bfcr 'tjft ? '?' THE HTTSBURG DISPATCH, SATUBDAT, JANUARY 4, 1890. 11' -. . !y? BROS TEADE EEYIEW. jho Local Market is Featureless, but Yerj Strong in Its Tone. 'FIHB OUTLOOK IN KEW YORK. Lower Prices In St Louis. Southern Sellers Shading Quotations. SOME CINCINNATI SELLERS BEARISH The iron trade has developed no new feat ures the past week. The tone of markets for Bessemer iron and steel is strong. There are no signs of reaction to the boom of the past few months. The drift is still npward and nnless onr iron masters are very off in their calculations we haxe entered upon a year of great activity In this leading de partment of Pittsburg's Industries. Said one of our leadlnc iron brokers to-day: "We are now having a quiet time as we expect to have at this season of the year, hut I can see no signs of a reaction to the present boom. The furnaces and mills are generally sold ahead, and buyers are well stocked np so that trade is somewhat quiet as compared with what it was a few weeks ago. Some speculators who hare been carrying heavy loads hare at tempted to unload tho past week at top prices and have failed to do so, bnt I do not regard this as any indication of weakening markets. This is the season when buyers for leeitimate trade want little, having laid In full supplies in the closing weeks of the year. While demand has not been so strong the past week or two, the tone of markets is strong, and all signs point to activity and strong markets for the year, which is now a new year." At the Edgar Thomson works furnace F beat all former recc-ds in Its output or No. 1 Bes semer iron for the month of December. The total output that month was 10,600 tons, an average of 312 tons every 24 hours for the month. The two new furnaces, H and I, which are fast approaching completion, are expected to pro duce much larger results. When these two furnaces are in operation the output at the Braddock works will reach 1.500 tons daily, and an active market for ibis amount is assured for the year to come at prices 10 per ton above the rates of last summer. The following prices, which have ruled for a few weeks past, are fnlly maintained, and when tbe quietness incident to stocktaking and repairing is once overf urther advances are probable: Neutral mill T ! Sh"" All-ore mm ;; 25?!: STr -L J3. 1 foundry, native ore No. 1 roundry. lake ore... Hessemer .......... ..... Spleeel Muck bar - Steel blooms 19 00(419 so cash IS 5C19 Ti cash .... a 3S((C:4 is-casn .... W 00(3)33 00 .... 30 S0K CO .... 35 500136 50 ..... 35 5036 03 ..... 35 5UC3SS0 .... C4ISJ50 ..... 12 0fe! 50 bteel slabs Meet billets Steel K.C ends Steel bloom ends Old Iron rails, American Ts... Old steel rails, short pieces..., o. 1 W. scrap No. :V. scrap Steel rails, new bteel K. light sec Barlron Iron nails, per keg, nsual dls. bteel nails, per ke;, usual dls, Wire nails, perkez , Ferro manganese STKWWSOO 551S4 CO so oo . 35 110(236 00 35 003)33 00 ICO 19$ 235 2 35 2S0295 103 00 EXCEEDINGLY FAT0KABLE 0UTL00E. Most Encouraging Advices From the Metropolis for tho Trade. :SrJCCIAITSXXGRAM TO TEt DISPATCH. I New York, January 3. The year opens with exceptionally favorable indications tor the iron and steel trades. The output of furnaces East, West and South has been contracted for, and there is a very strong inclination among consumers of foundry and forge irons, as well as Bessemer, to extend contracts to still more remote deliveries, lest the present strong upward tendency should lead to a still higher range of prices. Foundry and forge irons have advanced 1 and Jo per ton within & vear. while at some points Bessemer pig has advanced 8809. A marked advance has also taken place in lake ores, and tbe advances in these crude materials extend to the various finished products. The furnace output is heavier than ever before; the mill production is also very beavy, and in the opinion of excel lent authorities, will so continue throughout 1890. The extent of tbe demand for steel rails is still one of the uncertainties. Railroad build ers have not yet decided what they will do. Re pair rtaulrements will be very heavy,.but tbe demand for the construction of new roads has not yet been determined. Billets, blooms and slabs, and material for sort steel pur poses will crowd existing capacity, and ample preparations are being made for such extensions as will enable consumers to supply their wants promptly. Barbed wire Is selling remarkably well; nails are moving freely in all