The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-01
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
REVIEW OF PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING, March 81.
The business situation has not developed any
particularly new features the past week. The
weather has been unfavorable and distribution is
somewhat checked, but in other respects there is
a healthy tone. Jobbers report good trade In
boots and shoes. The leather market is very
steady with light movement at previous figures.
Hides are in buyers favor at 41ac y fb for bull
and stag, and 61ac for other kinds, but the price
list tomorrow (Thursday) will be 1ac under these
quotations Grain is fairly active at full prices.
The firmer tone of the wheat market near the
close of the week somewhat improved the tone
of the market for -four. 1t looks now as If we had
touched bottom prices The New York Produce
Reporter takes hopeful outlook, and says that
1'more than two-thirds of the imports into Great
Britain, Germany, France and italy since the
first of September have come largely from coun-
rs other than the United states, and stocks OF
breadstuffs in every country named above have
been materially reduced, and ere the first OF June
their sources of supply for the past six months
win have been exhausted, British India excepted;
hence they must look to this country for thirty to
for V million bushels Of wheat to tide them over
thescereal wear in addition to the quantity now on
passage which is now likely to fall off weekly for
some time to come There are quite number OF
Continental orders here for wheat the time for
execution extending into June, and 1t now seems
evident that western Europe will want all the
strong wheat we have to spare, and they are quite
certain to be large buyers of the new crop OF Win
ter the latter part of July and August, as their
sole dependence for supplies during those months
will be India and this country" The English adj
vices confirm this view of the market Later dis
paches from New York and the West indicate an
easier feeling on wheat and -four dull. The Su-
Nv in he bIlt
terday firmer tone prevailed for refined, closing
with decline recovered at $3.50 for graduated and
61sc for Extra c. The fish market remains about
the same with fair business for dry and stocks
reduced Mackerel quiet; the Southern fleet is
said to comprise about one hundred sail against
three hundred last year, and it Is believed that all
of the old stock will find good market Proyis-
ions have been steady and unchanged. Beef has
been in good demand with steady market. Oils
unchanged. Turpentine lower at 49956c. In
Produce the market for apples is slow and weak In
tone; shipment of apples to Europe from Portland
for the week ending March 9th, 1886, 1929 bbls /;
for the season $3.50 bbs; last year for the cor
responding period S6,596 bbls; shipments from
Boston for the week 1857 bbls, land for the season
2I9.5eS bbIs; from New York for the week 49,
607 bbls, and for the season 425,381 bbls; ship
ments for the season from all points 839 1877 bbls,
against 75o,942 bbls last year; Eggs weak and
declining; Potatoes trife frmer under the infiu-
ence of light receipts. Hay $149S18 y ton for
loose Fifteen to twenty car loads of choice Can
ada hay arrived here during the week, consigned
to j. ]. Lappin s. Co, for which highest prices are
obtained
Portland Wholesale Prices Current
Corrected for the PRESS to April l, 1886.
The following are to-day's closing quotations of
Flour. Grain, Provisions &c.: