Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-19
GENERAL MARKETS.
NEW YORK Pl

NEW YORK, December lS-Flour-
Firmer and held higher, with wheat, buy
ers showing readiness to meet old ask
ing rates. The close was firm.
Rye ElOur-tirm.
Buckwheat Flour-Quiet
COrnmeal-Firm.
Rye-Firm; No. 2, western. Gle.
Barley-Stcady: feeding, Ale.
Barley Malt-Quiet.
Wheat-Spot firm; No red, 76c. OPP
lions opened strong at tsc. advance,
influenced by higher cables. active cover
ing, and bullish foreign statistics. After
a midday reaction, under disappointing
visiNle-supply figures, the market expert
enced Il second sharp upturn, stimulated
by decided fan in consols and further
alarms among shorts. Close strong at a
1Ssul$4c. net advance; March closed at
164c.; May closed az 76Ac; July closed
at 76i2c.: December closed at 1850.
COrn-SpOt firm: No. 2 i05sc. options
market opened &c. higher on December,
through a squeeze OF shorts, and later
had a general advance, on higher cables,
large clearances. and the jump in wheat.
Close firm at unchanged prices TO a
lac. advance; May closed at $3.50.
Oats-Spot firm; No. 2, Bic; November,
2sl2c Options quiet but frmer.
Beef-Dull
Cut Meats-Quiet; picked bellies. 5iS4
SIC. do, shoulders, 5$ic. do, hams, 81
Lard-weak: western steamed. $3.50
$40. Refined weak; Continent, $3.50.
Pork-tirm.
Butter Steady; western creamery, $50
&c: State dairy, 1SU2c.
Cheese--Steady; fall-made fancy, small.
12siu13c.; fall-niade fancy, large, 1312a
13S.c.
Eggs-steady; State and Pennsylvania,
| 2id2jc.: western ungraded, at mark, l6g
2li2c; western, 2l02ic., loss off.
Enthusiastically; Jersey, H25aaS5;
New York. $1.50uSL75; Long Island, SL75a
g; Jersey sweets, s2.25@$227ls; southern
sweets Sl-754S2.25.
Cottonseed- Oil-Moderatel active and
steady; closing firm; prime crude, Csc,
nominally; prime summer yellow, &c; or
summer yellow. &lac. butter grades, &c,
nominaily; prime winter yellow, 35Q36c.
prime white, 34qS5c.; prime meal, s2t504
25c.
Tanow-Firm.
Petroleum-Firm.
ROsin-Steady.
Turpentine-Steady at 52G52hc.
Rice-Firm.
Cabbage-Steady; Long Island, s1.a58
$50.
Cotton by Steamer to Liverpool-Quiet
and firmer.
Cofree-Futures opened steady and un-
changed 10 a points advance, on higher
European and Brazilian cables and con-
tinued small receipts at Santos, which
caused local covering. Later the market
was more active. but easier, in sympathy
with the unsettled condition OF Wall
street and the cotton market. Close
steady and points higher 70 . points
lower; total sales. % go bags, including
December, $50; January, So.79qSS spot
Rio quiet: No. 7. invoice, Csc; No. z,
jobbing. 7ssc. Mild quiet; Cordova, 81
Sugar-Raw steady; fair refining,
: bite. centrifugal. 9G-degree test Hc.
bid; molasses sugar, 9-l6c. Refined
quiet.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE. December B-Flour-
Dull and unchanged.
Wheat-Firmer; spot and the month,
II 1-Sq7l lie; January. 72li72 lac; May.
1910 lie; southern, by sample, 65o72,.
Corn-Firmer; SPOT and the month,
81 1-ia37 3-Sc; December, new or old.
February, 81 1-2aS7 S-lc.; March. 81 5-sc.
bid: southern white, 80 l-2n3sc
Oats-Quiet; No white, 5lqSl l-2c.;
No mixed, % 3-+n292.
Rye-Dull; No. 2, nearby, &c; No. 2
western. s9c., nOmnally.
Cheese-Firm; large, l3 1-idB 3-sc.; me-
dunn 13 1-iNl3 lie
Butter-Firm; fancy creamery, 27g2Sc.;
do imitation 20Q2lc. do. ladle 1sn20c. ;
good 'ladle, 1tdlIc.; StOre-packed, lollSc.;
rolls. 17G20c.
Sugar3Strong; granulated, SS7.
Eggs-Firm at pic. per dozen.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO, December 1S-Indications in
the war in South Africa have reached
proportions sufficient to actuate our
market, the foreign demand causing a
sharp advance in wheat to-day, May
closing 12,c over Saturday. Other grains
were influenced by wheat. May corn
closing sc and May oats ha2sc higher.
Proft-taking depressed the provision
market, May pork closing ne; May
lard. &C.; May ribs, re lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest Closing.