The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

NEW YORK COFFEE-New York,
Aug: -Coffee-Spot Rio, firm; No. 7,
14c. Futures opened steady at unchanged
prices to points advance but ruled dun
and eased off. Only light local trading
was INDUCED in. Selling was checked
by the strike conditions at Santos, al
though privately capled as ABBOTT over
Buying was checked by unsatisfactory
european cables and the Indifference OF
spot buyers. Improved later on pit Gov
e. ing. Closed steady at net unchanged
prices to 10 points advance. Total sales,
1880 bags. Including: September, 7 CSC;
November, 1901 .55c; December, 1860
7.65c; January. 7.7Gc; February, 775G3c:
March. 1901. SIC; May, 7.90c. Sug5r2,
Raw, firm: fair refining, 4zc; centrifugal
S6-test, 4Bc; molasses sugar, 4c; refined,
BUTTER AND EGGs-New York. Aug.
29.-Butter = Receipts, 1894 packages;
steady; factory, 14017c Cheese-Re-
celpts, 3,2i6 packages; steady; large white,
14l4c; small white. 10c; large colored, 103s
@l01sc; small colored, 10 c. Eggs-Re-
ceipts, S10 packag es; firm; Western, reg
ular packing at mark, 9Q1544e; Western
loss off, 16@17c.
Aug. 29.-The feature In metal circles to-
day was the low record made in spelter
for this year at London, that article
touching 919 g Cd. While it tended to
ket, failed to affect prices materially.
Pig iron warrants are offered at 5000,
with buyers conspicuous by their OBJ
Sence, and the market closed weak.
Copper was quiet and unchanged, both
here and ct London. Lake copper closed
at 1880. Lead was dull and unchanged
at $4.3713 The total expectation OF pig
iron from the United States during the
first seven months of this year amour. 3
to 7,S42,MO tons, against a total of 1880
tons for the same period a year ago.
The brokers' price for lead was 81, and
for copper SIG. 756I16.871a.
% y
29-Cotton-Spot closed quiet and steady;
middling uplands, 97Bc middling gulf,
SIC. Sales, 127 bales.
BOSTON WOOL MARKET-Boston
Aug. 29.-The American Wool Reporter
will say tomorrow: The demand for wool
has been quiet the past week and the
market has on the whole favored the
buyer. Some of the manufacturers to
whom government contracts have been
awarded have been in and purchased fair
sized lines of wool, but the general in
curry has not been at all active On some
lines Of territories buyers can negotiate
on slightly softer terms than they cou'd
couple Of weeks ego. The demand
such as it is, has run to medium and low
woods, notably secured woods Texas ter
riteries and q blood fieeces. Manufac-
turers are doing their purchasing In ac-
cordanee with the size of their orders
received, as the latter have been mod
crate, and they are not buying wool
freely The sales of the week in Boz
ton amounted to 3,074 900 pounds domestic,
and 225,0O0 foreign, making a total OF
S,2se,o coo, against total Of $500, 600 for
the previous week, and total of 3,955 600
for the corresponding week last year
The sale since Jan. amount to 80. O56 500
pounds, against 1874, 72S, COO pounds for the
corresponding time last year The re-
ceipts since Jan. have been 2756oO bales
domestic and 113, 1903 bales foreign. against
45S,S23 bales domestic and 1G6. 573 bales
foreign for the corresponding period last
year. Among the sales Of the last week
were 100000 pounds spring Texas wool AT
20c, equivalent to q clean cost Of about
Soc; 125 600 pounds California at 1Sc, equiy-
alent 70 SIC clean; $4,000 pounds No. :
valley Oregon at 19c; 100000 pounds Mon.
tana at a clean cost Of Soc; 100000 pounds
australian at clean cost ranging from
7Sc to soc clean.