The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-04
FINANCE AND TRADE.
wheeling Wholesale Market.
OFFICE OF THE DAILY REGISTER, !
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The trade In breadstuffS for the past week
has been one of general depression, and all
grains have declined in prices. Flour has
declined SOC per barrel from the quotations
of one week ago: the supplying of the local
trade has constituted the bulk OF business.
Some quotations may be higher than we
onote but flour can be bought In the city
at the prices quoted.
Wheat has been particularly depressed.
and has had steady downward movement
though but very little has been sold In our
market. The advices from the crops are
more favorable than last week. In the
Southern States and California the harvest
is about completed. In the former There
is with but exceptional! counties, uniVer-
sal report Of fine crops; the berry Is iuiaho
plump, and the yield largely in excess
last year. In California the harvest IS large
the surplus for expectation this year being
estimated at llOOO 800 sacks, On an excellent
quality. In Southern Illinois the crops are
reported never better, with iine weather
for harvesting.
Corn was very quiet most of the week.
prices showing a decline of &c.
Oats have been dull most Of the week,
closing with decline of &c per bushel dur
ING the week. The prospects Of a good crop
are fiattering.
RYE and barley are both weak and lower,
with but little doing.
In provisions the only real firmness has
been manifested, especially in smoked
meats. hams having advanced 12c per
nound. The trade has been well kept up
and dealers have had demands for as much
as they could supply.
Butter is quoted little higher for cerian
qualities for table use, with scarcity In the
market, owing to the hot Yeather' liia'
nut up in small crooks has met twin ready
sale at figures ga Sc higher than last week.
The coffee market SHOWS decline oniaa
% per pound. The duty being taken Oh Oh
July LIST accounts for 1t.
sugars are very firm and show no indlca-
ton of a reduction in prices.
The prices paid for wool are SOC per
Mound lower than paid three weeks ago
owing to the fact that the dealers nave not
hsen anxious to purchase, believing that
decline must necessarily take place. Those
farmers who contracted their wool early IN
the season are the "lucky ones, and those
who have sold their wool the past TWO
weeks have probably received better price
than Il could be sold fol now. The markets
O 70 weak and but little domestic has been
houoht. The foreign markets are dull and
denressed. with but little chance OF Improve.
mant. and the Southern cotton crop is re-
ported as remaIk ably fine; all OF which
have tended to depress prices. An Eastern
exchange says that 1t Is now the opinion OF
wool brokers that domestic Will commence
IN sol, at between so and 60c in the INTERIOR
and that the choicest feeces laid down
in New York will not command over b5c
This will be price above the relative rates
at which foreign is Offering ana conse-
ouently a very restricted business win
manufacturers will continue to be done.
The iron market remains unchanged
with a steady demand. Zig iron has adj
v.nced again in the East, with little de-
mand for Scotch pig. but the unsettled
state of the labor question prevents specu-
lation
BITTrER-At l36l5c for good
REANS-Navv white in demand at y 20
| ner busbel stock small.
BAKING POWDERr-lIogan List &So;s
| OF. cans 81 rs per doz.: 10 or cans ;, -: 10
,ans IS .: bulk sc; Enterprise, tMcCaoe'
Kraft & Co.'S Sc. I'll
hrHEESENLower at l2h5al81Zc.
CARBON OIL-Standard brands, IN a
jobbing way, at 2Sc asking and no charge
'V cr P PsSSES at 2lc: City mould at
-Nominally firm. We quote
Good at 2392ii2c; prime at 25lac; old Java
az cfRXCKERs-sugar. lie; lemon, NC;
soda, re; water, 61sc; oyster, nc; creahi'
ri n SSsoei at l5al7c.
FTSH-Mackerel, No. halves at 3Io9o 20, ns'
Nils At sri 0O: No. Snew do full weight ltS
ms at "a %: barrels at g 50; light weights at
various prices, according to The weight In
packages: white fish at % .; lake herring
ns ETEsasTr IHnE:R at 7sc, and the usual
advance for small lots in Tetai! way,
though not quoted higher, as SOME dealers
with Old stocks are sci ing at former prices:
FLOUR-White wheat family fancy al
| n OOa9 50s white wheat al ogetg ~
sunerfine at s5 7546- vs.; spring atS Jug
IS.5. rive Flour at 81 0096 81. -,,.
GLASsFirst quality axO afSSo; i ioAn5 az q,
& rs: second quality Sx1o az % oO; lUSi- AZ
s % per box of 50 feet. Discount IL per
GENSENG-At 6097Oc D n.
| GRAIN--Wheat active and drmi cnoice
red NJ q 4s@l so choice white az u o. n.y. S
! steady &C &995c. Corn &C $3.50 o ~ od ~
so aA us tcn sO1 az e Pm bose at sls
eIR SN-F,ut and bar, 7.los5 l1loc; hose