Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-28
Truck
Markets
via Naval Radic Ststion

FOB shipping point information
reported Saturday, april rs:
Lower Rio Grande Valley points:
warm. partly cloudy. rain Friday
night.
Cabbage: Haulings light. Light
wire inquiry. demand slow. market
dull. Carloads ard in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-round type bulk
per ton around $40: lettuce crates
S2.25-2.5O. Carloads and in mixed
cars FOB cash track-round type
bulk per ton sS5-s75o; lettuce crates
s1.e0-2.25. Truckloads cash to grow
ers-bulk per ton around $1,000.
Carrots: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate.
market steady. Carloads and in mix
ed cars FOB usual terms-crates
l.35-l.5O; cash track $l.l5-l-35. few
lower.
Beets: Haulings light. Moderate
wire inquiry, demand moderate for
good stock. market about steady.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-crateS 1876; cash
track ~S1.25-l.5O.
Snap beans: Haulings light. Mod
crate wire inquiry, demand moder-
ate for good stock, market about
steady. Carloads and in mixed cars
FOB usual terms-green stringlesS,
bushel hampers s~1.75-2.00; cash
track S1.50-1.75. T~ruckloads cash TO
growers $l.00-l.50, best mostly $l.25-
$50. Prices wide range according to
quality.
Potatoes: Haulings light. Good
wire inquiry, demand moderate,
market firm. Carloads and in mix
cd a FOB usual terms-l00-lb
sacks Bliss Triumphs US No. Is.
s3.75: cash track $3.50. Fifty pound
sacks. 10c per cyyt. extra. Truck
loads cash to groverS-SacEed per
cwt. s4.25.
Onions: CRaymondville Section)
Haulings light. Light wire inquiry,
demand slow, market about steady
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-crates Yellow Bermu-
das US commercials $4,000: Crystal
Wax US Commercials few s1.00-l25.
Truckloads cash 10 growers-Yellow
Bermu6as 1890; Crystal Wax Sl.00
to Sl.10.
Primary destinations Of Lower
Valley movement reported Saturday
ard Sunday:
Cabbage: 4 each Houston. St.
Louis; 3 Shreveport; ! each Texark-
cra. Indianapolis. Terre Haute,
Cleveland, St. Cloud. Nashville.
Eabelton. Dallas. Onions: 7 Hous-
ton: 5 st. Louis: 3 Philadelphia: 2
Pittsburgh; / each TT. Worth. Cleve-
land. Waco. Detroit, Cambridge
Beats: s.. Louis: 3 Chicago; 2 each
Boston. New York; ] each New
Haven. Philadelphia. Detroit. Kan
sas City. BeetS and carrots: ! each
Winnipeg. Kansas City. Carrots: 4
So. LOWS: 3 each Philadelphia. Mon
t-eal: ! each Minneapolis. Balti-
more. New Heaven. Chicago. Snap
bears: 4 Houston; ! each Columbus.
NdNilNllS. Ddlldc. 0lCtAloDJA0. y
matoes: l St. Louis. Turnips. 4
Houston. SQUASH: / New York.
Parsley: , New York; ! each Chi
caQo. Jersey City.
Lever Rio Graade Valley move
ment reported Sunday and Monday
mornings.
Mixed vegetables "a, cabbage 9.
beetS 3. carrots 6. beets and car
rcts 3. potatoes 81. onions IL, par
sley 3. tomatoes !. beans /. total
1913 cars. Freight movement TO date
this season-F-uit 1919. Vegetables
1926. total 209o5: to same DAY last
season-Fruit 1929. Vegetables 49,
374. total 20i03 cars. Beans express
/ each Jersey City. Chicago. Squash
express l Pittsburgh.
Carrot shipments OF entire United
States reported Saturday and Sun
day: includes cars billed from
midnight 10 midnight).
Cabbage: Ala. z. Calf. IL. Fla. 3,
La. 4. No. Car. 3. So. Car. l3, Texas
20 total ". s. 81 cars.
Snap beans: Calf. 5, Fla. II. Tex.
10. total u. S. SO cars.
Carrots: Ariz. 4. Calf. A, N. Y.
4, Texas 20. totatl U. s. II cars.
Cucumbers: Fla. 2. Tex. 10, 9TH
crs 3. total u. S. % cars.
Onions: Texas 173, others 10,
totla u. s. 1873 cars.
Tomatoes: Fla. &c i0s. Fla. 9TH
er "a, Texas /, total u. S. 1873 cars
Mex. 81.
Potatoes: Fla. rs. Tex. IS, total
u. s. old and new TAO cars.
Mixed vegetables: Fla. 20, La. II.
Texas So, other 70 total u. s. 100
cars.
Additional FOB information re-
ported Saturday, April IS:
Onions: Laredo. Texas; Haulings
light account OF weather. Light
wire inquiry. demand light, mar
ket firm. Carloads FOB usual
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