Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-30
FINANCIAL & COMMERCIAL.
Weekly ReefeU
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ST. PAUL, March 30, 1852.

Weekly Reefe,c
ST. PAUL, March 30, 1882.
In financial circles there is great activity,
with good deal of demand for money. The
banks have proved abundantly adequate to the
demands upon them, and all salts
factory paper receives proper attention. Never
before was there so much money in st. Paul
ct this season of the year as there is now.
Deposits are much larger and more numerous
than ever before at this season, SO that while
there is an increased demand there Is an in
creased supply.
The grain trade as represented by the board
Of trade shows that business during the week
Was rather moderate. This condition was
owing in considerable degree to the fact
that holders for some reason manifested
no disposition to accommodate Themselves to
the views Of buyers. Prices were firm, and
transactions as general thing were limited
to immediate wants. Wheat, especially, has
been very strong, and holders have appeared
very independent indeed, so that whatever the
buyers got they were compelled to pay what
was demanded. Yesterday morning $4,000
bushels of No. hard were sold for 81 40,
11,000 bushels of No. 3 hard for $l.S5 and
$4,000 No. 2 for $l.33. This was for round
and corn meal have been con-
siderably frmer. Eggs have declined
while butter remains the same and poultry
is practically out of the market.
In dry goods there is little change as to the
situation, except that business has greatly in
crease ed. Quotations are unchanged. Col
lections are about the same as they usually are
at this season of the year.
The grocery trade, as usual, comes In for Its
share OF the business and everybody is kept busy.
Marshall corn Is out of market and none will
be received until after the new crop has been
gathered. Cordage has declined while granu.
lated sugar has been advanced to I0Hc.
Hardware is in the food tide of the biggest
kind OF trade. Cable chains 5 IS inch have
declined TO 7Ac and S-s inch to 64. No.
handles have dropped to So 90. Locks and
knobs have declined to 45Xc according to the
new list. Turned copper has also dropped to
Sic.
Boots and shoes remain the same.
The same remark may be made OF leather
findings.
The lumber market Is very active indeed and
the advance neted short time ago is very
firmly maintained, and as building operations
progress with the opening spring weather
prices are very likely to continue firm. 1t IS
possible that the advance recently made may
have the effect of delaying some building that
was projected. At any rate there Is no in
dication whatever that there will be any de-
cline In quotations.
WHOLESALE PRODUCE.
Stocks In this line are very large and prices
are very firm. st. Paul has never had such
supply of fine fruit as she now has. The de-
mand is excellent. B. Presley & Co. have just
issued circular from which the following
quotations are taken: Oranges-Imperial Size
Messina and Palermo, leo fruit, $500. A
few choice o. o. Messina, about regular size,
200 to 200 fruit, $3.50; g. 0094. 25 per box;
as this is only a little over one
cent a piece it gives you cheap
fruit to run on, 1t is nice and sweet, but small.
Lemons-Choice to fancy bright smooth
reasonable discount from these prices for both
Oranges and Lemons, on 5, 10 or 20 box lots.
We are receiving about three cars per week
now, and our fruit is always fresh. Apples.
Choice Baldwins, $3.50; choice Russetts, $500;
choice Greetings, 81 90 per bDl. Oysters
Selectss 40c; Standards, Soc. Figs-Choice
New Layers, 12c per h.; second quality, 80
ester, N. z, Clarified Cider, 5000 per bbl.;
casks, &c per GAL; half bbls., $3.50, choice
and will keep sweet. Cranberries-A few
Wild Wisconsin, So 90 per bushel box. Ban.
anas-Are nice, S3.c095.00 per bunch, as to
size. Apple butter, 4e per pound; apple
jelly, Sc per pound. Maple sugar, In cakes
and prices, 12Hc per ponnd. Coacoa nuts
81 ptf uuuuttd. Odtcss New Araoiau, III lrdlfS,
SC. Hickory nuts, new, 81 per bu. Peanuts.
Just received 500 bags of "Shipn brand, hand
picked, Va. nuts, lie. Foreign nuts of all
kinds at loves. prices. Malaga grapes $l2@
$14 per barrel.
oil-Raw oil, one barrel, &c per gallon;
five barrels, Csc; ten barrels, &c. Boiled &c
per gallon extra. Linseed meal, $3.50 per
ton. --
Eggs are IN good supply and. have dropped
to 15@l6cc
The quotations below give chicken, at TO
14c and turkeys at l2@15c but OF course, all
vii understand, that atthis season of the year
the quotation is substantially nominal one.
The trade in fonr has been rather limited
and the market has ruled quiet during the
week, while prices have remained firm and
even strong. The following are the quota
700; clesrs So O016 81; in barrels 25c extra.
Graham S.. 75@e 90 per Dbl. Buckwheat flour
&6.009S 90 per Dbl.
Brewers supplies-selIing prices: Malt,
st25 per bushel. New York hops, 30@32c;
Wisconsin hops, s0@25 Washington Territory
hops, 5Sc per pound.
Lime, Cement, etc-In this line there is now
and has been all winter good trade, and
dealers are selling as much fire brick as they
did any time during the summer. Selling
prices are as follows: Oshkosh, Port Byron
and Milwaukee white lime, Sl.25 per Dbl;
Milwaukee cement, $3.50 per Dbl; Louisville
cement, Si.75 per Dbl; plaster parties, $3.50
per Dbl; plastering hair, Doc per bushel; st.
Louis No. fire brick, $45 per thousand.
Fire clay, $3.50 per barrel.
In regard to butter there Is but little to be
said. Good choice table is now, as it has
been all along, very scar. and is
in active demand The poor stuff is always to
be found in abundance. Prices are IN
changed. For giltedge fancy ereameries
S7m40c; extra choice dairy 32@35c; good Go.
25930c; fresh sweet roll and print 25@2Sc;
packing TO fair roll and print, 14@20c; ordi-
nary packing, 129t4c; then down to Sc.
In dressed meats the market is firm. Hogs
arc quoted at $775@s.o0: beef, city dressed,
S7.50@S.50; outgoing IS 5C@9. 90; Mutton,
city dressed, $40 50@l 90; out going, $1l.50;
country dressed, $3.50. Veal $S.59@9.OO.
Onions 81. 10 per bushcl.
For potatoes there is fair demand for ship
mcnt, and enough are coming in to supply the
city demand. Prices range from s5c@Sl.
Cheese is without change; 12@15c.
Cattle-The supply has been sufficient for
the demand, and prices have been firm. Fancy
Iowa steers, $5.75@6.00; choice Iowa steers,
SIS 25@5 80; good to extra State steers, S. OO@
5 80; fair, s4O0@5.00. Cows and heifers, fair,