Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-25
COMMERCIAL.
vanced Yesterday-General Review OF
Trade at st, Paul.
ST.. PAUL, Wednesday, May 25

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The wholesale trade of the city is this week
uniformly reported good, with returns from
the country improving and better than has
been expected, while all the indications for
the coming months are that the summer sea-
son will be more active and profitable than
ever before. Changes of prices in standard
goods are only exceptional, steadiness If not
firmness being the rule. Among notable
changes are reductions of X on both Sisal and
Manila cordage, and an advance of y @2sc on
all grades of sugar. Also, a reduction of SC
on linseed and lard oils. Receipts OF goods
from the East have been large for few days,
since the blockade at Chicago, caused by the
swtchmen's strike has been raised, and lines
of trade which were last week embarrassed by
the lack of certain goods, are now filling de-
layed orders and ready for more. Most of the
business of this season of the year at the
wholesale houses, is on mail orders, but a
prominent feature of trade of this month, and
especially the past week, has been the
appearance OF number of buyers in person
making their first ventures in st. Paul. These
are mostly retail merchants who have hereto
fore bought wholly in Eastern cities, until
they have discovered they can do as well or
better IN st. Paul.
While other evidences of the established
position of St. Paul as commercial capital
are multiplying in sight of those who choose
to observe what is gong on about them, only
a few have occasion to note another
class of evidences in the same
direction. We ,llude to the increase of COM
mercial brokerage, carried on in office build
ings, without sign or display of goods; to the
setting up of independent wholesale houses in
upper stories of buildings; and to the quiet es
adjustment of large manufacturing and mer
camille plants in localities wherever room can
be found, without regard to street dis play or
to the fact that not one in ten of passers-by
has any knowledge of what is going on with
in. Those who do note these things are the
few who know that every possible line
| of traffic and manufacture is being planted
here on the sure foundations of abundant
capital and demand the future of which is
! only to be estimated by the vast probabilities
of growth of the new Northwest.
| In the fruit trade apples are no longer con-
sldered quotable, since there are none to be
had fit for shipping. The great waste in
oranges, noted last week, continues and great
care is requisite in sorting and repacking for
Good lemons $780, choice to extra
st.7a@S5 90; extra large Palermos S. rs.
| Bananas, per bunch, S2.00@s4 90, according to
size Cranberres, BELL & Bugle,) So per bar
rel. Figs, new layers, 2U@s2c; loose, in IA
pound boxes, 15c. Dates, new Arabian, in
trails, Sc. Strawberries, (Ilinois,) 81 per
case of twenty-four quarts.
| Cocoanuts are selling at Sc per hundred.
The seed trade of the season is about over
and grass seeds are accordingly lower. Seed
| corn is still scarce and reliable Northern is
held firm at S3 per bushe], white selected
Southern, for fodder crops, is sold at S1.25 per
| bushe.
| Malt is firm at 81. 20 per bushel, and malsters
anticipate that it will be held at above that
| fgure--certainly no lower-untl late in the
summer, when it will 60 higher, as present
stocks of barley are exhausted or reduced.
Hops are steady; New York, 25c; Washington
Territory &c; Wisconsin, 20@22c.
Lumbermen are filing orders from the
Southwest as fast as they can obtain cars for
loading. The winter and spring railway
blockades caused accumulations Of orders for
three to four months, which are now beng
worked off as fast as possible, with new orders
coming from old and new buyers throughout
the whole region, to points as far away as 50t
miles west of Kansas City. Dry lumber is very
scarce, stocks being badly broken, and presen
orders are only filled by dealers sorting VI
from each Others stocks. But in about sixty
days the winter saving will be ready for ship
ment, and then there will be no trouble
in filling orders. Prices are firm with NJ
indications of a decline land the trade prospects
depending largely upon crop prospects in tn
prairie States, promise prosperous year, es
pecially for the dealers and shippers who hav
secured for St. Paul such wide recognition al
lumber supplying and distributing point.
ON THE BOARD OF TRADE.
Prices on the board of trade yesterday wer
changed from the corresponding day of las
week as follows: Wheat, 1@2c higher; oats
shade higher; barley SC lower; rye &c lower
ground feed SOC lower; hay 81 higher; pota
toes 15(025c lower. Prices and transaction
Yesterday were as follows:
Wheat-No. hard, Sl.00 bid; No. 2 do, &c
No. 3, Soc, No. 4, 76c.
Corn-No. cash and May offered at 45c
Sales, five cars May No. 2 at 44c; and two car
No. old at 4fc.
Oats-No. 2 white, 3Sc bid, SOC Asked No
8 do 36K C bid; No. 2 mixed &c bid; No. d.
SIC bid, offered at SIC; No. mixed Jun
offered at 37Hc.
Barley-No. 2 9Oc bid; No. extra, s5c
No. 3, 75c.
Rye-No. 2, 94c bid
Ground Feed-Offered 1t $500
Bran-S500 bid
Baled Hay-Sl3.O0 bid.
Potatoes--60c bid.
LIVE STOCK, PROVISIONS, ETC.
Cattle are in good supply, and price
are shade off. We quote low
fancy steers, $3.50; choice Minnesota
S5.OO@525; common to good do. S4.0
@4.50; inferior and mixed lots, $1,000
400 Live hogs, $5.50@5.75. Good t
choice sheep, wooded, s.. 5006. 90; sheared
S4.5OM5.00.
Pork and other hog products are quit
steadily held. Mess pork is quoted a
$780, Hams, 11@l14c; shoulders, TIC
breakfast bacon, lie; clear sides, 100
lOKc. Lard, tierces, 12c; kegs, 1a4c
pals, 12Hc.
Mess beef is firmly held at $1,000. Dried beef
11H @12Hc; tongues, $5.5006.00 per dozen
Cooked canned corn beef, $500 per case.
Dressed Meats are in good demand. Dresses
hogs, X @7Ac. Peef sides, scarce, buying
at tx @74c., selling at 7101SHc. Mutton
l0@11c; scarce. Veal, TX @84c, and wanted
In poultry there is not enough trade just nov
to make prices.
AT COMMISSION AND PRODUCE HOUSES.
Flour-Selling, xxx, .75@5. 90; straights
S5.0O@55O; patents, S6.500700. Rye flour
scarce and higher; quoted at 1925.
Corn Meal--Coarse, $1S 90 per ton.
Shorts-S10. 009l2 90 per ton.
Bran-S5 00@6.O0 per ton.
Beans-Hand picked navy, S2.75 PEI
bushel; do medium, $3.50; common, SIPS.
Potatoes-Dull at 50@7hc.
Butter-Gilt-edg creamery rolls and pack
ages 20@22c; choice dairy, in tubs. 1S@20c
medium, 12014c; common, 7@10c. There Ii
no shipping demand whatever, but the ad
vice of last week, to country merchants
to pack in wooden vessels--is the only NOV
needed now. If neatly put up in good cleanly
wood, the butter will have earliest and best
sale For jar butter there will be little or NJ
sale throug h the sumner.
Cheese-State factory, l2@13c
Eggs-Steady at 10c; repacked for shipping
10l%@11c.
| Hides-Firm and unchanged. Green &c PEI
pound; green sailed SC; dry sailed lie; dry
flint lac; green calf 12c; green kip &c; No.
stock two-thirds prices. Pelts weak at 800
per pound for estimated wool.
Tallow-Advanced Nc; No. 1 SIC; No
2414c.
| Wool-Unwashed;17@ per pound; washed
26@2Sc. Prospects for the coming clip Of
| Minnesota wool uncertain