The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-05
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL


NEEh ENDtS0 June 4, 1913.
Tho business transactions of the week have been
far-fu good they have heretofore been at this
season. when every body in the country is engaged in
planting and attending 10 farming. The markets are
quiet and the changes in values of commodities very
slight The most impol tant are the reduction in the
price of coal and On pork The money market il as
easy as it was last week. Gold is low r, the New
York spectators being unable to keep up the price,
and on Tuesday it sold at 1l7s9117a Wednesday 4tl
the rates were 11S to ISL
Apples are not so plenty as they have been and
choice fruit brings S., Beans are duh and Quiet
Butter, under a better supply is lower and choice
Vermont tubs selling at 3o@32c. Cheese is steady
and in good supply Coal is lower, the dealers hay
ing reduced the price for anthracite to So on the
wharf, and SIS so delivered. Coffee is firm with a
slight advance on Rio. Cooperage is unchanged
the demand for melasSes shocks and for hoops il
good Dry Goods are steady and all standard arti-
Giles are without change In drugs and dyes the only
change is in borax, which is lower. Duck is steady
and unchanged. Fish are dali; tho new catch are
coming in quite freely, but yet there is no change
in prices Flour is inactive and prices rather favor
purchasers, though there is no quotable change
Fruit is unchanged; oranges and lemons are not so
plenty as they have been. Grain is without change
from last week. Hay is duh and alers are not will
ling to pay the price demanded by the farmers as the
export demand South has entirely ceased. Iron is
steady. Lard is unchanged. Leather is firm, with
an increased demand for sole. Lime is steady at
S1.45 Lumber is unchanged, with good demand
for shipping though the home demand is rather light
Matches steady at S1.95 for "Star' Molasses is
steady with fair demand for grocer's grades. Nails
arm without change. Naval stores continue quiet,
with further reduction of &c on turpentine. Oils
and paints are without change Plaster is steady
Provisions are dull and there is further decl ne of
about SOC on pork. Produce is dull; potatoes are
about SC lower eggs selling at 17@lsc. Bermuda
onions are selling at $3.50 per crate. Salt is very
steady. Seeds are without change. Sugars are lit
tle off for granulated which we quote at 1Ofl1c for
Forest City. Eagles are the same last week. Teas
are without change. Tins are unchanged but prices
for plates not firm they have been. Wool il
in fair demand, but there Is no material change in
prices.
FREIGHTS. Cuba freigits continue dull there
being but little offering. The engagements since our
last report brig Prairie Rose from Ba to N side
of Cuba, and back N of Hattera at IS for molasses
and 55c for sugar; brig A. NJ. Roberts, from Bangor
voyage at S525 for moasses and size for sugar
brig Fanny Jennings, hence to N. side of Cuba, at
$40 currency for lumber; bark N NJ. Haven hence to
Matanzas, at the round sum of $500 out or out and
home at $3.50 for molasses and SOC for sugar. Coast
wise ffeights are dull. There is not much offering
and rates unchanged. Brig Frontier loads ice at
the Kennebec for Savannah, at So.