The morning call., 1891-10-21
CONDITION OF TRADE.
Very Large Exports From This
Port in September.
Overland Shipments Last Month-GOod Prices
Obtained for Many Lines Of Farm
Produce-Sugar Lower

Trade is not to be complained Of, either
in volume or margins Of profits. 1t might be
more active, but it might be a good deal
duller Failures ara neither large nor nu-
merous enough to cause comment. cOllec-
tions are fair, and solvent borrowers find no
difficulty in securing funds at normal rates Of
interest Local bank clesrlngs thus far this
year are larger than during the same period
in 1890. Those last week were SIS, ,902. $40
against $40 loo, 544 Tor the same week last
year. In September the value of exports Of
produce and merchandise from San Fran
CISCO, foreign and to New York, we're the
heaviest on record for any similar period,
reaching S5.182 400. or S37, $3.50 for the
year TO October Ist, against S2S, $50, 500 for
the same time in 1890
THE GRAIN MARKET.
Wheat has rHled easy during the week,
and at the close is lower The demand has
fallen eff and trade is now dull, though
there IS more activity in options at the
moment.
Feed barley is heavily offered and weak
Brewing descriptions are steady. Stand
ard Cheyalier has advanced TO 81 A., and
sales as high as 81 An have been made.
Black oats have gone up to 81 90 for the
best. beng wanted for seed. White oats
are in ample supply and fair demand at last
weeks prices.
Receipts Of corn during the past fortnight
have been enormous, and The market Is
lower and dull with excessive offerings.
Rye is nominal, dull and unchanged.
Feedstuffs have huetuated some during
tie week, but at the close show no wide
variation from last week
Flour is reported duh and rather weak.
GENERAL. COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Overland shipments of produce from Cali
fornia via Southern Pacific lines in Septem-
b-r fell IF 7.731, ,460 pounds from September,
1890, owing TO the decrease in fruit ship
meuts 10 the East this year. There was
falling off OF 3, 720, $50 pounds dried fruit and
6.4j2, 80 pounds canned fruit. On the other
haud there was an increase OF 1,73S,6 $50
pounds fresh fruit over September, 1890.
This. after so much recent talk about the
''glutted and oyerdone fruit trade" is start
ling 1t is reported TO be due to heavy
shipments Of grapes this year. Other items
of increase over September, 1890, are: Wool
43n. 520 pounds, wine 9S85 gallons and sugar
GAG. 80 pounds. The showing for Septem-
Der j, therefore satisfactory on the whole.
The statement is as follows In pounds:
San Francisco 81, 1,955,570, Oakland 1,626.850.
Sacramento S.4l3,5S0, San Jose 9,Ool, $50,
Stockton g. 2g4 400, MaTySYilie 3,ll9,34O, Los
Angeles 1851, 30 Cotton 795, $50, Portland
23O, $50 grand total 77,149,S00. The leading
items Of produce were as follows: 2ll1S
centals beans, 49, j03 gallons brandy, 126,G46
gallons wine, 352, go pounds borax, l,33o, l4O
pounds hops, 12,0l0o40 pounds canned
goods G.9Sq,5 pounds dried fruit, 19,4II,O0O
pounds fresh fIuit, 2,290,5l0 pounds raiSIns,
l9 horses. $3.50 pounds honey, 3SI, Goo
pounds hides, 550.740 pounds leather, 1855
centals potatoes, S09l0 pounds quicksilver,
1.842,0j0 pounds wool, 1l7,H0 pounds yege-
tables, 1872. 100 pounds canned salmon,
63l $40 pounds picked salmon.
Hay advanced again during the week, but
the advance attracted large shipments, and
at the close the market, except for the
choicest, is easy.
Beans are unsettled and prices are very
Irregular, hardening one day and softening
the next Receipts are large, and the market
Is heavily supplied.
The potato market is plentifully stocked,
and common varieties are very cheap and
slow OF sale. Onions are easy at the low
prices.
All descriptions Of butter are firm and
slowly rising. Picked roll is in brisk de-
mand and not very abundant. Fresh roll
has advanced since last report. Eastern
butter is stiff, in sympathy with higher
markets East.
Cheese Is high, fine mild new command
ing Il cents and even - cents, being scarce.
Fine eggs, both Eastern and California,
have gone up since last review, and are
very firm at the advance. Fresh ranch eggs
are scarce.
1UuEl CbukluAtS uutt anu III AhAGS Shppi5s
Dried fruit continues very cheap, and the
market is reported duh by most dealers, al
though several report fair outward move
ment The heavy fruit crop in the East
continues to operate against higher prices
here.
Raisins as a rule are quiet, though there
is q steady movement eastward of layers.
Loose muscatels continue preferred TO the
layer stock, ana are therefore more active.
Nuts Of the new crop are selling fairly,
though there IS no marked activity.
Hides are reported quiet and unchanged.
The meat market continues heavily sup
piled and easy with a decline in stock hogs.
Shipments Of wine from California by
water and rail during the first nine months
of 1891 were 7,S69,000 gallons, valued at
. So, ,3O5, 900, against 6,5Sl,6OO gallons at 81
6fS, 500, during the same period in 1880. Our
wine trade is continually increasing.
Hops are dull aud unchanged.
Wool is inactive.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Shipments of staple groceries from San
Francisco overland in September we're r.,
4j5 43O pounds Of sugar, I'LL gallons Of
syrup, 1,774,290 pounds of tea and 26,S50
pounds of coffee.
The principal feature of groceries last
week was a reduction OF 4 cent per pound
in the price OF white sugars. YellOws had
previously been marked down u cent.
There IS fair local demand for sugar. and
indeed, grocery iobbers report a healthy
movement In most grocery staples.
Coffee has been more active of late buy
ers having been compelled to purchase to
leplenlsh stocks. Prices. however, show no
variations worthy of note.
Rice IS IN fair demand. Stocks of island
are moderate.
Provisions are in very fair movement, with