The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-12
COTTON.

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Spot quiet; prices lower; American mid
ding fair 4 5-32d: good middling 3 15-l6d;
American middling 3 13-16d; low middling
8 11-16d; good ordinary 3 9-32d; ordinary
33sd. Sales 1900 bales, of which 500 were
for speculation and export, and included
5000 American. Receipts 10000 bales, in
Guiding $500 American. Futures opened
easy with a moderate demand and closed
quiet and steady.
American middling low middling clause:
October 3 41-64d buyers; October and No
vember 3 34-64d, 3 35-64d sellers; November
and December 3 32-64d buyers; December
and January 8 31-64d, 3 32-64d values:
January and February 3 31-64d, 3 32.64d
sellers; February and March 3 32-64d
buyers; March and April 3 32-64d, 8 33-64d
buyers; April and May 3 33-64d, 3 34-64d
sellers; May and June 8 34-64d, 8 25-64d
sellers; June and July 3 35-64d, 3 36-64d
sellers; July and August 3 36-64d, 3 37-64d
sellers.
New York, October 9.-Cotton steady;
middling 61ac: net receipts S34; gross re-
ceipts 9,O39; forwarded 1924; sales 40, all
s%pinners; stock 0,90S.
Total today and consolidated: Net re-
ceipts 81, 32S; exports to Great Britain U.s.
S32; to France 1883; to the continent 500;
stock 4S9, ia.
Total since September LIST: Net receipts
Las, S74; exports to Great Britain 292, 972;
France rs, $50; to the continent 2O6, GAO.
Futures closed very steady; sales So
700 bales: January 6.4S; February $50;
March 6.55: April $50; May 6.64: June
O.Ot, July U.tV, oClODcl O.oJ, NONeIlDtI
$40; December 6.b.
Spot cotton closed steady; middling up
lands 61sc; middling gulf 6Ac; sales 40
bales.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Quiet at CSC; net receipts
IA, 466.
Norfolk-Quiet at 6 s-1sc; net receipts
1851.
Baltimore-Nominal at e%c; gross re-
ceipts $50.
Boston-Easy at e,Ac; net receipts 655;
gross receipts 1886.
Wilmington-Firm at 6 Lice bid; net
receipts 1906.
Philadelphia-Firm at sac; net re-
ceiptS 80.
Savannah-Steady at SIC; net receipts
6,2S1.
New Orleans-steady at 61sc; net re-
ceiptS 6,456: gross receipts 1859.
Mobile-Quiet at &c: net receipts 1926.
3,541; gross receipts 1858.
Augusta-Dull at 61sc; net receipts q
6S6: gross receipts $50.
Charleston-Firm at SIC; net receipts
5,G4.
Cincinnati-Quiet at SIC; net receipts
142.
Louisville-Quiet at SIC.
ST. Louis-Quiet at csc; net receipts
S12: gross receipts 7,01.
H~ouston-Easy at CSC; net receipts
| II, 122.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
New York, October 9.-FIour inactive
but firmer with wheat; city mill patents
S. S5d6.10: winter patents $5.10G5.35: city
mill clears. S.50G5.65: winter straights
$4.65M4 IS: Minnesota patents, S.15d5.50;
winter extras. $3.2Od3.65: Minnesota
bakers, $4.35; winter low grades, s.. 1O6
1870.
Wheat-Spot firm: No. 2 red 9Ssc f. O.
| b. afloat; No. = hard 9S7sc afoat. Options
| opened strong on good foreign buying
| and continued drought news; ruled gen.
! orally firm all the morning, assisted by
| light offerings and investment uying
closed firm at 1G1hc net advance. No
2 red. May 94kd95c, closed at 947sc: DC.
tober closed at $3.50; December IS 9-1S0
| SEC. closed at 95sc.
Corn-Spot firmer: No. 2, 34kc afioat
| Options opened firm and ruled strong
| but quiet all day with wheat, closing a
AGhc net advance. May closed at 37Sc
| October closed at 32%c: November closec
at 33hc: December closed at 34Nc.
Oats-Spot quiet: No. 2, 3Ec No. 3
| &c; No. 2 white, 1ShG26xc: No. 3 white
sc; track. mixed western, 23kd24l1c
track. white 26@26hc. Options inactiv,
but steadier at unchanged to Hc highel
prices. October closed at z3Ac; Deem
Der closed at 1<114c-
Lard@Steady; western steam $500
$4-szh: October closed at $40 nominal
\ refined quiet: continent $500: Soutl
American $50; compound 4H@4Hc.