The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-16
CONDITION OF TRADE.
The Wheat and Barley Markets
Tending Upward.
Sharp Advance in silver-Flurries in Wheat
and Pork-Ths Sugar and Coffee Trades.
Overland Shipments.

less than for the same week In 1883. Ihere are
no particular features Of interest beyond those
10 be found under their respective heads below,
If sharp advance in silver all over the world be
excepted
THE GRAIN MARKETS.
Cereals as a rule are active and stiff Wheat
Is hardening all over the world, and In this mar
ket shippers VIII now pay 81 80 for the general
run of No. l. THIS is the highest point touched
for several months The demand is fair at the
advance Freights are strong, In sympathy
with wheat, and iron vessels are being chartered
at SOS, u. X, Havre or Antwerp. Flour is also
favorably affected by the rise IN wheat, though
quotations have not yet been marked up. There
was great excitement Ia the New York wheat
market Friday afternoon, 20,O0O,O00 bushels
being sold in options at a radical advance IN
prices, Wall-street Western and foreign houses
taking in large blocks Of May, June and July.
The Government crop report, showing greatly
reduced estimates Of the yield, was presumably
the cause of the rise. The advance IN Liverpool
has closely followed the rise in silver on ex-
change account. but the American crop outlook
has nevertheless been potential factor.
Barley has again gone up. Feed is now stiff at
e214 a95c per GENITAL, and brewing descriptions
are selling freely at Sla1 10. Stocks OF all
kinds are not much, II any, in excess OF the in
quiry.
Oats are steady at the recently advanced
prices, and dealers report fair demand.
A1O Is lOhti duu fclI QuIl. 1uGlc are uO
buyers In sight.
Corn is quiet. Fellows are barely steady at
81 1919 as an average price, while white has
dropped 2Iac.
Ground barley has gone up in sympathy with
the raw product Bran and middlings are fair
and IN good demand.
GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Overland shipments OF California produce In
March via Southern Pacific Railroad So
9S7 $50 pounds. The leading items Of produce
were as follows: sos centals barley, 10, EOS
eentals beans 42,5S2 gallons brandy, 535,737
gallons wine, $685. $50 pounds leather, 2,oSl ,24O
pounds canned goods, G11,O2O pounds dried
fruit. 2,494.6O0 pounds citrus fruit, 37l,34O
pounds Taisns, 80 430 pounds hops, 347 .2SO
pounds hides, 1,O3O63 pounds wool. $1,000
pounds quicksilver I.27S, 800 pounds canned
salmon, b.13O pounds picked salmon.
Hay meets win fair demand, and receipts are
sufficient without being large. a few variations
In prices have occurred.
Lima beans are firm and whites have been ad-
Tanced a notch under good demand. Coiored
beans show no further change.
Honey Is Weakening as the new crop ap
prOaches and receipts are increasing.
Butter niiuues depressed at Halo cents
per pound for ordinary TO fancy. AT these prices
there IS little, II any, profit Tor the daryman
CneeSe IS weak al cents per pound Tor choice
mild new. Eggs are steady al Is to 7 cents for
California, and 14dl6 cents for Eastern. Stocks
OF all kinds about balance the demand.
Potatoes contiune 10 arrive literally from the
East, and the market Is now heavily supplied
with them. PIECES show no further change, nor
do dealers expect any, providing present STOCKS
together with sHi ments Ell route from the East,
prove SUFFICIENT TO carry Us over until arrivals of
new potatoes get large enough 10 fiji tile demand.
But II these Eastern potatoes got exhausted be-
lore that time lhe trade look for better prices.
New potatoes are very backward This year. but
against this there are the supplies OF Eastern,
which al present are sufficient for three weeks or
month, even should no more arrive.
Onions are scarce and dear. choice selling up
10 81 90. Australia has lately sent us 1000
crates which sold al SO 60d6 90 per GENITAL
Hops are neglected and uOmlal.
Dealers rel Ort fair demand for spring wool
Dried fruits are so well cleaned up that it is
next 10 Impossible 10 mud q good round lot OF
pruneS peaches and apreots or apples. This
ducers.
The association of tanners has met again, and
further revision OF prices for hides is the result
Inc meat market IS amply supplied aud prices
are unchanged.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Overland shipments Of The staple groceries
from California via the Southern Pacific lines in
March were: 26l, $50 pounds OF tea, 656 26O
pounds OF cole aud II 1924, 500 pounds of
sugar. The shipments of sugar were largely
composed OF raWs to New Orleans
sugar Is without change, but business is &C
tive. The market for beet sugar in London has
recovered 12d since last week. NJ. LIGHT has
Increased his estimate OF the yield in Europe
This year TO 100000 tons, against 2,7S5, S44
tons last season.
