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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
7
A vintage ad urges readers to act early to own a home by cutting luxuries and digging in. It promotes a payment plan from Kuntz Albaugh Lumber at 823 Lakeview Ave Crockett, with contact details 2337 and 140.
The stock market ended firm with narrow, uneven trade on a Saturday session. Bonds were firm as leaders held ground and notable figures like Westinghouse Electric and Woolworth moved lower while several major issues posted fractional gains amid light volume.
The weekly statement shows clearing house banks and trust companies hold 21.465 million dollars in reserve above legal requirements, up 361 thousand from the previous week. OM NAST week.
Very choice irrigated farm of 57 acres near a town of 2000 population. Land is rich dark chocolate sandy loam, cleared fenced and plowed ready to plant. Tools and implements included. Bargain at $110 per acre with $3,000 cash required balance to suit. Act quick, address P O Box 803 city.
Local roasters report higher costs for green coffee as demand surges in a seasonally strong market. Santos coffee shipments to New Orleans indicate firm primary market views and ongoing sizeable purchases in spots and futures, while no price changes were quoted in wholesale channels.
Bradstreet s weekly trade review notes weather disruptions and tariff talk causing irregular trade reports. Rain and snow slow retail demand while floods persist. Industry shows activity in coal building trades iron and steel but New York clothing labor unrest and rising wages affect rail labor.
Quotations from St Louis on January 25 show chickens at 14 to 14 1/2 cents, springs 13 to 13 1/2 cents, turkeys 18 cents, ducks 16 cents, hens 18 cents. Butter creamery 26 338 cents per pound. Eggs 21 cents.
Quotations for dairy and poultry markets listed for Kansas City on January 25 include butter creamery at 25% firsts 30% second 28% packing stock 19%20c extras 5c and 22% cents fading for creamery products. Poultry prices show hens at 12% roosters 8c young turkeys 18c, ducks 18 14c.
Rough rice held firm with clean grades steady on January 26 in New Orleans. Quotations listed rough Honduras at 2.60 to 2.75 and 4.75, Japan at 2.75 to 4.25. Clean Honduras 4 5 4c and Japan 3 4c. Receipts: rough 1241, millers 978, clean 644 bags. Sales: Clean Honduras 1110 at 3 5 1léc, Japan 600 at 39 16.
New York market summary reports raw sugar in various tests with Muscovado at 2.98 and refined values around 6.30 for crushed and 4.60 for granulated, while petroleum holds steady with refined barrels priced at 8.50. Molasses remains steady and New Orleans open kettle prices are listed at 35 and 55.
Multiple Farm and ranch listings from Beeville Pearsall and Dimmit County show 492 acre fields near Beeville with cash needs, 85 acre and 80 acre tracts for sale, artesian land and goat ranch potential, plus rental and exchange options. Names Bartee Nipper Langford Wm Herring appear as agents and owners.
London tin copper lead and spelter prices mirror steady trends with spot and futures quotes. New York metal market shows dull activity with Lake copper and electrolytic ranges and iron prices unchanged.
New York and New Orleans report higher cotton futures with active buying and renewed spot support. Prices firm late with New York up 1 to 5 points, Liverpool up 6 to 7 points, and New Orleans steady near the close as traders cover and hedge selling eases.
Cotton futures opened barely steady with a mixed start as early selling pushed prices 9 to 11 points below yesterday’s close. Buyers returned, shorts covered, and by mid morning the market recovered to end the first half hour near 2 to 3 points down, while old crop months rose 5 to 6 points at best.
Cotton futures opened barely steady with January at 12.62, February 14.36, March 12.36, May 12.17, July 12.83, August 11.92, October 11.62. Rallies and later closes show a net advance of 3 to 4 points amid scattered readings and mixed daily highs and lows.
Spot cotton in Liverpool shows prices firm with American middling fair at 7.35 pence and ordinary 5.89 pence. Daily sales reach 4000 bales, including 800 for speculation and export and 3500 American. receipts total 3200 bales, all American.
Futures in Liverpool opened firm and closed dull with quotes across several months including January at 6.57d and March at 6.584d. The listing covers monthly futures from January through next January with minor variations in each contract.
