The Saint Paul globe., 1898-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

NEW YORK METALS-NeW York Sept IA
Mdme ,,d' situation IN the local metal market
shows very little change, business being slug
glsh and prices without important variations.
Spelter exhibited a slightly steadier under
tone today, while tin developed an easier ten
dency: News was of the character which
tended TO make buyers proceed cautiously.
At the close the metal exchange called pig
iron warrants quiet with 81 bid and $7O5 ask
asked; tin easy with $16.05 bid and $16.10
as as6ed; 6eS Speiter steady with $3.50 bid and
$4.87h asked, and lead quiet with 81 bid and
$4.O5 asked. The firm fixing the settling price
for miners and smelters quotes lead So 85.
NEW YORK COFFEE-New York, Sept A.
Coffee options opened quiet at unchanged
prices TO points decline, ruled Inactive with
downward tendency under lower European
and Brazilian cables, Indifference of specula-
tors and absence of spot demand selling for
short account arrested by low prices and con-
tinued small receipts at Rio and Santos
Closed quiet prices unchanged to 10 points
io%eT; y0eTi sales $500 bags including September
quiet; No: T. invoice, SIC; No. Z, jobbing
SIC; mild, quiet; Cordova, S@15c. Sugar
Raw very firm; fair, refining. 8 1868. %c
centrifugal 96 test, 42sc. Moiasses, 1850
39sc. Refined, strong.
SEED MARKETS-Chicago, Sept 14.-The
flax seed market or the present is in a hesi-
tating mood. The market has made a good
advance and perhaps a little too early, but
there is nothing too early for the trader that
has knowledge Of facts that will develop later.
Receipts here were 40 cars, 81 cars at Duluth,
and 81 cars at Minneapolis. Cash fax at
911ac, Northwest at 92Ac; September eft e1c:
December at size, and May at S91hc per bu
Cash timothy seed closed at 50 40 per 100 lbs
Glover seed closed at $3.50 per 100 lbs. Min
neapolis fax seed quoted at S51hc per bu.
NEW YORK DRY GOODS-New York, Sept.
l4-There was normal business reported in
nearly all branches of the dry goods trade
today, except in wooden and worsted goods
which are still very quiet. In no division OF
the market, however, was there any surprts-
ing feature. Mail orders too were confined to
the actual daily needs Of buyers and there
was no speculation in any lines of goods
Print cloths continue steady and without
feature. Other staple cottons are quiet and
featureless.
BUTTER AND EGGS-New York, Sept IL
-Butter-Receipts, 5.472 pkgs firm; Western
creamery 141R020c; Elgns, zoe; factory, 111k@
lac. gggs-Recetpts. 6,572 pkgs; frm West
ern, 1910.
Chicago, Sept. 14.-Butter, firm; creameries,
l3q zoe; dairies. 111sQ17c. Eggs, steady; fresh,
120191ac.
NEW YORK CoTToN-New York, Sept. A.
The cotton market opened steady with a
in sympathy with weak English markets than
due to predominance of sellers. The bear
crowd were timid In view of crop damage re-
ports, and continued light port and interior
receipts. The bull crowd lacked support Of
consequence from outsiders and were also
by decided change for the better in weather
conditions genrally in the cotton belt. Liver
pool and Southern interests sent scattered
selling orders, but on the whole trading was
slack during the early forenoon, with prices
showing little change from the opening figure
side for turn, and on the theory that the
market was already oversold. Spot closed
steady; middling uplands, SIC; do gulf &C.,
sales, 735 bales.