Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-07
Truck
Markets
VIA Naval Rsdie Station

+. 0. b. shipping point informa-
ton reported Thursday. March g:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Good wire inquiry, demand exceeds
supply. market steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton S65-70;
crates s3.65-3.85; lettuce crates
~e3.15-3.25. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton around $50; crates
$3.35-3.50: lettuce crates S2.85-3.0G.
Truckloads cash 10 growers-bulk
per ton S50-55. few lower.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand improv-
ing, market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms
crates s1.35-l.50; bushels s0.85-lO0.
In mixed cars FOB cash track
crates around SIPS.
Beets: Haulings moderate. Light
wire inquiry, demand limited, mar
ket about steady. Carloads and In
mixed cars FOB usual terms-crates
~t1.50-l.65; bushels ~S1.20-l.35. In
mixed cars FOB cash track-c-ates
e1.35-1I50; bushels few $l.00.
Primary destinations Of Lover
Valley movement reported Thurs
day, March 8:
Cabbage: % Houston; IL st.
Louis; s Shreveport; 4 each Mem
phis, New York: 8 Chicago; 2 Pitts
burgh; / each Jersey City, Fl. Worth
Mobile, Dallas, Texarkana, Tulsa.
Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cleve-
land, Detroit. Birmingham, Shei-
Held, Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Carrots: 10 New York; 5 each ST.
Louis, Philadelphia: 2 Chicago; /
each Boston. Memphis, Hoboken.
Beets: 5 st. Louis; 3 each Phil
adelphia, New York; ! Richmond.
Beets and carrots: ! Chicago.
Radishes: 3 st. Louis.
Spinach: 2 Houston; ] each Mem
phis, Dies Moines.
Turnips: 2 Memphis: ! each
Houston, Pittsburgh.
Mixed vegetables: 20 Houston:
10 st. Louis; 8 New York; 3 Mem
phis; 2 each Wichita. Shreveport;
! each Jersey City, Dallas, Marshall
| ST. Paul, Fort Worth, Denton. Paris
I Itnison, Shawnee, Amarillo. Kan
sas City, Beaumont, Baton Rouge
Little Rock, Burlington. Indiana
polls, Cincinnati. Charleston, Nash
VILE, Lexington, Salt Lake City
Winnipeg.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
nent reported Friday morning
March q:
Vegetables Sc, cabbage SIS, beets
81. beets and carrots 8, parsley 4
lettuce !, turnips 2. spinach /, tota.
173 cars. Freight movement to date
this Season-Fruit 1919. Vegetable:
8166, total 12l45: to same day last
season-Fruit 1465, Vegetables 8845
total l0310 cars.
Carlop shipments of entire United
States reported Thursday, March
6: includes cars billed from mid
night to midnight)
Cabbage: Arizona /. California s
Florida "a, New York, Texas n
Washington !, total u. $. ia cars
Carrots: Texas As, total U. S. At
cars
Grapefruit: Arizona 3. California
4. Florida So. total u. S. 60 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas 90. Lou
fsiana 3, others SO, total u. S. l2a
cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Thursday. March 6:
San Antonio. Texas South Tex
as Points,:
Spinach: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow. market
dull. Bushel basket Savoy carloads
FOB cash track-mostly As. few
low as 4Oc: usual terms SOC. few 55c
Brawley, Calf. Imperial Valley
| Carrots: Fairly good wire inquiry
demand moderate. market steady
Too few cash sales reported tc
uuote. Most sales on wire orders
or shipments rolled for delivered
sales.