Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-07
Truck
Markets
TRUCK MARKET

valleys staple vegetable, we're moved
Thursday. IS cars being shipped over
the Missouri Pacific, and II over
the Southern Pacific. This is one Of
the largest shipments made IN one
day this season. Donna had the
heaviest shipment, with ten cars.
Shipments Of fruit and vegetables
for the day totaled 80 cars over the
Missouri Pacific. and IS over the
Southern Pacific. Shipments for
wednesday were 81 carloads on the
Missouri Pacific an IL carloads on
the Southern Pacific.
Z. Q. 3. SHIPPING POINT IN
FORMATION REPORTED TUES
DAY, Feb. g.:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: HaulingS moderate.
Light wire inquiry. demand limited.
market dull. Carloads and I'm mixed
ears FOB usual terms-rOund type
bulk per ton mostly around Sos.
few 10; crates $3.50-3.75; lettuce
crates $325-3.50. Carloads and III
mixed cars FOB cash BACKGROUND
type bulk per ton few sales mostly
around $50; crates $3.25-3.50. Truck
loads cash 10 growers-bulk per ton
$50-55.
Carrots: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow. market
dull. Carloads FOB usual terms
too few sales reported to quote. In
mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates mostly around $3.50: bushels
mostly $l.00. few lower. In mixed
airs FOB cash track-crates very
few sales around SIPS; bushels
85-9Oc.
Beets: HaulingS light. Good wire
inquiry, demand moderate. market
steady. Carloads FOB usual terms
too few sales reported 10 quote. In
mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates ~$2.25-250: bushels Sl25-l50.
IN mixed cars cars FOB cash track
crates sl.65-l.55, bushels sI25-
$50.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Thurs
day. Feb. 6.
Cabbage: 80 Houston; II st. Louis
8 Shreveport; 3 each New York:
Memphis; 2 each Houston, Chicsro
] each Little Rock: Sheffield. Bir-
mingham. Kansas City, Jersey City,
Toronto. Sweetwater.
Carrots: ? St. Louis: ] Chicago.
Beets and Carrots: ] each Hous-
ton. St. Louis,
Beets: 2 Houston; 3 New York; /
st. Louis.
Spinach: 8 st. Louis; i each
Houston, Kansas City.
Mixed citrus: 3 Houston; ! each
jacksonville. Omaha.
Grapefruit s Houston; 4 Kansas
City; l each Tulsa. Birmingham,
Denver. Decatur, Nashville.
Mixed vegetables: Is Houston; q
st. Louis: S Shreveport; 4 ST.. Lotus:
2 each Little Rock; Fl. Worth; New
York: ! each Topeka, Jersey City,
Waco, Jackson Tenn. Beaumont.
Memphis, Amarillo, Kansas City,
Lincoln. Jackson, Brookhaven. Ash
Vile, Pittsburgh. Hazelton.
Turnips: / each Baton Rouge,
Birmingham. Lettuce: ! Buffalo.
Dandelion: ] New York.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Friday morning, Feb.
z:
Grapefruit IS. mixed citrus 2,
oranges /. mixed vegetables AZ, cab
bage 81, beets and carrots 3, beets
/. carrots 3. spinach /. mustard
greens !. turnips 3. parsley !, dan
delion /. total I42 cars Freight
movement 10 date this season
Fruit 1891. Vegetables 1855. total
8446: to same day last season
Fruit 1916, Vegetables 4509, total
5725 cars.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Thursday. Feb. g.:
Cabbage: Arizona !, California 4,
Florida u, Michigan !. Minnesota
1. New York 81. Texas 90, Wlscon-
sin 7. total u. s. l39 ears.
Carrots. California 20. New YORK.
Is. Texas 3. total u. 8. 80 cars.
Spinach: Texas H. total u 5. ~
cars.
Grapefruit Arizona 3, California
2, Florida 70. Texas II, total Y. >.
cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas So, 9TH
ers SIS. total u. $. III cars.
Additional FOB information re-