Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-07
TRADE RETROSPECT.
THE HEAT AND THE HOLIDAY LEssENED
THE VOLUME.

Business In General, However. In Fully Up
20 the Average of the senson-Country
Produce Especially Is In Good Demand.
OFFICE OF PITrsBURe DISPATCH.
SATURDAY. July 8. 1890.
The week past has developed few new fea-
lures in trade lines. Extremely hot weather
N the early part of the week and holiday doings
in the latter part interfered somewhat with
Wholesale grocery, live stock and grain trade,
and volume of business in these lines showed
slight decline from last week. Shippers OF
cattle were at the mercy of buyers owing to
heavy receipts and hot weather. and prices
we're on 26c per hundred from rates OF the
previous week and 75c from rates Of . month
ago. Receipts of grain and hay have been
light, and markets are q shade stronger at the
close of the week than they were at the begin
ming. Corn and oats show an upward
tendency, and even hay. which mas
been q drug in the market for q month past,
gives signs of improvement. Flour is un'
changed but the feeling of jobbers is that bot
tom has been reached. There is an increased
demand for bakers -four, and stiffening OF
prices. In general produce lines. demand Is
fully up to supply and prices are well main
tanned. It is still difficult. as it has been for
several weeks past, for jobbers to obtain 1uii
supply Of potatoes, and markets are nrm at
prices of last week. Home grown potatoes
should soon be on the market, but the season Tor
vegetables of all kinds is fully two weeks pe-
hind the average in this section. Home grown
cabbage has been coming In freely 10 malkSS
the past week. and the Southern article is wei
nigh supplanted.
scarcity Of Wafermelons.
watermelons have suddenly become scarce,
and prices advanced sharply within Few Gays.
Last week they were a drug and dropped 10 szO
per hundred. Our commission men notined
shippers to withhold stock. as there was little
left after freight was paid. Prices are to-day
$40 to sl5 higher than they were a week ago.
As the melon crop is reported good. there IL
little doubt that the present scarcity Will De re-
leved within few days.
1t is not often that produce commission houses
are SO we'll cleaned up on Saturday at tnis pro
life season of the year as they were to-day.
Demand for tropical fruits is active Lemons
and bananas are firm and tending higher. One
dealer reports sales OF II car loads OIL bananas
in the past ten days oranges are not 80. 80 sa1
urday.
In the line of dairy products Ohio cheese is
In large supply and markets & are "ean; e. M nrat
to the cheese manufacturer 2t present prices OIL
milk. Prices are lower than a year ago, when
there was little profit, and now do not see now
the maker of cheese can come OUT even.
Swiss cheeses are in light supply. Makers |
are Withholding stock from market in the hope |
of better prices. But unlike domestic cheese, |
the Swiss is higher in price than at TINS time |
year ago, while tho yield is said to be larger |
now than then.
Products of Farm and Dairy.
At Elgin prices Of creamery butter are the |
same this week as last, with tendency to
greater frmness. 1t is plain that the lowest |
price for butter this season has been touched, |
and that future changes will be toward higher
level. The egg market also shows an upward
drift. Fancy nearby stock is very scarce. De-
mand exceeds supply.
The grocery feature of the week has been the
nrmness of sugar. which for few weeks past
has been on the decline. Canned fruits are
steadily moving upward. and prospects are
that higher prices will be paid the coming win
ter than for number of years past. The
strawberry season was unexpectedly short,
and fruit preservers did not secure their usual
supplies.
Said representative Of one of our leading
wholesale grocery houses to-day: There is
very light stock of pie peaches and gallon |
apples in the hands Of jobbers, and doubt
whether any considerable quantity can be
bought anywhere" =.
The Cincinnati Price Current estimates the |
wheat crop for this year at 425.000, 900 bushels,
which Is below the average of the last 10 years I
and about Us 000, 900 bushels short OF last years
crop. II this estimate Is correct-and 1t comes /
from one of the most reliable trade authorities
higher priced wheat is probable within few |
weeks.