Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-02
TURNS OF THE MARKET.

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The Stock Market Strong and Easily Adj
vanced Because Money is Easy Wheat
and Corn a Little Higher for Futures
Oats Little Lower--Provisions Higher
and Stronger.
ST PAUL, Thursday, June 2.
On the board of trade yesterday prices and
were as follows:
Wheat-No. hard, $l.O2 bid; No. 2 do,
SOC; No. 8, Sec; No. 4, 75c.
Corn-No. 2, 44c bid; June, 43c bid. No. 3
offered at 44c. l1
Oats No. 2 white, 40c bid, 41c asked; No. s
white, SOC; No 2 mixed, 39Hc bid, 40c asked;
June do, 39H c; No. mixed, 3Sc.
Barley-No. 2, 9Oc bid; No. extra, S5c;
No. 3, SOC.
Rye-No. Q, 90c bid.
Ground Feed-$l7. so bid.
Bran-Offered at IS So.
Baled Hay-$l2 90 bid, $13. 90 asked.
Potatoes-5O@6Oc bid, according to quality.
ST. PAUL, Wednesday, June 1.
In some branches of the wholesale trade of
past week, indicating that the spring trade is
about over. There are also in the same
branches fewer buyers in person, land orders by
mail, though numerous ARE generally smaller.
In otner lines, however, trade seems to in
crease rather than fall off. Collections are
uniformly reported good. In dry goods there
is large demand for the season. The reduc-
ton of C on brown sheetings, noted in some
makes last week, has been extended through
the list. A reduction of 1c on grain bags is
also noted. The grocery trade for May foots
nm muoh laruar fhop in the Same month of
last year, but is now mostly by mail orders.
Best Java coffee is advanced &c; extra G sugar
is advanced y c; cheese is reduced 1c, and beans
are marked 1O@15c lower. The hardware men
are working highland day to keep up with or
ders, and are still embarrassed to some extent
by the non-receipt of goods shipped frem the
East early in the season. One house is reported
short on line of goods ample
for It from New York March 9th. The
Ceicago blockade, however, has been broken
and the delayed goods are coming forward
freely. A reduction of SC on trace chains and
an advance of &c on pig tin have been estab-
lished during the week. In iron and steel,
with prices firm, there is fair trade for the
season. The trade in drugs and associated
goods hold large. Citric acid, baisam tolu,
American calomel, gum opium and castor oil
are lower. Inspected carbon oil is y C lower.
AL duVduCe vi "luuo" Siass 10 ausiciPd1cu,
because of the large demand and light stocks,
while the factories all shut down
to-day for the summer and will
remain closed until September In leather and
findings fair trade and steady prices are re-
ported. In boots aud shoes the rush of custO-
mers and orders, which has continued for five
or six weeks, is now over, and June opens with
the usual moderate trade of the season.
The seed trade is still fairy active as to mil
let and Hungarian grass, for which there is an
unusual and active demand. Millet is firm at
S1.65 and Hungarian grass at 81. Is. These fig
ures are, of course, for wholesale deals to the
trade, land the remark is only made to save deal
ers here the trouble of making explanations to
customers who do not understand that retail
prices are not quoted. The late demand for
corn seed is continued in small way by
orders from the Southwest.
Malt is armly held at 81 Is, an advance of
SC in the week. Hops are steady: New York
25c; Washington Territory &c; Wisconsin 20
@22c.
In the fruit trade the features of the week
are sharp advances on lemons at the sea
board mot wholly followed here) and on
strawberries at Chicago. There is a continued
large percentage of loss on oranges which ar
rive in a condition requiring thorough sort
ing and careful repacking for further ship
ment. Presley & Co. quote sound repacked
Messinas at So so. The few imperials en- the
market yesterday were held at the same figures.
Good lemons, repacked, 81 10000; extra
large Palermoes, repacked, $3.50. Bananas,
Figs, new layers, 2O@22c; loose in fourteen
pound boxes, 15c. Dates, new Arabian, in
trails; Sc. Golden strawb berries, poor, and
quoted in Chicago yesterday at $2.75 per case
and Centralias at So IS. Quotations here for
best qualities, from northern Illinois, can
hardly be less than $4.75@5.00. Cranberries
are out of the market.
Cocoauuts, selling at IS per hundred.
Dry dimension lumber is scarce and hard to
find, and dealers are frequently obliged, for
filing orders, to ship green. The same may
be said as to No. 1 fencing Every dealer re-
ports a crowd of orders, and some have lately
declined to receive new orders until they can
catch up with those already accepted. In
short, the trade was never before SO
active at this time of year. With ali buyers
who are in reach of the "Lumber Line" ST.
Paul is now fully established as competing
with Chicago in the lumber trade. The grades
here are recognized as equal to the best and
our lumbermen have credit for good manufac-
ture and for sending out lumber which is
brighter than can be obtained from some 9th
er lumber marts. An Instance of the success
of St. Paul dealers in competition is that Mr..
o. II. Ballou, a lumber dealer at Omaha, has
bought, through E. T. Sumwalt, of the C. N.
Nelson company, John Martin & Co., j. P.
Gribben and others, 100000 feet of lumber
for new elevator, the largest in the West, to
be built at Omaha this year. Upon this bill
Chicago and other competing points made
their lowest figures, but the dryness and
superiority of our lumber being recognized
the purchase was made here. Mr.. Sumwalt is
also furnishing portion of the lumber for
new Opera house at Omaha. The present
prospect Is that there will be no summer re-
duction of prices. The demand is very strong
and will take about all that can be supplied as
fast as it is ready to ship.
Eastern and European Markets.
NEW YORK, June Money easy at 8
per cent. Prime mercantile paper 1904
per cent. Sterling exchange, bankers bills
strong at s4.S31. SighG exchange on New