The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS

COFFEE AND SUGAR-New York
Feb. 5.-sugar-Raw seady. Spot coffee;
quiet; Cordova, 8Q121ac. Coffee futures
opened steady with prices points lower
III sympathy with weakness in the Ham
burg and Rio markets: also under large
Brazilian port and interior re ceipts, fur
Their talk of record breaking new crop,
weight Of long coffee, and selling for
short account; ruled quiet with a weak
undertone all day. spot demand was slug
gish, and the public Indifferent. Cover.
ing caused a rally near the close. The
market closed steady with prices net I'M
changed. Total sales, q. 506 bags, inciufl-
ing March, 1905. 45c, May 5.55c, July
5. 55Q5.6oc; september 500 and October
5.75c.
WOOL. MARKET-Bosto Feb. 5.-Tne
wool market showed more life this week
and the sales show a liberal Increase
although 1t cannot be said that III all the
sales full fotner prices were paid The
bulk OF the business was in territory
grade, with fire medium and fine staple
in secured selling at 45@47c, while tie
strictly staple article calls for 46{J50c
Dealers in Australian woods report a fair
inquiry and some importing houses lave
sold good lines to leading manufacturers.
Following are the quotations for leading
eqescGiptons Ohio and Pennsylvania
29(t30C; No. 1 combing, 28G29c: No. and
.three-eighths blood 2S@29c; quarter blood
washed, 27lTZSc; coarse and braid washed,
29q26c; quarter blood unwashed, 23W2lc;
Michigan. Wisconsin, etc, K Michigan,
2"023c; Nc. l Michigan ccmbing 27@23c;
No. Go, 26Gf2lc; quarter blood washed
26@27c; coarse and braid washed, 25Gi26c
fine delaine, 2l@25c. Unwashed, medium
etc: kentucky and Indiana quarter
blood eombing 23@24c; three-eighths ciood
2eQ24c; Missouri quarter blood, combing,
22U23c; tlDEee-eighths blood, 22023c; braid
Combing, 20QZ1c; lake and Georgia, 30
Territory, secured basis: Montana and
Wyoming, fine medium and fine. 154f63;
secured, 45Q47c; staple, 47@50c; Idaho
q rod
45QI46c; staple, 47GtJ0c. Australian,
secured basis. spot prices, combing, SUI
perfine, no1rinal, 73Q75c; good 57070c;
METAL MARl<ETS-Ne York. Feb. 8.
The local metal market was irregular
and generally easier today Speculative
dealings, however, Were, very meaSer,
and business was of Il hand to mouth
ehara ter. Tin IN London ruled unchang-
ed at G122 lis, but locally, however, tin
was about Is points lower, chiefly due to
a lack of demand and the large arrivals
of late. The close was easy at S26.2 Esq
$3.50, with trading slow. Copper was
sympathetieaily easy, rejecting lower
market abroad where prices went off
was very slack here, and he Ia 5es of
operations were unchanged at 17c for
Lake Superior and 1886 for casting and
electrolNtic, but sellers could be found
readily at these figures. Spelter was
weak and five POINTS lower, prices abroad
were also IS lower at SIS. The io1aI
noted at the decline, So. 95@4 being the
basis. In domestic iron markets little
disposition was manifested to buy, prices
ruling unchanged. English markets
were firner, but failed to affect the local
situation. At Glasgow the close was SIS,
and at MiGdIesbero AIS Cd.
COTTON MARKET-New York, Feb. 5
Spot duh, 1sc lower; middling upiands. Ssz c;
middlirg gulf 16c no sales; futures clos
ed barely steady; February, SIZE: March,
9.21c; April, 9.16c; May. 9.19c; June, 9l5e;
July, Size; August, S.S2c; September,
S.S4c; October. S.14c; November, sole; De-
cember, 7e3c.
s. Butter-Receipts, 6,729 pkgs; firm;
fresh creamery, 16@21;2c; June creamery,
15@1912c; factory, 11Gl415c Cheese-Re-
made, 11lGpf11kc; fancy small fail made.
1IS4GDl2c. Eggs-Receipts. $3.50 pkgs; firm
Western. at mark, &c; Southern at mark
19126201zc.