Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-04

YORK.
Wheat, receipts ga, 800; exports 3D.
$50 bu.; spot dull but firm; No. 2 red
80Ac f. 0. b. afoat; No. 2 red 78Ac
elevator; No. / Northern Duluth STAG
f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 hard Duluth 91Ac
f. o. b. af1oat. Options opened easy,
under weak and disappointing cables
with trade exceptionally dull and en-
tirely local. Decline Of about Ac was
followed early by a partial reaction on
covering on large export demand.
Closed net unchanged. March 7S 1916
@79c, closed 79c; May 10 7-16@7SAc,
closed 795sc; July IS 13-16@79Ac,
closed 79Ac.
Corn, receipts 122, 1870; exports a.
1928; spot dull; No. 2 4SRc elevator
and 47%c f. o.. b. afoat. Options open
ed dull and nominal. Selling checked
by the s~peculatively strong statistical
position and warmer weather being
against improvement in grading. May
closed 465sc; July closed 1880.
Oats. receipts $4,000 bu.; exports
30a4c; No. 2 white 321ac; track mixed
western 30h Q32c; track white SEQ
36hc; options dull and nominal.
Hops quiet; State, common to choice
1900 crop, 17@20c; 1899, 11@15c; old
olds 2@5c; Pacific coats 1900 crop 17@
19c; 1899, 11@15c; old olds 296c,
Hides steady, Galveston 20 to %
pounds 1874 @19c; Calf. 81 to rs
pounds, 19c; Texas dry "A to 80 pounds
14h else.
Leather steady, hemiock sole Buenos
Ayres light to heavy weights 24W2oc;
acid 3hW2419c.
Wool quiet; domestic fleece, 24@26c;
Texas 15@17c.
Coal quiet.
Beef quiet; family s11911 so; mess
S. 50W9 SO; beef hams SIS 500 10 co.;
packet SO 50Q10 so. City extra In
dia mess $14Q16 90.
Cutmeats steady; picked bellies SO
10c; picked shoulders SIZE; picked
hams 9H@10c.
Lard steady; western steamed 81 IS;
refined quiet; continent ST So; S. A.
IS so; compound 5R@Bc.
Pork quiet, family S15 so; short
clear s14 75Q16 81; mess $14@14 so.
Butter weak; fresh creamery ITO
23c; factory 11@15e; June creamery is
@20c; imitation creamery 141a @19c;
CCaLe Udlry IoQAAC.
Cheese firm; fancy large colored and
white 111c; fancy small colored 12A@
12Kc; fancy small white 12@12Ac.
Eggs easy; State and Penna. at
mark 13@14c. western at mark 15K@
&c; Southern at marx 15915Ac.
Tallow steady; city 4Ac; country
AS @51sc.
Cottonseed oil steady; prime crude
2715c; do yellow 29Ac.
Petroleum quiet; refined New York
81 95, Philadelphia and Baltimore 81 80
do in bulk SIS IS.
Rosin quiet; strained common to
good 81 60.
Turpentine dull; 41@41kc.
Rice steady; domestic fair to extra
3B @6Ac; Japan 4&@4Rc.
Molasses steady; New Orleans open
kettle good to choice 32Q40c.
Peanuts quiet; fancy handpicked 4%
Q5c; other domestic sc.
Coffee futures opened irregular with
January 5 points higher; February Is
points higher and other months I'M
changed to 5 points lower; soon after
the call the market turned firm and
advanced rapidly on energetic buying
1OI UOLL dCCOuiiSJ leu ny TIC sOCdl Jun
clique and held at the best figures dur
ing the rest of the forenoon with SEN
timent bullish. Early French cables
and Brazilian receipts were bearlsh
but Offset by a decided exchange rate
advance in Rio, an advance in German
market, increased spot demand here
and lack of bear courage. Trading was
fairly active. The market closed steady
with prices 10 to 20 points net higher.
Total sales were % $3.50 bags, including
March at Sc 80; April IS 35; May Sc 45
@6 so; June IS so; July S. 35@6 SO:
Sept. So 50G6 go; Oct. Sc 55@6 65;
Nov. Sc 65; Dec. Sc 65@6 so and Feb.
Sc IS. Spot coffee, Rio firm; No. Z in
voice 1850; mild steady; Cordova So
@12hc.
Sugar, raw steady but quiet; fair re-
fining 8 11-16; centrifugal So test
4 3-16. Molasses sugar 3 7-16c;; re-
fined steady. Standard A, S. 30; con-
fectioners A, IS so; mould A, SIS So;
cut, loaf, So 90; crushed SIS 90; powder
ed So go; graduated S. so; cubes S. 70.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2.-FNheat
dull and unchanged; contract grades
March 77@kc.
Corn quiet, unchanged; No. 2 mixed
March 441aQ&c.
Cats steady; No. 2 white clipped 33c.
Butter h@1c lower; fancy western
Seamery 2313; do prints 23Rc; do
nearby prints 24c.
Eggs dull and 1@1thc lower; fresh
nearby and western 16hc; do South
western Ice; do Southern 15c.
Cheese firm: New York full creams
fancy small 12c; do fair to choice 10A
@11Ac.
Refined sugar unchanged.
Cotton steady.
Tallow steady: city prime in hhds.
4%c; country, prime in bbls. 4h@A;
cakes SAKE.
Live poultry quiet but steady: fowls
10011c; old BOOSTERS 7c; chickens 10
ollie; winter chickens 11G14c; ducks
12913c; geese 11G12c; turkeys "a
1oc.
Dressed poultry unchanged.
BALTIMORE. March Flour dull
and unchanged: receipts, 1857; ex-
ports. 1854.
Wheat irmer; spot and March. 76x
@77c; May. 7SH@ 7Skc: steamer No.
2 red, TAN @ ~ receipts. 17,24s; south