The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-12-17
ALL AROUND MARKET REPORT.
Wheat Quotations, Wool Figures,
and the Price of Produce.

wise quoted
Wheat at the warehouse Country
points: Club, bulk 44c, sacked 45c; blue
stem, bulk 47c, sacked 4Sc. At Spokane:
Club, bulk acc, sacked 47c; bluestem.
bulk 49c, sacked soc.
Oats-At Spokane +. o. b., $l.lO Der
cwt.
Barley-COuntry points f. o. b., s5c per
cwt
Rye-Country points f. o. b., 72c per
cwt; Spokane, 75c per cwt.
Feed-Bran and shorts, Sl2 per ton;
shorts, $l3; bran, $40; rolled barley, $50;
chicken feed. $1,000.
Corn-Whole, $l.l0 per cwt; cracked,
$l.l5.
Produce-Fancy creamery butter, 40
and 60-lb tubs, 2sc per Id; 5, 10 and 20
Id tubs, zoe per ID; prints, 25c per lb
country butter, in rolls, lie per h. cook.
ing butter, Toe ID; eastern creamery
prints, 25c; cheese, twin, full cream, 1899
Id; cheese, twin, skim milk. 94@l0c Id;
ranch eggs, $6.25@6.50: selected eggs,
1919; honey, white comb, l3c per b;
fancy, lac per 10.
J IlOuls per Obl-NAblQ DlOls PD.lDs org
Loaf, S4.l5; Banner, $3.50; Plansifter, 81
Superb, 1915; Spokane, $3.50; Swan Pat
ent, S4l5; Snowflake, 1878; White Lily,
$3.50: whole wheat, $3.50; rye, $3.50;
graham, $3.50 Per bale--Whole wheat
$l.S5; rye, $l.S5.
Poultry-Chickens, live weight 9@l0c
10. dressed lO@llc; spring broilers, $50
! n. 1.-Two nn I,.aeeaI 4
l21c; spring ducks, dressed ll@l2c; geese
live l0@llc, dressed l2@l2l4c.
Meats-Beef COWS, live $2.50@2.75
dressed $5@550 cwt; steers, live $3.50
3, dressed $4,000; hogs, live S4.5O@4.75,
dressed $6@6.50; mutton. live 4Q41c,
dressed 74@sc; dressed veal, rose; lamb,
l23c Wholesale
The following prices are paid in Spo
kane to farmers and other producers:
Hay--Hmothy, SO ton; wheat hay,
Sos; alfalfa, $40.
Eggs-Ranch, $625@650.
egetables-Potatoes S5@9Oc per cwt
cabbage, $l.5O@l.75 per ewt. turnips, 81
per cwt; onions, 10000 per cwt; beans,
l3@l2c per lb carrots, 81 per cwt; beets,
SIPS per cwt.
Wheat.
Portland, Dec l2.-Wheat; Weak ;
Walla Walla, 5S@59c; valley, 60@6lc;
bluestem, 62c.
Tacoma, Dec l2.-Wheat: Club. 5sc;
bluestem, 6l4@62c
Metals.
San Francisco, Dec. l2.-Bar silver
59gc.
Mexican dollars, 474c.
Lead, $3.50.
Trade Notes.
The worlds corn crop aproximates 3
0O0,OO0,0OO bushels annually, OF which
America produces 80 per cent.
The Merchants Association of New
York at a meeting determined to begin a
crusade to compel the express companies
to pay the war stamp tax.
The state department is informed that
the exports from Germany to the United
States during the quarter ending Septem
br 80 amounted to $l97s9OO7, an increase
OF S5,llO,OOS over the previous year.
During the year ended June 80, 1893
Missouri produced 1888, l52 tons of coal
an increase over the preceding year o
Il per cent. During the same time it pro
duced l39, 66S tons of zinc and 1867 tom
of lead.
Without any warning, the Spokane
Falls & Northern last week increased tn,
rate on oats from Spokane to Bossburg II
cents per 100, making the rate now p
cents per 1907 said b. f. Shields, Il loca
grain dealer yesterday. Continuing h
said: The old rate was altogether TO,
high. The new rate is almost prohibitive
The monthly comparative statemen
E of government receipts and expenditure
e shows that during the month of Novem
Der receipts aggregated 3S.9OO,9l5, a
\ compared with SAB 1868 COS for Novembe
D last year In that month, however, is in
| Guided about SlS,OOO,OOO received on &C
count of the Pacific railroad settlement
Independent u these payments, receipt
, exceeded those for November 1897, b,
about $l3,500,00O. Receipts from Gus
toms last month were $l5,335, 200, an in
, crease of about $5,500,O0O; from interna
Z revenue sources, $2l, 336,743, an increas
r of nearly $S,OOO,OOO. Disbursements dur
ing the last month amounted to $40, 900
-, $50, an increase on account of the war Q
: nearly $ll,OOOOOO. Since July receipt
=, have aggregated $204 ,557 ,OS3, as compare
? with Sl4S, ll3,S75 for 1897.
According to the Bulletin of the Ma
- tional Association of Wool Growers
| whose annual report for the United State
was recently completed, Oregon is give
: Tho loruast xiaid Of anv ctofa Of OOI OF