The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-22
GOSSIP OF THE MARKETS

Weather at noon: Grand Forks-Cloudy and
looks like rain. Comstock-C1oudy and COOL &c
above Winnipeg--Very dark and cloudy. Looks
like rain; about 80 above. Fargo-Cloudy, cool.
Hillsboro-Fery cloudy north and looks like
more rain. St. Cloud-Cloudy and cool. 65 above.
Ware and Leland sold September corn. =
Peoria, ILL.,, wired: ''This is certainly ideal
corn weather. Had had this weather few
weeks ago, there would be no cause for COM
plant. AS it is it viii harden considerably
Fremont, Neb., wired:S5. Oats yield more
than last year. =. - r %
Total clearances: Wheat, 522, COO bu; flour,
$1,000 brls; corn, 81 900 bu; oats l4,Coo bu;
wheat and -four equaled &C.. 900 bu.
Ferhoetf, from Milmine Wheat strong OH
rain, reports of locusts in Argentina. light re
ceipts and buying here by the northwest. Corn
and oats dull but firm. Il
Piper from New York: For the past year
Southern Pacific showed surplus, taking into
account the amount included in operating ex-
perses. which was readily appropriate ted flor bet
terments and protection, equal to about 10 per
cent OH common stock. This is the actual show
ing of the company without allowance for equip
ment in maintenance accounts.
|: Jim Rankin selling December wheat. e.
New York-The meeting of Norfolk & Western
directors which was to have been held today
will not be held because there is no quorum. 1t
is probable that the meeting will go over until
early NEXT month h.-r=-r- .% mi .
/ Time money in New York is much frmer; 6
per cent is bid for all dates from ninety days
| TO seven months. and very little money is forth
coming. ~ q E 80 ~.
| St.. Louis. clear; a. Jefferson City. clear: 10
Cairo. cloudy. warm: Vandalia. clear;T Terre
| Haute. clear; u. Omaha. partly cloudy; waEn.
The selling in Great Northern preferred by
Kuhn.Loeb brokers has appeared again.
Mills Brothers bought about 20 600 shares OF
| Pennsy 1Tania, presumed to be for Philadelphia
]! houses. ~ FL. -..- jill. $50 %
The earthquake damage in South America
surance companies is not large.
|! Steel trade authorities do not look for any
| general advance in prices of their products at
Armour selling quite a lot of December wheat
! New York wired that export, bids are &c
/, wheat Finley Barrell buying.e
+ Country acceptances of wheat and oats light
| but corn increasing. ~Eg.<E.
Berlin close: Wheat 1c lower b
Budapest cose Wheat 1ac lower.
Liverpool close: Wheat &@Ed higher. Corn.
| Reports from Kansas and southern Nebraska
say corn must have rain or farmers will
cut the com for fodder
Broomhnll, Liverpool-Wheat steady, I'D high
er at opening followed by further advance OF
IA. Shorts were principal buyers, stimulated
ported to Manitoba crop and strong Winnipeg
market. Corn steady. unchanged at opening
there was an advance of I'd owing to firmer
very few speculative offerings. @
New York to c. e. Lewis: For the better par:
sharply and the undertone was little. stronger
than yesterdays close. There no definite
news for the rapid advance of Great Northern
(which advanced 10 points from 31I II TO 3274
| in the frst 10 minutes. and as the Steel stocks
did not sympathfze to any great extent with
above rather disappointed the traders.
Chicago-The open board free seller OF
,3scptember, wheat in last ten minutes.
J. A. Patten says: we have raised this
year thirty five to forty million bushels more
of barley than last year, which is much more
than this country can consume for mailing
purposes. 1t will have to be used for feeding
purpose in order to dispose of the crop, ant
4 the lever grades will nndoubtedly sell at sucl
prices that 1t can be used to mix with oats
Las has been done in past years: This. surplus
of barley viii make up largely for the de
Aciency in the cat yield. -