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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1912
Page
11
U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau forecast issued in San Antonio Texas on October 8 1912 for San Antonio and vicinity and East Texas. Tonight and Wednesday unsettled with showers possible in northern areas.
Sugar prices drop to 6.50 per hundred pounds as New York refiners signal lower figures, with jobbers saturating markets at a loss and large sugar imports arriving. Apple futures forecast a bumper harvest and low prices amid limited freight cars, while pecan shortages push walnut and California nut buying higher. California walnut growers list 18 and 16 cents for No 1 and No 2 soft shells, with carryover stock offered at slightly lower prices.
A broad ledger of farm goods with prices from poultry to produce. Hens fryers turkeys butter eggs vegetables fruits and nuts bells and beans canned goods and meats listed with per unit or per hundredweight prices. Also notes on flour, hides and duce.
New York stocks opened on Oct 8 with broadly lower prices as steel weakness pulled down many issues. Canadian Pacific faced declines, while New York Central American Sugar and Amalgamated suffered fractional losses. Steel trades held at a downturn, though western and coal shares rose briefly before steel drag. By noon readings, readings showed uneven demand and light activity, with bonds steady and the market finishing irregular. Copper and other metals markets in New York and London showed softer spot prices and mixed futures.
Wool steady in St. Louis market with medium grades and combing at 23 to 26, light fine 19 to 21, heavy fine 13 to 18, tub washed 27 to 35. Market notes include clothing grades and general price ranges for various wool types.
In New Orleans on October 8 rough Honduran rice eased while rough Japan held steady and clean rice stayed quiet. Receipts totaled 15 791 rough and 3 483 clean with millers 8 792 rough. Sales included 805 Honduras rough and 1 031 Japan rough with various bid prices.
New York reporting shows Leather and Hides firms posting scores with hemlock firsts at 27 28 seconds 26 27 thirds 28 24 and rejects 16 in a compact market tally.
At Union Stock Yards on Oct 8 trading slowed but sales progressed by noon. Receipts totaled 265 head including 95 cattle 60 calves 10 hogs and 100 other livestock. Best cows brought 4.25 dollars calves 5 dollars and hogs near 4 dollars.
Cuero Texas based Cuero Cotton Oil and Mfg Co advertises choice or prime screened cracked cake or meal at low prices with options for immediate or future shipment.
Chicago reports today cattle receipts about 6000 with a slow to steady market led by beves and cows, hog receipts near 16000 with prices from 8.40 to 9.30 for various weights, and sheep receipts around 45000 with steady demand.
Receipts totaled 6 000 cattle including 2 500 Texans with steady quotes for native beef steers between 5 50 and 10 75. Cows and heifers 3 25 to 5 00. calves 6 00 to 6 60. Hog receipts 9 000 steady with pigs and lights 6 76 to 9 25 and good heavies 9 00 to 9 25. Sheep receipts 3 500 steady with native muttons 3 60 to 3 65 and lambs 5 50 to 7 00.
Oct 8 reports show cattle receipts 20 000 including 1 200 southern cattle steady native steers 6.00 to 10.00 southern steers 4.25 to 5.90 southern cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.26 hogs receipts 11 000 steady to 5 cents lower bulk sales 8.50 to 8.85 heavy 4.60 to 8.865 packers and butchers 8.50 to 8.90 light 8.30 to 8.85 pigs 6.00 to 7.25 sheep receipts 15 000 steady muttons 3.00 to 3.75 lambs 5.25 to 6.50 range wethers and yearlings 3.50 to 4.50 range ewes 2.00 to 3.76.
Quotations are listed for butter from Creameries at 29c, Daisies 27c, eggs steady with 19 20c for ordinary firsts and 21c for firsts, cheese steady with Daisies 17% 17%c, Twins 16% 17%c, Young Americas 17% 17%c, Long Horns 17% 17%c. Potatoes steady with receipts of 50 cars from Minnesota Wisconsin 40 48c and Michigan 42 ibc. Poultry live steady with turkeys 15c, chickens 12c, springs 13c, veal 9 14c.
