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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1911
Page
7
A market summary reports orange prices rising to $5 a box, lemons $6.25, potatoes $2.25 per hundred, and wholesale costs up $4.50 to $4.75 per box next week. Canners fear high feed costs, tomatoes and corn prices climb, broom prices jump to $3.50 per dozen as supply tightens and straw costs soar to $200 per ton.
Creamery butter 80c per pound and country butter 18 to 20c. fresh country eggs 18 to 19c, storage 21 to 22c. Cheese firm with various types ranging from 12 to 24c. Poultry steady with hens at 4.50 to 5.00 per dozen, springs 2.40 to 4.00 per dozen, ducks 6.00 to 7.00 per dozen, and turkeys 14 to 15c per pound.
Quotations show butter and eggs steady with varied c rates for dairy items. Cheese like Twin and Young America priced midrange. potatoes firm with quality grades from choice to fair. Live poultry steady with turkeys, chickens and weights listed. veal prices noted by weight class.
Associated Press notes poultry prices in St. Louis with hens at 9 to 16 cents, turkeys 14 to 16 cents, ducks 12 cents, geese 9 cents. Butter steady, groceries 23 to 30 cents, eggs firm at 20 to 22 cents.
Quotations today list butter at 28 cents for creamery firsts 26 cents seconds 21 packing stock 19. Eggs show extras 24 cents firsts 22 cents seconds 14. Prices reflect current trading at Kansas City markets.
Hides steady as market notes Bogota and leather firmness. Petroleum remains steady while wool and rice are quiet. Molasses and refined sugar hold firm with Muscovado at 89 test 5.30 65.37 percent, centrifugal 96 test 5.80 5.874 percent, and molasses sugar 89 test 5.05 5.120 percent.
By the Associated Press New York October 21 the cotton goods market remains quiet with easing tendencies. Yarns are quiet but inquiries on contracts are more frequent. Jobbers report steady trade with small orders predominating.
The Associated Press reports New York coffee futures closed steady for near deliveries but weaker for distant months. Last prices moved seven to twenty points higher. Sales reached 107,250. Spot prices remained steady. No 7 Rio and No 4 Santos offered firm values, Cordova quoted nominal. Brazilian offers were unchanged to ten points lower. Oyster related note mentions half shell service for the Seratoga Restaurant.
Weekend cattle trading at Union Stock Yards was tame and short of buyers with a steady to higher price tone by week’s end. Cows topped at 3.64, calves near 4, hogs at 6.50, while sheep moved lightly and market outlook appears favorable for next week.
Meat prices from wholesale to corner shops have advanced in recent days. Sixteen carloads were due to open a new dipping vat at the stock yards, prompting a scramble among stockmen to supply the opening. Del Rio steers were delayed, arriving Tuesday to be dipped sans crowd.
In New Orleans on October 21 the local rice market showed unchanged tone with sales slightly above typical. Receipts totaled rough 798, millers 652, clean 591. sales included Honduras and Japan lots with prices ranging from 2.00 to 3.55 per unit and implied quotations for clean Honduras and Japan.
The opening of the dipping vat and northern immune pens at the San Antonio Union Stock Yards drew over 2000 stockmen despite bad weather and a failed cattle train. Dr. Amos Graves Sr. led the ceremony, praising the vat's role in eradicating fever ticks and elevating the region above quarantine lines.
Cattle receipts 800 head with steers steady at 3.75 to 4.25, stockers and feeders 3.30 to 4.25, cows 2.75 to 4.10, bulls 2.65 to 3.35, calves 3.75. Hogs receipts 650 head up five cents. top 6.55, bulk 6.25 to 6.50. No sheep sold.
Receipts and quotations show cattle dull and weak with beef cattle from 2.00 to 9.00. hogs slow and steady with ranges up to about 6.65. sheep strong with natives and western varieties and yearlings priced up to 4.25 and 6.00 for lambs.
Receipts and quotations from Kansas City cattle hogs and sheep markets show steady conditions. Cattle receipts 500 with native and southern categories priced from 2.75 to 7.50 per hundredweight while hogs reach 4.26 to 6.50 and sheep 2.25 to 5.80 per hundred.
Receipts total 800 cattle including 600 Texas. market steady. Native beef steers 5.00 to 6.60. cows and heifers 3.00 to 7.50. stockers 3.25 to 5.00. Texas steers 4.00 to 6.50. calves 4.00 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 8500. market steady with pigs 4.50 to 5.60, packers 6.40 to 6.70, heavy 4.65 to 6.70. Sheep receipts 3000. market steady with no muttons 3.25 to 3.90 and lambs 4.50+.
Lead holds at 4.15 per unit while Spelter remains quiet around 6.20 in the St. Louis metal market report dated October 21.
Key AP report from New York notes close-prime mercantile paper at 114 4.83 40 for 60 day bills and 4.86 65 for demand, commercial bills 4.82. Bar silver 45 1 2, Mexican dollars 46 5 8, government and railroad bonds steady.
Prices for prime basis oil 4.50 65c per unit meal 24.25 50 lint ers 2% 3'c. Data from Memphis on October 21 reported by The Associated Press.
