Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-21
General Markets.

The bright sun and the little indications
shat we have here and there had that spring
rs coming have served to cause the fruit
dealers to begin to prepare for business in
earnest Choice high colored Valencia
oranges,42O in a boz,$8@9 per box; choice
new Messina. 81 per box; choice new Mes
sina lemons, $4.5og5 per box. Apples
have advanced slightly and are
quoted at from $3.50 to 81. Oysters, 80
to 4Oc. Malaga grapes, in kegs $3.50;
bbls. $3.50. California pears, $3.50 to
81 per box. Choice new layer figs, lie.
New Arabian dates, in trails, 10c Dufy's,
N. Y, cider, $3.50 per BIOL; 26c per gallon
in casks. Kentucky cider, $3.50 per Dbl;
FlaIf bbls, $3.50. Fancy hand picked pea
nuts, white Virginia, new crop, Zoe. Terra
gona almonds, zoe. New Naples walnuts,
I9c. New French walnuts, 15c.
New Brazil nuts, 12c. New Sicily
flberts, 14c. New Baraco flberts, PC.
Pecans, 12c.
DRESSED Hoes are offered freely with a
lower tendency, though some are asking
higher figures, as high as $40. They are
quoted at $7@7.25 on a range of 100
pounds; veal 100 12c; mutton, city dressed,
sc; country dressed, 7@8c; beef sides,
city dressed, 1925 to IS; country dressed,
Sc to 81.
LIVE HoGs-There are no live hogs com
ing in and quotations are nominal. The
storms have been so frequent of late that
people hesitate about shipping for fear
the weather may at any moment blow up
a storm anywhere and freeze the stock.
CATTLE are in sufficient supply and the
quality is pretty fair. Choice steers,
$45O@5; fair to good, $3.75@425; good
mixed, S3.259 $50; scalawags, S2.50@3;
mich COWS $40Q6 60; veal calves $6@7 per
100 pounds.
at present quotations. There is q good
demand for mutton of choice stock. The
prices range from $3.50 to 1925.
OIL-Raw oil, one barrel, SIC per gallon;
in car lots, 53c; five barrels, 55c; ten bar
rels, SIC. Boiled, SC per gallon extra.
Linseed meal, $21 in car lots, per ton; $50
single ton.
CRANBERRIEs are out of the market.
but the choicest is selling,
and that only in limited quantities the re
is such an everlasting quantity of it in the
country. Every body has lot of butter
and all seem determined to shove it upon
the market The oleomargarine, buttereen
and sueine is to be encountered every
where and causes the market to be over
loaded with what is called butter 1t is
therefore quiet and dull at the figures
given.
EGGS are in great demand while the sup
ply is short. They are not to be had here
at home, nor can they be got from below.
They are quoted at 34c in Chicago and in
st. Paul at $50 40c.
DRESSED PoULTRY-Turkeys are quoted
at 1S@19c, chickens at 1915. and ducks
a 14@1c5. The receipts are small and the
demand is light.
OYSTERS, so to 40c.
PRoy1s1oNs-Mess pork, $18.75@19;
hams, 12G 1870; clear bacon, scarce, 1212c;
spiced and breakfast bacon, 13c; shout
ders. sc; tierce lard, 13c; key lard,
1215c; wooden pals, 20 pounds, 124
@13Ic; tin pals, pounds, 144c; 10
pounds, 14c; mess beef, $12.50@13 per
barrel; smoked beef, 11119c per pound.
BEANs-SL50@27 per bushel for medi-
UNI to choice hand picked.
Brewers SUPPLIES is unchanged
and is still quoted at $4,000; hops main
tained the advance previously noted; $1.15
for Washington to $1.15 for New York.
FLoUR-Patents, $6@6.75; clears, SIS to
$5.25; straights, $3.50 to 1913; common
brands, 81 to So; in barrels, 25c extra.
Buckwheat -four, $3.50 to 81. Rye -four,
81 to $425. Graham, $3.50 to $5.a5.
LIME. CEMENT, ETC.-Are dull and inact-
i've, owing to the substantial closing of the
building season. Quotations are as fol-
lows: Oshkosh, Port Byron and Milwaukee
white lime, $1.25 per bbl.; Milwaukee &C.
ment, $3.50 per bbl.; Louisville cement,
S1.65 per Dbl; plaster paris, 1925 per Dbl;
pIastering hair, 35c per bushel; st. Louis
No. l fire brick, $40 per thousand; fire clay,
$3.50 per Dbl.