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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1920
Page
10
May 24 cattle and hog prices steady to lower. Hogs receipts 10 800, top 14.25, bulk 13.50. Sheep and lambs steady to lower, California spring lambs 16.50. Heavy steers slow, best sales around 12.15, stockers dull and weak. Bulk weights include 950 pounds hogs and 42,000 sheep and lambs quoted with varied yields.
May 24 Chicago market report shows butter unsettled with receipts totaling 25 755 cases including firsts and storage packed varieties. Poultry alive prices higher with fowls at 35 cents. Potatoes steady with receipts around 58 cars and prices for northern white at 7.50 to 8.75 per cwt for various grades.
New York markets list May 24 final prices for bonds and notes with figures for first, second, third and fourth grades. Listed items include 3% bonds at 91.90, second 48 at 84.00, first 4s at 85.52, second 4M at 84.50, third 88.50, fourth 85.10, Victory 96.06 and 96.10.
May 24 report says a tiger's claw dubbed a luck token from Georges Clemenceau, former French premier, arrived for Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers. Jennings joked that the jinx helped toward a 3 to 1 win over New York. Also notes iron melts around 2,000 degrees above zero.
Chicago trading closes mixed with buying propping up corn and oats amid rain and dry spell talk. Wet soil worries and light receipts boosted May delivery. new export talk in wheat and rye drew attention as longs trimmed later. Prices shown for wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, lard, ribs, and pork across Chicago Minneapolis and New York markets.
Public lands along the government railroad in Alaska are being opened for leasing and sales under the coal lands leasing law of 1914. Coal fields in Bering River Cook Inlet Mataneusa and Nenana are divided into leasing blocks ready for sale. New townsites have been established along the railroad with business and residential lots sold through the Alaskan engineering commission. As traffic arrangements finalize, many settlers are expected to move into agricultural districts.
According to a report by acting interior secretary Alexander JT Vogel, more than 1,000,000 acres of agricultural land in Alaska have been surveyed for entry and patent. The effort aims to finalize titles and legal rights for settlers in the territory.
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