The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-22
pRoDUcE AND MERCHANDISE.

New YORK, Oct. 21.-[Speciall-
Southern flour, firm, quiet. Wheat UNI
settled ss@15 higher, closing easy, dull.
No. 1OS34, elevator. Options advanced
1870 * on decrease in amount on passage
and higher cables, reacted Is on realiz-
ing, closing barely steady 9s over yel-
terday; Oct lOS3s, Nov. 1923, Dec. ITO,
May 113. Corn, quiet, Ss@H higher,
closing easy; No. =, 100000, elevator.
Options advanced 114@1A on free west
ern buying but declined 1908 on rcaliz-
Oats, less active. A@1G up. Options,
stronger, moro active; Oct. 1915; Dec.
sos; May 523s; No. 2 spot, 10000.
mixed western 46@50. Hops, strong,
fair demand, new 43@47; State crop Of
1889, 22@33. Coffee, options closed
steady, unchanged to IS down, lower
cables, quiet; Oct. SIS. 1O@1S.15; Dec.
$17.O5@171O; May $3.50; spot rio, dull,
steady; fair cargoes 20]6 Sugar, raw,
dull, firm; fair refining ZIG. Refined
dull. Molasses, foreign, nominal. New
Orleans, quiet, steady. Rice, good de-
mand, firm. Petroleum steady, quiet;
crude in barrels, Parkers, 1925; refined,
all ports; $3.50. Cotton seed oil, quiet,
unchanged; crude 27@29 Resin, dull,
steady. Turpentine, quiet, firm, 42@42X.
WOOL firm, active. Pork, moderately
active, firm. Beef, steady, quiet. Beef
hams, quiet, week. Tierced beef, dull;
firm. Cut meats, quiet weak. Middles,
dull, steady. Lard closed easy; western
steam, .S662]G; city ST. Is; Nov. Sc. 62 bid
Freights, dull; cotton o Ga asked. Grain
nominal.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2i.-[Special. Wheat
good business was transacted. Mar
ket at times ruled active, and at others
a little moro quiet. Feeling developed
was decidedly strong. During the early
part of the session, when demand was
good and not much wheat offered, but,
like yesterday, when top prices were
reached considerable long wheat came
on tho market, which had the effect of
causing reaction. Some OF the largest
operators who had been operating on
the bull side for the past few days, il
was claimed, had let 60 of their hold.
ings. Opening was 5s@1I higher than
yesterdays closing, cascd off about y,
soon after opening, then started upward,
advancing M@1 cent, later becaEre
weak, declining M@l, fluctuated, and
closed about lG@ss higher than yester-
day. Cable advices are encouraging.
Corn was active and excited, til o
market ruling much stronger, and
higher prices ruled ON all futures. The
feeling developed was little unsettled,
the first trades being at M@% advance,
and under good buying and limited offer
ings; advanced u, reacted e, ruled
firmer, and closed N.ith 9s0D x gain. The
market sympathiYed with wheat and
oats some. The break after the early
advance was attributed to heavy Offer
.ings of room operators.
Oats, active, stronger and highe, than
;at any previous tine on this crop The
strength and upward tendency prices
was assisted by that in other markets.
also by free purchasing by shorts who
paid no attention 10 prices so lpng as
they got in. Jhorc was also good buy
ing by a very large trader and moderate
selling by q heavy holder. May y as the
active month and opened 4@L higher
and advanced = more. For a time the
market held firm at the outside, but
gradually eased off 4 and finally. closed
with net gain of s4@1.
Mess pork brisk, during early part of
session an advance of 5000 was gained
but toward thcclose the advance " as lost
the figures being about 3%@5 lower
than on Monday. Lard, only moderate
trade reported 2 ZOOS higher and market
closed steady at inside figures. Short
rib side quite gou1 trade repcried ad-
vanced 21a @5, but during latterr,art of
session prices receded 7%@1O.
The leading futures:
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