Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-29
Truck
Markets

r. Q. 3. SHIPPING POINT IN
FORMATION REPORTED TUES
DAY. Jan. %:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry. good local de-
mand, market stronger. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton mostly
s40-45: crates S2.75; lettuce crates
~$2.35-2.50. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton $3.50; crates S2.35-
$50; lettuce crates S2.l5-2.25. Truck
loads cash to growers-bulk per
ton S30-40.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Light
wire inquiry, demand limited. mar
ket dull. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB usual terms - crates
mostly around SITS: bushels $1.15-
l.35. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB cash track-crates Sl.50-l.60
bushels few sales in mixed cars
S !O0-l.l5.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry. demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads FOB usual
terms-no sales reported. In mixed
cars FOB usual terms-crates most
~ $500: bushels Sl.25-I.50. In mixed
cars FOB cash track-crates Sl-5O-
LIS; bushels Sl.00-l.25.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Tuesday
Jan. %:
Grapefruit: 6 Houston; l each
Dallas. Amarillo. Omaha. Chicago,
Spokane. Seattle.
Mixed citrus: ! each Houston, Fl
Worth. st. Louis.
Cabbage: IL Houston: 3 Chicago;
! each Lafayette. Monroe. Pine
Bluff. St. Louis, Grand Island,
Nebraska, Denver, Pittsburgh, Buff
falo.
Oranges: 2 Houston.
Carrots: 10 Houston; 10 st. Louis;
3 each Chicago; Philadelphia: i
each Dallas, Cincinnati, Boston.
Buffalo, New York.
Beets: l each ST. Louis, New York.
Baltimore.
Mixed vegetables: 8 St. Louis: 3
each G. icago: Houston: l each Dali
las. Okmulgee. Alexandria, New
York.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Tuesday. January %:
Rochester. N. Y. western New
York Points:
Cabbage; Good wire inquiry, de-
mand good. market strong. Ship
perS holding for higher prices.
Carloads FOB usual terms-Danish
type bulk per ton $3.50. few low
er; 90 and 100 ID. sacks per ton
S52-55.
Carrots: Moderate wire inquiry.
demand slow. market steady. Car
loads FOB usual terms bushels
.c-hed Sl05.
San Antonio, Texas CSouth Tex
as Points.
Spinach: Haulings somewhat
lighter. Moderate wire inquiry. de-
mand moderate. market firm Bush
e. baSkets-carloads FOB usual
terms, mostly fair quality. asking
~Sl-l5-l.35: cash track few sales
mostly Sl.00.
Carlot shipments Of entire United
States reported Tuesday. Jan. %:
Cabbage: California 3, Florida
rs. Minnesota 2, New York 43,
South Carolina 3. Texas 20. Wash
ington /, Wisconsin 10, total US
1853 cars.
Carrots: Arizona 2, California 26.
Michigan 2, New York Is. Texas
II, Utah /, total US IS cars.
Spinach: Texas SO, Virginia Il.
total US so cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 50, 9TH
erS SIS. total US 81 cars.
Grapefruit: Arizona /, California
3. Florida 80, Texas 16, total US
lib cars.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Wednesday morning
January 20:
Grapefruit IS, mixed citrus 9.
oranges i. mixed vegetables 40.
cabbage 70. beets 8. carrots SO.
beets and carrots z, spinach 3, to-
tai 1876 cars. Freight movement 10
date this seaSon-Fruit 3707, Vege-
tables 1856, total 1853: to same day
last season-Fruit 1897, Vegetables
1855. total 1852 cars.