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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1912
Page
9
Sugar market shows weakness as beet and cane refiners lower prices. New York cane sugar cuts to five cents per hundredweight, allowing Texas wholesalers to move to 5.55 per hundredweight. Beet sugar from Colorado and California is scarce and deliveries are unsatisfactory.
Chicago market notes show butter weak to steady with varying creamery prices 24% 29¢ and 27¢ for daisies. Receipts 4570 cases, cheese mixed with several dairy names. Potatoes weak with 110 car arrivals. Poultry firm with turkeys 15¢ and hens 12¢. St Louis reports poultry and butter steadier with eggs at 22¢.
New York October reports show eggs irregular in price with 9028 cases re shipments. Fresh gathered extras listed at 31 ic per dozen in the market update.
Kansas City quotations for butter today list creamery at 29 cents, extra 2 taels 2c, seconds 25 cents, packing stock 2 PP miaimad extras 25c, cece 22 and 2%8c, seconds 1c.
New York notes general steadiness in commodities with raw sugar and refined sugar flat. Muscovado 89 test 3.64 cents, centrifugal 66 test 4.14 cents, molasses sugar 89 test 3.39 cents. Petroleum and molasses steady. hides and leather firm. Central America at 27 percent.
New York trading reports December Rio No. 7 coffee at 14.13 cents a pound, with March futures at 14.21, while overall prices remained steady for the session.
New York stocks opened with irregularity and small volume as Read ing General Electric St Paul and California Petroleum led early gains before selling pressure emerged on Union Pacific St Paul Steel and Amalgamated Copper. Late afternoon trading muted the gains with Hill issues strong then markets closed heavy while prime mercantile paper and currency markets showed mixed movements.
Observations as of 8 p m give air pressure maps and temperature lines. The forecast through Tuesday for San Antonio and East Texas calls for unsettled weather with precipitation likely.
In New York on October 7 the money on call market showed firm rates with 4 percent to 5 percent as ruling. closing bid 4 1/2 percent and offered at 5 percent. Time loans were stronger with 60 and 90 day terms at 5 percent and six months at 4 3/4 percent.
Lead quotes steady at 4.95 to 5.00 while spelter stays quiet at 7.46 in St Louis trading notes from October 7.
Fort Worth market Monday reports 3500 cattle and 1200 calves with kill cattle scarce yet selling steadily. Hogs total 1500 with steady to 5 cent higher prices, top at 9.05 and bulk around 8.65 to 8.90. About 1500 sheep yarded as stockers. light market activity and steady tone.
Oct 7 market in Union Stock Yards reports a spirited short session as cows calves hogs and goats arrive. Total noon receipts 710 head with cattle 404 calves 280 horses 99 hogs 57 goats 80. Cows top 4.25 with most cattle 3.50 to 4 and best calves 5. Hogs cleared near 8 with some at 8.50. Goats values steady with prior week.
Chicago receipts show cattle 21 000 slow but generally steady with steer and cow ranges. Hogs 27 000 steady to modestly higher with light to heavy classes trading around 8 65 to 9 35. Keepers 63 000 steady to 10 cents lower with native and western lambs and yearlings listed.
Receipts: cattle 10000 including 300 Tex ans. market steady. Native beef steers 5.50 to 10.75. Texas Oklahoma steers 5.00 to 7.00. cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.00. calves in carloads 5.00 to 6.50. Hogs 7500. pigs and lights 6.75 to 9.25. mixed and butchers 9.10 to 10.25. good heavy 9.19 to 9.20. Sheep 8000. native muttons 3.75 to 3.80. lambs 5.50 to 6.25.
Receipts and prices listed for cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts 27000 with native and southern steer and cow prices. HogsReceipts 5000 with bulk sales 8.60 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 25000 with mutton lamb and range stock price ranges.
Cuero Texas based Cuero Cotton Oil and Manufacturing Company advertises choice or prime screened cracked cake or meal items at low prices with immediate or future shipment options.
Copper steadies with spot to December bids around 17.25 to 17.87 dollars per pound for various forms. Tin remains dull with spot near 50.10 to 50.25 dollars, October and November quotes around 49.50 to 50.85. Lead and spelter steady, antimony firm, iron prices mixed with No. 1 northern at 50 to 56 dollars and southern varieties around 25.
Burial permits list Jose M Peche age 21 who died October 3 at 707 Nogalitos street Louis Koenig Jr age 3 died October 4 at 1103 East Quincy street Erlinda Reina age 2 died October 5 at 312 South Concho street. The note includes unrelated quotes about a man and footprints in time.
Wheat prices fell amid large northwest receipts and slow demand. December opened around 91 cents, slipped to 90 3/4, then closed unchanged to 1 1/4 lower at 63 1/2 to 68 cents. Corn and oats weakened with oats near 32 dollars per ton, pork and lard futures rose slightly on early gains before declines.
