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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-26
Grain, Flour md Feed.

Sales on call at the Grain Exchange. car
y. e. corn, 44c, 10 days; car sample corn, 3Sc,
P. & W.; car y. s. corn, 4lc, 10 days; cars No.
W. oats, 33c, June delivery; car No. 2 W. oats,
34c July delivery. Receipts as bulletned 35 cars.
BY Pittsburg, Fit Wayne and Chicago. cars of
hay, of oats, 5 of -four, 2 of malt, 1 Of barley.
BY Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis car OF
wheat, of bran, 2 of hay, of oats. 6 of corn.
BY Pittsburg and Lake Erie, cars of oats, of
malt, of rye. Cereal markets are fairly steady,
with oats particularly strong Corn is in better
supply than for some weeks past. and, as a con-
sequence, the upward movement has been ar
rested. Rye -four shows upward tendency.
Wheat market is firm and -four ditto.
Prices below are for carload lots on track:
WHEAT-New No. 2 red, 94@95c; No. 3, 91@
92c
CORN - No. l yellow, ear. 460481zc; No. 2
yellow, ear. 45@46c; high Mixed ear, 43@
44c No. 2 yellow, shelled, 4l14@42c; high
mixed shelled corn, 4019Q4lc.
OATs-No. 2 white, 33Q331zc; extra, No. 8.
32Q3213c: mixed, 29030c.
RYE-No. Pennsylvania and Ohio, 59QG0c;
No. Western, 5SQ59c
FLoUR-Jobbing prices-Fancy winter ana
spring patents, S. 25ll5 70; winter straight,
S5 0O@5 %: clear winter. 81 5094 rs; straight
xxx bakers, 81 2544 So Rye -four, So 759
400
MILLFEED-Middlings, fine white, SIG 0O@
II U0 ~ ton; brown middlings, SIS 0O@l6 80;
winter wheat bran, S14 500l5 90; chop feed,
SIS 50@16 co.
HAY-Baled timothy, No. l. sl1 Oo0ll 50; No
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SOUTHERN IRON NEWS.
Pig Shipped East and West-0utput for the
Week kPasr-Furuacemen Happy.

Week kPast-Furuacemen Happy.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THK DIsPArcHi
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, April 25-Anticipating
no material advance In the price of pig iron
during the summer, manufacturers in the
Birmingham district are selling freely. During
the week several large shipm ents have been
made to Western points. The Mary Pratt
Company shipped 500 tons to Boston and other
shipments to the same parties will be made
during May. Other Eastern markets took sew
ersl hundred tons during the week, but the
principal shipments were to Western points.
While there is active demand no large
contracts for future delivery are being made.
Buyers are of the opinion that prices will be
lower during the summer and they are only
buying enough for immediate needs.
Eighteen of the q furnaces in this district
are in blast. Those out of blast are undergoing
repairs and will blow in soon. The total output
for the week will be about Il, 600 tons,
The stock of iron on hand in this district has
been greatly reduced during the past 60 days
ana at the present rate of trading little stock
will accumulate during the summer. The total
amount of stock on hand in the district. includ-
ing all stored in the warrant warehouse, is esti-
mated at 40000 tons, or little more than two
weeks output Stocks have not been SO low
before for many months.
Work on the two furnaces of the Vanderbilt
Iron Company in this city is progressing rapidly
and they Will be ready to 60 in blast early in
July, These furnaces are of 100 tons capacity
each.
Mr. Thomas Seldom. President of the Sloss
Iron and Steel Company. said to-day that the
outlook for trade was better than it had been
for a long time. Southern iron men are very
well satisfied with the present price OF iron.
They can make money at present prices, and as
long as there is good demand for their output
they are not going to complain. I'VE are push
ing our iron further West," he said, land reach
ing new markets Even if there is a further
decline of 81 per ton during the summer, it will
hot seriously affect us and would not curtail
production in this section"
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TINE TO TAKE HOLD.
The Chicago Market More Than Usually
Active The Past Week.

