The news & observer., 1897-02-24
NEw YORK.


NEW York, Feb. Flour dun; city
mill patents Sfs5a5.05; winter patents 81 Goa
49,; do clears & 75a4.S IS; do. straights $4.35a
4.40; Minnesota patents $4 30a4. As; do. winter
extras. $3.15@3.66; Minnesota bakers $3.75a
1886; winter low grades 81 60a2 So
Southern -four steady at 81 25a4 35
s2.86a2 so.
Buckwheat flour firm at SI.25aI30.
Buckwheat steady at 34a344.
Corn meal active;yellow western 58; city 60:
Brandywine 81 40.
Rye easy; No. 2 western 3sa3s4; car lots,
Barley dull; western feeding 26ka27;
mating 3Sa4S; barley malt dull; western5Oa
Wheat, spot, weaker; No. Northern New
York So t. o. b, a1oat; No. / hard S4h
t. o. b. afioat; options, No. red February
closed S2%; March closed 82A: April closed
Sl1 May S0AaS2 l 10, closed 81; June o04 ~
sI2s, closed so&; July 7S5Aa7sX, closed 5ss: :
Corn, spot, quiet; No. 2, 2ak in elevator;
30A atioat' options. February closed 293; May
3Oa3Ob, closed 30; July 81 y a3lss, closed 3lA.
Oats, spot, dull; No. 2, 2l4; No. ., 20;, No.
2 delivered 2zk; No. 2 white 23k; No. 8
shite ~; track mixed western 2la29; op-
ttons, February closed 2Ix; May 2IXa2lk,
closed I'm July IN, closed z2%. b
MHay easy; shipping 50aS5; good 10 choice
Z, lss0 crop aala Pacific coast, 1895 crop Sal,
1886 crop, Gals.
Hides firn; Galveston, 2Oaa5 lbs, 10. Buenos
Ayres dry, A)aA Ibs, nominal; Texas dry. Aa
30 lbs, 10al04; California, 2la25 lbs. l5k.
Leather firm; Hemlodk sole Buenos Ayres
light to heavy weights, l9ha20k; acid, 20Q23.
Wool quiet; domestic fleece, 15a20; pulled
l5a1S.
Coal quiet.
Beef frm; family SS.5OaSI0: extra mess
" O beef hams $3.50; packed $8a$s.5O; city
Cut meats firm; picked bellies 4ha4H
DO. picked shoulders 5a5b; do. hams 8Aa9.
Lard firmer; western steam A.lba4.9O; Nay
$780, nominals refined firm; continent $4.l0
South American S4.75; compound AZ.
Pork firm; old mess SS50aS.75; short clear
$S.50al000 family S9.50a9.90.
Butter quiet; western creamery l24l9;
do factory falls; Elgins 10; imitation cream
cry llal6; State dairy 4ll9; do, creamery
13aI9.
Cheese quiet; large State 9GI2x; small
3G03H.
Eggs quiet; State and Pennsylvania 1917 !;
western fresh i5aisA, southern l74al8. -,
Tallow easy; city ~ per .package) 81 {,
country packages free) 3%, as to quality.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 20;
mills l6a17h; OFT crude 10, prime
summer yellow 23ka24, off summer yellow %
231, butter grades 26k ka27; prime white 26A.
petroleum quiet; United closed at 81 bid,
refined New York $780, z philadelphia and
Baltimore So %: do, in bulk S3I5
Rosin steady; strained, common to good
$l.7O.
Turpentine steady at 2sX@29.
hiGS stcdug1 uuu1SSblCs Id4E W SAbAd oB&
81, Japan ~ GD4A.
Molasses steady; New Orleans, open kettle
good to choice, 2<a3I for new crop.
Peanuts easy; fancy hand-picked 34; other
domestic 2ha3k.
Frtights to Liverpool quiet; cotton by
steam -; grain by steam 2hd.
Pig iron dull; southern Sl0.25a12.00; north
ern SIG 50al25O; exchange
Copper easy; brokers' S12.OO; exchange
$l20.
Tin dull: straights SI345a1355: plates quiet.
Spelter, quiet; domestic "a 00a4 10.
Lead strong; brokers $305; exchange $327K
a3.30
Coffee-Options, February S9.10; March SO 15;
May So 20; July S9.25ag.3U; August $3.50; Sep
tember S9.30a9 3d. Spot, Rio quiet: No. Z, in
voice "a; jobbing l0%; mild quiet; Cordova
Sugar, raw, firm; fair refining eH;
centrifugal, 96-test, 81; refined steady;
No6, 3 1915; No. Z, 81, No. 8, 3I3-l6 o. 9,
1876; No. 10, 1l-l6, No. IL, 81, No. IL, l1-16;
No. ID, 31S;No. IA, 8 z Is; Mould A,4], standard
A, A; confectioners A, Al, cut loaf 5,
crushed 5, powdered A., granuiated ~,
cubes An.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 23.-Four duh; weste
superfne $2.65d3.00; do. extra $3.25a3.gO; do.
family $4.25(D460; winter wheat patents $4.76a
5.0O spring do. S44094 60; spring wheat
straights $4.2004.40.