Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-12

COMMERCIAL.

Hay, Butter, Eggs, Oranges and Lemons
Advanced Imports and Exports at New
York-Canada's Tariff-Dead Markets for
WooI-Wheat Markets Lower and Weak
Provisions FIrm-The Advance In Stocks
Generally Maintained.
ST. PAUL, June 11.-While in other lines of
business trade was light in st. Paul yesterday,
the produce commission houses were quite
busy. Baled hay is 6rmer at 81. The range
of valuos for shipping grades of butter is about
lc higher. The demand for export is active
and late Accommodations were cleared yesterday.
Eggs are scarce and higher. We quote at l2c
| 01l215c but think even better figures NAV be
obtained unless receipts are increased to-day.
| Oranges and lemons are firm at advanced
| prices. Small fruits are declining slowly as
supplies increase and when favorable shipping
weather comes larger trade is expected
Fruiterers2 have added gseveral varieties to
their lists this week, among which we note
hot house grapes, beautiful Black Hamburgs,
which are selling Gin retail way only at $3.50
per lb. The retail trade is also supplied with
new tomatoes, selling at about Sc each.
The following were the total receipts of
articles named, at Chicago, from Jan. to the
close of last week, 1,13S,547 brls flour,
$500, 064 bu wheat, 81, 344,2 blu corn $685.
1876 blu oats, 360,973, Blu rye, 1905, 8Ol bu bar
ley, 1911 $50 lbs hog meats, 39,S69, 499 lbs
lard, 90 500 80 lbs butter, 2, 760, 904 hogs, 551
729 cattle, lS0S21 sheep. 29, 399, 622 lbs hides,
1868 286 lbs wool, 1,073, 1853 tons coal, 1874 1884,
800 feet lumber.
About two weeks ago we copied from New
York exchange statement to the effect that
the warehouses were crowded and the market
overloaded with excessive importations of
foreign goods. Since then importations have
declined considerably. Last week the
importatiOns of dry goods and general
merchandise, amounting to $7,3l6. 965 were the
least for any one week since that ending Jan.
II. The imports of specie for last week, $685.
500, were the largest of any one week for sew
eral months. And the exports of produce for
the week were large, amounting to $8,042, 1922
From January to the close of last week the
imports of dry goods and merchandise at New
York reached $219 061 659, against 1892, 224 ,705
last wear; imports of specie, 81 $50 $685. against
81, ga, 275 last year; exports of produce,
S15O, 702 425, against 1926, 1885, S62 last year,
and exports of specie, "a, 169.O6 against 3d.
53l, 1874 last year.
The Toronto Globe complains that the high
tariff of the Dominion taxes the people of the
maritime provinces fifty cents on
each barrel of -four they consume,
and taxes the people of Ontario fifty to sixty
cents on every ton of coal they consume, with
out benefit to the revenues of the government.
1t might add, also, that it is secondary but
serious hindrance of the settlement of Manito-
ba and the Northwest Territory. OF course the
high tariff of the United States is no benefit to
its people, but its evils are somewhat mitigat-
ed by the variety and extent of domestic pro-
ducts and internal commerce. The Dominion
of Canada can much less afford the folly and
injustice of high tariff.
A New York dispatch of last evening says:
THE cotton goods market is unsettled and
some makes of bleached goods lower, including
Hills shirtings etc. Brown sheetings selling
fairly at revised prices. Prints remain dull
dress ginghams in good demand and lawns doing
fairly. Mems wear woolens in light request.
Foreign goods dull.
Concerning wool, the reports from Boston, |
New York and Philadelphia are all alike. There
is very little disposition on the part of manu-
facturers to purchase, and the anxiety on the |
part of a few holders TO sell causes an unset |
tied feeling which will, in all probability, last
until there is increased activity in the move
ment of goods. The large holders of foreign |
wool at Boston are beginning to feel that they |
are overburdened.