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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1913
Page
12
Stocks fluctuated as short interest rose then faded after an early surge. Indications of Mexico yielding to U S demands lifted mood briefly, but uncertainty and New Haven debt fears curbed long buying. Trading ended firm with several issues up a point or two.
Paris reports the cabinet backed the finance minister's plan to issue 260 million dollars of perpetual 3 per cent government rentes. An annual 15 million from the inheritance tax funds interest payments and bond redemptions. The issue price was not disclosed but thought to align with current French 3 percent prices.
Leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers other than the original growers on October 1 totaled 1,108,270,411 pounds, down from 1,359,252,697 pounds on October 1 last year, according to the census bureau.
Lead holding around 4.25 to 4.35 with London quotes 119. Spelter 5.20 to 5.30, copper unsettled with various spot and futures ranges and London figures. Tin steady with US and London readings, antimony dull at 7.60, iron quiet with Cleveland warrants at 498 4%4d.
Market notes from Memphis and New York show firm cotton seed oil prices with spot and future quotations. Included are lead price listings from St Louis and a brief mention of steel prices and related sales.
Readable notes record observations taken at 8 a m on Friday November 14 1913. The fragments indicate time stamped entries and a dated sequence for mundane weather or field notes.
Country merchants stock cranberries candies nuts and dates for the feast while grocers report strong movement. In cities trade ramps up near Thanksgiving with extra staff and late orders. prices hold firm with rice and oils showing strength and small price upticks amid market floods and shortages.
List of wholesale prices across eggs poultry butter cheese and fruits and vegetables including eggs candied 28 cents per dozen hens and friers per dozen butter prices from Northern and Texas creameries cheese at 18 to 19 cents per pound tomatoes California and Texas crates and various other produce priced by crate or hundredweight with olives cranberries lemons limes and bananas noted along with sugar coffee rice syrup flour and other staples and miscellaneous items.
Market brief notes the New Orleans cotton scene with prices, supply signals, and trading activity. Mentions buyers and sellers in the port market, with movements in futures and spot shipments affecting local sentiment.
New York reports October livestock receipts at Chicago Kansas City and St Joseph fell from 1912 levels while ten month totals edged up. Western markets showed slight cattle and hog declines but steady sheep deliveries at major slaughter centers. Kansas City drives feeders and calves to farms up to 60 percent higher than last year ahead of winter stock. Money on call remained firm at 3 1 4 percent with varied terms for time loans.
Navy prices steady as Prime mercantile paper holds 6 percent. Sterling exchange firm with 60 day bills at four dollars eighty one and demand at four eighty five and quarter. Commercial bills at four eighty and three quarters. Bar silver at sixty eight cents. Mexican dollars at forty six cents. Government and railroad bonds show firmness.
Quotations from Chicago on November 14 show higher butter at creamery 22 3 4 to 23 1 2 cents per pound and 81 32 cents for cents. Eggs receipts 3705 cases unchanged. Potatoes receipts 65 cars unchanged. Poultry alive prices vary with springs at 13 cents a pound fowls and turkeys around 16 5 cents.
Quotations dated November 14 list butter at 30 cents for creamery, 28 for firsts, 27 for seconds, packing 18 and a half. eggs at 36 cents for firsts, 82 cents for seconds. poultry prices for hens at 10 and a half cents, roosters 9, ducks 10, spring ducks 10 and a half.
A New York market listing shows egg grades with irregular fresh extras at 43 4, extra firsts at 41 42c, firsts 38 40c, and seconds 36 37c. The entry records price points per dozen across grades for immediate sale.
The census bureau reported October cotton consumption at 542 809 bales with exports of 1 517 838 bales and imports of 9 372 bales. Domestic consumption by states totaled 273 634 bales in cotton growing areas and 269 276 in other states.
Union Stock Yards reports November 14 hogs quoted lower at all packing centers. Receipts under 20 head at Fort Worth, with most hogs selling around 7.25 and cattle calves and horses noted. Cattle top cows at 5.25, calves to 6.50, overall hogs lead the declines. Sheep and goats light offerings yield no wholesale quote, though demand for sheep remained solid.
