The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-31

December ..'...............'. s. 633 3 63@
Cash quotations were as follows
Flour firm Wheat. No. 2 spring, II; No.
spring 66A No. 2 red 73%a14k. Corn, No. 2
23% a23A. Oats, No z l7A; No. 2 white 2Oa22
nominal; No 3, o b 24a36; No. { 2la27. Flax
seed, No l. 70a704. Prime Timothy seed
$40 Mess pork gSp POL Lis G99 dord
$3.50; dry-salted shoulders (b0xeda) 4d4&
short clear sides (bOxed) 4046 Whiskey'
distillers' finished goods per gallon Clio.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. oct 81-Flour dull: ocity
mill patents $49005.l5; do. clears $4.4004.50;
Minnesota patents $400G4.35; winter patents
....: do straights &. 10d420 do winter extras
$e.8003.25; Minnesota bakers 80; winter low
grades $2.20G2.45.
Southern -four steady: packages Sl.10a4.15
Rye flour firm; superiine $3.50; fancy $2.9O,d
Buckwheat -four steady at $3.50.
Buckwheat quiet; prime trackT.
Corn meal quiet; yellow western 63; city
61 '!randywine $.25.
Barley dun; western feeding 27K;
mating ..-; barley malt dun; western 50055.
Northern New ori< 800 f. o. b. a1oat; No. !
hard S2@ f. o. b. 2,iOat; options, No. Jan
uary closed 81 Is; February -; March S24(G
S3@, closed S38; May SlkmS34, closed S2&;
October closed 18B; November closed 78-@;
December 784 G180 5-l6, closed -9#.
Corn, spot quiet; No. 2, 30% in elevator; BY
ailoat; yellow 30A: options, IS. sy 344 (d34%,
closed 34k, July -; October closed 38: No
yember 49,: December 3l4@5l#, closed BIZ.
Oats, spot dull; No. 2, 224: No. deliy-
cred 23k; No. 3, 204; No. white %; No. 8,
white 70, track white western 25032; track
white. State ~ options, March closed 258;
May closed 26%; October closed 222s; Noyem
Der -; December 23A (s235s closed 23A.
Feed firm; brand 450524; middlings 6O9
IS.
Rye feed, 5Oa52H; city, 55a57K.
Hay dull; shipping $4,000; good to choice
Hops duh; 1894 crop 2Ka4K, 1895 crop 80
~, 1896 crop SGl0h, London firm at go.
Hides strong; wet selected New Orleans, 65
lbs -; Galveston, 20a25 lbs, -, Buenos Ayres
dry, 20a24 lbs, nominal, State, common to
choice, 9kGl0; California 2la25 lbs, 10.
Leather firm, Hemlock sole BuenOs Ayres
light to heavy weights, 19ka20k; acid, 2G3.
Wool steady; domestic fleece, l4a18; pulled
15a20.
Coal steady.
Beef steady; family $9a$10; extra mess
$500; beef hams Sl6al700 packed S0a9.OO; city
extra India mess $Ila13.00.
Cut meats steady; picked bellies 5G5@;
picked shoulders Al; do. hams S4(G9&.
Lard easy; western steam -: city A&G
440; October closed Sf.45 nominal; refined
steady; continent $500, South American
Pork dun; mess $8.50aaOO; short lclears
$S5061 1850; family -.
Butter steady; western dairy S012k; do
creamery 12k020; do. factory Gal2; Elgins
20 imitation creamery l0@al4; State dairy ll(a
is; do, creamery l2%a2D
Cheese steady; large State 1%al0B; small
fancy 7&4lO4 part Skins 30I&; fun Skins
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania 19a
q; western fresh l5al9
Tallow steady; city (S2 per PACKAGE 81
country packages free 81, as to quality
Petroleum steady; United closed at Sll6
bid, refined New York 500; Philadelphia
and Baltimore 6.95; do. in bulk $l.46
Rosin firm; strained, common to good,
S1.9O
Turpentine quiet at 2SA@29.
Rice firm; domestic, fair to extra 1906;
Moiasses quiet; New Orleans, open kettle,
good to choice, 29a3T
Pig iron steady; southern SLID; northern
S10.25al0.50; exchange S10.75ldlO.S5.
Copper quiet; lake brokers Si070; exchange
Lead steady; brokers' $3.50; exchange $3.50
Tin firm; straights sl8.OOala1O; plates
steady.
Cotton seed oil barely steady; prime crude
22k: do. f. o. b. mills 1874; Oft crude noml-
nal; primesummer yellow rs asked; of sum-
mer yellow 25@25H; butter grades 2892S&;
Coaee, spot Rio steady; No Z, invoice -;
jobbing II q mild quiet; Cordova -.
Sugar, raw firm; fair refining 2si cen
trifugal, 96-test, 3A; refined firm; No 3,
LIS: 40. Z, 3 9-i6 No. 8, 81; No. . 81, No
10, 7-l6, No. II, so, No. II, 5-l6, No. IL, 81
No. Is, 1915, Mould A, Az, standard a, 4, con
fectioners' A, 4, cut loaf ~, crushed4&, pow
dered 4&, graduated AZ, cubes AZ.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 3l.-FlOur dull and
unchanged; western super $2.40d265; do.
extra $3.50; do. family $3.90,d4.30; winter wheat
patents $4400465; spring do. $l.15(a4.40; spring
wheat straights S35504.20.
Wheat unsettled and higher; spot and Octo-
Der 764 a76&: December 794; May -; steamer
No 2 red, tn 6072k; Southern wheat by sam
pie, 75GD77; do. on grade T2A76A.
Corn ffrmer; spot and October 29k6Dd294;
November and December, new and old, 29&(d
294 January 30k@30%; February 3l4@3lk;
steamer mixed " (d27A, Southern white corn
2S030 new; do. yellow 26gD30 new.
Oats quiet; No. white 26Q264;- No. 2
mixed 22GD22k.
Rye verv firm; No. 2, nearby, 40G4l: vest
ern 43 bid.