The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-21
GRAM. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York. jan 20.-Flour inactive and
nominaliy about steady Rye -four. dull
Buckwheat flour. quiet; buckwheat. duh.
Corn meal, steady. Rye, weaker No. 2.
e41ac; state rye, 5915@6Oc. Barley, quiet:
barley malt, quiet.
Wheat-Spot steady; No . red 797lT
S0hc; options were exceedingly dun all
day. Scalpers, while bulnshly inclined
over weakness abroad, hesitated. foreign
selling and lack of outside trade to af-
ford vigorous support. Clearances were
large and there was a moderate EXPORT
trade again. Near the close covering or
ders produced a better feeling and final
prices were unchanged to l4c lower with
the undertone firm; March closed 777sc;
May closed 747sc.
Corn-Spot, steady; No. 2, 441kd44hc; op-
tons opened easy. The trend was down
ward because of larger receipts, light ex-
port demand and declines in wheat, until
a final demand from shorts brought a rally
closed steady, unchanged; May closed
417sc.
Oats-Spot, dun; No. 2, 33%c; options,
slow all day Beef, steady. Cut meats,
dun. Lard, steady; Western steamed, $500;
January, 592c; refined, firm. Pork, firm.
Butter. firm; Western creamery. 14019c;
factory, 12Q14c; Elgins, 1870; imitation
creamery, 13Q17e; state dairy, 1361Sc.
Cheese. steady; large white, 1O1ac. Eggs,
steady; state and Pennsylvania. 1961Sl5c;
Western fresh, 1SI2c; Southern 1Sq1Slsc.
Potatoes, steady; jerseys, $l1212q1.J0;
New York, 81 .25d1 621ac; Long Island ST. IS
d2OO; sweets, Jerseys, $1.25@2.50. Cotton
seed oil, steady; prime crude, 19c; do yell
low, 20d23l2c. Petroleum. firm. Rice firm.
Cabbage dun, $2.G00400 per 100 pounds
Coffee-Opuons opened steady, unchanged
ruled moderately active with advancing
tendency. later on smaller Brazilian re-
ceipts. increased warehouse deliveries, de-
crease in American visible, steady under
tone 10 spot department and improvement
i'm interest of outside investors; bulls rath-
er cautious over narrow European mar
kets: increase in Havre stocks and appar-
ent Willingness of leading bears to sell
on every rise; closed steady, unchanged,
TO 8 points higher; sales, II go bags, in
Guiding January, 5.30c; February $3.50
5.40c; spot Rio, dun but about steady; No.
invoice. 6l2c; No. Z jobbing, &c; mild,
quiet; Cordova, 7i2d14c. Sugar, raw quiet
and barely steady; fair refining, SAC;
centrifugal, 96-test, 4Ac; molasses sugar,
3lac refined, quiet.
Chicago. Jan. 20-The' expectation that
| some of the prosperity shown in the stock
market must soon manifest itself in the
grain trade, together with heavy clear
| ances at the seaboard to-day, with no sign
of the foreigners becoming over-suppled
! sustained prices III the Wiledt PIT ana May
closed unchanged. Corn left off shade
higher. and oats a trne lower Pork ad-
vanced 1Oal2lsc. and lard and ribs 2l2q
| &c each.
| The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening Highest Lowest. Closing
! Wheat No, -
| May ..7o5sQ7O94 7O% 7O'4 7OlaQ7oss
| July .....6Si2 6Sss 6S'4 6Sis
Corn, No. >
! Jan ......3ia4 $40 34% S424
I May ....37 0S7ls q GS7is S6ss 81
! July ...374Q372s S7Ss S67sa37 374
! Oats, No .
May ....27ss .7Ss 273sa27'a c7l4Q27ss
/ July ....26l4 264 % 26k426I.
Mess Pork. per barrel
| Jan ........$ ...... 5000. $...... S995
! May ....... 10 12i2 10 % 10 12l5 10 %
! Lard, per 100 Lbs
! Jan ........ SIS IS 57l5 So 57Ib
May ...... ~ 5S2la 1917 S2l5
Short Ribs, per 100 Lbs
! Jan ........ $50 ass $50 ass
May man. 5o5 SPY sos $40
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
dun; No. spring wheat, 67a6Si4c; No 3
spring wheat 63@67i4c No 2 red. 7Oi5c;
! No. corn, S6c; No. ? yellow corn, SGhc;