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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1912
Page
10
Chicago price reports show December wheat opening near unchanged but sliding to around 89 cents, corn dipping to about 50 cents and then recovering, oats rising, and January pork and rib futures mixed. Cash grain quotes list No. 2 red wheat at 1.01 to 1.02 dollars and corn No. 2 at 57 to 58 cents with other classes noted.
Quotations show wheat and corn prices with multiple grades listed for No. 2 hard and No. 2 red wheat. Old and new crop terms appear alongside December and May futures, reflecting a volatile market and standard exchange language of the era.
Quotations given for wheat and corn futures with various grades and months. No. 2 red around 1.07 to 1.08, No. 2 hard 88 to 91 cents, No. 2 white values noted. December wheat 90 cents, May 43 to 48 cents, with other months referenced for No. 2 and White varieties.
Galveston reports arrivals of multiple steamers including Garrigan Head from Belfast via Barbados and Dalebank from Liverpool via Norfolk. Other ships listed are Mercedes de Larri nage from Manchester, El Rio from New York, and Mercator from Havana, with routes noted.
A list of automobile licenses numbered 2938 to 2942 and 2930 to 2937, including owners such as Dr J A Watts 102 Ninth St L B Russell 115 Pacific Ave Otto Wahrmund Avenue A and James Street D E B Hawk Lexington ne A Rouff motorcycle 607 N Flores St Dr C D Watson 207 Alameda E Harriman 115 Ira Ave A N Jamies 528 East Guent Street E W Lawrence 3002 Main St Mrs F L Hillyer 111 East in place F N Laugharn 2925 South Presa St R Koch 215 McKay Ave H D Brown 107 East Park Ave.
Butter steady with creamery quotes 28 to 32 percent. eggs firm with 2408 cases received and mixed prices from 22 to 26 cents. Potatoes hold steady with 50 car receipts across Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin. Poultry live market steady with turkeys at 16 cents, chicks 11 cents, springs 12 cents.
Egg prices list creamery and extras with firsts and seconds at 28 26 234 cents. Poultry shows hens roosters springs and young turkeys with percent marks and odd cents per unit.
In St Louis on November 12 poultry quotes were dull with chickens at 5? cents, springs 1ic, turkeys 12c, ducks 12c, geese 100. Butter steady, creamery 27 32c. Eggs steady at 26c.
New York prices hold steady as receipts show 8 410 cases of fresh gathered produce. Market observers note light demand with values reported at 38 4lc per unit for the latest consignments.
Raw sugar remains steady with Muscovado at 3.56 to 4.05 cents per pound across tests and molasses sugar at 3.30 cents. Refined sugar and petroleum plus molasses also hold steady while hides and leather firm.
In New Orleans rough Honduras rice prices rise with strong receipts and sales details for rough and Japan grades. Quotations show rough Honduras at 2.50 to 4.75 and clean Honduras at 4.5 to 5 percent. In New York coffee futures firm with No 7 Rio 14 percent trade at December 13.63 and March 13.90.
New York close shows prime mercantile paper at 6 percent. Sterling exchange modest with bankers' bills priced at 481.15 for 60 day bills and 485.40 for demand. Commercial bills 48. Sliver 62% and Mexican dollars 48%. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds easy.
New York reports London copper firm with spot at 76 pounds sterling 10s and futures at 77 pounds 2s 64d. Tin dull at 227 pounds spot and 226 pounds 1s futures. Lead at 18 pounds 17s 64d. spelter 27 pounds 7s 6d. Iron Cleveland warrants 668 7% in London.
London traders quoted Consols for money at 74 1-4 with 74 3-16 for account. Bar silver priced at 28 13-16 per ounce. Money 3 4. Discount in the open market showed short bills at 4 15-1645 percent and three months bills at 15-16 percent.
Paris on November 12 reports three percent rentes at 89 francs 2 centimes for the account and 25 francs 22 centimes for checks in London exchange. Private discount rate noted at 4 percent, with some garbled text in the final figures.
Tuesday November 12 1912 forecast for San Antonio and vicinity calls for fair weather and a gradual cooling into the night. East Texas may expect fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with colder weather and frost in the northern portion.
