Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-14
Truck
Markets

". o. 3. shipping point informa-
ton reported SATURDAY. April Il:
Lower Rio Grands Valley Points:
Cabbage: Hauli.igs light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow, market
slightly weaker. Carloads and In
mixed cars FOB usual terms-round
type bulk per ton $3.50, few higher;
crates ~s4.60-4.S5; lettuce crates
S3.40-3.65. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton $70-75: crates $500
4.50; lettuce crates S3.25--3.50.
Truckloads cash TO growers-bulk
per ton s50-65.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate, mark about steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates si-35-l.50; cash track 81 rs
1875.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates sl.75-2.00; cash track Sl.60-
LIS.
Snap beans: HauIings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry demand slow.
market slightly weaker. Quality
wide range, prices wide range. Car
loads and IN mixed cars FOB usual
termS-green stringlesS bushel ham
pers best 81 50-2.75, poorer $780,
$50: cash track ~si.75-2.50, best
~S2.25-2.50. Truckloads cash to grow
erS-sl25-1.5G, few higher.
Potatoes: Haullngs moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
moderate, market steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms-100 lie. sacks Bliss Triumphs
US No. Is fostIy $3.50: cash track
mostly s3.25. Fifty pound sacks
10c per cwt. extra.
Onions: tRaymondville Section)
Haulings heavy. Moderate wire in
quiry, demand light, market weak
err. Carloads FOB usual terms
crates yellow Bermudas US COM
mercials SI.4O-I.65; Crystal Wax
Us Commercials few ~sl.75-lS5. In
mixed cars lc-l5c higher. Truck
loads cash to growers-Yellow Ber-
mudas S1.25--l.35; Crystal Wax
Si.50-l.75.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
and Sunday:
Cabbage. 15 each Houston, St.
Louis; 5 Texarkans. 3 Pittsburgh.
2 each Indianapolis. Chicago: /
each Cleveland, Muncie, Minneap-
oils. Hastings. Beaumont. Memphis.
s.. Joseph, Nashville. Onions. 81
St. Louis: "a Houston; is New
York: 4 Pittsburgh; 3 Kansas City:
2 Cleveland: / each Los Angeles.
Waco, TT. Wayne, 1T. Worth, New
Orleans. Tampa, Charlotte. Detroit.
Chicago. Billings. Dallas. Oklahoma
City, indianapolis. Carrots: 10 ST.
Louis: 8 New York: 4 Montreal. ?
each New Haven, Brooklyn; l each
Houston, Chicago. boston. Beets. i
each st. Louis, New York. Spinach.
2 each Lite Rock, Minneapolis,
Houston; / each St Louis. Chicago.
Snap beans: II Houston, z ST..
Louis: l each Dallas, Phoenix, De
troit, Memphis, Cincinnati, Green's
OOrO, chicago, AlAI.td.
Lower Rio Grande movement re-
ported Sunday and Monday morn
ings:
Mixed vegetables %, cabbage 20,
carrots 81, beets ard carrots is.
potatoes SO, beans Is. turnips l,
onions SIS. total 294 cars. Freight
movement 10 date this season
Fruit 1919. Vegetables 1858. total
1887: to same day last season.
Fruit 1929, Vegetables 1868. total
1892 cars. Beans express II 81
Louis; 3 Jersey City; 2 each Chi
cago, Pittsburgh; / each Washing
ton, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston
Kansas City, Columbus.
Carlot shipments OF entire United
States reported Saturday and Sum
day: includes Cars billed from mid
night 10 midnight
Cabbage: Calf. 6 Fla 13. So. Car.
II, Tex. II, total u. 8. l67 cars.
Potatoes: Fla. 60. Tex. Ill, total
u. s. old and new 1868 cars.
Snap beans: Fla. IS, Texas 81.
frt. ~. express. total " :. 70 cars.
Carrots: Calf. IS, n. Y. 4, Texas
so. total u. :. 100 cars.
Onions: Tex. 148, others IS, total
II. S. 173 cars.
Spinach: Mr. 4. Tex 9, Va. "a,
total u. :. az cars.
Mixed vegetables: La. 4. Tex. Y,
Fla. 20, total U. ). 24l cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Saturday, April IL:
Onions: Laredo, Texas: Haulings
moderate. L.rht wire inquiry, de-
mand very slow, market dull and
unsettled, very few sales. Carloads
FOB usual terms-crates Crystal
Wax US No. Is SITS; Yellow Ber-
mudas, too few sales reported TO
quote. Carloads FOB cash track
crates Yellow Bermudas US No. Is
mostly around 81 sc. Most ship
ments rolled unsold. or consigned.
Potatoes: Hastings. Fla: Haulings
light. Good wire inquiry for NO. Is,
demand limited, market about
steady. Carloads FOB usual terms
double some orders carried ver
for next week.