The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
CONDITION OF TRADE.
A Fair Business Going On With.
out Excitement.
This Years Clearings Still Ahead-A Pool in
Qulcksilver-The Lumber Combine a
Thing Of the Past.

Trade during the past two or three months
has not been OF character to call for par
tcular comment. In fact it has been a
mercantile routine, devoid Of especial
feature There are not wanting those who
prefer this hnmdrum condition of business.
for 1t is certainly safe and by no means un-
profitable.
But it must not be inferred from the above
that we have had very dull fall. Far
from 1t. The local bank clearings thus far
tins year amount to $751;, 919, 166, against
S7O2 500 during the same time in 1890,
and S697, lC4, 147 in 1889. A gain this year
OF So, 900 over 1890 (Which was brilliant
year) surely does not indicate dull trade.
For the month of October the clearings are
given at SSS, 1869, against So. 2S5,079 for
the same month last year.
THE CEREAL MARKET.
Ocean wheat freights have dropped from
4os to Sos. and wheat has improved just that
amount. This explains the advance in
wheat in the face of lower foreign markets
Inc demand is brisk at the higher prices.
reed barley is in large supply, and COM
mon descriptions are lower, but choice
bright feed is scarce and firm.
oats are in heavier stock, but firmly held.
Corn has advanced again and is firm at
the rise
9 Rye has gone up sharply, and sold up to
81 70 yesterday.
Bran and middlings have been marked
down.
Buckwheat has gone up to 81 So.
Inc millers report brisk inquiry for
hour, chiefly for the next China steamer.
GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Hops are now in steady demand, and
everything merchaGtable can be sold within
a range of IL cents for common up to Is
cents Tor choice. The latter are already
gettinS scarce, as they are in short supply
all over the Coast this year.
Wool rules quiet at last weeks prices.
easy.
Sweet potatoes are higher. Other pota-
toes are still in heavy supply and dull. On
Ions continue cheap.
Fine butter and eggs continue to tend up
ward under increasing scarcity. Cheese
still brings high prices.
Honey rules dull at the established quota
TONS
Dried fruits are moving off well. but
prices are very low. Prunes are frmer
man any other description Grapes are
weaker, as the heavy October shorts have
been filled. Stocks of all sorts of fruit are
ample tor all present necessities.
The ralsln market shows no improve
ment. There is fair movement Eastward,
but prices ara weak.
mutton and lamb are firm.
Ianbark is lower.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Groceries are not materially changed from
last week. The last Hawaiian steamer
brought 1891 bags of island rice, which tenn
porarily overstockS the market. Large sup
plies OF nut oil have lowered the range.
Jobbers In groceries report fair move
mrnt In the staples. Refined sugar is in
satisfactory demand and unchanged.
PROVISIONS are in moderate demand. Rams
ana bacon continue weak, but lard has
shown no change for some time
Canned fruits exhibit no variation either
in price or condition of the market. The
demand is slow, and although there is an
apparent free movement Eastward it is
mostly to I'LL orders given early in the sea-
son.
Canned salmon is dull at the cast-iron
prices. Receipts of Alaska salmon for the
season to October Dist, inclusive, were
56l.235 cases, against 3d. 115 to same date in
1880, and 46S,Sl9 to October 81, 1889.
" coffee. the private circular Of r. Hoch-
k0her says:
quiet market has ruled here since our cir
cular of the z2d Of October. with fair demand
at steady prices for all descriptions except tie
medium aud lower grades which are by COM
parison superintendent and sell slowly al irresu.
lar prices, but generally tending lower.
The New York market. has slightly improved
during the week and some inquiry has developed
fiop overland markets for the better grades of
washed conees without, however, resulting in
any business as yet as our range of prices is
proportionately higher than those ruling
everywhere else, and the qualities desired are
besides In very limited supply.
The circular gives the receipts of coffee at
this port during the first ten months of the
year at 1922 bags. against 13l, 76S bags
during the same period in 1890. The sales
/ from first hands were 1885 bags, against
I~125,5lT, and the stock on hand November
LIST, 1916 bags, against 1926.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tobacco and cigars are in fair demand.
a quicksilver pool has been formed and is
holding the local price squarely up to SIS
per flask. The receipts at this port thus far
this year are 1924 TASKS, against 1O.5l1
during the same time in 1890. The exports
were 1854 TASKS, against 6S2S
The lumber c0mb ine has been diving for
several months and is now completely dead.
dealers cutting right and left. Wholesale
rates are now the retail rates and lumber
can be purchased anywhere under the nom
inal list.
Coal is in large supply. The receipts in
October were 139,S00 tons, or So, 500 tons
more than in October. 1890 Thus far this
year the receipts are l,133l20 tons, against
S33, $50 during the same period in 1890
Prlces show no change