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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
13
Bull activity spikes in the New Orleans coffee futures market with contracts trading over a million bags and options in heavy demand. December calls attract nervous shorts as a bull phase seems to reassert itself with prices up about half a cent. Local markets report firmer Mexican coffees and a firm sugar undertone amid broader commodity strength.
Butter steady at 26c per pound for Creamery and 18c to 20c for country. Eggs steady with fresh country candled 18c to 19c and storage 22c. Cheese firm with Fancy cream 12 4 cents and imported Swiss notable at 24c. Hens, springs, and squabs outlined with per dozen and per pound figures. turkeys 14 to 15c per pound.
Quotations today show butter and creamery products steady with varied cents per pound. Cheese and dairy items hold steady with listed prices for daisies twins young americas longhorns and more. Potatoes and poultry prices remain steady with ranges by weight and category.
Quotations from NSAS City dairy prices appear in fragmented form with figures such as creamery 28 cents and firsts 26 cents per peck, plus various small lot quotes. The clipped text shows typical Associated Press style but is incomplete and hard to parse.
New York market ends near best level, steady with gains of 42 to 55 points. Trade shows 226,500 bags moved. Rio 7 14 to 15 4 cents. No 4 Santos 15 6 cents. Mild firm at Cordova 16 to 17 cents nominal.
The Associated Press report notes leather firms and petroleum steady, wool quiet, classes steady, ice firm, and raw sugar steady with Muscovado 89 test at 6.45, centrifugal 96-test at 3.05 cents, malas ees sugar 89-test 5.20 cents, and refined sugar steady.
The Associated Press reports Pequot wide sheetings reduced from 28 to 26 cents net on a 10 by 4 basis and a 6 to 28 cent revision for aumakeag twills bleached. New price lists issued and pillow tubings bolster cases firm while overall cotton goods market quiet. Yarns under revision downward. Hosiery and underwear apiet.
Wool prices in St Louis show slow activity with medium grades combing and clothing at 17 to 20 cents, best fine at 17 to 19 cents, heavy fine down to 14 to 16 cents, tub washed at 21 to 26 cents.
Fort Worth Texas reports cattle receipts of 3500 head with calves up to 266 higher at 3.75 to 3.04 and hogs 1000 head steady to five cents higher with top at 6.50 and bulk 5.85 to 6.40. Sheep receipts 2250 head opened steady and closed lower with clipped wethers around 4.00.
Receipts and quotations for cattle hogs and sheep released for Chicago on October 12 show total cattle receipts near 17 000 with steady market and prices from Reeves to calves. Hogs receipts about 20 000 with prices five cents higher for most grades and pigs at 4.00 to 6.00. Sheep receipts around 40 000 with market steady to ten cents lower and ranges for natives, westerns, yearlings and lambs.
Receipts total 7000 cattle including 2000 southerns with a steady to strong tone. Native and southern cattle ranges and stockers sell from 2.60 to 7.50, hogs rise about five cents with bulk at 6.26 to 6.45, sheep receipts 15,000 with muttons 3.25 to 4.00 and lambs 4.50 to 6.90. range wethers and ewes 2.60 to 4.75.
St Louis market results for October 12 show steady trading across cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts about 6600 including 1500 Texans with steers from 6.00 to 6.25, cows and heifers 3.75 to 4.35, stockers 3.25 to 5.25, Texas and Oklahoma steers 4.00 to 7.00. Hog receipts 9000 with prices 4.76 to 6.25 for lights and packers 6.45 to 8.55. Sheep receipts 2200 with muttons 3.25 to 4.00 and lambs around 4.00.
W. B. Mathews and H. W. Conlon, Havre France cotton buyers, arrived in San Antonio and checked into the St. Anthony hotel. They on a cotton belt inspection trip and will stay a day or more. Mathews said Moroccan tensions in France have eased and conditions are normal again.
Burial permits issued for Emma Staacke 82 died October 8 at 453 Soledad street Antonio Rosales 56 died October 5 Yoakum bend Merritt R K Myers 26 died October 10 514 West Woodlawn avenue Charles Racket 77 died October 10 Bexar county hospital Freese Wren 7 months died October 10 111 Furnish avenue. High class gentlemen s tailoring Abrams Koenigheim Conroy Building.
Cattle divisions show a modest upswing with about 300 head on consignment. Quality remains desirable and demand active. Cows top at 3.60 and average around 38 dollars, calves steady near 4. Hogs steady to a few cents higher, top 6.25 with general sales around 6 dollars.
Jennings and Blocker leading 34 carloads of Sierra Blanco cattle from Dryden into Fort Worth for distribution to northern markets. Ranchers Holmes and Schweers discuss fair conditions and limited domestic shipping until markets firm. Stubbs notes feeding will be light as feed costs stay high for Lockhart area cattle.