The Chicago Market More Than Usually
Active the Past Week.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
CHICAGO, April 25.-Rogers, Brown Co.
say: This market has seen more than usual &C.
tivity the past week, some of the large buyers
and good many of the smaller ones have de-
cided that It was time to take hold. Contracts
closed amount to several thousand tons of mis-
celaneous foundry irons and some charcoal
irons. The bulk of the business has gone
South, Southern prices still run below those
of irons made from lake ores. There is how
ever, perceptible stiffening up In Southern
values, and the extremely low figures that were
talked about early in the month cannot now be
touched by 7o cents per ton.
Chicago and vicinity have been undergoing a
remarkable increase in consuming capacity
through the enlargement of old plants and the
extensive building of new ones. Some of these
new enterprises are reaching completion, and
are in the market as new factors for large
quantity of iron. 1t is held by some that Chi
cago is the largest consuming center of irons in
the United States, not excepting Pittsburg and
Philadelphia. Mill irons, of course, have but
little market here.
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WEST VIRGINIA FIELDS,
Lenses and Oil Operations in the Vicinity
of MnnpIngton.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.I
MANNINGToN, W. VA, April 25-The oil
business has queted down a little, but there
are still here some good men looking after
what territory is still Unbiased. The Burt well
has been drilled a little more with an improved
appearance. 1t is reported as doing over 100
barrels. Some good prices have been paid for
territory. The South Penn Oil Company re-
Gently purchased in fee from ]. II. Furbee ITO
acres at Sl25 per acre, and are building rig on
the same. Machinery and fixtures are here to
start the well on the Rymer farm, recently
leased by George F. Wyvell, of Kane, Pa, at
a bonus of 81, 600. Work will also soon be COM
menced the B. F. Blackshire farm, 70 lsed
py Wyvell, who has obtained another 100 acres
of the same land, making 300 acres now owned
by Wyvell of the Blackshire estate. Wyvell
also has the Hall and Nay farms adjoining the
Burt farm.
A ]. Montgomery & Co. have sold to George
Gilmore and Bennett the Erwin lease, and
well will be started at once. A well will also be
started on the Dancern farm, adjoining the
Burt well on the east. Ira Dewitt, of Pittsburg,
will commence well on Mods run a few miles
northeast of here. MIR. Scott and George Hu-
kill, of Pittsburg, have been here trying to pur-
chase the land of John and j. r. Blackshire,
but as yet have not closed the deal. 1t looks as
if the country would be thoroughly developed,
and there seems no doubt but West Virginia
will soon be to the front as oil-producing
State. Several more wells than those mentioned
are to be drilled as soon as lumber and machin-
cry can be received,
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IRON TRADE REVIEW.
No Radical Signs of Improvement
in the Local Markets.
MORE ACTIVITY IN THE WEST.
Luy Amount of Inquiries and Some EI-
tenSive Purchases.
PRESENT SITUATION AT BIRMINGHAM

The iron market gives no signs of i'm
provement, but the reverse. We are forced
to reduce prices in accordance with stubborn
facts. 1t was thought by dealers week
ago that hardpan had been reached, but it
seems that there was a lower deep. Trade
is in very unsatisfactory condition to the
producer OF raw iron who has to lay in stock
at present prices. The furnaceman who can
cone out even at present cost OF iron must
be very favorably located and stop up all
leakages. Said one of our leading iron
brokers to-day: 81 do not believe it pos
sible for the average furnaceman to produce
iron without loss, at present prices of ore and
coke. We are now in the pinch of the struggle
for the ascendancy between North and South
as to the iron trade.
Fair mill iron can now be laid down in Pitts
burg from Alabama at about Sl4 per ton: The
cost at the Alabama furnace is only 50 SO per
ton, and with the influx of Southern iron,
cannot see how our Pennsylvania furnace men
can MAINTAIN their trade and have living
profit" Bessemer iron has been changing
hands this week at reduced prices and our quo
tations are lowered in accordance with the
facts.
Nails are slow at last weeks prices. Steel
blooms, Dillets ana slabs are lower. steel rails
are in fair demand at former prices.
Following are the latest quotations:
Structural Iron-Angles, aOc: tees, . soc; beams
and channels, g. IOc; sheared bridge plates. Steel
2 t0c; universal mill plates, iron, 2.Soc; rehned
bars, l.95c card.
Barbed wire fencing. galvanized. 50 70; plain
N H.
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Oil Notes.

