The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-03


barrels; exports 1888 barrels; market
aulet as holders ask an advance which
the trade was unwilling to meet. Rye
flour dull. Cornmeal strong; yellow
western soc; city, SIC; brandywine
wheat. receipts 10000 bushels; ex-
ports 74.SS5 bushels; spot market
steady: No. 2 red SOlsc T. o. b.; NO. 2
red TIC elevator; No. Northern Du-
luth 77&c (. o. b. afioat prompt; No. /
hard Duluth 79sSc I. o. b. ahoat prompt;
options were under bull control pretty
much all day, with one exception at
noon, when local realizing prompted
brief setback. The chief buying mo-
tives were crop complaints from Eu-
rope, higher cables and strength In
corn and provisions. Closed very
steady at kG%c net advance; May,
73M674 5-l6c; closed at 745c; July
74Ik@74 9-lGc; closed at 7SHc; Septem-
Der 74K 674Ihc; closed at 743zc.
Corn, receipts 161. $50 bushels; exports
122,sT7 bushels, spot market strong;
No. 2, 457Sc I. o. b. afloGt, and 46Ac ele-
vator: options market was In q strong
position from start to finish, advancing
on HIGHER cables. big clearances ex-
port business, small country accept
auces and general commission house
support, closed 1s9%c net higher; May
44ISd45c: closed at 45c; July 44&9
40 5-16c; closed at 45kc.
Oats. receipts 1853, 900 bushel;; exports
S47j bushels; spot market steady; No.
2, 29c; No. 3. 2slsc: No. white 32c: No.
3 white Sic; track mixed western 29@
SOC; track white 3lh935c; options dull
but steady; May closed Mt 2S9c; No. 2
white oats, May, 309tc; closed at 3O&c.
Hay steady. Hops quiet. Hides firm
er. Leather steady. Coal quiet. Beef
quiet. Cutmeats steady; picked bellies
fGSc; do shoulders G1sc; do hams lOh@
10Ac. Lard firm; western steamed
Sc IS: refined firm; continent, 81 90; s.
A. S7-25; compound, 61k669sc.
Pork firm. Butter steady. Cheese
easy. Eggs firm. Tallow quiet; city.
SIC: country, 5&G5asc. Cottonsaed oil
quiet; prime crude 3S4GS4c: do yellow
S6iaa36%c.
RosIn quiet. Turpentlne firm. Rice
molasses and peanuts steady.
Coffee, spot Rio nominal No. In
voice 7%c: do jobbing sac; mild quiet:
cordova, 9lGc. The market for futures
opened steady. with prices unchanged
10 points lower. and ruled unsettled
during forenoon under light liquidation
and bear selling. prompted by disap-
pointing cables, reduction Of 1sc in the
price OF roasted coffee by warning
roasters and apathetic demand from
spot article. Rallied in the afternoon
on covering and the lull in liquidation.
Speculation as a whole was quite ac-
tive. The market closed steady at
unchanged prices to points higher:
total sales, $1,000 bags, including April
at Sc 40; May, S6 40; July. Sc %; Aug
ust, Sc so; September, SO 55G6 60; Qcto-
Der, Sc 60G6 65; November, So 65G6 10:
December, Sc 30: January, Sc 50.
BALTIMoRE-Flou quiet, steady
and unchanged: receipts 1916 barrels;
exports 597 barrels. Wheat dull: spot,
month and May 73k97S$c; steamer
No. 9 red 6S&G69c; receipts 21,5l5
bushels; southern by sample 7oa'5c; do
on grade 70is674hc. Corn firmer; mix
ed spot. month, 4SA94S%c: May. $40
4Skc: steamer mixed 42hG42Sc: re-
ccipts 1G2.lf3 bushels: exports 2s2.554
bushels; southern white 4SlG@44Hc; do
white sOa3oKc, No. mixed 2S02slic.
Hay firm: No. timothy SIG 80. Cheese
market steady for fancy small make;
large, 136i3lSc; medium, 13halS15c;
small, 1SIsalS&c. Butter firm and I'M
changed; fancy creamery 25326c: do
imitation 2l62Sc; do ladle 19922c; good
do lS6l9c: store packed l7dlSc; rolls,
1762Oc. Eggs, l29l2lsc.
CINCINNATI-Flour quiet; fancy
50 1903 20; family 81 5OG2 so. Wheat
firm; No. red 72hc. Corn firm and
higher; No. mixed i@pEc. Oats
steady: No. mixed 26i4c. Rye firm at
soc. Lard quiet at Sc 30. Bulkmeats
firm at Sc TN. Bacon firm at 81 80.