Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-12
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, April 11--Flour-Dull and
unchanged; market steady.
Wheat-Steady; No. red. April. 55zc.
September. ~ Csc.
Corn-Spots dull, scarce. nd stronger:
No. 2. Al 1-sc., IN elevator, As 1-Sc afloat.
Options dull but firm at unchanged prices
to a l-sc. decline, with only local trade;
April, &c; May, &c.; July. S6Ac.; Septem-
Der, 33c.
Oais-Spots duh but firm. Options dull
and easier; April, % lie; May, 2flsc.; No.
2 white, May, 25i2c.; spot: No. 2, 25lzo
No; 2 white, 26igc.; mixed western, 25qZ6c.
Hay-ffrm; shipping, 75q0l1c.; good TO
choice. CSC. N$l.O5.
Wool-Quiet. firm, and unchanged.
Beef-Dull and unchanged; beef hams
quiet at SlI50Qsl5.
Tierced Beef-Slow but steady; city ex-
ira India mess, $l51tl5.50
Cut Meats-Guet and unchanged
Lard--Quiet but flrmer; western steam,
S.S2ls nominally; city. $40: May. 1914
refined dull; continent. $50; South Ameri-
ca, S.; compound, 45-Sa4Ec.
PorlS-Quiet. steady. and unchanged.
BI-ter-Fairly active, steady, and I'M
changed.
Cottonseed- oi-Dun but steady and I'M
changed.
Rosin-Firm and quiet: strained, COM
mon 10 good. Sl.15q$l77i5.
Turpentine-Dull but steady at 2SIld29c.
Rice-Flrm and unchanged.
Molasses-Flrm and unchanged.
Peanuts-Quiet and unchanged.
Coffee-Steady and UNCHANGED. 10
points up; May. s12 S1Sl295; June, $3.50;
July, sl2l0: Sentembor. tl1.20ISli %; De-
cember. SOTO: March, 800; spot Rio duh
but steady; No. 7. 1s&c.
Sugar-Raw Arm but dull: fair refining,
&c; refined active. firm. and unchanged.
s eS' u cotton BY steam i-iSd'; grain
Southern fresh fruits and vegetables:
There was the usual Saturdays light
trade. and no material change In prices
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
BALTIMORE. April r--wheat-Frrm.
and April, 70 1-4g7slsc.; May. nan lie
July. Il 1-4a71ikc.; southern. by sample.
1647Sc.; do, on grade, 73Q76c.
Corn-steady; mixed. spot. April and
May, Is 1885; June, IS lac. bid: July.
25 7-8H36c.; steamer mixed, . l-4633iec
southern white. s5c. bid; do. yellow.
oats"ouiet: No. white western, 2ea
asiac.; No. mixed do, zrkQ25c.
Rye-Easier; No. 2, near by, fG42c.
western. SIC.
Hay-F1rm.
Grain Freights-Slow.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. April 1.-THE speculative
axiom that the unexpected always hap
peng-found verifcation In the wheat mar
ket to-day. For days and weeks the
trade has been looking forward to and
conjecturing on the government report.
II was conceded long tgo that the con.
ditlon. as figured by the Agricultural
Department, would be low. but there were
few who anticipated the extremely poor
showing Yesterday. II was natural 10
expect a big advance on the estimate
given SO that the slump which took
place to-day was q startling surprise 10
everybody. II was explainable only by
the 100 much unanimity which existed on
The buIl side. All classes of traders were
loaded with wheat. and. when first one
and then anosher attempted TO realize.
the absence OF support became all the
mora manifest I'm the absence of a short
interest. The market opened up win an
cnrh after the government report was
,s@,ed From tho start the weakness
was evident. but In tho last hour OF
trading the break was the sharpest. the
close being but a fraction over the inside
eg,,res ~ The session. May wheat opened
a. from cSx to esttc.. declined to 6iikc.,
and closed at 81 b-Se.-t-4c under ysster.
day. Cash wheat was weak ana &c. per
o1 rnrn was quiet and unattsactivs. Tha
GOOD trade IN wheat and the SHARP action
81 prices IN that market distracted the