Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-15
Truck
Markets
VIA Naval Radio Station

Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCember of Commerce cooperating.
F. 0. E. shipping point informa-
ton reported Thursday, March 18th:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Warm, clear: Cabbage: Haulings
heavy. Light wire inquiry, demand
and trading slow, market weaker,
marked drop in prices. Carloads and
IN mixed cars FOB usual terms
bulk per ton round type $500,
mostly $15.00-17.50, few lower; crates
$1.10-1.E0. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track very few sales
bulk per ton round type very few
sales $14-16; crates $1.O0-1.10, few
lower. Wagonloads cash to growers
bulk Per ton mostly $1,000, few
S12.00. Carrots: Haulings heavy.
Light wire inquiry, demand limited,
market dull. Carloads ard in mixed
cars FOB usual terms-bushel baS-
kets $0.85-1.O0; crates $"1.35-1.5O.
Carloads and III mixed cars FOB
cash track-bushel baskets 1890;
crates $1.25-1.40. BeetS: Haulings
moderate. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand limited. market dull. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms-bushel baskets 80-90c, few
higher; crates mostly 31.25-1.35.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track-bushel baskets 70-G0c;
crates s110-1.25. Potatoes: Haul
ings light. Light wire inquiry, de-
mand slow. market dull. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
mostly in mixed cars-100-lb sacks
Bliss Triumphs U. S. No. Is, few
sales $3.50. Onions: RaymOndville
and nearby points. Eaulings light,
light wire inquiry. demand slow.
market dull. In mixed cars FOB
cash traCk-crate5 yellow BermudaS
commercial pack mostly $2.T5.
Corpus Christi-RobstoWn section:
Warm, partly cloudy: Cabbage:
HaulingS moderate. Light wire in
curry, demand slow, market weak.
Carloads and IN mixed cars FOB
usual terms-round and flat types
bulk per ton around $17.50-20.0O, few
lower. Wagonloads cash to grow
ers-bulk per ton mostly $1,000.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Thursday, March IA:
Potatoes: Florida 81; Idaho Ct:
Maine POI; Minnesota 243: Mime
sofa 2z3; Texas; 8: total u. S. 93I
cars. Spinach: Texas 81; Cali
fornia 3; total U. S. "a a Cab
bage: Texas 1877; Florida IA: New
York s; total U. S. 224 cars. Grape
fruit: Florida 157: Texas 10; total
Y. $. 172 cars. String Beans: Flor
ida 30; total U. S. 30 cars. Carrots.
Texas 40: California 6; New York r;
total y. S. So cars. Mixed Vege-
tables: Texas IS; California 26:
Florida 20; Louisiana 4; total U. S.
156 cars.
Primary destinations of Lower
valley movement reported Thurs
day March Il: Cabbage: ST.
Louis az; Houston %; Shreve-
port Q: Chicago s; Toronto
5; New York 4: Monett 3; Q each
Montreal, Memphis, indianapolis: 1
each Dallas, Boston, Ott0W2. Ard
more. Fort Worth, Baton Rouge.
Natchez. Little Rock. Detroit. Hunts
vile, Kansas City, Omaha, Ham
lltOn. Grapefruit. Fort Worth z.
San Benito 2: l each Houston, san
antonio, Waco, Oklahoma CITY.
Omaha, Kansas City. Pueblo. Colo
rado Springs. Carrots: st. Louis Il:
New York 10: Houston 6: BROOKLYN
3: 2 each Toronto, Shreveport: 1
each Baltimore, Montreal. Beets:
st. Louis s; New York 5: Boston Q:
l each Houston. Fort Worth. New
ark, London. Beets and Carrots:
New York 2. Parsley: New York I.
Potatoes: l each Memphis. st. Louis.
Seattle. Turnips: l Little Rock.
Spinach: ] each Fort Worth, Den
yer. AnlSe: New York 3. Mixed
vegetables: st. Louis IS; New York
"A; Houston 5; Chicago 4: 3 each
Montreal, Memphis; 2 each New Or
leans. Detroit, Denver, Sioux Citv.
Louisville; l each Marshall. DAYTON.
Cleveland. Pueblo, Trinidad. Beau
mont, Oklahoma City, Pawhuska,
Tulsa, Amarillo. SWeetWater. In
dianapolis, Lexington, Jersey CITY.
Charlotte, Richmond, PHILADELPHIA.
Hartford. Boston. Amsterdam, Port
land, Ottowa, Pittsburgh.
Lower Rio Grande VALLEY move
ment reported Friday morning.
March 18th: Mixed Vegetables So
Beets Il; Carrots 81: Beets and
Carrots 10; Cabbage ITO: Potatoes
3; Onions 1: Dandeli0n /: PARSLEY
/; Anise 3: Grapefruit II; total PSI
cars. Freight movement to date
this seas0n-Fruit 1923. Vegetables
1928, total 1I.766 cars; to same dav
Last seasOn-FrUit 11Af, Vegetables
l0.438, total 1884 cars.
Additional F. o. 3. information
reported Thursday. March 1Ath:
Spring Beans. Canal Point. Fla.
Warm, clear. Faulings moderate III
Canal Point section, increasing in
Belle Glade section. Good wire in
uutrv, demand good. market firm 10Y
good stock. StrirqIes quality and
condition generally GOOD. others
quality ordinary. Carloads cash
track FOP-7-8 busheI hampers
StringlesS 81 O0-2.35: other varieties
ordirary cUSlitv very few sales re-
ported. most shipments rolled IN
sold. Spinach: CRYSTAL CITY. Texas:
Clear. warm. Taulinos heavy. LIGHT
wire inquiry, demand light. market
dull. Few sales bushe1 baskets Savoy
Sarloads FOB usual terms AOc: cash
tr9ok to few sales reror+od tn quote
Report BY telegraph from import
ant markets. This mornings ea1es
TO iobberS unless otherwise stated.
Cabbage: Chicago: Cloudy. AS de-
grees. Arrived l Louisiana. 4 Tex
as. on track Ga cars. Supplies
liberal demand and trading mod
crate. market about steady. little
change in prices. Louisiana crates,
pointed tvDe mostly leafv soft $3.50
200. Texas crates round type