Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-18

PRODUCE.

NEW IOIbLAs Duuc 10 IOuI, IC-
ceipts 1857 barrels; exports $3.50 bar
rels; strongly held and a shade higher
on asking prices, but not active. Winter
patents So 1904 05; winter straights.
50 55@3 TO-; Minnesota patent SO 300
4 %; winter extras So 60@2 go; Min
nesota bakers 81 S0@3 10; winter low
grades 81 1902 So.
Rye -four steady; fair to good So 90
as 20; choice to fancy So 25@3 so.
Cornmeal firm; yellow western SEC;
city S5c; Brandywine 81 1902 55.
Rye steady; No. 2 western 63c +. o. b.
afloat; State SOC c. i. +. New York car
lots.
Barley firm; feeding 44@46c c. /. f..
New York; mailing 49h @5ohc C. i. +.
New York.
Barley malt nominal; western 55@
Csc.
Wheat, receipts 10000 bushels; ex-
ports 102, 2S7 bushels; sales 1875, 900
bushels futures, 8 $1,000 bushels spot
spot strong; No. 2 red S6Ac f. o. b..
aloat spot; No. 2 red 82%c elevator;
! No. l Northern Duluth 821bc (. O. b.
| aloat prompt.
Options opened strong on higher
English cables and continued bullish
northwest crop news. The advance met
active realizating, however, under
which prices eased off; market finally
rallied again OF heavy covering and
closed strong at IA net advance;
July rs 13-16c@79%c, closed at 1870;
september 70 13-16@S0Ac, closed at
S0%c.
Corn, receipts 77,025 bushels; ex-
ports AZ, 556 bushels; spot strong: No.
2 46%c t. O. b. afoat, and 45cA elevator;
options opened firm on strong cables
and good covering, but subsequently,
yielded to unloading inspired by
wheat's decline; later the market re-
covered with wheat and closed strong
at Bc advance; July 448 @45c, closed
at 45c; September closed at 451ac.
Oats, receipts IS, 200 bushels; exports
131, 1875 bushels; spot steady; No. 2
BIC; No. 3 26kc; No. 2 white 29hc;
No. 3 white 29c; track mixed western
27@2SAc; track white 29@34hc; OPP
lions quiet but firm.
Hay steady; shipping 65@70c; good
to choice S0Q90c.
Hops quiet; State, common to choice
1899 crop, 11@14c; old olds 3@5c; Pa
ciic coast, 1899 crop, 10@13c; old olds
3@5c.
Hides steady; Galveston, 20 to rs
lbs, 1Sc; California, Il to % lbs, 211a;
Texas, dry, "a to 80 lbs, lac.
Leather quiet; hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres, light to heavy weights, 23k@
2414c; acid 23h@24hc.
Wool quiet; domestic fleece 25@2Sc;
Texas 15@16c.
Coal steady.
Beef steady; family $40 50@12 90;
mess SO 00@9 so; beef hams $40 600
q 90; packet $40 50@11 so; city extra
India mess SIS OOQ17 so.
Cut meats steady; picked bellies
8@9c; picked shoulders 6A@7c; pick
led hams 10@10hc.
Lard firm; western steamed Sc 92H;
refined firm; continent 81 90; S. A.
5 IT'S; compound S. %.
Pork steady; family s13 50@14 25;
short clear $13 50@14 25; mess. S11 rs
OH so.
Butter strong; creamery extras 15h
@19c; factory 14Q15Ac; imitation
creamery 14RQ17hc; State dairy $50
1916.
Cheese strong; large white 95ac;
large colored 95sc; small white 909A;
small colored 9@9Ac.
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylva-
MIA 14@15c; western at mark 10@13h;
western, loss of, 13k@14c.
Tallow steady; city 81 90 per pack
age, 4Bc; country, packages free,
4A@4%c.
Cottonseed oil duh; prime crude 33c
nominal; do. yellow 35@36c.
Petroleum quiet; refined New York
81 So; Philadelphia and Baltimore
81 so; do. in bulk S. 25.
Rosin quiet; strained, common to
good, 81 So.
Turpentine steady at 47@47kc.
Rice firm; domestic, fair to extra,
41s@6Ec; Japan 4%@4Bc.
Molasses steady; New Orleans open
kettle, good to choice, 44@55c.
Peanuts, fancy hand-picked, 4@4Ac;
other domestic 303Ac.
Coffee. spot Rio weak; No. Z invoice
S4sc; mild, market dull and easy; Cor
dova 9A@13hc.
Sugar, raw stronger; fair refining
4hc; centrifugal, SO test, 45sc; mo-
lasses sugar 37sc; refined firm; No. G.,
5.20c; No. Z, 5.15c; No. s, 5.10c; No. 8,
5.05c; No. 10, 5000; No. II, 4.95c;
No. II, 4.90c; No. 10, 4.90c.
CHlCAGO, June ia heavy trade
and also general wheat market to-
day lore testimony to the growing in
terest in the calamity which it was be-
lieyed had befallen a previously prom
Using crop. July closed 1B01Ac ov-
er yesterday. Corn closed PC and
oats Nc improved. July pork closed
25@271ac, July lard 171ac and July
ribs 15c higher.
The wheat market to-day was broad
and excited. The increased outside
interest was especially noticeable, all
though most of the time the trade was
altogether too large to follow in detail.
In a general way ii was a market
made by an army of buyers on one
side and a numerous contingent OF
longs out after profits. The buyers
were the more numerous as well as
the more eager and a strong advance
was the result. July opened sc to lc
higher at 75c to 74@sc and shortly af-
terward sold at 75c. Liverpool was
lid higher, an evidence that the Eng
lish are at last beginning to appre-
ciate something of the reported blight
in the northwest. South Dakota and
Southern Minnesota had some rain
| huf they were NOT general Eror, ths