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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1912
Page
11
Across trade desks the mood is cautious as investors await Tuesday's presidential results. Canadian Pacific slips while St Paul, Steel and Amalgamated stocks see fractional losses. Market activity remains light with dull, stationary early trading and weak demand amid election uncertainty.
York market notes show copper quiet with spot at 16.90 to 17.10 and December at 17.05. January at 16.75 to 17.00, electric copper 17.87 to 17.38, lake 17.62, casting 17.25 to 17.37, dull spot 49.80 to 60.35, November 50.40, December 49.97 to 50.45, easy 4.70 to 4.80, or quiet 7.35 to 7.45. Cookson's 106.50. No. 1 northern 18.25 to 18.75, northern 17.75 to 18.25, No. 1 south 8.75 to 19.25, No.1 southern soft.
QUIS on November 4 reports lead at 4.65 dollars per unit and spelter at 7.30. New York Money on November 4 shows money on call at 3 percent ruling rate, closings at 3 percent, loans strong for 60 and 90 days, with six month loans at 5 percent.
Nita Hach and Christina Hach transfer 6 to 10 acres near Benton City road to William with survey No 53. Mathilde Beck and Louis Firad grid land on Austin road for 7700 dollars. Windsor sells part of Worsham league 15 miles east of Antonio to J L Evans for 4690 dollars. Menefee sells to W L Edwards the Edgewood addition block plus 5000. I Edwards to M C Edwards transfer of lots 94 block 19 Edgewood addition.
Building permits shown include Gray for three frame dwellings on Once Street costing 6000 dollars, Vinke for a gallery addition on Colorado at 125 dollars, Beton for repairs on Porter Street at 100 dollars, Home Builders for a 3 room boxhouse on Ancisco Street at 125 dollars, and a 4 room boxhouse on Ancisco Street at 100 dollars, Kellim for a barn on Chicago Boulevard.
New York reports October steel output at 2.8 million tons, up 150000 from the prior record. Carnegie Steel secured 400000 tons of foreign orders in the first nine months. pig iron contracts total about 900000 tons for the month. Large buyers placed heavy 1913 third and fourth quarter contracts for finished steel, rails, plates, hoops, pipe, tin plate, and more. railcar and locomotive orders total 15000 cars and 97 locomotives with further inquiries.
The cotton goods market remained firm last week with substantial first hand sales. Print cloths advanced to a yard on wide cloths and demand for exports steady. Leading southern denim and mills reported broad, persistent forward delivery demand while jobbers anticipate a strong spring distribution. Prices current for print cloths and staples varied by grade across mills and regions.
Kansas will reclaim about 500 000 acres of waste lands using an expert drainage engineer, H B Walker, to supervise. He will develop plans to drain low lands along streams and river beds so farms can again be used. The state offers free services and surveys, with drainage demonstration trains touring the eastern half of the state in winter.
Samuel Vauclain once a machine shop worker earning $18 weekly is now vice president and general manager of the Baldwin locomotive works. He has purchased a 550 acre Delaware county estate for $100,000 to build two palatial homes and display fine horticultural exhibits. He rose from shop floor to plant leadership with rapid advancement. A separate note reports Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen teachers must obtain school authorization to marry, with denials possible if they cannot support a family.
Explanatory notes from the Weather Bureau show observations at 8 am central time and a forecast issued for Monday night through Tuesday. For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Tuesday, with East Texas seeing generally fair conditions and coastal showers.
More than 30 000 Mexican laborers have been imported across the Rio Grande to fill Texas shortages, with trains out of Laredo Eagle Pass and Brownsville carrying workers for farms in Texas and Oklahoma. Expert pickers earn up to seven dollars daily as farmers pay high rates, while frost warnings and cotton belt harvests loom, and prices for canned meats, flour, dried fruits, and other staples are listed in a long market update.
A detailed retailer price list outlines costs for poultry butter eggs vegetables fruits and more. It lists hens fryers broilers and turkeys along with butter cheese and eggs, plus extensive produce prices from tomatoes and potatoes to bananas and citrus. Also included are canned goods dried beans seeds nuts syrups and meats with various weight based pricing and regional origin notes.
Chicago market notes show quotes for butter creams and daisies with steady eggs and cheese. Potatoes advance on strong receipts from Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan while poultry veal and spring poultry hold steady.
