White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1915-12-24
MARKET REPORT
Chicago.

Hogs-Weak, unchanged to sc I'M
der yesterdays average. Bulk, $6.25@
$50; light, $5.95@6.55; mixed, $1,000
6.70; heavy, $6.2O@6.7O; rough, $4,000
6.35; pigs, $4.50@5.
Cattle-Weak. Native beef steers,
$6@11; western steers, $6.25@8.25;
COWS and heifers, $2.s0@6.35; calves,
$6.75@1o.35.
sheep-slow. Wethers, se.1o@6.so;
lambs, $6.90@9.50.
Wheat-No. 2 red, nominal; No. 8
red, $1.o7; No. hard, $1.17A @1.1SA;
No. hard, nominal.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, old, 731ac; No
4 yellow, new, 6S@70c; No. white,
new, 6S@70hc.
Oats-No. white, 41A@42Rc;
standard, 43h@43a4c.
Rye-No. 2, 961Ac.
Barley 6o@70c.
Timothy SCOTS.
Clover-$1O@19.
New York.
Raw sugar steady; centrifugal ATTIC;
molasses, 4OOc. Refined steady.
Spot cotton quiet; middling uplands
$12.2O.
Coffee-Spot quiet; Rio No. z. 75ac;
Santos No. 4, &C.
San Francisco.
Eggs-Fresh extras, 41c; pullets.
32Ac.
Portland.
Cattle Steady; steers, choice, $7.25
@7.5o; good, $7@7.25; medium, $3.50
or; COWS. choice, $5.25@5.6o; good,
s5@5.25; medium, $4.75@5; heifers,
choice, $4,000; good, $4.75@5; bulls.
choice, $3.5o@4.50; stays, choice, SIS
@5.25.
Hogs Unchanged Prime light $5.75
@6; prime strong weights, $5.75@6;
good to prime mixed, $5.5O@5.75;
rough heavy, packing, $4.85@5; pigs
and skips, $5@5.25.
Sheep-Strong. Choice spring lambs
$7.25@75o; common spring lambs,
$6.25@6.5o; choice yearlings, $6.25@
$50; good yearlings, SCOOPS; old
wethers, SCOOPS; choice light ewes,
$5.25@5.5O; good ewes, $4.75@5.25;
common heavy ewes, $4.25@4.75.
Tacoma.
Wheat local wheat market
still continues to rule quiet. There
is slack export demand, simply because
shippers cannot secure the tonnage
with which to get stock afoat, and as
result further developments are tax.
ing place in the shipping Of wheat
east by rail for export from the At
lantic seaboard. One trainload Of over
40 cars departed from Tacoma during
the week, as the result of efforts on
the part OF buyers to cope with the
existing situation. There are but two
carriers on the Sound now loading
wheat, while the weeks clearances
amounted to $4,000 bushels destined
to West Coast South American ports.
The price situation continues relative
ly strong, although failing to respond
to the recent speculative advances in
the Chicago market, under which
wheat has touched top prices for the
season, the charge of 1875 shillings, or
nearly dollar bushel for making
European delivery operating against
holders.
The state grain commission has COM
pleted the tabulation of receipts of
wheat at public warehouses in the in
terror Of over 100000 bushels. With
the holdings in private warehouses
and the amount remaining upon the
farm, the figures indicate that Wash
ington's wheat crop for 1915 was we'll
over the 5O,0OO,O0O bushel mark, and
Of this total over 3O,OOO,O00 bushels
still remained in interior warehouses
at the date indicated.
Flour-Patent flour showed an adj
vance of &c last week, in sympathy
with the strong position existing in
wheat. Export business has been the
heaviest during the season within the
past week. The clearance of one car
go with 94,843 barrels for Europe was
the most notable development, al
though foreign shipments were well
past the 200,0O0-barrel mark in the ag-
gregate, Tacoma exports being 12s, 696