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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1915
Page
10
War stocks and copper futures moved higher as trade oriented toward England demand. Rail earnings improved with Baltimore and Ohio posting a net gain of 3277,000 while overall market activity stayed irregular and thinner with pauses and reduced volume.
The New York bond market report lists prices for numerous issues including American Sugar, Cotton Oil, American Tobacco, Armour, Bethlehem Steel, Brooklyn Transit, Central of Georgia, Chesapeake and Ohio, Chicago B and Q, Chicago Great Western, Denver and Rio Grande, Louis and Nashville, Missouri Pacific, New York Central, Northern Pacific, Southern Railway, Southern Pacific, and other railroad, steel and utility bonds. Yields show varied activity with several issues around par or above, while several rail and staple names fluctuate through the session.
The United States Steel Corp quarterly report due Tuesday is expected to show another loan quarter with earnings estimates between 18,000,000 and 18,500,090. January February deliveries rose, yet earnings fell versus last year while Baltimore and Ohio report shows lower gross but higher net earnings. Copper prices in London rose to 18 cents with US market firm at 18c, copper stocks rise as output remains constrained.
A New Haven Railroad report confirms that Cooper Hewitt mercury arc rectifier can run a 14,000 volt direct current motor on alternating current, reducing line voltage from 11,000 to about 1,200 and enabling cheaper rail operation. Tests on a branch line ran five months and 40,000 miles with no hitch, signaling potential widespread railway electrification.
Mercantile paper ranges 3 to 4 percent with paper at 3 1/2. Sterling exchange steady with 60 day bills at 4.76 and cables at 4.7915. Demand 4.7883. Bar silver 50. Mexican dollars at 35. Government bonds steady while railroad bonds show irregularity. Time loans easier with 60 to 96 days at around 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 percent and six months near 3 1/4. Call money limited to 1 to 2 percent. last loan offered at 2 percent.
New York on April 23 shows prime crude at 5.60 and prime summer yellow trading 6.63 to 7.17 across several months from April to November. Prime winter yellow and prime summer white quotes appear around 7.19 to 7.50 with related variations in June and October deliveries.
Capital Traction and Washington Railway and Electric preferred were active on the Washington Stock Exchange with broad demand and firmer prices. Railway and Electric common limited trading while Washington Gas strengthened, Mergenthaler solid at 193, and Lanston saw heavy buying interest near 60. Bestor Walters resigns as vice president of District National Bank, effective on directors’ acceptance following the bank’s merger with Citizens' Savings Bank.
Sales regular call at noon. Washington Gas quotes 5a and 2 at 70 with various small lot prices. Capital Traction trades include 25 at 87 and 3 at 87 with percent marks. Washington Railway preferred shows mixed bids up to 28 at 85 and 5 at 85 percent. Mergenthaler lists 3 at 153 and 2 at 193. Columbia Title Insurance 12 at 5x.
The listing shows live poultry prices for POUVLVHY Alive male fowl roosters and ducks and turkeys, with varying per pound rates. dressed poultry and cheese butter eggs details. vegetables, fruits and greens with Florida No. 1 New potatoes and assorted prices for lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, onions, oranges, strawberries, apples and more across regional markets.
Hogs seven and a quarter? ounces sheep six six percent veal calves choice nine one two one zero spring lambs four thirteen thirteen hogs small nine four six ten large eight fourteen receipts of calves fair demand steady.
The Metal Market reports electrolytic copper firm at 18.00 to 18.12, casting copper 17.62 and 11.75 in New York, with London spot copper at £78 10s and futures at £79 15s. Iron remains quiet and unchanged.
Credit balances at 1.25. Runs 179.53 average. Total 93,380. Shipments 100,696 and average 51,061.
United States Treasury balance shows a deficit of 29,578,670 this year vs last, with total receipts and payments listed. Assets in the general fund total 287,074,012.68 and liabilities 265,152,983.08. Gold coin and various currency components are itemized, including silver dollars and treasury notes, with total cash assets around 1.543 trillion in gold and silver value and related reserves.
New York April 23 butter receipts firm or irregular with creamery grades 92 score to 30 as well as 25 2642 274% across creamery and storage packed goods. Cheese firm with whole and skim milk products. poultry alive firmer Western chickens broilers and turkeys listed with prices for dressed and frozen fowls. Sugar raw easy centrifugal 4.64 molasses 3.37 and other staples steady including rye flour cornmeal park and beef lard in mid ranges.
Chicago markets show hog receipts at 114000 with unsettled bid ranges from 5.75 to 7.70 for various classes and cattle at 1900 receipts with steady tone. Sheep and lambs quoted 5.00 to 10.85, calves 6.50 to 9.95. New York beef markets report steady prices with steers 6.25 to 8.59 and calves 8.00 to 10.62 amid 1782 steer receipts.
Secretary Redfield informed President Wilson at yesterday’s cabinet meeting that U S exports for the current fiscal year may reach 2 75 billion. Breadstuffs shipped last month totaled 369 9 million, compared with 8 million in March 1914, with exports since the war beginning at 418 0 million. Half of exports go to British territories, 45 percent year ago. France ranks second. Imports totaled 1 056 billion, with 354 9 million from Britain. Cuba, Germany, and Japan follow in import values.
Money to loan on real estate at current rates of interest with privileges of prior payments. Large amounts a specialty. Firms listed include Tyler & Rutherford Inc at 730 15th Street and The Fla. Smith Co at 815 15th Street. Also advertisements for loans of $250 to $600,000 and notes of economical handling for borrowers.
A letter from Charlton St Clark, financial secretary of the cleanty committee, urges school authorities to keep children off private lawns and terraces while noting rights to school grounds. He proposes extending playground access and fencing off streets near schools to provide space for recreation amid urban growth.
New York grain notes firm spot prices for wheat and corn with export bids. No 2 red wheat at 167 percent and No 2 hard red at 164 percent on track export. Northern Duluth and Manitoba oats and rye bids listed with firm tone. Futures for May 1964 remain firm across wheat and corn sectors.
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