Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-20
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS.
Wheat Drops to 81 $50.
a New May Record.
NAY CORN WAS UNCHANGED,
And Oats and Provisions were a
Tribe Lower-Liverpooi Mar
ket IS Dun and Foreign
ers are Unloading.


By Associated Press.
Chicago, March 1e.-Nyheat closed at
% o-SaSi 3-ie today. the lowest Il has
ever finished for May, showing loss Of
.rse since Saturday, decrease IN che
flsitie less chan was expected. lower
CABLES, good crop prospects and an I'M
erease III the quantity of wheat and
Hour on passage were responsible for the
decline. The working OF 10000 bushels
ior export ateadied the market Mt rhe
eose, but May finished near the bot
tom
May corn closed unchanged, May oats
is lower and provisions 4 tribe lower
all around
The warm rains throughout the north
west caused some selling OF wheat and
an easier feeling at tho opening. The
amount of wheat and -four on ocean pas
sage. increased 2,22t,0OO bushels during
the last week, which was an additional
motive for putting out "a few more hvcs
and tens. Minneapolis reported 240 cars
and Duluth IS. against 2i3 and 202 re-
speciive,y a year ago.
Liverpool was quoted dull aud rather
easter at unchanged prices New York
advised some selling by foreigners AT the
opening here. Minneapolis. which closed
3Sc higher than Chicago un SATURDAY
came down 10 q leve3 with prices here
soon after the opening. Thera was moth.
ing particularly encouraging in the above
items for the bulls, and there was an
evident fading Of hope for their side re-
yea.ed in the increasing premium the
holders OF May contracts paid for chang
| lug them inlu July From cents TO a
shade less was paid about the middle Of
| the session 10 turn May into July,
The market opened at lSif5S 50, aud
for an hour or so the fluctuations We're
| In the main confined To that small
| range As the figures Of the visible sup.
ply came slowly 10 hand the market be-
| came heavier ms the hope of more than
| ], 10000 decrease hpgau to fade When
the actual quantity Of the decrease was
| fairly established the price Of May fell
10 81 T-Sr and Of July 10 30 1-2m5D 5-Sc.
The visible decreased 1,2tsO0Q, which is
about 10000 bushels smaller falling OFF
than WAS looked for The total IN IN,
visible now is I3,259OOD, against 40
100000 at the similar period yepl
ngo. The Saturday clearanccs from tht
four principal Atlantic ports were equa
to about $4,000 bushels IN wheat ant
-four together. The closing cable
brought lower quotations from all TIT
principal foreign exchanges
Without shade of encouragement
from any quarter heaviness continuct
10 rule here The working here OF som'
OF the wheat for export gave the mar
q Rncbi q r.. sold 10000 bushels; w
n iier,,er 5OOOJ bushels and Norton
~ ..ti,,,,,o "a ono bushels ali No.
Mgra,'"A' NJ. iroJing MS the marke
splni' ST b'S,f57 34c. Thcr,
elos'u We ii-, a. y,ssal room AT
MN faT wheat 10 Buffalo.
Corn was ste9uE III nv, NE 1 ,nS'u "
at times extremely SO; lhe nuv, ,i ~,
: We're narrow WIN sum unaEs ~. " w., ,.,h,
WAS IN the price IN iANor oi tuose Wv y
I were short. There was an llV'tas' ~, y
the week W lhe " WY NM i'',.bis M
I rope amounting TO -od,uVV uusi'i 81, h,n
; visible supply there increased So2'oO
/ bushels.