Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-28
COMMERCIAL.

| Call ard Prices st ST.. Paul Yesterday
Wheat Receipts at Duluth---The Lake
| Wheat Markets Excited and Higher
| Pork a Shade Off, The Stock Market
| Weakens Under Free sales.
| ST.. PAUL, Sept. %.
On the call board yesterday prices ana
transactions were as follows:
Wheat-No. 1 hard $50; No. 2 S5c; eight cars
offered at SIC; September SIC; October SIC;
year SOC.
Oorn-No. 2 cash or September S6c.
Oats-No. white cash OF September 3oc;
No. mixed zoe bid; one car sold at 5Oc; sep
tenber mixed Csc; October &c.
Barley-No. cash or September Goo; No.
| 8 cash or September SIC.
Rye-No. 2, zoe.
Flax Seed-$1 IL.
Ground Feed-$l5.0O bid; one car sold at
SIS. so.
Corn Meal-$14.5O.
Bran-$7.5 80. o. E..
BRIDGE square street buyers offered s4o for
No. l wheat and SOC for No. 2, but all wagon
receipts went to millers at 1@2c better prices.
BUYERS for shipping paid yesterday QUO 10r
onions and 25c for potatoes. Inc ia''er soiu
on the retail market at 30c.
"a follows. with steady market: No. hard,
Csc. No. /, 94c, Nc. 2, hard, 94c No. z, 9oc.
The first receipts of chestnuts Tor tne seasoh
are selling to dealers at 20c pound. Lower
prices are promised for next arrivals. =,
Receipts of butter continue liberal, out WIN
a fair demand prices are unchanged from i's'
week. Eggs firm selling from commission
houses at l5c. ,
The Northern Pacific delivered at Duluth
Saturday and Sunday 1877 car loads of wheat
and one car load of -four, besides Twenty-Five
other loaded cars. and sent west l33 cars. most
" with eompany's construction material. ~
the seventeen days ending Sunday night the
Northern Pacific has delivered l, 4o3 car loaos Oh
wheat at Duluth. As they have loaded 4oU ana
500 bushels of wheat to the Car, according 10
the class of car, for the last ten days and before
loaded 400 and $50, the average car load OF the
seventeen days may be moderately put at 45O
bushels. This would give total OF oof,5o
bushels wheat received at Duluth since the
18th inst, not including deliveries by the st.
Paul & Duluth railroad, which have been con-
siderable. This Is equal to 39,9bI busnels
dav. Fully one half of the receipts have
graded No. / hard. All this wheat has been
handled by one elevator, with very little delay,
but the conveniences will be improved ABOUT
October 5th when the Northern Pacific eleVa-
tor in the inner harbor, with a capacity OF
10000 bushels, is expected to be ready 30 re-
ceive wheat. This elevator, with TWO tracAs
running through it, is planned upon line OF
narbor railway providing room for three such
elevators with all needed track and switch
room, which line, for three more elevators, may
be duplicated whenever necessary, so that the
largest of vessels may lay at either elevator
docs. These elevators, one after another, will
be provided whenever it is apparent that they
will be needed.
Elevator B, st. Paul, having capacity of
over l, 600 900 bushels, will be ready to begin
receiving grain October LIST.
A New York dispatch of last evening says:
'sThe dry goods business was fair with cotton
goods package houses but mems wear woolens
are quiet. Cotton goods are steadily held.
Prints in irregular demand but plaids fairly
active Glughsms and dress goods in fair re-
quest Fixnuels, jesns,repellants fairly active
The Bulletin says $50 pieces OF Eagle MILL
suiting and cassimeres will be sold at auction
Friday next"