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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1912
Page
11
The egg market opens steady with moderate receipts and heavy demand for fresh stock. Analysts predict a larger cold storage run this spring due to high storage incentives, but mild winter and government changes may still trigger price swings at retail. Sugar prices also trend lower with refiners’ cuts, while wholesale levels stabilize.
A dense daily price list covering country produce, poultry, eggs, butter, vegetables, fruits, canned goods, meats, dairy, seeds, and grains. Includes per pound, per crate, per hundredweight, and per sack rates for cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, cranberries, celery, potatoes, onions, walnuts, almonds, coffee, sugar, flour, and more with numerous specific item names and price points.
Explanatory weather story detailing observations at 8 a m standard time. Describes air pressure adjustment to sea level, isobar and isotherm markers, temperature, precipitation thresholds, and wind directions. Notes varying sky conditions and the use of symbols for weather events.
Union Stock Yards reports a good market across divisions with moderate receipts and varied stock. Cows topped at 4 dollars, calves up to 6 dollars on select animals, general calf market 3.50 to 4.60, hogs steady then active with top prices 5.75 to 6.25. No sheep or goats offered.
Fort Worth hog prices slipped 5 to 10 cents with 8260 head offered. Top price 7.26, typical 6.76 to 7.25 as demand for pork products remains uncertain. Cattle trade steady with 3250 head received. beef steers 4.65 to 6.50, cows 3.25 to 6, bulls 3.15 to 4.25, calves 3.75 to 7.10. Sheep market featureless. receipts light and prices steady from Saturday.
Receipts and prices updated by the Associated Press show cattle at 3500 head with steady market Native beef steers 5.90 to 7.75 cows and heifers 3.00 to 7.60 stockers 3.75 to 6.26 Texas and Oklahoma steers 6.00 to 7.00 calves 5.00 to 1.20. hogs 11,500 with prices 5.10 to 7.00. sheep 4000 with native muttons 4.75 to 5.25 lambs 6.00 to 6.36.
Associated Press data from Kansas City shows cattle receipts 6000 with steady market after 700 southern cattle. Native steers 6.00 to 8.40, hogs 6 10 cents lower with bulk sales 6.60 to 6.85, sheep receipts 12,000 and market steady with muttons 3.75 to 5.60 and lambs 4.50 to 6.15.
Receipts total 27 000 cattle market steady with 10 cent drop. Beef cattle priced from 5.00 to 8.75, Texas steers 4.60 to 5.70, western steers 5.00 to 6.90, feeders 4.00 to 6.20, cows and heifers 2.25 to 6.60, calves 5.75 to 8.25. Hog receipts 53 000 market 5 to 10 cents lower, prices 4.75 to 6.97 with bulk 6.80 to 6.96. Sheep receipts 20 000 market strong, natives 3.25 to 5.55, western 4.25 to 6.50, yearlings 5.00 to 6.40, lambs 5.25 to 7.60.
The Associated Press reports Memphis market data with prime base quotes at 4.67 to 4.78 cents for cotton seed, meal at 25.75 dollars, and supply details for sinters at 2 3/4 to 3 cents.
The New York cotton seed oil market ends steady with spot at 5.70. March 5.58 60, April 5.64 69, May 6.67 69, June 5.71 738, July 5.78 79, August 5.87 88, Sept 5.92 94, Oct 5.88 90. Sales in range 100 March at 6.89, 900 April at 5.65, 20 May at 6.68, 500 July at 5.79, 600 October at 6.88. Total sales 10,700.
The cotton goods market remains active with strong primary division gains. Wage hikes in New England mills push higher values while demand improves and forward sales rise. Jobbers gain more business, staple items are scarce for prompt delivery, and exports outside China stay robust.
Chicago markets show butter steady with creamery and daisy prices in a narrow range. Eggs hold at 19 to 20 cents and firsts near 19 to 20 cents. Cheese steady with various brands quoted from 17 to 18 cents. Potatoes weaken with top grades around 1.14 to 1.17 per pound. Poultry firm at 14 to 16 cents for turkeys chickens and springs.
New York reports eggs steady with fresh gathered extras at 28 cents. St Louis delivers quotes for poultry items with chickens 12 cents, springs 16, turkeys 18, ducks 1 cent, geese 8 cents. Butter remains firm at 24 to 30 cents, eggs at 19 cents or higher.
Kansas City market notes show creamery butter at 28c firsts 26c seconds 24c packing stock 21 2c eggs extras 21c firsts 19c with ongoing price listings for dairy and eggs on March 18.
The New York coffee market ends March 13 with No 7 Rio at 13.55 for March delivery and 13.64 for July while overall futures hold steady.
The Elgin butter board of trade reports butter priced firm at 290. Output for the week reaches 800000 pounds.
New York March 18 raw sugar steady with Muscovado 89 test at 4.0 cents per pound and 96 test at 4.52 cents. Molasses sugar 9 cents per test 3.77 cents. Refined sugar steady. Petroleum and molasses steady. Hides quiet. Leather firm.
Cockrill and Snell sent two cars of fat beeves to Fort Worth for market. This marks the fifteenth car they have shipped this year.
J O Kerr reports from Sherman Texas that a North Texas fruit survey found cold weather has caused little damage so far. The damaged clipping also references sanitation products and a local business directory with the White Horse Tavern and a plumber ad.
In Chicago trading on March 18 strike conditions in England raised wheat prices with May opening around 1.01 dollars and closing higher by about half a cent. Corn steadied despite weak weather while oats fell on ample offerings and hog products moved with yard declines.
Market notes from St Louis show cash wheat prices for No 2 red at 1.01 to 1.02, No 2 hard at 1.03 to 1.11, and various grades. Oats and corn futures are listed with May and July positions and specific percentages for change.
