The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-13
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. Ere.

New York Nov. 12.-Flour-Quiet: held
higher, checking demand. Wheat, winter
low grades, S1.90Q250; fair to fancy, $2.40d
2.S0; patents, S265q310; Minnesota clear
S210d2. As; patents, $3.2oGf375; low extras
$l.90a2.50. Southern flour. quiet, firm
common to lair extra S2.10d3.00; good to
choice So 1OG3 so Wheat quiet firm; No
red, store and elevator, 5Sl ad5Si2c; afloat
594 d09l2c. Options were active and eN-
cited with prices advancing 1dl4c, declin-
ing Aassc, closing firm at Ac-lsc over
Saturday. No. red closing, Nov. 5Sssc;
January, $3.50; March, 6l5sc; May, 6S9sc
Corn, fairly active, frmeT; No. >, 5SC, ele-
vator; 59d59l4C atioat; options We're dull
and firm at 1s@Ssc advance, November
$3.50; December, 5512c; January, 534c;
May, 54?sc. Oats, more active, tirmer OPP
tons quiet; November. 55c; December
33l2c; May, 36l2c; spot No. >, 2Ad33c; No.
white, SIC; mixed western, 33G5pac; white
do, 37u40c. Hey, fairly active, firm, ship
quiet, steady; domestic fleece, 11422ci
pulled, l2Q3ici beef, dull, family, l0dl2c;
lie. Tlerced beefs dullg ss'ty eAtIas India
mess, Sl6.0Gu19.00. Cut meats, quiet, firm;
picked bellies, &c; shoulders, 5lA@53sc;
hams, S&su9l4c. Lard. quiet, higher; west
ern steam, per hundred pounds, S7.75;
November $3.50, nominal; January 7.70,
nominal Refined quiet, continent, $50;
South American, $3.50; compound. 5lsGD54c.
Pork, quiet steady; mess, Sl3500l450; eN-
ira. prime, nominal. Butter, fairly active,
tirmer; state dairy, 13423c creamery, 1Sa
24l2c; western dairy, 114l6c; creamery, 15q
25l5c; Elgins 25Q251ac. Cotton seed oil,
firm; crude 2412c Petroleum. steady: re-
fined, New York, S5.l5; Philadelphia, $50;
do in bulk, S2.60a2.65 Rice, moderately
active, steady; domestic fair to extra
Japan, 49sG45ac. Molasses, foreign, nomi-
nal: New Orleans open kettle, good to
choice, 21436c; moderately active steady.
Peanuts. steady. Coffee options steady,
5N15 points up. November $13.7061S. Is;
December, S12.&Q12.95; January, $3.50
May, 81. 50d11.60. SPOT Rio, dull: No T.
1512c. Sugar, raw, dull, steady. Refined
less active, firm; off a, 3 13-16Q4lsc; stan
dard A, 9-l6Q4i2c. Cutloaf, 1895 Lice
crushed, i5sQ5 l-l6c; granulated, 4 3-i60
4l2c. FreightS, Liverpool firm. room scarce
quiet; cotton, sgd; grain by steam, 3D.
Chicago. Nov 12-The bulls had the best
of the argument in wheat to-day, and quit
with three-tourths of a cent tackled on the
price; Foreign and domestic news IA
Vored buyers, in connection with which
the particularly confident sentiment
which was prominent rendered weakness
almost impossible. The trade gave eVi-
dence of broadening the buying by COM
mission houses with II. V. Lester & Co.
Lamson Bros. d Co, and Brosseau lead
ing, indicating that the outside were TAX
ing an interest and that orders were com
ing from the east and west and from local
operators. Other firms We're likewise ac-
tive and, In some instances prominent.
May wheat opened at from 591s to 60kc. adj
vanced to 60$4c, receded to and closed at
6J3sc, with the gain above mentioned.
Cash wheat was strong and &c per bushel
higher.
The wheat market attracted too much
attention 10 allow of interest in corn Lo-
cal operators were the traders In the grain
and they done but little. The difference
between the current month and the far
off deliveries wtdened some, the prospects
OF en- Improvement in receipts during the
laGt half of the month inducing selling OF
November, while the strength of wheat
produced a tirmer feeling IN May The
I government report Of Saturday, which
showed an increase of Is, 1908, 600 bushels in
the estimated yield, was not mentioned
May corn opened at zoe, sold between 1870
and 50i5c, closing at 501s0D50h c-Iac over
Saturday. Cash corn was firm and a bout
I Ac per bushel higher.
A gain over Saturday of nc was made
I'm oats to-day, the strength I'm wheat and
decrease of 308,000 bushels in the visible
supply stimulating the market There
was no outside news and nothing Of a
| feature to the trade. Cash cats were
! strong, sales being made az an advance of
/ re per bushel over Saturday
Provisions had quite a boom on nothing
/ In particular. The packers, led BY Armour
/ a. Cudahy, were doing the buying early
/ after which the shorts deemed IL prudent
/ TO cover, one or two Of the local profes-
! SIGNALS helped them TO advance prices by
/ bidding freely. The full advance was MOI
held, owing TO the willingness Of the early
buyers TO realize. At the close January
pork had declined 22i2n DC from the out.
/ side, but still had gain Of 421ac to its
/ credit January lard closed zoe over Sat.
urday, and January ribs 22lsc higher than
/ that day.
! Leading futures RANGED as follows.
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