Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-26
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NEW YORK, February 24.-Flour,
dull and weaker; winter patents $500
3.S5; winter straights $3.45@3.55; Min
nesota patents $3.S0@4.00; winter ex-
tras $2.6O@2.90; Minnesota bakers
81 9OQ3.O5; winter low grades S2.25@
2.40.
Rye -four, quiet; fair to good $1,000
800; choice fancy $3.20@3.6O.
Buckwheat flour, firm at $1.6O@1.75.
Buckwheat, steady, at 55@56c if New
York.
Cornmeal, steady; yellow western
SIC; city soc; bradywine $2.20@2.3O.
Rye, easy; No. western 613c t. o.
b. afioat; State rye 57@58c Of New
York car lots.
Barley, dull; feeding 43@46hc; New
York mailing 50@54c.
Barley malt, dull; western 55@65c.
Wheat, spot, steady; No. 2 red 61Bc
f. o. b. afloat in store; No. l northern
Duluth 78Ac f. o. b. afioat prompt; NO.
2 red 743ac elevator. Options opened
rather firm on much better Liverpool
cables than expected, but Immediately
encountered active short selling and
foreign offerings. This promoted a
quick reaction and general heaviness
again, which lasted all the morning
until near the close, when the market
rallied with corn and left off steady at
unchanged prices. March closed at
74ssc; May 72h@72 13-16c, closed at
725sc; July 1925 @725sc, closed at 721sc;
September closed at 72Ac.
Corn, spot, firm; No. 2, 42Ac I. o. b.
afioat, and 42c elevator. Options open
ed firm with wheat, and on the small
contract showing in Chicago's receipts.
After a reaction under short sales the
market rallied and closed firm at B@
nc net advance. May 40@40Ac, closed
at 4OAc; July 40A Q4Ossc, closed at
403sc.
Oats, receipts, $4,000 bushels; ex-
ports, 7,715 bushels; spot market, dull;
No. 2, 29c; No. 8, 2S1Ac; No. 2 white
311hc; No. 8 white 30Ac; track mixed
western 29@3OAc; track white BIN @
Csc. Options dull and easy.
Hay, quiet; shipping 65@7Oc; good
to choice 80@871ac. NJ
Hops, quiet; State common to choice,
1896 crop, &c; 1898 crop, 1000; 1899
crop, 12@13c; Pacific coast, 1896 crop,
4@5c; 1898 crop, 1000; 1899 crop, 12@
13c.
Hides, firm; Galveston, 20 to %
pounds, 1870; Texas dry, "a to 80
pounds, 15c; California, q to 20
pounds, 121ac.
Leather, firm; hemlock sole Buenos
Ayres light to heavy weights Esq
o51Lo. acid 96m251hc
Wool, steady; domestic fleece 210
26c; Texas 10000.
Coal, firm.
Beef, steady; family $11.00@13.Oo;
mess S1OO0@105O; beef hams s2O.5O0
21.0O; packet $11.00@1200; city extra
India mess s20.00@22.O0.
Cut meats, steady; picked bellies
6h071sc; picked shoulders &c; pick
led hams 9h@1012c.
Lard, steady; western steamed $6.15;
February s6.171a.
Refined Lard, quiet; continent $3.50;
S. A. $3.50; compound 6061sc.
Pork, firm; mess S10.75011.00; short
clear $11.75@13.00; family $4,000
1850
Butter, steady.
Cheese, firm.
Eggs, firmer.
Tallow, firmer; city SIC; country
51s@5%c.
Cottonseed Oil, quiet: prime crude
331A m34c; do. yellow 37A@371ac.
Petroleum, firm; Philadelphia and
Baltimore S9.S5; do. in bulk $7.20; re-
fined New York $3.50.
Rosin, steady; strained common to
good s1.75.
Turpentine, quiet at 55H@56c.
Rice, firm; domestic fair to extra AS
66Hc; Japan 4S4 @5c.
Molasses, steady; New Orleans open
kettle, good to choice, 44@55c.
Peanuts, steady; fancy hand picked
4@4Rc.
Freights to Liverpool, quiet and
steady; cotton by steam 33c; grain by
steam 31ad.
The market for coffee futures opened
steady at unchanged prices to points
higher and ruled about steady with
moderate European buying met by
local selling, with subsequently an
easier feeling owing to the absence of
public speculative report. The market
closed barely steady at net unchanged
prices to points decline Total sales
were $4,000 bags. including March at
s7.05: April s7050710; May s7100
IT'S: June s7.15: August s7.25; Septem-
Der s7.25@735; October $40; Novem-
Der $3.50: December s7.456750: jan
uary s7550760 Spot coffee-Rio
steady: No. invoice sac: No job
bing 9hc. Mild, steady; Cordova 9k
614c.
Sugar-Raw. quiet Refined, quiet;
mould A 5.45c; standard A 5000; con-
fectioners' A 5000: cut loaf $500;
crushed 5.60c; powdered 5.30s; granu-
lated 520c; cubes $3.50.
CHICAGO, February 24.-Wheat op-
ened fair to-day but succumbed to the
lack of outside demand and liuuida-
ton. closing heavy, May " c under yes
terday. Nav corn closed sc and May
oats a shade higher. Provisions at
the close were 501oc lower.