The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-23
CHICAGO, March %.

Cash quotations were as follows:
No. 3 spring II: No. 2 red S4%atS% Corn. No.
2. 234aA. Oats, No. 2, 16Hal6%; No. white
q o b: No. white $4,000. Rye, No. 2,
80 Barley. No nominal; No. 3, f o b 2s0D32;
No. 4, Is. Flax seed, No. !, T8kaS1K. Prime
Timothy seed $685. Mess pork per Dol, 50 Goa
$40. Lard. per 100 lbs, 81 l0a4 IN. Short rio
sides Qoose) $4.60a4 20; dry-salted shoulders
tboxedl 4Aa5; short clear sides boxed AKA
Az. Whiskey distillers' finished goods per
gallon Sl17.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Flour dull; city
mill patents S4.s0a5.05; winter patents 81 Boa
4.S5; do. clears &.70a4.SO; do. straights $4.25a
e$fias bak aG
$50; winter low grades So 6Oa2.S0
Southern flour steady at 81 30.
s2.60a2.75.
Buckwheat quiet at &c.
Corn meal dull; yellow western 5S; city
Rye quiet; No. western 37a47x; car lots,
Barley quiet: western feeding 26K; mailing
35a42; barley malt dull; western 45a53.
York ,s2% f. o. b. afioat; No. hard 1917
f. o. b.; afioat;; options. No., 2 red March
closed closed IS s Ap5 june el9 eoaed May uS "@
closed II; September Hx a75k, closed 74I.
SOh atioat; No 3, 81, options, March closea
BIZ, closed BY; September closed 32B.
Oats, spot, dull; No. 2, %; No. 3, 81; No.
delivered %; No. 2 white 23h; No. 'Vhite
IN: track mixed western 2la4; track white
22al9; options: May 2i4a2l 1916, closed 2l% !;
HAY Quiet; shipping 5Oa55; good to choice
Hops quiet, choice to common 1926 crop 2Ka
On, 1895 crop COLL. Pacific coast, 1885 crop 3a
on 1885 crop, Sal2k.
Hides firm: Galveston. 21a25 los, ID; Buenos
Ayres dry, a0aA lbs, 18Aal9: Texas dry, 24a
81 lbs, lUN; California. 2la25 lbs, l6.
Leather firm; Hemlock sole Buenos Ayres
light to heavy weights, 2Ga2l; acid, 20&l23.
WOOL steady; domestic fleece, l6a20; pulled
15a20.
Beef quiet: family se.OOasll: extra mess
s7.5OaS0 beef hams ST. packed s.. ,0aSy.UO;
city extra India mess Sl3 50asl5.
Cut meats firm; picked bellies 5*a5A
do. picked shoulders ga; do. hams 9ssA
Lard dull; western steam $40; May $50;
nominal; refined quiet: continent s4.75,
south American S5.05; compound ~
PORK duh; old mess - UUaS9.50; short clear
S9.25al0. IS; family $9.75al0.50.
butter STEADY; western creamery 1903;
do. factory TALL; Elgins 10; imitation cream
cry l0al5h; State dairy l2als; do, creamery
l3aISx.
Cheese quiet: large State 99l2x; small
SGT
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania 1Oxa
II; western fresh ION; southern 10al04.
Tallow steady; city ($2 per package) ~;
country packages free 81, as to quality.
Petroleum steady: United closed at w o1d:
refined New York $685.; Philadelphia and
Baltimore So 30; do. in bulk $50.
Rosln quiet; strained, common TO good
sl.65al671.
TurpentiDe quiet at 2aa29H.
Rice steady; domestic, fair to extra $40
6e. Japan A @4H.
Molasses steady; New Orleans. open kettle
good to choice, 25st0.
Pig iron kdull; southern SI000a11 so; north
ern $40 50al2.50: exchange -.
Copper quiet; brokers' S1l.S5; exchange
SlLSoal2.O0.
Tin dull; straighUs Si3.35al3.40: plates quiet.
Spelter, quiet; domestic 81 l5a4.20..
Lead quiet; brokers 1890; exchange $342x@
Cotton seed oil dull; prime crude 9Oa2O5l
o mills l6aiTH; of crude 10, prime
summer yellow 234, Oft summer yellow 23a
3h, butter grades 26a27; prime white ESQ
Coffee-options, March IS 30; April S. 25:
May IS 2OaS %: JuSe $500; September SIS 35a
S S a " sGt 20 ~ H. a per SS5aS 49, Jan
jobbiRg 8: mild steady; Cordova 44@154.
ce sagaf raw est f 5 fsF re rned r
3S 1 No Is % siS, No. - IL. Sh, No. IL, SID:
No. ID, 32s; No. IA, 81; Mould A, An, standard
A. ~ ce 5 od,9des, A. ~, cut loaf 5k,
cubes AZ.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, March 22.-Four dull; western
5lperHue S~.oOW@.5U. 40. extra %. lOa0.V0: DO.
family $4.l5(a4.40; winter wheat patents S4.6Oa
4.85; spring do. $4.25(D4.50; spring wheat
straights $4.l004.25.
Wheat weah; spot SIN bad: May 500 asked;
Southern wheat by sample S9a90; do. on
grade -.
Corn easy: spot, March and April 27xa2S;
May 2SAazS%; Dune 2Sx bid; July 291 a29x;
steamer mixed 26a264; Southern white
corn 2SHa29; do. yellow 28.
Oats arm; No. white western 25a26; No.
mixed 22ka23.
Eye weak; No. 2, nearby, 40; western 404a
t04.
Hay steady; choice Timothy sI3.5OQ14OO
NAVAL STORES.
CHARLESTON S. c.. March 22.-Rosin firm
at SLAB.