Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-19
Truck
Markets

FOB shipping point information
reported Friday, April 10.
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
Warm, partly cloudy.
Cabbage: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry. demand lin
tied. market weaker. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms
round type bulk per ton, around
$50: crates ~$3.25-3.50; lettuce crates
$2.75-3.00. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash BACKGROUND type
bulk per ton S50-S60; crates $500
3.25: lettuce crates S2.5O-2.75. Truck
loads cash to growers-bulk per
ton $40-45, mostly $4,000.
Carrots: Haulings moderate. Mo-
derate wire inquiry. demand moder-
ate. market about steady. Carloads
and in mixed al FOB usual terms
crates $l.30-l.40; cash track Sl.15
lbs.
BeetS: Haulings moderate. Moder-
ate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate. market about steady. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB usual terms
Crates $1.S5-1.65; cash track S1.50
I.65.
Snap beans: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
good for good stock. market fairly
steady. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms, green stringless
bushel hampers S1.75-2.O0. best
mostly around $500; cash track
S1.50-l.75. Truckloads cash TO grow
ers-s1.0O-1.50. mostly sl.25. Prices
wide range, according to quality.
polatoes: Haulings lighter. Bette.
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market steady Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB usual termS-100
ID. sacks Bliss TriumphS US No.
is mostly S3.25; cash track mostly
$500, few lower. Fifty pound sack
1Oc. per cwt. extra. Truckloads cash
to growers-sacked per cwt. $3.50
2.T5. mostly $3.50.
Onions (Raymondville section):
Haulings moderate. Moderate wire
inquiry, demand moderate, market
about steady. Carloads and in mix
cd cars FOB usual terms-crates
Yellow Bermudas US Commercials
sl.15-l-25; CRYSTAL Wax US Com
mercials few Sl.50-l.65. Truckloads
cash to growers-Yellow Bermudas
SlO0-1.l5; Crystal Wax sl.35-l.50.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Saturday morning,
April 10:
Mixed vegetables 81, cabbage. "a,
beets 3, carrots 6, beets and carrots.
2. potatoes 80. turnips /, onions So.
beans 9, total ia cars. Freight
movement to date this season
Fruit 1919, vegetables 1899, total
1918: TO same day last season.
Fruit 1923, vegetables 1891. total
1920 cars. Beans express 3 st.
Louis: 1 Newark. Beans express
Friday. 9 St. Louis; ? Pittsburgh:
/ each San Francisco, Cincinnati,
New York.
Carlot shipments OF entire Unit
cd States reported Friday, April 18:
includes cars billed from midnight
to midnight.)
Cabbage: Ala. 4. Calf. p, So. Car.
lbs. Texas As. total US 201.
Carrots: Ariz. 4, Calf. 10, NY 2,
Tex. 9. total US "a cars.
Snap beans: Calf. !, Fla. 20, Tex.
IS. total US 81 cars.
Onions: *. 1874, Others o, total
40 cars.
Spinach: Tex. 4, others IS, total
US "a cars.
Potatoes: Fla. 80, Tex. 50, total
US old and new $40 cars.
Mixed vegetables: Fla. 10, Tex 80,
La 2, total US lot.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Friday, April 15:
Onions: Laredo, Texas: Warm,
rained during evening. Haulings
fairly heavy. Moderate wire in
quiry. demand slow. market slightly
weaker. Carloads FOB usual terms
crates Us Commercials Yellow Ber-
mudas sl.l0-I.25; Crystal Wax sl.35
lao. Carloads FOB cash track
crates Yellow Bermudas US No. Is.
Sl.10. US Commercials sl.O0-I.I0;
Crystal Wax few sales Us No. Is
SIPS, US Commercials $I20.
Potatoes: Hastings. Fla: Hot,
clear. partly cloudy Friday night.
Hauling fairly heavy. Good wire in
quiry. demand good. market firm
for No. Is; demand moderate. mark
ct steady for others. Carloads FOB
usual termS-double head barrels
Spaulding Rose Us No. is $3.50, US
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