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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
9
Fred Harding owner offers a cheap four room house on a 62 by 160 foot lot with two car line. Located near es hotel area. Sale details placeholder read as public listing in local cor or street guide.
An old classified ad offers to build homes with no payment upfront for three chosen parties. It states the three involved parties supply lots and money while the builders complete houses on a popular seventh side location at 535 Moore Building. First come, first served.
Auction style notices list several properties for sale in San Antonio area. Includes 5 percent acres near city hall with payment terms through H M Carroll, 321 West Commerce. a modern rooming house with bath at 201 Hicks Building. a 3 bedroom cottage on car line lot 75 by 150 priced around 4000 to 6000 with cash terms. a 7 room home advertised for 3000 with cash price 1300. quick sale of three choice lots in Rosedale addition and Simmons subdivision. Overall focus on affordable cash or terms sales and location near city amenities.
Five i cottage just built in Sunny pe addition near Highland Park Academy. Price 950 cash plus 10 monthly for eight months at 8 percent interest. Two lots 117 feet higher than city with city water, grocery block away, No. 1 lumber, solid foundation. Contact Dulling Printing Co. 112 W erce 8t for details. Old phones 1 and 5010.
Sale a farm near Asherton Dimmit county Texas with 60 acres irrigated hog pasture and improvements. One five room house and one good house, good well and pumping plant. Asking 110 dollars per acre. Other nearby farms quoted 150 to 750 dollars per acre. Ford 109 Ave D ground floor bis Bidg opposite post office. Sale or trade 1000 acres unimproved black land in Victoria county one mile from town. Take one third trade, balance on long time at eight percent, price 55 dollars per acre. Ford 109 Ave ground floor Gibbs Ridg opposite pest e.
Stewart & Van Eman list a 270 acre farm fronting three 60 acre tracts of fine black tillable land near the nine mile circle. 30 acres in good situation with very good improvements. One of the rare chances. See this arrow. New phone 806.
Agricultural services offered to estimate western farm lands for investors. Properties include 125 acres heavily timbered land for sale at $15 per acre with $600 automobile trade in. Other listings show 90 percent tillable ACRES near Taft and an irrigated farm near McAl. owners and contact details provided.
The city markets show shoppers avoiding cold storage eggs despite strict pure food oversight. Egg stocks are heavier than last year while producers push 23 cents per dozen. Potatoes are scarce with few brokers on the row and Colorado Utah shipments delayed. Canned shrimp and oysters prices预计 rise. cotton moving freely. California beans continue to rise toward Christmas.
Prices paid across poultry dairy vegetables fruits and staple goods in US markets. Lists large hens to turkeys, butter, cheese, eggs, vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, celery, corn, sweet potatoes, cantaloupes, pears, peaches, grapes, oranges, lemons, bananas, and many canned goods, with per unit or per case quotes. Mentions broad regional sources and price ranges, ending with note on Panama Canal length from Atlantic to Pacific.
Weather Bureau forecast for Monday September 23 1912 shows San Antonio and vicinity warmer and fair through Tuesday with generally fair conditions in East Texas. Interior areas expect warmer temperatures tonight and Tuesday.
New York trading opened with steel as the standout feature with initial steel sales at 76 1 2 percent. Great Northern and other rail issues rose slightly while Union Pacific St Paul and Reading showed heaviness. Trading was brisk early, then demand eased with some lead issues up but later slipping under pressure, steel and copper showing little drop. Bonds steady and late session buying supported a new high for steel in the year.
The New York money market shows on call rates at 3 percent and 5 percent, ruling and close at 4 percent. Time loans weaker with 60 days at 6.5 percent, 90 days at 5 percent, six months at 5.5 percent, reflecting a tighter market.
Close: Prime mercantile paper 54.6 percent, sterling exchange steady with actual business in bankers’ bills 4.82.25 for 60 days and 4.85.60 for demand. Commercial bills 4.81. Bar silver 63 5 cents. Mexican dollars 48 13 cents. Government bonds irregular, railroad bonds firm.
New York price data show copper firm with standard spot and November contracts at 17.25 to 17.50 for electrolytic, lake at 17 17 and casting at 17 14 . Tin, lead, spelter and antimony quotes are listed with July and September ranges and No 1 northern and southern categories for copper ore.
