The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29
WEEKLY MARKET BETTER.
Reported by Downing, Hopkins & Co., Inc.
Board of Trade Brokers, I'll to ia Chamber o
Commerce building. Portland. Oregon.l

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| Board of Trade Brokers, I'll to ia Chamber OF
Commerce building. Portland. oregon.l
The wheat trade has dropped into
a condition where no one except scalp
ers and few professional traders, ex-
porters. and elevator people are touch
ing 1t. There is promise of carrying
charges in the near future and as ele-
vator people have no stock, they are
commencing to buy the daily arrivals.
Millers are buying little, and export
ers who have made good sales abroad
for near shipments are also competing
for the arrivals. The big speculators
are mostly on the short side. They sell
whenever the market has an upturn,
and their offerings are sufficient to pre-
vent bulges of material length. On
the breaks of to 2 cents they covered
part of their line, taking their profits,
only to put the wheat out again at the
same price to possibly shade better.
They are working on the crop report.
Their advices from the Northwest are
favorable. A private statistician esti-
mates the spring crop wheat at 300,-
600, 900 bushels. Placing the winter
wheat yield at 400. 900, 900 bushels, it
would make an aggregate Drop of spring
and winter of 700, 1000, 900 bushels.
This is the largest on record. Conser-
vative people place the crop at 600,-
900, 900 bushel, and the government
figures made the yield 615, 1000, 900
bushels, or 80. 600, 900 bushel less than
month ago. Statistician Snow makes
the spring wheat acreage 8,000.0 900
acres, which exceeds that Of the govern
ment. The acreage of the department
of agriculture this year is nearer the
actual seeding than at any time in its
history, and possibly when the final re-
port is made it will show that the crop
is about as reported, as it is able to get
nearer the correct figures than ever be-
fore.
Present prices are about the same as
last year, but then farmers did not
have a taste of 81 wheat, and where
anxious to sell. Having been treated
to dollar wheat, most of them think
that they should have higher prices
again. Should the corn crop be ma
terially damaged and sell at high prices,
IL may uClp WACdb iletlO3 Uub tuO Oub.
look is not particularly favorable. The
exports for the year ending June 80
were 16,OOO,O 900 bushels of -four and
wheat, against 145, 900, 900 bushels the
preceding year.
Portland Market.
Wheat-Walla Walla, 6O@62c; VAL
ley and Bluestem, Gao per bushel.
Flour-Best grades. IS. 70; graham,
$3.50; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white. 4Oc; choice
gray, $50 per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $21; brewing.
$22 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, s15 per ton; mid
dlings, sal; shorts, $l3.
Hay-Timothy. $11@12; clover. $40
oil; Oregon wild hay, $e@10 per ton.
Eggs-Oregon, 16@17o per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, s5@40c;
fair fail Ito to good 50 No. dairy. s6@saAo
Cheese-Oregon full cream, 11@ 12c;
Young America. 1870.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, 81. 80 per
dozen; hens. $4.OO; springs, $2.O0@3;
geese, $3.00@4.50; ducks, young. S. q
400 per dozen; turkeys. live, 10@
12Lc per pound.
Potatoes-Oregon Burbanks, 30@35c
per sack; new potatoes 50@65c.
Onions-California red, $1.25 per
sack.
Hops-5@12ac per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 4@6c.
Wool-Valley, 1O@12o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, S@12c; mohair,
25c per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, $40; dressed mutton. &c;
spring lambs, SC per Id.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $4.75;
light and feeders. $3. 3.O0@4.O0; dressed,
$5. 80 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross. top steers, 3.5O@$3.75;
cows, $2.50@3.O0; dressed beef,
6@64c per pound.
Vsal-Large, 81 @6c; small, 7@sc
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
egetables-Potatoes- 81
per 100 lbs; natives, 5000; Califor-
MIA potatoes, $1.O0 per 100 pounds.
Beets, per sack, $l.OO; tuInips, 75c;
carrots, $1.00; dollhouse lettuce, &C;
radishes, 124c.
Fruits-California lemons. fancy,
$4.O0; choice. IS. so; seeding oranges.
$1.50@I.7b; California navels, fancy,
s3@3.25; choice, $2.50@2.75; BAN
anas, shipping, $2.25@2.75 per bunchs
Strawberries, $l.50 per crate.
Butter-Fancy native creamery,
brick, zoe; ranch, TO l2c; dairy, 121a
q &c; Iowa, fancy creamery. zoe.
Chesse-Native Washington, 11@
1l1ac; Eastern cheese, 11@1lkc.
Meats-Choice dressed beef steers,
prime, 7c; cows, prime, 61ac; NUT
ton, &c; pork, 7@7Hc; veal, 5@sc.
Hams-Large, 10hc; small, lie;
breakfast bacon, 1l4.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
13c; dressed, 16c; spring chickens.
81. .5O@3.75.
Fresh Fish-Halibut, 8@4c; steel
heads, 1850; salmon trout, 9@10c;
founders and sole, 3@4c; herring, &c.
Oysters-Olympia oysters, per sack.
s.. 90, per gallon, solid, $3.50.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $23.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $26.
Corn-Whole, $25; cracked, $25;
feed meal, $25.
Feed-Chopped feed, $17@21 per