Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-18
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
NEW YORK, October 17.-Flour-Quiet
but iirmer; buyers holding off on the adj
vance in wheat; winter wheat, low grades,
S22)Q s. %; do, fair 10 fancy, S2Sa<S5;
Minnesota clear, S2S4 S3.35; do. patents,
S600A.S0; low extras, S2.2Uu8.25; southern
flour firm and quiet; common TO fair ex-
ira. 81 4pdS5; good 10 choice do, 1890.
Wheat-Spot market moderately active
and iirmer, with Optionsi ungraded red,
7slis5c.; No. l northern, Sc; options ac-
tive and excited, closing strong at a 3-iD
1-sc. advance. due chiefly to the contin-
ued higher cables and manipulation here
and at the West No. red. May, 81 SIC;
October, 79 &c; November, 81 1-Sc.; De-
Corn--Spots fairly active and irmer; No.
2, 80 lie in elevator. 80 1-2c. aloat; OPP
tions fairly active and firm at a BIC. adj
vance; october, 30 lie; December, 80 Lie;
oais~spots quiet but frmer; options
dull but firmer: October, 3 5-Sc.; Deem
her, p 1-sc.; May, rs l-Sc.; spot No. 2,
. 1-2c; No. 2 white, % lie; mixed west
Hay-Good to choice. n 1-2d1 1-2c.
Wool-F'irm. in moderate demand. and
Beef~Steady and quiet; fancy, sSaSS5o;
extra mess. S1NSI
Beef Hams-Firn al SIG.
Tierced Beef-Ftrm and quiet; city ex-
ira India mess. $lO.500 $3.50.
Cut Meats-Firm; picked bellies, SIS;
shoulders 81: hams, SSlIS9.5O.
Ilard-Quiet but stronger: prime steam,
1851 -; city, $i0Q$f.50; October, {465;
refined in moderate demand Continent.
s.; South American, 500; compound,
Pork-Quiet and firm; new mess, $3.50
Butter-Firm; fancy State dairy, 11gl7c.;
do. creamery. l2glgc.; western dairy
Eees-0uiet; choice steady; State and
Pennsylvania, lS42Oc.; western, fresh
l79ls lie; d9 per r, case; ii T stsadv crude
2lc.; yellow prime, p l-2c.
Rosin-Flrn; strained, common TO good,
sl.N 1-2ds1.95.
purpentine-Easy at p l-2I2e SIC;
Rice-Firm. fairly active, and I'M
AioIasses-Firm and unchanged.
Peanuts--Quiet and unchanged.
April. SOS; May, $9So@;9.so; July, 80;
September. S.9el$gi spot Rio dull but
firm: No. I, sl1asll.l2 II.
Sugar-Raw dull but firm fair refined,
5-sc.; centrifugals 06-degrse tesD, &c.;
Freichts 10 Ilyerpool-Firm; cotton, by
steam. lid; grain, by steam, I'D
for. December.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE. MD, October T-flour.
60 N. do extra, $29oG$3.4o: do, family,
e Ss6s9I5; winter wheat patent, $4lOD
81 20: spring do, $iQ42O.
Wheat-Strong and higher; spot and DC
toher ~ 5-S17s sac; December, 50 7-SnSlc.
steamer No 2 red. a 1-2q74 3-4c.; south
ern. by sample, 77aSc.; do, on grade
corn~strong and higher; spot and DC
.ober. 81 l-4ff3i 1-2c.; new or old, Novem-
her or December 81 1-4a3l l-2c.: January,
SsGS2 l-4c.; steamer mixed, % l-2c.; south
ern corn, 3313fc.
g oats-ouiet and steady: No. white,
2sc No. mixed, q l-zaZ2c.
Rye--Firmer; NO. nearby, AIEc., NO.
Q western. II 1-2c.
Hay-FirIn; choice timothy, 13c.
Grain Freights-Firm and unchanged.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. October 1.-THE wheat mar
ket to-day was a roaring bull one. From
start TO finish there was one unceasing
clamor for wheat, win the opening and
was broad, embracing all classes and
conditions OF people. and everybody was
a buyer Wheat was bought early, sold
higher figures, this proceeding being re-
pested over and over again. The first
stimulant the market received, and the
one which was responsible for an adj
ginning. was the Liverpool cables. which
renorted Id. rise from yesterday.
This had the effect OF bringing innumera-
Bile buying orders 10 the market. When
thew were filled there was q pause for
realizing purposes, and then fresh starts
we're taken During tho last half hour
additional impulse was given by the Ber-
I'm quotations, which were 1-2 marks
higher The news from San Francisco in
famed the ardcr. Lamson Brothers. IL
90 had advices of several carsoes taken
nj that place for shipment TO India. both
nv steamer ana by slow freight. The rou-
tine news was OF little consequence as
factor
December wheat opened Il from 70 Ia