New York on November 4 reports butter firm with receipts around 6299. Creamery extras quoted at 32 to 33 cents. Eggs show irregular receipts 65420 cases with fresh gathered prices 36 to 39 cents and refrigerator specials marked fancy at 23 to 24 cents.
Kansas City market quotes list prices for creamery milk eggs and poultry. Creamery 28c firsts 26c seconds 24c packing stock 22% 213c. Eggs extras 27c firsts 26c seconds 19c. Poultry hens 11% 12c roosters and springers 11% 18c young turkeys 1c.
In St Louis on November 4 poultry prices ranged from 10 to 12 1 2 cents for various fowl with butter and eggs quoted. Chickens 10 cents, springs 12 1 2 cents, turkeys 12 cents, ducks 12 cents, geese 11 cents, butter at 26 to 30 cents, creamery eggs 25 to 30 cents per dozen.
Raw sugar remains quiet with Muscovado 89 test at 3.55 cents and centrifugal 96 test at 4.05 cents. Molasses sugar 9 test at 3.30 cents. Refined goods quiet while petroleum and molasses hold steady.
New York coffee prices show a 14 percent spot, with December at $14 and March at 14.12, remaining steady in the latest trading amid thin spot activity.
ELGIN BUTTER MARKET reports butter firm at 31 cents. GALVESTON dispatch lists arrivals of steamers Lord Dufferin Tampa Indore from Liverpool and Imperator from Bocas del Toro Belvernon from Norway and Alm from Cuban ports and Jamaica with sailing notices.
The new policy imposes a broad import tax across goods entering Turkey while excluding tobacco products from taxation, outlining a major shift in customs rules and potential impacts on price levels and consumer costs.
Nov 4 report from Union Stock Yards notes the day’s receipts possibly the heaviest of the season with 1940 cattle 189 calves 92 horses 31 hogs 230 sheep. Most cattle sold for feed with range stock to Texas pastures. best cows at 4.25 and calves near 5.0. hogs around 8.0. bulk of cows 3.50 to 4.25, calves 4.75 to 6, hogs 7.50 to 8.26. Sheep and goats carried to afternoon session.
Liberal cattle receipts 4700 and 2000 calves marked a steady, active market. Hogs limited to 1200 head with prices up a nickel, top at 8.00, cattle receipts 4700 with steers 5.65 to 6.40 and cows 3.25 to 4.75, calves 4.50 to 7.00, sheep 350 with clipped wethers 4.30.
Receipts total 10,000 cattle including 1,000 southerns with steady market. Native cattle 6.75 to 10.75, southern 4.25 to 6.15, southern cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.25. Hogs receipts 4,500 with prices 6.00 to 7.90, bulk 7.60 to 7.85. Sheep receipts 10,000 with a strong market. muttons 3.50 to 4.75, lambs 6.00 to 7.10, range wethers 4.00 to 6.00, ewes 3.25 to 4.26.
Chicago reports today with cattle receipts at 15 000 and prices ranging from 2 75 to 10 50 per head and beef types. Hogs receipts 19 000 with a slow market and prices from 4 45 to 8 12. Sheep receipts 30 000 with markets steady to strong and lambs and yearlings priced from 3 40 to 7 20 per head.
In St Louis on Nov 4 receipts totaled about 8000 cattle including 2700 Texans with market steady. Beef steers 5.60 to 10.80, Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.25, cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.00, calves 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 6000 with prices 6.75 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 2800 with native muttons 4.00 to 4.25 and lambs 5.50 to 7.25.
Market brief from New York reports hides steady and leather firm with Dr. J. R. Cunningham osteopath listed at 449 Moore Building and old phone 984 J.
Frost reports show bullish influence on cotton with prices rising across New York New Orleans and Liverpool. Midnight trading saw profits taken while overall market strength and firm southern spot demand kept values 18 to 26 points higher than Friday’s close.
New York prices show January to December contracts in the 11.38 to 11.75 range as markets opened steady and closed firm. Highs and lows are shown across months with bids appearing on several contracts.
New Orleans cotton futures opened 27 to 29 points higher as frost damage in the belt supported prices. After profit taking and new short selling the market held steady, with most active months up about 36 to 38 points from last week and noon quotes 22 to 24 points higher.
Futures for November through July showed steady bids with a light advance. Prices ended the session higher by about 37 to 38 points, supported by rangebound activity and modest demand as markets consolidated.
