The news & observer., 1897-02-10
N Rw YORK.

NEW YORK, Feb 9-Flour quiet; city
mill patents $49Oa5.l5; winter patents 81 Goa
4.75: do. clears $4 SOa49 80; do. straights $4.35a
4 40; Minnesota patents 4 35ai.45; do wintei
extras $3.l5A3.55: Minnesota bakers So 65a
95; winter low grades 81 6Oa290
Rye hour steady; superfne S2.55a2 75; fancy
Buckwheat flour quiet at $l25.
Buekwheat dull at 34a35.
Corn meal quiet yellow western 5Sa60; eity
| 60; Brandywine ST 81.
Rye quiet No. 2 western 4Oa4OK b
afoat: car lots, 4la42
barley dull; western feeding 288a?sk;
mailing 3Sa46: barley malt duh: western 50a5s.
Wheat, spot, dull but firm; No Northern
| New York S6h t. o. b. ah0at; No. hard 81 y
o. b. afloat; options, No. red February
closed So; March S5ba864, closed 66@; May
/ S2 5-i6aS3 b-l6, closed 83A June 8l&a8lh; July
| ~ l-l6aSO6, closed 80. September closed -.
Corn, spot, quiet No ,, z8% in elevator
| 298 aiioat; options. February closed 26% May
| zg%a-9A, closed 29$ July a09, closed 30A.
Oats, spot, dun; No. 2, 2lA; o. 2 delivered
| 22A; No. 3, 2O@ No. white "a; No. white
| %; track mixed western 2la30; options, Feb
| ruary closed 2l@; May closed z1A; July
| closed 22B
Hay easy; shipping 52Ha55; good to choice
Hops, quiet; common to choice 1895 crop 30
| 7, 1896 crop slal3 Pacific coast, 1895 crop 3%a7
1 1896 crop, 9a13.
| Hides firm: Galveston 20a25 lbs. I8: Buenos
/ Ayres dry, 20a24 lbs, nominal; Texas dry, 24a
/ 30 lbs, 10; California. 2la25 lbs l5A.
4 Leather firm; HemlOck sole Buenos Ayres
/
| Wool steady; domestic fleece, l5a20; pulled
l5aIs.
Goal steady.
Reef nrm family S8.50aSl0: extra mes.
| 81 50 beef hams $500; packed $8 iS9.50; city
| stra India mess $l2 50al4.50.
| Cut me-ts nrmg pIy kleu bellies 4SWfa
| do. picked shoulders 4%a5; do. hams Sk a9.
| Lard steady; western steam S3 95a4.00; ay
| s4IT, nominal refined steady; Continent 81. %
| South American $4.60; compound 4a4s
| PORK dull; old mess sS.25aS 90; shoTt
| clear 81 h0a10 10: family 9.25a9 7b
Butter quiet; western creamery l212lh
| do factory 7al4; Elgins q y: imitation cream
| cry 1lal6; State dairy lOal9 do, creamery
Cheese steady; large State 9al2K; small
| fancy 9Ql24; part skins 5G9h; full skins
Eggs quiet: State and Pennsylvania 15X
western fresh l2Aal5, southern l4al4A.
Tallow dull; city W per packagel 81 a3%
| country packages tree) 3%a351. as to quality
Petroleum steady; United closed at 92h bid
| refined New York $5.25: Philadelphia and
| Baltimore S6 20; do. in bulk S3.75.
Rosin steady; strained, common to good
Tmrpentine firHner at 2@29K.
Rice steady; domestic, fair to extra 3BG
u Moiasses steady; New Orleans, open kettl,
| good to choice, zza32 for new crop.
Lead iirm; brokers' 1896; exchange So 22ka
Pig iron dull; southern sll.0Oal2.00; north
| ern SIl.00al3UO; exchange =.
Tin quiet straights Sl3.45al3.55; plates easy
| Spelter, easier; domestic "a 00a4 055.
Cotton seed oil firm; prime crude 20
| o mills TN; of crude lS4al9, prime
| summer yellow 23a23A, Oft summer yellow 70
| butter grades Z1a2711 prime white 26A.
Coffee Options, FEBRUARY 50 10: Marcf
SO 20a9 25: May $3.50; June 80 IS; July 40 35
| August $94O; September 80 40 January s9.45
| Spot, Rio dull; No. Z, invoice 9A; jobbing l0A
mild quiet: Cordova l5A@l6A.
Sugar, raw quiet; fair 81. f9 refining A9 *
Nos 1916 No. z, 81, No s, 311-16; Nos, ll-l6
| No. 10, 81, No. II, 1915, No. IL, 81, No. l3
| 3 7-16: No. IA, az, Mould A. Al, standard A,4b,
confectioners' A, IA, cut loaf AZ, crushed
AZ. powdered Az, granuiated An, cubes Az.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Feb 9.--Four steady: western
| superfine $2.65ld300; do. extra S}.25a390; do,
| family $4.25a460; winter wheat patents $475a
/ 500; spring do. $.40(64 65; spring wheat
/ straights $4.2004.40.
| Wheat firm; spot 894 bid; May 84HaS4&;
| Southern wheat by sample 90a9l; do. on grade
| 85a90.
| Corn dull and steady; spot and February
| 25Aa25H; March 261a26a; April 27a2T&, May