San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
SHIPPERS AND
BUYERS STAGE
POULTRY WAR
Former Say Biggest Week
Of Year Completed
Without Profit.
BLAME ONE ANOTHER
Foreign Market for Ameri-
can Copper Improves
Wonderfully.
nv 1 r. ROVT,E.

BY j. G. ROYLE.
Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
New York, Sept. 22-The local poul-
ry trade completed one of the largest
weeks of one of its best years.
Shippers say that they ended this
last month practically without a
profit although over S100,0OO,OOO
worth of poultry was handled in this
market. =
| They place the blame on the 1uy-
ers, claiming that they have the re-
ceivers under complete control and
make prices to suit themselves.
The buyers, on the other hand, are
equally bitter against the shippers,
claiming that it is the custom OF many
of the latter to over-feed chickens be-
fore they are unloaded, not only with
natural food, but with "appetizers
followed by a mixture of sand, gravel,
and cement, which remains in the crop.
Unless a chicken so fed is slaugh-
tered promptly it will die in a few
days.
Charles Saehn, one of the largest
live poultry dealers in the city, states
that on some occasions from 1000 to
1000 pounds weight have been added
to a ca.load of live poultry y stuff
ing with sand and gravel.
In making the claim that 100000
600 worth of live poultry is handled
here annually without a irofit, poul-
| trymen explained that it is the custom
of chicken raisers to depend for the
major portion of their profit on eggs.
Thus they count on each hen to re-
turn a profit in eggs by the time she
is years old, at which time many
of them ship their mems 10 m.-rket.
The sum received for the hen, there
fore, does not measure the amount
which the bird has yielded her owner.
Can Get Game Easy.
The rigid federal and state laws
governing the interstate shipment and
sale of game birds has not served
keep sucn birds out of the local mar
ket and today epicures can buy quail
as freely-rrovided they pay the price
as when Il game law had still to be
heard of. r"E rrgS sl'e7pl
These quail are imported from the
Argentine in refr.-erato ships and the
business OF bringing them to this coun-
try, begun three years ago, has grown
to considerable proportions.
The principal market IL found
among the clubs and large hotels,
which also take the larger part of
the fruit arriving here from south of
the equator at time whe the Ameri-
can varieties are out of the market.
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foreign market for Amer can copper
has improved materially lately but
producers admit that demand failed
to tally or keep pace with the increase
of thu production.
The copper is lower at present than
for long time, being quoted at 1898
cents q pound. But that -act is car
rying no terror to the large mine own
ers, many of whom are reported to be
making copper at better than 8 cents
4 pound.
Some of the smaller cvmpaEies, how
ever, will have difficulty in produc-
ton at profit at present prices and.
this accounts for the fact that many
smaller companies are running with
smaller forces.
Copper producers say that the Eu-
ropean demand is not a drop in the
bucket at present, but that Japans
requirements are fairly heavy.
There is said 20 be an inquiry in the
market for 20,000,000 pounds but this
represents only about one months pro-
duction of Utah Upper alone.
Copper Men Uneasy.
Most copper men are generally I'M
easy as to the future of the red metal
until definite settlement is had in
the Ruhr.
They are far less anxious, how
! ever, than the British manufacturers.
According to reliable cables received
here, the coming imperial conference
will be chiefly occupied with consid-
Grafton of trade protection.
That protection, British manufac-
turers leel, should be principally
against France.
They cay French policy is not only
/ hurting world trade and Lceping Eng
land out of world markets, but that
French manufacturers, aided by low
exchange are under-selling the Eng
lish in their home markets.
Imports from Lyons al d RoubaiS
have dealt severe blows to he Noting
ham lace trade and the Yorkshire WOOL
en- trade.
The British cotton manufacturers
are desperate because of the shortage
: of raw cotton this year and the high
price of the American staple.
They are taking desperat- steps to
secure other sources of supply, but
realize this is matter of years
| devalonment