320 acres four miles from Pearsall city hall with 260 acres in cultivation. Price 30 dollars per acre with terms. D. B. Langford is the exclusive agent, Pearsall Texas. Inquiries welcome at 516 Bedell Building.
The notice advertises San Antonio property, farm and ranch lands in Texas and Mexico including Lower Rio Grande Valley irrigable land. It promotes money loaned on good real estate and lists Thos Lee J Herbert Compton R Patterson along with partners.
New York and New Orleans report middling prices around 13.05 and 12 percent. Houston and Galveston show middling 124g. Liverpool quotes middling 6.8id. Memphis records middling 12 percent.
The New York cotton seed oil market closes firm with spot at 96.29 and forward values from 6.23 to 6.38 per gallon. Sales include February 200 at 6.25 and May 700 at 6.26, with total 1800 contracts. Receipts reported at 6605 cases.
Wheat opened steady as May futures hovered around 92 to 93 cents. Corn firmed on rain relief for the crop with May at about 51 to 52 cents, later easing. Oats quiet, May pork up to 19.27 dollars. cash demand steady in Chicago and Kansas City reports.
Market notes list cash wheat No 2 red at 1 09 1 18 No 2 hard 91 96 cents corn No 2 49 No 2 white 51 cents oats No 2 34 cents No 2 white 34 cents. Close futures May 93 cents July 18 cents corn May 6 gh July 51 cents oats May 34 cents July 34 cents.
Cash wheat pricing by grade with bids in dollars and cents. No. 2 red at 1.08 to 1.14, No. 2 hard winter 91 965c, No. 1 northern 99 4c, No. 2 northern 87 89c, No. 2 spring S6 88c, velvet chaff 83 90c, durum 85 2c. Date: No. 2 white 854% 87c. Standard 84 c.
Receipts were light with cattle at steady to firm values. Five cars of steers sold from 6.40 to 6.76, feeders 6.00 to 6.60, cows 3.50 to 4.75, calves 4.50 to 7.50. Hogs were active and steady top 7.75 with bulk 7.10 to 7.70. sheep arrivals none.
Chicago market today shows cattle receipts 200 with steady demand and varied bale prices, hog receipts about 10,000 with strong demand and prices around 7.30 to 7.60 for different weights, sheep receipts 1,500 with slow and steady activity and native lambs quoted around 7.65 to 9.00 and yearlings to 6.40 8.00.
In St Louis on January 25 receipts totaled 24 000 cattle including 200 Texas cattle. Native beef steers brought 5.00 to 9.25 per cwt and Texas Oklahoma steers 5.50 to 7.90. Cows and heifers ranged 3.65 to 6.00, calves 5.00 to 6.60. Hogs receipts 3300 with market five cents higher. pigs and lights 6.50 to 7.60, sows 7.45 to 7.60, good heavy 7.50. Baste receipts 250, market steady. native muttons 5.00 to 6.26, lambs 7.10 to 9.80.
Kansas City dated January 25 shows cattle receipts at 200 with native steers 6.80 to 8.30 and southern cattle 3.75 to 6.25. Hogs receipts 2000 with bulk sales to 7.30 and highs 7.40 to 7.45, pigs 6.26 to 7.40. Sheep receipts 1000 with muttons 4.25 to 5.75 and yearlings 5.00 to 7.50. range ewes 3.50.
New York index closes with prime mercantile paper at 44 and 5 percent. Sterling exchange eases with bankers bills at 4.83 60 and 4.87 65 for demand. Commercial bills 4.83. Bar silver 623. Mexican dollars 49 cents. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds unchanged.
Galveston port traffic lists arrivals including the Nicetodea Glasgow Jacob Libach Stursula El Occidente and San Jacinto with cargo notes. Cleared steamer El Dia for New York and sails listed for City of Mexico Nord Tampico El Oriente and others from New York.
New York wool markets were quiet on January 23 with worsted carpet wools described as easy and fair trade activity noted. Money markets show nominal loans with time loans firm at 60 days and 90 days at 3 to 4 percent, and six month terms at 1 percent.
Memphis reports spot cotton trading steady with middling grade around 12 1/2 cents and no significant price shifts. Buyers and sellers held positions as the market reflected cautious demand on January 26.
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