Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-21
OTHER PRODUCE AND PROVISION MAR
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OTHER PRODUCE AND PROVISION MAR
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ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Feb. 0.-Flour-Fairly
tive under the recent advance.
Wheat-Cash, higher and demand good for
both milling and shipments; options irregular.
The feeling is extremely unsettled, especially for
May, which option fuctuated violently in price,
following closely the course of values in Chi
cage. The close was llsc below yesterday.
while July was l4G$ sc higher, having advanced
sharply under heavy buying. Cash. SsS15c; May
closed 1910; June, SIC bid; July Ss4sc asked.
COru-EaSy: cash, 2Io21$sc; March closed,
&c bid; April, 28c bid; May, 50l4c; June, 5O13c;
Cornmnesai-Quiet at 81 SOL 90.
Whisky-Steady, 81 %;
Provisions-Market fat.
Pork-$lI So
Lard-Prime steam, nominal at Sc 40.
Dry salt meat-Shoulders, s. O0G5 72Is; longs
and ribs, So 90; short clear, Sc 20.
Bacon-Boxed shoulders, Sc 25; longs and
ribs. Sc 75GG S71a: short clear. Sc S5G7 %.
New ORLEANS, La, Feb. 2O.-Coffee-Quiet
Rice-Market Steady; ordinary to prime,
Base.
Cottonseed-Products steady.
Sugars In good demand at full prices; open
Kettle, choice, 45se; strictly prime sac; fully
good common to fair, 47-16042c; common,
4d4l4c; inferior, 234G3Ia; centrifugal, choice
white 6I5e; off white, 5-l6G6 7-I6c; grey white
SIC; choice yellow clarified, 2-l6c; prime yell
low clarified, 1-16a61sc; OFF yellow clarified,
6G6 I-l6c.
New YoRK, Feb. O.-Beeyes-Receipts, 100
carloads. Market quiet, closing barely steady;
common to prime steers, s. 5OdS4 80; one car
load choice at 81 20; bulls. 81 i0d 81 %.
Sheep-Receipts, 4700; dull and lower for both
sheep and lambs. Extremes for sheep in full
lots, So 1884 80, with selected extra wethers up
to Sc 0eaS6 10. Lambs, $ 50GST 80.
CHICAGO, III. Feb. 2O.-Wheat was active but
nervous and unsettled. The opening for May
was gale below closing yesterday and sold off
sc more, rallylng l9sc, or TO yesterday closing
figures, again weakened and declined nc, and
after some changes closed lssc lower than yester-
day. July, on the other hand, opened about Il
q &c lower, sold up tribe, then OF &c, and
later became very strong, advancing PIG, and
closing abont &c higher than yesterday.
Corn ruled rather quiet most of the session,
though there were occasional periods OF moder-
ate activity. The feeling developed was steady
early IN tde day. There was nothing new OF i'm
portanee developed, ana prices were governed
largely by local influences.
weak feeling prevailed III the market for hog
Mess pork ruled lower.
Trading in lard was only fairly active, and
changes in prices were slight.
Short ribs declined 7iaGl0c. but rallied 2isd5c.
Leading futures closed: Whest-No. 2, Feb
ruary, 81 I63s; March, 81 055s; May, 81 O9;s;
Como. 2, February, a4c; March. sn4c;
Mess BoTk-February, $40 50; March, $40 IS;
Ia I5aridNFe6ruary. SO IS; March, Sc 57la; May,
Short Ribs-February, 50 72ls; March, s. 721l;
May, IS 90.
Cash quotations were:
Fiour-Firm; winter wheat, patents, S. 30;
spring wheat, patents, 81 OOG4S5; bakers, s. 750
Wheat-No. 2 spring. sIO6ss aI061s; No. 2 red,
81 063s al 065s.
Corn-No. 2, BIC.
Mess pork-Sl1 90.
Lard-S5 55d6 57lS.
short ribs-Sides, loose. s. 1915 80.
Dry salted shoulde-s-Boxed, IS 59G5 62ia.
Short clear sides-Boxed, So Izia.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20.-FIour-5G10c higher.
Wheat-Firm; spot No. 2 red 9Sis099zac. OPP
tons closed: February esize; March, s9lsc; April,