The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-07

FRIDAY % ~ OF ~
Saturday OH
Monday %
Tuesday l6lA
St. Paul Markets.
ST, PAUL June 6, 1877.
The wholesale trade has been only mode
rately active during the week. Grocery
houses claim business during May fully
eonal and sometimes exceeding the large trade
Of a wear ago at this time, but the demand for
dry goods, hardware, boots and shoes, &c,
has not been so large as at this date a twelve
month Sales are not being pressed by job
hers. There are no fluctuations in prices |
demanding special notice. Collections are
pretty good, all things considered.
FLOUR-Wheat has tiuctuated so much in
the last few weeks that flour dealers hardly |
know where they stand. When orders from
the east would arrive for through shipments, |
based on previous accounts current the home
price would be up 25c to 5Oc per Dbl, and 1t |
is a remarkable fact that the manufacturers OF
-four are the last persons in all the world to |
hear of decline in the value OF wheat. The |
shipments East on orders, andto the North |
west and Lake Superior, have been large, SO |
that stocks in stores have not accumulated.
There has been some jockeying in local
transactions, but prices are not quotably
changed We still quote straight xxx
at s8 .OOa $50. Patent process is held firm at
49, 5Oa1l 90, as to brand. XXX flour is NOM
inally So. 5O07OO per Dbl. Rye -four is
scarcely to be found at all, but is quotable at
s3 90 per sack. Bolted corn meal is held very
firmly at $l.7O9l75 per 100 lbs.
WHEAT-Only small lots are arriving that
are seeking a market, the bulk OF the grain
now coming in having been bought III the IN
| terror bv parties who are able to hold or ship.
The downward course of the speculative mar
ket has been very severe on 1.-THE boys" who
were more than confident, two weeks ago;the
wheat had touched bottom, and must go up.
The BOYS bet that way, and have lost some
of them have lost heavily. Wheat is now
altogether speculative commodity, and one
might as well undertake to indicate the next
price of gold as the next price of wheat. At the
| elevator buyers are paying 81 80 for No. l;
81 .45 for No. 2; and 81 .359l 40 for No. 3.
The following are the quotations of No. 2
wheat in the great markets yesterday and
Yesterday week:
Last week. This week.
Tiverpool lis 9d0l3s 12s1d@13s 4d
New York s1.8O sl.75
Chicago LAG l46
Milwaukee 161X 1904
CORN-An active market is to be noted.
The government is a large buyer, and lum-
bermen on the Black river, Chippewa, Eau
Claire. and Eau Gale rivers, as well as the
St Croix and upper Mississippi, are In want
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arriving are quotable at 5l@52c.
OATS-New lots from Iowa are quotable
at 39a4Oc, in bulk on track. Sales are to a fair
extent at 43a44c, free on board.
i RARLEY-MoSt OF the barley now Offering
is poor, worth but 35a55 per bushel. The
prospects of the growing crop are SAID to be
first rate.
active demand, especially from the northwest
for malt. No. | winter malt is selling freely
at 81 10 per bush.
BUTTER-Very fine new grass butter is
sa!eablea at 12al5c. Choice dairy packed, fresh
new and sweet, is in demand at 18a2Oc Ship
pers are not anxious to operate, In the pres
, ent dscouraging aspect OF affairs, but they are
buying what is offered of yellow butter, in
trrkins at Sa9c. per 10.
EGGS-The market is quite firm at the mo-
ment, in absence of large receipts. The ar
rivals are just about equal to the demand
which, however, extends from The Black Hlils
and Manitoba to Lake Superior. Most OF the
sales of large lots have been at lOalO 1-2c, but
the local trade has generally been charged
llc There are no large accumulatlons.
VEGETABLES-Pota are dull 5Oc fol
rose, and DOC for peachblows, There Is NJ
trustw orthy shipping demand. Onions arr
not enQuired for.
; HIDES-The market is without a new fea-
ture. A good demand is experienced from
Eastern tanners for green sailed hides, and
very dull demand Tor dry flint We quot'
a green cured at s LAS Ia; green butchers
hides at 6 l-2c; dry flint ar l3a lac.
! BEANS-No /, white navy beans, hand
picked. are held at s. 85a3.OO; choice white
hand picked at s.. 5Oa2 .75 medium white
O 81 OOa2 %.
a PEAS-Good quality seed 81 .5Oal. go.
. CHEESE-Unchanged We quote goot
qualities at l5c.
# FREIGHTS-Agents of the railroads and o
e the fast freight lines insist that there is NJ
cutting going on either in the West or Eas
: but that rates are steady and uniform. East
il ern bound freights are zoe per 100 lbs for At
Il class goods from St. Paul to New York, AM
il 75c to Boston, DOC per 100 lbs for grain, ant
n 10 per bbls for flour, to New York and ID
n to Boston. Westward bound treights ar
: ouotable as follows: Boston or New York t
St. Paul, 155 per 100 lbs for LIST class: l. 40 70
e end: 10 for Sd: SOC for 4th class; zoe for spe
|, cial.
o SEEDS-A less active market is to be notice
a nc the season for sowing is so near its close.