Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-03
AN UNEVENTFUL MARKET.
WHEAT HAS A MIDDAY WEAKNESS,
MIR CLOSES HIGHER.


BY Associated Press.
Chicago. H., April .--wheat-Aver-
age firm with an interval OF midday
weakness aandwiched in between early
and late strength. and closed 1-4c
higher.
Corn, oats and provisions were weak.
The opening for May wheat was at
from SO Use to COO. compared with
60 i-Sc at the close on Saturday. There
was improvement during the morning
to co 3-4c, but when the visible showed
decrease OF only 100000 bushels, in
stead Of 100000. It dropped to 80 s-4c.
The Liverpool market was quoted
firm at the opening. The amount on
ocean passage increased $4,000 bushels
during the past week. Liverpool
stocks for the same increased $1,000.
The total stock OF wheat in Liverpool
for the same time increased $1,000
bushels. and since March decreased
100000 bushels. The total stock OF
wheat in Liverpool now is 1,s96,O0O
contals.
The price OF May corn at the start
was 81 Use, compared with 81 lie at
the close on Saturday. There was a
slightly hardening tendency while the
early advance in wheat was in prog
ress, and "a high as 81 i-2G3T b-Sc was
realized, dropped back TO 81 Lac and
closed at 81 3-Sc There was mod
erately active business transacted In
oats and the market on all deliveries
with the exception OF July ruled
shade easier in sympathy with the
wheat and corn markets. May opened
off l-sc from Saturdays last quotation
at Sic and weakened sim further TO
80 S-4c 1t sold up again to 30 7-S9
3ic. and was offered at that price at
the close.
There was only slight trade done
in provisions and the feeling was
rather heavy. Compared with Satur-
day night, May pork is l0c lower, May
lard unchanged and May ribs sc
lower.
The estlmrtcd receipts tomorrow are:
Wheat so cars; corn 4S3 cars oats,
40 cars: hogs, $4,000 head. No board
OF trade tomorrow. Municipal election.
New YorIs Produce.
New York, April 2.-wheat-Re-
oeipts. $500 bushels; exports, 10000
bushels: sales. 100000 bushels, fu-
lures; 1000 bushels spot, Spot dull.
No. red. store and elevator 60 lac;
afloat, So sac; No. !, northern, 90 1-ic.
delivered; hard, "A i-4c delivered.
options opened easy, with quite a
lot OF wheat pressing on the market,
but recovered again on steady cables,
bad crop news and expected good de-
| crease in the visible. The market
weakened again on disappointment at
| the visible and reports that Partridge
was a heavy seller west. but rallied
| later, closing unchanged TO 1-Sc net
| decline Deliveries on April contracts
We're about $4,000 bushels. No red,
| April closed 60 Lie; May, 81 7-Sa
| SO 1-lc, closed 50 lac; July, 65G65 9-l6c,
closed Go lie; August closed &C LEE
| September 60 7-l6n67 lie. closed
CT 1-2c; December 10 1-4Q7O 5-Sc, clos
| ed 20 1-2c.
Hides quiet.
Leather dull.
Cotton seed oil duh. business has
| settled down over the cotton seed
| market. as holders refuse to entertain
any lower bids. The tone continues
| firm. Prime crude barrels ~; prime
| crude loose, 22624: on crude, 25m26;
| prime summer yellow, 50; OF summer
| yellow. 81, prime summer white, "a
| d35.
Coftee-Optons opened dull December
unchanged others bQi0 points lower
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| dull, SOLO points net decline. Sales,
| $500 bags. including May at 1910;
December lL4O, and January, 1880
| GLASS.
SPOT coffee-Rio steady. No. Z,
II l-sc mild, quiet Cordova, 10 LA
| 10 1870. Sales. 800 packages Mara
| caibo, $50 packages Mexican. Ware
/ house deliveries, Saturday, $500 bags
| New York stock today, ls7,ls5 bags
! United States stock, 20D.Ul3 bags; atloat
for the United States, 26l 900 bags
total visible for the United States
47O.O1s bags. against last year 5209Gs
bags Hamburg market steady
Prices. 1-203-4 pfennig higher. Stock
in Hamburg, 100000 bags, including
1000 Brazil; against last month 24s.-
600 bags. including 10000 Brazil Lon
don market unchanged except for Sep
tember which is Sd higher. Cleared
from England TO New York. 23SO bags
Havre- market steady. Sales HOO
bags. Prices unchanged to Lar high
err. No Brazil advices.
Sugar-Raw, dun and nominal. Fail
refining, lie; centrifugal, SO test
1902 1b-16ci refined, steady, moder
ately active.