The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22
GRAM. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, Jan. 2l.-Flour dull and easy:
winter patents, $3.75d4.0O. Rye flour dun:
good to fair $2.S)Q330. Buckwheat flour
quiet, $3.50. Buckwheat dun. Corn meal
quiet; yellow Western, S2GS3c. Rye
weak; No. 2. 642c Barley quiet; Western
feeding, 46@4Sc, Barley malt quiet; West
ern, 55d6Sc
Wheat spot, easy; No. ., red, S0Ac; op-
tons opened steady on cables, but eased
off through the forenoon for lack of buy
ing interest, or other sustaining factors;
general trade was extremely dull; closed
easy at sc net decline; March closed 779sc;
May closed H3lc.
Corn, spot, easy; No. ,, 439s@4ic; options
steady, but turned dun and weak with
wheat, closed dun and unchanged; May
closed i72ic
Oats, spot. quiet: No. ?, SS94c options
quiet. Beef steady; family, $l000d1l00;
extra mess, $S50d90c; beef hams, $500
1880; packet, S95OQO.OO; city India mess,
$15.00ni600 cut meats duh; picked bel
lies. 5lsc; do shoulders &c; do hams. &c.
Lard steady; Western steamed, $500; Jan
uary, 5.92c, nominal; refined firm. Pork
firm; mess, $95001025; shorts clear, $l0.50Q
1850; family, $1050d11.25. Butter steady;
Western creamery, 141l9e; do factory, l2@
lie; Elgins, 19c imitation creamery, 130
lie: state dairy, Boise Cheese firm; large
sylvania, 1870; Western fresh. 17Ac South
ern, 1Sc. Potatoes steady; jerseys, S.10@
$50; New York, 81 2561 .621a Long Island,
81. 75d2.00; sweets, Jersey. H.25@2.50. Petro-
leum Glll; refined, New York, $40; Phila-
delphia and Baltimore, %35; do in bulk,
S4S5. Cotton seed oil firm and he'd high
er; prime crude, 19c. Rice firm; domestic
fair 30 extra. 41a@7c; Japan, 5q5Ac. COT
fec, options opened steady and unchanged
to points lower; ruled tame with little
further variation; bull efforts checked by
discouraping cables from foreign markets
and slack spot demand, together with
bearish statistical situation; bears eau
tious in view of extensive short interest
already outstanding; closed quiet ana I'M
changed to points lower; sales, $3.50 bags,
including March at 5.50c May, 565c; spot
Rio dull; No. 7, invoice, Csc; No. z, job
bling TIC; mild quiet; Cordova, 192dl4c.
Sugar. raw, quiet; barely steady; fair re-
fining, sac; centrifugal, 96-test, Nc; mo-
Iasses sugar, 3l3ci refined quiet; mould a,
SIC; granulated, sc.
Chicago, Jan. H.-A sort OF contention
between bearish announcements and bull
jsh sentiment prevented much movement
in either direction in wheat to-day, and
May closed hGAc advance. Corn left off
unchanged and oats are a shade higher.
Pork closed unchanged; lard trfe higher
and ribs 215c advance.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening Highest. Lowest, Closing.
Wheat, No. ?
Nav .... .7o5sG7Oal 7Oa4@7Ok 7ols 7O2l
July 80. 6S12d6s7s 6SA 6sasa6S1k 6S9sQ5sA
jan ..... s45s aiM 8i5s 84A
Nav 49,. .S6%G37 371A 1914 81
July ...S7ls@511 S7as 871bg37h S7as
May .....275s 25sa27% zlAa29s 275s
July .... 26A 26A 261s 26h
Mess Pork, per barrel
Nav MAJ, .' 10 Is 10 27A 20 io95
Lard, per 100 Lbs
Nav saH SIS $50 S21s
Short Ribs, per 100 Lbs
May 10 121z 10 l21s
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
dull, winter patents, $36Od390; spring spe-
ciais Al0 hard patents, $3.4OGD361; soft
patents $3.206l3.40; straights $28O43.2O;
bakers, 81. 20Q2.3O; No. 2 spring wheat. 67D
6SIac; No spring wheat, 64n67Ac; No. 2
red. 70lkG75c; No. corn 36c; No. 2 oats
2Gs4@27c No 2 white. 29]a029alc; No. 3
white, 1874 n29kc; No. 2 rye, 551aGt56c; No.
2 barley, 43652c; No. / fax seed, I.l4;
prime timothy seed, $2.325; mess pork
per barrel, $100OG10.05; lard, per 100 pounds,
S. 60d5 SPY; short ribs sides 0oose). $i.75
$500; dry sailed shoulders (boxed), 4AW
48sc; short clear sides, (boXed), $5.10n5.15;
whisky, disullers' finished goods, per gal
lon, $l.N No. 2 yellow corn, S6Q@5hc.