Market notes show No. 2 hard wheat at 1.04 to 1.09 dollars, No. 2 red at 1.00 to 1.01 dollars, corn No. 2 mixed 0.68 to 0.69 dollars, No. 2 white 0.69 to 0.70 dollars, oats May 0.64 dollars, July 0.47 dollars. Futures: May wheat 0.99 to 0.99 and July 0.91 to 0.91, September 0.90, corn May 0.71, July 0.69, September 0.68.
Market notes list grain bids with No 2 red at 1.01 and 1.02, No 2 hard 1.01 and 1.04, No 1 northern 1.10 and 1.13, No 2 northern 1.08 and 1.11, No 2 spring 1.08, velvet chaff 90c to 1.10, durum 90 06. Oats show No 2 65 to 68c, No 2 white 63 to 54e, standard 63c.
Providence March 18. Large Rhode Island cotton manufacturers announce a wage increase effective March 25. About 20 000 operatives are affected. The exact amount is not disclosed.
New York opened steady with a fall in March positions as favorable weather and selling by weak buyers weighed on the market. Liverpool buyers absorbed old crop positions while southern sellers pressed new crops. Martket later steadied but closed with active months down about 10 to 11 points from earlier levels.
Associated Press reports cotton futures in New York opened steady with several months listed between 10.38 and 10.86 cents, and closed barely steady. Trading data shows intraday highs and lows across months including January, March, May, July, August, September, October, November, and December contracts.
New Orleans cotton opened steady with declines of 9 to 19 points as poor cables and a favorable weather map weighed on sentiment. Early trading showed a quiet market with short sellers inactive, planting reported large in Texas and parts of Louisiana and Georgia, and moisture aiding rapid germination once seeds are in ground.
In New Orleans on March 18 cotton futures opened steady with March at 10.77 and other months including April 10.77 May 10.70 July 10.74 August 10.63 September 10.60 October 10.55 December 10.58. Futures closed steady with a net decline of 17 to 18 points.
Liverpool on March 18 reports a moderate cotton trade with prices 2 to 6 points lower. American middling 6.11, good middling 6.35, middling 6.73, low middling 5.81, good ordinary 6.39, ordinary 6.13. Day’s sales 10,000 bales with 9,700 American. receipts 22,000 bales, 21,700 American. 600 bales for speculation and export.
In Liverpool on March 18 futures showed quiet and steady activity with positions listed for March through March-April and beyond. Rates ranged from 5.69 to 6.84 percent across successive contract months, reflecting a stable forward curve.
Washington March 18 The Brencent today nominated John W. Owell to be collector of customs at Fernandina Florida. The nomination appears in a brief dispatch from the capital outlining the appointment.
A brief item notes SAN-A-LAC refreshment served with roast goose at the White Horse Tavern, highlighting a colonial era dining scene and public taste for savory fare.
New York reports a surge in steel trade as European coal strike boosts prompt shipments. Prices rise on steel bars shapes galvanized sheets and wrought pipe while tin plate prices advance abroad. Firms like Lackawanna and Jones and Loughlin secure billets and plates for export and rails. Japan seeks railroad supplies. Sheet bars sell to central west mills. Wire products stay active. Fabricated structural steel tops 20,000 tons with rail work at 2,200 tons. rail orders exceed 62,000 tons.
Maritime traders report mixed activity at major ports with Liverpool and New Orleans showing modest gains while Houston and Galveston hold steady. Volume figures supply rough totals with 6.11 and 10,000 units cited in scattered entries.
Spot cotton prices ease with middling around 10 percent quality terms listed. Sales on spot 1300 bales with 200 bales arriving. Receipts total 2046 and stock 214147.
On March 18 in New York the market closed steady with a five point drop. Middling uplands traded at 10.60 and gulf at 10.85 per bale, with 1000 bales sold.
Spot cotton steadies in Memphis on March 18 with middling grade at 10 1/2 cents per pound. Market observers note no change from prior session as demand remains steady.
Money on call in New York remains steady at 2 percent with closings at 2 percent. Time loans show firmness with 60 day at 3 1/2 percent, 90 days at 3 3/4 percent, and six months at 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 percent.
Lead prices steady at 4.00 as market winds push zinc and spelter higher with strong traction around 7.00. Trade notes highlight firmer sentiment in metal markets and limited supply pressures.
Two hundred refugees crossed through Laredo Tex yesterday including fifty five Spaniards in a chartered Pullman. The group, from Torreon, included many women and children with some from Tampico. They expect no anti American outbreak but flee Mexico until peace returns after a nearby battle becomes likely.
New York March 18 The stock market showed signs of recovery from Saturday's decline at the opening with Amalgamated Copper advancing about a half point and United States Steel Union Pacific Reading making smaller gains. Missouri Pacific opened at a premium and soon gained a full point. Erie common led early trading with strong demand while coal stocks remained under pressure. By noon the market steadied and the afternoon session produced further gains in Amalgamated Copper United States Steel Union Pacific and American Smelting with American Can among the stronger industrials.
New York trading lit by mercantile paper at 4.4 percent. Sterling steady with bankers bills at 4.84 and 4.87 for 60 day and demand. Commercial bills at 4,831 and Mexican dollars at 47 cents. Government and railroad bonds steady. Wes 290. Messenger bw SAN-A-LAC! FOR BABIES.
Spring market entry expands with wider vegetable variety and lower prices on several bunch vegetables. Eggs steady at 20 cents a dozen, chicken and other poultry likely to ease this week. butter more available. Meats firm on pork, fruit lists steady. diverse prices across eggs butter poultry fish meats fruits.
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