The Copper Producers' Association announces that September stocks on hand increased by 16,364,218 pounds compared with August, reflecting growing inventories in the copper market.
New York financial update shows money on call at 4 percent with 5 percent on some terms, ruling rate at 4 percent, closing bid 4 percent. Time loans listed firm for sixty and ninety days at 4 1/2 percent and six months at 6 percent.
Forty new police uniforms have arrived for the department following a council order. Uniforms for the other two shifts are due mid month. Officers will wear the garb once tailoring is finished by local tailors.
City representatives meet at 8 tonight at the Y M C A to finalize plans for the district Sunday school convention to convene October 14 and run for two days at Travis Park church.
A woman arrested Sunday afternoon by police on vagrancy charges was granted a continuance in corporation court. Officers allege she runs a saloon on South Santa Rosa avenue and a raid found a rear room filled with men each holding a quart bottle of beer. Additional charges may follow in county court.
Chicago reports Montenegrin hostilities lifting wheat prices with December at 91. corn and oats rise on unsettled weather. pork, lard, and ribs futures slip. In New York, cotton goods hold steady as silk trades improve and yarn demand remains steady.
New York reports raw sugar steady with muscovado 89 test at 3.64, centrifugal 96 test at 4.16, molasses 89 test at 3.29. Refined products quiet while petroleum and molasses hold steady.
New York cotton opened steady with gains of 6 to 9 points amid short covering and spot demand. Early trading pushed prices about 10 points above Monday’s close, but later rallied weakness appeared as selling rose on bulges. middling uplands quoted near 11.10 cents.
New Orleans cotton futures opened six to seven points higher on good cables with heavy buying on first call. Weather maps showed favorable conditions and Europe cables mentioned Montenegro declaring war on Turkey. Gains held into noon with prices six to eight points above yesterday's close as profit taking and Balkan news affected sentiment.
October 10.87 to November 10.86 88 and December 10.89 90 show steady tone. March 11.07 08 and May 12.21 with July 12.21 to 11.37 mark modest advances. Closing bids list October 10.93 November 10.91 December 10.92 January 10.96 May 11.26 July 11.37.
Liverpool market reports good business with prices slipping. American middling stands at 6.28 and good middling at 6.54 with low middling 6.08 and ordinary 5.56. Receipts total 16 000 bales including 9 400 American amid speculation and export activity.
New York middling 11.16 New Orleans middling 11% Liverpool middle 6.28 Houston middling 11 1-16 Galveston middling 11% Memphis middling 11%
New Orleans spot cotton steady at middling 11 cents. Memphis spot cot ton steady but unchanged at middling 11 cents.
Cottonseed products in Memphis on October 8 show prime basis oil at 5.03 to 5.07, meal nominal, and linters nominal.
Weather notes report fair to unsettled conditions in the west with above normal temperatures. Rain totals include Marlow Ollie over an inch, Henrietta 2.380 inches, Haskell 8.26 inches. Police announce Polar Lopez under arrest for assault with intent to murder Andres Bonilla, who is hospitalized with six knife wounds from a quarrel seven miles from the city on the Austin road.
The final work on the originally planned macadamized roads in Taylor Texas is finished. A total of 110 miles of macadam roads are now built in the Taylor commissioners' precinct, funded mainly by a $200,000 bond issue approved by voters two years ago.
Railway schedule lists multiple train numbers and routes from Palestine to Laredo Dallas Fort Worth Houston Kerrville Kerrville and other points. It includes departures and arrivals with times such as 8:66am 10:45pm 6:00am 3:00pm and 9:00pm across many services including north coast El Paso Victoria and Santa Fe lines as printed in the era.
A Punch cartoon captures a playful exchange between a small boy and his mother. The boy asks for new laid eggs with his tea while the mother jokes she will run to the store, reflecting light domestic humor of the period.
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