Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-01
MINING STOCKS.
PRODUCE.
Register Office.
WHEELING,


WHEELING, January 81, 1899.
There is a general tendency toward
lower prices. There is an abundant sup
ply of poltry Eggs are more plentiful
and are dropping fast.
Butter = Creamery IG22c; country
choice, 15Q1Sc; country. good, 5Q6c; coun-
try, light, 5Q6c; butteriile, 12Q14c.
Eggs-110lSc per dozen.
Navy Beans-Handpicked, 81 25Q1 80 pea
Cheese-Prime Ohio factory 11@1114c
New York 11lAc: Limberger l2c: Sweitzer,
lie.
Poultry-old live chickens s. 1893 90 per
dozen; chickens. hens, per pound Sq9c:
spring chickens, s. 5JQ5 % per dozen; per
pound, l0aIlc.
Ducks-$3 90 per dozen; geese. 4oG5oc
pound.
Ilard-Country SC.
bemons-Messina SO 0oa3 50 per box.
Bananas-$L25QL75 per bunch, as to size
and quality
Cabbage 1.50@175 per barrel.
Walnuts-40c per busnel
Old EagS-12c Der pound.
H9ney. in comb. 15Q16c Fer pound.
Hickory Nuts-$1.40 per bushel.
New Potatoes-$1 Is per barrel; 50Q5Sc
Celery-33qG5c per dozen punches.
App-eS-$G.oy per barrel; fancy, S4OJ per
barrel
Jersey Sweet Potatoes-$2.5O per barrel.
Parsley -l5@20c per dozen buncnes.
OniOnS-S0c per buShel.
Cranberries-Cape Cod 81 O092 % per
crate.
Spanish Onions-$1 % per crate.
Grape5-Catawba lie.
Oranges $40 per box; Califor-
MIA Seedlings $3.50 per box; 42O-case, $500
@6.25 per box California naVals $2.75Q3.0O
per box.
Parsnips-$1.25 per barrel.
Turnips-$1C0 per barrel
Chicago, January 31-Wheat lost all
semblance of strength to-day and clos
ed limp and weak. Toward the close
a semi-panicky feeling set in owing to
the heavy liquidation Of longs and
May left off at a decline OF 21s02Ac.
Corn lost 15@5sc and oats &c. Pork
declined 1712c, lard 10c and ribs 7120
10c.
The government report, which show
ed a yield of CTS 100000 bushels of
wheat last year gave wheat weak
start. May opened 3s0%c lower at
761s07615c, and as the outlook was
rendered more unfavorable by sharp
slump at Liverpool, May declined to
Toe. The extremely cold weather with
the unprotected condition of winter
wheat caused a more or less apprehen-
sion Of damage TO the plant and as
there were many reports to that effect
buying became quite general while
May advanced slowly TO 1850. Re-
ceipts here were 191 cars against 81
for the same day a year ago. Mime
apOliS and Duluth got $50 cars COM
pared with $40 for the corresponding
Gay last year. The aggregate at pri-
mary western markets was 545, 900
bushels the previous year. Clearances
of wheat and flour from
Atlantic exports exclusive of
Newport News and CAL
weston amounted to $4,000 bushels
AS the session advanced foreigners
were reported to be selling at the sea-
board, while New York, st. Louis and
the Northwest had liberal selling or
defs here. That discouraged holders
and a season of active liquidation set
in which carried prices off pretty
tsteadily. Bradstreet's visible showed
1900 bushels decrease in stocks of
wheat in this country and 400 900 bush
els decrease in and afioat for Europe.
After that was made known although
certainly not in consequence of it,
longs abandoned their holdings and the
selling became so aggressive that May
hesitating at IS sc slid off to 1850
T4ac, where it closed.
Bearish government figures and low
er cables started corn weak. A good
demand from commission houses
sprang' up and the market developed a
good deal of strength. New York re-
ported an excellent export demand,
and shipping houses here reported an
improvement in the cash business at
workable prices. The radical weak
ness in wheat near the close of the
session, however. displaced all other
considerations, and sellers of corn be-
came very numerous, while the price
sank in the last ten minutes to a point
under the lowest made earlier in the
day.
Receipts were: 9S5 cars. May open
ed b@Ac lower at 37s.G 3Sc, sold
sparingly at 3S@3S1s, then declined to
371ac buyers at the close.
There was considerable Liquidation
in oats and as the buying was only
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