The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-29
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
Market Report ovsr Gate City


Sheep receipts 1000: market
strong. 15c higher. Lambs, $3.50
s.s5; ewes. $5.2506.oo; wethers. 1915
@75o.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, Dec. 29.-Cattle receipts
1900; market mostly 1Oc higher.
Steers, $s.00@9.75; cows and heifers.
.$5.75@7.25: stockers and feeders.
$7.7o@s.15; calves. $7O0@s.00: bulls
and stays, $5.00@6.75.
Hog receipts 1880; market loo
lower. Bulk, $7.O0@7.10; top. 37.16.
Sheep receipts $500; market
steady. Yearlings, $7.oo@7.bo; weth-
ers. $6.25@6.5O: lambs. $s.5o0S.7o;
ewes, so.40@ $40.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-Butter-Extras
331s oslo; firsts. PIN @S0c; dairy ex-
tras. S1@3215c; dairy firsts, 27h0
2Shc
Eggs-Firsts. 33@33Ac; ordinary
firsts, 31@31hc.
Cheese Twins, 14@14Ac; Young
Americas. 14k@14Ac.
Potatoes-Re % cars: Wis
consin whites, 35@45c: red, s504oc;
Michigan whites, 35@45c; red, $50
4Oc
Live poultry Fowls. lie; ducks.
136131ac: geese. 12012hc; spring
chickens, 11hc; turkeys, lac.
New York Produce Market.
NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-Flour- Mar
ket dull. unsettled.
Pork Market dull. Mess. $1s.6o@
1000.
Lard-Market firm. Middae west
spot. $10.6O@1O 80.
Sugar. raw, market firm. Centrifu-
gal test, $401; Muscavado SO test.
1886.
Sugar. refined. market arm. Cut
load, 1855; crushed, 1915; powdered,
s5.65@515; granulated. 1895 05o5.
Coffee Rio No. Z on spot, 7h07sko.
Tallow-Market steady. City, &c:
country. 81 @6Hc; samples. SIC.
Hay-Market frm. scarce. Prime.
s1.15; No. 3, 95@s71kc; clover, s7h
@$1.05.
Dressed poultry, market quiet Tsir.
keys. 12@24c: chickens. 130cbc;
fowls. 12A@17c; ducks, 10017c.
Live poultry, market arm. Geese.
14@15c; ducks, 1414 @16c; fowls, 1919
@15c; turkeys. 19c; roosters. 119
12kc: chickens, 123kc.
Cheese-Market quiet. state milk
~r4oto1 foM1cn. t,,vt .lfyn~
3k@6c; Skins common to specials.
7@10hc.
Butter Firmer; receipts. 1926.
Creamery extras. 351sc; dairy tubs.
24634c; imitation creamery frsts,
!25@25hc.
Eggs - Firmer: receipts. 1896;
nearby white fancy, 47c@49c; nearby
mixed fancy, 37G40c; fresh. 37@ 40c.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-Money on
call, ~ percent.
Six months, s1k@4 percent.
Mercantile paper. 4@4h percent.
Bar silver New York. 4s% @4SHc.
Demand sterling. $4.85.
st. Louis Hay Market.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 2S.--Market
quiet, demand light; receipts at St.
Louis, 10 cars; at East St. Louis. 81
cars; choice timothy, $1,000; No. i
timothy, $17.0O61s.50: No. 2 timothy,
Sl4.5o@16.50; No. timothy. $4,000
1880.
Advances Held.
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NEW YORK, Dee. 29.-Monday's
advances were generally we'll held to-
day at the opening OF the stock mar
ket The market was fairly quiet and
somewhat irregular. Amalgamated
| copper unchanged.
| Stocks did not move much In either
direction A small decline soon after
the opening, was recovering little
later.
Why Wheat sIumped.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-"For sweet
icharity's sake" James A. Patten,
grain king, who engineered the fam
Gus wheat corner OF a few years ago.
| upset the Chicago board OF trade and
! had spectators in the biggest wheat
market in the world on a nervous
edge all day today.
Patten admitted today that the $685.
900 he says he made In a few min
utes of lively trading yesterday, went
/ to charity. He kept out enough for
Giving expenses" for the day. he said.
Other spectators say the grain kings
earnings when he suddenly unloaded
100000 bushels of wheat on the floor
! were in excess Of $4,000.
Patten bought two million bushels
Of wheat for May delivery WHEN the
price was about S1.21h. ID began