THE Vandergrift well at Groveron is showing
fine staying qualities.
THE Hoffman well is holding up to $50 barrels
day, but has not been drilled in.
A 75-BARREL well has been brought in about
so feet north of the old Vanderlin well.
DRILLING has been stopped at the well on
the Mcdonald Brothers farm, at Primrose sta
tion by a bad cave-In.
THE well drilled by Stephen Harley on the
Thomas Donaldson farm. north of Midway is
through the Gordon sand and dry
SoME attention is being paid to recent opera
tions in Sandy Lake township. Mercer county,
where there are IL wells producing from l to l5
barrels a day each.
THE Hahn well. which came in dry some days
ago. is showing some gas from the lower
sand, to which it was drilled, and a small
spraying OF oil that creeps in from the 10O-foor
sand
THE Griffith well at Wildwood has been
given small shot, which stirred it up to the
extent of increasing its production at the start
to the rate of 400 barrels day, and it is now do
ing 300 barrels.
THE Luce well, at Murrinsville. has come in
as lSO-barrel-a-day producer. The product is
the dark-c -colored, muddy bullion oil, quite diff
ferent from the amber-hued oil of this section,
and comes from the third sand.
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A GRADUAL STIFFENING,
Buying Continues Heavy, But is Confined 10
the Southern Brands.


the Southern Brands.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHl
CINCINNATI, April 25.-Rogers, Brown & Co.
say: The account of the situation last week fits
very well the present condition of affairs Buy
ing still runs heavy but it is directed chiefly to
Southern brands of iron Whatever change
there has been in prices is in the direction of
gradual stiffening. Freights from Birmingham
will be reduced another 10 cents May i, carry
ing them back to the minimum rates in force
last summer; all these reductions in freight,
being due under the sliding schedule based on
prices, have been fully discounted in most of
the April sales. Southern companies are slow
to make any formal advance in prices though
they feel the position warrants them in doing
So Experience of the last half year teaches
that too rapid putting up OF values is attended
with danger.
In the North the furnaces hold their ground
firmly. Concessions have been made in one or
two cases. where it was thought Southern COM
petition should be recognized. AS a rule how.
ever, furnaces are content to let Southern max
ers have all of the business they are willing to
take at these prices, The ore men affirm that
with three-fourths to seven-eighths of the Lake
Superior product sold. it is impossible 20 think
now of lowering prices on the small unsold
remnant. Any considerable reduction in the
price of coke is deemed impossible from labor
considerations Northern furnaces therefore
seem to he in for a season of high cost, This
will necessarily curtall production slowly If the
market does not strengthen.
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IN Hatfield near Forty-eighth street, for $3.50