New York trading opened steady with gains as the census bureau reported October mill consumption at 542,809 bales, the highest for a month. Active months advanced 19 to 29 points intraday amid expectations of strong week end figures and a bullish crop estimate of 13 9 25 million bales including linters.
Fort Worth Texas cattle receipts reach 4000 with calves at 400. Steers 5.00 to 6.25, stocker steers 5.50 to 6.60, butcher cows 4.00 to 5.24, stocker cows 3.75 to 4.50, heifers 5.50 to 6.75, bulls 4.00 to 5.00, calves 5.00 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 1000, demand fair but weak to 5e lower, top 8.12, most sales 7.80 to 8.10. Sheep and lambs steady and active, receipts about 165 head.
Receipts for hogs 26,000 with prices broadly lower. Bulk sales $7.85 to 8.10, rights $7.60 to 8.20, heavy $7.45 to 8.20, mixed $7.60 to 8.20, rough $7.45 to 7.65, pigs $5.76 to 7.65. Cattle receipts 2,000 and market steady with Reeves $6.10 to 9.65, Texas steers $6.60 to 7.70, stockers and feeders $4.90 to 7.65, cows and heifers $3.25 to 8.15, calves $7.00 to 11.25. Sheep receipts 18,000 and market weak native $4.00 to 5.25, yearlings $5.60 to 6.50, native lambs $6.00 to 7.65.
Kansas City reports today as hog receipts hit 6000 with a steady market. Bulk hogs bring 7.65 to 7.95 while heavy 7.80 to 8.00 and pigs 6.50 to 7.50. Cattle receipts 600 include 100 southern. prime fed steers 8.75 to 9.50, dressed 6.75 to 8.75, southern steers 6.00 to 8.40, cows 4.25 to 7.00, heifers 5.00 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 11,000 with lambs 7.00 to 7.75, yearlings 5.60 to 6.40, wethers 4.50 to 5.26, ewes 4.00 to 4.76.
New York markets show futures opening firm with Nov at 12.96 and Dec at 13.49. Prices vary for other months with March at 13.31 and May 13.25. The session ends with futures closing steady.
Galveston reports arrivals of steamers Mount Vernon Puerto Cortez Corozal San Juan Inkula Newport News and others. Sailed include Anselma de Larrinaga Manchester Teodoro de Larrinaga Havre Chancellor Liverpool Merelan El Alba Lord Ormonde Antwerp Rotterdam. New York lists Mauretania President Grant Hamburg R E D Italia Cedric.
On November 14 in St. Louis quotations show chickens at 9 3/4 cents per pound, turkeys 16 1/2 cents, ducks 12 1/2 cents, cheese 10 3/4 cents, creamery butter 31 cents, and eggs 33 cents per dozen.
New York buyers saw rough sugar quotes with Muscovado listed at 3.14 to 3.17, copiettagal around 3.64 to 3.67, and molasses at 2.89 to 2. Refined remained quiet in early trading.
From St Louis on November 14 the cattle market shows receipts around 2000 with 800 Texans and steady prices for native beef steers and cows. Texas Oklahoma steers bring 7.75 to 8.00, calves in car lots 4.25 to 5.60. hogs lower with good heavies 8.00 to 8.20, sheep steady with muttons 4.75 to 8.75 and lambs 6.25 levels.
New Orleans Nov 14 Cotton futures opened steady with an advance of 5 to 7 points atop census October consumption at 642 809 bases vs 618 060 last year. Active spindles listed at 30 33 024 vs 30 030 733 a year earlier amid bullish telegrams and bullish weekly mill takings. Prices climbed to 21 25 points over yesterday by 2 pm.
New York and Memphis market notes report prices for hides Cen tral America at 81c and coffee futures firm with March 9 77 and May 10 00. Spot cotton in New York steady near 13.90 for middling uplands and 14 15 for middling gulf. Memphis spot cotton steady with a ½ cent decline to 13 ½ cents.
