Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-09
Aiarket Gnssin.


Market Gossip.
Chicago, Oct. 9.-Mheat last week
had a range of about 21a cents and 1t
happened that the best prices We're on
the opening and low ones on the closing
day. The December Just missed %
lcents on Monday and sold at 7oss G72s
on Saturday. 1t has consequently been
u downhill market of late.
The feature has been the lack of any
leadership. The advance in wheat from
around 20 cents to almost IS cents dur
ing the latter half of September was
result of the short selling excuses and
not of any bull effort. The rally was oil
course made quicker and easier by the
possibility of Il Transyaal war. So, too.
the decline OF = cents last week was not
ON any Special selling effort. but be-
cause the short interest had pretty wei
covered. III in turn was made easier by
the delay in actual hostilities in South
Africa and by the general belief that
the delay meant peaceful solution.
For the last three weeks. although the
market has had a scent advance and a
2-cent reaction, 1t has not been possibl,
TO see whers any operator has contrib
! uted dire TO the fluctuations Where
there has II an influence ii has beer
OF the negative sort. Barrett so overdid
! the short side that his failure had much
To do with starting the advance. The
| elimination of a share of the short in
terest and the war delay had most u
\ 90 with the decline of the closing days
| of last week.
The statistical situation has not ma
terially changed of late. but ii has not
been 50 much considered as il was ,Ip
To the middle of last month. Stocks
keep on increasing. Receipts are much
less than last year and seem to have
passed their maximum. but the move
nent IS py no means light. Clearances
keep large, the one persistent bull fea
ture. The visible is rapidly increasing;
SO is the worlds stock Other markets
are undertaking Chicago, and, while
the stock here IS growing larger, there
| IS hardly any cash business doing. The
Chicago shipments all last week were
only $1,000 bushels, compared with re-
ceipts of $4,000 bushels. Carrying
charges are liberal and widening.
/ 1t is assumed that with actual war in
| the Transvaal spectators would forget
! all the ordinary circumstances, and for
a time at least bull grain prices. With
no war and with no Improvement in the
cash situation here. it is the present be-
lief of the talent that prices would yield
\ somewhat.
1 Corn holds steady in spite of an unin-
| teresting speculative situation. The
May and December are higher than
they We're in September, when the cash
was at cents a bushel and when there
was an aggressive bull crowd Now
there is no leadership on either side
/ The interest which held so much in
September Is supposed to have iiqui-
idated and scattered
4 Local Markets.
The following prices quoted are as
nearly correct as it is possible to OBJ
tain. The quotations are tos prices paid
lby dealers, corrected Monday after
noon.
GRAIN AND FEED.
w. II. sloppy reports the following
prices:
Wheat 5q57.
/ Oats-l9.
Corn-24i2.
Rye-4T.
Hay-Tame. $50; wild. $50.
| Timothy-s5Ms0.
l
CORN.
The Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany quotes a price of 251s cents pei
bushel for corn Of No. grade and be.-
ter.
LIVE STOCK.
Receipts today, nominal.
4 Britain & Co Is paying the follow
ing prices for hogs in wagon load lots:
\ Selected light. 40 to $50 pounds, 90
Selected mixed. 80 to 300 pounds, 3.85
4 Selected heavy, over 800 pounds, 3.I5
Coarse and rough. so cents less thar
the above prices
i Stays and piggy sows graded accord
ing to quality after reduction. Rough
includes thin old sows, milky bellies
and hogs unfit for packing. Premium
hogs must be smooth and fairly well
fatted.
All hogs subject to government in
spection.
PROVISIONS.
Marshalltown grocers quote the fol-
lowing prices for country produce:
New Potatoes-20 cents per bushel.
Beans-1.50 per bushel in trade.
Il Eggs-l4M15 cents in trade.
Butter-Dairy, 10 cents in trade.
Apples-Home grown, 60W75 cents pei
bushel.
POULTRY.
Spring Chickens--7 cents per pound.
| Turkeys-s07 cents.
Ducks-6 cents.