Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-15

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Monies and the San Antonio, Texas,
hCember Of Commerce cooperating.
F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Thursday, March 14th
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 SIS. 00-17.50, few lower; crates
$1.10-1.40. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track very few sales
bulk per ton round type very few
sales $14-16; crates S1.O0-1.10, few
lower. Wagonloads cash to growers
bulk per ton mostly $1,000, few
$1,000. Carrots: Haulings heavy.
Light wire inquiry. demand limited,
market dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms-bushel bas-
kets $0.85-1.00; crates $~1.35-1.50.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track-bushel baskets 1890;
crates S1.25-1.40. BeetS: Heulings
moderate. Moderate wire inquiry,
demand limited, market dull. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms-bushel baskets 10000. few
higher; crates mostly $1.25-1.35.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
cash track-bushel baskets 70-80c;
crates ~S1.10-1.25. Potatoes: Haul
ings light. Light wire inquiry. de-
mand slow, market dull. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms,
mostly in mixed cars-1O0-lb sacks
Bliss Triumphs u. S. No. Is. few
sales $3.50. Onions: Raymondville
and nearby points, Haulings light,
light wire inquiry demand slow,
market dull. In mixed cars FOB
cash track-crates yellow Bermudas
commercial pack mostly $2.75.
Corpus Christi-R obstown section:
Warm, partly cloudy: Cabbage:
Haulings moderate. Light wire in
quiry, demand slow. market weak.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual termS-round and flat types
bulk per ton around $17.50-20.O0, few
lower. Wagonloads cash to Grow
erS-bulk per ton mostly $1,000.
Carlot shipments of entire United
States reported Thursday, March ID:
Potatoes: Florida 81; Idaho 81:
Maine 201: Minnesota 243: Mime
sofa 243: Texas; 8: total U. S. 931
cars. Spinach: Texas 81: Cali
fornia 3: total U. S. 81 cars. Cab
bage: Texas 1877; Florida IA: New
York 6: total U. S. 224 cars. Grape
fruit: Florida 157; Texas 10; total
U. s. 172 cars. String Beans: Flor
ida 30; total U. S. 80 cars. Carrots:
Texas 40; California 6; New York z:
total U. S. SO cars. Mixed Vege-
tables: Texas 95: California 26:
Florida 20; Louisiana 4; total U. S.
156 cars.
Primary destinations Of Lower
valley movement reported Thurs
day March IA: Cabbage: st.
Louis "a; Houston %; Shreve-
port 8: Chicago 6: Toronto
%; New York 4: Monet 8: 2 each
Montreal. Memphis. indianapolis:
each Dallas, Boston, Ottowa. Ard
more. Fort Worth, Baton Rouge,
Netchez. Little Rock, Detroit, Hunts
vile, Kansas City, Omaha. Ham
ilton. Grapefruit: Fort Worth 3:
san Benito 2; | each Houston, San
Antonio, Waco, Oklahoma City.
Omaha, Kansas City. Pueblo. Colo
RADIO Springs. Carrots: st. Louis u.
New York 10: Houston 6; BROOKLYN
8; 2 e2uh Toronto. Shreveport:
each Baltimore, Montreal. Beets:
s. Louis s.; New York 5: Boston Q:
l each Houston. Fort Worth. New
ark, London. Beets and Carrots:
New York 2. Parsley: New York l,
Potatoes: l each Memphis. st. Louis.
Seattle. Turnips: / Little Rock.
Spinach: l each Fort Worth, Den
yer. Anise: New York 3. Mixed
Vegetables: ST. Louis 10; New York
IA; Houston 5; Chicago 4: 3 each
Montreal, Memphis; 2 each New Or
leans. Detroit, Denver, Sioux CITY,
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 IA: Carrots 81: Beets and
Carrots 10; Cabbage no: Potatoes
3; Onions 1: Dandelion /; Parsley
l: Anise 8: Grapefruit II: total PSI
cars. Freight movement to date
this season-Fruit 1923. Vegetables
1928, total 11.766 cars: to same dav
last ~season-Fruit 1I46, Vegetables
10,438. total 1854 cars.
Additional F. 0. B. information
reported Thursday, March 14th:
Spring Beans, Canal Point. Fla:
Warm. clear. Haulings moderate in
Canal Point section, increasing in
Belle Glade section. Good wire in
quiry, demand good. market firm for
good stock. Stringles quality and
condition generally good. others
quality ordinary. Carloads cash
track FOB-7-S bushel hampers
StringleSS $2.O0-2.35: other v~erieties
ordinary quality very few sales re-
ported. most shipmentS rolled un-
sold. Spinach: CRYSTAL City, Texas:
Clear. warm. Haulings heavy. Light
wire inquiry. demand light. market
dull. Few sales bushel baskets Savoy
carloads FOB usual terms 40c: cash
tack to few sales renorted to quote.
Report by telegraph from import
ant markets. This mornings sales
to iobbers unless otherwise stated.
Cabbage: Chicago: Cloudy. as de
grees. Arrived l Louisiana. 4 Tex
as. on track 81 cars. Supplies
liberal demand and trading mod
crate. market about steady. little
change in prices. Louisiana crates.