The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02
NEW YORK GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

NEW YORK, April 1.-FLOUR-Receipts
~ 600 barrels; exports. TO- 7O4 barrels. Market
firmly held in sympathy with Wheat.
WHEAT-Receipts. 1900 bushels. Spot
easier. No. red, s21sc f. 0. b. afoat Options
opened strong on local covering, impelled by a
cold wave west and foreign and outside buy
ing Later the market eased off realizing
and closed firm at 161Mc net advance. April
closed 79sc; May TIA aisle, closed 7S1ac; July
u n-16q7Sasc. closed 7755e; September 7olka7sc,
HoPs~Dull; State common to choice. 1896
crop, &c: 1898 crop, 169l7c; Pacific Coast 1896
HIDEs-Steady; Galveston, 161kQ17c; Cali
WO0I~Quiet; Texas, 12q14c
METALS-The brokers' price for Lead is 81 Is
and for Copper $1s 25G1S so The Metal Ex-
change was closed to-day.
COFFEE-Options closed unchanged to five
points lower. Sales $50 bags. including: June
s. 10; July s. 10; September, s. IS; October
S 40 Spot Coffee-DuIl and nominal No !,
11-16c; No. Jobbing. 9-l6c. Mlld-Quiet;
sUGAiRIRaw; strong and tending upward;
7-16c: moasses sugar. 3 1l-16c: Refined
Strong. tending upward: No. 6, = 7-16c No. T.
No. p. 4isc; No. 49, 4Mc No. a. i l-isc; mold
A. 9-16c; standard A. sc; confectioners' A.
&C; cut loaf and crushed. 55sc powdered. sac
graduated. SIC; cubes, Sac
RITTER-Receipts. 2SOS packages: easier
Western creamery, 17@2l5ac; Elgins, &c; fac
tory, 12q14hc; imitation factory, 181za1S12c
ern, 1214c; Southern, 11lR412c.
DRIED FRUITS
NEW YORK, April 1.-California Dried
E EVA APPLEs-Common. 7asHc:
prime wire tray, S9sGS7sc; choice, 99shc; fancy,
i PifRtTTNNIEs-4Ad9,ac.
APRICoTs- Royal, 1s@l4c; Moorpark. 1917
PEAcHEs-U npeeled, sG11c; peeled. 25a2Sc
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET,
CHICAGO. April The prevalence Of wintry
weather was the governing influence in wheat
at the start. and as a ruined wheat crop be
came the leading thought, buyers were very
much in the ascendant. May opened &c TO NC
higher at from 7319c up to lac, and rose quickly
to 74hc. In the mentime July, which opened
at from 73Ac to 73%c had crawled up to 741sc
The minimum temperature, however, changed
the course of the market and the indications
for continued unreasonable weather
The worlds shipments during the week were
estimated at about s, 600 0GO bushels or about
1.000, 900 bushels in excess of the European re-
quirements. The Northwest receipts and weak
ness OF the New York market were the chief
factors on the bear side of the market The New
York weakness was interpreted as a reflection
of the bearish feeling abroad The market was
subject to many changes during the session.
according crop damage or present ahund-
predominated in the minds of speculators
The crop news generally of gloomy
character the exception being a report nv Tho
Modern Miller, a st, Louis publication which
claimed that Notwithstanding prevailing I'M
favorable news and backwardness of the sea
son there would be average yield of winter
wheat. Toward the end of the session the bulls
lost their grip on the market and MAY, after
many vlcissitudes, declined to 724c. 1t closed
at 72%c July sold twice during the day as
high 741sc and down to 73hc. On the next
bulge it reached FAC, but dropped back to 72Isc
closing at 72Ac.
A good speculative business was done in corn
but the market exceptionally choppy
Country offerings were said TO be Increasing
and the bull crowd became disguised May lost
lc.
Oats were firm early. When corn broke how
ever. oats followed in half-hearted way
losing the slight advance and a little more
with 1t. Oats closed &c lower.
The decline in corn had dIsheartening In
fluence in provisions, preventing buyers from