The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-19
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
NEW YoRK, Dec. lS.-Flour dull city
mill patents $5.l0a5.35: winter patents Si.90a
$40, do. clears $4.95a505 do. straights $4.65Gd
4 IS; Minnesota patents S4.50a4 to: do. winter
extras $3.35y3.90: Minnesota bakers So 4Oa4. 10;
winter low grades $2S6d3.05.
Southern -four steady at $4.60.
Rye -four dull; superhne $2.S5a 800; fancy
So. l0a325.
Buekwheat -four dull at S1.8Oa140
Buckwheat dull at 30.
Corn meal quiet; yellow western So city
CO., Brandywine SIS.
gRye nominal: No. western 4la48; car lots
4Oa42.
Barley dull; western feeding 2sa28k: malt
ing, 3Sa46: barley malt dull: western 50GQ55.
Wheat, spot, duh and weaker, No 4 North
ern New York S7& f. o. b. atfoat; No. hard
OK {. o. b. afioat; options, No. red January
S6a86H, closed So; March 81 10 l6aSSA, closed
87B; May s. 1-lGa86%, closed 85*; July SASH,
closed 81; December S6&a86A, closed 866.
Corn, spot, inactive; No. 2, 2Sh in elevator;
29k atioat; yellow 29x options, January closed
2s8; May 3l& closed 31k; December closed
Oats, spot dull No. 2, %; No. 2 delivered
%; No. 3, 2O1; No. white IS; No. white
22h; track mixed western 2la3lh, track white
State -, options, January closed 224, Febru-
airy closed 22%; May closed Pan; December
closed 2lH.
Feed dull.
Hay dull; shipping 55a6O; good to choice
70aT5.
Hops dull: common to choice 1895 crop S@
~, 1925 crop S(gl3, Pacific coast, 1895 crop "a
IN, 1896 crop, Gala.
Hides steady: Galveston, 2Oa25 lbs, I3, Buenos
Ayres dry, 2UaA lbs, nominal; Texas dry, 24a
30 lbs, 10; California, 2la25 lbs, 15H.
Leather quiet; Hemlock sole Buenos Ayres
light to heavy weights, 191a20A; acid, 206D23.
Wool quiet; domestic fleece, 15a20; pulled
l5a1s.
Coal steady.
Beef firm; family S95Oa$l1; extra mess
$780, beef hams =: packed $Sa$9 90; city
extra India mess $12 50al450:
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies 4Aa4A; do
picked shoulders 4a4A; do. hams 81 g8K.
Lard barely steady; western steamed $4.l2H,
city -; December S4.l0, nominal; refined
steady; continent $435; South American $4.75;
Pork dull; old mess $s256s.75; short clear
$8.75a10.50; family $l0.50l1100
Butter steady; western creamery 1902;
do. factory 7a12; Elgins ~; imitation cream
l4a20.
Cheese quiet large State 7K@1OK; small
2KQ3.
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania 2l@
%; western fresh 15a22.
Tallow steady: city ($2 per package) 81 ,
country packages free 80, as to quality.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 20:
prime crude o b mills -, Off crude 1SHal9;
low 22Aa23; butter grades -; prime white
23K@D27.
Petroleum nominal: United closed at -,
refined New York $6.25; Philadelphia and
Baltimore So 90 do. in bulk 1910.
Rosin steady; strained, common to good
$l.90.
Turpentine steady 27(9274.
Rice steady; domestic, fair to extra 3%Q6,
Japan ~ @p44.
MOlasses dull; New Orleans, open ket-
tie, good to choice, 26a34 for new crop.
Pig iron steady; southern $llal225; northern
$ll.00al3.U0; exchange -.
Copper easy; lake brokers' $l1.8O; exchange
$l1.20al150
Lead strong; domestic brokers $2.75 ex-
change $3a305
Tin steady: straights sl2 so: plates dull.
Spelter dull; domestic S4.15a425.
Coffee Options, December 1920; January
81 30; March $s.30a9 So, May 1875, September
invoice 10, mild quiet; Cordoya l54@l7.
Sugar. raw dull; fair refining ~; cen
trifugal, 96-test, 81; refined dull; No 6,
3 10 is; No. z, 81, No. 8, 3 ll-l6; No. 8 80,
No. 10, 8 9-l6, No. ii, 3A, No. IL, 7-l6, No. 49,
39s; No. ia, 3 s. IL, Mould A, AZ, standard A, Az:
confectioners' A, A., cut loaf 5, crushed g.
powdered Az, granulated AZ, cubes ~.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 1s.-Flour firm; west
ern super $2.S5G3.30; do. extra $1,000 Is;
do. family S4.60CG4.s5; winter wheat patents