Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
PRODUCE.

ce NG" 20 5s6 f BIS exports, 71S5 bbis in
active and barely steady at old prices;
81 35G4 50; winter patents, s. 1905 s.; do
straights, 81 65@4 70; do low grades, 50 100
20
Rye flour, easy; fancy. So 25d3 60.
Buckwheat, quiet at 4S65Cc.
Corn meal, steady, yellow western, Csc.
Barley, easier; feeding. 30c
M Rarey nsaant dull W oe b 55@s5
e95 bu; spot, steady; No. 2 red, 95$sc. OPP
tons opened firmer on higher cables than
expected, broke sharply under heavy
short selling inspired by cloudneSs west
and free northwestern receipts, but rallied
on export rumors,- closing. at1sQAc net
lower: No red May, 90Fs6911sc, closing
s s. so'S0' October S'%q''7S'' closing at
Corn, receipts. 1875 bu exports. 1854
bu; spot steady; No. 2, 341sc. Options
opened upon cables, eased off with wheat
but rallied on covering and closed partly
&c net lower; May closed at 371ac; Octo-
Der. 320321Ac. closing at 321sc.
4s 0fs a1 Fs6sR daes &c. gu s5R2Ets ~ ~
tions dull all the forenoon. closing at &c
lower; october closed at 2$1Ac:
Hay, easy; shipping, 4oq45c; good to
Hops, steady: State 1895 crop, 3@4c; 1896
crop, 60Sc; 1897 crop, 14616c; Pacific coast
1895 crop, S@4c; 1886 crop, 6@Sc; 1897 crop.
Hides, steady: Galveston. 15G16c; Texas
dry, 121a@13c: California. 17G1Sc
Leather, steady; hemlock sole. Buenos
Ayres light to heavy weights, 2014Q2l1Ac;
Wool, firm: domestic fleece. 2Oa27c; No.
to extra, 27G42c; Texas, I0Gl16c.
Beef, steady: family, SO 00010 so; extra
mess, 81 SOFAS so; beef hams, $26 O0627 90;
packet, IS 5oQ9 50.
Cutmeats, dull; picked bellies 6AGSc;
d., shoulders, SIC; do hams, S1sGSAc.
Lard, steady; western steamed, 81 500
80; refined. quiet.
mess; 50 5oq10 co.; short clear, $40 50a13 90;
Tallow, dull; city, 31Ac; country, s1h@3ac
Petroleum dull: no market.
Rosin. steady; strained, common to good,
Turpentine. firm at 32s4G9SAc.
Rice: steady; fair to extra, 4as@jAc; ia
MolasSeS. steady; New Orleans open ket-
fie, good to choice, 20G31c.
CHICAGO, October 2-The bears ran
the wheat market to-day in spite of the
help the bulls received from the drought.
Paris was unaccountably very weak and
this encouraged the selling which resulted
in decline of sl07sc in December. Corn
was firm and advanced 1sGAc oats
were unchanged at the close and provis-
Ions were 212c lower.
There was moderate degree of strength
In the wheat pit at the opening, Deem
Der starting at 9OAc, as compared with
yesterdays closing prices at 90ikc and adj
VanclnS to 90$sc at once. The frmness
was due in great measure to contin-
uance of the. drought in the west, Which
is daily growing more serious, with no i'm
mediate prospects of rain.
Cash quotations closed as follows:
ri;1ghr s ea ey. w yd patents 81 1905 co.
spring patents, 81 S0G5 90; straights. 81 40
"A 60; bakers. So 1904 co.
Wheat, No. spring, S53sc; No spring.
Corn, No. and No. 2 yellow, 271AG27a.c.
Oats, No. 2, 19c; No. white fob, 211b
@22a4c; No. 8 white. fob, 21d22c. -
Rye. No. 2. 4412c.
Barley, No. q, nominal; No. 8, fob. 90
Flaxseed. No. 1, 94a96c
Prime timothy seed 50 G5l5
Mess pork, per bbi. IS 056bS 10.
Lard, per 100 lbs, 81 4715G4 50.
Dry sailed shoulders, boxed. 5@Ac.
Short clear sides. boxed 5K6ssc
Whiskey distillers' finished goods 81 %.
Sugars. cut loaf, $3.50; graduated Sac.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the
butter market was steady; creameries. Is
Q22c; dairies 12GJ19c.
Cheese, steady at SG9c.
Eggs. steady; fresh. 1910.
Receipts-Flour, 5000 bbls: wheat $50 0n0
bu;, corn; 1900; oats, 53S,00O rye, 5000;
Shipments-Flour 1000 bbls; wheat. 1Os.-
wv ou; corn, $4,000; oats, S6l 600; rye, 600;
BALTIMORE. October. 2.-Flour. quiet
and unchanged; receipts, 1898 bbls; ex-
ports, none
What, dun and lower; spot and month,
s2Adssc; steamer No. red, S71l01bc: re-
> eceelpts, 1926 bu; exports, SO 900 bu: stock.
SSsso'oo4 bu southern wheat by sample, 500
'0c Coo 90 on grade S1&@s2Ace,
US &C. steamed mixed. 29ta@5sc; receipts.
VII Viii a bu; exports, 129,1S2 bu; southern
" OATS Corn {rr, 9'Mlac: do yellow; s7ls@3Sc
ihprSed' re; receipts, 10000; exports. none.
ra rye, auli IL and lower; No. western, sic:
feUeipts, z1,l2s Blu; exports. none.
7 Grain freights, more activein steamers
PR parse, room CON dull steam to Liverpool per
p usrt, 4ad October: cork for orders, per
66nlItter and eggs, firmAnd unchanged.
aneese. steady and banged.