U S Cotton Market Opens With Large Rise
U S cotton prices surge at the opening as markets show a strong uptick. Liverpool observers note higher spot rates and buyers returning after a quiet prior session.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1916
Page
13
Cotton market soars on hurricane fears then tightens
Cotton prices spiked across major markets as Gulf hurricane fears lifted bids in New York and New Orleans, with early gains narrowing by late morning. Liverpool and San Antonio quotes remained high, while reports of rain and cold unsettled trading and caused simulated volatility in the afternoon.
New York Cotton Prices Surge Amid Storm Fears
New York cotton opened sharply higher as buyers pushed prices 19 to 56 points above Friday close. January reached about 18.70, July around 19 cents, with market activity driven by tropical storm anxieties and persistent bull accumulation despite occasional profit-taking and midday reversals.
Liverpool Opens Thursday Amid Unclear Market Signs
Liverpool is due to open Thursday with uncertain momentum as traders await the 11 o'clock call. The report lists mixed figures and stray codes such as New York call and closing data, with unclear securities references and inconsistent numbers including 18,08 18,68 16,61 and 18,75 18,71.
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Liverpool
New York
New Orleans Cotton Opens Higher on Storm Report
New Orleans trading opened with one of the season’s strongest rises as proceeds in the May and July contracts pushed above 19 cents amid a torrid market reaction to a tropical storm hitting inland near Mobile. By noon, prices showed a net rise of about 45 to 51 points, though afternoon trading cooled with gains narrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Shorts
Mobile
Cotton market opens in New Orleans with varied futures
New Orleans on October 18 reports an excited cotton market with active quotes. October futures at 17.65, December 18.04, January 18.52, March 18.89, May 19.06, July 19.14. Additional figures show nearby and deferred months trading around 17.70 to 18.53, with mixed bids and occasional discrepancies in printed figures.
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New York
Seeereess
New Orleans
Adtures Cosaly
Poultry and Eggs Increase in Texas in 1915
Texas produced poultry and eggs valued at about 24.15 million dollars in 1915, up 4.72 million from 1910. Agriculture Commissioner Fred Davis predicts this industry, once seen as a side line, will become a leading state sector as chicken culture expands. From 1899 to 1909 production value rose from about 9.98 million to 19.43 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
State Department of Agriculture
Fred Davis
Trading In Local Live Stock Is Slow
Union Stock Yards reports little active trading in local live stock with a large cattle on hand and most action in butcher lines now sold out. Weather delays shipments but not expected to greatly affect week totals. Today receipts include cattle 699 calves 102 hogs 363. Fort Worth quotations show steers 6.90 to 7.00, stockers 6.00 to 6.25, cows 3.25 to 6.25, calves 4.50 to 9.00, hogs top 9.90, lambs and other categories noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stock Yards
Chicago Market Receipts and Quotations October 18
Chicago NL reports receipts of hogs 28,000 with bulk hog prices 9.65 to 10.05, heavy 9.25 to 10.15, light 9.30 to 10.10, and other hog categories. Cattle receipts 19,000 with native beef cattle 6.50 to 11.40, western steers 6.10 to 9.25, stockers and feeders 4.70 to 7.66, cows and heifers 3.40 to 9.20, calves up to 7. Wethers 6 to 30, lambs 8.25 to 10.60.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Henderson Oeeeseeerees
Bexar
Ood
Rene Anes
Sam J. Rodgers
Bureau
The
Hopkins Sheen Et
Howard Ween
Ogers
Texas Hunt
Jack Ae
Jackson
Jim Wells
Car- Johnson
Jones
Karnes
Kaufman
Kendall
McCulloch
Matagorda
Mitchell
Sir Caldwell
Montague Tee
Calhoun
Montgomery Oo
Wee
Callahan Sae
Morria
Cameron
Panola
Parker
Ieee Coleman
Polk
Collin
Rains
Collingsworth
San Saba
Smith
Eter
Duval
Somervell Wweee
Festland Pewee
Stephens
Ates
Ellis
Ebee
Stonewall
Ater
Uvalde Sae Teen
Gillespie
van Zandt
Victoria
Tone
Gonzales She Eeneee
Walker Wees
Grayson Eee
Waller
Gregg Tee Eee
Williamson Sewaee
Hardeman Our
Wilson Weer Tee
Harris
Market Receipts and Prices for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
In St Louis on October 18 receipts and price ranges were listed for hogs cattle and sheep. Hogs receipts 7000 higher with lights pigs and variety prices. cattle receipts 7500 steady with native beef steers yearling stockers and other categories priced. sheep receipts 1800 steady with lambs breeding ewes yearlings and ewes priced across several brackets.
Kansas City Market Reports October Receipts and Prices
Kansas City reports show receipts of cattle and hogs with steady to higher prices. Hog prices range from 9.40 to 10.05 for light to heavy classes, while cattle include prime fed steers 9.50 to 11.00 and southern steers 5.75 to 7.50. Sheep and lamb listings show steady bids, with lambs around 8.50 to 9.00 and ewes near 6.75 to 7.25, plus stockers and feeders in the 5.00 to 9.65 range.
