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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
9
Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity. Tonight and Friday fair. East Texas tonight and Friday generally fair. Extends to 7 p m Friday. July 25, 1912.
Wholesale grocers in San Antonio report a sugar famine with only three shops offering any stock. Delays from refiners and high demand push refined sugar to 5.75 per hundredweight, with traders noting possible $6 if stock were available. Refineries refuse immediate orders, citing backlogs as the cannery season begins in the north.
A comprehensive market list notes shipper prices on poultry butter eggs and vegetables, plus nuts, syrups, seeds and canned goods. Key items include medium hens $4.50 to $5.00 per dozen fryers $4.59 to $4.76 broilers $2 to $2.50 per dozen turkeys 12 to 13 cents per lb California oranges $3.50 per box lemons $4.60 per box and various seed and grain prices for farmers and retailers.
New York July 25 reports a firm cotton goods market with moderate business. Jobbers note a busier day and active dress goods purchases. Worsted yarn spinners see broader demand while cotton yarns remain in first price tier.
Raw sugar remains steady as Muscovado 89 test at 3.55 with centrifugal at 3 teat and 41.05 dollars, molasses 89 test 23.30, refined steady, petroleum and molasses steady.
Hides firm and Bo_oths 2444 26 central America 24 percent leather also firm.
Wool prices in St. Louis show steady tones across grades. Medium combing and clothing trade runs 23 to 26 cents, light fine 19 to 21, heavy fine 18 cents, washed varieties 26 to 35 cents.
Union Stock Yards reports a strong market with 105 cows, 100 calves and hogs and goats traded. Cows topped at 4.25, calves at 5, hogs near 8, with most cow sales 3.50 to 4 and calves 4.50 to 5. hogs largely above 7.50. Most big shippers out for season, offering opportunity for smaller farmers.
Quotations show butter steady with creamery prices around 22 25 cents and daisies 21 2k. Eggs steady with 8289 cases received and firsts at 164 18 cents. Cheese steady with daisies 154% to 15% cents and long horns 164% cents. Potatoes easy with 25 car receipts and Kansas Missouri 75 80 cents. Poultry weak live with turkeys 12 cents chickens 18 20 cents. veal steady at 12 13 cents.
Quotations today show butter at 24¢, firsts 22¢, seconds 20¢, packing stock 20.5¢. Eggs quoted at exams 19¢, firsts 17¢, seconds 18¢.
Butter remained steady while egg prices showed mixed movement in New York on July 25. Butter receipts totaled 6672 pounds and eggs receipts reached 13 675 cases amid unchanged prices.
In New Orleans on July 25 rough rice traded with small moves as clean grades held steady. Honduras 4% quoted at 5 cents, Japan 4% at 4 and a half cents. Receipts totaled 1683 rough and 1683 millers. Sales included 1906 clean Honduras at 3% 5/8 cent and 293 Japan at 4 1/2 cents.
A long hotel arrivals roster lists guests in multiple cities including St. Anthony Houston New York San Francisco and Chicago with numerous individuals and couples such as Mrs E Zane Mrs J M Stephens and Mr and Mrs Jim Clamp among others visiting or staying at various hotels and locales. The record names guests by city state and occasional initials or family names, reflecting a social snapshot of travel and lodging.
A series of birth notices lists parents and addresses for newborns in July 1932. Entries include Mr. and Mrs. John Huslage on East Commerce Street a girl born July 14, Mr. and Mrs. John Yancey on Wyoming Street a boy born July 19, Mr. and Mrs. F Salazar on Laredo Street a boy born July 21, and other lines with names and streets.
Fairly liberal receipts at midweek market in Fort Worth with 2000 cattle 1800 hogs 365 sheep. Beef steers strong with top 7.50 and bulk 4.65 to 6.50. calves firm to 7.00. hogs up to 8.15 and 7.60 to 8.10 most of range. lambs 7.00 to 7.50.
