The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-04-29
Corn Trade.

This market is without change. Flour and grain were
the same to-day as Yesterday Genesee -four S. as
chester market and wheat consequently declined the
25th inst to SO 81 cents. Flour ranged from 81 IS to
81 80.
We learn from Montreal that the Doth 2lst nst
several heavy operations had taken place in -four at 2as
Sssn ss nen and in two
Letters from Buffalo dated 18th inst state that agents
appointed by the Rochester mers have made careful
examination OF the stock Of flour on hand between
Black Rock and Uca and the result of their enquiries
show stock rising 100 900 barrels ready to the
seaboard as soon as the canal is opened
In Baltimore the 26h inst OF 100 to 1900 bar.
rels Howard street -four Of good standard brands
made from store at 81 49, which is the uniform asking
price now. The demand was not active however, and
there were sellers than buyers at that The
receipt price unsettled Holders of City Mills ask
81 CO. Susquehanna flour was firm at 81 u.s. Wheats
continue scarce and wanted We quote common to fair
good Maryland reds at IS 92c, and prime at OF 98c
Sales OF both white and yellow corn at 81 55c Oats at
y 2ec.
There is fact connected with the milling business at
Cincinnati which illustrates the great value OF hydruc
power for manufacturing purposes Wheat is worth
cents less at ST. Louis than at Cincinnati because it
has to be transported 700 500 miles to the latter city
be ground into flour and then sent back 600 miles get
into the mississippi on its way to Hew Orleans for mar
ket Had st. Louis q water power equal to that at Gin
cnnati would be worth many millions to Illinois, Mis-
esmsted that upwards of 800 600 bushels of wheat
will be shipped for Lake Michigan before harvest which
will show how rapidly that port of the country has
extended its production The quantity Of wheat to be
received at Cleveland by the way of the Ohio canal
the old crop will probably vary materially from last
year. when il 600 bushels 900 BARI els of flour
At the ports west Of that place that lake. the shipments
will be larger than last year as the in the western
part OF the State was an unusually heavy one. The
prices are 50 low at the principal markets the Ohio
canal well as at the Western ports of Lake Erie that
the farmers storing their wheat at the warehouses in
preference to selling hoping that something may occur
to produce an advance
The quantity of wheat stored at Chicago, Michigan
City and St. Joseph, is about 900 bushels but
the aggregate ofour awaiting shipment is nothing above
last yesrs storage AT Detroit there 900 barrels
Hour. but very little wheat At Milan there ere
1000 bushels Of wheat and about $500 bis -four The
grain is sale and subject to prices the LIST of June
At Huron but little wheat and $500 bbls -four Toledo
has 5000 bbls -four but wheat The Interior of
Ohio do not appear to been doing much business
In grain the past winter usual At Masson the great
wheat point upon the Ohio canal there about 900
bushels of wheat and $4,000 bbs OF -four stored, being
much less than the customary amount At Fulton there
so 600 bushels wheat and considerable quantity of
flour. Both these places within IS miles of Cleve-
land and will of course send their produce toward the
lake for Eastern shipment Besides the above there are
stored at Lafayette about $1,000 bushels of wheat.