Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-19
MARKETS,
YORK PRODrCE MARKET.

NEW 1ORh Il
NEW YORK. February 1S-Flour-Neg
lected and weak; winter patents, 3.T5l
81; rye Hour dull: good 10 fair, s.. lisa 81. so
buckwheat flour quiet al g.
SIC.
Rye-Quiet: No. 2, esc.
Barley-Dull; western feeding. E0
4S1ic.; mailing. 56lac.
Farley Malt-Dull; western. eOq7Oc.
lar all the forenoon. Foreign buying stir
red up shorts at one time. but tho fact
that crop news was favorable, cables were
bearish, and clearances were small. con.
tributed to fresh short sales, and at the
close the market was weak at a &c. net
decline; March closed S2Ac.; May closed
1916; July closed 75c.
~Corn-Spot steady; No. 2. HE; options
light offerings, but finally broke. with
wheat, and closed Ag3sc. net lower: May
closed 40i5c. July closed 4llsc.
quiet.
Beef-FIrm; family, $1OQsr: extra mess.
$Q$9; beef hams. $3.50; packet. $9.50nSl0;
city extra India mess. $l5qs6.
Cut-Meats-Dul but steady; picked bel
lies. NQ$5.75; picked shoulders, $4aSi.5O;
picked hams. S. 75nSl.5O.
Lard-Easier; western steamed, $5.621s;
February. $3.50. nominally; refined easy.
Pork-Quiet; mess. S9.50mSl0: short clear.
slO.5OQS12.5O: family. slO75q$l1.
Butter-Steady; western creamery, 160
pc; do. factory, 12nl4c.: Elgins. DC. inn
tation creamery, ~lSi2a19c.; State dairy.
13q21c.
Cheese-steady; large white, 1O1zc.
E~ggs-Steady; State and PENNSYLVANIA,
&c; western, fresh, 2l3c.; southern, go
24c.
Potatoes-Steadv: New York. slS7kas4;
S225N $3.50.
Cottonseed-On-Quie but steady; prime
crude, 2Oq21c.; butter grades. 29q32c.
Petroleum-Dull; refined, New York,
s.. 40; do. IN bulk, S4&.
ROsin-Quiet; strained, common to good,
$500 81. 32l2.
Turpentine-Ffrm at 4elka47c.
R~ice-Ffrm; domestic, fair TO extra, 4i2G
Cabbage2steady at sass per 100.
Coffee-Options opened STEADY at un-
changed prices. and ruled quiet and fea-
tureless; local traders inundated by large
visible supply; selling checked by Euro
pean and Brazilian cables, and smaller
receipts at Rio and Santos. Close steady
and net unchanged; sales. $3.50 bags, in
Guiding March. $5.45; May. @.GOaS5.G5; spot
Rio dull; No. I. invoice. $50; No. 7. job
bling. 81: mild quiet; CordOva. SSn$14.
Sugar-Raw firm; fair refining. 3~i3-l6c.;
centrifugal (6-degree test), 45-lCc.: mo-
lasses sugar. 35-Sc.: refined firm; mould
A, . l-4c.; graduated. SC.
THE DRY-GOODs MARKET.
NEW YORK, February lS.-The market
for cotton goods to-day was quiet in all
departments on the spot with a fair
mail-order demand. The one continues
decidedly stronger. Few prints can be
bought 10 arrive at a named price, orders
being booked at value only I'm nearly
every line. Heavy brown cottOns are
scarce and strong; lightweight fine yarn
makes tending upwards. Bleached cot
tons strong. Cotton yarns in quiet de-
mand. but very firm. Worsted yarns i'm
fair request and advancing. There has
been n quiet market In woollen and
goods, without special feature.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. February 1s.-In spite of
heayy selling to-day. wheat found ready
takers, and after a severe struggle May
closed at a decline Of AQ%c. Corn. oats.
md provisions were uncompromisinglv
weak, closing with n loss of &c. in corn,
sake. In oats 22lzc. in pork, and lOd12hc.
n lard and ribs.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat-No. ..
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