Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-11

first appearance on the market Tues
day and is now selling at $3.50.
Other Fruits-Gooseberries have
advanced and r practically off the
market on account of the ~lateness of
the season. Cherries, blackcaps and
peaches have declined.
Potatoes-Old potatoes have ad-
vanced to soc per sack. New potatoes
have declined and are now selling at
&c per pound. At Chicago there was
a sharp advance in new potatoes on
account of restricted receipts.
Other acknowledgements is
off the market. Walla Walla cabbage
has advanced to $2.25. Turnips have
declined to soc, and beans to &c. Hot
house lettuce is off the market. Hot
house cukes have declined, also as
paragus and tomatoes. Artichokes
are off the market.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat-Business in this depart
ment is practically at a standstill with
quotations steadily on the decline.
Bluestem is now quoted, sacked, at
80Bc, Red Russian at 7Rc, and Club
at 78Rc. AS practically all the grain
LOS bSSA HOfCO lLOu1 LAO IAICllOI anu
millers r pretty we'll supplied for
this season, interest naturally centers
in the new wheat crop coming on.
Although in some sections of the
country slight damage has been
caused by the heavy rains, conditions
on the whole are excellent. Especial
ly is this true in the Big Bend coun-
try, where the grain usually suffers
from a want of moisture.
Flour-Locally conditions remain
unchanged with business somewhat
quiet. A report from Portland says:
While a total of sales for the week
past has been somewhat heavier than
the preceding weeks, the market is
far from being active.
Feed-The only change in quota
lions in this department was a slight
decline in oats during the latter part
of last week. Prices, however, have
stiffened and are now holding strong
at $31. Alfalfa is strong on account
of the damage done to the new crop
by the heavy rains. Timothy is weak.
Tacoma.
Wheat-The natural condition for
the transition from the old crop to
the new are prevalent in the local
market. There is practical stagna-
ton, with no representative demands
from any source, and very little stock
offering, while the undertone to the
price situation is steadily weakening.
Bluestem wheat is now selling down
to csc, and club is holding at 9Oc,
but these figures are largely nominal,
because of the fact that the require
ments are well supplied for the mo-
ment, while those who have requisi-
lions in sight are waiting the advent
of the new crop year, with the ex-
pectations of lower rulings.
Some little business has been done
in the way of contracts for future
delivery at around the usual opening
figures for the season, or about SIC
for club, although there has been no
pronounced activity in the direction
of entering into future engagements,
few advance cargo sales abroad, and
very little done in the way of char
tering. The charter situation is mod
flied to some extent, however, in
favor of shippers, it being possible
TO engage steamers at around IS
shillings, with sailers holding .nomi-
nal at 32s cd, though no new en-
gagements have recently been re-
ported.
Receipts of wheat at Tacoma for
the week were IS cars, and for the
month Of June 459 cars, as compared
with 43S for May and 400 cars for
April. The total for the first six
months of the calendar year has beer
1898 cars.
Flour-The situation continues 10
hold one of quiet, with no new bust
ness reported, and the mills generally
pretty we'll closed down during the
holiday week. 1t is expected that
with the advent of new crop pre- ;
there will be termination in tn, DE
mands from the Orient. hut at,pr,s
ent little business is being dom, 3d.,
that account, while patents ar, ", g
ing at about former conditions