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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
10
The Mobile market notes suggest cotton futures may drop after the government release due at noon. Heavy liquidation by prominent interests is reported while spinners buy, and the ginning crop reaches about 14.9 million bales plus 1.3 million carryover. Liverpool quotes steady to easy as world shipments rise.
Receipts include Mobile New Orleans and Mobile and Chicago lines with 650 bales under Bevill Phillips and others. Mobile and Ohio reports 133 bales on Train 59. Eastern Shore steamer James Carney carries 3 bases. Southern Railway Train 81 lists multiple firms with 210 bales total. Mobile and Montgomery Train 78 shows 487 bales across several firms with multiple exporters compressed.
New Orleans December cotton futures opened steady to up 2 points then fell sharply with heavy selling. By midmorning prices dropped 15 to 21 points from yesterday and closed the morning 3 to 7 points under, with noon firming and a 11 to 12 point net gain for the session. Spot cotton remained quiet at 12 1/2 cents midafternoon.
New York December cotton futures dip early 2.3 points as liquidation and bear pressure weigh on values before a late rally on cover and spinners demand. Prices recover 4 to 6 points from the day’s low. spot middling upland 12.75, gulf 13.00. Sales 200 bales.
New York trading opens firmer after a quiet day. Reading led active issues with a notable rise, American Can gained, Lorillard rose, while Steel lagged under pressure from Harriman interests. Great Northern and Amalgamated softened on new stock issues as early momentum faded.
Heavy noon selling drove the market to low levels not seen in months, with United States Steel dipping below 70 on widespread offerings. Harriman railway shares and other standards showed sharp weakness as investors grew pessimistic following the Supreme Court ruling on the merger case.
Liverpool reports closing prices for cotton with American middling at 7.51 and various grades listed. day’s sales 10 000 bales, 1 500 for speculation and export, 8 900 American. Receipts 69 000 bales, 62 000 American. Futures opened easier and closed easy with mixed December to May contracts. Savannah notes turpentine steady at 46c and rosin firm at 5.60 to 5.66. Industrial stocks fall and then steady, steel and smelting decline, major rail and utility shares see price drops before late-day stabilizing rebound.
A barometric low stretches from the west gulf to the upper Mississippi valley causing rain in the Mississippi valley and gulf states and snow in Nebraska and the Dakotas. Warm southerly winds rise ahead of the system while cold northerly winds follow from the west. A high pressure zone over the western U.S. brings fair, cold conditions with zero temperatures in North Dakota and freezing readings reaching northern New Mexico. Rain is forecast for Mobile tonight, then fairer, colder weather Friday as the high moves in.
Money on call rose to 6 7 percent with a ruling rate of 7 percent. Closing bid stood at 6 percent and offered at 7 percent. Time loans remained strong with 60 days at 6 7 percent, 90 days at 6 7 percent, and six months at 6 percent.
New York December 5 announces a dividend of 50 cents per share on Great Northern ore certificates. This marks the first distribution since March 15 1911, after which 50 cent quarterly dividends were paid.
The twenty day rabbit hunting season in Ohio ended December five with nine deaths and thirty three wounded.
Walthall Mississippi December 5 Rev J W Nix defended himself at trial for attempted assault on a nine year old girl He was sentenced to one year in the state penitentiary His lawyer abandoned the case before the trial
Secretary of War Stimson told the National Rivers and Harbors Congress that the nation’s $50 600 000 river improvement bill should yield incidental profits for general taxpayers and that river development must pay for itself through benefits to water power and commerce.
Salt Lake City Utah December 5 Harriman officials arriving today disclaimed any plan to consider the dissolution mandate of the Supreme Court in the Union Pacific case. “The folks in New York will read those signals. they are not in our books” said a traffic man.
Directors met again as U S Supreme Court decision sparked ongoing talks. Chairman Hk. Lovett gave no statement on any solution yet reached.
Weather data from 8 a m observations notes air pressure, isobars and isotherms. Report includes wind direction, temperatures past 12 hours and precipitation. entries indicate missing details and range indicators in a historical style.
San Francisco reports John Wesley Derr 26 apprentice seaman at the naval training station confessed to killing a man at Richmond Kansas three years ago. He described losing his appetite and suffering indigestion before telling a master-at-arms his story and offering to reveal the location for a reward. Derr said he ran away as a boy, joined the navy to forget, and now is willing to return to Kansas. The victim’s name is withheld.
Boston dispatch reports federal inquiry into counterfeit book agents alleged to have defrauded book lovers of the United States of about 5 million dollars. Postal letters between salesmen and New York headquarters examined for conspiracy evidence.
Four indictments charging acceptance of bribes were returned Wednesday afternoon against C. W. Ellis chairman of the Duval county board of commissioners in Jacksonville. The bribes were said to come from J. W. Marvin a road building contractor. Ellis has not yet been arrested.
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