The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-16
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

= NEW York, Feb 10.
Money on call nomin illY Ma. per cent. I;
prime mercantile paper 304 per cent,
sterling exchange firm, with actu i bust
ness in bankers bills at 4s6A@is7 for de-
mand and 4s4340iS5 for sixty days; posted
rates 4s5l14S5la AID 4S7l3@4ss; commercial
bills 4S}34.
Silver certificates. 6i}40ei7s; no sales; bar
bar silver, 6I9s Mexican dollars, 500.
United States government bonds firm;
new As registered l221s; do. coupons, 1224;
SIS registered 1875 do coupons, 1885; As reg
isterel, l1l9s; do coupons 1924; rs regis
tired, 9j19; Pacific 6s Of '5S, 1895.
Chicago Grain and Produce.
CHICAGO, Feb. 15
Glowing were the quot ,tiols ON the Board
of Trade today: Wheat--Febru airy, opened
and close nominal May, opan,d 7jIsc, close /
75l4c; July, opened ne, closed 74Jsc. Corn
February opened and closed nominal; Ma 81,
opened 231sc, closed 24c; July, opene 245Sc,
clos d &c. Oats - February, opened and
closed nominal; May, opened l71sc, closed lie;
July, opened lSc, closed l75sc. Pork-FeL.
ruary, opened and loed nominal; May,
opened $3.50, clos ed SS9I1s Lard-Fe ruary,
opened and closed nominal; May, opened
$685. closed $500.
Produces: Butter-Extrac reamery, 2l16c per
III; extra dairy, 17c per 10; fresh packing
stock, SC. Eggs - Fresh stock, l7c per
doz Poultry-Turkeys, 1l9illac per h.. chick
ems (hens), t@7c; ROSTERS &c; ducks,
9@1lc; geese, 6aSc. Potatoes urbanks, 2,
025c per bu.; He rons, x2923c. Sweet pota.
toes--Illinois, 9cc@Sl.25 per Dbl Honey
White clover, 12c per h.; extracted, 50D7c.
Apples-Common to fancy, $lOO@250 per Dbl.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Feb 15
Live Stock-Prices at the U MON Stock yards
today ranged as follows: Hogs-Estimatei re-
ceipts for the day, $1,000; sales ranged at SO 30
@3.65 pigs $3.4563 IS; light, $3.250e3.3 rough
packing, $34503 81 mixed, aud $40 "a $50
heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the day. Is. 600;
quotations ranged at $i95,15.4O choice to extra
shipping steers, $4.5o@49J good t choice do,
$3.9O04.4 ~ fair to good, 1884 05 common to
medium do, S35O93.90 butchers steers, So %
| @3.S0 s'ockers, $3700425 feeders 81 500 10
| cows, $2.4O64.2O heifers $?.25d375 bulls. oxen
| and stays, $:.900t2J Texas steers, aud 81 7j@
Q - veal calves.
Sheep and Lambs-Estimat d receipts for
| day, l400); sa es ranged Mt S21j014 90 western.
$2.25t3 30 Texans, 81 .25lli ID natives and So so
| oslo lambs.
East Buffalo Live Stock.
EAST BUFFALO Feb Is.
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission
Me- chants, East Buffalo, N. Y. quote as follows:
Cattle-Receipts. l47 cars; market steady for
heavy steers shade firmer for good fat and
handy butchers; common grades slow; DR. me
steers 1850 to 1870, SL9O05OO; none here as
| good as last week. fir TO medium steers. 81. %
@4i0; light butchers, S2.7jd4l5; good IA
heifers, Sj6j04l5; Michigan heifers. S3Ola
3s5 Hogs-Receipts, lis cars; Workers. 81 77Is
$50; pigs. S3.7 t3.sJ; handy MEDIUMS and
mixed, - 65p3. 10; heavy mediums, S}.e,6l3 "a;
roughs, 3OD9 10; 81 ags, S,.2502.75. Sheep a d
Lambs-Receipts, 100 cars; z cd to choice
lambs S4.s5g5OD; common to fair s. ma "a:
culls 50 5O0425; mixed sheep cho CO TO extra
S3s514OO; handy wethers, SLl06435; yer.
linss, s42j; export, Sl5)G3sj; fei westerns.
| $39J0t4.0J.
st. Louis Grain.
| ST. LOUIS, Feb. Is.
| Wheat-No. red cash elevator, SIC nomi
nal; rack. ssl1asoc; May, s5Llc bid Corn-No
2cash, lgt4c; May, 2lSs@.l34c bid Oats-No. 2
IN l6lhc bid; May, ls5sc bid Rye-Lower:
| DC track.
Milwaukee Grain.
| MILWAUKEE, Feb. is.
| Wheat-No spring 74c; No. 3 northern.
&c; May. 75hc. Corn-No 3. l9c. Oats--No. 3
white, l6dlsc. Barley--No. 2, 8Oc; samples.
x}G3lc. Rye-No. I, 35c
Detroit Grain.
| DKrRoI Feb. Is
Wheat-Cash white. se1<c; cash red. ssIxc
May. ee9<c; July. 7lc.