Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
PRODUCE AND PROVIs


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 26.-Flour-M7
Wheat-Lower; cash, 961ic; Deg
closed 9Ji2c asked; January closed A
nal; May 81 O114Qi O1ase>askef;, june, CSC; July
S9l C asked.
Corn-Lower; cash, SOBc; December sO1so
February closed 3012G 303sc; March, 3l2sc; May
33ls nominal.
Corn meai~Active, 81 9Oas1 e5.
Enthusiastically, 81 IA.
Provisions-Very dull.
Pork-Sl4 90. - IL
Lard-Prime steam nominal, 81 FL 4
Dry salt meats-Shouders, sc %; longs al D
ribs, 81 10; short clears, 81 50. !
Bacon-Boxed shoulders, 81 50; longs and riF J.
IS 1OdS 10; short clear, SO 80.
No. ? red cash, 54c asked, May, CSC asked. y
Corn.Quiet. No cash, 25s4c bid; January,
2614c bid; May, 29l4c bid.
CHICAGO. Ill. Dec. 26.-Wheat was weak
and heavy, closing 51sc lower. The decline was
very rapid and the feeling panicky.
Corn ruled quiet and rather firm. Opening
sales were at Satueday's closing figures and the
close 1sGl.c higher.
There was an easier feeling in pork and pricesn
declined 30G3212c. There was a recovery OF
2lag5c and the close was comparatively quiet
and steady.
Lard was moderately active
Short ribs irregular.
Leading futures closed: Wheat-No. 2. De-
cember, 9I3sc; January, 9724c; May, 81 03; June,
9ic. Is
Corn-No. ?, December, 2Sa4Sc; January, 34IAo,
Mess Pork-December, So 80; January, $l2 90;
May, SI3 30.
Lard-December, IS 25; January 81 721ls; May
81 50.
Short Ribs-January, Sc 771s; March, Sc S.
Cash quotations: Flour-Dull but HrnsA -
No.2 Spring Wheat-97a97asc; No. red, 81
! No. corn-a8a a88Hc.
Mess Pork-S13 co.
Lard-S3 %.
Short Ribs-Sides, loose, Sc s0a6 IS.
Dry Salted-Shoulders, boxed, So 75a6 s71l
short clear sides. boxed. 81 I2Iaa725.
New YoRK, Dec. 6.-Flour-Lower.
Wheat-Lower, Spot-No. 2 red, 991aa993lcS
options closed; December, $3.50; January, 993Sc;
February, 81 COS; March, 81 OPS; May, 81 O7is;
Corn-LoWSer. spotENo. 2, 45la46c; options
closed: January, 1910; February, 473sc; May,
4512c.
steady, 1Cd25 points down, closed steady, 15G25
points below Saturday; Sales, 26, $50 bags, in
Guiding December, SIS O5@15 10; January, and
February, SIS l0G15 Is; March, SIS GOALS 20;
April and May, SIS GOALS %. Spot-Rio, fair
cargoes, S17 90.
Sngar-Raw nominal: refined quiet
Molasses-Foreign, nominal; 90 test, pc; New
Orleans, active; open kettle, prime to fancy, 400
Syrups-3Sd34c
Rice-Fair demand, firm.
New ORLEANS, La, Dec. 26.-Coffee-De-
mand light but holders firm. Rio, common to
Rice-steady: ordinary to prime, 3s4a5c
Cotton Seed Products-Firm unchanged; prime
soc; cake an meal long ton free on board, IA
a25c.
Sugar-Quiet and weak; open kettle strictly
prime prime, 13-16c; fully fair, 11-l5at74c
7-16c; common, 4IsG4 5-l6c; inferior, $40
4c; centrifugal plantation graduated, 7a7 7-16c;
choice white, 7-16d6iac; off white, 6 5-l606ssc;
gray white, 63sd64c; choice yellow clarified,
s 1-16c prime yellow clarified, SC; off yellow
clarified, 534G5 I5-16c; seconds, 45sG5iac.
Molasses-Easier. Open-kettie, choice, 499
4Ic; strictly prime, 369SSc; good prime, s2933c;
prime, 2Sd3oc; good fair, 25a 26c; fair, 22a2ic;
good common, 2O@22c; centrifugals, strictly
prime, 2ia25c; good prime, 2Od22c; prime, $50
Ice; good fair, lie; fair, Ice: common to good
common 136l5c; inferior, 11G12c.
Syrup-2Sd32c.