4 5 35 Texas and Oklahoma steers 5.57 90 cows and heifers 3.65 6.00 calves 5.00 6.50 hogs 6000 market steady pigs and dights 6 75 7 50 mixed and butchers 7 40 7 55 good heavy 7 45 7 55 sheep receipts 4000 market steady native muttons 5.00 6.90 lambs 7.00 9.15.
Chicago markets report receipts with cattle steady to firm and hogs rising modestly. Prices show Reeves Texas and western steers in the 4.70 to 7.60 range, hogs 7.30 to 7.57, and sheep lambs around 4.75 to 9.00 with different regional variations.
Spot cotton in Memphis on January 18 held steady at middling 12 and a half cents per pound. The market showed unchanged values with steady demand and buyers continuing to monitor prices for near term sales.
Daily mail to President elect Wilson yields amusing notes from Gloucester Mass reporters and a five year old pupil sending violets. A South Dakota farmer seeks mortgage relief for a 9 percent mortgage interest due next month. Two Pennsylvanians patent a slide blade can opener simplifying work on rectangular cans.
Price changes were small at the market open with a slight upward tilt. Louisville and Nashville rose a point while Amalgamated edged above prior close as trading narrowed and raiding tactics proved less effective. Investors covered positions and several specialties recovered after recent liquidations. Bonds showed irregular activity.
In New York on January 18 the mercantile paper rate sits around 4 to 5 percent, sterling exchange remains firm with bankers' bills at 4 83 10 for 60 day bills and 4 87 85 for demand. Commercial bills trade at 4 82, bar silver 63 cents, Mexican dollars 49 cents. Government bonds hold steady while railroad bonds show irregular movement.
New York metal markets show dull trading with Lake copper quoted at around 16.87 to 17.12 per unit and electrolytic near 16.62 to 16.75, cast copper at about 16.50 as activity remains quiet.
New York January 18 money on call nominal with no loans. Time loans show weakness with 60 and 90 day terms at 4 percent and six month loans at 4 41 per cent.
St. Louis metal market reports lead at firm 4.20 per cwt and spelter at 7.15 per cwt as of January 18 with quiet trading conditions observed.
A Maltese cat chased by a dog jumped onto power lines near Woodruff's feed mill causing a circuit fire that darkened all town street lights for three hours. Fire and gas officials traced the fault and the cat was burned to a crisp.
The article notes rice prices likely to advance before spring as milling stocks run short and demand remains high. It cites U.S. production of 6,750,000 bags last year with about 2,000,000 bags left for the season and estimates a shortfall of one million bags against normal consumption. It also reports packing house meat demand rising and packers boosting meat lists, reflecting tight cattle and hog supplies.
Extensive list of prices for eggs poultry butter cheese vegetables and fruits. Includes California tomatoes onions cabbage lettuce cucumbers cranberries okra cauliflower squash wax beans grapes oranges lemons limes bananas syrup nuts peas and canned meats with per unit and case pricing and tonnage totals.
New York cotton markets opened steady to down and extended losses with a net drop around 17 points for January and 8 to 9 points for other old crop months. Liverpool showed little response after yesterday’s weak local advance, general business was weak, short covering limited, and some buying by European-connected houses appeared.
New Orleans opened steady down four to six points as selling orders dominated and demand lagged. By midmorning prices fell 8 to 9 points before shorts covered to limit losses, only to slide again toward noon to new weekly lows with no bull support. Final: losses of 15 to 21 points from the prior day.
The cotton futures market closed steady with a net decline of 15 to 21 points. Trading quotes show January through October listings with mixed highs and lows, including February and March contracts, and nearby prices around 12.1 to 12.8.
Spot cotton in Liverpool on Jan 18 remains quiet with prices steady. American middling fair 7.364, good middling 7.02d, middling 6.824, low middling 6.64d, good ordinary 6.24d, ordinary 5.90d. Day’s sales 6000 bales, including 800 for speculation and export and 5000 American. Receipts 32,000 bales, of which 33,800 were American.
Liverpool traders report futures for several months opening steady with small fractional changes. Notable bids include January at 6.5894 percent and various spreads from January through January of next year, with values around 6.1 to 6.6 percent across contracts.
Cottonseed prices in Memphis on January 18 show prime basis 5.14 6.20, meal at 25.75 26.50, lint at 14 4.0c. The report lists varying bids and market terms for different product forms.
