Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-22
PRODUCE.
Register Office.
WHEELING. December 81.

pleased with the volume OF business dur
/ ing the month of September.
! Blltter-Creamery. 22G25c: country.
| choice. 16G20c; country. good 566c; coun-
| try, light, 5@Gc; butterine, 12414c.
! Eggs-23c per dozen.
Navy Beans-Hand picked 81 GOAL % per
bushel
| York. lie; Limberger, SN10c; SWeitzer,
! 101z012e.
Poultry-Old live chickens. 81 ooa2 so per
spring chickens, 81 75G2 % per dozen; per
| pound. Sc.
Ducks-$2 25G2 so per dozen; geese, 400
soc each: turkeys, 1oc per pound.
! Lard-Country prime. SC: very plentiful.
! Apples-s3 5GM4 co per barrel.
Orange&Jamaica, per barrel, 50 Co., per
box, 81 50; Messina, 50 COCA 90; California
| I.enons-Meesina. So 1904 90 per box.
| Bananas-s1 COOL 70 per bunch. as to size
| and quality.
| Celery-25@S0e per bunch.
Walnuts-40c per bushel.
| Old Rags-1ac per pound.
COcoanutS-6GG175c Per Dozen
Beans-s1 coal % per bushel.
| Oyster Plant-30c per dozen.
| Potatoes-$2 90 per barrel: I5c per blu.
Jersey sweet potatoes-$3 so per barrel.
Parsnps-$1 % per barrel.
| Honey. in comb 14Gf5c ner pound.
Spanish Onions-s1 5Oa1 60 per crate.
| Grapes-In basl2ets-12114c.
| Rutabagas-$1 GO per barrel.
! Cranberries-$2 0o42 20 per crate; per
| barrel.s7 80.
English Walnuts, Pecans, Hazel, Cream,
| Almonds-S112c per pound
! Mistletoe-$ 90 Per barrel.
Chicago, December 21-The Post
prints the following concerning the
! present situation in the December
| wheat deal:
December 81, Settling Day on the
| Board of Trade, will witness the, culmin-
alton of the gigantic Laiter-Armour
deadlock. The trade will not be sur
prised then to learn that Armour will
! lose a clear 100000 on the December
DEAL True, he has performed the
marvellous feat of bringing 100000
bushels of high grade cash wheat to
this city in defiance of all settled rules
of commerce, but that act may result
| in nothing more substantial than glory.
| 1t is growing belief on Change that
Mr.. Armour had to pay dearly for
bringing the big volume of wheat to
this city, and that his short selling will
cost him about Is or 20 cents bushel.
by settlement day the deal will
| have been fought to a finish, and only
the formalities will remain to be OBJ
served"
| Chicago, December 21-Scalpers had
another hard time Of it in the wheat
| pit to-day. The clique bought on the
/ slumps and sold on the bulges and
| kept the market in such a state of nerv-
business that the little fellows were
badly frost-bitten. May closed at &c
! decline after selling &c above yester-
days final figures. Other markets fol-
lowed the general course of wheat, corn
declining $s@1ac, oats 1s@Ac and pro-
visions 10@171ac.
May wheat opened easy and about
1ac lower than it closed at yesterday
at 931a@935sc, Liverpool was only sd
| higher at the opening here and by some
| mistake the receipts of wheat at Min
neapolis were at first reported at SO
car loads. Chicago receipts were very
| heavy, amounting to $40 cars, of which
| number $40 were Of contract quality.
These were the reasons for the opening
weakness. Minneapolis receipts were
| soon Afterwards corrected to 172 cars,
and Duluth reported 11S car loads there.
| That made the small total of 200 cars
at both places compared with $50 last
week and $50 the corresponding day of
| last year. That correction Of the
! Northwestern receipts turned the gen.
eral feeling of the crowd toward the
bull side again and the opening weak
| ness soon gave place to considerable
| strength, May advancing under good
buying to 941ac. This, however was
| followed by reaction to 94@94sc,
when again the market turned strong
and a slow advance ensued. This see
| saving kept up all morning. The first
| advance was led by the bull clique on
| several subsequent occasions, when
| the market appeared to require help
the same party was credited with being
| it's rescuers. Besides the $40 cars OF
| contract wheat received here by rail,
| 5000 bushels and 100 cars of No. 1
| Northern spring were transferred from
| unlicensed elevators. The total quaint
| ity Of contract wheat in licensed houses
| at the close Of business Saturday was
| 5,179,000 bushels, and probably 1,0G0.-
| 600 has been added to that store since
| There is a strong probability, therefore,
| that by December 81 there will be
| 100000 bushels CT contract quality
wheat in regular Chicago houses. Ru-
mors Of vessels room having been taken
! in New York for shipment of ,0o0, GOO
bushels of wheat early in January for
account of the Chicago bull clique were
current on the floor. The export houses
at the seaboard received very little in
| Quiry from abroad, but France was
credited with buying 10000 bushels Of
No. 2 red, and Hamburg with taking
! 10000 bushels same grade wheat. Eea-
board clearances of wheat and flour
were comparatively moderate at 345 900
bushels. Liverpoofs dependence on
| America for supplies was seen in the
| importations into that port in the last
three Gays Of $4,000 quarters, $4,000
| quarters of which was from America.
| Later in the session the market be-
came quite weak under realizing.
| There was reason to believe also that
he Letter crowd sold considerable.
The market gradually declined to 9Shc
and closed easy at 93Ac. There were