The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-06
Domestic Markets.
(By Telegraph.l

DECEMBER. 5. 1898.
NEW YORK-The Flour market receipts
48, 9O7 packages exports 1875 bbls and TO-
364 sacks; sales 1900 packages; firmly held
and more active.
CITY mills extra at 8 6Oa3 65: city mills patents
2Ot94 so: winter wheat low grades ct 2 OOG1
40 fair to fancy at 2 45l3 rs patents at 3 40
03 So; Minnesota clear 5O02 30: straights
do at 8 2593 rs: do patents 80l94 35: do rye
| mixtures 6062 so; superfine at 1902 10:
fine at 1902 1c. Southern -four is quiet and
firm. Rye -four quiet and firm at at S5@3 10.
Buckwheat flour at s503 90. Buckwheat firm
at Csc. Cornmeal quiet and steady Yellow Wes-
tern e5@2 70. Rye dull and nominal. Wheat
receipts I74,525 bush; exports "a, $50 bush;
elev at 6814 C; afloat at 6Ss4c: o b 69@69A !:
No Northern 71s4c. Corn-receipts 115.1Oo
bush; exports 261 449 bush sales IA, 900 bush !;
45s4 elev; 457s @46Ac aloat. Oats-receipts
$500 bush; exports 1875 bush; sales So
900 bush: dull and easier; No 2 at 34A34Mc ,
s5Ac: No 8 at 3314c; do White 341a@34s4 G:
Mixed Western 3b@36c; do White White State
at 361a gale. Beef quiet and steady; beef hams
dull; tierced beef inactive; cut meats are quiet
and steady; middles nominal Lard dull and
easier for options: Western steam closed 65
as TO: city at 00@8 25 refined quiet; CONT
nent a 9 10; s at 9 S.. Provisions-Pork
quiet and steady. Butter in moderate demand !:
frmer; State dairy 199261ac do creamery 20
@26c; Western dairy l7@22c; do cream 32@
26c; do factory l7@191a; Elgins at 271a @2sc.
white 9011Sac; do small 1o1I @12; part Skins
at 31a@9c. Petroleum-crudef irmer; refined
nominal united 77Ac bid. Coffee-Rio steady;
more active; No at l71sc. sugar-raw dull
and steady; refined steady with fair demand !;
No at 8 13-16@4c; Not at 3S @3 15-16c;
No s, 3 1l-16931sc: No at 36s@3 13-16c;No
No IL at 3ss@3 9-lec: NO IS at SAC; off at
37s "a 3-16c Mould 41a94 IL /: standard A g.
1e@4ssc: Cenfectioners' at 41s@4 5-1sc;
M a l-1GIDA3Z pr2nulafad at 4 Alt
@41sc: Cubes 4 9-16@4s4 c.
Freights to Liverpool quiet and weak; grain
per steam 2s4 bid
dull and steady. Wheat dull and easier: No 2
Spring and No 2 Red at 62Ac. Corn is dull;
No at s5lAc. Oats dull; No at 2shsc; No 2
Rye at 1864 C mo Barley at $685. No Flax
seed 23ih. Provisions dull and weakness
pork II 62l4@12 70. Lard at 2oa8 25; short
II sides at 5o@7 Is. Dry salt meats-shoul-
heceipts-Flour 12.2O0 bbls: wheat 65 800
bush: corn. 229.90O bush: oats 900. 900 BUSH
rye, 10000 bush: barley. 47.3o0 bush
Shipments-Flour II roo bbls wheat. 80 800
bush; corn. ITO son bush: oats lo4 200 bush:
rye. 1000 bush harley ct 100 bush
81. LOUIs-The Flour market is quiet and
sos2 IS fancy a5 S2 S. en- CHOICE dost s 1o
family L 7oa1 80: rye flour 1898 20. Wheat
dull and lower. Oats lower hut firm. Provisions
Pork. standard mess 4 90. Lard nominal at
s TO- Dry salt meats-loose shoulders at 61Ac;
longs and clear ribs az 6Tsc; shorts at 71s. Ba-
con-boxed shoulders at TIA longs at s. rs clear
ribs S14c; shorts S~s C.
Receipts--Flom 2,6uo bbls: wheat. 10000
bush; corn 1922 900 bush; oats 27.5oO bush
We 5000: barley. O0.0O0 bush.
Shipments Flour 5000 bbls: wheat. 5000
bush. corn. 112 500 bush; oats. 1000 bush
rye. 5000 hush barley 90 bush.
DETROIT-Wheat-No 2 Red e314c: No !
White at 62c. Corn-No Mixed 37s4c; No 2
Yellow at 381ac. Oats-N 1 White 3212c.
Cotton Markets.
tBy Telegraph.1
DECEMBER. 5. 1898
NEW YORK-The Cotton market to-day was
duh and unchanged; sales 81 2 bales; middlpg
uplands Sc: middling gulf SAC.
NEW ORLEANS-The Cotton market is
quiet; middling 71ac.
CHARLESTON-The Cotton market steady;
middling 712c.
SAYANNAH-The Cotton market is dull;
mlddling 5-16c.