Chicago prices and receipts report: cattle receipts about 2600 with market strong up to 10 cents and ranges from 5.70 to 9.75 per cwt. Hogs receipts around 15,000 with market up to 5 cents, sums quoted from 6.50 to 8.20. Sheep receipts about 16,000 with mixed to steady demand and prices listed from 3.15 to 7.50 for natives and westerns.
Receipts total about 4000 cattle and 4000 hogs with 2600 Texas cattle and strong demand. Native beef steers bring 5.25 to 9.59, cows and heifers 4.30 to 8.75, stockers 3.50 to 6.00, hogs mostly 6.50 to 8.30, calves 5.00 to 8.50. Sheep show 33,000 head with muttons 5.25 to 7.25 and lambs 3.75 to 4.75.
Kansas City market report shows cattle receipts 86090 with various classes priced from 3.00 to 9.96 per hundredweight, hogs receipts 6000 with bulk sales 7.75 to 7.85, and sheep 6000 with lambs 5.50 to 7.00 and ewes 2.50 to 4.00. Market mixed with small rises across cattle and hog categories.
Chicago July 25 reports show wheat prices mixed with September at 93 to 93 4 and oats weaker. Corn eased on rain relief with September opening at 65 66c. Hog futures supported by higher pork and lard values with pork at 17.85, lard 10.67, ribs 10.55 for September.
New York July 25 cotton opened steady up five points and rose in early trading amid bullish conditions and dry weather concerns in the southwest. Prices advanced to new seasonal highs before midmorning, then eased a point or two as profit taking and selling limited gains. Spot middling upland was 13 cents, quiet, with private crop condition reports around 75.6 to 77.5 percent.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady with gains of 6 to 13 points as bulls hoped the coming Pending Bureau condition report would be favorable. Short sellers faced buying pressure from favorable weather in the eastern belt while private cables from England remained bullish. By midmorning prices slipped slightly but recovered, ending near five points above yesterday at noon amid rumors of a deteriorating crop report.
Liverpool July 26 Close: spot cotton shows 11 point rise with sales of 10,000 bales. American middling fair 8.08d, good middling 7.68d, middling 7.324d, low middling 7.08d, good ordinary 6.60d, ordinary 6.12d. 1,000 bales for speculation and export, including 9,200 American. Receipts 000 bales, including 6,800 American.
London copper and tin show small moves with copper near 78 pounds and tin at 199 pounds spot. Lead and spelter also posted modest gains while iron warrants trade in Cleveland. Vote for James R. Davis for county judge.
Temperatures measured at 8 am on Thursday July 24 1912 include wind direction and velocity, temperature, rainfall, and overall weather state across observations.
The railroad commission in Austin adds Sunset Central lines and Aransas Pass railway to the list of roads required to allow two reconsignments for carload banana shipments. No charge for the first reconsignment unless an extra haul or out-of-route penalty applies. order now in effect.
The Corpus Christi mayoralty contest case ended after both sides rested without arguments. Judge Hopkins will review the record. a decision is not expected until next week. P. R. Sutherland challenges Mayor Clark Pease for the seat.
Austin reports the annual collection from fire insurance firms in Texas for the state insurance board. The total assessed amount was 14719.76, with a maximum possible levy of 25000. The board did not operate for the full prior year, so the 12 month expenditure set the assessment.
The first bale of cotton to be marketed in Lockhart was brought into the city yesterday.
Futures opened firm and closed easy with a series of quoted spreads for July through May deliveries. Notable figures include July 7.06d and December-January 6.78%d, among others, signaling slight backwardation and stable demand.
Leading spot markets in New Orleans show steady prices with middling at 13.18 cents. Sales total 245 bales with 115 to arrive, receipts 1160, stock 84 974 as of July 25.
Galveston July 25 spot cotton closes firm with prices listed as unchanged across grades from low ordinary to middling fair. Sales: none, f o b. receipts 106. stock 27,060.