The Texas pecan crop is nearly a failure with producers turning to California nuts to fill demand. Prices for pecans are 18 to 20 cents per pound and very small. New crop walnuts arrive this week as hay demand rises after heavy rains. Hog prices drop 25 cents per hundredweight from last month. A warehouse fire at Foster Bros. did not disrupt operations.
Boston on November 12 reports closing mining prices for Arizona Commercial at 8 percent Calumet and Arizona at 78 percent Greene Cananea at 9 percent and North Butte at 35 percent reflecting market activity in the mining sector.
The spring 1913 carpet openings occurred during the day with prices up 3 to 7 percent. Cotton goods and yarns remain firm in primary markets. Dress goods and cloakings stay steady as demand holds firm.
Standard spot copper bids at 17.00 with November December ranges up to 17.20 and January February bids at 17.15 17.20 and later months 17.00 17.25. Electrolytic copper 17.62 24.87, lake 17.62 17.87, canines 17.25 17.37. Tin spot and monthlies 49.60 50.00 and 49.55 49.75. Lead quiet at 4.70 4.80. Spelter Cy antimony quiet. Cookson's iron firm unchanged.
Wool steady across grades with combing and clothing towels ranged 23 to 26c for medium grades and tub washed 27 to 35c. Lead weaker at 4.55 while spelter holds at 7.95 in St Louis metal market reports dated Nov 12.
A list records multiple newborns with parents and birth dates including October 6 to November 10, at addresses on Montana La Paloma El Paso New Braunfels Colima South Alamo East Josephine Cass and Flores streets. Genders noted: girls and boys.
A compilation of burial permits for residents including M. L. Calvin 38, died November 9 on Reynolds Street. Jesse Farnsworth Dasbach 21 on Carson Street. Mrs F. M. Crenshaw 42 on Vance Street. Erick P. Lawson 4 at city hospital. Petra Castano 1 on New Mexico alley. Joseph W. Crook 38 on Meridian Mississippi. Other entries include D Martinez 24 on South San Saba Street and Madiline Hernandez 6 on Rock Quarry road among unnamed deaths November 9 to 11.
Cattle buyers faced heavy butcher cow supplies in Fort Worth with prices softening. Beef steers held around 5 to 6 dollars, feeders 4.75 to 5.60, cows slow, and bulls up to 4.50. Hog receipts 1100 with a dip to 7.95 top, bulk 7.70 to 7.86, pigs 4 to 6.60. Calves strong at 5.50 to 7.50, total receipts 4200 cattle and 1500 calves.
A long list of 1912 property transfers shows numerous buyers and sellers. Notable entries include Green Powell to Nancy Powell on Iowa street for $1, Adela Medlich from Joseph Kraus for $250, and the estate of Charles W. Ogden to Pearl Zilker for $22,500. Additional transfers cover lots, blocks, and tracts in new city blocks and streets such as Garza, San Pedro place, San Fernando, Melrose Gardens, Berlin Heights, South Heights, and Garden and Presa streets, with prices ranging from $1 to $22,500.
New York November 12 money on a call firm at 5 6 percent ruling rate 5 percent closing bid 51% offered at 6 percent Time loans steady 60 days 6 percent 90 days 5 6 percent six months 5 percent per cent.
At Union Stock Yards on November 12 buyers arrived early and a brisk market followed. Cows topped $4.25 calves $4.50 hogs $7.25 with 250 head received 63 calves among them. The city demand is now larger than recent weeks, while hog prices drift lower due to bearish regional outlook.
Chicago cattle receipts 7500 with steady market. Reeves 5.20 to 10.65. Texas steers 4.30 to 5.60. Western steers 5.50 to 9.00. Stockers 4.15 to 7.10. Cows and heifers 2.70 to 7.80. Calves 6.50 to 10.50. Hogs receipts 25000, market slow. Light 7.15 to 7.80. Mixed 7.30 to 7.965. Heavy 7.20 to 7.95. Digs 4.50 to 6.60. Bulk 7.50 to 7.80. Sheep receipts 4000, market slow. Native 3.40 to 4.50. Western 3.50 to 4.35. Yearlings 4.60 to 5.75. Polish lambs 5.40 to 7.25. Western lambs 5.50 to 7.10.
