The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-30
TRADE AND SHIPPING.
Exchanges for the Day Were
S142,478.61.
OATS GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Large Quantities Of Potatoes Coming in
and Prices Constantly Going Down
Plenty Fruit In.
TIDES AT SEATTLE HARBoR TODAY.
HIGH WATER u low wArER
am #. pm. IT,. am il pm Il
10 ls.5 SO IL COZ sos % ee s.4
AT PORT TOWNSEND.
AT PORT TOWNSEND.


Aacoina- l32,s1S - 1887 SO
There is absolutely nothing doing in the hop
market Farmers holding out for IS to %
cents and dealers cannot pay more than IL
cents. One of the leading dealers in the city
said yesterday that not pound of Washington
hops had been shipped yet and he had received
samples from only two Yards He said Oregon
growers were willing to sell ct from 20 to %
cents. but the price in New York was only Is
cents and the highest he was allowed to offer
for hops on board cars here was IL cents
The salmon catch is very light so far. The
cannery Is running, but finds considerable Diff
Guilty in securing sufficient fish. though small
quantities are being brought in from sll around.
The haiibut season is drawing to a close and the
catch has been very light of late. A little adj
vance in prices may De expected soon. The
union fishermen were not very successful in
their attempt to ship salmon East The con-
elgnees for some reason refused to accept one
car and the fish had to be placed in cold stor-
age. This will undou btedy eat up most Of the
margin above the freight charges.
Quite an amount of oats are being shipped to
San Francisco, and this makes a very firm local
market The UmAtilla tooK 100 tons out yester-
day. Receipts of potatoes are very heavy and
prices constantly going down. The market on
ali other kinds OF produce 10 In q healthy con-
diiion.
Steamer City Of Puebla brought in quite an
amount of fruit yesterday, but no material
change was reported in prices Grapes are
quoted at $l.259l.40: peaches. $1.25l9i 40: APP
pies, $l@l.5o; nutmeg melons, $L25tG1. 80;
ounces. 81 50 per box.
8. Baxter & Co. yesterday sold 800 sealskns to
some Victoria dealers at 50 apiece They were
an inierior lot OF skins that the firm had just
purchased on a speculation.
GENERAL sHIFNESra
During the past twenty-four hours goods and
merchandise have been shipped from Seattle in
the following amounts: BY rail-Northern Pa
etc, 4S5 tons; Columbia & Puget Sound, IS
tons; Great Northern. 50 tons. BY water
Puget sound q Alaska Steamship Compauy's
boats, 40 tons: Uma;illa, $50 tons; Mabel. u
tons; assoc. 80 tons: Yakima, 10 tons: Henry
Bailey, 20 tons; State OF Washington, 10 tons;
Multpomah, tons; Fairhaven. Is tons; Glide,
IA tons; Angeles, 5 tons: j. K. Mcdonald "a
tons Total shipments, 9ss tons.
MERCHANDISE AND PRopuCs RzczrPrs
Produce and merchandise have been received
at the port OF Seattle during the past twenty
four hours a. follows: By rail-Northern Pa
citic, Clio tons; Columbia s. Puget Sound, %
tons; Great Northern, ITO tons. By water
City OF Puebla, As tons: Mabel, 20 tons; 1. J.
Perry, so tons; Wasco, so tons; Puget Sound &
Alaska Steamship Company's boats, Is tons;
Falrhaven. 80 tons; Henry Bailey, 10 tons; An
geles, tons. Total receipts. l,3S7 tons.