The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-09

rcpesn wheat crop, ard said; This would i'm
prove the prospects In this state for good prices
for cur wheat crop. Everything seems to indi-
cate that the price of wheat will be larger this
year than last six weeks ago prices commenced
10 10 up gradually. and now wheat is from $sA5
10 slice. have been told our exporters ART SELF
Ing caryoes for August. september, October, No
sefabcr aud December at the rate OF $3.50 or
more here. Season. options are 81, ID until June.
and Is3i options are quoted Of si-S7 and st.sS
These options are the best indications Of prices
which VIII lircyail during aud after harvest. and
the acxt crop will bring $50 or more, which 10
better price than We have been receiving Of
late years. The acreage OF wheat this year -
very large, perhaps larger than ever before ii
this state. Every part OF the state is all right
except the san Joaquin valley. There the rain-
fail has not been suiiiciert TO give growers any
margin. II, however. during this month they
should set two or three inches Of rain, il will
give the growers of the valley the largest crops,
perhaps. they have ever had
RECEIPTS or BUTTER, KEGS AND cIxrsE.
Receipts of butter. cheese and eggs at San
Francisco fer March were:
Bai,er, Csoese. EGGS,
lAs. itS. dx
California. ............. l,GSo6o Tel,5o0 s0s,5s5
HasIern . .. , s5e ssioo las -
Totals ............. l,o5i,9oo $1,000 rode,
As compared with February the receipts In
the past month increased us follows: Butter,
2S,sto pounds; cheese, 5se,duo pounds; eggs.
lol.l45 dozen. III March the receipts of potatoes
and onions ut this port were as follows: Cali
iofnia-Posatoes, $3.50 sacks; onions, a.s05
sacks. Oregon, etce-potatoes. 2n,al2 sacks:
onions, 1907 sacks. Total-Potatoes, loS4fs
sacks; onions, 2,9li sacks. as against 1900
sacks OF potatoes and COCO sacks OF onions In
February. Instead of having to call upon the
East to make up q serious deficiency here, there
has been large surplus for shipment, many
carloads having been sent TO other states aud
territories. Recently receipts of California pota-
toes at this port have been only fair. though Or
egon has been contributing to some extent
Receipts OF oats ct san Francisco in March were
as follows; Interior, SO ccntais: oregon, ETC.,
21,57i ccntals total. 5000. Total for February,
5osoS5. Our principal supplies are drawn from
Oregon and Washington. During the year lSa0
receipts of California were only ls6.foi ccntals,
against 3ss.7s3 from the north. Exports by sea
IN the past month were as follows. TO Hawaiian
Islands, 5oe centals; value, seas. To China, 60
centais; value, si,s.
PRODUCE RECEIPTS AND QUOTATIONS.
Produce rcceip's-Flour, 1900 quarter sacks:
wheat, 1900 cenfals; barley, 1000 centAss;
potatoes, 1000 sacks, bran, ZOO sacks; wool,
Fiour-Extra. sls5@ts7,s PER Dbl; bake..'
extra, $L1SG4.11is.
Whcat-Choice shipping quality and milling,
Rariey--No. / feed. sls7,s; choice, yl.ss;
common grades, sj.35; brewing, N.42asQ4i.45
for fair to good, and 81. i.ssl tai As Tor choice
0ats-snrprise. si.sxeLYo: milling $l1Sy
l.so; good to choice. .sL7sai.s.is; iair, si.so0
LT2ls. gray. $l.5SitI57is per Genital.
Corn-Iarge yellow, 1856 "a .s7ia; small yell
low, 81. i0giiii4; white, si35 a9i .i..a per CEN
tai.
OPTIONS.
Call board sales: Wheat-Buyer 1891, ti.sSiz(D
l6ess, closing al $1,000; buyer season, $f.5sk
@l.59, closing at $50.
Barley-Buyer season, 1896, i.3s,s, closing
at $780,.
FINANCIAL.
Drafts-Sight, IL: teicgraphic, % Sterling
biils--Bank. $4S1t sight, 81 ssts: commercial,
sis5 Silver bars, 9sts9s Mexican dollars, $50