The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-29
oats were a trlae weaker.

Concerning cranberrics. m advice says
what Is stated to be the only cranberry
field on the Pacific coast is located in the
marshes near Long Beach, Wash. There
are about nifty acres In all. cultivated
by Chinese. The crop this season, 1t Is
SAID, will be about GOO barrels
on the refined sugar situation New
York house says:
"a quiet ana embarrassing market has
been experienced New orders are small,
buyers purchasing only snch supplies a
are actually needed to meet urgent wants.
List prices are unchanged, on basis of . 2oc
for Ane graduated. Deliveries are delayed
seven days on most grades OF Softs Whlle
hard sugars are being shipped more
promptly
An advice from Oregon says:
1.-The long continued dry weather has
reduced the potato crop about 50 per cent.
Pruncs in this vicinity are opening slowly
The quality bids fair to be the best. III .
fruit will not be as large as 1t was last
year.
The following special appears In Thurs
days New York Commercial regarding sar-
dimes:
THE seacoast Packing company, other
wise known as the sardine combine, today
rCduced Its prices on domestic sardiucs Soc
per case ON quarter'uils and soc per
case on thrce-quaIter mustards. The new
prices are So . and 81 80. (, o. b. PASSPORT,
drhe combine a few weeks ago advanced
Its quotations Just as much ms II has now
reduced them. The trade, however, did
not buy al the higher hguNs'
Another special to that paper from Birm-
iugham, Ala, gives evidence Of an increase
in Southern pig iron. The correspondent
Gays:
Birmingham. Alas September % An
| uomcement was made here today of an adj
| vance Of 5Oc ON all grades Of pig iron. No.
/ > foundry, the basis was advanced to $ll
/ II ton. j. W Mcqueen. secretary-trcas-
/ urer of the SlosS Sheffield steel and lyon
| company, gave out the information, saving
also that his company last week sold 10000
/ tons of plg IRON ana up to this morning
10000 tons for this week An increased
demand has been felt by all Alabama fur
mace companies
CHECKS 10 tho amount Of Stt7OoO, being
/ dividends of regular quarterly earnings on
preferred stock are now being sent out to
holders of Sloss Sheffield stock
| In speaking Of the mackerel outlook, a
! prominent member OF salt mackercl firm,
who spout two months in Gloucester, Mass,
says through the Journal of Commences
THE mackercl fishing season is about
| over tor this year. When / left Gloucester
| fully - per cent of the feet had given w
/ IT, the results are somewhat meagcr The
/ disappointing catch at present has dis
Couruged fishermen and crews are not read.
/ ily obtaiuahle The catch to date a con,
/ siderahy below that of last year, and,
| moreover, II Is now extremely difficult I'd
] get medium mackerel. The FISH run most,
! ~ FROM 100 to no fish to the barrel. ThIS
! siIc is not SO ready seller as the medium
/ fish. The outlook Is for higher prices as
stocks in the Fast are not large by any
means We have adviCcs from Ireland re-
| porting the catch OF mackcrcl there as
| very dsnouraging ana shipments viii he
| lieht from the present outlook. There is
! n good demand on Norwey mockerrl the
/ short supply OF domestic and Irish mack.
! crcl probably throwing more trade toward
| the Norway fish The catch I'm Norway
| give promise NJ being about the average.
Private mail udNiCpS from Boston today
! reporting on the situation In mNckCrel state
! tLc catch Of domestic Dish numbers around
/ 5SWN barrels. compared with about TOuOO
| barrels last year Prices are advancing
| and as stocks in first hands are lignt II
/ looks Ike scarcity. The demand from
| the Interior is active. hut salesman rcport
q better Inquiry for small nsh or which
/ the supply is light. and it Is probable t6at
| some materal advances viii be In order
/ before the season actually closes The fleet
! Is heing gradually reduced. and to all i'm
! tents and purposes tho domestic fishery ha,
/ closed. The market on Goldfish Is very firm
! aud prices are hardening The demand /,
| active"