markets, and builders', carriage and all other kinds of hardware are active. The demand for material for beavy machinery and for engineer ing and railway purposes is also important. Opinions as to the future are that the growth of the country will warrant an increasing de mand for manufactured products. Whether the present booming tendency in the Iron trade will Terminate as others have done cannot now be foreseen. One fact which argues the permanency of the existing demand is that foreign markets are not in position to overrun the American markets with their pro ducts. Nothing is doing in tbe foreign copper mar ket. Business is also quiet here, with Lake Superior ingot quoted at 1414f cents per pound. The leading copper shares on the Bos ton Stock Exchange continue strong, though inouiry is not unusually active. Iron and steel prices (at mill or furnace): Pig iron, anthracite. No. 1 January 3. 1890, 119 60020 00; December 27, 1SS9. 818 50020; Jan uary 4, 18S4. $18. Steel ralls-835, 828030, $28. Comparative prices of other metals (in store): Copper, lake, 1 pound, 14.40c, UMc, 17.30c, 10Kc Lead, common domestic, 1 pound, 3.92c 3.KKC &90c 3c Tin, straits, 1 pound, 2L20C, 21c, 2LS7C. l(c Spelter, common domestic, 1 pound, 5.45c, 5c, 4c IN QUITE BRISK DEMAND. The Effect of tho Excitement In Scotland Reflected llere. TFrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Philadelphia, January a The pig iron market is closely watched by everyone inter ested in tbe iron trade, because it is tbe bar ometer which is relied upon to indicate ap proaching storms. When the output of manu factured iron is greater than the demands of business require tbe falling off in consumption and the glut that is likely to ensue is at once indicated by a sluggish movement in tbe Dig iron market. As yet this branch of trade is brisk. During the last six months the Thomas Iron Company marketed 100,000 tons of pig iron at advancing prices. There has been some dispo sition among furnace men to let this company set the price for 1890, and accordingly tbe fol lowing notice, issued to-day by President Clark, will be read with interest: " We are ready to contract up to July I for No. 1 pig attaiperton. and No. Sat (19, free on board at Perth Amboy. Cables announce an excited market In Scotland, and the price of Scottish war rants lias advanced to 66 shillings, an advance of nearly 2 shillings for the week, being the highest -- point reached since the boom set In. Not only is the demand good abroad, but material and fall ore co6tlr, and circumstances combine to keep the foreign manufacturers out of tbe American market, which Is left to be supplied by domestic producers. Pennsylvania is feeling the effects or the vigorous market, and many cities which possess organizations to encourage the lo cation or new Industries In their towns are also dome something to encourage the enlargement or manufactories already established. In this way new puddling f nrnaces and boilers arc added to old mills, and sieel plants are being enlarged by live-ton converters. Other healthy signs are that the .Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, of Scranton. have Increased the wages or their em ployes 10 per cent, and that Oliver Bros. Jfc Phil lips, of Pittsburg, who were granted an extension in 1885 on an Indebtedness of 1.500, 000 will meet tbe flnal payment on their obligations next month. Tbe following quotations will hold good Muck bars, $31 60032 per ton; soft steel billets, 83803850; manufactured iron and steel tank.2.35 62.75c; shell, 2.653c; flange. 125c; firebox, 3.75c; angles, 2.3002.75c Manufacturers still bold steel rails at $35, hut there are charges of re selling below that figure. A Number of New Order. rSFZCIAL TXLXGRAX TO TBI DISPATCH.! Cincinicati, January 8. Rogers, Brown & Co.'s Iron Circular says: The week under re view has been broken np by tbe holidays and matters Incident to tbe closing of tbe year. It was hardly expected that much, new business would be transacted. A very considerable number of orders, however, were booked. In Southern irons one or two sellers .have been "bearing" the market and taken a large num ber ot orders at prices 60 to 75c below those formerly held by most leading companies. There has beent!ttte disposition to meet these cuts, audit is believed that the furnaces Inter ested have already pretty well filled their ' books. In Northern iron there has been a steady strengthening of prices. Strong Ohio foundry