on Hatfield near Forty-eighth street. for $3.50
cash.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lot on Allegheny
avenue. Allegheny City. size 24xl2o feet, for
900 cash. The purchaser intends building
this season.
Samuel w. Black & Co., 80 Fourth avenue.
sold another lot size 40x1l5 feet on Maple ave-
nue., in the Osgood place plan of lots. Ale
gheny for $3.50.
c. Beringer & Son, 156 Fourth avenue. sold
. house and large lot at Glenfeld for j. s.
Klinefelter to William Martin for $500 cash.
They also sold lot in the John A. Eckert
plan, Woods Run. 20xl07 feet, for $50.
Black & Baird, 90 Fourth avenue, sold for
Adam Heyle to 8. NJ Fuller and j. M. Taft,
lot on Buena Vista street. Allegheny, 20x11O
feet, being part of the old drove-yaTd prop
erty. for So, 500 They also sold to Miss Eva
Arbogast lot No. 81 in Dunlevy's plan OF
Linden place, East End. fronting on Hastings
street, 25 feet by l20 in depth for S525.
Hamnett & Meredith, l02 Fourth avenue
and Williamsburg. sold lot No. 13, plan No. !,
Wilkins estate, Williamsburg, to Simon T. Poor
baugh, for 81. 100.
Thomas Liggett sold for John Llggett TO w.
A. McCutcheon, lot 40x100 feet on Roup street,
near Home for 81 400 cash; also, for Mrs. Gum
bart to Henry Mills. lot No. SO in the Heil-Feil-
bach plan, at Bennett station, for 81, 15O.
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naces have been running upon ore contracts
made some time since, and when they come 70
renew these contracts they will have TO con.
cede an advance. which will increase the COST
of pig metal.
The railroads in Trunk Line and central
Traffic Association territory have agreed upon
o reclassiicatlon of manufactured iron Wnlcn
will cheaper freight rates about 10 per
cent Articles in the fourth class Will oe
placed in the fifth and some in the MIN
will be placed in the sixth class, and II Is
expected that the change will take eueGt
about May 5. While the market Is sun
a,dicker between buyer and seller, the
quotations below give a fair range within
which business is transacted. Quotations @
are: No. foundry, SIS 50@l9 90; No. z, VIZ 5!Q
Is 90; gray forge, sl6 0OGl6 30 per ton at tide.
The same grades Of Southern pig are worth
Sl7, SIG and SIS Is per ton delivered. Bessemer
pig is firm at S2l delivered, the furnaces being
busy under old contracts, Old rails are dull at
S23 per ton. Plates. 210G2l5c per pound;
angles at the mill. 2l5l22 25c; tees, 26OQ27 Toe;
beams and channels, S.l0c; muck bars at mill,
SIS 00929 90 per ton; merchant bars at mill,
l90d2c per pound. Skelp grooved, LS59LsOc;
skelp sheared at mill, 2@2l0c.
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BEST PRICES LAST.
Railroad Shares Moving Forward on q
Bull spurt-Outside Buying Orders
Prevent n Bear Raid-Trusts


In the Background.
NEW YORK, April 25-The stock market
again showed a moderate volume of business
and steadily advancing prices to-day. While
there was considerable irregularity in the
movement almost everything on the active list
is higher tonight. The important movements
were limited to a few Of the leading stocks, and
for change the Inactive list developed no i'm
portant upward movement.
The bears were inclined to test the market
again at the opening this morning, but the
temper Of the room is now fairly bullish. The
continuance Of buying orders for outside ope-
rators held the market steady after slight
concession in prices during the first few min-
utes' trading. The buying then began in ear
nest, and from that time until the close the
steady hardening of values which has become
the most pronounced characteristic Of the
market continued without break.
Coal stocks. grangers and New England were
strong features to-day; all of them scored ma
terlal gains, while the rest Of the list dragged
the slow appreciation mentioned. Atchison
and Texas Pacific, with a few other low-pr1ced
shares, showed signs of joining in the upward
movement to-day, but their final changes were,
rule unimportant
There were no new developments to affect
values to-day, but the same influences renamed
in force. The most encouraging sign of
aroused feeling and general improvement is
received by brokers. Even in Rock Island and
Missouri Pacific, although there is not the
slightest indication of a cessation of the fight,
orders to buy exceed selling and those Kept
pace with the remainder of the list.
To-day st. Paul stocks were the most prom
inent. Preferred rose from 1141a to 1lS15, and
closed at lis. The common was again the
leader in point of activity, and it also scored a
material Improvement. Delaware and Hud.
son came next to st. Paul preferred with an
other of it's sharp upward spurts. Lackawanna,
Northwestern, Omaha and New England COM
prise the leading strong stocks. but there was
not a really weak point in the market
The trusts were not so active and failed to
make any material change in quotations. The
close was active and strong at about the best
prices of the day. Marked gains were st. Paul
315 the common 1H. Northwestern lss Lacka-
wanna u, Delaware and Hudson ", and
Omaha and New England H each.
The following table shows the prices Of active
day. Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by
WHITNEY & STEPHENSON, oldest Pittsburg mem
bers of New Y ork Stock Exchange. 81 Fourth ave-
nue.:
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Fridays Trade DisappOints Produce
Commission Men.
GLUTOFDAMAGED STRAWBERRIES.
Cereal Markets Steady, With Oats the
Strongest Factor.
SUGAR HIGHER EAST AND FIRM HERE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
ERInAv Anril Ok 1900
Country Produce-JobbinR Prices.