In St. Louis on September 2 markets show lead steady around 5.90 to 6.02 with spelter rising to about 7.45 to 7.59. The report reflects commodity pricing from the metals market with buyers and sellers indicating stable demand.
Ben Bohnfalk transfers lot 10 block 7 city block 2200 West Houston street for 2431 Ss. W Smith and wife transfer lots 2 Land 26 block 12 city block 1787 Beacon Hill to John M Gunn for 4250. Joseph and Katharina Becker sell 320 acres from survey 329 and 140 acres from survey 230 along Cibolo creek for 1100. Me Cobb transfers lot 2 block 8 2200 to H B Cobb.
New York on September 23 reports raw sugar steady with Muscovado at 3.50 for 89 test and centrifugals at 4.30 for 9 test. Molasses priced at 33.55 for 8 tests as market shows firm tone with petroleum and molasses stance noted amid leather and hides sector.
Fort Worth Texas Sept 23 Livestock markets show broad strength beef sets steady stockers and calves strong hogs steady to strong sheep firm. Cattle receipts 4000 steers 5.00 to 5.75 cows 3.00 to 4.50 calves 4.00 to 8.00 feeder steers 5.60 top for fifteen carloads calves bring near record highs. Lambs 6.75 with sheep steady.
Union Stock Yards reports buyers were active as receipts at noon totaled 249 cattle and calves and 63 hogs. Cows topped at 4.25, calves up to 5, hogs best around 8.50 with bulk 7.50 to 8.25. No sheep or goats offered. traders expect a liberal cattle run and packers seek hogs.
Chicago market report shows cattle receipts 22 600 with steady to 10 cent decline and varied prices for Reeves Texas and western steers, stockers and calves. Hog receipts 28 000 with steady to slight rise and price ranges from 5.00 to 8.85. Sheep receipts 65 000 with a weak to 20 cent drop and price ranges for native and western lambs and yearlings.
Receipts and quotes for cattle hogs and sheep show steady markets. Cattle native steers fetch 7.60 to 10.70, Texas Oklahoma 4.00 to 8.00. cows 5.60 to 7.50. calves around 5. Grain futures show wheat December 96 4, May 96 4.
Kansas City reports today on cattle hogs and sheep with receipts totaling 256000 cattle 2000 southerns market steady to ten cents lower native steers 6010.75 southern cows 4.25 6.25 hogs 4000 market strong to higher bulk 8.45 8.70 heavy 8.40 8.55 packers and butchers 4.85 8.75 lights 8.50 8.70 pigs 6.25 8.25 sheep 16000 market 10c lower muttons 3.50 4.40 lambs 6.00 7.35 range wethers and yearlings 4.50 5.25 range owes 2.50 4.25
The Commercial Appeal issues its final weekly cotton summary noting two distinct regional conditions. West of the Mississippi shows strong growth and early picking with 60 to 75 percent of bolls opened, while the east is slower, with frost risks in Oklahoma and Tennessee still vigorous. Overall, the crop remains late with limited top-crop prospects. Insect damage is minor, boll weevils appear in Mississippi and Louisiana but yield a modest impact.
Chicago reports large receipts lifting bearish pressure on wheat while cabled prices steadied. December contracts fluctuated around 9 1 4 percent and weather forecasts prompted mixed moves in corn and oats. First pork, lard and ribs prices fell then steadied as frost concerns faded and market nerves eased.
Quotations from Chicago on September 23 show mixed gains and losses across wheat corn and oats. Prices for various grades of wheat range from 80 to 106 cents, with corn around 72 to 74 cents and oats near 35 to 36 cents in the first listed bids.
In St. Louis on September 23 the market showed cash wheat at No. 2 red 1.03 to 1.05 and No. 2 hard 91 to 93 1 4 cents. Corn firm with No. 2 7 64 to 7 40 cents and No. 2 white 35 14 to 33 I 4 cents.
Quotations show No 2 hard wheat at 88 Dalton 89 11 a No 2 red at 89 No 2 mixed corn at 69 No 2 white 70 December and May futures listed for wheat and corn with various month figures.
Chicago market prices show butter and cheese steady with varying quotes for creamery and Daisy brands. Eggs steady with 4506 cases received. potatoes easy with 100 car receipts. poultry live weak and veal steady across listed quotes.
New York reports show eggs irregular with receipts of 9223 cases. Fresh gathered extras 30 cents per dozen, fresh gathered dirties no price listed, with 20 percent of lots marked as dirties.
