The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-08
OTHER GRAIN.

GRAIN GOSSIP - Gossip by private
wire to H. e. F. Smith & Co, st: Paul,
change and Chicago board of trade
English markets A0Ac lower Weather
IN the Northwest clear and cool; In the
Southwest, heavy rains Cash demand
for wheat continu IS disappointing We
look for scalping market for immediate
future, with the tendency controlled by
spring wheat advices. The legitimate po-
sition of corn and provisions is strong
crop reports from Roumania are still
un1avor9b bic. Visible supply in Argentine
ports: Wheat $4,000 bu; corn, l,152, 0CO
blu, compared with 1,2S0,00J and 2,2O8 90,
report says: The past week was general
ly favorable for corn in the Western belt,
though in the territory north of the Ohio
river more rain is needed. On the At
lantfc and gulf coasts, where % per cent
OF the corn acreage is, there has been
crop situation is serious. This bad CON
dltion lowers the average condition ma
terially.
NEW YORK, July .-Flour-Receipts
easy. Rye -four dull. Wheat-Receipts
227, $50 bu; exports, 1885 bu; options open
ed weak and declined most of the session
under more favorable spring wheat crop
prospects and lower English cables; scat
tered holdings of long wheat came out
and foreign houses sold Export trade
proved liberal in the afternoon and final
lly rallied the market closed firm at NG
sc net decline; spot market steady; No.
2 red, SO1sc f. Q; b., af1oat; No. 2 red,
1890 elevator; No. i northern, Duluth,
size f. o. b., afloat, to arrive; No hard,
Duluth, S51sc f. o. o., af1oat to arrive;
July, 7S7s@791sc, closed at 1850; Septem-
Der, ,3S7sQ7SAc, closed at 7S24c; December,
S01s@8012c, closed at 8012c Corn-Receipts,
202, 800 bu; exports, S0O,254 blu; spot steady;
No. 2, 39s4Qc f. o. b., afioat, 3S24c eleva-
tor; options opened easier with wheat,
but later rallied on big export purchases
and closed firm at 1sc net advance; July,
SSAc; September, 39c. Oats-Receipts, 49,
300 bu; exports, 25,275 bu; spot weaker;
options dull.
GRAIN AVAILABLE sUPPLY-New
York, July Especial cable and teIe-
graphic dispatches to Bradstreet's in
dicate the following changes in the avail
able supplies: Wheat, United States and
Canada, east Rockies, increase 1874, 900;
afloat for and in Europe, decrease $500,
goo; total supply, decrease, 1,176,0OO; total
Canada. east Rockies, increase 2,016,000;
oats, United States and Canada, east
Rockies, decrease $4,000. The most i'm
portant increase reported to Rradstreet' s
not given in the official visible supply
statement is that of 361 600 bu at Chicago
private elevators. The principal decreases
are those Of 275,0GO bu at Manitoba storage
points, $4,000 bu at Burlington, and 100 900
blu at Northwestern interior elevators.
The aggregate stock of wheat held at
Portland, Or, and Tacoma and Seattle,
Wash, decreased $4,000 blu last week
LIVERPOOL July 7.-Closing-
American mixed spot old steady IS SGD;
futures steady; July, IS 40; September,
dull: July, IS. SID: September, IS I'D; De-
cenber, IS I'D; No. red northern, Du-
luth, IS I'D. Receipts 90 Of wheat during
during the past three days 2S4, 400 centals.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July Flour
ste a%55o w Wheat lover N2 northern,
er, 2612@27%c. Rye dull; No l. 60Kc Bar
ley lower; No. g. 4214c sample, 4112@421zc.