St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-15
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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nDA1kI MINNEAPOLIS.
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MINNEAPOLIS NEARKETS.
Chamber of Commences,

May wheat opened easy at about 76c this
morning with good demand, and sales
were large at that, mostly i'll small lets.
though aggregating large III numbers. The
demand held up and prices advanced to
76Ac, fluctuating later, but subsequently,
strengthened and sold up to 16Isc about
l2:lo p. m. There was good demand at all
times, and sellers offered less freely Nav
wheat was selling lower than choice No. /
northern for spot delivery. Foreign markets
were quiet ami generally reported easy.
Flour exports included about 16,500 pack
ages at the chief Atlantic ports The official
RUSSIAN shortage was again a factor in the
DAY business, tending to harden prices.
Following are the closing quotations: No.
l hard, February. 76l2c; March, 76S4 May,
IS4c; on track. 77l2c. No. 1 northern.
on track, 76@76I2c. No. 2 northern, Feb
ruary, a2l2e; March. 7234c; May. 74Ac; on
track, 72@74c.
Receipts of wheat were 159 cars, ship
ments q cars. Duluth received 81 cars.
There was good demand from the start for
good milling wheat and the most of such
lots went early at asking prices. Futures
were higher, and the tendency of local prices
was TO still stronger rates. Choice No.
northern sold higher for spot delivery than
the same grade brought for May. Local
mlllers were the principal buyers, hut few
cars were taken to go outside. The closing
markets were strong.
Car lots sales by sample. delivered: 2 cars
No. hard, I6l2c; cars No. l hard, o. W. b.,
7~l2c: 2 cars No. I hard. 77c: ) cars No. 1
hard 77l2c; cars No. hard, f. o. b., use;
70 ears No. northern. 76l2c: ID cars No.
northern, &c; cars No. northern, choice,
7634c: 2 cars No. l northern, 75c; a cars
No 1 northern, 56Ac; cars, No. l
ern, poor, Zoe; . cars No, north
cars No. ? northern, 75c: 2 cars 8 No.
northern, 73l2c; cars No. = northern, o. t.,
73c: cars rejected Glib dockage, 72c: 2
cars no grade, 53c; car sample, zoe; 3 cars
sample, 74l2c; l car corn, f. o. b., 26l2c;
car corn. t. o. b., 26c; car oats, f. q. b..
2Ol2c; car white oats, 22c; car oats, I. o.
b., 22l2c; car hay, Sc.
FLOUR SHIPMENTS.
Following shows the shipments of -four
from Minneapolis Jan. to date, and same
time in 1889:
1890. bills. s25, 2O2 1889, bbls.. 1876. 873
FLOUR AND COARSE GRAINS.
Flour-The added daily output of mills
2o.n0' bbls. Patents, sacks to local dealers,
S4.6il@4.65; patents to ship, Sacks car lots.
$ll5@4.5O; in barrels, S43O@4.60: deliv-
cred at New England points, So. 1906. 40;
New York points, S5.05@5. 30; delivered at
bakers, here, S3@3.4O: supePfne, SLIGO
2 %: red dog, sacks, S1@1.2O; red dog, bar
relS, 81 25G1i.5O.
Bran and Shorts-The market was steady,
with fair demand for both bran and shorts
made at $3.50. and others were asking S7.75
and some as high as So. The demand for
shorts was very good at about s., but they
were held above that from S9.25 to 1878.
Shipments GAG tons.
Corn-Offerings were hardly as large as
yesterday, but the demand was quite small,
and sales were very slow. holders asking
from 25c to 46c for samples, but 26c seemed
above the market Lots switched to go out
were held at l2@llc more, Receipts, 1880
bu: shipments, Is. 90 bu.
Oats-The:e was very good demand for
good oats tor retail purposes. The offerings
were light and mostly held at 20@23c for
good mixed and white. Receipts, 8, 100 blu;
shipments, 900 bu.
Barley-Markete entirely nominal at 22@35c
for feed and fair mailing grain.
Flax--Receipts, 1000 blu; quoted at Sl.32;
Feed-Quoted at slo@1o.5O O. t.; $4,000
l l f. o. b. and switched.
Hay-The market was full of poor hay, or
rather common wild. The demand was
slow, and from 81 to $3.50. Receipts, ll2
tons.
STATE GRAIN INsPEoTIoN-wHEAT.