Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-19
Truck
Markets

F. o. B. Shipping Point Informa-

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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 500; 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 $3.00-3-25: 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 cars FOB usual terms
few sales-crates S1.35-l.65 bushels
s0.90-l.O 90. In mixed cars FOB cash
track-crates few sales "sl.25-l.40;
bushels 1890.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual terms very
few sales-crates mostly around o.
25; bushels $~1.50-1.75, few higher.
In miy.i cars FOB cash track
crates mostly $500; bushels $l.25-
l.50.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement reported Tuesday,
Feb. 10.
Cabbage: Is each Houston. st.
Louis; Is Shreveport; 3 Chicago;
? each Memphis. Detroit, New York:
/ each Baton Rouge. Indianapolis
Raleigh, New Orleans. Louisville,
Chikasha. Jersey City, Birmingham.
Beets: l 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: I each Houston. WI
chita. Parsley: ! each New York.
st. Louis.
Spinach: 3 each Houston. New
York, l 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. Stanton 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 /, turnip green's !, lettuce
!, spinach 3. total 1877 ars. Freight
movement to date this season.
Fruit 1916. Vegetables 1881. total
9867; to same day last season.
Fruit 1910, Vegetables 6o69. total
7409 cars.
Carlot shipments OF entire Unit
ed States reported Tuesday. Feb. l8:
includes cars billed from mid
night TO midnight)
Cabbage: California z. Florida
81, Michigan /, New York 10, Ohio
!, Texas Sc, total u. S. lis cars.
Carrots: Arizona j. California SO.
New York 8. Texas IL. Washington
/. Idaho. Indiana, total U. S. So
cars
Grapefruit: Arizona 5, California
3. Florida l03, Texas 2, total U. S.
ll3 cars.
Spinach: California 2, Texas 81.
total U. S. SO cars.
Mixed vegetables: Texas IS, 9TH
ers AZ. total U. S. l02 cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Tuesday, Feb. ID:
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;
80 and 100 ID. sacks $50.
San Antonio, Texas (South Tex
as Points:
SPINACH: Hsulings 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 z5c; usual
terms mostly SOC.