Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-26
PRODUCE.
Register Office.

WHEELING, January p.
The supply and demand arc. about equal
and there are no changes of Importance
to note. Butter and eggs are firm at
prices given. Celery has disappeared
from the market.
Butter-Creamery. 24G2ec; country.
choice. l2Gl6c country. good. 3d6c. coun-
try, light, 5q6c; butterine, l2Q14c.
Eggs-23c dozen: storage, lie.
Navy Deutschland picked 81 01a1 . per
Cheese-Prime Ohio factory pc New
York. l2c; Limberger. lie: Sweitzer. lie.
Pouitry-pId i've chickens, 81 e0a2 80 per
dozen. chickens. hens. per pound, &c;
spring chickens, 81 7542 % per Dozen per
Ducks-s2 25a2 50 per dozen; geese, 400
SOC each; turkeys. dressed 15c per pound.
Bard-Country, prime, sc; very plentiful.
Apples-s3 o0G3 - per barrel.
Oranges-Jamaica. per barrel, SO 90; per
box, 4 90. Messlna. - 0004 O1 California
@ as g. % 7'f'' '0 valencia IN cases. 80 "
Lemons-Messina, So SOFA 90 per box.
Bananas-s1 09Q1 "a per bunch. as 10 siz7
and quality.
Home Cabbage-s1 90 per barrel
Walnuts-40c per bushel
Old Rags-i2c per pound.
Cocoanuts-i5ly6 0c per dozen.
Deans-S1 00Q1 % per bushel.
Potatoes-s2 90 per barrel, soc per blu.
jersey Sweet Potatoes-$} 20 per barrel.
Parsnips-$1 % per barrel.
Honey in comb. 140l5c per pound
Spanish Onions-s1 50a1 co per crate.
Malaga grapes-$5 25Gl5 50 per barrel
Rutabagas-$1 GO per barrel
Cranberries-$2 0oa2 p per crate; per
barrel,s7 80.
Florida Oranges-s4 00a4 50 per box.
Hickory Nuts-S1 50 per 3ushel.
Chicago, January 25.-January wheat
sold at 81 to-day. The price was bid
up five cents in as many minutes by
brokers acting for the Letter crowd,
who, some believed, took this method
of advancing the price of May. Janu-
airy closed at 971ac, an advance Of PIC.
February closed at &c advance. after
many erratic fluctuations. Corn was
dull but firm and advanced SO nc.
Oats closed a shade higher. Provis-
ions were active and advanced 5@15c
The opening in wheat was weak,
May, which closed yesterday at 9312c,
started to-day at 93h0Ac, and COM
paratlvely little trading was done even
at these prices. The weakness was due
to both foreign and domestic news.
Liverpool cables were but 4 d higher at
the opening there, and even this slight
advance was soon lost. There was 10
confirmation of the sensational reports
of yesterday afternoon regarding the
Austrian demand for Argentine wheat
or Of the Russian importation of Ger
man grain, and news from Havana
was very pacific. Heavy SHOWS were
general all over the winter wheat coun-
try Minneapolis and Duluth received
1923 carloads, against $50 the CORE
spending day of last week and 127 the
similar day of the previous year. Chi
cago got 35 cars against As a year ago.
-n{ int in
we're $4,000 bushels, against 17S.000 a
wear ago. The Atlantic port exports
were very liberal, being equal in wheat
and flour to $4,000 bushels, that in
Guiding a considerable quantity from
Newport News.
About forty-fve minutes after the
cpening the pit was set in commo-
ton. January being the centre of in
terest. That delivery was. nominally
worth csc at yesterdays close and was
offered at 943sc at to-day's opening.
Ahout 1.15. however. brokers for Lei
ter began bidding for January and
the price was advanced so fast that
for a few minutes it appeared to be
fairly running away. From 9oc It
iumped one-half cent and cent at a
time brokers raising lHSii biuS lHoC
much until 81 was bid. Then the re-
action came, the price dropping almost
as quicfly as it advanced. It brought
ND at SIC, and for the rest of the ses-
sion was comparatively quiet. The
gyrations Of January were generally
believed to be due to general move
on the part of the Letter crowd, who,
ii was thought, took this method to
advance the price of May. This belief
was strengthened by the unloading
which took place in the latter option
at 94c. to which price it was carried
while the pyrotechnics were going on
in January. -Grier were said 70
have taken $4,000 bushels of Janu-
airy in getting the price to a dollar.
For the rest of the morning May was
rather nervous, though no great trad
ing was done Bradstreets visible re-
port. showing 731 900 bushels, was
disappointment and was fcctor IN