The New York cotton market opened easy, down 10 to 13 points, and slid to 18 22 points under Friday close amid liquidation and southern hedge selling. Short covering and a cold wave forecast provided brief support before late morning losses deepened to 19 28 points, with steadying late in the day as buyers covered and Balkans news eased anxieties.
New York cotton futures show the market opening easier with October at 10.60, December 10.95, and March 10.94. The session ends with nearby contracts around 10.84 to 10.89 and the July position near 11.04, reflecting a quiet trading day.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened barely steady to down 15 to 19 points as bears surged after weak weather news and Balkan tensions. Early trading left prices around 204 21 points lower at the half hour, with afternoon tone remaining easy and unsettled.
Chicago price sheet shows cash grain levels with No 2 red wheat at 1.04 to 1.06, No 2 hard and No 1 northern around 91 to 94 cents, No 2 spring 89 to 91 1 2 cents, velvet chaff 85 to 90 cents, durum 82 to 88 cents. Corn No 2 64 to 65 1 2 cents, No 2 white 66 cents, No 2 yellow 64 1 2 to 66 cents. Oats No 2 white 35 cents, standard 33 4 to 33 1 2 cents.
In New Orleans on October 7 cotton futures opened barely steady with November around 10.87 and March near 11.17. Prices showed a mixed session with highs and lows listed and a closing range that edged lower by 23 to 29 points.
Liverpool October 7 spot cotton in fair demand and prices ease. American middling fair 6.844 pence, good middling 6.62, mid 6.36, low middling 6.164, good ordinary 6.64, ordinary 5.16 pence. Sales 8000 bales, 600 for speculation and export, 7000 American. Receipts 20000 bales, of which 19700 bales are American.
Cotton futures in Liverpool opened easier and finished the session quiet with quotes across the forward curve. October at 6.094 pence, Oct-Nov 6.04 1/2 d, Nov-Dec 5.99 1/2 d, Dec-Jan 5.99 d, Jan-Feb 6.00 d, Feb-Mar 6.01 4 d, Mar-Apr 6.08 4 d, Apr-May 6.04 d, May-Jun 6.05 d, Jun-July 6.06 d, Jul-Aug 6.05 d.
New York and New Orleans sources report mixed middling prices across markets. Liverpool shows 6.36 cents, while Houston and Galveston quote 11 1 16, and Memphis records middling 11 1 2 percent.
Market notes show cash wheat and corn unchanged with mixed No 2 No 3 and No 8 grades listed at specific prices. Oats dip slightly with No 2 white and No 2 mixed shown, while futures close for December and May contracts across wheat corn and oats reflect small gains and steady levels.
Spot cotton remains steady with 3-16 cent declines across grades. Middling and various classifications show nominal to strict values with receipts of 6489 and stocks at 54,708.
Spot cotton in New York stays quiet on October 7 with middling uplands at 11.10 and middling Gulf at 11.35. Total sales reach 11,600 bales.
Wheat firms with No 2 track red at 1.06 dollars and No 2 hard near 91 92 and a half cents. Corn weak with No 2 track 64 65 cents and No 2 white around 67. Oats steady at No 2 track 32 33 cents and No 2 white 34 cents. December prices show wheat at 92 92 and a half, May at 96. Corn December 50 0, May 51 51 cents. Oats December 32 and May 34 cents.
Memphis Tennessee October 7 spot cotton remains steady at middling 11 3/4 cents per pound with no change observed.
Prices across Memphis and New York markets show steady cottonseed oil with firm basis. Memphis reports prime basis oil at 5.03 to 5.07 with meal and linters nominal. New York closes steady with spot at 6.42 to 6.70 and later months at 6.42 to 6.45, 6.09 to 6.12 for several months, and 6.14 for some April sales.
Births announced for October 1 to October 5 to families including Mr and Mrs J Wright at 4& oy, Mr and Mrs B Alvares at 810 South Richter, Mr and Mrs George E Wright at 1519 New Braunfels, Mr and Mrs W Nolte at 121 Warwick, and Mr and Mrs C D Reeves at 212 Drexel. Also a joke about instrument players ends with a judge and a pastor resigning to run a brew house.
A historic schedule lists multiple trains with arrival and departure times from various origins. It covers from Mexico, Kerrville, Houston, El Paso, Victoria, and the north, including mixed and express services and local routes, with specific timings noted for each train. A Santa Fe depot timetable section is also referenced with several northbound and eastbound departures.
European Plan. Rates $1.00 and up. New Bowie Hotel operated by W. C. Morris at 728 East Houston Street faces the Alamo and Post Office. Old phone 303% new building and furniture. Thoroughly modern rooms with or without bath.
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