Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-19
Truck Markets
Via Naval Radio Station

tlon reported fridaN, May II:
Lower Rio Grande Valley poin.s
Warm. partly cloudy:
Potatoes: Haulings light. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and III
mixed cars FOB usual terms. sack
ed per cwt. Bliss Triumphs L. S. No.
Is / IL inch minimum few rollers
around S2.25. few lower.
Beets: Hsulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry. demand moderate,
wire inquiry. demand moderate, mar
ket about steady. In mixed cars
FOB usual terms. bushel baskets
around 90c: crates sl.4O.
Carrots: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand limited. mar
ket about steady. Carloads FOB
usual terms and in mixed cars.
hushel baskets s.90-i.00; crates
S1.40-I.5O.
Green Corn: Haulings moderate
Moderate wire inquiry. demand and
trading moderate, market steady.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms, bushel baskets $40
$50: crates Sits: cash track hushel
baskets around si.25. Top Ice ex-
ira.
Tomatoes: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand and
trading moderate, market steady.
Carloads FOB usual terms. and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms, fouls
pinks %unwrapped Si.75: Tugs green
wrapped S2.5O-.~5. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB cash track. fours
pinks unwrapped around $50. few
higher Tugs green wrapped S2.25-
ESQ. W~agonloads cash to growers
fours pinks %unwrapped mostly $l.25;
green stock &c pound, some high
as SC.
Primary destinations Lower Val
ley movement reported Friday, May
is:
Mixed Vegetables: 2 each s..
Louis. Fort Worth: Jersey City .,
l each Houston, Carson. Enid, ANA
rillo. Wichita Falls, Dallas. Denver.
Beaumont. Memphis. Baltimore. Oh
lahoma City. Albany. Pueblo. III Do
RADIO. Onions: Buffalo !. Carrots:
Chicago 3. Pittsburgh /. Parsley:
New York ,. Tomatoes: Houston
IN. st. Louis 2, Fort Worth ., Chi~a-
20 Z. ! each Ninita. Okla: Pitts
burgh. Joplin. Dallas. Corn: Hous-
ton 4. New York :. Chicago s. Bir-
mingham 8, ! each st. Louis, New
Orleans.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Saturday morning,
MAY 10:
Mixed vegetables Is. potatoes 5.
carrots 4. green corr %, parsley Il.
fnmruNngw d ~wnnr - z ~.-L 49,
"a cars. Freight movement 70 date
this season: Fruit Las, vegetables
1918. total 1853.
Additional y. q. r.. information
reported Friday. May IL:
Potatoes: Sugar Land. Texas:
Cloudy, warm. Haulings light. Coco
wire inquiry, demand accurate, mar
ket steady. Carloads FOB usual
terms. sacked per cwt. Bliss Tri.
umphs ". :. No. r. SECS: rash track
-. Hastings, Fla: Hot. clear. Hail
KS fairly heavy. Good wire in
quiry. demand active. market strong
er. Carloads FOB usual terms. dou.
bic head barrels Spsuldinr Rose U.
S. No. Is S3.O0-3.25: Z. s. No. 2s few
sales. mostly s1.50. Mobile, Ala.
CSouthern Alabama points,: Warm.
partly cloudy. Haulings moderate.
Light wire inquiry. early demand
slow. afternoon demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads FOB usual
terms. sacked per cwt. Bliss Triu-
jumps U. =. No. n s2.35-2.5n. mostly
around $3.50. few early sales lover.
T ON atses B~elleglade : Chosen.
Fla: Warm, clear. Haulings nod.
crate. Moderate wire inquiry. de-
mand moderate. market unsettled.
Carloads FOB usual terms skies
green wrapped fancy count s2.75-
800; cash track S~2.50-2.75.
Onions: Laredo. Texas: Warm.
clear. HaulinEs moderate, demand
moderate, market steady. Carloads
FOB usual term. standard crates
Yellow BermudaS and Crystal Wax
u. s. No. Is and mixed No. Is and
IS mostly 81.
Carlot shipments ~ entire United
States reported Friday, May Is:
Potatoes: Alabama 50. Florida
$50. Maine unreported. other -ta.es
u~nreported, total U. S. us cars.
Onions: California e5. Texas %,
total U. s. 1877 cars.
Carrots: California %. New York
3. Texas 3. total u. 6. IS cars.
Tomatoes: California I. Florida
East Coast 1O7. other Floridl AZ.
Texas 25, total U. s. 225 cars. Mex
leo rs.
Mixed Vegetables: Alabama 3,
Florida 10, Louisiana %. North Car
olina 4, South Carolina 7, Texas Is,
total U. s. 139 cars.
String Beans: Alabama .. Louis
lana %. South Carolina 2. Texas ],
total U. S. AZ cars Unreported
May II: California II.
Vegetable jobbing markets report
ed Saturday morning May 1e: Pots-
toes: Chicago; Cloudy, 81 degrees.
Arrived 7 louisiana, no Texas, on
track 200 cars. Supplies new stock
moderate. market slightly weaker
Texas and Louisiana sacked Ter cut