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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1911
Page
9
The International fair spurs strong business in the district with restaurants ordering heavy produce and jobbers selling eggs butter and fruits. Supplies face weather and transport hurdles but prices hold firm while canning and corn products gain. Local millers report rising raw flour costs and traders expect higher next week.
Prices listed include country butter 16 17c per pound, fresh country candled storage 22c, fancy cream 12% 20c, American Swiss 24c, Limburger 20c. Large hens $6 per, medium hens per dozen $2.50, springs per dozen range from $2.50 to $3.50, turkeys 12c per pound, squabs $1 per unit.
A terse Associated Press market note outlines current dairy prices and receipts. Creameries show steady to firm prices with ranges for firsts and regular grades, while daisies and various egg products move at mixed but steady levels. Poultry items, including turkeys and chickens, remain steady with price ranges noted for different weights.
The Associated Press reports live poultry prices steady at 8 to 9 1/2 cents for chickens and 12 cents for ducks. Turkeys at 9 to 12 cents and creameries steady around 21 to 24 1/2 cents.
Prices listed for creamery items include creamery at 30 cents, firsts at 28 cents, packing stock at 20 cents, extras 26 cents, firsts 24 cents, and seconds 28 cents with partial entries for some grades.
In New York on November 4 eggs firm with refrigerator firsts quoted around 21 to 22 cents. Coffee market steady with March futures near 13.65 as reported by The Associated Press.
Raw sugar Muscovado 89 test 4.75 cents per pound and 96 test 5.25 cents. Molasses sugar 4.50 cents. Cubes 6.75 cents, fine granulated 6.0 cents, powdered 6.60 cents. Refined steady. Barrel prices listed with New Orleans market figures.
Illustrated forecast notes cloudy conditions and gradual temperature rise for San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Sunday. East Texas records generally cloudy skies with a slow uptick in temperature through Sunday.
At Union Stock Yards on November 4 the live stock market showed little activity with few purchases. Buyers largely talked rather than bought as salesmen cleared supplies. Cows topped at 3.26 dollars, calves steady at 3.75, hogs up to 6.25, no sheep or goats offered.
Chicago meat packer Patrick Cudahy dismisses cholera fears in hogs as unfounded and predicts lower pork prices due to global hog abundance. October hog weights averaged 212 pounds in Chicago, lighter than both September and last year, while trader Cr H Rice tours the state meeting livestock circles.
By the Associated Press New York November 4 price listings show Bo gota hides at 22 to 23 and a half percent and Central America leather placing at 21 to 24 cents with various grade ranges including firsts seconds and rejects noted for Hemlock area trade.
Fort Worth market closes steady across hogs and cattle. Hogs rise to $6.44 top, bulk $6.00-$6.20. About 1200 head offered. Cattle trade nominal with brisk buying. feature sale went to Harry Boddy of Mill Creek Oklahoma for 43 beef steers averaging 1181 pounds at $6.15 per pound.
Chicago market news shows cattle receipts about 300 with slow steady demand. Hogs estimated 10 000 with markets steady and ranges from 5 60 to 6 46 for various loads. Sheep around 1000 head with native prices 2 50 to 4 00 and lambs 4 00 to 6 25.
In St. Louis on November 4 receipts totaled 1200 cattle including 500 Texans with a steady market. Native beef steers 5.00 to 9.00, cows and heifers 3.00 to 7.00, stockers 3.00 to 5.00, Texas steers 4.00 to 7.00, veal heifers 3.00 to 5.00, calves 4. Hogs reached 7000 with a steady market. Pigs and lights 4.50 to 6.00, packers 6 to 6.45. Sheep receipts 800 with steady demand. Muttons 3.00 to 8.75, lambs 4.50.
Receipts: cattle 1000 with 400 southerns. hogs 2000. sheep none. Cattle values native steers 5.90 to 9.00, southern steers 3.25 to 5.90, south cows 2.75 to 4.50, native cows 2.75 to 7.00, stockers 3.75 to 5.75, bulls 3.00 to 4.60, calves 4.00 to 7.25, westerns 2.75 to 7.50. Hogs steady. bulk 5.60 to 6.25, heavies 6.15 to 6.30, lights 5.50 to 6.30, pigs 4.00 to 5.00. Sheep market steady. muttons 3.75, lambs 4.56 to 6.25, wethers 3.25 to 4.75, yearlings, ewes 2.00 to 4.00.
The Associated Press reports New Orleans receipts totaling 7296 with 2269 clean and 2810 millers. Sales include rough Honduras 3200 at 2.65 to 3.50 and 1800 Japan at 3.00 to 3.67, with clean Honduras 6780 at 2 to 3 56c and Japan 1810 at 2 3%c. Quotations show rough Honduras 2.00 to 3.60, Japan 2.25 to 3.87, clean Honduras 8% to 5 %c, Japan 2 3%c.
At yesterday's carpet auction prices secured were higher than the opening on similar characters. Cotton goods trading was quiet with a steadier trend. Yarns are easy with light trading. Messalines in silks are being called for spring delivery.
Leading spot markets show mixed activity with Liverpool and New York quiet or dull. New Orleans and Houston display modest ease while Galveston reports light trading. figures indicate small lots and limited price movement across coastal exchanges.
New Orleans on November 4 reports spot cotton prices unchanged with 712 bales sold for delivery 1350. Prices range from low ordinary at 5 13 16 to good middling at 9 9 16 with various strict and nominal quotes across the grades.
Galveston Tex November 4 spot cotton prices were steady with middling at 99 and a half. Sales for the period were reported as zero between buyers and sellers.
