Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-19
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+. o. 3. Shipping Point Informa-
ton reported Tuesday. Feb. Is:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry, demand good,
market slightly stronger. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton $3.50
$3.50, mostly $50; crates 3.35-3.50;
lettuce crates S3.00-3.25. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track
round type bulk per ton mostly
SIS; crates S3.00-3.25: lettuce crates
$2.75-2.90. Truckloads cash to grow
ers--bulk per ton mostly $50. few
SIS.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand limited,
market about steady. Carloads and
In mixed Ears FOB usual terms
few saleS-crates Sl.35-1.65 bushels
S0.90-1.00. In mixed cars FOB cash
track-crates few sales $l.25-l.40;
bushels $4,000.
Beets. Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed Ears FOB usual terms very
few sales-crates mostly around p
Is; bushels sl.50-l.75, few higher.
In miy-i cars FOB cash track
crates mostly $500; bushels Sl.25-
$50.
Primary destinations OF Lower
Valley movement reported Tuesday,
Feb. Is.
Cabbage: Is each Houston. st.
Louis; Is Shreveport; 3 Chicago;
2 each Memphis. Detroit. New York;
/ each Baton Rouge, Indianapolis,
Raleigh, New Orleans, Louisville,
Chikasha, Jersey City, Birmingham.
Beets: / each Houston, New York.
Philadelphia, st. Louis.
Beets and carrots: 2 st. Louis.
Lettuce: 2 Jersey City.
Carrots: 5 New York; 3 st. Louis;
/ each Washington, Boston, Phila-
delphia.
Grapefruit: 1 each Houston. WI
chita. Parsley: ! each New York.
ST. Louis.
Spinach: 3 each Houston. New
York. ! each Memphis. St. Louis,
Birmingham, Hartford, Wilkes
Barre.
Mixed vegetables: 10 Houston; 4
st. Louis; 3 New York; 2 each
Memphis; Beaumont; Texarkana;
! each Waco, Dallas, Ponca City.
Amarillo. Marshall. Staunton Knox
vile. Salina. Wichita, Kansas City,
Chicago. Chattanooga, Oklahoma
City. Jersey City, Paducah, London,
Shreveport. Birmingham. 2 each
Nashville. Philadelphia.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Wednesday morning.
Feb. 10:
Vegetables Sc. cabbage 81. beets
6, carrots %. parsley 5. beets and
carrots /, rurnip greens l, lettuce
]. spinach .. total 1877 cars. Freight
movement to date this season
Fruit 1916, Vegetables 1881. total
9857; 10 same day last season.
Fruit 1870, Vegetables 6069, total
7409 cars.
Carlot shipments OF entire Unit
ed States reported Tuesday, Feb. l8:
includes cars billed from mid
night 70 midnight)
Cabbage: California z. Florida
81, Michigan /. New York Is. Ohio
/, Texas Sc. total U. S. lis cars.
Carrots: Arizona /. California 80.
New York 8. Texas IL, Washington
/. Idaho, Indiana, total U. S. Sc
cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona 5. California
3. Florida 1903. Texas ?, total u. S.
1l3 cars.
Spinach: California 2, Texas 81.
total u. S. 50 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas IS, 9TH
ers Al. total u. S. 102 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Tuesday, Feb. 10:
Rochester. N. Y. CWestern New
York Points:
Cabbage: Moderate wire inquiry.
demand moderate, market strong.
Carloads FOB usual terms few sales
bulk per ton Danish type S70-75;
90 and 100 ID. sacks $50.
San Antonio, Texas (South Tex
as Points,:
SPINACH: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
moderate. market dull and some
what unsettled. Bushel baskets
Savoy very few sales-carloads FOB
cash track 40-45c, mostly 45c; usual
terms mostly zoe.