Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW 1Okh, May lO.-r louI-INeCclplS,
1897 barrels; exports, $3.50 barrels; sales,
$500 packages. Market weaker, with
wheat, springwheat grades being chiefly
affected; city mill patents, SA95QS5.SO;
do. clears, $i.T54A.S; Minnesota patents,
| sf.254S450; do. bakers, sS.5oqS5.7O; winter
! patents, $i.6gAs0; do. StraightS, Si.4(o
si5O do. extras, SS.50g$S.sO; do. low
grades, $2.sCQS210; rye Hour duh; super
| fine. $500 30; fancy, $Z.6O4S2.l5. !:
Cornmeal-Dull; yellow western. Co.,;
city, &c; Brandywine, Sl.SOQsl;9o
! Rye-Steady; No. western, 81 lie. elf.
Buffalo; car-lots, 3SQl4lc.
Barley-Dull; western feeding. ESQ
% 1-4c.
Barley Malt-Dull; western. 43954c.
Wheat-Spot weak; No. northern, New
spot, Sic. options opened steadier on bet
| ter cables, but subsequently weakened,
and declined sharply under rain news
| from California, the absence or export In
terest. and local liquidation, closing l-+4p
| 7-sS. net lower; sales included No. red,
| May, 81 l-2Q52 1-2c.-closed 81 1-2c.
COrn-Spot market easier; No. 2, 30 LAC. !;
options opened firm, and advanced on
higher cables, but later declined, with
| wheat.
Oats-Spot market steady; No. oats.
! % Lie. options dull but about steady in
| the absence OF selling pressure, closing
unchanged; May closed q 7-Sc.; July
Hay-steady; shipping. 55asOc.; good to
Hops-Q9iet; State, common to choice
| 1895 crop. 3li5c.; 1885, Jnl0c.; Pacific coast,
1895 crop. Sq5c.; 1886 crop. Gall l-2c.; Lon
don. 3g5s
Hides-Firm.
Leather-Firm.
Wool--Firm; domestic neece. lS123c. |;
| pulled, l5H22c.
Beef-Quiet; family. s9.5OqNo.5O; extra
mess. NMSS. 49,
extra India mess. slS.50gsA.
Butter-Dull; western creamery, l2D
l4c. factory, 10 1-2gllc.; Elgins. lie;
imitation creamery. l0aD l-2c,; State
dairy loQlic:; do creamery. IL l-2alfc.
Cheese-Quiet; State. large. 9QlOc. |;
small. fancy, iOalic.; western. part
skins. ig7 S-ic; fun skins. 2 lease
| Eggs-Steady; State and Pennsylvania,
1lc.: western, fresh, 10 l-ia10 l-2c.; south
ern. 9lL9 l-2c.
Po,tatCs,@ g. u & New York. a.2S;
enthusiastically: picked bellies, $50
$50; do. shoulders, -; do. mans, sJV
$3.50.
s4.l5 sales OF city at S.70uS15; May
closed at $40. nominally; refined dull;
compound, $iaSi.25
Pork-Quiet; mess. ss.75qs9;25; new
mess. short clear. ss.2SgSlOSO; family,
Tallow-Quiet; city G2 per PACKAGE.
&c.: country packages FREQ, lie.
Petroleum-Dull; United closed; no
market; refined. New York, sG.25; Phiia-
delphia and Baltimore, $50; do. In bulk,
$40.
Rosin-Steady; strained, common to
Turpentine-Steady at 2Sq2s lie.
| Rlce-Steady: domestic, fair to extra,
| 1-2G6c.: Japan. 1-il14 1-2c.
Molasses-Quiet; New Orleans. open
| kettle good TO choice, 23N2Sc.
Freighfs-Dull but steady; cotton, by
steam, Ice; grain, by steam. I'D.
Pig-Iron-Quiet: southern, ss.25qsl0.5o;
Copper-Stoady: Lake. brokers', 81.
Tfn-Pla;es--W Weak.
Iead-Steady at s3.12 IL.
Coffee-Options opened steady: closed
quiet, 5 to 10 points higher; sales, 300
| bags: spot coffee, Rio, dull No. In
voice. S.; No. 7. jobbing, $3.50; milo
| steady; Cordova, sll.50g $3.50.
Sugar-Raw steady; fair reilnng, I-ec. +;
| centrifugal (s6-degree tesp, lo-ltc: re-
| fined steady; No. 6. 4 l-sc.; NO. Z, l-l6c +;
| standard A, 7-l6c.; confectioners A.
4 7-l6c.: cut-ioaf. 5 s-i5c. crushed. S.l6c. [;
powdered. l3-l6c.: grapulated, s-loc.
Cottonseed-Oi l-Dull. but about STEADY;
exporters. 1-2c. under the market; prime
| crude. 20c. 20. b. mills; 10 l-2sl.c
| prime summer yellow. ~ i-ZHsfc.; OFT 90.
2sg2s l-4c.; butter grades. zSazSc'; prime
| white 26 1-2fi27c.
| BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARkEC
| BALTIMORE, May l5.-Flour-Quiet bu
! firm and unchanged; receipts 500 oa'