Liverpool Cotton Market Report October 18
Cotton spot prices rise in Liverpool with good middling at 10 60 and middling at 10 60 in the latest sales. Total sales reach 10 000 including 1500 for speculation and export as imports show receipts of 15 000.
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Liverpool
Irregular futures quotes from Liverpool market
Futures were unsettled on October 10 with varied positions for several monthly contracts. Observers noted slight shifts across October through the next year with rates ranging from 10.40% to 10.68% and minor adjustments in consecutive months.
Cotton statistics and sugar market notes
Cotton stocks and deficits for the season show a deficit of 110,599 bales. United States exports from New York report raw sugar prices steady with centrifugal at 6.27 and refined at 7.26, with molasses at 6.39.
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New York
Foreign buying boosts all grain markets in Chicago report
Fresh advances in wheat prices followed foreign buying led by Argentina and storm effects in Canada. Drought caused enlarged crop damage and heavy snows threaten Canadian threshing. Winter wheat delays in the southwest and plowing delays boost bears’ pressure as prices climb then pull back. December wheat at 1.66, May 1.67. Corn, oats rise. hogs and grain lift provisions.
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Chicago
Argentina
Canada
Quotations From Wheat to Barley on Oct 18
Quotations list wheat prices for No 2 red at 1.65 1.67, No 2 hard at 1.67 1.70, corn No 2 yellow at 0.6? 0.6, oats at a uncertain value, and barley at 0.75 1. The fragment records market quotes with several unclear figures.
Market Quotations From St Louis Grain Prices
Quotations from St Louis show wheat higher with No 2 red at 1.66 to 1.76, No 2 hard at 1.68, corn higher with No 2 at around 1.0, No 2 white 92 cents, oats higher at 47 cents, No 2 white steady at 1.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Provision markets San Antonio provisions
Local packing house quotations to deal era Wednesday. Dry salt extras 16%c bacon extrag 8c dry salt bellies 14-16 pound average 181%c fancy breakfast bacon zsc fancy hams 22c bacon bellies 14-16pound average 20c Pure lard lic compound 13%c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dealera
Shippers Market Prices In San Antonio Produce Trade
Buyers paid steady prices for Texas country butter creamery 30 34c per pound country 25 26c packing stock 22 25c and poultry with hens 6 to 8 dollars per dozen large fryers 6.5 to 7 dollars per dozen broilers 3.5 to 4 dollars, turkeys 18 to 19c per pound ducks 4.80 to 5.50 per dozen geese 6 to 8 dollars per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Texas Creamery
Country
Chicago Markets Quiet on Butter Eggs Potatoes and Poultry
Chicago on October 18 reported steady quotations with unchanged prices across butter eggs potatoes and poultry. Receipts showed 6592 cases for eggs and 50 cars for potatoes with no price changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Butter, Eyes and Poultry Unchanged in Markets
Kansas City reports butter, eyes and poultry prices holding steady as Ohio firm Galaxy Valley early Ohios set at 1.35 dollars per unit, with no changes noted in the morning prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Ga Valley Early Ohios
Duluth Linseed Closing Prices
In Duluth Minnesota on October 18 closing linseed rates show October bid at 2.49 and November 2.49 asked, December 2.45 percent asked, and May 2.50 asked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
Oklahoma City cattle and hog sale report October 18
Cattle 1100 head steady while hogs rise 10 to 15 cents with top at 9.85. Sheep 800 head steady. Sales average weights and prices listed for several lots including Arnold Cleveland and Wilson Laustre. Multiple entries show steer and heifer lots with varied weights and prices from local buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Luling Harvest Surpasses Last Year Amid Boll Weevil Fears
Farmers in Luling Texas report fields turning white with open staple as boll weevils retreat and a fall cotton crop could reach two thousand bales. Prices top 17 cents per pound, boosting activity. Year-to-date receipts already exceed last season’s 12,500 bales, with an estimated 14,000 bales marketed by season’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luling
Tex
American Window Glass declares 12 percent dividend
Pittsburg October 18 directors of the American Window Glass Machine Company declared a dividend of 12 percent on preferred stock. This brings the total paid on the stock within a year to 64 percent, amounting to 3,815,000 dollars on an issue of seven million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
American Window Glass Machine Company
Turpentine and resin market figures reported in Savannah
From Savannah on October 18, turpentine sales stood at 43 percent with 446 sales and 398 receipts. Resin firm activity showed 1469 sales and 94 receipts. The fragmented data hints at prices and stock levels for several entities, but the legible figures are sparse and scattered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Wheat and grain prices advance in early market
Kansas City report notes quota one wheat rising fractions with No 2 red at 1.59 to 1.60 and 1.71, corn mixed at 88 to 89 cents, No 2 white 88 89, oats higher with No 2 white about 48 to 50 cents, rye around 1.20.
