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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
25
Cold air settles along the coast for Friday with a cooler outlook and light precipitation readings. Yesterday's observed precipitation totaled .19 inch, above the normal .04 inch. Daily excess reached .15 inch, lifting year to date total to 2.13 inches and excess since January 1 to .67 inch.
The market faced a broad decline as heavy selling of cotton pushed prices downward and spot values weakened across the board. Traders cited sluggish demand and rising supply as key factors behind the selling pressure.
The Cotton Exchange cautions a sharp drop in prices with contracts down about a dollar per bale and South spots falling 75 cents to $1. Bearish export prospects and crop fears weigh on values while Texas ports hold large stocks due to limited ocean tonnage. Fertilizer supply worries also buoy bulls amid wartime constraints. San Antonio offers ease to 11.50 cents middling, with several hundred bales traded at reduced rates.
The cotton market opened in New York nervously with declines of four to six points, then slipped six to nine points from the prior close. May traded around 12.26, July 12.37, October 12.39, as selling from southern connections and Wall Street shorts increased. Rumors of long contracts coming on the market and Russian buying circulated. spinners fixed prices while deal rumors persisted. Prices pared slightly after midday as covering limited losses to about 12.18 for May and 12.30 for July before stabilizing.
Cotton futures opened steady with March at 12.08 and May 12.34 while July sits at 12.42 and October 12.40, December 12.54. Futures closed 21 points lower with mixed intraday highs and lows. Liverpool poised to open Friday from 7 to 7 1/2 points lower as the 11 o'clock call follows with data on call and close.
Liberal offerings pushed New Orleans cotton down six to ten points in the first half hour as bears dominated and selling was encouraged by weak cables. By noon the net decline reached 13 to 19 points and by afternoon trading to 1:30 p.m. extended to 14 to 20 points from yesterday's close.
New Orleans Jan 27 cotton futures opened steady with March at 11.84 and May around 12.14 as bids showed a spread. Trading details list various months with fractional prices and a session range. The market closed significantly lower for the period, reflecting broad pressure across the forward curve.
Liverpool January twenty seven spot cotton held barely steady with a sale of 5000 bales including 500 for export and speculation. Receipts were reported at 15000 bales as buyers and sellers weighed supply and demand.
Futures prices for months across Liverpool curve with slight declines and a peak at 7.85d, then New York mercantile paper at 33 1/2 percent, sterling 60 day bills 4.71 percent, demand 4.7643, cables 4.7615-16, guilders 43 1/2, bar silver 86 4/5, Mexican dollars 43 1/2, with government bonds steady and railroad bonds easier.
New York report notes easy time loans with sixty and ninety day terms at 2 percent, six month loans at 2 and 3 percent, call money steady with high 2 percent and low 1 percent, ruling rate 7 percent, last loan 2 percent, closing bid 1 percent and offered at 2 percent.
Grocer jobbers announce a five cent per case advance in a leading breakfast syrup amid rising corn prices. Sugar refiners lift ten cents per hundredweight on cube sugar. lump sugar moves up as mills struggle to keep pace. Fruits stay firm with scarce oranges from California and Florida. cabbage arrives from Brownsville with limited other vegetables in short supply. No price changes from packing houses today.
Wholesale prices for the trade Thursday show eggs steady at 27 2 storage. Butter firm Texas creamery at 32 330 per pound. Poultry firm with hens per dozen 4.50 6.00 friers 3.50 4.50 broilers 2.00 3.50 turkeys 15 11c per pound ducks 4.50 5.60 per dozen geese 7.00 14.00 per dozen rabbits per dozen tax an
New York on January 27 reports raw sugar misedyi centrifugal at 4.77, molasses sugar 4.00, refined rye steady. List includes cut loaf 6.75, crushed 6.65, mould A 6.30, cubes 6.20, XXXX powdered 6.00, powdered 5.95, fine granulated 5.95, diamond A 5.85, confectioners A 5.75, No 1 5.60.
