The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-06
New York produces.

New York Produce.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-F1our
ket quiet. firm.
Pork market strong. Mess. $29.ssp
5000. &,
Lard market steady. Middle w
spot, S14.9001t.00.
Sugar. raw, market quiet Centrtj
gal test, 1902; Muscayado SO I'd
1922.
Sugar. refined. market quiet.
loaf, $S.15; crushed. $500; powders
S715@7.35; graduated, $7.00Q7.30
Coffee Rio No. z ON spot, 10c.
Tallow market strong. City,
country. sN@SAc; specials. SIC.
Hay market firm. Prime. $1.35; N
3, $1.O2h@1.10; clover, 45c@$117t
Dressed poultry market irreguls
Turkeys, 25@33c; chickens, 20@32@
fowls, 15Q221xc: ducks. Long Islan,
21c.
Live poultry market unsettle|
Geese, 13c; ducks, 17@22c; fowls.
@1sc; turkeys, 1601Sc; ROSTERS, IN
chickens, 22@24c.
Cheese market irregular. Stat
milk common to special, 14@19Hd
skins common to specials. 6Q151scI
Butter market dull. Receipts SAN
Creamery extras. 1914 0331Ac; DAD
tubs, 260321ac; imitation creamel,
firsts, 2S@281ac.
Egg market easy. Receipts sos
nearby white fancy. 45Q4Sc; nearh,
mixed fancy, 3o@35c; fresh, 31@sA
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK. Sept. Money y
call, percent.
Six months, 3N percent.
Mercantile paper. 31s percent
Bar silver London. 32hd.
Bar silver New York, 68Ac.
Demand sterling. $4.76 7-16.
Omaha Duttsr.
limited Press Leased Wire Service]
OMAHA, Neb.. Sept. 6.-Butter. -
cents.
st. Louis Hay.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5.-Hay-weak;
$500 per ton lower; receipts at St,
Louis so cars; at East st. Louis, S
cars. Choice timothy, $15.50@16.0o;
No. 1 timothy. $13.50@15.O0; No. 4
timothy. $11.00@16.00; No. 3 timothy
ss.0001o.00.
U. s. Steel Above Par.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-United
States steel common crossed par to-
day and sold at 100N. in morning
OF excited bull activity in which III
900 shares we're traded on the stock
exchange floor and many other new
records were made.
Steel sold In blocks Of five and SIX
thousand shares as the price moved
up to par, then halted as stop orders
flooded the floor, and then started up
ward and climbed to its new high rec
ord.
Fireworks meanwhile broke out
elsewhere in the market. Information
al Mercantile Marine which has been
a speculative leader during much time
since steel's last record of 99S was
set on August %, was bid up to new
high prices for both common and pre-.
ferred. Crucible leaped forward -four
points to S2ts and Baldwin Locome
tive advanced two points to the same
figure. Bethlehem steel moved up
three points.
Railroad shares, which he'd been the
only weak spot in the market, turned
and started upward this afternoon un'
der leadership OF Reading which
jumped three points to 107&.
Short selling by spectators vino
last week hoped to reap rich harvest
in the event of a general railway
strike was one factor in today's bun
Covering by these shorts.
with the natural buoyanc!
which followed relief from the strike
threat, gave bulls an easy way when
the upward bidding started.
Sales at one o'clock had reacheo
500 900, nearly million share day n
three hours trading. More than Ifo.
600 shares OF steel changed hands. A.
that hour the common was quoted az
1O0ss.
Mexican petroleum which had jump.
ed four points to ia. while the wa,
brides were performing, had dropped
back to Jpn.