The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-01
GRAIN AND BREADsTUFFs.

Tho receipts OF grain by wagon to-day wert
| only fair In all except new oats which came IN
| lively. Two cars of corn were received from
Kansas, which went or rapidly being of an eN'
celleut quality. There WAS one eur OF oal,
shipped from here last evening for the west and
two others to-day to Shreveport A few loads OF
new May wheat were received, which was OF a
good quality The mills are beginning To manu-
fnCture, and Hour from new wheat Will soon be
offered freely on the market There is nc
changes to note in the prices of grain, the mar
ket being quiet and steady.
TO-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
WHEAT-Choicc. 20, medium, Gee low grade,
60C; Nlcaragus, COO.
RYE-Nominal at 60e
BARLEY-Nominal, SOC,
bILLET SEED-l0O; German miliet, IS.
OATs-Old SOC new, i5c.
CoRN-S5G to 9jc
BRAN-we quote at mills, O. 20Gl rs; in store,
FLoUR-we quote City Mills rs follows: xxx.
g. rs; xxx, sS 49, extra 83 20.
Imported; Xxx, per owt, q 50; xxx, IS 20;
xxx So so choice family 90 ~ fancy So 20
California, fancy, s. 1898 50; choice family,
s. 5593 65.
Corn meal, per bushel, 81 %.
Graham flour. per hundred 81
The reports from the Chicago exchange to-
day show,a slight advance Ia wheat opening
for June ut sl25h and closing ut 81 - 3S, seven
eighths of u cent over the closing figures of Sat
urday. For July delivery II sold on .lrst call at
81 2, is and on last call NJ sI.25I., cent and an
eighth above the last sales last week. There
was but little change In corn. For June It sold
In the morning ut tgtA and In the evening NJ
90 3-S, M eighth under last week, For July de
livery IL opened at 20 and closed ut II is. an
eighth above Saturdays last sales
For the month of March the wheat exports
from the port of San Francisco were 1881, SIS
bushels rs against |, S62, 40 bushels from New
York, and 7gi,7N bushels from Baltimore, In
the value Of domestic exports for the nine
he aln NItth Gnt.
| shows an aggregate of s3l, S3S lSS, New York
| s63 il9, 572, and Baltimore. Slq coo $50
Chutes over dams for log and lumber driving
and slides down mountains and hillsidcs for the
| same purpose, are common, but such appliances
| for running grain from mountain tops are Il nov.
| city that Washington territory has introduced
| among the utilities of industries They urc en-
| plOyed on Snake river The hills on either side
are so rugged and PERCEPTIONS that wagon road
| is an inpOssiblity; but the great wheat country
| demanded that the grain should be brought Il
| the river banks as eXpeditiously aud ccOnOm
cally Ms possible; therefore pipes were laid W
| the face OF The mountain, aud grain is now sen
| down In bulk To the warehouse where II is agnif
sacked. The price paid is 81 so per ton FOL
rely bringing II from the Top of the hill 10 tn,
| boats. The pipes are OF wood, and are fully hall
| u mile In length.
Statistics show that while the. demand from
Eng land for wheat has failed US IN measure
| the same Is true In greater degree rs to Other
| countries, and that IN spite of Englands In
creased importation from India and Russia, sh,
| has taken more wheat and flour from va in pro
| portion TO other countries than she did the yea
| before. The decreased importation from thi
country was nearly 1000 600 bushels, yet we fur
| nishcd Il trie more than twO-thiTds of all TN
wheat imported II is also Il significant an,
suggestive fact tina! while the railroads com
plain, that the west refuses To ship Its whea
| east for export spectators holding for highc
| prices, Ill proportion 10 the amount of our sur
pins wheat 10 be marketed, the sr In has bee
going forward faster this year that 1t did last
| aud II IL also ny truo now as 1t ever was In tn
history of the business that England buys whe II
where she can buy 1t cheapest, aud not wher,
she has been In the habit OF buying IT,
BALTIMORE, Mp, May 81 Flour dull: How
ards stained western Aupcrlnc, 3 ~ To $40; OK
ira, t75 To 20; family, 67h city mills supcrtlnt
40 TO 5 30; extra, 500 ito $50 Rio brands 7.25 /
13i; wheat southern steady western lower
southern red l36 10 l.39; amber, Lao to Lii; No
western winter red, spot 81. u | S7I,; corn
southern steady western easier; southern whit.
y, yellow, "a