irons average a dollar higher than at tbe middle of December, and there Is a marked scarcity. Silvery softeners are in somewhat better supply, but all the I nrnaces are well sold ahead, and shinnlnt? as fast as they make. Old U car wheels draft and wheel Irons generally hare not advanced in keeping with other branches of the market. Lost Prlcea at St. Louis. JfPECIAL TELEC1BAH TO THE OISFATCK.I St. Louis, January 3 Rogers, Brown & Meacbam say: Contracts made dnrlng tbe week were nearly all for delivery several months ahead. The prices obtained were less than most of the furnaces would accept, and show that a few Southern sellers are willing to shade ? notations to fill their order books. We quote or cash f. o. b. St. Louis: EOT BLAST COKE AND CHARCOAL. Southern Coke No.l tlJ0C19M Southern Coke No. 2 18 5019 00 Southern Coke No. 3 1 00(318 50 Southern Grey Forge 7 SC918 00 Southern Charcoal No. 1 sooay 52 Southern Charcoal No. Z ffi 00 Missouri Charcoal No. 1 J? Missouri Charcoal No. 2 2&J,I 55 Ohio Softeners 2 S021 00 CAB WHEEL AND MALLEABLE I EOS. Lake Superior ' $3 7524 SO Southern 21 0C54 50 CONNELLSVILLE COKE. East Bt, Louis S5 25 St. Louis s An Excellent New Tear Opening. tfrrctAt. tzlxobam to the dispatch. 1 Chicago, January 3. The new year, say Rogers, Brown A Co, opens in the Chicago and Northwestern market in a manner very differ ent from a year ago. All the influences are strong and active, and in spite of holiday de moralization, a good deal of business is re ported. Lake Snperlor charcoal Irons have made another advance, and sales at $23 SO cash have been made. It is doubtful if much could he secured, even at that figure. Tbe local coke irons are practically withdrawn from tbe mar ket. Southern irons are again being taken, the Northern prices having advanced sufficiently to meet the figures at whichboutbern stock has been held. The demand is widely distributed, and so far is met without difficulty by ontside furnaces. Prospects for the new year were never moro healthy and promising in Chicago and tbe Northwest. BRITISH IRON MARKETS. Prices Ruling on the Other Side of tbs Ocean Darlcc the Week. The American Manufacturer in its cable letter of December SI gives tbe following quota tions: Scotch Pig Speculation has become lively, and prices for warrants hare advanced to (Ms. on the publication of statistics of production and stocks. Makers' brands continue very firm, and the demand is good. No. 1 Coltness 80s. 04. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Summerlee 79s. Od. Ub, Glasgow No. 1 Gartshferrie 78s. 6d. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Lanirloan 78s. 6d. f. a b. Glasgow No. 1 Carnbroe 67s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. IShotts -78s. Go. L, o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Glengamock 78s. Od. atArdrossan. No. lDalmellington...7Us. Od. atArdrossan. No. 1 Eglinton 67s. Od. at Ardrossan. Bessemer Pig There is no abatement of the demand, and tbe market continues strong, with makers' prices up 1S.01&. 6d. West Coast brands at 78. 6d.79s. for Nos. 1, 2, 3, f. o. b. shipping point. Middlesbrough Pig Business has been done at 2s. advance, and the market Is strong, with speculative interest lively and trade demand fair. Good merchant brands quoted to-day at 62s. 61. for No. 3. L o. b. Spiegeleisen A fairly active demand still prevails and prices are strong but no higher. English 20 per cent quoted at 97s. 6d. f. o. b. at .works. Steel Wire Rods Prices are up about 5s. and the market strong with offerings moderate. Mild steel. No. 6, quoted at 7 7J. f. o. b. shipping port. Steel Rails There has been a good demand for these and makers' prices have been ad vanced 2s. 61. Heavy sections quoted at 7 2s. 6d. f . o. b. sbipplng point. Steel Blooms An advance of 2s. 6d. is quoted by sellers generally and the market is very firm. Bessemer 7x7 qnoted 6 10s. 6d. f. o. b. shipping point. Steel Billets The demand has been fairly active and. while prices vary slightly, the mar ket shows a btrongtone. Bessemer (size 2Kx 2) quoted at 6 7s. 6d.6 10s. f. o. b. shipping point. Steel Slabs There has been rather more do ing in this line. Supplies are moderate and sellerfask 10a. advance. Ordinary sizes quoted at 6 10s. f. o. b. shipping point. Crop .Ends The market firm and demand better, but no positive change in prices. Run of tbe mill quoted at312s. Cd.31Sj.t o. b. shipping pout. Old Rails Holders are very firm in their views and asking higher prices, but actual bus iness is moderate. Tees quoted at 312. 