Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
; FkSIJRVEK 4 OF TRADE.
Leading Features of Our Home
Markets for the Week Past.
TROPICAL FRUITS ON TIE BOOM.
Provisions More Active-COrn Higher, Oats
and Hay Weak.
HIDES AND CALFSKINS REDUCED
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATTRnAY Nav II 1890

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. May IL. 1889.
The marked features of produce trade for
the week has been the sharp advance in
eggs and decline in butter. The time has
come when the mother hen is at work provid
ing for next seasons producers, and the
effect of her actions is seen in advancing mar
kets. Strictly fresh eggs are firm at outside
quotations. At Elgin the Butter Board re-
duced prices Of the best creamery on Monday
to 1Sc. which would bring the naked cost to the
iobber laid down here to about 20c. The out
side price here to-day is DC, in jobbing way.
Tropical fruits have been on the boom since
the hot weather set in. A Liberty street mer-
chant who leads in this line had advices from
New York to-day that lemons and oranges
could not be placed as low as at the early part
of the week. Arrivals from the Mediterranean
are Unexpectedly light. Only about $1,000
boxes are expected from Italy in the next 80
DAYS while that amount was handled in New
York last week.
Old Ohio cheese has been displaced by the
new crop The new is not yet up to the stand
ard in quality, but improves steadily. A lead
ing jobber of cheese, butter and eggs said,
I'VE have had fair average trade for the
week, but hardly as good as last week. Last
weeks trade, however, was exceptionally good,
and we could not reasonably expect to keep 1t
up right along"
Al the beginning of the week there was an
overdose of strawberries in the market and
prices went below the expectations of shippers.
For number of days there has been ashortage
and the week closes with supplies below de-
mand.
Provisions.
Demand has been improving, but prices are
unchanged. Warm weather has stimulated
trade as it always does, but it seems impossible
as yet to raise prices to living profit. All
packers complain of close margins on hog
products. The season is at hand when prices
must 90 up, but the only indication of an up-
ward movement that yet appears is the increas-
ing demand.
Cereals.
Receipts Of grain and hay show an increase
over last week, There are few signs of i'm
provement in the trade. Corn is the only arti-
Gle in cereal lines that shows an upward drift
Both ear and shelled corn command better
prices than they did a week ago. Oats were
strong in the early part of the week, but failed
to maintain their frmness to the close. A drop
of lc is reported from Chicago to-day. All that
can be said of the -four trade is that markets
are shade irmer than they were a week ago
The downward drift is checked. Wheat has
been tending upward. Export demand for
-four has improved. 1t looks as though the
worst is past, and firmer tone appears in -four
markets than for month or two past.
Leather and Hides.
The drift is still downward in both lines. The
depression has finally brought decline of lc
on light and COW hides and 19c on bull hides
and calf skins. Harness leather has undergone
no change though markets are very slow The
leading Representatives of om hide and tan
nfne-interests present the following price list
which goes into effect after this week:
Green steer hides, trimmed, rs pounds and up,
r r,er nounJ: green steer hides. trimmed so TO Fl
hounds. 7c per pound; green steer hides, trimmed
under SO pounds &c per pound; green COW hides
trimmed. all weights, 4c per pound; green bull
hides trimmed, an weights, 317c per pound; green
steer hides with one or more grubs, lKc per
Mound less. green cow hides, with one or more
grubs. I56c per pound less; green bull hides, with
one or more grubs, lc per pound less; green calf
skins Sc per pound for No. l. green calf skins, &c
per pound for No. 2 AL cut or scored hides. also
tainted or hair-slip hides, shall be classed as
damaged. and be subject TO reduction Of &c per
pound from above prices.
SAI hides having one or more butt brands will
BE received at a reduction OF cent per pound
nom above figures.
An hides, having side brands, 20 be received at