The Portland daily press., 1897-03-27
Domestic markets.

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MARCH 26. 1897
NEW YCRK-The Flour market - receipts
2i.Si3 packages; exports ALSO bbls, and s.
l31ssacks: sales 1920 packages; unchanged.
quiet and steady.
rIour; duouanons-winter. wheat low grades
At G0G3 25 do fair to fancy at 2544 40;
do patents COCA 3d. Minnesota clear at 80
as SIS: do straight at 4 00R4 20: do patents
az '9oga 9ot low exIas 3oN3 20; CITY nlills
extra at 60G4 80: CITY mills patents 8U$n
8 0b: rye mixtures SOFA 40. superfine at
0003 05. fine at h002 so. Southern -four
nu1etunchanged: common to fair ex3 2O@3 5O:
good TO choice do GOA 0c. Rye flour quiet
at 40G2 70. C0rnmeal dull and stead Wheat
receipts = bush: exports 74.496 bush. sales s.
600 bush: dull, firmer with options; No 2 Red
o S23ec; No Northern at s41sc. Coln-re-
ccipts $1,000 bush: exports 56,158 bush; gales
%, QUO bush :dull. strong; No at 1884 in elev.
3Os4 oslo afioat Oats--recelDts I03. 400 bush
exports $3.50 bush: SAFES $4,000 bush; quiet.
firm :. No at 22c; 90 White 24c: No chicago
23c: No at 2112c: do White at 221ac, Mixed
Western 21a24; White do and White state %
$50. Beef quiet, steady :familv at O0FlO 30;
extra mess 0008 90; beef hams strong; tierc-
ed beef steady city extra India mess at Is O0g
400; cut meats firm, quiet; picked bellies II
TBS DC; do shoulders at oAc: DO hams at S12
ga. Lard barely ste dy, quiet: Western steam
closed 421s ;city 20;rehnec SLOW: Continent
10; A at So; compound 4@4lAc. Provis-
iOns-Pofk steady, quiet new mess at 8 251
8 TO. Butter in good demand, upward tenden-
eye; State dairy at 36l8; do cream at lag Sc;
Western dairy; do crm 140l Sc; do factory al
71s @12c; Elgins &c. Cheese firm, demand
fair; State large 9@12A2; do small 9@121ac.
Petroleum firm; united 81 ~. Coffee Rio dull,
easy. Sugar-raw firm, fairly active: refined at;
No 6, 41sc;s No at &c: No = at 3TAc; No 8
at 3M C: No 10 at 8 9-16c; No II at $40 C:
No IL at 1850: No L. at 3ssc: off A S-le,a
4l4c; Mould A IA c; standard A 41sc:Confec-
TONERS 4sa ;cut loaf 3 Ia ;crushed . 1sc, pow
dered 4s4 C; granulated 4Aac; Cubes 4%.
Freights TO Liverpool qulet;grain by steam at
"a d.
CHICAGO-The Flour market to-day was
quiet steady. unchanged hard wheat spring pats
i 3044 90 in wood: hard wheat bakers 60c9
90 in SACKS: winter wheat at 1904 so in
wood Rye Flour 220t42 80 in sacks. Wheat
No2 spring az 711s Q57S1sc; No 2 Red at S4 Us
gsyhsc. Corn-No 2 at 2a@g24}ac. oats-Ne 2
$50 nominal. No FlaxSsed 1890 mess york
s 4o9S g. Lard 1894 l749; short RIB sides
4 55A4 80. Dry saltea meats-shoulders rs
90 90: short clear sides 76a4 S735.
Receipts-Flour. 1900 hbls; wheat 1890
bush corn. 1Oo 900 bush: eats. 1873. 800 push;
rye. o,oo0 bush barley. 2o,2Oo pnsn-
Shlpnents-Flour $500 obis. wheat 47.500
bush: corn. 5000 bush. oats 49, 500 BUSH:
rye. 0DOu liash: barley $500 bush.
ST. LDUIS-The Flour market to-day was
unchanged: patents at 1904 so: extra fancy
at 4.40t14 As: fancy at 1898 So; choice
1898 20. Wheat higher. Corn lower. Mch
mess, new 8 20 :old 81 Lard--prime steam al
co: choice 10; Bacor-shoulders -: extra
short clear 6%a clear ribs 3; clear sides 66$.
Dry sailed meats-shoulders4 s7i4a; extra short
clear at /; clear, ribs at 514 clear sides 25i
Recetpts-Flour 1900 bbls: wheat IL 9Co
bush; corn 1875, 900 bush; oats 1900 bush: rye
shiprnents-Flour 1900 bbls: wheat 2.5oC
bush acorn 1875. 400 bush; oats z 400 oushi rye
--busn
EXTRAORDINARILY Q Red at sec; No i
White SIC. Corn-No at 24c Oats-No 2 at
2I4ac. Rye-No 2 at SO