The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-29
SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS.
STATE OF TRADE.


SAN Francisco. March 2s-Receipts OF poultry
all kinds cleans readily. Prices are steady.
Game is dull and lower.
In dairy produce, the butter market continues
weak, sales are reported good, stock 10 below
quotations, receipts are heavy and stocks &C.
cumulatiug. Eggs are frmer, and all kinds
active at higher prices. Cheese 10 steady under
liberal supplies
There is but little variety offering in the mar
ket for fresh fruits. Oranges clean mp better.
but much OF the fruit marketed il poor. Seven
car loads came in today. Apples are scarce and
choice stock sells we'll California lemons are
in fair demand and fancy stock is firm. No
berries came today.
There was better tone in the vegetable mar
ket and this morning sales were livelier. Re-
ceipts included $40 boxes asparagus, 20 boxes
OF rhubarb, boxes Of cucumbers, So boxes Of
mushrooms, IS SACKS peas and 80 sacks of pota-
toes The potato market 10 firm. especially for
Oregon Bufbanks, which sold high a. $l6a
Receipts today. 457 sacka Onions are easier
under fair demand: receipts, 2O2 sackA Mush-
rooms are lower today aud . portion Of the Ar
rivals are unstable.
Produce receipts-Flour, 5000 quarter sacks.
wheat, $4,000 centals: Washington, 1000:
barley. 1900 centais: oats, 1900 ceutals; rye,
3oo SACKS beans, $50 sacks; potatoes. 4S7 sacks;
onions, 200 sacks
Flour-We quote: Net cash prices for family
extras, $SN0i per barrel; bakers extras, $3.50
al: superfiuc, $26Qtt2
Neutrality-suspicious. are largely nominal, a.
there is so little spot business doing. The situa-
ton at European ceIters continues to be OF a
local operators to do any thing in the way OF ex-
porting, and il looks very much as IL matters
would jog along very quietly until about the
time when the new crop 10 harvesting, when il
is 10 be hoped tina, something win develop to
stir up some activity. At the moment 81. 23sl
per GENITAL is a full Quotable figure for No. /
choice quality would probably find a buyer at
$l.25 per GENITAL. In milling grades there has
been no perceptible change and business is still
ut the old rates, say 81 27(Dl S2l2 per GENITAL.
Barley-The market has taken turn for the
better within day or two, aud it looks rs II the
Improvements were likely to be laating; there has
gress for 30 long period that at last stocks are
beginning to show considerable reduction.
Holders feel more encouraged than they have
ticipated, but it IL the opinion that trade will
continue fairly brisk until the new season opens,
and that whatever advantage there may DO in
quote: Feed. sSCNS71ac per GENITAL for good quail
ity. and sss<9sOc Tor choice; brewing, 95c9
81 021a per GENITAL.
Oats-Activity is not . feature OF the market
just At present Choice stock, however, shows
good strength, being concentrated in . lew
hands, and ordinary qualities are in large sup
ply and freely Offered, but BUYERS do not re-
easy In consequence. Milling, $i.4IbL55: fancy
feed. 81 1901. 4y.: good to choice feed, 81. 400
LS7l1 off grades, ST. l5Gl 30: black tl l71s;
gray. 81 2a9l. 80; red. ST. 1901. Is per GENIAL.
CALL BOARD.
The following sales were recorded ct the call
board today:
Wheat-Morning, informal session-May. 100
tons, ST. Do per Genital Regular sesson--Mny,
20 tons, $l26ls; December, 800 tons, ST. 81 per
GENITAL
Barley-lnformal session-No sales. Regular
sessiOn--Seller 1893 new, 900 tons, Sftxc; Decem-
Der, 500 tons, sy1sc: 500 tons, S9t4c; May. 100
tons. ss7sc; 100 tons, $40; May. 100 tons, ss7sc
per Genital.
FINANCIAL.
Drafts-On sight, New York. per 500. 22l5c:
telegraphic. 27lac. Sterling bills-On London
sixty-day bank, S4sO; sight, $%s9; commercial,
AS6
silver bars. per ounce. s27s(Gssc: Mexican
dollars, 65l,(966c.