The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-14
INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
Good Trade in Progress-Prices Still Strong
on Most Lines of Goods.

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on Most Lines of Goods.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. IL.
The week closing to-day averages we'll with
the business of the best weeks of the present
year-in fact, in most departments the volume
of trade has been quite satisfactory although
margins are small. The Indianapolis Grocer of
to-day makes some very pointed remarks about
trade, which will bear reproducing The
Grocer says the movement of merchandise has
not received any addition to its volume since our
last resume of trade it remains quite up to the
good standard of August and has more of the
spice and dash of the great years of prosperity
than has been granted trade in lengthy period.
Sugars and coffees have added no little to this
breezy change in business by an advance of
more than ordinary interest. In sugars the
tables of refners are each day barred of offerings,
leaving many orders untitled. The situation is
embraced by the sugar-makers for getting
extreme prices They milk the market to the
last drop, knowing that when the exhausting
fall demand shall have toned down.
and the Louisiana crop is marketed, there must
be drop in prices. The scarcity of refined
sugars is artificial as refners have capacity
sufficient to burden the market if every wheel
was turned to its fullest, should they desire to
do so. Coffees are under the lash of speculation,
and the great roasters" having become heavy
buyers, the smaller traders have taken up the
advantages thus opened to them and become
frmer in their views and with their holdings.
But even one quarter of cent to the average
country buyer is small matter as profits on cof
fees still quite liberal compared with sugars.
The tea trade is dull and prices incline in con-
sumers favor Good Western Reserve cheese,
with enough cream left inside the rnd to entitle
it to rank as nutritious food has advanced two
cents per pound from the lowest figure expressed
this summer. New domestic dried fruits vary
little in price from last season; sun-dried apples
are lobblng IN very limited way at G5c for
good to choice fruit; Alden evaporated apples in
80 fb boxes, are sold at Ga 10c grading from
good to prime; there is a slow sale get for
either homegrown or foreign fruit; the trade
in Delaware evaporated peaches opened quite
early with a good demand; the quality is
inferior to that Of last season. Finer fruit is
promised toward the height of the drying sea-
son. but, after ALL but little fancy fruit will get
into the hands of evaporators. New raisins will
not be in the market for some weeks: the old
crop is protty well cleaned out of the better
grades though some old foreign ce-house fruit
is now offered in New York which is in very fair
condition. Tobaccos are nfexible; not change
to the fraction of a cent has been made in
months, though by reason of bitter fight be-
tween two rival manufacturers, dealers are
reaping extra profit of cents per pound this
is one of the i'll winds which blows good to the
retailer.
The local market closed to day in much
stronger position than week ago. The Board
of Trade Price Current says of wheat: We note
good local demand for cash No. 2red. Receipts
light and futures dull. Markets at other points