Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-03
Truck
Markets

F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Saturday, March /:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry, demand exceeds
supply, market stronger. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton s60l65;
crates $3.l5-3.40; lettuce crates 81
1890. Carloads and In mixed cars
FOB cash track-round type bulk
per ton S50-55; crates S2.90-3.00;
lettuce crates ~S2.65-2.90. Truckloads
cash to growers-bulk per ton most
ly S45, few S47.50-52.50. Sunday
cold, partly cloudy.
Carrots: HaulingS moderate. Light
wire inquiry, demand slow, market
dull. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-crateS mostly
S1.40-i.50. few lower. few higher;
bushels S0.90-1.1O. In mixed cars
FOB cash track-crates S1.25--1:35.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Light
wire inquiry, demand slow. market
weaker. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-crateS Sl.65-l.65,
few higher; bushels ~$1.25-1.50. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
t-ack-crates Sl.45-1.50.
Primary destination Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
March 1:
Cabbage: 43 Houston: Is St
Louis: 10 Chicago: 6 Philadelphia;
4 Pittsburgh; 3 each Detroit. Men,
phis, Birmingham; 2 each Indiana
polls, Shreveport, Texarkana. Kan
Sas City, New York; ! each Hazel
ton. Minneapolis, Norfolk. Jackson
Miss, Oklahoma City, Joplin, At
lanta, Montgomery. Scranton.
Carrots: 4 Hoboken; 3 Chicago;
2 each New York, st. Louis; l each
Cincinnati. Winnipeg.
Beets: s st. Louis; 4 New York;
2 each Chicago, Philadelphia; l
each Boston, Houston. Beets and
carrots: ! st. Louis.
Spinach: 2 Houston. Parsley: 2
st. Louis; ! New York.
Turnips: ! each Houston, Mem
phis, Shreveport.
Turnip greens: / Houston.
Lettuce: 2 Jersey City. Endive: l
st. Louis.
Radishes: 3 St. Louis; ! each
Quebec, New York.
Mixed vegetables: 20 st. Louis;
l3 Houston; s New York: 5 Mem
phis; 4 each Dallas, Chicago; 3 each
Nashville Tenn, Jersey City, Beau
mont; 2 each Shreveport, Wichita
Falls, Amarillo. Pittsburgh: ! each
Galveston, Toronto. Abilene, Enid,
Tulsa, Arkansas, Texarkana, Kansas
City. Denver, Colorado Springs,
Oklahoma City. Minneapolis, Biz
mingham, Jacksonville, Emporia,
Utica, Monroe, La. TT. Worth, La
Fayette. C~offeyville, Cheneyville,
La, Ashland. Columbus, Wilkes
Barre, Sweetwater, Big Spring, Buff
falo, Bangor. Boston, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Philadelphia. Edmonton.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Mon
day mornings:
Mixed vegetables 49, freight l ex-
press, cabbage 70. carrots 5, beets
g., beets and carrots 3, escarol j,
lettuce / hamisher J., total l46
cars. Freight movement TO date
this season-Fruit 1918, Vegetables
1851. total 1889; TO same day last
season-Fruit 1927, Vegetables 80l6,
total 9443 ri
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Saturday and Sum
day. Qncludes cars billed from mid
night 10 midnight).
Cabbage: California 8. Florida 20.
New York 6, Texas i22. Washing
ton 2. total u. S. l53 cars.
Carrots: California 38, New York
5, Texas 10, total u. S. 40 cars.
Spinach: Texas 80, California /,
total u. S. "a cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona 3. California
5, Florida LOT. total u. 5. lis cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas LOG,
Louisiana /, others SO, total U. S.
176 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Saturday, March i:
San Antonio, Texas (South Tex
as Points:
Spinach: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand good. market
steady Bushel basket Savoy-car-
lots FOB cash track 40-42 1-2c;
usual terms Assoc.