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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1913
Page
6
Wall Street ends mixed with unusually light trading and no clear trend. Investors await forthcoming reports, notably United States Steel Corporation, while banks report a cash loss and regional crop damage affects earnings. Sterling hits year low amid strong cotton and grain exports.
New York lists show clearing house banks and trust companies with a total reserve excess of 11 287 258. Loans rise to 1 911 669 000 while specie grows to 533 280 000. Net deposits fall to 1 740 849 000 and circulation rises to 44 987 000. Total aggregant cash reserve stands at 404 738 000 with excess lawful reserve at 111 787 250.
The September quarter for United States Steel will be published after market close next Tuesday. Estimates range from 40 to 44 million dollars, with 40 million anticipated as satisfactory, compared with 41.29 million in June and 34.42 million in March. Additional notes cover bond movements, a stock sale involving the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, and gold import figures for Germany and Egypt, highlighting banking and monetary shifts this autumn.
A fragment notes receipt of a stock market item by W. B. Hibbs & Co in the Memorial Building. The terse line implies brokerage handling or filing of market data without further details on quotes indices or dates.
Butter steady and unchanged with 6 407 tabs received. Cheese unchanged with 1 430 boxes. Eggs firm at 5 408 cases with fancy refrigerator market and season’s charges paid. Poultry alive steady west ern chickens 13 16, fowls 15 76, turkeys 18. Dressed prices quiet for Western chickens 12 to 28 cents, fowls 13 to 19, turkeys 22 to 26 cents. Flour quiet, lard firm, cottonseed oil firm with futures shown. Sugar firm for muscovado and centrifugal, coffee quiet with Rio No 7 at 10 1 2 cents. Potatoes peanuts and cabbages steady and unchanged.
Oil quotations from Foledo Ohio Lima South Lima and Indiana show prices around 149 to 154 with regional variations noted. The fragmentary archive entry lists numbers and locations without full context or dates.
Local financial notes describe a week of activity marked by equal trading and low public demand on the Washington Stock Exchange. Brokers report little intraday liquidity, predominately retirement of small accounts, and a cautious shift toward centralized, stable institutions amid a stalled market.
The New York stock market showed a better balance between bulls and bears as a rail rate increase granted to Western railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission stirred wider speculation. While the gain in railroad revenue was modest, hopes rose for Eastern rate relief as shippers faced weaker resistance to increases. Steel prices softened but current demand remained large, and banking and currency legislation drew less concern. Domestic money conditions eased with crop marketing and Treasury deposits influencing reserves, though overall capital tightness persisted. Frost damage to cotton and American news added to unease.
The Census Bureau reports total ginned cotton prior to October 18, 1913 reached 6,956,583 bales with round bales at 4,024 and Sea Island at 20,880. State totals include Alabama 89,007 Arkansas 924,500 Florida 35,845 Georgia 1,206,048 Louisiana 161,005 Mississippi 496,063 North Carolina 252,088 Oklahoma 226,511 South Carolina 615,84 Tennessee 131,621 Texas 2,434,563 and all other states 32,389. Sea Island by Florida 12,269 Georgia 17,904 South Carolina 817 New York rates show money on call nominal and mercantile paper and exchange figures. City Savings Bank directors expanded to add Vernon West, Henry L. West, Robert T. Frazier, William T. Ballard, and Rev. Henry S Brundage.
Wholesale quotations from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware show strong demand for fruits and vegetables with moderate home grown vegetables. Prices for poultry eggs butter cheese and fresh produce cover corn beans potatoes lettuce peppers tomatoes cucumbers apples grapes and other items with varied crate and box rates.
Baltimore twice filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions in the United States district court for Christian Smith of Belair and Willard G. Rouse of Haston. The petitions show liabilities of 586 595 and assets under 000. They claim an agreement among parties in 190 for canned tomatoes purchase was not performed and no accounting was had.
James W. Orr of Atchison Kansas has retained a special attorney for the government to draft a bill in an antitrust suit seeking separation of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. Orr reports in conference with Attorney General McReynolds, but the attorney general says progress is not enough to indicate when or where the suit will be filed.
United States Education Commissioner Claxton notes American corn is steadily replacing rice in the Philippines. The change results from school-led crusades funded by the Insular Bureau of Education, as rice had been the Filipinos’ main diet hitherto.
The Department of Commerce near completion of two reports. The more important is a revised edition of Promotion of Commerce. The other, by Commercial Agent A. G. Robinson, covers resources industries and trade of Canada and Newfoundland.
District of Columbia Washington bank notes show a total of 8 853 934 dollars in cotton related figures. Sworn before Notary Public in October 1913, with bank cashier T E Sands attesting the accuracy of the statement. Attestation includes multiple officials signing the document.
Market notes from Philadelphia on October 2 show butter and bags steady, Chase unchanged, wheat steady, corn higher for No 2 yellow and No 2 white, 48 cents, poultry alive and steady with dressed offerings steady. Prices and terms reflect a stable trading day for staples and farm products.
The Metal Market in New York shows dull activity with copper quoted around 17.00 to 17.25 for electrolytic and 16.87 for cash delivered in 30 days. Iron prices remain unchanged as the market stays nominal and quiet.
New York grain prices show spot steady for wheat and firm corn while oats remain quiet. No. 2 red wheat unchanged, No. 1 northern Duluth at 95. Futures steady with December at 93 7/8 and May at 96. Barley steady. receipts slightly larger offset firmer cables.
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