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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1917
Page
9
The neotations from the principal spot cotton market show the middling grade quoted and prices for market delivery. Early gains give way to firmer trading as bullish spot advice and peace prospects spark buying and covering. New Orleans and New York report steady demand and firmness later in the day.
Prices moved upward at both markets as bulls favored southern mills and spot advices. New York closed 22 to 24 points higher than yesterday, New Orleans 28 to 30 points higher. San Antonio spots were 17 100.
The New York cotton market opened quiet with slight declines in Liverpool and early declines of 4 to 6 points. Prices firmed after Wall Street buying and optimistic peace talk, May advancing from 17.35 to 17.66 cents as active months posted 20 to 26 point gains.
New York trading opened steady on cotton futures with March at 17.22 cents, May 17.30, July 17.34, October 16.40, and December 16.50. Futures closed 22 to 26 points higher amid varied intraday moves and price readings across the board.
Fragmentary notes indicate Liverpool is due to open Thursday with a time window around 10 points up and an 11 o'clock call following. The text includes garbled timestamps and partial figures such as 17.46 17.6 17.45 1% and 16.50 16.66, plus an October reference.
Cotton opened lower on the New Orleans market with a five to ten point drop as poor cables prompted selling. By noon active months rose 17 to 20 points from yesterday's close and after the noon hour steady demand pushed gains to 27 to 30 points. Local and belt spot demand spurred larger buying of contracts.
Open bid for March at 18.82 cents May at 186.90 cents per pound with a 16.96 cent sulge and December around 16.13 cents. Prices show limited change with highs and lows pending Tuesday’s close and upcoming contracts.
Spot cotton in fair demand with prices easing. Good middling at 11.03 cents, middling 11.02, low middling 10.24. Sales 8000 bales including 800 for speculation and export. Receipts about 4,000 bales. Official noon closing values: January 10.62 cents, January February 10.61 cents.
Futures markets in Liverpool closed steady with a list of daily contract bids for successive monthly spreads. The report presents February through January futures in narrow ranges, reflecting little change across the forward curve.
United States Steel Corporation shows net earnings of 333 625 086 for the year, up 203 273 790 from 1915, with gross business exceeding 1 250 000 000. The 1913 peak gross was 796 000 000, while 1907 was the prior high for earnings. Unfilled orders at year end 1916 totaled 11 547 286 tons, up from 7 806 229 tons in 1915. Directors declare an extra dividend on common stock plus the regular quarterly 1 1/2 percent.
Chicago January 31 Wheat prices declined on reports Germany may back a peace move by President Wilson and noting German sea rovers in the North Atlantic. Lack of buying kept prices down with May at 1.71 1 2 and July at 1.46 4, later closing 1 1 4% lower.
The January 31 report from Union Stock Yards notes northern cattle were slightly unsettled with small variations. Kansas City and Fort Worth show steady to strong and 10 cent drop respectively, while other centers stay steady. Hogs generally firm with slight gains, Oklahoma City mixed with strength on good stock and weakness on common. Receipts overall average. local market active and sold at yesterday’s prices with small hogs prices slipping 15 to 35 cents. San Antonio yard counts list cattle 741 head and hogs 598, city trade specifics include 249 cattle and 219 hogs.
Fort Worth Texas January 31 cattle receipts 7500 head with prices for steers stockers and heifers and cows calves. Hogs receipts 6000 with bulk sales and top price. Sheep receipts 300 with lambs yearlings and ewes priced and goats listed.
In Chicago on January 81 the wheat market quotes No. 2 red at 1.76 to 1.77, No. 2 hard nominal. Corn No. 2 yellow 99%e to 1.00, oats standard 56 to 5i, barley 1.00 to 1.27.
Kansas City market update lists cash paren de No. 2 hard a 75 1.79 and No. 2 red 7 Corn prices. No. 2 white 97 997 %c and mixed 97997 %c with No. 2 yellow 98 98%c. Rye at 41. Date No. 2 white 67%c and No. 2 mixed 55 7958c. Gi. 45.
Kansas City grain markets closed with May Corn at 97 9 tenths cents, July Corn at 95 cents, May Wheat at 142 9 tenths cents, July Wheat at 134 cents, and nearby futures showing small gains and losses across contracts amid thin trading.
In St. Louis Indiana corn and grain prices appear garbled. No clear bids for cash wheat or rye, with several figures like 1.87 and 1.85 mixed with uncertain codes. The fragment lacks coherent market data and is difficult to parse.
Philadelphia reports 1916 grain exports at 49,358,685 bushels, up from 44,558,672 bushels in 1915, according to Commercial Exchange statistics released today.
Exports through Galveston for the month ending today reached 226,755 bales of cotton, up from 179,648 a year ago. Great Britain bought the majority, with 104,742 bales distributed to Italy, Spain, France and Sweden. Wheat exports totaled 3,163,774 bushels, largely for the British government.
Raw sugar held steady at 489 to 402 with mainasses. Refined sugar quiet at 675. Futures opened steady on covering and trade buying and by noon edged 2 to 3 points higher.
Turpentine steady with 61 sales, shipments 145, stock 16,720. Resin firm with sales 631, receipts 1,205, shipments 740, stock 78,693. Quotations list grades A through G with prices from 6.30 to 7.00 for water white and related products.
New Orleans reports Houston Texas selected as the 1918 convention city and H M Weil of Shreveport Louisiana elected president of the Eastern Fruit Jobbers Association during the succession of its annual meeting.
