Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-06


September opens with increasing activity, and
collections, Which have been unusually back
ward, are generally improving.
FRUITS, ETC.-Apples are scarce at e2 con
225, "a Is usual about the time when receipIs
are changing from fall 10 winter varieties. but
there is 60 advance Of prices and mona are Ike
ly to occur. Peaches, 750l95c per basket.
Pears, domestic, third bushel boxes. 9Oc(0
81 rs; T. Earle Sons selects, California size
and STYLE S4:Oo per box. GRAPES.
no Delawa1es the market. Lemons
SO. 00@6.50; fine ripe Naples. 81 so.
California grapes, Muscats, q pound crates.
SO. So: tokays, S4.00; California pears, 81 co;
California plums. $500; New York ounces
So. 90 per bushei; Cranberries, S225 per
bushel; cider, $3.50 per half barrel; sweet pota-
toes, Muscatines, So. co. Illinois &c. 80; Jerseys,
$3.50.
BREWERS SUPPLIEs-Dealers report their
trade first-rate and collections very good. New
breweries are heard from every month, until 1t
seems as If beer was the very crest of that
wave of civilization which is advancing upon
the late hunting grounds of the Dakotas and
their allies and foes to the west and north. No
sooner is community of new settlers formsd
than some enterprising Teuton goes about
hunting for water and cellar prospects,. and
soon he starts his modest little frame brewery
which in good time will be turned into
g massive structure of stone or brick
The suppliers and maltsters of st. PauI keen
up with the resulting increase of custom and
have their reward in steady orders from old
customers, while their orders from new quar-
tiers keep them well posted on the progress of
settlements and railways New hops are sell
ing 81 2S(030c per pound, and malt at s1.OO
per bpshel.
FLOUR ETc.-Commission houses are selling
standard brands I'd at unchanged prices. Patent
process Sc. 2507 90; straight S5. OO65 IS;
xxx, $4.5O@4. rs. Rye flour sells at a .5Om
AS. Ga the call beard yesterday S15 90 per
ton was bid for ground feed in car lots and
1880 was asked. Corn meal Sl4.5O bid,
Bran, s15.0Oasked. 81. 80 bid, $500 asked.
GRAIN.-On the call board yesterday wheat
was steady and in good demand; No. hard
SOC; No. Soc; October delivery 63c; November
and year Soc; No. 7Sc. Corn firm; No. cash
and October &c. Oats steady; No.
white zoe bid, Soc asked; October 27c bid,
29o Asked No. mixed 28c bid, 29c asked;
No. 65c; No. $50. Rye, No. 2 &c. Flax
seed, SLIP.
VEGETABLES. Buyers for shipment quote
onions firm at &c. and potatoes dull at 20@
22c. 4 sufficient market for the excellent pO-
| tatoes produced in Minnesota will never be
had until the improvement of river navigation
gives to growers of some future generation
| much lower rates OF transportation to the
south than now be obtained.
BUTEER, ETC.-Buyers of butter for the trade
| and for shipment are paying Csc for creamery.
22@23c for choice dairy; 18(022c for farmer
packed dairy; lSc for medium to good; and
l4@l5 for shipping. The trade is reported
| lutte active Eggs are scarce, and warranted
| are selling from commission houses at Ito.
DRUGS, ETC.-The drug trade is, within few
days. more active, with larger orders coming
in. Collections are dull and backward, bnt
will now be urged unless payments are moro
prompt The changes of prices are many and
! the general tendency is towards advances.
Cocoa butter, Jamaica ginger, oubebs, gly cerine,
bromide potash, American saffron, hemp seed,
nitrate strOntia, castor oil, chlorate potash,
sugar lead, etc.. are al higher. shellec is a
little lower.
GROCERIES, ETC.-The grocery houses are ex-
ceedirgly busy at this season, and report col
lections good. The changes of prices are few.
Canned tomatoes and HOLSTERS havs been ad-
vanced, also herrings; and sugars are marked
down H@$lc; but prices generally are fixed
for the season.
BooTs AND SHoEs-Prices unchanged; trade
better than ever before at this season.
Collections improving.
LEATHER-Prlces firm; trade active, and col
lections improving.
IRoN, STEEL AND HARDwARE-Trade in iron
and steel and heavy and light hardware is re-
ported good, with collections improving.
Prices generally firm and no material
changes expected. A slight increase of
prices is noted in Francis axes screws and car
Rage bolts.
HIDES, ETo.-The receipts of hides and skins
are comparatively light, as usual at tn is time
Of year, but, nevertheless, double what they
were in the same season of last year. The east
ern markets are reported weak. but buyers here
maintain prices. We quote butchers hides
SIC; green salt hides, $40; calfskins, lSc;
kips, 1Oc; deacons, Soc; dry flint hides 15c; dry
salt. 12c. No. stock two-third prices. Sheep
pelts, wool estimated per pound S5c; shearlings,
10000; lambs. 4O@6Oc. The wool trade of
the season Is about over, although there is yet
good deal IN the interior, but in the hands of
buyers for speculation, and quotations would
be wholly nominal. Tallow is advanced Nc;
No. l, SIC; No. 2, 414c; prices steady.
GINSENG Receipts liberal; buyers are pay
ing Sl.3O@1.45 for clear dry, and 30c for green.
SNAKE RooT-Receipts of Seneca snake root
continue hbersl. Buyers are giving 36G45c,
according to condition.
LUMBER-In one direction is the increas-
ing commercial Importance of st. Paul more
manifest than in the rapid building up of g
large export lumber trade which may be said to
have habits beginning within year in the es-
adjustment OF the lumber line" by the Chica-
go & st. Paul and other railroads now CONSOLE
dated in the Chicago, ST. Paul Omaha Rail-
way line. It's development is locally apparent
in the setting up here of lumber depots and
agencies, for the mills OF West Wisconsin and
North Wisconsin, the st. OroiI valley, and,
now, the region between the St. Croix and
Mississippi penetrated and traversed by the St.
Paul & Duluth road, to be followed, evidently,
in year oritwo from now by the establishment
of depots and agencies fer the lumber mills
of the Lake Superior pine regions. While the
present indications are not favorable to
anticipatlons of large saw mills being operated
here upon logs from above the national and
local distractions Of naviga at the Falls of
st. Anthony, they are assurances that st. Paul
is fast growing to be the center and exchange
of lumber trade which is already rivaling
and may in few years exceed, the immense
lumber traffic of Chicago. OF the extent of
this Lumber trade, as will appear from the re-
ceipts and shipments, something may be said
hereafter. For the present it is enough to say
that it extends to all important points south
west on the Missouri, and is spreading all over
the country beyond that river, having reached
to nearly ell trading points on the Kansas Pa
cific, and even to Denver, in Colorado. The
West Wisconsin mills which we're foremost in
supplying this southwest trade, are preparing
TO meet all its requirements, especially
in cutting railroad bills and long
timber. New mills are being built especially
for saving long joists. p. Il. Putnam & Co.,
at Lowrie's, for instance, are moving back into
the timber five or six miles, and rebuilding
with four times the capacity Of last year, in
tending to send their products to the railroad
on tralnway. The very large lumber product
of the West Wisconsin mills will undoubtedly