Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-19
FINANCE h COMMERCE.

. ST. PAUL. Sept. 10. 1SS3.-The markets dur.
ing the past week have shown gradual but not
at all rapid Increase in the amount Of sales the
same as is usual at this season OF the YEAR when
the threshing machine has told good story, and
''No. hard'' is the prevailing grade OF wheat.
Nowhere in the city is there any sudden or
marked change. Activity In all branches IS IN
! creasing in a regular sort of way, and orders
from the country are gradually but steadily
multiplying, and this is likely to continue till
the farmers are all through harvesting and have
time to GO to the stores for trade which In turn
will send the dealer in the interior to the trade
centers for goods. Collections which have been
dull for the pas. few months are showing up
much more favorably. In this respect the
change has net bsen very marked as yet, still
the change Is sufficiently marked to dem onstIate
that the improvement is permanent, and that
bills will be still more
readily met hereafter than they have
been heretofore The unexpectedly large har-
vest, and the equally unexpectedly superior quail
ity of the wheat is doing wonders for the peo-
pie throughout all this northwest. 1t is
strengthening their hands, putting vim, spirit
and confidence into all the people thereof, and
giving to the whole community wholly new
lease of life. Dry goods are showing very de-
c:ded improvement. Goods of all kinds are
selling rapidly. Collections though improving
are still far from being worthy ought to be.
Hardware is very active and daily improving.
Augers and auger bits and axes have declined.
Wrenches have advanced. Lumber continues
active with prices firm and unchanged. Drugs,
paints and oils show improved sales and better
collections. Chloroform, gum shellac and car
bon oil have advanced. Oil cloves and quicke
silver have defined slightly. Groceries of
course are improving. Sales are good, stacks
| large, inquiry active and collection improving.
Star candles have declined, and in canned goods
some changes have occurred but
they are not important. Boots and shoes,
leather and finished iron and steel are without
change. Flour is firm at quotations. The pro-
duce market has been weakening and strength
eniug by turns all the week. Everything ex-
cept wheat going lower and higher day after
day. Wheat during the week has declined from
81 .05 to $50. Corn has managed to hold its
own, while oats have improve slightly. Bar
ey has made some improvement and is higher
than it was week ago. Rye is steady. Butter
is without material change The supply still con-
rinues enormous. In regard to fruit
the market is very firm and
active. Hides and wool quiet and
and the market is very inactive indeed. Dressed
beef is a little weaker. Provisions are q shade
frmer Financial matters ara substantially
without change. Collections begin TO be lit
tie easier, and the banks are preparing for the
usual call that will be made upon them to
move the wheat crop.
General Market.
General activity continues to prevail in the
fruit market in st. Paul, and the fruit brought
here continues to improve, especially
the apples, pears, peaches and
grapes. The California pears
which have been our standby most of the season
sell for from $3.00U4.50. The Bartletts are out
of the market. Grapes coming in quite
freely and sell with rapidity at $364 per Gaze of
10 pounds. Blueberries and biackberries are
wholly out of the market Michigan peaches are
selling at Sl.15 per "a box peck basket.
Domestic grapes shll sell at LOG &c per pound.
Messina oranges, 81 per box. Lemons are firm
at $7@I.s0 per box. Apples, new, $3.50@5 par
bbl., as to quality and variety. Basanas, choice
Aspinwall, $685. per bunch. Coconnuts are 81
per LOO for choice Carthagenas. Tomatoes, 75c
@sl per q bu box. Dates, in trails, SC per
pound. Peanuts, fancy hand picked white
Virginia, lac per pound; hand picked, 75c;
choice, lie; farmers packing, SC. Teragona
almonds, zoe; new Maple wannts, 1Sc; new
French walnut, 15c; new Brazil nuts, l2c; new
Bara o tiberts, 13c; new Sicily tilberts, lac;
Pecans, lie; Sicily shelled almonds, in 25 pound
boxes, Sc per poun1.
HoGs-rhere tas been a decline in dressed
hogs, as was init nated last week, and they
are now quot.d at s6@655. 1--we
hogs have also experienced slight decline and
now are quoted at 81 .75@5M.
CATrLE-Owing to the good supply of grass
fed cattle the market is rather weaker Fancy
y J. | -
steers, S3..t@+; butchers stock, 3.2j03 80;
veal calves, S5.aCW6.5 80.
ONIoNs-Are quoted at 25@3Gc per pushed,
outgoing from ~ to 50c; bermudas, $l.z5 to
l.5U per box,
SHEEP Are in good supply and quotation
are unchanged. The range Is good to choi CO.
So 1904; fair SO 81.
PRovIsoNs-Remain at the decline noted last
week. Mess pork, $3.50, hams, lag ;415c;
clear bacon. scarce, 1214c; spiced and breakfast
bacon, 800 l31sc; shoulders, 84@1o34c; tierce
ard, &c; keg lard, lu72c; wooden pals, twenty
pounds, ll1ac; tin pals, three pounds, l4$4c;
t n pounds i4c; mess beef, slZM $50 per bar
| rel; smoked beef, sc Per pound.
FLoUR-Is pretty strong at the following
quotations: Orange Blossom, 81; Red Cross,
| sJraights Sc; capitol family, $3.50: Bakers
xxx, $3.50; in barrels. S25c extra; low grades,
$40 $50; rye flour, 1918 per Dbl; graham,
81 oU per Dbl.
hops, both Washington and New York, have de-
ciined 30c for and 35c for old.
BUTTER-The quantity of what is called butter
still continues to increase in this market, but
the quality does not. As said many times be-
fore choice grades are the only ones for which
| there is any demand.
DRESSED MEATs.-Beef sides dressed, 667c
Mutton, city dressed, &c. Veal, 81 @1Ic.
HIDES are in fail. demand and are steady at
| quotations. Green hides are coming in slowly
and quotations are unchanged.
LIME, CEMENT, ETo.-Quottions are as fol-
lows: Oshkosh, Port Byron and Milwaukee
| white lime, S2.25 per barrel; Milwaukee cement,
$l.85 per barrel plaster paris 81 per barrel;
plastering hair, 35@40c per bushel; st. Louis
No. l fire brick, s45 per thousand; fire clay,
| 50. 20 per bushel.
Board of Trade.
WHEAT-No. l hard, l 90 bid; No. 2 hard CSC
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