Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-14
Truck Markets
Via Naval Radio Station

r. o. B. shipping point information
reported Saturday. May IL: Lower
Rio Grande Valley points: Warm,
rained all night Saturday, Sunday
shower. Potatoes: Haulings moderate.
Light wire inquiry, demand slow,
market dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars +. o. Il. usual terms, and cash
track, sacked per cut. bliss triumphs
u. s. No. Is ] 1-2 inch minimum few
sales mostly S2.26. Wagonloads caSh
TO growers, mostly handled for grow
ers' account, few S1.75-2.00. Beets:
Haulings light. Light wire inquiry.
demand slow. market dull. Carloads
and in mixed cars +. o. B. usual
terms, bushel baskets $1.00-1.1O;
crates around $3.50. Carrots: Haul
ings moderate. Moderate wire in
CURRY, demand moderate, market
slightly weaker. Carloads and in
mixed cars r. o. b. usual terms, bush
ell baskets s1.O0-1.15; crates $3.50
LEO. String beans: Haulings light.
Light wire inquiry, demand slow,
market weak. Carloads and in mix
ed cars T. 0. B. usual terms, very few
bushel hampers green Si.50; cash
track best S1.25-1.5O. Wagonloads
cash TO growers ~S1.00-1.25 per bushel.
Wide range in quality, few fancy
higher, poorer lower. Green corn:
Haulings moderate. Moderate wire
inquiry, demand and trading moder-
ate, market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars Z. O. B. usual terms, bush
ell baskets $1.50-1.T5: cash track
mostly $i.25-1.40. Tomatoes: Haul
ings light. Good wire inquiry, de-
mand good, market slightly stronger.
Carloads =. o. b. usual terms and in
mixed cars fours pinks unwrapped
mostly SIZE, Tugs green wrapped
mostly $2.25-2.50. In mixed cars Fl.
o. B. cash track, tours pinks unwrap-
ped mostly s1.5O.
Primary destinations Lower Valley
movement reported Saturday and Sun
day: Potatoes: Houston 90; TT.
Worth 3; 4 each Chicago, Kansas
City; / each St. Louis, Des Moines,
Joplin, Oklahoma City, Dallas. To-
matoes: Chicago s; Houston q; TT.
Worth 3; l each st. Louis, Beaumont.
Kansas City, Philadelphia. Onions:
New York .; Houston 3; Philadelphia
!. Beets: Baltimore /. Carrots: St.
Louis 3; Kansas City /. Green corn:
Houston s; st. Louis 5; New York 81;
l each Chicago, Atlanta. New Orleans.
Cabbage: / each Topeka, TT. Worth.
Beans: Dallas /. Mixed vegetables:
st. Louis 9; Houston s.; Dallas 4: 3
New York; . each Toronto. Memphis.
Little Rock; ! each TT. Worth. Paris,
indianapolis. Monroe. Lake Charles.
Shamrock, Trinidad. Waco. Beaumont.
Shawnee, Shreveport, Altus. Wichita
Falls. Knoxville, Amarillo. Washing
ton. Denver. Nashville. Atchison.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Saturday and Sun
day: Potatoes: Alabama 81. Florida
1927, Idaho II, Louisiana so. Maine
Isl, Michigan s.. Minnesota 90, New
York 3, Texas 26, Wisconsin Al. total
II. s. 110l cars. Carrots: California
20, Louisiana /, New York z. Texas 4,
total u. s. 81 cars. String beans:
California 9. Alabama =. Florida 10,
Louisiana 30. South Carolina 2, Tex
as 3. total T.. S. 40 cars. Cabbage:
Alabama 10, Florida ]. Louisiana 10,
Mississippi %. North Carolina z,
Z, South Carolina 81 heavy 25 light,
California 6, Texas s, total U. S. 16S,
Tomatoes: California 8. Florida r.
Coast IT'S. other Florida 81. Texas 10.
total L. S. 2sS cars. Onions: Cali
fornia II. Texas s.. total 4. S. 1872
cars. Mixed vegetables: Alabama 2,
Florida 90. Louisiana 2l. Mississippi
%, South Carolina Il, Texas 50, to-
tai u. s. 1873 cars.
Additional r. o. B. information re-
ported Saturday, May y: Potatoes:
Hastings, Fla: Warm. partly CLOUDY
Haulings heavy. Moderate wire in
quiry, demand limited. market weak.
| Carloads Il. O. b. usual terms, double
barrels spaulding rose u. 8. No. Is
$3.50; u. s. No. 2s $1.5O-1.75. Many
rolled unsold. Mobile, Ala: (South-
ern Alabama points,: Warm. clear
Haulings very light. Light wire in
quiry, demand limited, offerings
very light, too few sales TO quote
Tomatoes: Belleglade-Chosen, Fla:
Warm, clear. Haulings increasing
Demand light, no prices reported
Onions: Laredo, Texas. Warm, heavy
rains Saturday and Saturday night
Sunday clear. Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry, demand slow. market
steady. Carloads +. o.. b. uSua
terms, standard crates yellow Der
mudas and crystal wax U. $. No. i
end mixed Is and IS mostly arounC
Sl.O0.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Monday
May 1914: Mixed vegetables 2s. pc
tatoes 81, beans /, beets and carrots
s. green corn ~, tomatoes -, tota
so cars. Freight movement 70 date
this season-Fruit LAS, vegetable!
16.4s2. total 1897 cars.
Vegetable jobbing markets reported
Monday morning. May Ia: Chicago.
Partly cloudy, So degrees. Arrived
% Louisiana, 8 Texas. on track 32!
cars. Supplies new stock liberal, mar
ket weaker, prices lower. Lbuisian;
and Texas sacked bliss triumphs u. 5
No. Is / IL inch minimum mostly
$500, few $2.S5. Denver: Raining
40 degrees. Arrived ] Texas. on tract
so cars. Supplies moderate. marke'
about steady. Texas sacked per cwt
bliss triumphs U. s. No. Is / IL incl
minimum S~3.55-4.00, mostly S3.T5
3.s5. TT. Worth: Cloudy. 81 degrees
Arrived s Texas. IN track 20 cars
Supplies liberal. market slightly
weaker. Texas sacked per cwt. bills!
triumphs u. S. No. Is 1 LIZ inch min
imum mostly S3.25, partly graded
S3.0O. Pittsburgh Partly cloudy. q!
degrees. Arrived Q Louisiana, or
track 142 cars. Supplies liberal. mar
ket slightly weaker. Louisiana anc
Texas sacked per cwt. bliss triumphi
u. S. No. Is l 1-2 inch minimum
mostly 1925. Kansas City: Cloudy. 81
degrees. Arrived is Louisiana, Q Tex
as. on track TO cars. Supplies liberal
market strong. Carlot sales invoic,
weight. Texas sacked per cwt. bliss
triumphs U. S. No. Is ] IL inch min
imum / car $2.75; Louisiana stool
$3.10-3.25.