Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-31
ARTICLES.
Cash Quorations were as follows:

Flour firm and unchanged. No. 2 spring
wheat 81 o21S9l 0224: No, 8 spring wheat, s5c;
No. oats. 5Sc; No. barley nominal; No. fax
seed. 81 2016; prime timothy seed, 81 2Ql %
Mess pork. per Dbl. sl2 so. Lard. per lUO lbs.
s6 S. Short rib sides Qoosel. Sc 00G6 10; dry
salred shoulders (boxed). s. 0O95 10; short clear
sides tboxed), St 25d6 go Sugars unchanged.
No. 2 white oats, 5411@551zc; No. 5 white oats
5SQS415c; No. 8 barley, 4. o. b. 1oGzSe; No; 4
The Produce Exchange to-day the butter mar
ket was quiet and unchanged. Eggs 17@lsc.
NEW YoRk-Flour-Receipt 1871 pack
ages; exports. 1865 barrels, 26 4l0 sacks; market
firm and fairly active; sales, q, $50 barrels
Gornmeal firm and in fair demand; Wheat
Receipts, $500 bushels; exports 26 ~ bushels;
sales, 9.s40000 bushels futures; $4,000 bushels
quiet; No. red 81 1891 l6S in elevator,
81 iS; M ~ ungiaded az % red, & i2S1 q; i isS; ~ No.
Northern, 81 235z: No. j hard, 81 265z; options
showed good buying through the day, largely
on foreign account and prompted by Russian
crop reports and cold wave at the West; the
general course of price has been almost stead
lily upward, and the close is firm at 11z421sc ad-
vance: No. red March, closing at 81 l6sz; May,
1919, closing 81 lOJs; July, 81 OS@l O9,
closing at 81 OS3s; August, ST OS l3.l6@
] 04A. closing at 81 o4s4; September,
81 0S5sQi 041s. closing at 81 0i1s: December,
and ahoat, March Is: Wheat, S33SSS bushels;
corn 1885, G25 bushels; oats T9i, ,S25 bushels; rye,
l67U0 bushels; barley, 81 49l bushels; malt, 1885,
572 bushels; peas, 6,342 bushels. Barley quiet
and steady. Barley malt duh. Corn-Receipts,
So $50 bushels; exports 5S6 bushels; sales 8 Sl6.
600 bushels futures, 1000 bushels spot; spot
market lQl1Sc up. quiet and firm; No. 79z6@
soc in elevator Sic atoali ungraded mixed, 7SA
@Slc; steamer mixed, 79QSU11c Options almost
steadily advanced l1a@2hc above Saturdays
close on light receipts; supplies offered sparing-
ly. shorts anxious to cover; March, SOC: April,
7Sc; May, 74Q751sc: closing at 7419c; June, 724c;
July, 711a@725Ac, closing at 721sc; August 7l5sc.
Oats-Receipts. 5000 bushels; exports, none;
sales, $4,000 bushels futures; 100000 bushels
spot; spot market quiet and higher; options
stronger and fairly active; March. 59s4e; April,
59s4e; May, 59ssG60c. closing at 6O1sc; July 6sS4
@591sc. closing at 691sc: spot No. white, 6013Q
sc; mixed Western, 5SQb2e; white do, 6OQ66c;
No. Chicago, Gle. Hops quiet, steady
state, sSgn0U eommon to r choice 2lGsoe; Paclfe S
frmer; fair. refining, Sl605lc; cen:
trifugals, Sc test, SIC; sales late Saturday and
to-day, lO4 hogsheads and 1900 bags; mus
covado, SO test. nc; 454 hogsheads and
centrifugals S6 test, SIC; 2,2lO bags, do SIC,
& F; 1890 bags moIasses sugar. 81 and 90 test,
2 l3l6G2 lS-l6c F; refined dull. Molasses,
foreign firm; New Orleans, hrm, fair demand.
Rye. firm, good demand; Petroleum quiet,
steady; United closed at 723Ic for April. Cot
ton seed oil quiet, steady. Iallow dull steady.