New Orleans markets show cottonseed oil prime refined sold at 5.35e per pound in reis. Choice meal with 8 percent ammonia quoted at 28.25 dollars per long ton. Choice cake with 8 percent ammonia offered at 27.25 dollars per long ton.
Investors watch early trading as prices show small shifts. Crude contracts edge between gains and losses with light volume. Market mood holds cautious ahead of key reports.
Frost and freezing temperatures hit the western cotton belt as New Orleans and other markets open higher. Futures rose by about a dollar per bale amid cold weather fears, with trades showing 17 to 23 points gains on key months and a volatile session as traders respond to forecasts of a blizzard in Oklahoma and North Texas.
Cotton futures in New York rose 15 to 22 points at the open on heavy covering tied to firmer cables and bad Texas and Oklahoma weather. The market later erased gains as widespread short covering cooled, with private cables noting less seller interest in the South.
Galveston Texas ships show 123700 bales of Texas cotton valued at 6231218 sent overseas in the week, with 10100 bales moved coastwise. Foreign trade used 22 vessels under foreign flags while seven U S flag vessels carried coastwise loads.
Dun's weekly trade review notes continued expansion in demand across major centers. Immediate replenishment and lower prices drive activity, with gains in dry goods mills, railroad equipment orders, wire products, and wool trading, while pig iron weakness and weaker tin plate persist.
Houston textile data show last year statistics with cotton figures totaling 26 798 and 90 662 for the period.
New Orleans October 21cotton futures opened with a 17 to 23 point advance on cold western weather and forecasts of continued cold and snow in Oklahoma and Texas. Short covering pushed the best months up before profit taking reined them back. The market finished the first half hour barely steady with a 14 to 21 point net rise, then settled 14 to 17 points higher after late trading and renewed buying.
Futures opened steady with grain and commodity traders watching the board. Prices shown include October at 9.63 65, November 9.50 51, December 9.438 44, January 9.50, March 9.60, May 9.72, and July 9.84 with minor spreads.
New Orleans on October 21 reports spot cotton steady with a ½ to ¾ cent rise. Sales on the spot 126 bales to arrive 1550. price levels range from low ordinary at 6 15-16 to good middling at 9 13-16 and above, with middling at 9 9-16 and strict middling around 0 11-16. Receipts total 5449 bales, stock 76,790 bales.
Associated Press reports closing cotton in Liverpool with moderate activity and higher prices. American middling fair 5.76, good middling 5.48, middling 5.34, receipts 66 000 bales including 64 800 American, daily sales 8 000 bales of which 1 000 for speculation and export.
New York spot cotton closes quietly with gains of 39 points. Middling uplands quoted at 9.75 cents and gulf at 10 cents. No sales reported.
Memphis report notes spot cotton steady at Middling 94 3 4 cents. A French built vehicle for military and industrial use features a tilting platform that lowers to receive loads drawn by a capstan.
New York October 21 reports money on call nominal with time loans easy. Sixty days at 3 percent, ninety days at 2 percent, and six months at 2 percent.
A small area of Manhattan, New York boasts a population larger than the combined totals of multiple western states including Arizona Delaware Idaho Montana Nevada North Dakota Oregon New Hampshire New Mexico Rhode Island Utah Vermont and Wyoming.
A witty Chicago Record Herald observation notes that marriage to an actress turns a man into a temporary participant in a public institution, hinting at shifting social perceptions and spotlight.
Chicago market report shows wheat rising after initial losses with December at about 1.02 per bushel and a firm close. corn fell early then held steady with December around 66 1/2 cents. oats improved with futures near 48 cents. hogs supported provisions with January pork near 16.87 and lard around 9.15.
Receipts today show 63 actars of wheat with 22 contract grade and 191 cars of corn with 78 contract grade. Oats totaled 156 cars. Wheat receipts across Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth reached 730 cars, up from 679 last week and 499 a year ago.
No. 2 red wheat at 1.01 to 1.05 dollars, No. 1 northern 1.17, No. 2 northern 1.12 to 1.15, No. 2 spring 1.05 to 1.12, durum 0.95 to 1.00, and corn No. 2 Boiske, No. 2 white 0.76 to 0.? dollars.
Cash wheat gains led by track No 2 and No 2 hard. Dec wheat at 1.02 dollars and May 1.06 in St Louis. Corn strengthens with No 2 track 73 to 74 cents and Dec at 65 cents, May 66. Oats rise with No 2 track around 47 to 48 cents and May near 50.
In Kansas City Oct 21 market notes show wheat and corn futures, while Mme Rejane jokes with a young actor about tragedy and emotion. The scene ends with her urging him to weep to become a hit, dismissing his looks.
A new German infantry bayonet includes a knife near the base designed to sever wire and a back edge with saw teeth to cut through wood obstructions. The design aims to improve obstacle clearance in field operations.
A Philadelphia Record note reflects on a Bible verse about things here today and gone tomorrow. It hints at a parent child dynamic with phrases like my son and a pop moment, capturing a newspaper voice of contemplation.
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