Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-03
PRODUCE.

Slacle &. Co.. the Market street brokers,
furnish the following quotations from the
Chicago grain and produce exchanges
Wheat-Opening. High Low. Josef ieI;
M 2aiy 5S S3.S. 5 3 81 So 5 5S5:&
'$ #3Z So: ss' . ST 3.sS 3 81
0} %3Z 93ESg3:: I IL: * sa'. HI i5':a4
P %5Z ss@es, @s@ss, ST. S t IS
h5 mSy 4S as t@'.a 4e5
July as 4@ as AS
SS %ay N'Oi 57s 1914 isg'.a fss2'.@
July 472l. 72ls 81. ~
CHICAGO. April Wheat was FIR firm TO-
dav. Inc Nav option closing at 3sal2c adj
vance. 4 somewhat better cash ueIHdHu
dun market. Corn went the other way,
cIosing i,c lower Oats closed shade
lower and provisions unchanged TO IVc
lower. option as Eauged by me cary
fluctuations i'm the wheat market was
trifle more favorable to the bull SIDE IMAM
m the close of Yesterday session. LIV-
erpool opened without any chahEe. ne
northwestern receipts were IN.a''SI nv! ~
tney n conSitio1 of wheat in Missouri, as
rsnortsd Yesterday by the agricultural bu-
reau of the State, received some conHIina-
tion from private expert testimony. MIN
neaDolis and Duluth receipts were ~ cars.
conip3red with 43S the corresponding DAY
of Inc week before. Chicago received only
o carloads. May opened a 'O9sHOAc'
against yesterdays closing price % ra ~,
and during the first two hours OF traulhg
fmctuafions ranged from 1O3sc 10 'O%tc with
TiIv keeping step at sc per bushel behind
The other. The inquiry from country mil
ers was more in evidence man II iIS SG 6o6
bushels had been sold for prompt Shipment
and the most notable feature OF lne CouIl-
Try demand was that II was largely LOT
M . sprng and that 4ouO pushels SOts
I,est To Kansas City. one of the items OF
news which helped the bears was the es-
innate sent from Deluth that stocks mere
would show an increase 1or inc Week 1i
/ 100 ONO bushels and Minneapolis would
only decrease 200 600 bushels which indl-
catS5 u probable increase in the visible,
or at least a very small decrease Closing
cables being of rather mlXea Gi en-
Tba market ruled firmer after i CLOCK
and the market showed a tendency 10 I'M
prove faster than July, indicating aPIPIg-
brnsion Of the result among snort Stiets
should the country demand Tor spot wheat
show much further increase IN view oil me
limited available supply. Inc foreign az
vices were not only unlaNOrapIe as ltSd, W
tbe moor outlook for the trehch crop ouI
the Russian crop Nd- al 49,
nromisinC The market had seNeral NO
iar+ finctuations in the last hair hour, May
dronning suddenly from I04c 10 but 'Ossc.
and recovering again in few minutes TO
-tc and July al 70lsWO4c.
Corn was fairly active ana showed us
irdeDendence of wheat by declining Wnen
10 market was advancing The market
80 strong and somewhat higher during
r. carly hours. helped by light receipts.
VET weather all through the corn belt ana
God fXports-5a00 0 bushels. Later talk
rom illinois and Iowa of better offerings
and realizing by longs caused decline.
Ma opensd a shade higher AZ 2a23isc,
sold M 25isc. then declined 10 2iSsnA%4c.
closing easy at 24S+c. -
The market in oats was OF much the
same character as corn. although less ac-
fiVitv was shown. Prices were firm early.
Inn when corn declined oats Immediately
followed. Fair support developed and
some of the decline was recovered. IN
norris were 12000 bushels. May opened un-
changed Ct 172s011l2c. sold between 1l2c
and nc. and closed at Use.
Provisions were very dull. TRANSACTIONS
we're small and at long intervals, with
nrlces on the decline from the start. The
11-eeLress must have been for reasons pc
cnliar 10 the speculative features of the
dsaI for the usual elements TO which the
traders ascribe higher or lower prices did
not suggest lower prices. At the close
Nav pork was Ice lower at S Az. May
lard unchanged at ST >, and May ribs &C
iara,-r At 81 62iza4 Co.