Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04

also are quiet and unchanged Choice are
quoted at 10a1o15c.; extra choice at 1O1a
al0Ac.; fancy at 11ka12c. Raisins show no
special change. Loose muscatels are quoted
at 4AaGAc seed raisns at Static. London
layers at 500 a115.
Coffee Futures.
The market for coffee futures opened
steady at unchanged prices to an advance
of points on buying. attributed to Euro
pean interests following fairly steady ca-s
bles and good decrease in the visible
supply statement for the month OF May.
Trading rather more active than
Gently and the market held steady through
out the session. The close was steady, net
unchanged to 10 points higher, with sales
of $3.50 bales, including July. at $50;
September at 6.65; November at $50; De-
cember at 600; March at 100
The worlds visible supply statement
shows decrease for the month of 314 994
bags, making the present supply 11,6S2,5S6
bags, against 1850, 26S at this time last
year The leading Brazilian authority esti-
mates receipts at the two ports for the
month of June at 475,000 bags, against
100000 bags last year
Dry Goods.
The dry goods market has been very
quiet today, the leading houses having in
augurated the early-elosing season. The
advancement of prices in numerous cotton
and wooden lines has not led to more han
normal activity among buyers, although
they admit the impossibility of securing
certain goods.
Merchandise.
Total imports of merchandise and dry
goods at the port of New York for the
week ending today were s13.O45.3sO. Total
imports of specie at the port of New York
for the week ending today We're $139,34
silver, and $37 $50 gold.
Iotal exports of specie from the port
of New York for the week ending today
were S64S,2SO silver and no gold.
Metals.
The metal markets We're all quiet and
without quotable change. Spot tin is
quoted at 29.S71aa20 12h. Copper remains
quiet, with lake and electrolytic quoted at
1000 and casting at Il. 10 Lead unchanged
at 4.5Oa4.60; smeiter weak at 535. Iron is
said to be steady tone, bat the general
range is unchanged.
Flour and Produce.
Flour - Receipts 1856, exports 10, $50.
Dull and unsettled. Winter patents 49Oa
525; winter straights, 465a4 so: Minnesota
patent, 560a6 %; winter extras, 3.35a3 70;
Minnesota bakers, 3.75a4.25; winter low
grades, 3.2oa3.65 Rye flour firm Fair to
good. 425a4.60 Choice to fancy 46Oa4 So
Corn meal steady. Fine white and yellow
10, course, 11oa112; kiln dried, 2.S5a2 90
barley dull; feeding. Az elf. New York;
mailing, 46a52 elf. Buffalo Wheat-Re-
ceipts, 4,00O; exports, "a. coo Spot irregular;
NO. red, 1o5ls, nominal, elevator: No.
red, 104as, nominal, fob. af1oat: No
northern Duluth, 1l3s, fob. atioat; No.
nara Manitoba, 103, fob afoat
responding to a weak Liverpool cable,
supplemented by favorable weather and
in h.
estimates for heavy worlds shinments
wheat acted weak all the morning and
closed y to &c. net lower July 93a931bc..
closed 90; September So 3-16aS,i@, closed
S6A; December closed s5a.. GornN Pc
eelpts' Lo'o; exports, 1876. Spot steady;
NO 5S32, elevator, and 5SA fob. afoat;
No 90; yellow, $50; No white. 591a
, 0ption market dull with no transactions,
celpts, 14S6O0 bushels; exports, 2J167 hush
els; spot barely steady; mixed oats. 26 l32
los. 30; natural white. 30a32 lbs 351aa371b:
clipped white, 36a40 lbs, 3612a4o. Hay dull
shipping, 6Oa65; good to choice, 75aS0. Hops
STEADY; state, common to choice 1904. 25a
~; 1903, 22a25; old, 11a13; Pacific coast
1904, 25a2s; 1903. 21a24; old, 11a13 Hides
quiet; Galveston. 2oa25 lbs. 20; California,
Leather firm. Acid, 24a26. Wool steady;
domestic fleece. 32a36. Beef firm; family
l3ooal4.O0; mess, 11.O0a11.5O; beef hame
u Coa22,50; packet, 12.50a13OO; city extra
u
picked bellies, 712aSA; picked shoulders
o12a6; picked hams, 1oa101a. Lard quiet
western steamed 7.10a7.45 nominal Re-
fined irregular; continent, 7.40; S. A, SIS;
14.5oa15.oo; short clear. 13.O0a150o; mess,
Il. 81 Pa 1873 Tallow steady; city (s2 per
pckgs), AZ; country (pckgs. free, 4lka424
Cottonseed oil steady; prime crude nomi-
refined New York, $50; Philadelphia and
Baltimore, $50; do. in bulk, 3.95. Rosin
steady; strained common to good, Alb
Turpentine steady, S01aaS1. Rice firm do
mestic fair to extra, 3Aa5A Japan nom
inal. Molasses quiet; New Orleans open
kettle, good to choice, 29a35. Coffee, spot
Rio quiet; No. invoice. rs; mild steady;
Cordova, 10a13.
sugar-Raw steady. Fair refining, s4;
centrifugal 90 test, AS: molasses sugar, 3lh;
refined steady; No. 6, 5.25; No Z, so; No
8. $40; No. 8, 5.05; No. 10, 500; No IL, 400;
No. II, 4.S5; No. 49, AIS; No. IA, 40; con-
fectioners' A, so; mold A, $40; cut loaf,
6.55; crushed, 8.55; powdered, sos; granu-
lated, 5.S5; cubes, 610.
Cattle, Sheep and Hogs.
Beeves-Receipts, 90; no trading Dressed
beef slow at sa9c. per h.; cables steady;
exports l ,113 beeves and 1855 quarters of
beef. Calves-Receipts, IS; none on sale;
feeling steady; city dressed veals fairly &C
tive at 71za1O1zc. per ID. Sheep and lambs
lambs steady; choice do, firm to shade
higher; sheep sold al 350a4. 80 per 100 lbs
yearlings (unshorn) at 500; no sale of
clipped yearlings; lambs at S.121saS. so;
dressed mutton slow at Ta9hc. per h.;
dressed yearlings steady at 1Ia121ac-: dress
ed lambs at 121aa15c. Hogs-Receipts, 1904;
none sale; feeling steady to firm.
Potatoes.
Potatoes firm; southern rose, 1.5oa2. 90;
state and western, 75a1.00; Jersey sweets.
1OOa225. Peanuts dull; fancy hand picked.
5Aaah; other domestic 3Aa51a; cabbages
easy; Charleston, per Dbl. crate, B0a75.
Freights to Liverpool quiet. Cotton by
steam, 10a13; grain by steam, Id.
Cotton Seed Oil.
Cotton seed oil was steady, with a mod
crate trade Prime crude fob. mills, 221sa
"a: prime summer yellow, 29a29iz; off sum-
mer yellow, nominal; prime white, 30ita31;
prime winter yellow, 301za31.
MARKET FAILED TO BOOM.