The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-16

gloomy colors. The amount in transit |
for the U. X. is now about 5000, 900 I
bushels, which is very small the bulk |
of arrivals are now California wheat,
which explains the downward tendency
of those grades. We close with The same |
quotations of week ago:
Extracts from the Mark Lane Express Of
Feb. II, 1876.
The severe frost of which we wrote last week |
quickly gave way to rapid thaw; and the
trade, winch was in slight degree improving,
has rt.lapsed into inactivity. To recover from
under the weight of the large stocks in hand |
will plainly be a work of time. The imports |
tor the week ending February 18th are on
moderate scale, about 2OO. 900 qrs.; but favor
with such large number as IS cargoes again |
off the coast, the trade naturally becomes very |
quiet. The quantity on passage is still further
reduced, being only LISA, 700 qrs. against |
l ,548, lO2 qrs last year, and the number Of car
goes Immediately due is now very small. |
Supplies will, therefore, he moderate for the
next two or three months; and if home sup
some improvement. These supplies keep up
in remarkable manner, considering the bad
ness OF the crop and the low price. That with
such a crop, and the overwhelming supplies Of
foreign, English Wheat should still be rel
atively the cheaper, seems rather surprising.
Yet there is nothing so cheap as good English
red W heat at little over 1Os. per Or; and coun-
try millers ,em able to supply themselves SO
readily at nome that the demand for foreign i'll
London is not at all equal to what was reckon
ed on. Whether this state Of things is likely
to continue, growers themselves must be the
best judges 1t is difficult to estimate thu
stocks they will hold, and to say whether the,
t.,,c t1o,, nj Ma EAt in
Paris has taken the same course as our own;
only as they went UP more decidedly during
the frost, they CAV. way more readily with the
return Of mild weather. In the two or three
days OF frost the eight marks rose nearly 81,
and it looked Ike the BEGINNING OF 4 steady
reaction hut the advance was almost wholly
lost within three days There, too, the abun
dance of home supplies after st.ch poor crop is
very remarks bl.; and not .s 80 The fact that
stocks ut Flour in Paris are so much larger
than last year. with its large crop-the stock OF
eight marks Fl.ur being this year about l60,
900 sacks against $500. There, even much
more than with ourselves, the supplies since
harvest have consisted 70 large extent Of old
Wheat which rs no doubt The explanation,
in great pant, of the low comparatiFe price OF
home grown Wheat
Dornbusch'- List reports rather a dragging
trade for cargoes Of Wheat off coast all Though
the week, which is not to be wondered at
considering the ncessaIlt fresh arrivals, and
the active demand of the previous week. For
Nicolaieff Ghrka, 46s. Cd has been paid:
Matianopli, AIS; old coast Ghirka, A.: No.
Milwaukee, AS; 3D.; and No. = Spring, Ais.
Cd; and the week closes with 65carGoes off the
coast, ard buyers anything but eager.
The sales OF English Wheat noted last week
were tb.36 qrs. at AIS, against 81, 952 qrs, at
Ais i'd. in 1875.
The London averages We're ABS. cd. on ,26l
qrs.
The imports into the kingdom for the week
ending 18th February were 76., 274 cwt.
Wheat and l26, s3 rwt Flour
RWICK-ON-TW Fed. Wheat met dull
sale to- day, at prices in favor of buyers. Fine
Barley's are becoming scarce. and such were
unchanged in value; but secondary were neg
iect.d
BlRMlNGH AM this market there was q
less supply Of English Wheat, but the sale was
very slow at Barley last weeks rates
BRISTOL. The trade in foreign Wheat il.
slow, and prices OF last week are unobta,ned.
English in small supply, tho condition poor,
and prices favored buyers
| CARMARTHEN The corn trade continues
dull. Business has been very much depressed
| for some time, but better times are expected
Wheat IS. Sd. per 6llbs.;
| PRONE. There was an exceedingly large
supply OF corn at our market to-day Trade
ruled dull. Wheat SIS, TO 6Ss per qrs;
and fair amount OF business in foreign has
taken place at prices in favor sellers, finest
samples 10 the extent Of Is per or. Best sam
| pies of both English and foreign made Cd to
is. per or. more money, but ordinary qualities
were still difficult to sell. Wheat per isO!bs,
Danzig and Konigsterg, high mixed ass to SOS
| cd. konigsberg and Sset,in red ass 10 AIS Cd.
Danish and Swedish ass cd Riga and ST
Petersburg AS TO us, California and Oregon
white 5ls To SIS, Chilion and Spanish white
46s. 10 Sis Cd. Egyptian. Saide whit. SIS cd
TO ass. Oh Yorkshire and Silncolnshire, malt
ing Ais Oh. tn SIS Cd Saals AS M IL 5.s
Ste,ta SIS Oh. to 3: I'd. French a4s I'd to 3es
Or. Danish and Swedish Sis, ditto Chevalisr
3ys. to ASS. feeding stout 50s to sis to 6d.
ditto small 2Ss' 81 10 oas
LEEnS.-Ths whaa; market to-day Is quiet:
mllers hold of buving for some reason ". are
unable to account for, but or business doing
the f',ll advance noticed on Friday is main
tained.
! The Paris -four market Ice: the improve
n,ent noted last week as quickly as i; gained
il, dropping TO the old level, or nearly SO.
directly the froe, yielded. The eirh, mark,
for the current month arr how 81 francs t36s.
I'd. per 80 lhsl, for May and June SO francs
1851.
At Marsei,les the arrivals during the week
have been very small. amounting 10 only 1880
qrs. Business has been more active, and phi
ceS NElueT, Will >tOu AStllAu0 Tor tbe luteff-
or and for Switzerland. For forward delivery
sellers were scarce. Towards the end of The
week the market became more quiet
At Anglers business was calm, oilers were
few, but enough for the demand
At bordeaux, as elsewhere. the activity OF
the previous week has given place to great our
etude, and little business has been done this
week
In Belgium there has been little chance.
Antwerp reports dull trade, under the in
fuence Of mild weather
At Li.ge sellers had to submit: to some de-
cline in order to make sales. Rye was tri6e
higher. bu. without much demand
At Bruges the supplies we're very small.
and there was little disposition for business
At Berlin the frost had been very severe.
succeeded BY milder temperature and rain
Wheat was Cat The Term market vas more
active, some wheat having been purchased on
Austro- Hungarian account
At Rossock the navigation was still closed
by ice The young vhsxs plant Eas well cor
cred by snow. Some cfEers had been received
for wheat for shipusn. TO the United KINGDOM
and Belgium. hut holders had good opinion
Of the future, and were disposed 10 bold .a.hey
than accept the prices odsrd