The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-22
Petersburg Markets.
reported fer the Richmond Dispatch.

IBTbhsbUHdJ April 1905.
The spring trade continues to be moderately
active, and is perhaps equal thus far to the
expectations of such of our merchants as are
not of an over sanguine temperament It is
doubtless curtailed materially by the great
scarcity of money, which appears to be felt in
the rural districts rs well as in the city.
The cotton market has been very quiet for
the last week, the quo tations varying indeed
but little from day TO day, but with limited
transactions. E.
A greater degree of interest is now centred
in the tobacco market than in any other de-
partment of trade. The foreign contracts
have all been concluded, and the agents are
now on the spot ready to purchase. The
terms on which they have been taken are I'M
derstood to be moderate, leaving no margin for
high prices; but the effect has already been to
give the market greater degree Of activity
without, however, any material advance in
quotations. The difference between the pre-
sent feeling and that which prevailed before
they entered the field amounts chiefly to this:
that what was rather q drag on the market
before is now, under the pressure of competi-
lion, quickly taken up. Few none are the
cases in which any portion of the offerings are
withdrawn. A distinguishing characteristic
of the offerings up to the present time is
their general bad order: too high in case to
keep any length of time without moulding.
It would appear from this and from past
experience that the Virginia planter had
lost much of his cunning. But the great
bulk of the crop is yet to be priced,
and it is hoped that planters will feel the
necessity of paying the utmost attention to its
and Of proper weights, they may rest assured
of obtaining fair prices not the extravagant
prices of last year, but those which may be
regarded as moderately remunerative. And
the shippers being now all in the market,
we believe it would be to the interest of
planters to send in their crops as soon rs they
can be made ready. A large proportion of
the tobacco now in market would sell better
if it was in the proper order There is good
reason therefore to anticipate that q desira-
BILE article WILL sell throughout the season at
prices which, under the circumstances, will
be regarded as satisfactory. These remarks,
though somewhat extended, will not be
| deemed out of place when 1t Is considered that
the prosperity of a very extensive interest
| if not the whole of our section of country
| will be dependent for the next two or three
| months mainly on the proceeds Of this the
| prime staple Of the State. .. ...-..
Flour continue without change, and corn
| remains steady a. our quotations. .--.--
! Bacon and fish, with other supplies for the
| country, stand at about the same figures as
| those heretofore reported.
| EaIn peanuts almost nothing seems to be
doing. 1t may be, and probably is, that plant
| ers are too busily engaged in their prepara'
| tions for another crop to take time to deliver
| the remnant of the last still on hand. From
| nearly every point OF the compass we learn
| that great efforts are making to plant largely
| the coming season.
| 1t is gratifying, and creditable to the enter
| prise Of our farmers, to witness the extensive
| movement of fertilizers, intended chiefly for
| the cotton and tobacco crops.
- The subjoined quotations are the result Of
our inquiries to-day:
C0tton.-Market very quiet ut 26 to 28hc.
| Stock on hand not heavy, and receipts dimin-
| ishing.
| Tobacco. - Our quotations of last week will,
with but little change, hold good at the pre-
| sent time-with the difference Of 4 marked i'm
| proyement of feeling among buyers: Lngs-
common to fair, IS. 80 TO Us; good TO fine, Sc 90
| to $3.50. Leaf-common to fair, S6 to So 80 to
! 81; good, 81 so to $3.50; fine, $3.50 to $l4-
| mostly about Sl2. lIOOQ dark Wrappers ana
| bright fancy wrappers are in demand, and
| would bring-the former from $l3 to $l4, the
| latter from $40 to $50.
Wnect NO arrivals.
| Corn firm at 9Oc.
FYour.-Fine, &c. 80 to 81; superflne, IS, 60 to
90 extra, 5000; family, SO. Market fully
supplied.
! Oats.-65 to zoe.
| Rys.-$1.40.
Bsans-Markstw we'll supplied and dullat 81 %
| to $l.60. rss 4-#-s -..
Peus.-stock very dull at 75c. blsek-eye, 81.
FEdzseed SO IS.
| Meal.-Sl.
Bacon.-By the hogshead-Clear-ri sides,
| lSc.; backbone and rib sides, l7c. /; shoulders,
! l5c.; Southwestern Virginia hog-round, l7h
| to Isc. Southampton, lSA to l9c. hams, l9c.
Lard.-In barrels, Zoe. kegs, &c. /; Virginia,
| 81 to &c. 81. S -taz.- at ISIS
Pish.-No North Carolina fish in market
| Eastern gross, Sc; eastern trimmed, IS. 90
| No. gibbed, So; No. l split, $3.50 Labrador
| ST. Alewives, IS so No. mess shad, sl2 No.
1 2 mess shad, So Market abundantIy supplied
| and in large lots. Most kinds might be bought
| q little within these quotations. a@
B,ttter.-Eery scarce; monntain, 35 TO 4oc
| country, in jars, Soc. !; roll, 40 TO 4sc.
| BeeStDdI.-3S TO 40c.
FopLS.-40 TO 45c.
I Ems.-Wholesale, 22c. 1e--------.-
Rides.-Green, lOc.; dry, 21c.
| Cf0per Ssed-Scarce at Sll. S.
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