Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-04
LOCAL.
MARKETS {:
FOREIGN

Grain: Wheat No. $1.90*2; feed
oats rs @ soc; cheat hay $17@1S; oat|
hay SIS @20; clover hay $iB a.
mill run $50.
Butterfat: Butterfat 60o: creamery
butter 59@60c.
Pork, veal and mutton: Pork on
foot 17@17Ac; veal fancy 21@22c;l
steers v c; spring lambs &c; cows " g
ewes &c; sheep, yearling sc.
/ Eggs and poultry: Eggs cash AZ @ AZ
I light hens zoe; heavy hens 24c; old
roosters 12c; broilers 24c over two
lbs.
| Vegetables: California onions per
Isack $2.0O; beets per sack $500;
turnips per sack 1925: carrots per
sack $3.50; parsnips per sack
i $3.50: spinach 100 1b; radishes 7bc
doz; asparagus 15c: new, potatoes
4 &c; bunch beets 45c; cabbage &c;
head lettuce soc doz; rhubarb 4c;
] peas Sc: tomatoes $1.S5; cucumbers
A $1!50 doz; cantaloupes pony s4.zo'
, standard $4.75, Honeydew 81 crate
flat crate $1.75; watermelons 3Ac.
Fruit: Oranges $7@7.50; lemons
l$5.25; bananas 12c; honey ex
tract zoe; apricots SO crate. peaches
early triumph s1.65 q LBS.
Ell Retail prices: Eggs do SOC; cream
iery butter 81 q 65c; country butter Of
(flour hard wheat s3.75@3.90; sof
. wheat $3.00 q 3.25.
LIVESTOCK
n Portland, Or, Aug. 4.-Cattle nom
Q inally steady:
/; receipts none; choice steers $1,000 9
: n 90. good to choice $9.50@ 1000
medium to good $3.50 @9.b0; fair =
. good 7.75@S.50; common to fai
= $6.50@7.75; choice cows and hei1er
good to choice 1918
.. rs: medium to good $5.75 @6.7e
J, fair to medium s4.75 @5.75; can
ners s2.75@4.5O; bulls $5.50@6,6o
v. choice dairy calves $500 q lo.eo
o. prime light calves s11.50@13.0O; me
:, dunn light s9.O0@11.o0; heavy s1.e
% @9.O0; best feeders $7.50@8.00; IA
!. to good $6.O0@7.50.
- Hogs firm; receipts 83; prim
mixed $1S.O0@1S.5O; medium Sl.75
70 1900: smooth heavy $14.50 q 1851
i'd rough heavy $1,000 @14.50; PHI
s13.5O@ 1850.
ad sheep weak; receipts 255: vail
lambs $1O.OO@11.0O; east of mou
d, tain $11.O0@11.50; culls $500 @8.0
yearlings s6.00@7.O0; wethers Sc
~ $3.50; ewes $2.25 @6 M
Butter
So Portland, Or, Aug. 4.-Cubes e
= ira 5o@53c; parchment wropped b.
h. lots SIC; cartons 58c; half boxes y
on more, less than u boxes 10 NOR
o butterfat 54@55c +. o. b. station;
op @62c Portland.
rd Millstuffs: Mill run $57 @ $50.
Hay, buying price, timothy "
alfalfa $25; grain $23; clover $2l %
n Poultry ana Eggs.
Portland, Or, Aug. 4.--Eggs Sc
a. a. ing price case count 46 @4Sc; buyi
,a1s price 44@46c; selling price candl
81, Assoc; selected candled in carto
to 52@54c.
nd Poultry: Hens 2O@27c lb; broilt
air 20M27c; old roosters 12c; turke
0. nominal: geese nominal; ducks 8
Wheat: $2.20 soft, $2.25 hal
n bushel: barley feed $63@64; o;
s65@67; corn No. yellow $5S@i
scratch feed sS7@SS.
Chicago
- Chicago, Aug. 4.-Excited gene
1M selling brought about sensatio
OF smash in wheat prices today. 4
AS market opened s to 13 cents loV
ms with December $2.16 to 1921
= March $2.21. Most of the selling
- said to come from country hold
ln0 anxious to turn their wheat into ca
In few minutes, however, the m
= ket rebounded as much as ele'
~, ;l cents in some cases.
~ The rush to sell appeared to
. based largely on unfavorable finan
,,,r reports especially from the soutnw
ha- In some cases as much as l41
ure bushel was. temporarily cut II
m. values, March delivery falling at
= time to s2.1S. Comparative steadin
Thought, returned to the pit before
= end of the first hour with the mar
nc then about 4 " to 5 " under yes
days finish.
os- Wall Street
,ns' New York, Aug. 4.-Today's v
~ ~ Street session opened in confu
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