Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-02

Total twelve moths ending Sept.
Total twelve months ending Sept.
80, 1897. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,4E0,too
Total twelve months ending Sept.
80, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l,lo3410
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
NEW YORK, October 1.--Fiour--Re-
ceipts, 23S23 barrels; exports 2l,s72 bar
rels; sales. 5000 packages; market slow.
and closed easier with wheat; winter
straights. A65GS475; rye -four quiet;
buckwheat flour quiet at s2Gs2.2i.
| Buckwheat-Dull and easy at i5n47c.
Compatibility; yellow western Ssc,;
| city, zoe.
Rye-Easy; No. 2. As 1-2c.; car-lots, 5oat
| sic.
Barley-Quiet; feed, 20 l-4c.; barley
malt dull.
Wheat-Receipts. sS1. $50 bushels; ex-
ports, 1870 bushels sales. 4.4S5.0o0 BUSH
els OF futures and 10000 bushels of spot;
spot weak; No 2 red, 50 5-Sc. afoat; NO
l northern. Duluth. s5 5-Sc. afioat, late
! October: No. hard, 50 1-Sc. afioat; OPP
lions opened easy under foreign selling,
rallied sharply on drought news and
covering but in the last hour weakened
again under disappointing receipts ana
No. 2 red. May. 9iG92 5-Sc.-closed Gle;
October SO 3-4d95c.--closed SO 3-4c. De-
cember. SO 1868 9-i6c.
Corn-Receipts. 230,6 bushels; exports,
] lif.bJl DuSnelS, sales, bushels
lures and 1900 bushels of spot: spot
weak: No 2. 34c. afioat; options opened
steady and advanced on dry weather, but
weakened finally. with wheat, and closed
l-S11-4c net lower; May closed 81 1-2c.
November closed 30 3-Sc; December,
81 1-iG3i 7-sc.-closed "a lac.
Oats-Recepts. 16,S0 bushels: exports
00527 bushels; sales. 5000 bushels futures
and $1,000 bushels spot; spot quiet; NO. 2
% 1-4n23 1-2c.; options steady and mode
rately active. closing Unchanged Deem
Der. "a 3-4lI25c.-closed q SAC.
! Hay-Dull.
Hops-Quiet
| Hides-Steady.
Leather-Quiet: Hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres light TO heavy-weights, 20 1-2u
q lee; acid. 20 1-2q23c.
Wool-Firm.
Coal-Steady.
| Beef-Firm.
Beef Hams-26d27c.
-Meats-Dull picked bellies, $3.50
IS; do shoulders, $50; do. hams, SS,l2 1-2q
Lard-steady; western steamed, As5a
$3.50; October A.75 nomnally: refined,
$40; compound, A62 1-2QSfS IL.
Pork-Dull.
Butrer-Firm western creamery. LA
nc: factory SALE 1-2c.; Elgins 22c.; imi-
tation creamery, l2Gil6c.: State dairy, l2n
19c.: do. creamery. HAZE.
Cheese-Quiet; large white, 91-Sc; small
white, 1-2c.; large colored. 1-Sc.; small
do. lie; part skins, 1-2G7c.; full do
3 1-2G4c
Eggs-Quiet: State and Pennsylvania,
l7al9c.; western, fresh, l6 1-2c.
Potatoes-Quiet; Jerseys. s225d2.O
Long Island s25O0s2.75; sweets. $l5Oqa.75.
Tallow-Dull; city, 31-2c.; country,
Petroleum-Quiet.
Rosin--steadv; strained, common to
good s1.40G$f.45.
| Turpentne--32 1-2le33c.
, Rice-Steady.
Molasses-Steadv.
Tomatoes-Per box or crate, according
to quality, G0c.asl.
Cabbage-Long Island and Jersey, Sass
| per hundred.
Cottons eed- Oil-Dull weak, and lower;
prime crude. l6ql7c.; prime summer yel-
| low 24a24 l-2c.: off summer yellow, q l-2G
&c: butter-oil 29n32c.; prime summer
( white. &c: prime winter yellow, 81 lie.
The metal market at large was very
tame affair to-day. According to the Me-
tai Exchanges official report the market
| closed as follows: Pig-iron warrants very
dull at N.i5: Lake copper unchanged az
sl1.25; tin quiet at sl3. bid and ,i5aO ASK
ed: spelter quiet at 1870 bid and $3.50 ask
! ed and lead quiet at S.30 bid and - %
asked The firm that fixes the settling
price for miners and smelters quotes lead
strong at 81.
unchanged TO points higher; ruled mac
tive with weak undertone, cables report
!, ing Santos crop prospects unfavorable
8 closed quiet. with prices unchanged TO
! 5-pofnts net advance; sales. $500 bags, In
Guiding December. s6i5; March. s6.754s6sO
July. $685.; spot coffee-Rio dull; Cordova
S10506<i65
sugar-Raw nominal: fair refining
33-sc: centrifugal (96-degree tesO
I 3 15-l6c.: refined steady.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. October 1.-The dry-goods
market opens the month under conditions
winch II not entirely satisfactory, are
still not without promise. The past month
has shown poor results, especially durint
>: the last twenty days. but sellers believe
2 that with the steady distribution report
!, ed at second hands and In retail stores
: the demand on recorder will be heavy, anC
=: prices will be sustained.
n To-day's encouraging factor In the sit
uation for cotton goods Is the decline
In the price of the staple. The effect Of
buyers is to strengthen this position, jus
at present Woollen goods In all division
are strong, with prospects OF better prices
70 when the recorder business Is Wen uhue
2, way.
: In staple cottons there Is no change o
J. Importance. Print-cloths are quiet. SAFE
at Providence at 9-l6c. are reported
1; Other goods are sold quietly In smai
s. lots, at generally weak prices.
;. BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
/, BALTIMORE, october UBIQUITOUS
ana unCudDStug iSSciPeSf fs'>
Wheat-Inactive but nrmer; spot an
e the month"; g3qS3 lac; November. IS o-el
20 3-4c.: December 9ic. bid; steamer, ~
" red 81 lie. bid; receipts, 1917 pusneis
J. exports. 80 900 bushels; stock, so5.sls Dusn
5, els. sales. 10000 bushels; southern whea'
d by sample. ssqs5c; do, on grade, ~ LIZ
Corn-steady; spot and the month. Szl
d % i-sc. November, 81 l-2u32 SIC; Noven
her and December, new or old, 81 lie. bic
January. 80 SIC. bid; steamer mixed, ~
3a1-sc.: receipts, 1886 bushels; exports
T95 2l2 bushels, stock, Sz5, 200 bushels; sale
"a ol0 bushels; southern white corn, ~
aSt-sc . do. yellow, 81 1-2u3Sc
Oats-Firm: No. 2 white. ~ 1-2uz7c.; NJ
mixed, 23Qz3 l-2c.; receipts. N.los busi
d els; exports. 10000 busheis; stock. sls.x
Rye--Dull; No. nearby. 5la5l l-2c.; N
western, SIC. asked. receipts. Il, 5o8 busl
els: exports. H,1i3 bushels; stock. 1913
'Hay~Firm for the better grades; choi,
timothy, si3Gxl3.5o.
Grain Freights--Quiet: rates firm: stea
% liverpool, per bushel. i1-2d.: Cork, Z,
8. orders. per quarter, IS. 7l-sd.u3s. 81
October.
sugar-Strong and unchanged
R,,tter and Eggs--Firm and unchange
Cheese-Steady and unchanged
Whiskey-Unchanged.
- CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
D CHICAGO, October t.--wheat made