FRIDAY. April 25 1890
Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Friday failed to come up to expectations Of
commission men. Large quantities of poor
potatoes have been coming to market within a
few days, called out by high prices. This low
grade stock has had he effect of arresting the
upward movement. Choice stock. however,
brings outside quotations. Strawberries are in
large supply. and prices are weakening. A car
from Florida reached the city to-day and not in
the best of shape. Cabbage is scarce and
higher. The same is true of onions. In fact,
the demand for choice vegetables is beyond
supply. Poultry is scarce and firm at quota
tions. Eggs and dairy products are unchanged.
Choice creamery butter is active and firm at
rates Of last week.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin. 2l@2l1ac;Ohio do
19@20c: country rolls, l5c.
BEANs-Navy hand-picked BEANS 81 1901 80
BEEswAx-25Q2Sc p b Tor choice; low grade,
1S@2Oc.
CIDER-Sand refined, 81 so; common. So OO@
90; crab cider, 81 5OaS 90 u barrel; cider vim
CHEEsE~ohio, Ii@1l%c: New York, 12@
1214c; Limberger, l413@l5c; domestic Sweitzer,
16T@l7c; imported Sweitzer. 231dc.
EGGs-l2@l2Ec ~ dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUTTS-Apples, fancy. "a O0Q4 SO 49 barrel;
Strawberries. 15@25c box.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese. 5O@6Oc; No, /.
do, 4O@45c; mixed loss, 30435c p h.
MAPLE SYRUP-New, 9OG95c can. Maple
sugar, n0I2c p b.
HoNEY-l5c p b.
PoULTRY-Lfve chickens. old, S5Q9Uc pair;
dressed, 14@15c pound; spring chickens, Csc
pair; ducks, 75cGsl pair; dressed turkeys, 1S@
2Oc p n.
SEEDs-Clover, choice. 50 rs to bushel. 81 90
p bushel; clover, large English, 50 lbs, "a $50
80; clover, Alsike, IS 90; clover, white, So 90;
timothy. choice, 45 ms. 81 60@l 20: blue grass,
extra clean, IA Bs 81 25@l 80: blue grass, fancy,
II lbs 81 80; orchard grass. IA Bs 81 40; red top,
IA bs. 81 90; millet, so bs. 81 90; Hungarian
grass, so MS. 81 90; lawn grass, mixture of fine
grasses, 81 so ~ bushel of IA Bs.
TALLow-Country, SIC; city rendered, 4Ac.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons. common, So 90
@3 so: fancy, S4 00Q4 so; Florida oranges, 81 so
as 90; Valencia, S6 50@S 90 for 420 case Jamaica,
IS 00GS so a barrel; bananas, 81 7502 so irsts,
81 so good seconds, % bunch; cocoanuts. 81 000
so % hundred; dates, 614@7c y lb; layer figs.
12139l51ac; pineapples. sS@4 dozen.
observation-disclosures from store, 75@80c:
on track, 60@70c: Bermuda potatoes, $40 90
barrel; new Southern cabbage, So so for
small crates. 81 so for large: Jersey
sweet potatoes, S5 25@5 75 barrel; Ber-
muda onions, 50 40@2 rs per bushel crate;
green onions, 20925c dozen; parsnips, 81 90
p barrel; onion SETS So 5O@4 90 y bushel
kale 81 25@l 80 p barrel; asparagus, 5Oc y large
bunch.
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SPOT CASH.
The Local Money Market In Good Shape
Proof of Prosperity.