Receipts total 14 000 cattle including 600 southerns with steady market. Native steers 6.10 to 10.50, southern steers 4.25 to 6.56, southern cows and heifers 3.50 to 5.25, western cows 5.00 to 7.50, western cows 3.60 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 16 000 with market steady. bulk sales 7.40 to 7.65, heavy 7.60 to 7.70, packers and butchers 7.50 to 7.70, lights 7.35 to 7.60, pigs 6.00 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 106 000 market steady. muttons 4.00 to 5.15, lambs 4.6 to 7.60, range wethers and yearlings 4.00 to 6.25, range ewes 3.00 to 4.50.
Receipts total 10 000 cattle including 3600 Texans with steady tone. Native beef steers 5.50 to 10.80, Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.00, cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.00, calves 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 15 500 with prices 6.26 to 7.90, down 10 cents at the finish. Sheep receipts 5000 with native muttons 3.90 to 6.10 and lambs 5.50 to 7.40.
The New York oil market shows spot seed oil at 5.87 with a list of forward prices for November through May, including December at 5.92 and January at 6.02. Trading activity notes many contracts completed across multiple months totaling about 1,800 barrels.
Building permits listed for P Gianotti Edmund Neglin Kaufman Jenner N Walthall and others with various dwelling and repair values. Sunday School Teachers Meet The Teachers Training class of young men who teach boy classes met at the Y M C A for lunch prayer and a study on Introducing Men to Christ led by E E Diltey.
New York cotton opened with a 3 to 5 point advance but soon slid as selling intensified. By midmorning active months traded 3 to 4 points under yesterday, with northern and southern buying supporting a rally later to 9 to 10 points higher by noon. Middling uplands at noon quoted around 12.20 cents.
Cotton futures opened steady with January at 11.84 and March at 12.02 as bids and offers appeared across the curve. Prices closed firm, with July and December trading near 12.20 and 11.70 respectively, reflecting a cautious but positive tone.
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with small losses, then rose as selling pressure eased. Trading months climbed 7 to 19 points above yesterday’s close at midmorning before muting again, as speculative support grew and shorts covered with growing demand and cautious resistance from conservatively minded traders.
Trading showed the November through July contracts posting small gains. Prices moved within narrow ranges with open high low and close figures indicating a subdued session. The market closed with a slight net advance across several active months.
Closing: spot cotton quiet with five point drop. American middling fair 7.334, good mids 7.054, middling 6.854, low middling 6.67d, ordinary 6.73d. Sales 7000 bales including 6800 American. receipts 1300 all American.
Futures in Liverpool opened easier and finished steady with quotes across several contracts. November at 6.67 pence, November-December 6.55 pence, December-January 6.53, January-February 6.52, March-April 6.514, and June-July 6.50 pence among others.
The report lists cotton stocks with yesterday totals and year over year comparisons. It details stock by Great Britain, France, other foreign ports, coastwise ports, and in compresses, concluding with a total stock figure.
New York and New Orleans report middling prices at 12.20c and 12c. Liverpool middling at 6.85. Houston and Galveston middling around 12c and 1% 3-16c. Memphis shows 12c middling in the market roundup.
Spot cotton remains steady as sellers offer 500 bales with 1200 arriving. Middling at 12 3/4 cents, low mid and strict low middling around 11 1/2 to 12 1/4 cents. Receipts total 15,519 bales with varied classifications across good and fair levels.
Galveston reports spot cotton closing steady with grades listed from low ordinary at 7 1/2 to middling fair at 15 1/2. Sales reach 1,200 bales at f o b. receipts 800. total stock 268,206 bales. overall receipts 49,260 bales.
The Houston spot cot ton market closed steady with unchanged prices. Sales total 791, shipments 30,532, stock 126,613 bales. Quotations listed: low ordinary 7, ordinary 8, good ordinary 9, low middling 11, middling 12, good middling 12, middling fair 18 cents.
New York on November 12 reports quiet cotton spot market with middling uplands at 12.20 and middling gulf at 12.45 per unit, no sales recorded.
In Memphis on November 12 spot cotton held firm with middling grade at 12 3/4 cents. Sellers reported no price movements as trade paused.
New York traders opened higher on foreign market strength with gains in Canadian Pacific, St. Paul, Steel and several major issues. By midmorning a broad bear drift pulled prices to weeks' lows, helped by rumors of an arbitration report unfavorable to railroads. Bonds eased and the market eventually steadied in late afternoon with broad gains eroded but some leaders finishing above the day’s low.
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