The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-03-18
LOCAL MARKET.

There was very little doing in business
circles yesterday and no changes are not
ed in quotations. If the weather con-
tinues bad few days longer, however,
there is certain to be considerable ad-
vance in the price of eggs and chickens.
Fat beef cattle for home consumption
are in demand and the market is firm
at quotations.
Cottonseed are in demand but very few
are offered. In New Orleans cottonseed
products are quoted as follows:
Cottonseed, $500 per ton 5000 pounds)
delivered to the mills. Cottonseed meal.
jobbing at depot $16.00@1675 per short
ton, and S17.00@1750 per long ton for
export, f. o. b.; cottonseed oil, 17d17 lie
bulk, 10 1-2M16c, and 22c for refined oil
at wholesale' or for shipment; oil cake,
Sl1;O0@17.5O per long ton, f. o. b.. Foots,
1@1 lac. Linters-A, 3 1908 Csc per
pound; B, 1-4d3 3-Sc; c, 2 3-4M
7-Sc. Hulls-Delivered at II 1-2@15c
per 100 pounds.
The horse and mule market in New
Orleans is reported dull. Quotations
there are as follows:
Heavy draft and coal cart mules, $225
to $3.50; rice and small common mules,
$40 to $75; tirst-class sugar mules, $160
to $3.50; good cotton mules, $75 to SIG.
quiet and there is very little demand for
mules.
Texas cornfed beeves are quoted in
New Orleans at 1-264; CRASHED, 3M
3 IL; common to fair, 1 1-2M2 IA;
choice cows, 2 1908; common to fair
cows, 1 3-4@2 IA.
There is no change to note in Austin
quotations.
All quotations are wnoresare:
AvIo Coldan Gn<Cy70o mon ,,oo-
en-; Apex, 75c; AlletOn, 75c; castor oil,
62 12G65c.
.AmmunitioI-Powder, per key, $500;
blasting powder, $1.65 per key, agents
RR prize q SrG gR sh9t per SACK S125@1So;
Bacon-Short clear, sos lie; break
fast, Z 3-4@Sc; dry salt, 5@6c;
salt bellies, 34c; smoked bellies, LA
3-4c. Hams, 10 1-2c.
Lard.Kettle rendered. 5 1-4c;. leaf,
DC; SO lb cans, 1-4c higher than tierces
lob cans, 3-4c higher; 5-lb cans, 7-Sc
higher; BIB cans, 1c higher.
Baking Powder-BOn-BOn. 20 ounces.
Prices, $475 per dozen: Royal, $50
per dozen. -
Canned Frdit-Per dozen: Strawber-
ries, $100@1.1 10: plneapples, standard,
$125@1 40; eyeless and coreless, SLIGO
@1.75; seconds, 9O@95c; pears. standard,
9Oc(Q$1.e0; Clipper Bartlett pears, =
pound, $1.O0@1.0 3-pound, $1.6O@1. 90;
peaches, standard, 2-pound, S5@90c; sec
onds, 2-pound, 7oc; 3-pound, standard,
$1.25@1. so; 3-pound pie peaches, Toe:
blackberries, 65@70c; 3-pound. standard
apples, 750SOc.
California Canned Fruits-Standard
goods 2 1-2-pound cans: Peaches, $1.5O
@1.65 per dozen; apricots, $1.35@1 .45;
pears, $1.50@1.65 egg plums, ,$1:35@
Las; green cages, 81. 4091. so; nectarines,
$1.35@1 so; grapes, $1.35@1 40; white
$2.2512.35.
Candy-Plain stick, 6@6 1-2c; wrap
ped, 7@7 10; fancy mixed in pals, G
1-2@Sc. ~.
Canned vegetables-Marrowfat peas,
9oe@$1Oo Lima dEaazz beans, s s0eS7$1 60 60
tomatoes. 2-pound, 70@75c; 3-pound, 80
@95c; red kidney beans, 2-pound, 90c.
Coffee-Rio and Cordova, fair. 13 IA
@14c; prime, II 1-2@15c; choice, 1870
10 lie; Peaberry, 19@21c; ~oast-
ed coffee. XXXX basis, 1oo-pound
cases, $15.30; Arbuckle's, 100 pound
cases, $3.50; in 30-pound cases,
$3.50; Mocha and Java blend, 26c.
.Flour-High patent, per barrel, So. %
65.35; half patent, $5.10@5.25; straight,
family, $4.9045.00.