Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-21
Reports From the Agents.
BUSINESS MORE ACTIVE
Owing to the More seasonable Weather
No Change Established by the Elgin
Butter Board Spirit OF the Markets and
Revised Quotations.
TUESDAY, Dec. 20.

| Revised Quotations.
TUESDAY, Dec. 20.
Business was more active in mercantile
circles to-day than yesterday and the mar
kets were generally frmer. the touch of
winter weather having stimulating effect,
especially in produce commission circles.
The grain, -four and feed market was an
exception, the feeling continuing weak and
unsettled.
| Sale of creamery butter on the Elgin
butter board yesterday were made at last
| weeks prices, and in consequence there
will be no change in quotations here this
week The Western market is holding up
better than expected, in view of the weak
ness in the East.
Their is a disposition on the part of
buyers OF some classes of goods to re-
duce stocks as the end of the
year draws near and the season for
the annual stock-tal1ing approaches
On the other hand, the holiday trade creates
an increased demand for some kinds of
goods. and althou b the most OF the buying
for Christmas and New Years has been
done for this year, there is good de-
mand for some descriptions, even at this
late day. This is particularly true of
and sugar are ruling firm, but there is no
essential change in the price. Salt is firm
and higher. Canned fruits are higher and
quite firm, owing to q good demand and the
iact that the supply is lighter than it was
a year ago, when crops were unusally large.
Sugar, syrups, rice and fish hold about
steady Deniers in drugS and chemicals re-
port an active market for spirits. Alcohol
has made an advance of l0c and is,now selling
at s. so per gallon by the barrel. This shows
q bulge of Soc i'll two weeks. Opium is firm
81, n lxrp1 hi
are expected.
A letter from Eyota, 3Einn., says: Most of
our farmers put in all the barley they could
about one-thlrd more acres was sown to
and not much wheat. The outcome is q poor
crop OF barley and not much money in cir
culation; A good many are selling on their
best draft horses in order to pay local debts.
Horses are cheap on that account. ghey are
being picked up by buyers at all the way
from 500 to $3.50 per span just now. Outside
of this district the same horses are selIingat
from $500 to $3.50 per span. The grain specu-
lator IS not anywhere. Hogs are stl ong this
season; so are chickens and eggs. The
farmers do not get discouraged after all our
drawbacks and poor crops at low prices
They are learning by experience not to put
all confidence in one kind OF grain or one
kind OF stock"
The demand for lumber in the principal
markets of the country, while not as urgent
as a short time ago, remains above the aver
age, considering the lateness of the season.
In the Eastern cities building operations are
still actively prosecuted, and planning mills
are finding orders enough to keep them rum
ming under their usual pressure for some
time yet. Navigation is closed on the lakes,
ard so faras receipts OF lumber by waterar
concerned they are ended for the season.
Continued fine weather has favored the dis
tribution OF lumber. Work in tile woods in
the white pine States having opened earlier
than usual, is being actively prosecuted, the
Tinlbe. man says. In some sections, as for
example i'll the Menominee district, the
ground was covered with snow before the
swamps were frozen, which is unfortunate,
as it is difficult to make good roads over
ditions are all favorable and the outlook is
Tor q heavy cut.