The Houston spot cotton market closed steady with prices: low ordinary 8 percent, ordinary 9 percent, good ordinary 10 percent, low middling 12 percent, middling 18 1/2 percent, good middling 13 1/4 percent, middling fair 13 percent. Sales none, for shipment 200, f o b 12,03. Stock 20,611.
Spot cotton in New York closed quiet with middling uplands at 13.00 and middling gulf at 13.25, 325 bales sold. Memphis spots show steady trading with an advance of 44 cents and middling at 12.5 cents.
Leon Tobias eight years old, son of Mr and Mrs I Tobias of Warren Street, was struck and knocked down by a car at 12 15 PM as he stepped from a streetcar at the San Pedro and Warren intersection. He was bruised about the face and head, carried to a drug store for examination, then returned home where doctors later pronounced injuries not serious.
New York July 25 stock market opens with General Electric up three points and St Paul up one, amid expectations of a regular dividend. Westinghouse shares rise and fall, other leaders show erratic movement, bonds steady, GE ends about two points below yesterday's close as the session ends dull but strong with late buying.
Transfers record several 1912 property dealings. W W A Bailey sells to Frank Brice and wife lot 85 and 8 block 9 new city block 3128 Hunstock addition for 2750 dollars. H A Robinson sells to Mrs Alice J Saunders lot 63 block 1 new city block 2976 north side McKinley avenue for 2000 dollars. Edwards et al to Perryman and Moore trustee 408.46 acres in Bexar county for 1 dollar per volume 331 page 178. Terrell trustee sells to West End Lumber Co lot 6 and 6 block 1 and lots 3 and 4 block 5 Theo avenue Pecan Grove for 3000 dollars. Campbell Petty Lumber Co to W Mee Gough and wife lot 86 new city block 2590 south side Helena avenue for 475 dollars. Fletcher to de Garcia lot 1 block 10 town of Macdona for 600 dollars. Jane R Fletcher to M G Fletcher lot 1 block 10 town of Macdona for 5 dollars. Voline to Asher Peeterson et al trustees Travis Park M church quit claim to lots 1 and 4 block 2 Washington Square for 1 dollar.
Burial permits list three decedents with ages and dates. Vesut Rodriguez age 7 died July 24 at 614 South Pecos Street. Salvador Coincieau age 9 died July 24 at 755 West Houston Street. Fernando de la Pena age 37 died July 23 at 419 Nabola Street.
New York July 25 close Prime mercantile paper 4 percent. Sterling exchange firm with actual business in bankers bills at 4.84.85 for sixty day bills and at 4.87.75 for demand. Commercial bills 4.84. Bar silver 60. Mexican dollars 48c. 2 peace bonds steady, railroad bonds steady.
July 25 New York money on call shows steady to firmer tones. Ruling rate holds at 2% with closing bids around 2% and offers near 2% percent. Time loans lean firmer with sixty days at 3% 3, ninety days at 3 1/2 to 4 1/4 percent, six months around 4 percent. The figures reflect a cautious shift as lenders price short term funds.
London market note reports Consols for money and account at 73 percent, bar silver steady at 27 percent, money at 2 1/2 percent, short bills at 3 1/16 percent, and three months bills at 3 1/16 percent.
London reports bullion totaling 191000 pounds sterling was brought into the Bank of England on balance today.
Paris reports three per cent rentes at 22 francs 10 centimes for the account. Exchange to London stands at 25 francs 25.5 centimes for checks. Private discount rate is 2 percent.
Boston July 25. General Electric directors declare an extra dividend of thirty percent in new stock in addition to the regular two percent quarterly disbursement.
Boston reports closing mining stocks with prices listed for Ona Commercial Greene Cananel and North Butte. The figures show narrow changes and reflect daily activity in the mining market.
More than 120 million feet of cypress lumber spanning 18 000 acres in Louisiana were bought yesterday by Bowie Lumber Co from J C Reeves Cypress Lumber Co. The deal totals 940000 dollars.
Taft people have begun steam plows on a mile wide strip from Taft to Gregory along the railroad to add thousands of acres to local cotton farms. The crop this year promises a bumper yield across the county.
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