The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-30
1T SHOOTS UPWARD
WHEAT MARKET ENCOUNTERS ALL
KINDS OF BULLISH NEWS.
September Starts q Quarter Cent Over
Tuesdays Close, rs the Result Of For
eign News Liverpool Disregards De-
cIines on This Side Taesday-Weather
in England Unsettled and There are Re
ports OF Crop Failure In Certain OF Rus
sia's Richest Districts-SepteDber Closes
at 5s@59 Is ents-Marksts In General.

Chicago, July 2s.-wheat-Started
firm today, September being nearly Y
! cent over yesterdays close. The rally
was the result of the foreign news
Liverpool was firm in spite of the de.
cline of \ cent here yesterday. The
weather in England was reported un-
settled and a London cable reported
crops in some of the most fertile dis
tricts Of Southern Russia a failure
September started at SIS cents and
was quickly bid UP to $50 cents, where
it held for a time, then reacted to 577s
cents. Further bullish reports from
Europe caused another advance and ii
went up to 5Sss 05sis cents.
Corn-September started at PAX cents
or &c below yesterday. but the rally In
wheat caused ii TO advance to 24ssc
Oats-Stiffened up little in sympathy
with wheat. September opened I'M
changed at 1850. then firmed up 20
17s4c.
Pork-A little firmer at ss.o71z against
$6.05 yesterday.
I.ard-September opened unchanged
ct s3.12E
Ribs-A point higher at $3.15.
CLOSING.
wheat-Juiy 5s1zc; August 5sf5shc:
September, 59d59sc; December, 6lAQ
Csc.
Corn-July. 2aA@24ssc: September
eS% @2s%c; December. 251sc; May &c.
Oats-July. September and October,
1880; December. 1s1zc; May 2o7sc.
Pork-July s6-15; September. $500;
October. s5.971a; January $S.S5.
Lard-July, $40; September, $315;
631711; October $500; December 50. 321z
January $3.7 IL.
Ribs-July 1915; September, 1920; Oc-
tober, s3.25G3.27 IL; January, 1913 1-2.
Cattle@Saies of cattle were brisk on
a basis of s32563.5o for common native
dressed beef steers up to s4256450 for
choice to extra cattle. There was
fair trade in stockers and feeders e,t
s3.2oG3.70, and some common North
western range cattle weighingq 1860
1870 pounds are taken for feeders at
s3.0o63.50. Cows and heifers con tinue
TO sell at s1.50Q2.25; bulls sold at un-
changed prices Calves were plentiful
and sold at 1928 to $3.50 for common
to choice.
Prices for hogs were the lowest that
have prevailed since 1873 with sales
largely at s2.S5G3.05; heavy hogs sold
at s2.55G3.05, big 375 to 400 pound lots
going the lowest and choice lots weigh
ing under 300 pounds selling the best
Medium weights sold at S2.S5Q3.20 and
light weight at a2563.30. Western
range sheep comprised the great bulk
of the trade today and sold at 81 .5Od3
comparatively few going below $3.50.
Native sheep sold ct s2l5G3.25, largely
at 1925. Feeders sold at So 40G2 so
and choice fat 125 to 1873 pounds export
sheep went at $3.15@325. Yearlings
found purchasers at $364, and common
to choice lambs moved Off freely al
So 25G355
Receipts-Cattse 1900; hogs $4,000;
sheep $4,000.
Chicago, July 29.-Butter-Firm, crea-
merry 9@14c; dairy, 9Q12c; Egs-Quiet
at 10 lie. Poultry-Steady, turkeys
sqlOc; chickens. 1-2d12c: ducks sQ9c
Available Grain Supplies.
New York. July Especial cable
and telegraphic dispatches to Brad
streets, covering principal points of ac-
emulation, indicate the following
changes in available supplies last Sat-
urday, as compared with the preceding
Saturday:
Wheat-United States and Canada
east Of the Rockies, decrease 10000
bushels; efoat for and IN Europe, de-
crease $4,000; total worlds available
supply $4,000
Corn-Cnited States and Canada east
OF the Rockies. increase lis, 900 bushels.
Oats-United States and Canada east
OF the Rockies, decrease POS, 900 bushels.
The more notable decreases in stocks
Of available wheat, but not included In
the official visible supply statement for
last week, include 100000 bushels in
interior elevators, 26o. 600
at northwestern Canadian storage
points and $4,000 at New Orleans. Cor
increases include 1872. 900
bushels at Galveston, lis, 900 in Chicago
private elevators and 10000 at Cleye-
land.