6d. 3 15s.. and double beads at 3 15.i f. o. b. Scrap Iron Demand is fairly good, and th? market firm, but prices no higher. Heavy wrought quoted at 3g3 2s. 6d. f. o. b. ship ping points. Manufactured Iron Common sheets have been sold at 5s. advance. In other lines a fair trade at firm prices. Stafford ord. marked bars. (f. o. b. L'pool) 9 lOsOd 0 OsOd ' common bars 8 Os OdsS 810s0d Mark sheet singles 0 OsOdKlO OsOd Welsh bars, f. o. b. Wales. . . 7 12s 6d 7 15s Od Steamer Freights Glasgow to New York, 2s. Od. Liverpool to New York. 10s. Od. Pig Tin Speculation has increased the past few days and prices have advanced considera bly, closing strong. Straits, 97 2s. Gd. for spot; f utnres (3 months) 97 10s. Copper Purchases for 'consumption have been moderate, but speculation has continued active and prices are strong. Chill bars quoted 50 2s. Gd. for spot. 50 5s. for f utnre delivery. Bett selected English, 56. Lead Tbe market steady bat only a mod erate business doing. Spanish quoted at 14 2i6d. Spelter Prices very firmly held and the de mand fair. Ordinary Silesianquotedat245s. Tin Plate The market is stronger under tbe influence of tbe advance in pig tin andiron, but business has been only fair. Glasgow, January 3. Much excitement prevailed in tbe Iron market to-day. Tbe price of Scotch warrants has advanced to 631. the highest point reached since the boom set in. Copper, Lead and Tin. New York Copper dull but strong: Lake, January. $14 40. Lead steadv: domestic, 3 B2. Tin quiet and firmer: Straits, 21 20. Whisky market. There is a good demand for distillers' fin ished goods at SI 02. BUSINESS NOTES. The Safe Deposit Company will elect di rectors on Tuesday, January 14. Or 29 mortgages recorded yesterday, the largest was for 580,000, Rlter & Conley mort gagors and C. W. Cass mortgagee. The condition of Mr. James Herdman, of the Dollar Savings Bank, has improved so much that his friends hope to see him at his post again in a short time. Messes. John Eand David Shaw, for a long time members of the Oil Exchange, have gone into the real estate business and opened an office on Fourth avenue The sale of the vacant lot adjoining tbe Dol lar Savings Bank, on Fourth avenue, on Mon day next, is likely to show lively competition, as it is tbe ouly vacant ground In that part of the city. The tempting offer of an abundance of gas and cheap territory continues to draw invest ors toward Jeannette. A large stove foundry is tbe latest enterprise talked of for that enter prising town. Albert Paksoks, teller of the Dollar Sav ings Bank, is dangerously ill at his home at Ingram station, with but slight chance for his recovery. C. H. Lo ve is convalescent. He was able to be at bis office yesterday. Geobqe Laybeboeb, formerly a brass roller at tbe rod mills of Carnegie, Fbipps & Co. at Beaver Falls, has formed a partnership with several capitalists of this city, and tbe plans are now being drawn for an extensive rod mill to be located in that town. The Oliver Iron and Steel Company will next month make tbe last payment on the indebted ness of the firm of Oliver Bros. fc Co., resulting from an extension granted by their creditors in 1SS5. Tbe amount is 300.000 and will discharge the last of an obligation that originally amounted to SI, 500,000. The public is very curious to know who pur chased the Beamer and Schmertz properties in Bellfleld. Mr. McGlnley denies that he is the man, and no one has yet been found who is willing to acknowledge that be bad a hand in the transaction, which is one of the mysterits of the day. Perhaps it was McGinty. Dividends, semi-annual, were declared yes terday as follows: Union National Bank, 6 per cent: German Savings and Deposit Bank, Southslde,5 percent; Allegheny Bridge Com pany, S2 per share; Real Estate Loan and Trust Company, Allegheny. 