Proof of Prosperity.
Continued activity in the business concerns
OF Pittsburg in spite of the industrial upheaval,
actual and prospective, is shown from day to
day in the Clearing House statements. That for
yesterday, although not up to the average of
the previous days Of the week, reflected this
feature of the situation very clearly, The
exchanges were $2,62l. .2S7 81, and the balances
S455, BIS 95. IL is now settled that this weeks
record will be the best of the year to date. This
evidence of prosperity under the peculiar and
somewhat depressing circumstances which
exist affords undoubted proof that the nnan-
cial, commercial and manufacturing interests
of the city rest on foundation which is not
easily shaken.
There was nothing new in the money market.
The supply was equal, and more than equal, to
all requirements, discounting was fair and rates
steady at 6@7 per cent on call and time paper
respectively. Currency and exchange were
abundant.
Money on call at New York Yesterday was
easy, ranging from S95H per cent, last loan 8,
closed offered at per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, 5@7. Sterling exchange quiet and
firm at 81 S5H for 60-day bills and A S7N for
demand.
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IRREGULAR IN PHILADELPHIA.
A Better Inquiry for Pig Metal, Structural
Iron md Steel Rails.
,sprc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.l

repEcIAL TELKGRAh TO THE DIsPATCH.l
PHILADELPHIA. April 25.-The iron market
Is irregular, but. upon the whole, irmer.
Manufacturers of pig metal, steel rails and
structural iron all report better inquiry. One
Of the largest concerns in the city received to-
day an inquiry for terms upon l5OOO tons Of
steel rails and buyers and holders are
not far apart as to terms. An inquiry
for rails comes all the way across
the Continent from Tacoma, Wash. 1t
is not likely that the Philadelphia railmaker
will make price acceptable to the Pacific
slope buyer but the inquiry indicates that
Western buyers are playing their last cards be-
fore closing contracts with the concerns with
whom they usually deal. The small surplus of
pig iron is Principally in mill and foundry
yards The way-out yards have not to exceed
60.0O0 tons, or less than one weeks production,
which 10 . small facto: in the market. Fur
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Wool Marker.
=PHILADELPHIA-Woo ool market steady; prices |
unchanged.

y FHILADBLFhIA-WU UuI HAtKet steadyip Prices
unchanged.
BoSToN-There has been a good trade in all
kinds of woods, the sales amounting to 25I4,-
600 pounds. There is no material change in
prices, and the market remains steady. Ohio
3O@Slc. Xxx at 3215@33c. and No i at 525lc.
Michigan X heeces were quiet at 2S1%0291Sc
Washed combing woods were in demand at 500
40c and unwashed at 26@291ac; but stocks are
small. There have been sales of Ohio Ine de-
lain at 35936c, and Michigan at 34@35c. Terri
tory woods were quiet at former prices Some
sales of new spring California wool to arrive
are reported at 53Q55: clean sales of Oregon
WOOL including No. Eastern at lSQ20c and
average Eastern at l6@l7c. Pulled woods in
steady demand, with sales of choice super at
40Q43c: common to good super at Z763Sc and
extra at 22@2Sc. Large sales of Australian
cross breeds are reported at S7Qlkc. Carpet
woods quiet and steady