A cautious session as traders awaited tomorrow's presidential vote and the season's ginning report. Prices gained about 2 per bale toward close while longs liquidated. expectations of a smaller crop and Balkan tensions dominated sentiment across markets in New York and southern exchanges.
Spot cotton in Savannah rose to 12 cents today the season’s high as frost last night and Saturday night plus a likely smaller crop in the area push prices up. The gains reflect cold weather and expected limited output in this region.
Markets report limited features with meat fish and poultry in good supply while eggs and butter remain scarce. A detailed price list covers eggs butter dressed poultry fish fruits and vegetables with rates listed for multiple items including beef pork and lamb cuts and assorted imports.
Prices shown across New York New Orleans Liverpool Houston Galveston and Memphis point to midling and middling percentages and figures including 11.90 11% 6.794 11c 12c and 11c reflecting diverse local market rates. The data mirrors scattered regional financial readings with no single dominant trend.
Spot cotton in New Orleans climbs 3-16 to 41 15-16 cents for strict good middling and 12 18-16 to 13 8-16 cents for lower grades. Sales on the spot reach 2000 with 8400 to arrive. Receipts total 38256 and stock stands at 189,786.
Galveston on November 4 reports spot cotton closing steady with grades from ordinary to good middling. Market shows 825 bales sold, receipts total 31,177 bales, stock at 358,627 bales.
Spot cotton in New York on November 4 closes steady. Middling uplands at 11.90 cents per pound and middling gulf at 12.15. Sales reported 3400 bales.
Spot cotton in Memphis on November 4 held steady with middling grade at 11 3/8 cents, reflecting no change from the prior session.
Cotton seed products priced in Memphis with prime basis oil at 4.93 to 4.94 and meal at 24.50 while linters are nominal. New York market shows spot cotton seed oil steady at 5.70 to 5.90 with multiple futures bids from December through May and total sales reaching 12 190 units.
Liverpool, Nov. 4. Spot cotton shows firm prices amid active trading. American middling 7.20d, good middling 6.96d, middling 6.78d, low middling 6.58, good ordinary 6.06d, ordinary 5.58d. Sales 10,000 bales with 1,000 for speculation and export. receipts 33,000 bales, including 25,000 American.
Futures started firm and closed feverish in Liverpool with the November 6 contract at 6.509 percent and successive swaps including Nov-Dec 6.39 d and Jan-Feb 6.385 d, reflecting a lively early trading session.
In Davenport Washington two lumberjacks Sol Mitchell and Jack Mullin sentenced for petty larceny formed a bond while confined for three weeks. Mitchell offered to serve three additional days to allow Mullin to finish together, but Sheriff Brockman denied the request.
No. 2903 Alamo Auto Sales Co Avenue C listed as a license. No. 2904 Mrs. L B Allen 629 South Flores Street appears in the notices. The Uncle Sam annual market bill is estimated at eight billion dollars.
Market report notes fear of a large crop estimate by the bureau dampening corn prices while wheat fluctuates on Balkan entanglement fears. Openings show mixed movement with December futures down, oats up, and provisions slightly firmer as traders weigh a possible U.S. visible supply increase.
Quotations show cash grain values with wheat and oats details. Wheat No 2 red and hard futures price ranges are listed, along with December and May contract figures. Oats futures for December and May are included, reflecting market levels.
Cash wheat prices listed with several grades and basis percentages. Corn quotes show No 2 mixed and No 3 old and new prices across old and new contracts. Oats quotes include No 2 white and mixed with December and May futures and settlement ranges.
Chicago prices list cash wheat and corn quotes with grade specifics and percentages. No. 2 red wheat at 1.04 1.064% per bushel, No. 2 hard 89% 92%c, No. 1 northern 99 9¢, velvet chaff 85 88c, durum 2.30. Corn No. 2 56% 58%c, No. 3 white 5% c, No. 2 yellow 57 58%c. Oats No. 2 31% c, No. 2 white 33% 34c, standard 3 24% 3%e.
Burial permits list multiple decedents in Medina and Santa Rosa areas. Ignacio Medel aged 26 died November 2, at Medina County. Julia Rogers aged 80 died September 3 at 222 Mission Street. Jessie S. Thompson, five, appears with Now Micaela Villareal 14, died November 2 at Santa Rosa hospital. Francis Patton Clements, seven, died November 3 at 724 Victoria Street.
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