Coffee is dun and quotations are largely NOM
inal on last weeks basis. Late New York ldyices
say inst holders IN the primary markets have
shown more disposition 10 sell and good deal
OF business has transpIred on the basis of free
offers with Rio as well as Santos al prices that
are about on the parity of values current in New
York LONDON has also continued to offer on
that market and further sales are reported, bur
on The street the market has been rather quiet
ana dealers have reported falling of IN the
dlstflbuiiye demand. San Francisco dealers
hope that the forthcoming reduction la eastward
overland fegbts from 81 10 TO 80 cents per
GENITAL which Is 10 so Into effect June 1st may
stimulate trade.
Rice continues more or less unsettled. Ia
waitsn IS easier ana Chinese grades finer.
Canned fruits klOR phaOpe In
The Gamers rel Ort fair demand for assorted
carloads FOR the East, Which is gradually rrduc-
Is encouraging.
Canned salmon. though still low In price. is
stedoleI, as stocks have lately been considerably
reduced by large overland shipments aud are
now down TO a manageable point. There Is moth
ing doing IN futures On the Columbia packing
has not really commenced, although tile legal
1shlng season commenced ON The LIST, and but
lew canneres are 10 operation.
"A irSue contemporary says that the Eastern
starch combinatJ IN seems 10 be an accomplished
fact, nineteen OF the twenty-five leading starch
manufacturers having organized the National
SlaIeh company under The laws Of Kentucky
with capital Of SlO,OO0000.
canned oysters have again been marked I'D.
Canned corn Is lower. Pickles are still higher.
PROVISIONS are unsettled owing 10 the fever
ish condition Of the Eastern markets Saturday
the Chicago pork market advanced from SIl 60
10 S14 90 for May, and from SIl II to SIS for
june win very little for sale. This was the
most remarkable jump iu the history of The
Chicago board. Inc Cincinnati Price Cur
rem ahhudi statement OIL winter hog packing
III inc west loI me season OF 1SS9-9U, SHOWS an
aggregate Of 1858 SOP hogs, at an average cost
OF SO GO per hundred weight, against 5 4S3, S52
hoss during 4SSo-S9, at an average OF 81 90 per
hundred-weighJ. Total stocks of meats and
PORK 10 the West, March 1st. were $50, 600 600
Roqnac, against $50, $4,000 pounds same date
1he san Francisco market Is firm, with an ad-
vance III hams, and dealers report Increasing
activity 10 all pork products.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Merchandise slOHs r. variations tI,ts
Nut OIL has again deciin' d. Quicksilver Is scarce
and hrin at $50 and sol per flask, a price that
has made IL possible 10 import quantity from
hohs- hOng Ia bond for shipment TO Mexico,
Where II can be LAID down cheaper than the locaI
product eau be al present values.
1In plate Is sieadler and IN improved demand
Io6acco meets wan fair Inquiry. Dry goods are
only moderately active.
Coal rules iirm, and the Australian grades con-
tinue to tend upward. Tie weeks receipts were
1860 tons Australian and 22,o65 tons Coast.
private circular says:
Prices have been strongly maintained during the
week, Notwithstanding arrivals have been more
nDeIa, Now that II Is an established fact that the
imports OF Foreign Goals from all sources for the
next four months least Will be excepriolaIlv
nsht II mas become an assurance that present values
DC ulol urOeu LOT at least six months come.
II during the year the European wheat market
should show any unusual appreciation, thereby caus-
B an au vance IN wheat Charters, coal would be the
hrst article to feel the change, by softenng of val
nes; this Is among the p0ssb lilies. but rather i'm
ptObaO!e. some Few OF larger interpretations
have been very fortunate in making contracts few
months ago at low figures for their consumption for
The year, 10 provide for which some of the vendors
will safer a severe loss not having secured for
themselves sufficient freight to deliver the anount
sold. The change OF weather has materiaiiv dinin.
lsned the consumption for domestic PURPOSES at the
same time the Increase OF trade with
s burning up much larger amount for steam uses
Dealers say that Rocky Mountain Goals are
being landed In the interior valleys 10 fill Tie
country demand. II this be so it will act az a
creek against any marked advance In coal
1he wood market Is oversiocked and weak