St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
MINNEAPOLIS MARKETS.
Chamber of Commerce.

A good deal of May wheat was sold about
the opening of the session at 7Sc, and prices
advanced shortly after to 7Sl4c and later fell
to Use, with sellers at that about IL o'clock
Trading was moderate during the middle of
the day and fuctuated lightly up to the
close. Early cables were inactive but
with outlook lower both on wheat and
corn. Deliveries of wheat were very small
on February sales. Stocks of wheat in
country elevators Feb. were S,SS5.000 bu,
against .964, 900 blu Jan. I, showing a de.
crease of 1.109,ooO bu during the past
month. Four Atlantic ports cleared 49,
600 bu of wheat for the day. New York
cleared $4,000 bbls of -four. Wheat was
quoted 10 centlmes better from Paris, and
Hour 20 centimes better.
Following are the closing quotations: No.
May. s0Ac; on track, 7sI2c; No. northern,
February, 75lsc;. March, zee; May, Use;
on on raeR, &c; No. = northern February'
73l2@75c.
Receipts for the past ID hours were Us
cars here and u at Duluth. Local ship
ments, 80 cars. Most sellers thought the de-
Friday. Saturday is usually dull day in
the sample market aid to-day was no
exception. Buyers and sellers were early in
the day somewhat apart in their views
on both sides, most of the offerings of good
milling wheat were moved. The general
range of prices was about the same as yester-
day. though some parties thought a better
selection was required than yesterday to
bring the same price. Poor grades dull and
in poor demand.
FLOUR AND COARSE GRAINS.
Flour-The added daily output OF mills
grinding to-day will probably aggregate l6,-
900 bbls. Patents, sacks to local dealers,
81. 1904. SO; in barrels, 81. 3004.6 60: deliv-
cred at New England points, So. 1905. 40;
New York points, S5.05@5.30; delivered at
Philadelphia and Baltimore, S5@5: %; bak-
ers' here, S3@3 40; superfine, 81. 1902. % !;
red dog, sacks, S1@1.20; red dog, barrels,
Sl.25@1.50.
Bran and Shorts-Demand was good,
offerings light and held at $3.50 for bulk
bran OF. Fair shorts were called worth
about So. Shipments, 542 tons.
Corn-Market steady with small request
and fair offerings. Held at 25!2@26c o. t.
for samples and offered at 26@27c o. t. Re-
ceipts, 3 100 bu; shipments 1900
Oats-Offerings quite free. generally at
about 20043U12c 70 common lots, with nice
white held at 21@22c o. t. Mixed generally
selling at about 20@2Ol2c. Receipts, 10, 800
bu; shipments $500.
Barley-Feed barley was selling at about
22@23c, with some lots bought for mailing
at 25@30c. Receipts 6U0 bu; shipments
1900.
FlaxReceipts, 5. 900 bu; shipments, 5000
bu. Quoted. 81. 80; Chicago, $l.36.
Feed-Quoted at SlO@l0.50 o. t., and at
$l0.5U@I1 f. OBJ. and switched to go out.
FLOUR SHIPMENTS.
Following shows the shipments of flour
from Minneapolis Jan. l to date and same
time in 1889:
1890. bbls. 500. 624 1889 bbls.. .292, 749
FLOUR SHIPMENTS
Milwaukee road 8, $50 bbls; Omaha. f. 37
bbls; Minneapolis & st. Louis, 100 bbls;
ST. Paul Il Duluth, 375 bbls; Chicago. st.
Paul & Kansas City. LAT bbls; Chicago,
Burlington & Northern, 3 $50 bbls; Eastern
Minnesota, 2,725 bbls; 500 line, 3,2S2 bbls !;
Wisconsin Cen raj, 625 bbls.
CAR LOT RECEIPTS.
Following are the Minneapolis wheat re-
ceipts by cars: Milwaukee road, "a cars;
Omaha, 10 cars; Minneapolis IL ST. Louis, 81
cars; Manitoba, 80 cars; Northern Pacific.
cars.
STATE GRAIN INsPECTIoN-WHEAT