Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-24
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 2s-Flour-Dull
and easy; winter wheat. low grades.
S2.25dS2.Sj. do. fair 10 fancy, 2.SqS.%;
do. patents. $5sgg$2oi MinneSota g. S,e stI5
s2Sj; southern flour quiet and easy; com
mon to fair extra. S24OQS; good to choice
Wheat~Spot market dun and weaker;
No. red. store and elevator, 7sc.; afoat,
7glac Options advanced &c, fell lfil l-ic.,
and closed weak. 3-S0i &c. below saturday
with a moderately active trade; No. 2 red,
March, ,7oc.; April. 7Oe.; May &C; june
C6rn~Spots dull but firm No. q &c.
In elevator. CSC. ahoat Options we're dull
and weak at lac. decline; March, Sf12c.;
May, % 3-sc.: July, - lie.
Oats-Spot quiet and easy. options Gun
and lower; March. "a 3-sc.; May q l-4c.;
spot prices: No. ?. &c; No white, bisc.;
mixed western. Z0Bc.
Hay-Quiet and weak; shipping, IVai1c.;
good TO choice. S1lzU9psc.
Wool-Firm and moderately active; DO
nestle fleece, l6u2c.; pulled, lJn55c
Beef-Dull: family, slWlSl2; extra mess
81. 50GSS. beef hams quiet AZ S45ViSl0.
Tierced Beef-Dull ana weak, city extra
India mess slJG{ls50
Cut Meats-Ouiet and steady; picked
bellies, Use; shoulders. 4'2ntAc.; mans
fard-Iower. western steam. SIS: city,
1890 bid; May $50. refined dun; COnu-
nent, $50; South America, ~l5' COM
pound, 5-SGF.c. --o.,oo-
Pork-Dull but steady; mess, &I54{lO2,n
Butter-Stoady and I'm fair demand;
State dairy. i0a20c; western dairy, 100
llc.: DO. creamery. i2022c.; Elglns, pc:
Cottonseed- Oil-Dull and weak: crude,
2oc,; yellow prime. 25lsc-; do OF grade
Rosln-oaiet and firm; strained, COM
mon 10 good, N.70ftl19. ao,,~,oo,,-
TurDentine-Dull and easy at 2SiGn2SNc.
Rlce-Flrm and moderately active; DO
nestle, fair to extra S90ae'' japan
Molasses-In moderate demand and
firm; New orleans, open Kettle. good to
choice. 27a37c.
coffee-Quiet: points up 10 down:
March. sl330ISi3.40 April. Si2.S5dSl3; May,
Sl2 C00sl2.70; July. $llA: September, Sll.05;
October. 1880: November. xl0.S0; Deem
Der. 5000; spot Rio dull but steady; No.
sugar-Raw: quiet and firm; fair re-
filming. 39sc. bid: cenirifugals, 69c. degree
test 3-l6c. refined unchanged.
Frcights TO Liverpool-Quiet; cotton. by
steam 3-S2d.; grain. do, Had.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. March "a possibility that
something bullish might be evolved from
the Mondays statistics on wheat. pro-
duced a firm feeling In the market for the
grain at the opening to-day, but as the
day wore on and nothing In the news
developed fayorably. prices sank lower
and at the close they were weak at inside
figurss--lower than Saturdays closing
May wheat opened at CO l-tn63 i-Sc.. sold
between 6 3-S and 62c,, and closed at the
latter-ika5-Sc. under Saturday. Cash
wheat was weak, and izc. per bushel
lower.
Corn opened quiet and steady, but af-
forwards swung into line with wheat.
The loss for the day was not important
or great bat Ii was sufficient 10 Demon
strn,e the absence Of individual strength.
Business was moderately active at times.
but the long intervals OF stagnation made
the total trade light. May. corn opened
AT % 5-Sc. sold between - 5-Su2sA and
~ 3-Sc.. and closed al the latter--isc. under
Saturdays close. Cash corn was lie.
lower.
oats-rhe weakness of wheat was fui'v