New Orleans market report shows rough Honduras and Japan activity with clean rice quiet. Quotations list rough Honduras at 2.00 to 2.65, clean Honduras around 4.0 cents, and Japan around 3 percent. Receipts and sales figures include rough Honduras and Japan quantities and prices in sacks and pockets.
New York trade reports active demand yesterday for overcoatings with quick delivery to western buyers. Moderate duplicate orders arrived on saltings while Rawesick prices rose. Cotton goods showed little activity as jobbers maintained steady seasonable business.
Armour Grain Company of Chicago issues a trade circular outlining the corn market. The letter notes near 5,000,000 bushels of visible supply versus 2,200,000 last year, May corn around 70 cents, old corn 2.5 percent over December, and Argentine corn undercutting prices. It cites 74 million more old corn in farmers hands, heavy use of substitutes, fewer cattle and hogs, and a projected total crop of 2.637 billion bushels, with no shipments east versus last year. Seventeen British firms insured fire in the United States.
New Orleans commodities brief shows cotton futures opening steady with mid November quotes for contracts including November December January March May and July. The report notes a steady finish with a modest net advance and lists opening high low and close figures for nearby sessions.
Liverpool reports good business with steady prices on November 14. Middling fair at 7.91d and good middling 7.614d, middling 7.474d, low middling 7.25d, good ordinary 6.61d, ordinary 6.274d. Sales total 12,000 bales including 10,700 American and 2,000 for speculation and export. Receipts 36,000 including 26,700 American.
Futures closed firm with a series of quotations for the cycle from Nov to Nov. Dec. Highlights include Nov to Dec at 7.15d and May to June at 7.12%d. Report from Liverpool dated Nov 14.
New York middling 13.90 New Orleans 135 16 Houston middling 13 Galveston 13 Liverpool middling 7 474 Memphis middling 13.0 The report lists current middling prices for key markets, indicating varied bidding strength across locations.
New Orleans spot cotton held at 13 5 16 cents per pound with sales totaling 1888 bales today and arrivals of 1836 bales. Quotations ranged from 9 9 16 for low ordinary to 15 3 1 for fair, with receipts at 13 261 bales and total stock at 200 929 bales.
GALVESTON TEX November 14 Spot cotton closes firm with gains noted. Price levels listed include low ordinary 7 percent, ordinary 8 percent, good ordinary 9 percent, low middling 12 percent, middling 13 percent, good middling 14 percent, and middling fair 14 percent. Sales total 344 bales on f o b basis, receipts 18,432 bales, and stock 243,175 bales.
The Houston spot cotton market closed steady with a 4 cent gain. Sales totaled 1,077 bales delivered fob East Texas buyers, shipments 9,567 bales, stock at 171,354 bales. Good middling at 13 percent, middling fair 1itee.
Wheat opens a touch easier then firming as rains in Argentina aid bears while global shipments stay light. Corn advances on small receipts and rain in the southwest, oats hold, and provisions ease. Cash wheat quotes mix No 2 red to durum values, with corn and category prices listed.
Quotations listed for cash wheat No 2 red and hard, corn No 2 and No 2 white, and oats No 2 and No 2 white. Receipts show flour and grain movements by wheat, corn and oats yesterday, with substantial shipments of flour and grain noted and futures close for December and May contracts across wheat corn and oats.
Cash wheat prices show No 2 hard at 82 to 87 cents and No 2 red near 88 cents. Corn values list No 2 mixed at 76 cents and No 2 white around 0. Oats for No 2 white around 40 to 41 cents. Wheat and corn futures names appear with December and May contracts quoted in cents per bushel.
Genera r brothers of Ezzell drove 1800 fowls twelve miles to Hallettsville selling to Nolen Produce Company. A second drive today brought several thousand birds. Ezzell country supplies the market yearly as the turkey crop this year is larger than last.
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