The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-05-06
ST. CLOUD lIAKKE Ts.
JOURNAL OFFICE, May 6, l67

JOURNAL OFFICE, May o, 1910.
Business for the week just ended ~ fax ~
general trade is concerned may be termed
satisfactory. Our dry goods dealers are
getting in their spring and summer stocks,
and Judging from the quantity and quality
received, there is no grasshopper terror be-
fore their eyes. Hardware merchants
were never better prepared To meet the
wants of builders and farmers in general
The grocery trade appears a. lively a. any
other, from the fact, doubtless, that both
farmer and mechanic must eat, whether they
wear clothes OK not. Labor 10 in good de-
mand, and collections are quite - liberal
- can be expected At this season.
Wheat still advances, and We now quote
elevator prices: No. l, SOC; No. 2, sc, IN
advance Of Sc above last weeks figures, but
liable to 80 back any moment, - the
Chicago market to-day reports No. z wheat
weak At $l.04i.
Flour Is in good demand at the advanced
price we noticed two weeks ago, and which
may be found in our retail list.
Corn remains unchanged Csc; while oats
have advanced to $4,000, and even high
er figures than these have been paid BY our
millers during the past week.
Hay il scarce and the price depends up
on the amount of conscience possessed BY
the seller. We have encountered some
mean enough to ask $40 per ton, but not
being able to raise that amount have con-
cluded to let our horses starve.
Potatoes, as we predicted last week, are
still on the down grade, and We now
quote 45@6oc for mixed lots, which seems
to be the only kind offered in this Market
Farmers will not be astonished at these
prices when they learn that Csc is the high
est price paid in St. Paul for car load lots
for three days past.
Butter still keeps getting moro plenty,
and IS We have often urged upon some of
our readers the necessity of improving in
the making Of this article we will give
them one more hint copied from the St.
Paul Pioneer-P Pres, Of Nay the 9Th, which
We trust may be productive of some good:
BurrER-So far a. the common grades
Of shipping qualitie. are concerned, We
have no particularly welcome news to offer.
Buyers are closely watching al indications
Of better things at the east; but thus far
they have had no encouragement. Mime
sofa store packed 6rkins Of average quality,
I'll varta 10
ade'phia for more than l2@ l4c, which i'm
plies avalue here athome Of $3.50. There
were last fall, large purchases of frkin
butter in this market by English and Scotch
buyers, for shipment direct to Liverpool
and Glaagow via Duluth, the river St.
Lawrence and the Canadian ocean steam
err. The best results wer. expected from
this experiment; but recent advices from
the operators concerned in the venture say
that it was nearly or quite = failure, in
spite of the very low rates of freight At
| which the goods were forwarded. The
trouble is, a. our sellers are advised, that
the quality is far below what was expected;
that the ocean voyage had very DISASTROUS
effect upon the quality, and that, unless we
can make better butter we must forego,
hereafter, the attentions of foreign buyers,
| and sell our common product for what it
will bring in any market that will look at
it. 1t needed not this lesson to teach us
that great proportion of our butter re-
ceipts are of scandalously poor quality, al
though methods of manufacture and of
packing have considerably improved dur
ing the last two years, since the intermin-
able pounding on this subject first COM
meneed In these columns. But there is i'm
mense room for improvement, aud it can
not be commenced too soon.
Flour-Patent Process, per sack $3.50.
xxx, "$2,75.
| Xxx, j" $3.50.
| Salt-$2.75 per Dbl.
Pork-$25.0o per Dbl.
Potatoes-55c @ 60c per bush.
Rutabagaa-2oc g. 3oc
Beets-3oc g. 4oc
Beans-$l.4o g $500 per bushel.
Onions-$1.0o q l.25 per bushel.
Cr.nberriss-l2ac g l6c per quart.
Butter-l23c q Csc per h.
Eggs-12}@l5c per dozen.
Wood-Maple, $500 800 per cord,
Hay-$7.50 per ton.
Beef cattle-3c O. SIC on foot.
SIC @ 7c dressed.
Cut Meats-5c q 123c per h.
Pork-6}c @7c
Lard-18 a. 900 {"
Chickens-Dressed, 10c
Turkeys " 123c "
Hams-City cured, 15c
Country" 10c a. 123c
Cheese-15c a. zoe per ID.
Honey-1n comb, 25c q soc per ID,
strained, zoe q Csc
FINANCIAL.
Gold-Buying at Sill; selling SLIP,
Foreign exchange
Passage tickets-From New York to
Europe, $22.50
MILWAUKEE, May 5, 1875.
Wheat-1.0S3 for No. /.