Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-02
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET

NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
| NEW YORK, February 1.-F'lour--Firm
and unchanged; southern flour quiet and
Wheat-Dull, higher. with options and
generally nominal; No. red, store and
| elevator, ~ 1-SuSD BIC; ahoat, 81 1-Sr
81 S,Sc. Options opened firm and excited.
with prices advancing 1iea2 l-4c,, de-
Ginning l-4a3-Sc., and closing firm at La
l 7-Sc. over yesterday; No. 2 red, Feb
ruary. "A l-fc.; March, 20 l-4c.; May,
! .Corn-Dull but firmer; No. 2. 80 7-Sc.. in
I elevator: 81 l-sc. afoat. Options dull and
| firm at a csc. advance; February, &c. !;
May. sc 7-Sc.; July. 80 l-sc.
Oats-Dull but firmer. Options firm but
dull; February, &c; May, 25Ac.; spot
| prices: No. ?. % 1-4c; No. white, rs lie. ;
mixed western, 2502sc.
| Hay-Steady and unchanged.
.Wool--In fair demand, firm, and I'M
Beef-staady and unchanged; beef hams
| dull at $3.50.
Tierced Beef-Dull and UNCHANGED.
! Cut Meats-Quiet. firm, and unchanged.
Lard-Quiet and firm; western, So asked;
city. s5.i5.
Pork-Firmer and quiet: mess sl1@sl1 .25.
Eutter-Quiet and weaker: State dairy.
| loHl8 l-ic.; do, creamery, l4ql7c.; western
dairy, l2Hl5c.. Eigins, l3c.
Rosin-Quiet and easy; strained, COM
mon to good, s1.60
Rice-Flrm and unchanged.
Molasses-Dull but firm and unchanged.
Peanuts-Fancy hand-picked. lie.
Coffee-Barely steady. to points down;
May, $l2.7ja{l2s0: June. Sl155; July, ll45;
September S1OSJTS1O95: December Sl075;
spot Rio dun but steady; No. Z, 10 1-sc.
|. Sugar-Raw dull but firm: refined firm,
fairly active. and unchanged
Freghts to Liverpool-Qriet and UNI
changed
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO. ILL., February 1.-When
their morning
they found themselves unexpected gain
ers or losers according TO the standing
on the market. The opening minutes
of the session were marked by much ex-
element. shorts exhibiting nervousness.
and covering their wheat as est they
might. The bulge was entirely unlocked
market, but IL came through the action
of the Liverpool market, where a gain OF
Id. was made on decrease OF lbW,Wo
bushels I'm stocks during January
Prices ruled firm during the half ses-
sion. and just before the close made
another squirt the final quotations being
the best OF the day. May wheat opened
at from IS SQ66 l-2c. and advanced
than Yesterday. Cash VII aat was strong,
and &c. per bushel higher.
Corn showed fair Improvement by rea-
son Of the boom In wheat but IL was evil
dent that the trade was not exuberantly
bullish on this grain. The business fre-
scented nothing out OF the ordinary course,
aud the session was not unusually active.
May corn opened at 20 l-Sc. advanced
TO S1c and closed at 30 7-S-7-sc higher
than yesterday Cash corn was firm, and
1-2c. per bushel higher.
Oats moved higher on the merits OF
wheat, but the advance did not seem
10 enlarge the business 10 an appreciable
exterf. May oats closed 3-4c. higher than
yesterday. Cash oats were firm, and lie.
higher.
But moderate business was transact
ed In product AS would naturally be
presumed. prices advanced in sympathy
with the extraordinary strength of wheat,
and on a gain in the value OF hogs at
the yards.
At the close May pork was 15c. higher
than yesterday. May lard. 2 l-zn5c.
higher; and May ribs l-2ll0c. higher.
Domestic markets were frm.
The leading futures ranged as follows: