Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-21
Truck
Markets

Z. ~. d. shipping point mIOrma-
ton reported Saturday, April 20:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand limited,
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed casr FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton around
$50: crates S3.25-3.50; lettuce crates
s2.75-3.00. Carloads and IN mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton S50-60: crates $500
3.25; lettuce crates s2.50-2.75. Truck
loads cash to growers-bulk per
ton S40-45. mostly $4,000.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate, market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms-crates $l.25-1.40: cash track
"Sl.15-l.25.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand mod
crate, market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
termS-crateS $1.50-l.75, few higher;
cash track sf.40-l.65.
Snap beans: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand
good for good stock, market about
steady. Carloads and In mixed
cars FOB usual terms-green string
less bushel hampers ~si.75-2.00, few
S2.25; cash track $l.50-i.75. Truck
loads cash to rowers-S1.00-i 30.
mostly SIPS. Prices wide range &C
cording to quality.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Better
wire inquiry. demand good, market
firm. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-100 ID. sacks Bliss
TriumphS US No. Is mostly S3.25;
cash track mostly $500. Fifty pound
sacks 10c per cwt. extra. Truckloads
cash 70 growers-Sacked per cwt.
mostly S2.75.
ONIONS: CRaymondville Section)
Haulings moderate. Moderate wire
inquiry, demand moderate, market
about steady. Carloads and In mix
ed cars FOB usual terms-crates
Yellow Bermudas US Commercials
$1.l5-1.25; Crystal Wax US Com
mercials few s1.40-1.65. Truckloads
cash TO growers-Yellow Bermudas
S%l.O0-1.15; Crystal Wax $l25-I.40.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
and Sunday.
Cabbage: 5 Shreveport; 2 each st.
Louis. Houston; l each GadSden.
Detroit, Chicago. Snaps beans: 4 St.
Louis; ! each Shreveport. Indiana
polls, Lexington. Cincinnati. Beets:
2 each New York. St. Louis: ! each
Jersey City, Chicago. Beets and
carrots: / Hoboken. Carrots: 5
Houston: 4 st. Louis; ! each In
dianapolis. New York, Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Joseph.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Monday
mornings:
Mixed vegetables S., cabbage 27,
beets 5, carrots 10, beets and car-
rots 5. potatoes SO. beans 6, onions
-, total l89 cars. Freight move
ment 70 date this seaSon-Fruit
1919. Vegetables 1888, total 1887:
to same day last season-Fruit 1929,
Vegetables l72I5. total 1894 cars.
Beans express / each st. Louis,
New York, Chicago.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Saturday and Sun
day: includes cars billed from
midnight to midnight)
Cabbage: Ala. 2. Fla. II. SO. Car.
IS, Texas %, total y. S. 128 cars.
Carrots: Ariz. 4. Calf. %, Ind. /,
n. Y. 3, Texas IS, total U. S. 81
cars.
Onions: Texas l55, others II, to-
tai u. s. 1855 cars.
Spinach: Texas 5, others II, to-
tai U. s. 50 cars.
Snap beans: Calf. l.. Fla. So, Tex
as IA, total U. S. 81 cars.
Potatoes: Fla. 81, Tex. IS, total
U. S. old and new 628 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Fla. %. La. 2,
Texas 80. totatl Z. s. 1872 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Saturday. April 10, 1880.
Onions: Laredo, Texas: Haulings
moderate. Moderate wire inquiry.
demand moderate. market about
steady. Carloads FOB usual terms
crates Yellow Bermudas u. s.
Commercials $i.l0-1.2o, few si.25;
SryStal Wax u. S. Commercials
s .30-I.4o. Carloads FOP cash track
crates Yellow BermudaS u. S. No.
rs $l.00-i.i0. mostly sifo, II. S.
Commercials mostly around 500;
Crystal Wax u. S. No. Is Is mostly
sI-25.
Potatoes: Hastings. Fla: Haulings
light account OF weather. Good
wire inquiry. demand good. mar
ket firm. stronger ~undsrtone. Car
loads FOB usual terms-few sales
U. S. No. Is Spaulding Rose double
head barrels $3.50, 100 ID. sacks ?
cars $3.50; double head barrels u.
S. No. IS $3.25. Expect rather light
movement Monday.
Snap beans: Everglades Section.
Fla: Haulings moderate. Demand
moderate, market about steady.
Wagonloads cash TO growers-bush-
Ell hampers Bountifuls mostly $500