The Railroad Commission will hear on February 17 at Beaumont on a Beaumont Chamber of Commerce request the readjustment of rates for cotton linters between Beaumont and Galveston. The proposed tariff would set a rate of 11 cents per 109 pounds under commodity tariff No 1-6.
Hog receipts 52 000 head with strong prices across categories. Tomorrow’s expected 45 000 head. Cattle receipts 21 000 head with steady demand and range of native beef cattle 7.75 to 11.95 per cwt. Western steers 7.75 to 10.15, stockers and feeders 6.00 to 9.10, cows and heifers 5.00 to 10.25, calves 11.75 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 15 000 head steady with ewes 10.00 to 13.40 and lambs around 11.75.
Hogs receipts 12 000 head higher with bulk 11.50 11.85 and heavy at 11.90. Cattle receipts 6000 head with prime and dressed beef steers 8.50 11.75 and southern steers 7.00 9.50. Cows 6.65 9.50, heifers 7.00 11.00, stockers 6.66 10.00, calves 7.00 12.50. Sheep receipts 1000 head strong to 10e higher. lambs 12.50 14.50, yearlings 11.75 12.50, wethers 10.00 10.75.
Hogs and cattle trading data listed for January 31 in St. Louis with bid ranges and prices for hogs including light and butcher categories. Cattle receipts and price bands shown for native beef cattle yearlings cows and calves plus Texas quarantine and prime beef classes. Sheep receipts and prices for lambs ewes and yearlings are provided with steady to higher tone indicated.
Oklahoma City sales note 1100 cattle steady and 4000 hogs with varied demand. Prices show average weight hogs around nine dollars, while prime cattle are steadier, reflecting market conditions in Duncan and nearby Oklahoma markets.
Allen Buell of the Weather Bureau notes new hooks that suspend pans, designed to save space in kitchens. The invention folds into compact use and may appeal to homemakers and small kitchens.
California potatoes rose to 3.65 per hundredweight up 15 cents with forecasts toward 4.00. Florida oranges entered at 3.25 per box. Flour grades slipped with quotes from 5.80 to 9.20. Feed potatoes at 7.00 a sack. No changes in wholesale prices for groceries or hides. Butter eggs and poultry steady with light receipts.
Buyers paid varied rates in San Antonio on Wednesday for country produce. Cents per unit include candied fruit 36c, butter steady, Texas creamery 30 34c, packing stock around 25 27c, poultry steady with hens and friers priced from 4.80 to 7.00 dollars, broilers 2.04 4.00, turkeys 21 22c per pound, ducks 7 8 per dozen, geese 12 15 dollars.
Quotations today show butter unchanged at 31 to 14 cents per pound with receipts around 3251 cases and mixed firsts values. Potatoes hold at 40 carloads received, while White and Michigan prices vary by state with poultry alive unchanged and fat poultry up to 20 to 21 cents per pound and springs at 19 to 21 cents.
Quoted prices in Kansas City show butter creamery 41c firete 39c packing 21c eggs firats 28c hens 19c roosters 13%c potatoes 2 dollars.
Total packing house quotations to dealers Wednesday cover dry salt products with 17 percent, bacon at 19 cents, dry salt bellies 24 to 16 pound average, 18 6 cents, fancy breakfast bacon 22 cents, fancy hams 22 cents, bacon bellies 14 to 16 pound average 20 cents, Pure lard 17 1/2 cents, compound 144 cents, American cheese 27 cents per pound.
Prices for rough and clean rice held steady on Tuesday in New Orleans. Receipts totaled 1898 sacks for rough and 1898 sacks for millers, with 7421 pockets of clean rice. Sales included 633 pockets of clean Honduras and 600 pockets of blue rose.
New York traders report irregular cotton goods activity on Tuesday with print division and stagdy in other directions. Fine dress goods opened notably higher, jobbers carrying on with a moderate trade as overall merchandise movement remains large.
The New York market opened with gains but soon fell as heavy selling hit leaders led by United States Steel. Shippings Motors and Central Leather were among the laggards with broad weakness across rails and metals while Utah Copper showed strength. Bethlehem Steel drifted weakly as Utah Copper led the late rally. total volume around 700000 shares.
New York closes with mercantile paper firming as sixty day bills quoted at 4.724 and 4.72% on banks with demand at 4.758 and cables at 4.76718. Sterling rates noted with 60 day bills, guilders at 40% demand and cables, silver at 76 cents, Mexican dollars 59 cents, government bonds steady though railroad bonds traded heavy.
New York on January 31 reports firmer money rates with 60 days at 2.5 percent, 90 days at 4.75 percent, and six months at 3.5 percent. Call money steady with high 2 and low 1.25 percent. ruling rate 1 percent. last loan 2 percent. closing bid 1.4, offered at 2 percent.
London reports Bar silver at 375 164 per ounce and Money at 2 percent. Discount rates for short bills and three months stand at 5 percent.
New York metal markets show easy demand for spelter spot in East St. Louis delivery at 104 1e%ec. Copper remains firm with electrolytic prices for first to third quarters at 29.50 to 32.50. Tin stays firm with spot price at 46.25.
London markets show lead and tin quotes with spot and futures, noting lead at 134 Ss futures 130 Sa and tin at 193 25 6d spot with futures 194 2s 6d. New York Coffee futures steady with March at 58 cents and May at 58.60 cents.
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