The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York May l-Flour quiet but
steadily held, particularly for low winter:
city mill patents. $5.05@5.25; do clears, $685.
d569; Minnesota bakers $350Q370: winter
patents uplands. N2O@435. Rye, quiet; SUI
perfne, 81 3002 80; fancy, 81 .6062.75. Corn
meal duh; yellow western. Gle; brandy wine
$3.50. Rye steady; No. western, 36Iac Bar
lev, quiet; feeding, Csc; c. l. f. Buffalo bar
ley malt. dull; western, 45c. Wheat duh,
quiet and weaker; No / northern, SIC f. O.
b. afioat; No. 3 hard winter 7Sc options
easy because of rain in California, rallied
on higher, but closing lsd9sc net lower;
No. red, May closed 79c; July closed
Hhc. Corn, spot easy; No @ 29i5c eleva-
tor 90l2c afioat; options opened weak in
consequence of fine week and big deliver
les, sold off further with wheat and closed
| lsd14c decline; May closed, 29c: July closed
SO24c. Oats spots steady: No. 2. 2Sc deiv-
cred, 24c; No. 8, pc; No 2 white. &c. No g.
white, 2ic; track mixed western 22Q25c ;
options duh and weaker with the other
markets closing hDhc lower; May closed
2l7sc. Hay quiet. Shipping. 55d60c; good to
| choice, 70q75c. Hops market easy. Hides
steady; Galveston, 14c; Buenos Ayres dry
19c. Leather firm. Hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres light to heavyweights, 20G21c Wool
firm; domestic fleece 16d21c; pulled, 15d20c
Beef steady; family, $9.OOd10S0; extra mess
S00dS00; beef hams, S21 O0d21.50; packet
$0g9.OO city extra India mess, $l3500
400; cut meats steady; picked bellies, so
| SEC; do shoulders, SC; do hams, 969isc
Lard dun; western steamed. 4.35c; May
4.S5c, nominal; refined quiet; continent
4.65c; South American, SC; compound 40f
4l2c. Pork steady; mess, $8.75@950; short
clear, $3.50; family, S9.50Q1050. Butter
steady; western creamery, 13d17c; do fac
tory, S1aG12c; Elgins, lie; imitation cream
| cry, 10Ql4l8c; state dairy, 13Q16c; do
creamery, 13dp17c Cheese quiet; large state
9l5Q1O2sc; do small fancy, 1O6l1c; part
SKINS 498c; full SKINS 25Rd3c Rice quiet !;
domestic fair to extra, 4l5d61sc; Japan
43sQ49sc. Molasses steady; New Orleans,
open kettle, good TO choice 23I29c. Pig
iron easy; southern, $100OQl1.OO; northern,
| $10.5Ou12.50. Cotton seed oil quiet; prime
crude. 2Oa2O16c; prime crude f. o. b. mills,
17D1Sc; prime summer yellow, 2id24lAc; off
summer yellow, 24c; butter grades, 27d29c
nominal; prime white, 2Gla27c. Coffee, op-
| tons opened quiet, 10 points lower, under
| local bear selling, cables were unsatisfac-
| tory. The market improved on Baltimore
and local buying later In the session. Re
ceipts at Brazil were moderate. Deliveries
in this country small; closed steady, I'M
changed to 10 points advance; sales, 10, 900
| bags, including. May, 75Og755 June,
7.55c; July, 755Q76Oc; August, 1901 zoe (;
September, 1904. 75c; December, 1901. S5c F;
February 1850; March, 1850; spot coffee
| Rio firm; No. invoice. SC; No. Z jobbing,
| SIC; mild steady; Cordova 12g1S1ac. Sugar,
raw quiet and steady; fair refining, 2s4@
| 2 13-16c; centrifugal, 96-test 3-16c sales,
! 2, 400 tons; Java 9-test, 3-16c; refined
steady; Mould A, 43sc; standard A, 4ssc;
confectioners A, 43sc; cut loaf, SIC; crush
ed, 5lsc powdered. 42lc; graduated, 41zc;
cubes 4&4c
Chicago, Ills, May Rain in California
and favorable weather, present prospects
| for spring wheat seeding, together with an
absence of export demand were the infiu-
! ences under which wheat declined 1Ac for
! July to-day. Other markets followed the
same course, corn declining &c; oats
about the same, and provisions 21za10c
The leading futures ranged as follows:
| Cl1,nrLro. LIlnhoaL Lnuunat Glazing