The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-26
QUlETER TIMES AT HAND
MIDSUMMER DULLNESS IN SEVERAL
LINES OF TRADE.
GrOcers, However, Continue Busy, and
Commission Houses Handle Much
Fruit-Grain Market Quiet.

A trip through the wholesale streets yes
terday made it plainly apparent that the
present heated term is curtailing business.
In the dry goods houses clerks are stand
ing round talking vacation, and the same is
true in the millinery, hat and cap houses.
The wholesale grocers. however. are quite
busy filling orders sent in by travelling
statesmen. the proximity of harvest MAX
ing trade brisk with retail merchants in
the larger towns and cities. The unset
tied condition of the sugar market is not
of sufficient Importance to affect sales. The
demand for sugar is seldom larger than
at the present time, as is usually the case
when fruit crops are good The hardware
and iron merchants now, as for some
months past doing an unprecedentedly
large business With the wholesale con-
fectionery houses it is rather quiet. On
Commission row there is a good deal of
activity. People who do their own fruit
canning are liberal buyers. and never be-
fore have they been able to purchase cher
ries, currants, gooSeberries and other small
fruits at low figures as this season.
There are some strawberries offered still
at the low figures, but they are not very
desirable, being In bad condition Few
new apples are offered on the market,
and these are small and Improbable to
handle. Irish potatoes are weaker, with
receipts increasing, and cabbage, onions,
and similar vegetables are meeting with
fair sale and steady in price Poultry
is more active, young chickens and good
fat healthy hens being in good request,
Notwithstanding the relatively high prices
Eggs. If fresh stock are meeting with
active sale at prices quoted, being &c
lower. Butter. II choice, is readily dis
posed or. but the poorer grades are NOV
ing slowly. With the daily decline in the
price OF wheat the flour market is losing
much OF its strength, but as yet prices have
not materially declined. as the grades of
wheat used for flour sold on this market
are such command the highest prices
and millers cannot operate, even at present
prices of wheat. with much profit. In other
markets there were no new features Lin
seed oil, which has been advancing so rap
idly of late, yesterday ruled steady Ii is
noticeable that nearly every article handled
by druggists has hardening tendency.
The local in market moves along much
in the rut OF me past month. Receipts vary
from day 10 day, and are falling below
the corresponding period last year consider
ably. The Touring mills and cerealine man
ufacturers find 1t difficult to keep a supply
of the grades of grain they need TO keep
running half their capacity. Track bids
yesterday. as reported by the secretary of
the Board OF Trade. ruled as follows, wheat
being weak and corn and oats steady:
Wheat-No. red, CSC. track; No. > red 65c
on milling freight: No. red. 62AQ6SAc: wagon
Corn-No. white 4n4c: No. . white 44.c: No.
wh Me m,. st t S No White m,sed 81 No;
white mixed, 81. G40hc: No. . yellow, SSNSl
4ohc: No. yellow. 42Lc: No. yellow SID
uise: No. mixed. ielsc' No mixed. i2lfc; No.
1 mixed, 42isc; ear. ils.c.
oats-No. white. SOAc; No. white. 29Ac.
No mixed, 2SikH2S[c: No. mixed Zizd27Lc
Hay-No. / timothy. $il.5oGl2; No timothy.
$40 50Gll.
Inspections-wheat: No . red cars; re-
jected red. 2: understandable red. .; total 6
cars. Corn: No. white car; No white,
). No. white mixed. 1: No. mixed. l. total, 5
cars. Oats Rejected mixed car.
WAGON MARKET.
Corn-40d42c.
Oats-2SQSoc per bu-
Hay-Timothy, choice. sl0QR: mixed. $500;
clover yds per ton.
Sheaf Oats-s7QS per ton