The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-13
CHICAGO, December IL.
Opening, Closing.

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; winter patents S335d $50; do
straights S2.95a320; spring special =; spring
patents S4.25a4.5O; bakers S2.30a2.5O. Wheat
No. spring -; No. spring 60aG3; No.
2 red g.. Corn-No. 2, S8AaSs II Oats Oats
q 1-2a28}i. Rye-No. 2, So H. Barley-No. 2,
41a49. Flax seed, No. 1, 102 ,. Prime Timothy
seed S2.27 12 Mess pork, per Dbl, Sl0l7 1-2a8.2O'
Lard, per 100 lbs, S5.15a5.25. Short rib sides,
loose, S.j0a4.80; dry-salted shoulders, boxed,
4ha43S. Short clear sides, boxed, S49Ja4.92 liz.
Whiskey, Sl26.
NEW YORK.
NEW York. December 12.-Flour active for
spring patents and generally steady; winter
straights S3.60a3S0; do. patents S365a3.o9; MIN
nesota patents S365a3.Sj; Minnesota bakers
S3.0Oa3.25; winter low grades $2.25a245
Rye flour steady; good to fair S290d8.l5.
Buckwheat flour quiet at $500
Buckwheat dull at "a .
Corn meal firm yellow western 75a76; city
Rye easy; No. 2, eOa6oH State -.
Barley Qu ct; feeding 42a43.
Barley malt firm; western 6Oa70.
Flax seed eady at Sl.l0.
Wheat spot easy; No. Z red IS 10, options,
j ,nuary II l-l6a7il; March 72%; May 20.
Corn, spot firm; NO. z, 40 1-2a4O%; options,
December 49, May 39B.
Beef steady, family Sl0a$11; extra mess S8.50a
900; beef hams $500; packet Se.oOa $40; city
extra India mess Sl5.00al6.00.
Cut meats ca Y; pickleo bellies 538d6; picked
shoulders 4a414; picked hams z.
Lard firm; western steamed closed S5.40;
city -; December closed $3.50; refined firm.
Pork firm; mess 5000 900; short clear
S107aa12.50 family Sl050G ll.00
Butter firm; western creamery l502l; do.
factory 12al4 1-2; Elgins 2l; imitation creamery
bali; State dairy 1oG18; creamery -.
Cheese firm: large white l0al0M; do. small
75S; large colored 90; do. small IL; light
skins 61406 IL; part Skins 51$a5 l-2; full SKINS
Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvania 25a26;
western fresh %; southern 22aA
Potatoes steady; Jerseys Slal.37 IL; New YORK
$1.25a1.5O; Long island S1.25@1.75; sweets, Jer-
seys, 81 .00a225; southern 4Oa75.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude II 1-2;
prime crude fob mills 13al31-2; prime
summer yellow 2l@22; off summer yellow
20; butter grades 25a27; prime winter yellow 27a
q 1-2 prime white 26
Philadelphia and Baltimore S.25; do in bulk
81 %.
Turpentine steady at SO l-2a4O
Rice firm; fair to extra 4A@6h; Japan 6A0
51-2.
Molasses firm; New Orleans, open kettle,
Peanuts quiet; fancy hand-picked 5; other
Cabbage steady; Long Island S1.50aS.OO per 100.
Pi iron dull; southern SlO'29ail'2oi northern
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
-; grain by steam
Coffee-Options, December $50; January
s. 55a5. 80: spot Rio steady and tending upward;
No Z, invoice IL; No. z iobbing 7; mild firm;
Cordova SAILS.
Sugar, raw irregular: fair refining 1915;
Centrifugal 96-test, 47-16; molasses sugar
3 1I-l6; refined quiet and about steady; No. g.,
7-16; No. z, IA No. II, 41S; No. IL, Lilo; No:
10, 41-16; No. IL, 4; mould A LIZ; graduated
ia: cubes 81.
d. BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 12.-Flour dull, un-
changed; western super S2I502.50 do. extra
S2.9OG3.25; do. family S3.5Oa4.O0; spring wheat
straight S4.35Q4.50.
Wheat weak; spot and December 40 1-2a708
January 70%a7l; May 20 bid steamer No. 2, red
~ Southern wheat by sample 670l l-2; do
on grade
Corn easy; spot and December 80 SASH; De-
az; FehrnarY 80 bid steamer MIXED -;