Rosin firm, quiet Turpentine dull, easy, 4o15
@4Q34c. Eggs lower; western, Zoe; receipts,
$500 packages. Hides, firm, quiet. Pork act
we higher; old mess. sll 75Gl2 Is; new mess,
Sis 75G14 90; extra prime, Sll 50Gl2 o. Cut
meats, firm: wanted picked bellies, 61sc; do
shoulders, 41a24szc; do hams, s1aQe54ci mid
dies, GOOD demand, higher; short clear, s6 S5.
Lard higher. stronger, quiet: western, steam,
81 Is; sales 100 tierces 81 l215; options, sales
$500 tiercesi May, 81 1907 20; closing, 81 10 bid;
July 81 4197 IS closing, 46 bid;August 81 54Q
Z 81. Butter quiet and weak; Western dairy. l3
@27c; do creamery, 2I@SOe; do factory, 1SG27c;
Elgn, 30%@Slc. Cheese in less demand but
firm; skins, 611GlOc; OHIO fats. S9llc.
ST. LOUlS-Flour strong and holders firm.
Wheat-The early news to-day was bullish and
the opening was firm and 5sG%c higher than
Saturdays closing figures. There was an i'm
mediate strengthening up all around, but the
market eased of some after the first half hour
but recovered soon afterward on the decrease
of the visible supply, although the market was
nervous, prices Were firm the balance of the
session, closing 5s1l1sc higher than Saturday.
No. 2 red. cash, 81 0391 O33<; May 81 033zQ
%. closing at 81 O41s: July, y6sS @9Sssc closing
at s7sSc bid; August s41a9st1sc; closing at
951zc. Corn opened &c above Saturdays clos
ing quotations; ruled steady and firm for some
time then weakened but strengthened later
and continued irregularly firm to the close.
at 6434c, July, 6SISG645sc, closing at 6as6c Oats
firm and higher; No. cash, 5S34c; May,
52H@541se, closing at 54c; July, 451fc.
Rye nominally at 9Oc for No. 2 Barley very
niiuutsOLfa, tAYIOC. nay UTn, prairie,
$40 00Gi2 %: timothy, Sl2 00@l3 50. Bran
steady; sacked f. o. b. this side, 81. Flax
seed quiet; Western, 81 l715; Northwestern,
81 20. Lead quiet and steady at 81 l2h.
Spelter steady, at 81 S5 Butter very quiet and
unchanged. Eggs lower but steady, at lac.
Cornmeal strong and higher, at SIS 2O@3 30.
Whisky steady at 81 l6 Provisions strong
and higher, but not much trading Pork
Standard mess, Sl2 5O@12 rs. Lard-Prime
steam, 80 621S. Dry salt meats firm and
higher; boxed shoulders, 81 5OQ4 70; longs and
ribs, Sc 00g6 l2115; short clear, S6 20G6 %.
Bacon-BoXed shoulders, S. 90; longs. Sc so;
ribs, Sc 5OG6 6215; short clear, S6 621f96 rs.
PHILADELPHIA-Flour firm but dull Wheat
strong and higher: No. red In export eleva-
tor, 81 0S1zc; No 2 red March, 81 0S1S: April,
81 0S13Ql %; May and June 81 lO@l IO16@l IL
Corn-Strong and higher; No. 2 yellow in grain
depot, TIC; No. 2 low mixed on track, TIC:
ungraded mixed in grain depot, 7Sc; No. 2
mixed and yellow on track in do. and elevator
7SG7S11c; No. mixed. March and April 75Q
76c; May, 731<Q741zc; June, 7lH@7211c. Oats
strong; No. white, 6O@60kc: No. white,
March. 5sAQ6OAc; April, 5ys4@8O1xc; May,
6O1S@6lc; June. 6O1SG6lAc Provisions firm,
with good jobbing trade. Pork-Mess, new
sl3 0OQl8 So: do family, sl4 OOGl4 so: hams.
smoked 91S@l0Hc. Butter dull and easier;
Pennsylvania ecreamery extra, 8l@a2c; do.
print extra, 36@3Sc. Eggs dull and weaker;
Pennsylvania trsts. lSGl9c. Cheese-Firm;
part skins, 7G9c.