Washington Oct 12 Short crops of corn potatoes hay and oats and a cod crop of cotton have affected prices farmers receive for products. Department of Agriculture inquiry shows October 1 prices higher than a year ago for potatoes hay oats and corn by 80.2 22.7 and 7.5 percent respectively while lower for buckwheat wheat chickens butter eggs and cotton by 2.4 6.7 6 9.2 10.7 and 23.3 percent.
Memphis Tennessee on October 12 reports prime basis of 3.40 cents, meal price 24.25 to 24.50, and linters at 2 to 2 1/2 percent.
The Associated Press notes October 12 spot prices for cotton with ranges from low ordinary to strict good middling. Quotations include 6 3 16 to 10 1 16 and 7 to 11 16. Receipts total 6636 with stock at 63 434.
Memphis hair cotton market reports spot cotton steady and unchanged with middling price at 10 cents as of the latest bulletin.
Houston reports a light trading day with cotton prices easing. Spot quotations show prices from 1 to 160 cents with middling at 9.5 cents, reflecting a holiday slow down in activity across the region.
Receipts today total 675 cars for wheat across Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth, up from 594 cars last week but below 955 cars on the same day last year. The report from The Associated Press notes the week’s activity and compares year over year movement in grain shipments.
New Orleans reports cotton futures easing as hedge selling from across the south pushes prices 8 to 11 points under Friday's close after the New York market observes a holiday. Bears pare gains as weak demand, rumors of ships leaving Texas ports, and profit taking weigh on the market. December dips to 9.82 with 16 to 17 point declines in nearby months.
New Orleans on October 12 reports cotton futures opening easy with early quotes across nearby and deferred months. October 9.45 bid, November 9.39 41, December 9.40 41, January 9.40 41, March 9.58 64.
Liverpool cot ton market reports a4 to 6 point drop in spot prices with American middling at 5.83 for fair and 6.56 for good middling. Sales total 12 000 bales with 1 000 for speculation and export. receipts 12 000 all American. Futures opened and closed quiet with various monthly spreads.
The New Orleans rice market remained unchanged with light activity outside clean Honduras. Receipts totaled 3610 rough, 4816 clean, and 1804 millers, while sales included 1203 rough Honduras at 2.25 to 3.31 and 7347 clean Honduras at 2.44 to 2.58, with Japan at 2.11 to 16c and other notations listed.
Holiday trading in New York and Houston due to Columbus Day left New Orleans with hedge selling amid poor weather. The market slipped across the board as spot demand remained weak and oversupply grew. J. B. Monkhouse, a noted cotton operator from Honda, visited the exchange and voiced bearish views, predicting a bumper yield for his region.
Trade faces frost fears as market watchers await larger crop marketings. Oklahoma frost damage is disputed with temperatures remaining low and rain in cotton country. Texas telegrams report flooding demand on declines while traders expect a rally to lure spot buyers. Weatherford notes rains have done more good than harm as opinions vary on damage and grade impact. Wise of Uvalde and Hennert of ae are in town for business at Maverick hotel.
The narrative recounts Stonewall Jackson’s fatal illness after the Wilderness campaign. He endures pain from wounds and pneumonia like a last stand, guiding his soldiers with phrases to “press forward” as his wife and chaplain visit. General Lee’s message and Jackson’s final calm gaze mark the final moments before his death and state funeral procession in Richmond.
The first annual congress of the American Indian association opens in Columbus Ohio with many prominent Indians and educators in attendance A public meeting is planned at Memorial hall tonight Speakers include Governor Harmon of Ohio Mayor Marshall of Columbus Charles D Carter of Oklahoma Thomas L Sloane of Pend er and Robert G Vas federal commissioner of Indian affairs
The article lists several travelers and businessmen staying at major hotels in San Antonio. Names include B. H. Crouch a U S customs inspector from Laredo. E C Routh of Lockhart. Mr and Mrs David M Picton from Rockport. Temple D Smith from Fredericksburg promoting a SA to Fredericksburg railroad. W A Childress of Houston. Mr and Mrs Gualtenso C Palmer from Zacatecas Mexico. J C Brook of Alpine. A Mangum from Uverde. Mrs Kur Bassett from Mexico. J C West of Refugio. E B Pickering of Victoria. Walter F Timon of Corpus Christi. Rev Vincente Salas and Jose F Garza from Matamoras. Miguel A Garcia and R Vela Montemayor from Brownsville. W W Willis of Jourdanton. They are en route to Austin or staying at the Bexar, Bender, Menger, or Gunther hotels.
The Texas Eastern Star meets in Houston for its final day as officers are elected and the next meeting place is decided. Waco is expected to host, with Laura F. Seaman as grand matron, Mattie T. Hall as associate matron, and Carrie I. Chase as grand conductress amid a contested selection. Prices drops spark cotton hopes, but traders doubt a sales surge will overcome weak trade politics and possible carryover.
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