Houston spot cotton closed steady on November 4, with middling grades holding at 94? cents per pound. Trading remained quiet as traders awaited new market signals and further weather updates.
New Orleans November 4 reports bid prices for refined cotton seed oil per barrel and per pound alongside prices for choice mac ko per ott bak long ton and ammonia per long ton.
Spot cotton in Memphis on November 4 held steady with middling price at 9 1/2 cents.
New York November 4 cotton market opens steady with prices 3 to 6 points lower as holiday approaches and the census report looms. Early business is light and mainly local operators. The market drifts, with no new outside stimulus, and closes about 1 to 2 points lower from yesterday's close.
New Orleans November cotton futures opened 3 to 5 points lower as cables showed little demand and traders eyed unsettled weather and a weak end to the week. Early trading sent prices 4 to 5 points under prior close before short covering nudged markets higher to near parity by midmorning. Rumors of higher ocean freight rates due to strong November demand lent some support.
A fragmented record lists opened dates and bids across months November through July with percentages and year marks. The entries show 08 10 09 10 06 07 and bids labeled 9.15 9.26 9.36, suggesting a ledger of opening dates and bid values across periods.
Spot demand was moderate with unchanged prices for several grades. American cotton dominated sales of 7,000 bales, with receipts totaling 1,610,000 bales all American. Futures opened dull and closed quiet with various December and July exchange positions listed.
Prime seed oil traded at 4.56 to 4.57 dollars per unit with meal around 24.25 dollars. Makers noted at 2 3/8 to 2 3/4 percent in market listings from Memphis on November 4.
The New York cotton seed oil market closes firm with spot at 5.71 to 5.76. November and December contracts trade around 5.70 to 5.71, with January near 5.56 to 5.58 and March around 5.66 to 5.67. Total sales noted as 6600 across months.
Associated Press reports New York on November 4 shows mercantile paper near 414 and sterling exchange steady with bankers bills 4.83.75 for 60 days and 4.87 for demand. Commercial bills 4.83. Bar silver 54% and Mexican dollars 46% hold firm as government and railroad bonds stay steady.
St Louis reports lead firm at 4.15 with a 4.17 percent reading and spelter at 6.25 with a 6.2714 percent level as part of daily metal market notes.
The report lists money on call nominal. Time loans easier with 60 and 90 day terms at 4 to 4 1/4 percent. Six months at 8 percent.
An Associated Press report from St. Louis notes wool prices softened in some grades while medium and combing fibers held steady. Market activity showed limited buying interest with several shipments moving through the Suez Canal, including some government vessels noted in transit.
R G Dun reports a fair volume of business with depth below capacity and ample credit to fund European needs. October orders for steel products reached near-record levels, rail and car contracts increased, dry goods steady, exports to the Far East paused due to Chinese issues, and woolen, worsted, and footwear sectors show cautious gains and planned future orders.
Stock yesterday 879,867 bales. Stock same day last week 773,004 bales. Stock same day last year 624,041 bales. Excess this season 260,826 bales.
The Los Angeles Tribune notes a new ice handling method by Southern Pacific between Fresno and San Luis Obispo and El Paso. H. V. Pratt promotes protected practices with white rubber gloves caps and ducky suits. Ice is moved in clean galvanized carts and the interior is steam-scoured twice daily. Workers prep before trains arrive and preserve cleanliness from manufacture to receptacle.
California study by University of California outlines annual house fly damage in lives and dollars. William B. Herms presents a five year inquiry showing flies spread typhoid dysentery tuberculosis and other diseases and threaten babies.
Wheat futures rose on the bull side as traders cited poorer Canadian quality, bleak Australian outlook, and heavy Argentine rains. December opened modestly higher, fluctuated, and settled near 94 1/4 cents, while corn gained on weather worries and the hog market remained steady.
Quotations show cash wheat and corn prices with No 2 red wheat at 96 1/2 to 98 1/2 cents and corn No 2 at 71 cents, with white corn 73 1/2 cents. Oats range 46 to 46 1/2 cents. Futures mark December wheat at 95 cents and May near 00 percent, oats December 46 4/4 cents and May 48 cents.
Wheat receipts totaled 69 cars with 12 of contract grade and corn 162 cars with 87 of contract grade. Oats 135 cars. Daily wheat totals at Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth compared with 687 cars last year and 388 cars on the same day one year ago.
Chicago quotations show cash wheat across several grades with No 2 red around 95 to 97 percent, No 2 hard near $1.02, and No 1 northern at $1.08 to $1.10. No 2 northern $1.06 to $1.09, No 2 spring $1.00 to $1.06, velvet chaff 90 cents to $1.02, durum 90 cents to $1.05. Corn values cited for No 2 around 74 to 84 percent with white and yellow varieties and oats listed in similar penny ranges.
Quotations show cash wheat with No 2 hard at 98 cents to 1 06, No 2 red 96 1 4 to 97 cents, No 2 mixed 71 1 2 cents, No 2 white 0 to 0. Oats No 2 white 47 1 2 to 48 cents, No 2 mixed 46 1 2 to 47 cents. December wheat 96 1 2, May 1 1 2, Corn December 62 cents, May and July 68 1 2 cents.
William Baker a bartender at 3739 Vista avenue says a Gypsy fortune teller told him to look up at the ceiling and while his eyes were raised coins vanished from his vest. Mary Beenbock was arrested after Baker chased her. she claimed two children as hers. The piece also notes a Welsh colony in Patagonia with irrigation projects.
Figures for 1911 indicate a drop in horses in Paris by a quarter, compared with 1911 figures, alongside an eight dollar amount noted in the same brief.
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