The report shows Bates stock yesterday at 41,090,084 with last week 1,746,292 and last year 2,088,885. Deficit this season amounts to 248,784. A separate note quotes Bulgarian defection delaying allied diplomacy in the Balkans, with a Mobile Spanish Consul remark.
Galveston marine intelligence reports arrival of the Dutch vessel Themisto from Rotterdam. Departures include the British ships Conarce Pensacola Monarch bound for Liverpool and Havre via New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS LA Jan 27 A steady tone ruled all rice grades except rough Japan which was quiet Receipts clean 3804 Sales 2481 pockets clean Honduras at 25 169 4 c 150 pockets Japan at 3 c Quotations Rough Honduras 2 10 3 76 others unchanged
Savannnah price list shows turpentine and rosin activity with volumes for receipts shipments and stock. Quotations include A B C D E F G H K M N W G and W W ranging from 5.20 to 7.50 per unit, reflecting firm resin sales and varied stock moves.
Wholesale listings show prices to retailers and shippers for vegetables and fruits across Texas, California, and Florida. Items include potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, greens, celery, lettuce, peaches, apples, bananas, oranges, lemons, and others with per unit, per crate, or per hundredweight rates. Partial figures include Colorado potatoes at 2.40 to 2.50 per hundredweight and cranberries at 12.80 per barrel.
The War Department issues orders detailing first lieutenant William A. Pendleton Jr to Bethlehem Steel and Midvale Steel for ordnance work, second lieutenant Richard B. Baernitz to Fort Sam Houston for aviation fitness, and various leave and reassignment actions including Major Miller’s Philippine transport date change and Captain Huston’s selection as major Philippine Scouts with February 1 1918 effective date.
Wheat faced profit taking and a weak opening as Liverpool buyers delayed purchases amid hopes for lower vessel rates. May and July futures fluctuated between gains and losses, then closed with a modest advance. Corn rose after wheat weakness, while oats hardened and provisions stayed quiet.
San Antonio grain buyers posted prices for Thursday deliveries. Wheat at 1.35 per bushel for Texas and 1.36 for northern. Corn No 3 Texas 80c, No 2 mixed northern 78c, northern white 80 83c. Oats Texas red bulk 55c, sacks 55c. northern white bulk 52c, sacks 63c. Oklahoma prices follow Texas grades.
Packing details show quoted prices for dry salt extras at 18c, bacon extras at 14c, dry salt bellies 11-18 pound average at 15c, fancy breakfast bacon 27c, fancy hams 18c, bacon bellies 14-16 pound average at 16c, Pure lara 12c compound lic.
Kansas City cotations show wheat No 2 hard at 1.25 to 1.31 a bushel and No 2 red 1.26 to 1.34, corn No 2 mixed 70 1/2 to 71 1/2 cents, No 2 yellow 71 to 71 1/2 cents, oats No 1 white 58 1/4 to 58 1/2 cents, No 2 mixed 44 1/2 to 45 1/4 cents.
Grain futures ended trading in Kansas City with May wheat at 81.27 cents, July wheat at 1.20 dollars, May corn at 75 cents, July corn at 75 1/2 cents, and May oats at 81 1/2 cents. Market notes show slight strength across grains despite varying monthly contracts.
On January 27 in St Louis quotations showed Wheat at No 2 red 1.41 and No 2 hard nominal, Corn No 2 94c and No 2 white 94c, oats No 2 at 5 3 4c and No 2 white nominal.
Chicago records a brief market report dated January 27 listing grain prices: No 2 red at 1.87 percent, No 2 hard at 83, corn No 2 yellow nominal, oats Standard at 53 percent, and barley at 8 1/2 to 8 1/2 cents.
The New York cotton seed oil market shows steady prices with spot at 9.15 to 9.16 and futures across months from January to August quoted between 9.17 and 9.31. Total sales volume reaches 10,590.