8 per cent; Northern Lib erties Bridge Company, (3 per share. It was incorrectly stated yesterday that James H. Thompson and A. 1. Hopkins, of Samuel W. Black x Co., had accepted similar positions with Black 4 Baird. Thev have en tered into partnership with John F.Baxter, and may be found at Baxter, Thompson A. Co.'s office, 98 Fourth avenue. Tbey are all young, active and pushing men. with long experience in the business and a wide acquaintance among property owners, and ought to, and no doubt will, succeed. SEATRIOE, Elder Haggrard's lat est and greatest work, will com mence In to-morrow's DISPATCH. TWO LARGE PLANTS To be Located in Mansfield, Each Backed by Abundant Capital. SITES SECURED FOE BUILDIKGS. The Yiews of Experts on the Trend of Keal Estate Values This lear. ONE OP THE RISING TOWNS OP THB WEST Mansfield, as well as Bntler and some others of the neighboring towns, is coming forward as a manufacturing center. Ar rangements are being made by Pittsbnrj capitalists to establish two important plants there in the spring or early snmmer. One will be for tbe production of iron, steel and tin plate, and the other for the manufacture of a non-heat-conducting snbstance of great value to railroads. The capital of both concerns will be about $300,000, and at least 200 hands will be employed. It Is understood that ground for the buildings has baen secured. Real estate agents and dealers, without ex ception, so far as known, entertain rosy antici pations of a large business the present year. Transactions last year were large and many of them important, but tbe opinion is well nigh universal among local agents that those of this year will be even greater in number and tbe amonnt of money Involved. As to the probable trend of values there is a singular unanimity of opinion. Most of the agents agree that the pnncipal advance will be in choice business sites, owing to their comparative scarcity and the great demand for them. It is probable that many important changes and improvements will take place in the lower part of tho city, particularly on the river fronts, during the year. These will be in the nature of tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones, but some of the buildings now used for business purposes will be recon structed and enlarged. The time is not far off when the lower part of the city will be given over entirely to business. As to residence properties, tbe opinion pre vails among experts that there will be no material departure from present values during, the year. Any enhancement that may occur will be small. There are several reasons in favor ot this view. Rapid transit has opened np all the districts around the city, and wbere, formerly, the buyer was restricted to tbe East End or the Northslde. he now has a multiplici ty of locations to select from, and if he cannot obtain terms to suit in one he can go to another. This competition of locations will have a strong influence in restraining anything like a radical advance in residence properties. Buyers with money in their hands and with a wide field for selection are masters of the situ ation. Owners realize the force of this state ment and will not be likely to make such ex orbitant demands as will drive clients to some other locality almost, if not quite, as good, wbere terms are more reasonable. This year's expansion of building and settle ment will be more widely distributed tban heretofore. While the East End will probably maintain its, supremacy it will have strong and active competitors in the Northslde, the South side and down the valley, all ot which either have or are assured of rapid transit at an early day. This removes the old objection to them for residence purposes by making them as easy of access as any other of the localities around the city, and with lower prices they will act as a foil to any movement which may bo started elsewhere to organize a boom. The opening of 1S89 found the coke trade very dulL This condition prevailed, with scarcely a break, until September, when all the available ovens were fired,. and before the close of the mouth coke reached $1.50, with the con dition of the trade the best ever known. About this time tbe car shortage began to seriously affect tbe trade, and for wanf of sbipplng fa cilities, coke was piled np in the yards. The demand was such that some of the Western furnaces had to close down in November for want of coke, and the price advanced to S1.75. During this month work was begun on 2,000 new ovens in the Connellsville region. T.he first week in December tbe output broke tho record, as it reached 112,60 tons, tbe largest ever known in the history of the trade. The heavy shipments which had been made for many weeks previous, began to show before the close of the year, and furnaces were easing up on orders. At the close of the month the condition of trade was such that $L75, the price ruling from November, was made the price for the first month of the new year. Mr. J. D. Thompson, of Helena, Mont., but formerly a well-known resident of Pittsburg, is hereon a visit