The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-06
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
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Cheese Twins, 15N @15hc; Young
Americas 5h@16Ac.
Live poultry-Fowls. 16c: ducks
12@13c; geese, 8@lOc; turkeys. 12c,
Potatoes 81 cars; Wi,
consin whites, S1@40c; reds, 3o@s5c.
Michigan whites, 31@40c; reds. 30m
35c: new potatoes, Florida Hastinps
No. I, $5.25 per bbl.; No. 2, $4.25 per
Dbl.
Fruit--Apples. $2.50@4.25 per Dbl.
lemons, $2OO@2.75 box; oranges, Sion
$500 box; strawberries. $500 per "a
quarts.
| New York Produce.
NEW YORK, May e.-F1our market
quiet, firm.
Pork market quiet. Mess. $4,000
1880.
Lard market easy. Middle west
spot, 3s.95@10.05.
Sugar, raw, market firm. Centrifu.
gal test, $4.70; Muscavado SO test
1898.
Sugar. refined, market quiet. Cut
loaf, $500; crushed. $3.50; powdered.
500; granulated. $6.00@6.05.
Coffee Rio No. on spot, 7Ac.
Tallow market easy. City, SIC;
country, 6h@6Mc; special, csc
Hay market firm. Prime. $115; No.
8, s5@s1OO; clover, 90@$1.07h.
| Dressed, poultry market steady.
Chickens. 15@211xc; turkeys. 14@
gle: fowls. 1871 @1shc; ducks. 11@
22c.
Live poultry market fairly active.
Geese. &c; ducks. 12@24c;; fowls.
i17hc: turkeys, 11@12c; roosters,
10011c; chickens. broilers.s 35@4sc.
! Cheese market steady. State milk
common to special. 141k 0171c; full
skins. 30S; skins, common to spe.
cials. 9@13Ac.
Butter market firm, steady. Cream.
cry extras. 31c; dairy tubs. 23@30c:
imitation creamery firsts. 211h @22hc.
! Egg market firm. Receipts 50,1S1.
Nearby white fancy, 2s@231zc; near.
i by mixed fancy. 20021kc; fresh,
I191a @221ac.
! New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Money on
call. 2 percent.
| Six months, 2h@2A percent.
! Mercantile paper, 3h percent
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Bar silver New York, 500.
Demand sterling, $4.791a.
st. Louis Hay.
| ST. LOUIS, May g. Market
steady; receipts at st. Louis, 9 cars;
at East st. Louis, II cars. Choice
timothy, $21.5o; No. I timothy. 1890
| @2l.O0: No. 2 timothy, 81. 50@1900
No. 3 timothy, $16.00017.00.
Stock Market Notes.
! UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, May 6.-The stock
market opened strong with big rail
ways and industrials u to AZ points
higher. Bethlehem Steel was up one
point, Reading y and Union Pacific
/ Despite strong bear pressure. the
market held firm during the first
lhour with Bethlehem Steel advancing
FIVE points on 100 per cent stock di-
vidend rumor. Southern Pacific adj
vanced one and quarter points.
The market showed increased
strength around noon although the
volume OF trading was comparatively
light. War r,lmors circulated in the
street did not depress prices, trad
ers generally ignoring them.
Kansas Wheat Crop.
/ UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
HARPER, Kan, May 6.-Kansas is
getting ready for the biggest pros.
perity parade OF all. The big process
sion will start about one month from
next Monday morning and will feature
principally big self binders and head
| Ia a /,
great wheat fields in this section, fol-
lowed by an army of harvest hands.
From Wellington to Medicine Lodge.
,seventy-five miles. is one great wheat
field. Sumner, Harper and Barbos
counties have $4,000 acres to cut and
that is Just a small part of the Kan.
sas wheat belt The wheat stands
high and strong and has dark green
color that makes the farmer begin TO
!enlarge his bins and consult the family
about how the money will be spent.
4 There is only one doubt about the
lcrop-will 1t beat last years bumper
crop? Official estimates do not indi-
may be another story.
| Little damage has been caused by
the hessian fly.
Horse and Mule Market.
] ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 5.-Horses-
While there was fairly good demand
for southerners, this trade was not on
the basis the eastern selling was, as
buyers from the Atlantic seaboard
states we're in for all the material
suitable to them available. Good east.
ern chunks and draftsrs were the
money-bringing kinds and prices drift
i ed to level which was evidently
higher than these kinds have sold this
year.
! While there was a ripping good
trade in the ring, this selling was not
on the basis that war-horse selling
was. Buyers representing foreign ma.
tons on the market continued to call
for their usual heavy supplies Of the