East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-08
FEED BARLEY HAS
ADVANCED so CENTS
ENTIRE COARSE GRAIN
MARKET is FIRMER
Wheat Quiet at Former Range-Ex-
celIent Price Ruling in Most Live
stock Lines-Potatoes still Boom
inH
Fridays Journal.)


Coarse grains are again former and
an advance of soc a ton is again
showing in the barley trade. Feed
barley bids range as high as $27 a
ten, although "a few are still offering
no higher than $26.50. However, the
latter state that they are unable to
buy at the price bid.
oats trade is firm but quiet on ac-
count of the limited offering. No. ]
white is quoted at $3.50 to $1,000
but practically no supply is available
under $500 ton track delivery
here. Even at this price the offer
ings are limited.
Millstuffs are firmer and an ad-
vance of soc a ton is generally quot
ed by local millers.
Wheat trade is quiet but firm. Bids
are out for club at S2@S2 1-2c a
bushel, track delivery, while bluestem
would bring S5c to SIC a bushel, ac-
cording to the needs of the bidder.
A small amount of export business
Is still showing in the flour marke ct
with bids between $3.50@3.60 per bar
rel. Patent trade is firm and some
what more active.
Livestock Market Excellent.
| Top prices in the cattle or sheep
market were not tested today but
conditions remain fully as strong as
yesterday when advanced quotations
went into effect.
| While there was a big run of hogs
in the yards today. only the portion
Of one load was available for the
trade. the remainder being purchased
on contract in the east by a local meat
company.
There was a weaker tone in the
swine market at South Omaha today
and prices We're cut 1Oc. This left the
top price there at $40, making the
landing price at Pacific northwest
packing points $3.50 per hundred
pounds.
Chicago market showed n small am
cunt of strength at the opening of to-
days trade but the closing of the
market was not so good. The late
weakness was due to the fact that the
run of hogs is increasing faster than
anticipated. Packing of hogs from
March l at western centers shows an
ago. However the increase has been
discounted for some time by the great
slump in the price since then.
Sheep and lamb market is firm with
no general change in the situation.
one lot of spring lambs brought in on
contracts went to a Sound packer at
$40.
Potatoes Still Booming.
Selected seed potatoes are today
selling as high as s2.25 in the local
market, although few lots are quoted
above 81. The market for potatoes is
firm for all descriptions and trash is
today commanding about as good
figures as the best offerings at the
start Of the season.
Fancy table stock is firm at 80 per
Genital locally and it has been noted
that some Of the sales at this figure
during the past "a hours have not
been so very fancy after all
Buying at country points has prac-
ucally ceased because remaining lots
held by growers are not offering at
any price just now. The same is true
Of the Yakima section, where grow
ers were over-anxious to let go at
lower prices a short time ago.
Talk of importations from the east
continues. but no arrivals from the
outside have as yet been reported
here. Most of the bullsh talk now
heard in the potato market comes
from dealers who are long on supplies
and therefore are in a position to reap
any benefits that may come from
higher prices.
While the call for seed potatoes re-
rently has not been active in this
market, inquiries are much more nu-
merous and the local trade expects
bigger demand than supply before
long.
Potatoes are quoted unchanged
both in the north and in the south
today.
Apple Market.
Apple market is about cleaned I'D
for the season. locally the offerings
are limited, but the best of these are
generally quoted around $3.50 per
box. Spitzenbergs are practically out
or the market and the only remaining
lots consist of a few boxes of choice
that are quoted firm at $2
Some fancy Red Checked Pippins
from Mosier are still available but
prices do not range above $2.5O and
some sales OF slightly inferior color
ing are shown down to $225. A small
amount of Lawyers are showing with
sales between 50 and s225, according
to quality and coloring.
Northern Spies are about exhaust
ed. a few boxes of common stuff
show quotations around $3.50 for five
tier stock. This quotation alone shows
the strength of the present apple
market here
Ben Davis is in greatest supply with
best at s1.25 to $3.50 a box.
The Northwestern Fruit Exchange
In a late circular says of the general
situation:
THE apple market continues ex-
eeedingly strong, under very heavy
inquiry and very light offerings. The
exchange has just made a sale which
perhaps will stand as the record sale
of the northwest for the apple sea-
son of 1910-11.
Car G. n. 1890 from Sherman
Spur, Washington, March 90, contain
ing 500 boxes extra fancy Winesaps