The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-05

TRADE AND SHIPPING.
Views of Hop Dealers on the
Condition of Market.
WHEAT MARKET REMAINS DULL.
a Busy Day on West street-Trade I'm.
usually Active-Prices Remain
Firm All Around.
TIDES AT SEATTLE HARBoR TODAY
HIGH WATER Low WATER
q. m. it p m. #. m. it. Ip. m. It
LIS As 9.ls al $40 GA eos 30
AT FORT TOWNSEND.
12a u So n-oT3.04 Ga SIS 20
SEATTLE. Jan. 4, 1892
Exchanges at Seattle, Tacoma and Portland
cieafins-houses for today were:
ITea..Ie. .--..... .sDi674a4 s756e2 45
nnaeulta, '--....--.-..... 2l2.u04 50 1912 50
foftiaho.. $4,000 % 142oOO %
Trade generally opened up with fair degree
OF activity yesterday, aud all along West street
Joboers appeared to be unusually busy. No
ehange was reported in prices. The grain mar
Aes continues dull, but an improvement is ex-
peeted In a day or 30. The hop market is in
Iair condition, considering the fact that but
very ullie OF the stock remaining on hand is
oetter than medium grades. Regarding the con-
oltlon OF the market Phil Neis said:
The best hops remaining on hand are worth
a ar 10 cents There are but very few left that
are worth that price. There are no strictly
Snolce hops l have just bought lot OF me-
dluins al II cents. The price runs as low as 9
cents, ana some are not even worth that.
T. 2. Humphrey said:
We have done fair amount of business this
year, put there is no market for hops really, be-
cause the grades are too DOOR, Not more than
one-thlrd OF the whole crop consisted of good
sops ana none OF them were strictly choice.
orIctiy cholce hops would bring II to III
cents now II there were any, but as there are
none II Is useless to quote them. Lust bought
LOT OF good hops at 1313 cents, but perhaps the
same lot would not be worth more than u
cents TO another dealer. 1t just happens that |
nave place for them. That is the way it goes.
ana tnat Is why say there is really no market
mere. we nave TO wait until we find buyer for
aeertain amount of hops of such a grade, and
then we go out and make the best deal
we can III the stock were strictly choice there
would De standard prics. have known deal
ers mere pay IA cents for hops would not have
PAID more than II cents for, and would think
ior an instant that IL was foolish deal, but evil
IDENTITY that dealer had place for that particular
grade. There are about 5000 bales still in the
state, and but very few OF those are what can
be called good hops.
The meeting of the stock exchange, which
should take place at II o'clock this forenoon,
has been postponed until 2:3O this afternoon,
that the members may attend the funeral of
Colonel Haines.
GENERAL SHIPMENTS.
During the past twenty -four hours goods and
merchandise have been shipped from Seattle in
the following amounts: By rail-Northern Pa
ciic, l67 tons; Columbia & Puget Sound, Is
tons: Seattle. Lake Shore & Eastern, 50 tons
BY water-Puget Sound aud Alaska Steamship
Company's boats, II tons; State of Washington,
80 tons; w. F. Munroe, 26 tons; Angeles. % tons;
Multnomah, 9 tons; Glide, 5 tons: Buckeye, 5
tons; Clara Brown, tons. Total shipments,
353 TONS
MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE RECEIPTS.
Produce and merchandise have been received
at the port of Seattle during the past twenty.
four hours as follows: By rail-Northern Pacific,
26O tons: Columbia & Puget Sound, 81 tons: Sc
attic, Lake Shore Eastern. 444 tons. By water
Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company's
boats, 10 tons; City of Puebla, $50 tons; Lakme,
10 tons; Little Giant, 81 tons; w. F. Munroe, y
tons; Clara Brown, tons; Multnomah, 10 tons;
Angeles, tons. Total receipts, 1,4J0 tons.