The cotton seed oil market closed with spot at 6.23 25, January 6.23, February 6.20, March 6.18 6.19, April 6.19 6.21, May 6.23 6.24, June 6.23 6.29, July 6.27 6.28, August 6.27 6.35. Sales between calls totaled 6500 units with varied bid levels including 100 at 6.24 and 900 at 6.21.
The report lists leading spot market figures for major hubs. New York and New Orleans show middling rates around 12.90 and 12 percent respectively, Houston at 12 percent, Galveston at 127 and a fraction, Liverpool at 6 824, and Memphis at 12 percent.
Spot cotton in New Orleans unchanged at middling 12 1 2 cents. Sales 290 bales to arrive 200. Quotations span low ordinary to strict good middling with values from 9 15 16 to 13 1 16 cents. Receipts 2886 bales, stock 174,989 bales.
Galveston Texans report spot cotton closed quiet with a 1 16 cent decline. Prices listed range from low ordinary at 85 16c to good middling at 12 13 16c, middling fair at 13 16c. Sales 300 spots. receipts 7366. stock 328163. f o b none.
The spot market closed quiet and easy with no sales on f o b shipments. Stock totals 148,842 while shipments reached 5,641. Quotations show low ordinary 7 ¾ percent, ordinary 8 ¾, good ordinary 9, low middling 11, middling 12, good middling 12 ¾, middling fair 13.
New York reports January 18 cotton spot prices quiet with middling uplands 12.90 and gulf at 13.15 and no sales recorded. Public notice urges readers to pay poll tax.
John Hays Hammond seeks a Mexican permit to travel unarmed with an escort into Sonora to pacify the Yaqui tribe. He cites years of engineering experience and familiarity with the region and its tribes, asserting readiness for the task.
Harper’s Weekly notes in 19th century commentary that 17th century works foretell modern tech. Strada’s Roman tale hints at loadstone telegraphy, Hooke foresees hearing a whisper from a furlong away, and Gulliver references satellites and lunar air, with Lucian imagining liquid air and an aerial ship.
Tit Bits of London notes a Prague high court case where a merchant seeks damages after a former friend cut off his mustache ends at a carnival. It also cites a Foley sneeze case for $50,000 in disorderly conduct, a Michigan beauty winning $500 over a steamboat named after her, and quirky tales of a vacuum tire, a burned-in mood, and a St. Louis gas well drill.
A long list of visitors and registrants at San Antonio hotels includes J Feinberg of Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Quent Ware of Paris. L F Hall of Crystal City. M Taylor of Corpus Christi. R B Creager of Brownsville. C Steele of San Marcos. J R Bell Jr and M Bel Mor of Octulla. A H Culwell of Galveston. A L Smith of Dilley. M Green of Austwell. C Kerr of Houston. J D Jennings of Brownsville. M C Stauer of Laredo. T Crixell of Brownsville. J W Sydes of Corpus Christi. Mrs A J Poor and Mrs B E Alexander of Kansas City. Roy Masters of Houston. W H Clayton of Houston. Julius Renal of Kerrville. F D and J P O Wood of Sabinal. H Burdick of Fowlerton. D E Brown of San Marcos. G S Prothro of Dallas. W M Wiggins of St Louis. J T Gossett of Beaumont. W H Seago and F R Reed of Houston. W W Y Stoles of Lampasas. J B Gadlock of Gonzales. Mr and Mrs D C K Saunders of Bonham. Mr and Mrs B O Calaway of Smithville. T R Liggett Jr of Waco. C C Dawson of Houston. C L Winfrey of Dallas. E Davis of Houston. J L Bell of Dallas. H Holshauver of Dallas. D B Horton of Austin. and many out-of-town guests at Harlandale Hotel sulphur baths including residents from Oshkosh, Minneapolis, Sioux City, Newark, Muncie, St Paul, Denver, Terre Haute, Los Angeles, San Diego, and New York City.
A compiled list of 1913 property transfers shows numerous deeds across multiple city blocks and additions. Transactions include undivided interests and full lot transfers among buyers such as F G DeVilbiss Hugh Stanfield George Wilke Sara Boon and others with prices ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars.
To Mr and Mrs C G Stone a girl born January 17 at 817 South Colorado street To Mr and Mrs B Martines a girl born January 10 at 1204 Tampico street To Mr and Mrs Herman Baets a boy To Mr and Mrs D Pieres a girl River street address listed Pay your poll tax.
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