The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-03
INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
Summer Weather Stimulating Trade-Coilec-
tions Rather Slow.

INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
Summer Weather Stimulating Trade-Collec-
tions Rather Slow.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 2.
Genuine summer weather is perceptibly in
creasing trade. The dry goods, the hardware
the grocers and produce men, all were quite
busy to-day, and are looking for two or three
weeks good trade. AT the present time the
most important factor against an Improvement
in trade is the war between the railway COM
panies The influence that these organizations
have upon business is not as well appreciated as
it should be. More than anything else do they
indicate the activity or sluggishness of general
trade They are the common carriers of com
merce, manufactures and agriculture and If,
as now, they are seen contesting for traffic, us
ing all means--even rates that would ordinarily
be unremunerative-to get it, it may assuredly
be assumed that the country's bus mess is phe-
nomenally dull Trade has no other such re
liable barometer as they, and while they con-
tinue to cut rates and to contend with such
disastrous rivalry for traffic. it will be
folly to look with any confidence
for returning prosperity If there are
wheat and corn to be carried to the seaboard
they must carry them; if there is grist to be car
ried to the MILL they are its carriers; if the prod
ucts of the loom the hammer and anvil are to
be distributed over the land, they are the port
ers, and ii they are busily employed SO will com
merce and manufactures be active and prosper
Gus. AS regards prices in most departments,
there is steadiness which argues WELL then the
firmer tone to sugars and cotfees. which have
been extremely low, is thought to be favorable
omen by the grocers The New York Shipping
List however. seems to have little faith IN
sugars In the issue of the Both the commercial
editor says: 'Ihe recent course of the sugar
market in this country is an apt illustration of
the conservative tendency of commercial opera
TONS A speculative deal was started in Lon
don based upon estimates of smaller
yield of the next beet crop, and
speedily the infection spread to all
European markets. and every sugar-producing
locality rapidly fell under the influence, but the
response here has been tame and without the
first sign of enthusiasm. SO stubbornly have
buyers resisted the advance, that to-day raw
snear is cheaper here than anywhere else in the
world, and the distributive demand for refined
has continued with the same sullen indifference
The produce markets continue active. Fresh
eggs and poultry readily bring our quotations;
butter in abundant supply, and prices are sell
dom lower. Green vegetables of Southern pro-
ductiou arriving in large quantities Prices
weak. 1t is quite difficult to keep track of the
strawberry market, so frequent are the fluctu
atoms, ranging on Monday from 80 cents a
twenty -four-qu crate to So 80. The supply OF
small fruits is still rather limited Prices strong
GRAIN.
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markets at other points, local markets are steady,
and while the feeling is dull, yet sellers decline
to make any great concessions to insure trade
Futures fairly active. We quote:
No. 2 Mediterranean o. Observation-Disclosures e7ls