Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-07
Truck
Markets
Via Naval Radie Station

+. o. 3. shipping point informa-
ton reported Thursday. March g.:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry, demand exceeds
supply. market steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton S65-T0;
crates S3.65-3.85; lettuce crates
e3.15-3.25. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton around 500; crates
S3.35-3.50: lettuce crates S2.85-3.0J.
Truckloads cash to growers-bulk
per ton S50-55, few lower.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand improv-
ing, market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates $1.35-1.50; bushels S0.85-1. 90.
In mixed cars FOB cash track
crates around sl.25.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Light
wire inquiry. demand limited. mar
ket about steady. Carloads and In
mixed car FOB usual terms-crates
e1-50-l.65; bushels S1.20-l.35. IN
mixed cars FOB cash t~rack-crates
eI-35-1.50: bushels few S1.00.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Thurs
day, March 8:
Cabbage: % Houston: IL st.
LOUIS 6 Shreveport; 4 each Mem
phis, New York; 3 Chicago; 2 Pitts
burgh; ! each Jersey City, #. Worth
Mobile, Dallas, Texarkana, Tulsa.
Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cleve-
land, Detroit, Birmingham, Shelf
Held. Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Carrots: 10 New York; 5 each st.
Louis, Philadelphia; 2 Chicago; ]
each Boston. Memphis, Hoboken.
Beets: 5 st. Louis; 3 each Phil
adelphia, New York; ! Richmond
Beets and carrots: ! Chicago.
Radishes: 3 st. Louis.
N Spinach: 2 Houston; ! each Mem
phis. Des Moines.
Turnips:: 2 Memphis; / each
Houston, Pittsburgh.
Mixed vegetables: 20 Houston;
10 st. Louis: 8 New York: 3 Mem
phis: 2 each Wichita. Shreveport;
I each Jersey City, Dallas, Marshall
st. Paul, Fort Worth, Denton. Paris
ISnison, Shawnee, Amarillo, Kan
sas City, Beaumont, Baton Rouge
Little Rock. Burlington. Indiana
polls, Cincinnati, Charleston, Nash
vile, Lexington, Salt Lake City
Winnipeg.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Friday morning
March z:
Vegetables So. cabbage S.. beetS
81, beets and carrots 8, parsley 4
lettuce /, turnips 2, spinach /, tota.
173 cars. Freight movement TO date
this season-Fruit 1919. Vegetable:
8166, total 12l45; to same day last
season-Fruit 1865, Vegetables 8845
total 10310 cars.
Carlop shipments OF entire United
States reported Thursday. March
s.: includes ears billed from mid
night to midnight)
Cabbage: Arizona l., California s
Florida "a, New York, Texas II
Washington /, total U. S. ia cars
Carrots: Texas As, total U. s. Al
cars .
Grapefruit: Arizona 3. California
4. Florida 81. total y. S. 50 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 80, Lou
isiana 3, others SO. total U. S. l21
cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Thursday. March 6:
San Antonio, Texas (South Tex
as Points,:
Spinach: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry, demand slow, market
dull. Bushel basket Savoy carloads
FOB cash track-mostly A.. few
low as 40c: usual terms soc. few 55c
Brawley, Calf. Imperial Valley
Carrots: Fairly good wire inquiry
demand moderate, market steady
Too few cash sales reported tC
quote. Most sales on wire orders
or shipments rolled for delivered
sales.