The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-01
THE MARKETS By r%EGRArH,
Metal Quotations.


New York. July 2S.-Bar silver, 6sAc.
Copper - Easy; brokers' price, $ll; eX-
change price S10G11.
Lead-Steady at $2SOd290.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago July 80 - There was a good
trade in wheat and a fairly active mar
ket. The feeling manifested early was
fairly steady. all things considered. but
weak spell set in later. Close-September
wheat 575sc, corn 2i9sc. oats 1Sc. Receipts
Wheat 100000, corn $4,000, oats 10000.
san Francisco Grain.
San Francisco. July S-Wheat-Ship-
ping, 95G964c for No. l, and 971sQ9SNc for
choice; milling, $ld1.1O.
Barley Feed fair to good 65G67isc;
choice, 6SAc; new brewing, 72I&dS5c.
Oats - Milling S5d9Oc; Surprise 95cG
NO2ls; fancy feed. 90d1921Ac; good to choice
S2l2aS7lsc; poor to fair 721sG77isc; gray, 80
6tS3%c.
Wool Market.
Boston, July 2S. - Meager sales and a
general listlessness are the characteristics
of the wool market, and the outlook is far
from reassuring. Advices from western
points indicate that holders there are in
clined to meet the views of eastern deal
ers, but the latter, as a rule, are refusing
to take any more wool at present Many
wcolen mills in New England are still
closed and large orders that We're looked
for have not yet come. Territory woods
are nominally quoted the same as before
and few quotations in any grades are
changed.
The selling prices are as follows:
Territory wools-Montana fine and fine
lO4l1c; secured prices, soc; Montana No.
, medium, medium, 12G12ac secured
price, 27d2Sc. Utah, Wyoming. fine me-
dunn, 9Qllc; secured price 3Od35c; Utah
Wyoming, No. >, medium, Haze; secured,
27G2Sc.
BE; secured price. SO03lc; middle county
spring. 9dlOc; secured, 2Sd29c; southern
defective spring, case.
Australian wools-Scoured basis, comb
ing superfine, 4Sa5Oc; combing good, isa
46c; combing average. 40n42c
Live stock.
Chicago, July 2S.-The sales of cattle
were on a basis of SS.25Q3.5O for the poor
est dressed beef steers up to 81 25Ql4.45 for
choice to extra cattle. The sales We're
largely at $3M4.3O with heavy steers seel-
ing mostly within that range. Choice
handy steers averaging 1900 to 1900 pounds
are the favortes. Feeders are very scarce
and firm, and stockers are higher at So
M3.3O, largely at 50 and upwards. Calves
were plentiful today with the sales at
49, 256i3.35.
Hogs-A good share of the hogs sold at
about $2.7543 heavy selling at an ex-
treme range of S2.55d3.15. medium weights
at NSon3.2o, mixed at S295u3.3O. light at
S3lOGS.55, and pigs at S3.3Od3.50.
Sheep Native sheep were salable at
Sl.75@2.25 for inferior TO common up to
$2.75@325 for fair to prime. and westerns
were i'm demand at $S.40d41O. Lambs sold
at $305.25 for common to choice; extra
were saable at $5OQ5.6O. Western year
| lings sold as low as $40.
| Receipts-Cattle 1900. hogs II 600 sheen
5000.
| Packing House Products
Chicago. July 2S.-Pork S6.Oj. lard S312,
| ribs $3.12.
Miscellaneous.
New York, July 2S.-Hops-Dull.
| WOOl-Dull.
Petroleum-Quiet; United closed at Sill
| asked
Coffee-Closed steady; September, $3.50
| 9.95; spot Rio dull: No. Z. $11.75.
Sugar-Raw, steady; centrifugal, 96 test,
j-16 C; refined, steady.