Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-07
sAN FRANCISCO MARKET REVIEW.
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General Merchandise.

SAN FRANCISCO July s. 1888
BAGS AND BAGeING-The Wheat Bag situation Is
very much m xed- The deliveries on contracts have
b very large but there is very little spot business
and great difference of opinion as to what the market
price really is Were to attempt TO sell 100 900
Bags he would probably to take Tic. esen 7c
v hile the ether hand to go into the mar
ket to buy he might have to pay &c for guaranteed
article There have always been causes for these
yariat ions, but this year they to be more gem
eral than usua The difference is principally the re-
suit of defective bags the market. How many
there are of this kind cannot be told Bales that
look perfectly sound before bling opened, end even
afterwards have been found to be badly grated from
too much pressure in packing Calcutta Wheat Bags
first tied in lots of So and 20 of these are subse
ouently folded and pressed into one bale by ma
chinery. bale of standard size and weight properly
pressed ought to measure 10 cubic feet so that
bales would male about ton me surement, which is
the way Bags received as fright. To economic
space these bales have been squeezed as TO measure
only l6 feet. This operation brings five bales in two
tons measurement. instead OF four properly pressed
bales This saving in freight amounts TO about &c on
each bag. We nave been shown some of these hard
pressed bags taken from the center of bales and have
found them worn in places by coming in contact
with the seams and folds If other bags greatly
damaged 1t is supp 1sed that of the low priced
Wheat Bags now Offering are affected In this way
Trouble has already occurred bit cen buyers and sell
lers this very ground and it is AIRED that other
cases will be developed on closer examination.
Potato Gunnies are Jobbing at l5(9l54ci Wool Bags
42Idf5c: Burisps Tao for 40inch and lac for 60
inch; Hop Cloth, n@llae o yard
2I9 COO Fireb lick Spot lots quotable at $50 while
lots to arrive could not be placed at over S35 pes
thou. nd English Bath. 42id45c q doz; California
building d. scrptons, Sc 5e@ll q thousand
CANDLES-Following quotations for Eastern
brands in round lots Grants Steario Add, II o.
l2c: Gross Co sAdamantine IA OF, l2dl3c; Harkness
Patent Wax, lSc; Mtchells Adamantine. l6dl6sc for
IA and lsc for l6 OF; Proctor Candles tearc Acid
IA or 15c; Ropes 94@llAc for the two styles; Schae
tero Ssearic Acid IA or l2c and IL Star l0c; o. s.
Candle Companys II OF, 1Oc; Werks Stearc Acid 17a
dI7sc for Is or and Ice for Il OF; w. H. Woods 4
Co.'S Shield 1+6l4ac, and Solar Wax, l6C6l6lc both
full weight Woods Conihans II OF. lO@l0tc; Paraf-
hne 2Oc; Sperm, 25(n25c.
CEAENT-E Eastern tRosendale end other brandt
81 259I2 60 anu foreign portland and other
brands, So 50(13 rs; Golden Gate Platter, 81 75@
3; Wotherspoon Plaster, 1893 IS Santa Cruz Lime
81 Goal rs q bhl Land Plaster 80 so q ton Fire
Clay 81 q Dbl fer American and s. for English Brick
Dest si95 q Dbl; Cattle Hair, &c; Goat Hair, 4c
q b.
CoAL-Imports on the I'd amounted to $500 tons
There is active demand for spot lots of steam,
well for cargoes at hand, while there is great
indifference concerning future loaaings Goose Bay