The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-31
FRUIT GOING RAPIDLY
HIGH QUALITY AND Low PRICES
ARE CAUSING BRISK DEMAND.
Heavy Sale Of Peaches Helping the
Sugar Market-LocaI Grain Ac-
tive and Easy.

As usual on Friday. trade yesterday gave
no room for complaint. Especially was
this true on Commission row. The fruit Is
so fine and SO abundant and prices so rea-
sonable that the demand is brisk. Instead
of purchasing a little sack OF peaches,
pears. plums or apples the man of small
means takes a basket. and IL is stated that
An no former year have such quantities OF
fruit been sold in the same period as dur
ing the last two weeks. Watermelons and
canteloupes also are selling at very low
prices. Watermelons, fine. lusty fellows,
bring 10 TO % cents on Commission row,
and peaches are proportionately low. y
few oranges are offered but they sell slow
IL. There Is "A little better demand for
lemons with the return OF hot weather.
Irish potatoes show some signs OF breaking
I'm price and are % cents per bushel lower
than a week ago. Cabbage and onions are
i'm better supply.
Wholesale grocers are having a big trade.
Sugar is moving freely and prices are easy
in tone. The plentiful peach crop is in
oreasing the demand for sugars. The Cali
fornia fruit received of late is not up to
the excellent standard OF the past. Prunes.
apricots. raisins and currents are moving
better and prices are firmer. In tropical
AAhAb NV - 0NAiAAt MOiAHN Ol HOlc.
The egg market is very firm at prices
quoted. Cheese and butter are active. but
quotably unchanged. Spring chickens are
in active request; receipts comparatively
speaking, are small with the demand daily
increasing. There are few calls for ducks
The iron and hardware market is active.
the fact that prices have not vet been ma
terially advanced as a result of the steel
strike has tended to lessen the activity in
some articles the hardware stores handle.
Drtr OnndE hnngaG ara hfStr "a. s
moving along much in the same range as
for several lays past.
The local grain market. except ON oats.
Carries an easy tone as TO prices. The
manufacturers of grain products are buv-
ing more freely than ten days ago and the
millers are taking all arrivals OF wheat
of the grade they require at the prices
quoted. The prices on wheat have been
much better held than on corn, which. in is
thought. has yet TO decline to 40 cents per
bushel. Track bids yesterday as reported
by the secretary OF the Board OF Trade
ruled as follows:
whsas-No 2 red. sslsc track: No. 2 red. ssac
Corn-No- I white. 5Sl<c: No. ? white. 5sisc:
No. 3 white. 5stc. No : white. 5Glza569c; No ,
No = white mixed. Siisa5slc: No ? veiaw
sac; No. ) yellow 55ae; No. 4 yellow 5i%G
4 mixed. SiiaH5Siec; ear. 52'zc.
oats-No. : white S7ze. No. . white. selsc;
H@y-No timothy. sl75al2s 5; No. . limo
Inspections-wheat No. red. , cars. Corn,
No. 2 white. I car; No. 5 white. -: No. 3 white
mixed. s. No 3 yellow. 3. No. 4 yellow. /: No. ,
Oats: No. 2 white. ! car: No. mixed. 4. total
5 ears. Hay: No. l timothy: ] car; No. 2 limo
The local grain market is slow. Receipts
are light and prices are easier. Corn is SUI
fering another decline. and IL IL predicted by
some Of tbs Older grain merchants that Il viii
drop 70 zoe a bushel befors. the market will
esy. as reported BY the secretary Of the Board
Of Trade. were weaker than on Monday. and