Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-19
VISIBLE SUPPLY DECREASING.
WHEAT rs BEING EXPORTED IN
LARGE QUANTITIES.
The Price however Has Not Adj
Nnnced-The Corn md oats Mar
ket-rrovisions Not Very sirong.
The visible Wheat supply Report.

Chicag-. inn. ls-Today wss n
rccord-breaker in the matter Of dull
ness of trade, Markets were unfavor-
ably affected by the absence OF BUSH
ness and ruled heavy in the main, but
at the close the changes In values
since yesterday were trivial. The
large visible of wheat. which has
kept the bears open-mouthed with af-
fected horror for year, is undergoing
rapid depletion, and the daily export
clearances from Atlantic ports show
where a good portion of It is going.
The receipts here were only 4G cars,
against 1873 on the corresponding day
of last year. The total receipts at
primary markets were 10000. COM
pared with 100000 bushels on the
parallel day last year. The foreign
markets were weak. the result, it was
claimed, of the heaviness here. May
opened sick, After the opening drop
to % use, the market from then to
within a short time of the close drag
ged up and down between 81 H. and
% 5-sc, the bulk OF the days trans
actions being at 81 Lee to 81 1-sc.
There was n short squirt Of activity
in the last ten minutes of the session,
and 1t went 90 the advantage of the
bulls. a sale OF 900 bushels Of No.
Northern at 6 Ice over the May
prices was reported from Milwaukee
as having been sold by millers today.
That was said to have Influenced few
scalpers to cover somewhat and closed
the market firm at 81 5-Sg51 SAC as
against 81 3-ic yesterday.
The corn market was reproduce
tion OF the reduced sales as well as
the dullness which prevailed in wheat.
| The general opinion among receivers
is that the receipts will be smaller in
the course ot few days The open
ing price was A lie. but it7worked off
to AZ lac In the course Of tie forenoon.
| improving again. however, near the
end, and closing as 1t had opened, at
| AZ 1-2 cents.
Although considerable interest was
| centored in oats in consequence Of the
/ activity during the last two days.
/ nothing startling occurred. May
started at 30 1-iGSO use. and closed at
| 80 l-i6t50 S-Sc.
/ The provision market was rather
1 heavy and lost all the little gain Of the
/ day before and some besides. May
/ pork opened at $lil5, against $ll.6O at
/ the close yesterday, II sold as low
] us AllHVt lU'u Itdtltu " GIN -
| which was the price at the
/ close Lard closed about ? 1-2c lower
| aud ribs below the closing figures OF
| tho day before
| Cash quotations were as follows;
/ unchanged.
! Wheat--No, spring, 81 1-iQ59 S-4c
( No. spring. nominal; No. . red, 81 Is
/ asa 1-2c,
Corn-No. @ Acc.
Oats-NO. 9 20 l-ic No, white, 81
1-4H3i 3-4c; No. white. 30 l-2aSl 1-2c
Rye-No ., 80 1-2c,
Barley-No. 2, Soc; No. 3. 5O953 1-2c
| No. 4. J0N52 lie.
FlaNseed-No l. Sl.42.
Timothy seed--Prlme, So 65.
Mess pork-Per barrel, 81 25d1i
| 81 IL.
Lard-Per 100 pounds, SO. 7O16. " 10
Short rlbs-Sides. loose S5.70Q5.75.
Dry sailed shoulders-Boxed, 4 $40
4 7-Sc.
Short clear sides-Boxed. S. 95d6.05
Whlsky-Distillers finished goods
per gallon, SIZE.
suear-No. Q yellow corn. Al $3.50
1 Al 1-gc