Quotations in Kansas City on Sept 23 show butter prices with creamery firsts at 25 cents, seconds at 20 cents, packing stock at 21 and extras at 23 cents. Firsts average 22 to 24 cents while seconds range around 17 to 20 cents depending on grade.
Quotations from poultry firms show chickens at 12 1 2 cents, turkeys at 16 1 2 cents, jacks at 12? cents, and hog products at 21 cents. Butter creamery prices listed at 26 to 30 cents, with firm readings.
Galveston notes arrivals from Jamers Ikbal and other British ships plus German and Italian vessels. The list includes routes from Rio Janeiro Guabados Cienfuegos Genoa Liverpool and New Orleans with several steamers named Rathlin Head Gissene and Belfast.
New York middling 11.85 cents. New Orleans middling 117 116 cents. Liverpool middling 6.67 pence. Houston middling 11 11 16 cents. Galveston middling 114 cents.
New Orleans on September 23 reports spot cotton steady with 400 sales and 1300 to arrive. Notes include varied nominal prices from low ordinary at 7 5/8 to good middling at 11 15/16 cents, with receipts 2908 and stock at 32,262.
Spot cotton finished quiet and unchanged in Houston on September 23. Prices ranged from low ordinary 6 16 16 to middling 11 15-16, with good middling 11 15-16 and middling fair 12 3-16. Sales were 135, freight earnings 9351, shipments 35,483, stock 102,174.
Galveston daily note records spot cotton closing steady with revised grade values. Prices range from low ordinary at 7 percent to middling fair at 12 percent with low middling 10 11 16 cents and middling 11 cents. Sales total 540 with 1695 bales traded, receipts 32 682 and stock 185 602.
Memphis market reports spot cotton remaining steady at middling 11 and a half cents per pound as of September 23, with no change from prior pricing.
Spot cotton in New York on September 23 closed quiet with middling uplands at 11.85 cents and middling gulf at 12.10 cents. Sales reached 83 bales.
Max Gallo requests a two room addition on Perch Street for 850 dollars. Mrs C Schmidt seeks a six room dwelling on South Presa street for 1500 dollars. A hy store building on Tejone street listed at 1400. P A Hoffman files for a one room dwelling on Taft boulevard for 700 dollars.
Market report shows New York futures for coffee No 7 Rio at 13.97 for December and 15.96 for March, with prices holding steady. Traders monitor supply risks and demand outlook amid cautious sentiment.
Temperatures and rainfall report for the Houston district covering the 24 hours ending 8 am local time. Western area shows fair weather with below normal temperatures. eastern districts unsettled with rain. Rainfall exceeds an inch at many eastern locations, especially Alabama Georgia and Florida. Allen Buell Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
Cotton opened steady then declined as cables disappointed traders. Buying on Gulf storm fears limited gains, frost absence weighed on sentiment, and prices fell about 7 points from late morning to afternoon. Spot middling near 11.85 cents. Moderate activity and quiet trading persisted through the day.
Cotton futures opened and closed steady with contracts for January through December showing minor moves. Prices ranged from 11.35 to 11.87 per unit as traders weighed near term demand and supply factors in the New York market.
New Orleans September cotton futures opened steady with early losses of 4 to 7 points from Saturday. Weather forecasts showed rain across the eastern belt and dryness in the west, fueling nervous shorts and heavy Texas crop movement that kept prices down. By afternoon, prices sat 2 to 6 points lower than Saturday’s close, with activity featureless.
Liverpool spot cotton shows moderate activity with prices slipping. American middling fair 7.25, good middling 7.08, middling 6.67, receipts 238,100 all American, sales 7,000 bales including 6,500 American dates for speculation and export.
Liverpool reports quiet futures activity with small spreads noted for contract pairs from September through August. Prices listed include September 6.48744 and various consecutive month pairings such as Oct Nov 6.34 and May June 6.34d.
Memphis Sept 23 prime basis oil 56.34 with meal nominal and linters at 2 percent 4a as reported in local market notes.
The record shows seed price data across months from September to May with ranges and closing figures. Sales activity tracked includes 200 units in October at 6.16, 100 units in November at 6.94, 100 units in December at 5.93 and 100 units in March at 5.93, totaling 5500 units.
Dallas, Texas reports a belt weather day with temperatures at noon around 72 degrees and clear skies.
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