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Kansas City
Grain futures close mixed in Kansas City market
Grain futures closed with Wheat Dec at 1.60, May 1.621, Corn Dec 76.40, May 79. The session reflected a modestly mixed tone as traders weighed supply cues and demand signals in the Kansas City market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Textile prices and demand in New York market
On October 18 in New York wide sheetings sold at 2 cents a yard, bleached muslins at half a cent, and demand for yarn remained active for home and export markets. Heavy sheetings and print cloths rose, burlaps stayed active and higher, silks remained in steady demand, and jobbers reported active trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Weather summary for October 18, 1916 by LLEN BUELL
Observations recorded at 8 a.m. Wednesday October 18, 1916. LLEN BUELL of the Weather Bureau provides the meteorological report detailing prevailing conditions, temperatures, and atmospheric observations for the period.
Wall Street Stocks Advance Strongly After Opening
New York October 18 Special issues led gains in early operations with paper and leather groups rising 1 to 8 points. Shipping, Industrial Alcohol, United States Rubber and copper shares advanced alongside General Electric and American Linseed. Rail stocks Chesapeake and Ohio and Atlantic Coast Line gained over a point, Union Pacific Norfolk and Western and Reading up about a point. Alcohol, Distillers Securities, Crucible Steel and Biscuits tallied 2 point gains amid a generally strong but dull session.
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New York
United States Rubber
General Electric
American
United States Steel
Allied
Rails
Chesapeake and Ohio
Atlantic Coast Line
Union Pacific
Norfolk and Western
Reading
Distillers Securities
Crucible Steel
Biscruit
Snyder Ter
Allis-Chalmers
Brownsville
Clarendon
Corpus Christi
Wilmington
Rio
Charleston
Dilley
Augusta
Lastland
Atlanta
Baldwin Locomotive
Aay Sa Encinal
Montgomery
Baltimore & Ohio
Sean
Greenville
Memphis
Bethlehem Steel
Haskell Ae
Vicksburg
Canadian Pacific
New Orleans
Hesapeake
Ohio
Little Rock
Chicago
Mil
St. Paul
Houston
Eee
Teeee Oy
Sos Bem
Lonaview
Cloudy General, Electric
Luling
Great Northern Pfd
Mexia
Palestine
Paris
Inter
Mere
Mar
Etfs
Pierce Iater
Kansas City Southern
Quanah Pe
Louisville & Nashville
San Antonio
Kam
Liggett & Myers
San Marcos
Clear
Lorillard Co
Sherman Ra
Cloudy
Maxwell Motors
Mexican Petroleum
Missouri, Kan
Texas
Pf da
Missouri Pacific
Wwe
New York Central
Ween
N. Y
Hartford
Norfolk & Western Tree
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
BR Rep. Iron & Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss
Shef. Steel & Iron
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Heen Wee
Virginia Care
Va. Iron, Coal & Coke
Wabash Pfd
sWeeten
Western Union
Westinghouse Electric
Gulf States Steel
Kennecott Copper
Weather bulletin for Houston district shows unsettled rain
The Cotton Region bulletin from San Antonio reports unsettled and rainy weather across the belt with a tropical storm center over Southern Alabama. Rainfall exceeds an inch at many Houston and New Orleans stations, with three inches or more at Wathorford, Alexandria, Munroe, Portland. Allen Buell, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau.
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Belt
Alabama
Houston
New Orleans
Weatherford
Tex
Alexandria
Money markets and currency rates in San Antonio and London
San Antonio trading showed Mexican money quotes with Silver Pesos at 49 50, Pesos base at 46, State bank notes 11 4, National Bank notes 17% 18, Bank of London & Mex 16 17, Carranza money 0 2 2. In London, Oct 18 bar silver at 325 164 per ounce with money at 4 percent and discount rates for short bills around 4 1 2 percent, three months 4 3 4 percent.
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San Antonio
Bank of London & Mex
Carranza
London
Metal markets report from New York and London
Lead quoted at 7.00 to 7.10 with Spelter dull. East St Louis delivery 9 1/2% asked. Copper firm with electrolytic flat quarter 27.75 to 28.00. Iron steady. Tin steady. London copper spot 123 pounds sterling. futures 120 to 179 pounds sterling for various forms.
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New York
London
New Orleans Rice Prices and Market Receipts Brief
London rates show lead at 30 pounds sterling and Bocker at 53 pounds sterling. New Orleans rice market steady for rough rice with strength in clean rice. Receipts tallied rough 15,470 sacks, millers 13,798 sacks, clean 5,493 pockets. sales included rough Honduras 606 sacks and Japan 60 sacks, clean Honduras 5,577 pockets and Japan 1,677 pockets.
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London
Bocker
New Orleans
Japan
Blue Rose
Honduras
Marine Intelligence Galveston Arrivals List
Galveston reports arrivals including El Mar from New York, Oswald from Britain, Liver a El Faso from El Valle, and Neuces from New York and Baton Rouge on October 18.
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Galveston
Tex
el Mar
New York
Oswald, Br
Livera el Faso
el Valle
Neuces
Baton Rouge
Quaker Oil and Gas declares seven percent dividend
Directors of the Quaker Oil and Gas Company the producing end of the Pure Oil Company today declared a dividend of seven hundred per cent. The dividend is payable at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Quaker Oil and Gas Company
Pure Oil Company
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