Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-31
OUR FOOD. \
A Fair Speculative Trade Was Done In '
Grains aud Provisions.
The General Tenor of the Wheat
Market Was Heaviuess.
Corn SympathiSsd With Wheat
and Was Featureless.
Dressed Beefan Shipping Cattle
Decline Is and 25c.
The Hog Market Slow AMI Prices
Strong.
Provisions Were Again Dull But
Steady-The Hog Product
Quiet and Fluctuating.

Special Telegram to The BIKE.

Special Telegram to THr BE.
CHICAGO, March 30.-To-day's markets
were wild and unsettled early IN the day, but
soon settled down to q basis on which trsdes
were possible, and after the first half hour ran
along with comparative smoothness, though
the tone could not be called better than heavy
and dull the better part of the day. A fair
speculative business was done In leading
grains and provisions.
WHEAT
opened excited and quito panicky, with tran
s~actions in different parts of the pit all the
way from Sic to S13c, and quickly broke off
to SO}c under pressure to sell. There was oil
entire absenee of war news, and nothing par
tioular in sight to affect prices The crowd
in clearly long, but with liberal orders
on both sides, which could not be executed at
anything near the limit owing to the decidedly
unsettled conditions prevailing. Later there
the general tenor of the market was one Of
heaviRess. NJ
CORN
opened O little easier under unusually heavy
receipts and dropped in sympathy with
wheat. The whole trade was dull and about
featureless, with narrow fluctuations in any
future delivery. At l o'clock the market was
steady AZ ABOUT OUTSIDE prices. -EEl
ATS
continue quiet and inactive on a basis of Sd
@3l3c for seller and future.
PROVISIONS
were again somewhat unsettled, Opening quits
sharply and lower by reason of free receipts
and the heavy market at the yards and from
sympathetic feeling with grains. Free sffer-
ings soon after the opening broke pork off I7a
@2Oo, but later sellers drew off and o recovery
of l0c followed. Other hog product was
quiet and huctuated but slightly. In o gem
ersl way trade in provisions wa, dpu but the
market closed steady.
There was q fair demand for the few loads
of big, heavy steers on sale, and they sold
equally as well at the close OF last week,
manly at So S0@5 924, the average run Of
shipping and dressed beef steers were slow
and considerably lower than on Saturday,
some statesmen quoting q decline of 15@26c.
The prime cause of weakness III the above was
that the dressed beef operators had large con-
signments of their own dressed from Kansas
firm. Canning stock also in good demand and
firm. Old cows and other low
grade stock making high prices.
Bulls in good demand and firm.
stockers and feeders in fair supply and firm,
with the bulk of the sales to yard SPECTATORS
representatives. The sale was 1G6. Sale of
$50 lbs. at "a 50; LOCO to 100 lbs, 81 25@
4 80; 200 to 1861 lbs, So OOCe5 S.; 1850 to
1000 lbs, S. 50@5 92A; Gamers common.
81 50G3 %; good, So 30Q4 %; stockers and
feeders 10c lower at 50 5O@4 IS.
HOGS.
This market was rather slow aud prices
strong and &c lower all round, closing weak
with a large number left over. Common and
rough packers may be quoted at 81 3O@4 40;
fair to good, 81 t0@4 60 and best heavy Of
"a 65@4 20, one lot brought 81 Is; packing
and shipping, so 60@i 70; light, 100 to 30