The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-10-09
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.

II KEFCKIS.
Portland - Wheat trading in thu
country was limited, not only because
Of the extreme prices asked by farm
ers, but also owing to the congestet
condition Of the docks here and at ths
Sound ports.
Local buyers on the Exchange bic
lower for club and red wheat, offering
"a cents for the former and 8808s
cents for the latter, but for forty-fold
bids were advanced half cent to 98l
cents. Bluestem was unchanged al
$1.02a bid.
Weakness was in evidence in the
oats and barley markets. For spot
oats, buyers offered $3.50 and fol
November oats, $26.50. For barley
$40 was bid. Mill feed was unchanged
Wheat = Bid: Bluestem, S1.02a'
per bushel; forty-fold, 98tc; club
90c; red Russian, 88c; red Fife, 89c
Oats - Bid: No. white feed
$25. so per ton.
Barley--Bid: No. feed. $40 pei
ton; brewing, $40; bran, $23; shorts
| $24.5O.
Millfeed-Spot prices: Bran, $3.50
$3.50 per ton; shorts, $28@28. 80
rolled barley, $28.
Corn-Whole, s3S per ton; cracked
$50.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, SIT
@17 per ton; grain hay, $l1@12; al
falfa, $12@13.5O.
The English hop crop is turning out
to be larger than was estimated
Every cable received in the past few
days makes the quantity greater. The
cables estimated q yield of 500, ,00(
cwt., and cable sent by one Of the
largest London firms said the croE
would be 100000 cwt. Either the
English merchants were badly fooled
by the size of the crop before it was
picked, for they estimated it then at
$50, 900 to 400, 600 cwt., or they are
trying by means of these big figures tc
get prices down. The market in
London has gone off badly. A cable
quotation being so to 80 shillings pei
cwt., equal to 1911 to 1929 cents pei
pound.
This break in London prices is not
only severe blow to the English hor
growers, but it is also carrying down
hop prices on the Pacific Coast. The
best price reported in the local market
is 1871 cents. The market stood al
that figure just before the war. After
hostilities began prices started climb
ing until they touched 1919 cents and
fraction over. Now they are back
again where they started. These low
prices, if they are maintained, will
give the shorts an opportunity to cover
their sales at a profit. Thousands Of
bales of Oregon hops were sold short
for October delivery at IA to 18 cents
Two individual sales of 1000 bales
each are known to have been made
within this range Of prices. An active
covering movement in the near future
can therefore be looked for.
Eggs - Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 32hc per dozen; candled, $50
35c.
Poultry = Hens, l3@13a cents pei
pound; turkeys, young, Is a Zoe
ducks, 10@11c; geese, lO@11c.
Butter - Creamery prints, extras
35c per pound; cubes, 30@32c.
Pork-B Block, 10s@13c per pound.
Veal-Fancy, 12A@13c per pound
rough and heavy, 9@l0c.
Vegetables Cucumbers, $1.50 pei
box; eggplant, 7c per pound; peppers,
&c; artichokes, s5c@$l per box; to.
matoes, 3O@60c per crate; cabbage,
lhc per pound; peas, 10@l1c; beans,
6@sc; corn, 75c@s1 per sack; celery,
50@85c per dozen; caulifower, $1.2t
Oils; asparagus, $2.25; sprouts, 1Oc
per pound.
Onions--Y Yellow, $1@l.25 per sack,
Green Fruits - Apples. 75c@$1. &c
per box; cantaloupes, 81 "a 1.50 pei
crate; casabas, $1.25@1. so per dozen
pears, $l@1. 80 per box; peaches, 45@
65c; grapes, 75c@$l.5O per crate
cranberries, $3.50 per barrel.
Potatoes - Oregon, $l.S5@1. 80 pei
sack; Yakima, $1.50.
Hops - 1914 crop, IL a 13ac pei
pound; 1919 crop, nominal.
Wool--Valley, 1Ss@2OAc per pound
Eastern Oregon, 16@2Oc; mohair, 1914
clip, 27c.
Cascara bark-0ld and new, &c pei
pound.
Cattle--Prime steers, $6.75@6. 90
choice, s6.50@6.75; medium, $6.25@
$50; choice cows, $6@6.15; medium
$5.26 a 5.75; heifers, $3.50 "a $50
calves, $6@s; bulls, $S@4.75; stags,
$4. 50@6.
Hogs-Light, ss@s.O5; heavy, $7@
7.05.
Sheep = Wethers, $4@5.4O; ewes,
So. 60@4.50; lambs. $5@6.