to bis old friends and acquaint ances. He thinks Helena is one of the rising cities of the great and boundless West. It is growing at a rapid rate. Many fine buildings for business and residence purposes are going np. Some of the former compare favorably with the best iu the Eastern cities. He denies that there is a real estate boom in Helena, and says all reports to the contrary are false, and do the city great injustice. Property is en hancing In value, as a matter of course, but It is not held at exorbitant figures. As in Pitts burg, the rise has been gradually backed up by a substantial demand, and has all the elements of permanency. The majority of the transac tions are for cash, or its equivalent. Mr. Thompson predicts a great future for Helena. A number of Pittsburgers are located there. At the beginning of 1SS9 the Monougahela coal trade was in a decidedly depressed condi tion. As the lower markets were glutted, min ing was generally suspended. In February.tbe men after an ineffectual attempt to seenre an advance in wages, resumed work at the former, rates. During this month 2,000.000 bushels were sent out, and in the month following the shipments aggregated over 8,000.000 bushels. Early in May the operators decided to close down the mines, and await a reduction in tbe cost of getting out coal. The fourth pool at tbe close of the month resumed operations at a reduction from 2 to 2c per bushel, but tbe other pools remained out nntll the latter part of August. In September the price advanced at Cincin nati and Louisville, and October brought the highest prices of the year, when prices at Cin cinnati and Louisville ranged from6c to 8c Tbe month following prices dropped, and at New Orleans there was a reduction of 4 cents per barrel. In December tbe mines went out on a strike to advancer the wage basis to 3 cents per bushel, which was accomplished within a few weeks. Tbe rage for iron buildings in England is on the increase, and is extending to this country. Among tbe arguments used in their favor are freedom from dampness, cheapness and ease of removal. Says an English paper: "These houses are put together like a child's puzzle, and can be taken apart, compactly packed, and removed elsewhere. A large number of iron villas have been sent from tbe works at Albert gate to tbe Riviera, and there erected upon plots of land purchased or rented for a term of years. When the lease expires the houses can be packed up and removed. There is beginning to bo a demand for iron bungalows as marine residences in England. The rapidity with which they can be built and their small cost, as compared with the ordinary dwelling of brick and stone, are recommendations which tell in in then; favor." LUSTER' LETS GO. Too High and Had to Come Down Other Features. In point of activity the stock market yester day was the best for a long time. Bids and offers were numerous, bnt in many instances wide apart. Still, tbe sales were considerable, -footing np 667 shares. John R. McKee, Jr., was a bear on Luster, and it went off at the first call to 25 bid and S3 asked. It recovered somewhat in the after noon, when 27 was bid and BS asked. There were no transactions. In explaining the break a broker said: It was np so high that people wouldn't buy it, and it had to come down, and when down holders couldn't sell It It is still too high. The weakness was no donbt mainly due to the contemplated increase of the capital stock." Manufacturers' Gas declined to UK bid and Wheeling Gas to 19. Philadelphia Gas was a little stronger, advancing f mm 2Wi bid in tho morning to 29J4-In the afternoon. There was sale at tbe latter figure and one at SO. Electric and tbe tractions lingered around former quo tations; but Pleasant Valley Railway showed a slight concession. There were no noteworthy changes In the rest of tbe list. UOKNUJG. AVTXBiroOlT. Hid. Asked. Hid. Asked. PltUb'frr..B.&M.Ex. 430 Commercial Ma. Bank S3 .... OS Fidelity T. & T. Co 140 .... Marine "Nat. Bank.... UK M. &M. J,at. BanK.... 65 .... MM 67 Boatman's Insurance. 20 .... Allegheny HeatlngCo. 100 Chartlers Valley U. Co 43 Manufacturer's Gas Co 11 UK Ohio Valley , S2 Peoples N. U. &P. Co 15 Pennsylvania Uas Co., .... 13)4 .... 13Ji Philadelphia Co z9tf 29 S9X 80 Pine Una Uas 85 .... 84 Wheeling- uas Co is 20 19X 20 Colombia Oil Co 73 Washington Oil Co 79 Central Traction SIM 33 KH 32K Citizens' Traction 67)4 69 .... 69 Pitts. Traction 47)4 .... 