Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-10
GeneraI Markets.


The fruit market is comparatively fat
and trade is stagnant as is usual at this
season of the year. For grapes, oranges
and apples there is a good demand. APP
pIes in car load lots are worth from So @
$50. Broken lots $3.5O93.75. Californian
pears are worth 81. California grapes
are out of market. Oysters bring from
25a45c, according to quality, and whether
the cans are full or not. Oranges
from Florida are now in good supply at
$3.50 per box. Velencia oranges, $3.50
per case, Louisiana, in barrels, $9@10 per
barrel Choice Messina lemons, So per
box; there are some Malagas in tho mark
ct. but they are green and bitter. Malaga
grapes in barrels, S6.5O@7.5O; kegs, SIG
4.50. These are choice goods and good for
all winter, Choice new layer figs, 18c per
pound. New Arabian dates, lie per pound.
Choice Jersey cultivated cranberries, SIS.
These are extra large barrels and some
what larger than the Wisconsin barrels.
Cider (Dufy's Rochester, n. " $3.50 per
barrel, 26c per gallon. Fine Missouri and
Kentucky cider can be had at 81 per bar
rel. $3.50 per half barrel. Peanuts, hand
picked new crop, lie. Terragona almonds,
2Oc.; English walnuts, 19c; Brazil nuts, 12c;
fIberts, lac; pecans, 12c; Sicily shelled al
monds, in twenty-five pound boxes, S5c
per pound.
DRESSED HoGs-Hogs are in even better
supply than they have been for some time
and little lower, being now quoted at 81
Oils on a range of 100 pounds. Veal SO
IOc; mutton, city dressed, SC; country
dressed, 6@7c. Beef sides, city dressed,
SIC; country dressed, $1,000.
LIVE HoGs-The weather is better for
live hogs and the supply is abundant.
Quoted $5.7596 per 100 pounds.
CATTLE-The supply is not large bat
is abundantIy large to meet all demands
likely to be made. While the quality is
nothing to boast of still it is equal to any
thing we have had here lately, and proba-
bly, little better. Choice steers $4.25@
$50; fair to good steers $3.25@4; good
mixed $3.25@350; scalawags $2.5O@3;
mich COWS $40@65; veal calves $697 per
100 pounds.
SHE Are in sufficient supply to meet
the demand. They range in price from
$3.5O@4.5O per 100 pounds for good; choice
to fancy $4.25@4.5O.
O1L-Raw oil, one barrel, SEC per gallon;
in car lots, SIC; five barrels, 55c; ten bar
rels, SAC. Boiled, &c per gallon extra. Lin
seed meal, $21 in car lots, per ton; S22
single ton.
CRANBERRrEs-Mayb be said to be sub
stantially out of the market. There are
certainly none in first hands.
BUTTER is moving slowly and is accumu
Iating gradually but steadily all the time,
while prices are weak. The better grades
of butter are in good demand. Choice in
tubs will bring here 25@30c. Medium to
good. 10 to 22c; common to 12O.
PoTAToEs- little is doing in potatoes.
The season is unfavorable. On the board of
trade yesterday they we're quoted at sec in
sacks. As long as the weather remains as
cold as it is at present they cannot be
handled much.
DRESSED POULTRY is in good demand,
and the advance noted last week has not
only been maintained but still further
advance is noted. Turkeys now command
from 13 to 14c; chickens from 10 to 1910.
EGGs--Are stronger and a slight ad-
vance is noted.
OYsrEBs-S Standard, soc; selects 4Oc per
can.
-Unwashed $50 zoe per ID; washed
2692Sc.
PRov1s1oNs-Mess pork, $18.25@18.5O;
hams, 1415c; clear bacon, scarce, 1870;
spiced and breakfast bacon, 1411ac; shout
ders, lie; tierce lard, 1115@12c; key lard,
12@1215c; wooden pals, 20 pounds, 1914
@134c; tin pals, 3 pounds, 1870; 10
pounds, lac; mess beef, $12.50@13 pes
barrel; smoked beef, 111ac per pound.
BEANs-$1.5O92.7 per bushel for medi-
UNI to choice hand picked.
BREWERS SUPPLIES which was
noted last week as being a little weaker, is
somewhat stronger and is now quoted at
SIS to soc; hops have still further advanced
and now command from $1.10 for Wash
ington to $1.15 for New York.
FLoUR-Patents, $6@6.75; clears, So to
1925; straights, $3.50 to 1915; common
brands, 81 to S.; in barrels, 25c extra.
Buckwheat -four, $3.50 to 81. Rye -four,
81 to 1926. Graham, $3.50 to 1926.
LIME, CEMENT, ETC.-Are dull and inaot-
i've, owing to the substantial closing of the
building season. Quotations are as fol-
lows: Oshkosh, Port Byron and Milwaukee
white lime, S1.25 per bbl.; Milwaukee &C.
ment, $3.50 per bbl.; Louisville cement
$1.65 per bbl.; plaster paris, 1925 per Dbl.
pIastering hair, Soc per bushel; St. Leui;
No. fire brick, $40 per thousand; fire clay
$3.50 per Dbl.