St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-04
Among the Commission Men.

Business remains quiet with prices about
steady. The supply of good grades of butter is
very limited and the demand good; there is no
improvement in common grades. Beans ale
weakening and have a downward tendency.
Bacon and hams are steady and firm; dried beef
scarce and higher. Cheese is shade higher for
creamery with limited stocks. Dressed meats a
little unsettled on account of large shipments
from Kansas City. Flour is quiet and weak.
Hides are firm and in demand. Linseed oils and
flax products are firm. Poultry nominal. Fruits
are firmer and in better demand; apples scarce
and higher: oranges firm; lemonds increasing in
demand and prices Strengthening; bananas in
good supply with fair demand. Following are
prices current:
BUTTER-Recelpts liberal; grease, SC; packing
stock off flavor, rose; dairy, common to fair, 10
@15c; choice roll and prints 16@18c; creamery,
28@l32637c.
BEANs-Commo, 81 .65@1 IS; medium, SEQ
81 25 navy S2.50@ 2.65.
BACON AND HAMs-Long clears bacon, 1919
dry salt 10c; shoulders, $1,000; hams, 1871
ola.
CuEEsE-skim, 6A@7Ac; part cream, $40
9Ac; full cream old, 1OM@12Ac; full cream, fall
made, 14014Hc.
DRESSED MEArs-Beef country dressed, 6A@
&c; city dressed, SQl10c; mutton, country
dressed, 6@7c; city dressed. 9@9Hc; veal 10
oil.
FLoUR-Patents s5.75@6: straight s4.75@
500 Bakers xxx, S4.25@5.0O; low grades
S2.75@3.OO; Rye flour $3.50 per barrel i;
graham S4614.25 per barrel; buckwheat flour,
81. 75@7.0O.
HIDEs-Green, sailed, 71s@SAc; green, 6@7c;
dry flint, 12c; calf, dry, 121ac; green lie; deer,
dry, 20@25c; antelope, 20Ql25c; elk, 20@25c !;
buffalo, S@10c, damaged u oft.
WooL-Unwashed, 1S021c; washed, goo CSC.
Il IL.
16@1Sclb.
HoPs-Washington Territory, 3Oc; New York
CSC. Wisconsin, 25c.
MALT-75cQ1S0c per bushel.
LNsEED On-Raw, SIC; boiled SOC. Lin
seed meal S21@22.
observation-disclosures, dressed, 15@16c per lb :;
turkeys, dressed, 1S@19c; ducks and geese, 10
015c. These prices are nominal, for scarcely
any birds are offered.
RooTs-( Medicina) ginseng, S1.75@1.S5; SEN
eca snake root, 35@37c per ID.
FRUTs-Appes, 3.OO@5.5O; peddlers stock
S2.50@3.00; pears, Easter Burre, 2.75@3.25 per
box; Winter Nells, S4.5O05.OO; oranges,
400; Q Florida, S5.OO@6.OO; Messina and
Palermo lemons, S3.OO@3.5O; Cranber-
res, 9.50@11.OO; Malaga grapes, so b., SOS.
so; Figs, new, 16c, 18c, 20c per h.; dates,
black in trails 7c@Sc, fard in boxes, 12c per
h.. bananas, S2.25@D5 so per bunch.
NUTS-Hlckory, large, Sl.OO; small, Sl.25,
walnuts, 15c; almonds, 10000; Barcelona ha
eel (flberts) 14c; pecans, 12@13c; Brazil, 14c
peanuts, S@1Sc; Cocoa nuts, $5.OO@7.0O per
100.
FURs-Mink, 5Oc@1 Co., coon, 6O@sOc; lynx,
2.50@4.00; musk rat, winter 10c, spring 12c,
kits 304c; red fox, 1.25@l1 so; kits, 30@l4Oc
silver fox, 81. OO@4O. 90, cross 2.50@6.OO: otter,
6.OO@IO.OO; fisher, 6.OO@9OO: skunk, 3O075c
badger 5O@75c; wild cat, 5O@6Oc; house cat, 10
@25c: marten, 1898 90 wolverine, 4.OO@5 90
wolf, 100000; prairie wolf, 75c@3 90; bear,
7OO@12 90; cubs, 4.OO@6.OO; beaver, Lake Su-
perior, 800 @94,00 per h.; Hudson bay, 3.OO@
L. 90 per h.. Dakota, 2.00@3. 00p. er b.
SWEET PoTAroEs-Ilinos, S4.5O@5.OO; Jer-
seys, S5.50@6.00.
Receipts and shipments of grain, live stock,
produce, merchandise, ETC., for the twentY-four