Temperature readings indicate subzero conditions with wind speeds under ten miles per hour and precipitation amounts under one hundredth of an inch not published here. Allen Buell, local forecaster, provides the note.
January 27 report shows cattle barely steady and hogs slow and lower at national markets. San Antonio remains about steady. receipts at yards reached 319 cattle 121 calves 34 horses and 53 hogs. Steers peak $6.50, cows $4.75 to $5.00, calves $6 to $7 per cwt. Hogs trade mainly $6.00 to $6.50, with top around $6.40. Sheep weak overall.
Fort Worth reports cattle receipts around two thousand with mixed steady to firm prices across classes. Stockers and cows show varied bids from about 3.50 to 6.75 per hundredweight, calves and bulls at several dollar ranges, sheep and goats also listed with multiple price points.
In St Louis on January 27 receipts listed hogs 19 000 steady market with various weights from 6.00 to 7.70 per unit, cattle receipts 2800 steady with native beef steers 7.59 to 9.50, yearling steers and heifers 8.50 to 9.35, cows 5.50 to 7.00, Texas Oklahoma steers 5.25 to 5.9, cows and heifers 4.00 to 6.50, calves 6.00 to 10.75. sheep receipts 106 steady with yearling wethers 8.00 to 9.25, lambs 9.00 to 10.65, ewes 6.25 to 7.50.
Receipts and quotations from Chicago show hogs at 50,000 receipts with slow and unchanged trade. bulk items around 7.30 to 7.85, sows and boars listed with varied prices. Cattle receipts at 5,000 with steady tone. beef steers near 4.30 to 9.75, western slicers around 6.40, calves 7.75 to 10.75. Sheep receipts 10,000 with weak market. wethers near 7.40 to 5.00 and lambs 8.30 to 10.70.
Kansas City on January 27 reports Hoyt receipts 8909 with market steady to lower. Bulk cattle and hogs priced with prime fed steers 8.40 to 9.00 and lambs 10.00 to 10.60. cattle and sheep receipts around 2000 and 4000 respectively with mixed prices across grades.
Oklahoma City cattle market steady on January 27 with hogs around 2100 head. Top price reached 87.65 dollars with bulk sales near 75 dollars per hundredweight. Edith questions marriage to Mr Roxleigh while Marie defends by recalling his means. Boston Transcript style dialogue.
Quotations in Kansas City show butter at 31 cents for creamery, 29 for firsts, 27 for seconds, packing at 19 cents. Egg quotes list firsts at 26 cents, seconds 20, hens 19, turkeys 18, with springs noted.
Paris Jan 27 A Havas dispatch from Havre says the Belgian government has completed a 500 page volume in response to the German White Book. It formally disposes of German charges about Belgian attitudes toward German troops and includes unpublished documents and the report of an inquiry by international Freemasons.
Chicago market report lists butter at 28 to 30 cents, creamery steady, receipts 38 cases with firsts at 26 to 27 cents, potatoes steady with 65 car receipts, whites at 92 cents to 1 dollar, Ohio whites 85 to 92 cents, poultry alive steady with fowls at 15 cents.
New York January 27 The stock market opened with broader declines and scattered gains. Rails fell as a group with United States Steel under pressure. Erie Southern Pacific Mexican Petroleum and Westinghouse showed moderate initial offerings while Steel slipped to 83 percent then recovered slightly. Oil and other issues weakened, but some recoveries followed St Paul’s 5 percent dividend increase. Closing was irregular.
London reports bar silver at 271 16 per ounce and money at 44 percent with a 4 per cent discount rate. Short bills and three month treasuries show 545 5 percent.
Lead at 6.05 with spelter unquoted and copper firm. Electrolytic copper at 25.05 for second quarter delivery. Iron steady. Tin quiet with spot price 41.75. Market notes from New York metal exchanges.
London market notes list various commodities with quoted prices in pounds sterling including lead at 32 shillings six pence, copper at 89 pounds, electrolytic metals at 123 pounds, and other refined metals around 64 to 178 pounds.
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