The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-28
CITY MARK ETs.

WACO, TEXAS, May -, 1855, !
For the week past local trade has been dull,
owing to the absence Of pc ople from the coun.
try who have been very busy In their crops.
In the last two or three days there has been
scarcity Of country produce. which meets with
q ready sale at prices quoted. There is no
change in the market In western produce, all
demands being fully met.
All the grain and hay brought into the city
was met with ready sale, and prices continue
nrm at last quotations.
Live stock meet with ready sale, and butch.
ers and buyeis are paying the prices quoted
for cattle. horses and muttons.
The lumber trade has been very dull, but
there is no change in the prices,
In tho jobbing and wholesale line trade was
reported brisk until yesterday when there was
a drop, and business was ut standstill The
cause OF this is the failure OF trains to reach
the city with the mails which bring many or
ders TO merchants. This applies To grocers,
drugs and dry goods.
We are now In the midst Of the wool season.
and the receip for the past week have been
about SIC coo pounds. Prices continue hrm, and
our buyers are paying eye;y fraction OF cent
that can be paid. Circulars from the eastern
cities state there are no reasonable prospect CT
any advance during the summer, while the
old woods have continued TO melt away
they are being replaced by new woods from
Texas and California The receipts yesterday
were about i2Oco pounds this amount bein g
shipped into tn city by rail.
| Live stock.
Cattle-stee1s. $3.50 to sa25: fat barren cows
o. 90 to g. 75 milch cows 90 to SIS 90 per head.
Hogs-Fat hogs, $3.50 To o. 75;stock hogs, o. 50
to $3.50.
sheep-Muttons, l.50 to 225
These prices are gross weights per 100 lbs
Grain ana Hay.
Corn-white, per bu.. 5Ota65c; mixed, 45c.
oats-sacks. &c; bulk, soc.
wheAt-7OG75c.
Millet-per ton. 1910.
Prairie hay-per ton. tbGS
Lumber.
Rough, per NJ, II 90 flooring. Is 70 sidinl
yellow pine, Is 90, siding. white pine. % %
siding poplar, % 90. ceiling. yellow pine. d o.
ceiling. white pine. 20 Co. ceiling. poplar. d o.
shingles, best cypress, per N. 90; shingles
second best cypress 90, shingles, heart pine
2 % finishing lumber poplar, per NJ 80 o. On
ishing lumber. white pine. 10 90
Drugs.
Acids-snlphuiic, per carboy, 8 rs: citric pc
75c; oHalic. per Id, l6c; tartaric, powdered, pS
" 10, hupiOot-
Gums-Arabic, select per ID, zoe; asafeodit
IS 10 SOC oAmphor Is 10 SOC. opium, as To AZ
oils-BergamoI sanderson's. per ID 2l0 len
on, SAnderson's. LsS peppermint. $50, winte
green, $50. olive, MalAya, LIS
PotAsh-Bromide. per ID. IS to Soc; iodide, 5
sOaps-Castlle notified, per 10. 70 l0c. ca
tile white. 10 To 2Oc.
Hides and PeItry.
TIides-DTy flint II TO lskc. dry salt 10 W II
IN green sailed 6 to 7c.
T. PsliTies-Deer skins, Is TO I7c. antelope. 10
: i5c; seal skins, Is 70 2Oe. sheep peltH, as .
1, wool, % to Csc. shearlings, 10 10 i5c-
N Tallow-Prlme, 5kc: tAllow grease, * 10
" grease yellow 10 brown. 4 10 Be-.
c. Wool.
y wCol-Fine twelve months growth, iS6li
y medium. twelve months growth, i5di7o. n
~ dun. ak months growth. lidl5ei eOar
7; twelve months growth, iO@l2c.
We groceries.
Bacon-short clear, Ike
i'd Hams-l0h6glikc
nc Aolasses-Louisiana new. 80 TO Sc, Losisia
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