The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC

New York, Jan. A.-Flour dull but
steadily held. Rye flour quiet; good to
fair, So 90Q3 80. Buckwheat quiet. Corn
meal quiet and steady; yellow Western
S2dS3c. Rye quiet; No 2 Coo Barley
hrm feeding Western, 47Q4Sc Barley
malt steady; Western, 6Sd7Oc Wheat
spot steady No red, S012c; options open
ed steady and ruled very dull and fea-
tureless all the forenoon. Scalpers found
their efforts to break the market checked
by liberal clearances, the influence of yes
terday's good export trade and steady
cables; closed steady and unchanged;
March, 1850; May closed 75Ac.
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2, 4Sq43Ac OBJ
lions dull from start to finish holding
fairly steady in sympathy with wheat.
Closed steady and Unchanged May closed
42c.
oats-spot quiet; No. 2. 38a4 oslo; options
neglected. Beef quiet family, 10000
81 90; extra mess, IS. 5Od9 90 Beef hams
$l8 0OQ1S. 80; packet 80 50Q10. 90; city extra,
India mess, SIS OOd16.OO. Cut meats dull !;
picked bellies, 51sG6c; picked shoulders.
4c; do hams, 6%@7c. Lard steady; West
ern steamed, 5.S5Q5 soc; January, 5sOc
nominal refined quiet. Pork steady;
mess $9.5OG10 %; short clear, 0.5Od12. SO;
family, $40. 50d11 90. Butter steady; West
ern creamery, 15d2Oc; factory, 12Q14c; Ell
gln, ac; imitation creamery, 13l17c; state
dairy, 13Ql8c. Cheese steady; large white
101ac. Potatoes steady; Jerseys, 81 12h0
$50; New York, 81 .25d1 g.; Long Island
$1.75Q2.OO; sweets, Jersey. 81. 25a1.5O Cot
ton seed oil quiet and steady, without
changes; prime crude, 1012G19%c; butter
grades. 2716Q2Sc. Petroleum easy; refined
New York, $40; Philadelphia and Balti-
more, S.95; do in bulk, S4.85. Rice firm;
domestic, fam to extra, 4Aq6Ac; Japan,
54q51ac. Cabbage quiet, 81 0Od4. 90 per 100
Coffee, options opened dull at unchanged
prices ruled inactive and featureless, with
no outside speculation and local trading
Indifferent in the absence of new features
at home or abroad; closed dull at net I'M
changed prices; sales $50 bags, including
March at 565c; spot coffee, Rio dull; No
Z invoice, 65sc; No. 7 jobbing, TIC; mild
and quiet, about steady; Cordova, 746D15c
Sugar, raw, dull and unsettled; fair rein
ing, 1850; centrifugal, 96-test. 5-16c
molasses sugar, Slice; refined quiet ;
mould A, SIC; graduated. SC.
Chicago. Jan. 14.-An improvement in
the foreign demand with heavy clearances
at the seaboard to-day caused a good deal
of animation, among wheat traders and
May closed CSC higher. Corn lost nc, and
oats left off a shade lower Pork advanc-
ed l0c and lard and ribs 21zc each.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat. No. p
May 800 .7O7s 71h@7A 7O% 71lk
July ..6Ss@6s 6sA 6sA 6SA
Corn, No. p
Jan. ......s47s s4A 84% siz
May ..S7 @S71s S7h 36% 81
July .S73sQS714 S71A s74qS7ss S79E
Oats, No. p
May -. .7asa2s % 27& 27Aae7za
July .....267s 26ss 2sAQ26as 26l @262s
Mess Pork, per Bbl.-
Jan. .$9s5 $9S5 $ss5 $9s5
May 10 5 10 Is 1000 1oi5
Lard, per 100 Lbs
Jan. 8 50 521A $50 $50
May 67h 721h 671s s 721h
Short Ribs, per 100 Lbs
May 500 5Gh 500 5 az
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
duh and steady; winter patents $3.6Od3.70;
straights, SO. 3O@34O; spring patents, hard,
49, 10000; soft patents, $3.2O6D34O; bakers
81 2oQ2. 49, No. 2 spring wheat. 671z969c; No.
3 spring wheat, 64G6Sc; No. 2 red Tic; No.
corn, 36c; No. 2 oats, &c; No white,
2912@30c; No. 8 white, 29a2911c; No. 2 rye,
561ac; No 2 barley, 43052c No. fax seed,
$1146ll.141ac; prime timothy seed, $3.50;
mess pork, per barrel, $9S5Q99O; lard, per
100 pounds. $5.5O@5.95; short ribs sides,
(boxed) 44G49sc; short clear sides (boxeO.
(boxedD. 41zGF43s; short clear sides. (boxeD.
$5OO@5.1O; whisky distllers finished goods,
per gallon, sl.H.