St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-01
MINNEAPOLIS MARKETS.
Chamber of Commerce.

Wheat opened a shade higher, with a very
good buying demand. There was considera-
BILE wheat offered, but appeared to be mostly
In small lots. There were no large lines TO
speak OF that seemed to be for sale. First
sales were about 1s@Le higher than yester-
days closing. Fo lowing it there was some
weakness, with reports Of snow storm in
the winter wheat section, upon which speeu-
lators tried TO bear the market. Evansville,
Ind, said there was no snow there and that
the outlook was somewhat serious for crop.
Clearances from New York and Baltimore
OF wheat and flour. were reported TO equal
about 1000 % bu wheat. Liverpool was
firm, with an upv ard tendency and demand
for floating cargoes tirmer. FLUCTUATIONS
were quite frequent in the market for flu
lures and prices Influenced to an unusual
extent by floating news, none of which. ex-
cept clearances seemed to be very important,
only that the market was controlled by it,
Following are the closing quotations: No.
l hard, February, Use; March, 7SMo; May
zoe; on track, 7Sl2c. No. / northern,
February, 76c; March, 76Ae; May, 17Ac;
ruary, TIC; March, 74Ac; May, 75Bc; on
track. 74@76c.
Receipts of wheat for the day were 12s
ears. shipments II ears. The demand for
spot wheat was good, with the bulk OF the
offerings taken by home mllers. Some
orders were here TO be filled for shipment,
parts of which were not filed. because the
buyers were unable to find the exact qualities
required in sufficient amount to till them. A
few were limited below the market. Alto
gether the purchases for shipment were
light GOOD competition existed that Kept
prices q shade above yesterdays market.
The future market was also firm and reached
higher fluctuations, which had some effect
on cash wheat Duluth received 2 cars.
FLOUR SHIPMENTS.
Following shows the shipments or hour
from Minneapolis Jan. l TO date and same
time in SO: ls9' l,O65, 26o bbls: 1889,
7US, 1896 bbis.
FLOUR AND COURSE GRAINS.
Flour-The added daily output OF mills
grinding yesterday will probably aggregate
%, 900 bbls. Patents, sacks. to local dealers.
81. 6O@4.65; patents TO ship, sacks, car lots,
81. l5@4.5 in barrels, 81. SGD. so; deliv-
cred at New England points, S49G@5.l5:
New York points, 81 S005. 05; delivered at
Philadelphia and Baltimore, $4.75@5.0 5;
bakers here, S2.90@3.23 superfine, Sl.7 O.
20 red dog, sacks, S1@1.2o; red dog, bar
rels. Sl.25@ so.
Bran and Shorts-Bran was steady at
about S7.25@7.5O. with fair inquiry, and
shorts at SS@S.75 all TO. b. Shipments, 7S2
tons.
track and the market was tirmer with hold
ers generally asking about 24A@25c o. t.,
and with buyers slow. Corn ( o. o. and
switched held at .5@23l2c mostly. Re-
ceipts, Is, $50 bu; shipments, 1900 but
Oats--Were offered quite freely. but held
with more frmness at q @22c for common
mixed to nice white on track. Demand
fair. Receipts, $4,000 bu; shipments, 4,5Uu
blu.
Barley-A few cars were offered little
better than feed barley at CSC, with PC bid
for 1t. Shipments, 1920 bu; receipts
none.
Feed-Steady at s1O01O.5O o. t.; $4,000
IL f. o. b. and switched.
FlaX-Receipts, 1000 bu; SHIPMENTS, 500
bu. Quoted Si39; Chicago, S1.45.
Hay-Reoeipts continue small, but the
market is slow TO recover, and 1t was hard TO
get more than $3.50 for Iowa upland, and
common wild dull at S205.5O. Receipts 10
tohS.
STATE GRAIN Observation-Disclosures