47K Pleasant Valley 22 Iltts., A. 4, Man 280 300 Pitts. &Lake Krle 65 Pitts. Junction B.K.CO IS .... 28 n P., V. 4 CB. B. Co 41tf 45, Pitts, 4 W. K. B. Co VH Pitts. W. 4Ky 37 Point Brldfre 75 LaNortaillnlnir Co H li K Luster Mining Co 25 33 27 38 SUverton Mining Co. 1 ..- 2 YanfceeUlrllllnlngCo .... Vi .... K Westlnghouse Electric .... 43 .... 47ft New Castle Water Co 35 WestlnghouseAlrb'ke U0K Sales at tbe first call were 67 shares or Phila delphia Gas at 30. 100 at 29. 50 Wheeling Gas at 2(X After call 100 shares or Wheeling brought At the fast call 200 shares of Wheeling Gas went at 20. 100 Pennsylvania Gas at 13, and 50 Philadelphia Gas at 29. One membership was sold for $135. Andrew Caster sold 12,000 Pittsburg Traction 5s at 107. Edward P. Long sold 25 shares WestiDguqpse Airbrake at 110, 100 shares Pleas ant Valley at 23 and 75 shares Wheeling Gas at 2a The total sales of stocks at New Sork yester day were 147,609, shares, including: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 10.153: Louisville and Nashville. 1375: Missouri Pacific, 12.964; Beading, 25,221; St. Paul, 4,120. ANOTHER file DAI. Clerical Business nt the 'Banks Far Ahead of Lost Year. Clerical business at tbe banks yesterday was again very large. The exchanges were nearly half a million greater than the best day ot last year, and over a million in excess of the cor responding day of 18S9. The large exchanges were due principally to heavy checking by tbe city and the railroads to meet Interest and divi dends. .The exchanges were $3,811,495 27, and tbe balances $624,378 77. There was a fair demand for discounts at un changed rates. Money was reported somewhat easier, and all danger of a squeeze gone by. Currency was in good supply. January settle ments are proceeding satisfactorily. Their final adjustment will throw a large amount of money on the market for investment in real estate, stocks, manufacturing and merchan dising leading to.a large expansion of business. Money on call at New xoric yesteraay was tight, ranging from 8 to 17 per cent; last loan, 4; closed offered at 2. Prime mercantile paper, SyW. Sterling exchange steady bnt qnlet at $4 SO for 60-day bills and $1 84 for demand. CloalnsrBond Qnotntlons. U.S. ,R 128 U. 8. 4. coup 128 U. S. 4Xs, re 104' D. S. 4Hs, coup.... 104: Pacific As or '95. 1)8 Louisiana! tamped 4 93 Missouri 8s 100 M. K. AT. Gen. SB . S4M Mutual Union Ss.. ..104 N. J. C. Int. Oert...lllK Northern Pac lsts..U3K Northern Pae.2ds..ll3 Northw't'n consols. H2K Northw'n debena..X10 Tenn. new net. fta... 105H Tenn. new set. Ss....I01 Tenn. new set. 3s."... 73H Oregon Trans. 6s.I033( St. L. 4I.M. Gen. U 889 St. L.4 b. V. Gen.it, 1IU St. Paul consols ....124 St.PLChi4Pe.Uts.IH uinsaa do. zas vin Cen. Pacificists 110)4 Den. 4 K. G., UU...1I7 Den. 4B. O. 4s 77 cc, rci . rr jts. si rx.,PcK.O.Tr.Keti 18X Union Pac. lsts.,...110 West Shore 104 U.4tt.O.Wet,lra. S7H Erie, Ids. .....101 11. . 4T. Gen. 6s.. 74X Government and State bonds are firm and featureless. New Yobx Clearings,- tl90.944.945; balances, 8J?18.692. Bostok Clearings, $26,058,916; balances, $2, 671,713. Money, 5 per cent. Pnn.ADEi.rniA Clearings, $18,372,622; bal ances, $2,820,942. BAinstOBX Clearings, t5.328.SC2; balances, $703,949. Chicago Clearings were $15,890,000. New York Exchange was 5060c premium. Mouey rates were 6 per cent on call and 78 per cent on time. The demand for funds was active and tbe supply 1 Iml ted. St. Louis Clearings, $3,721,658; balances, $53a897. NO BETTEB. Depression the Only -Salient Featnre of the Oil Market. The oil market was in a comatose condition yesterday. Trading was very light. Some of tbe local crowd tried to bull it up, but the trade wouldn't have it. The market was very dull nntll just before the close when it was bid np to, 103,' the high est point of the day. It then broke to 103 rallied a trifle, and closed barely steady at 103X- Opening 10 highest 103, lowest 103K, closing 103. There wasnonewsof importance. A change of some kind about the 10th, pipe line day. is among the probabilities. The conditions are bullish, but the Standard is supposed to be bearish. Features of tbe Market. Corrected dally by John M. OaKiey dc Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened 103!4Lowest KSM Highest 103 Closed 103 Barrels. Average runs .-. 57,244 Average shipments 79,3.13 Average charters 23.403 Jiefined. New York. 7.60c. Keflnetf, London. 8 5-l6d. , Refined, Antwerp, l'HC- Beflned, Liverpool. 6 I-lSd. Jiefined, Uremen, 7.10m. A. B. McGrew quotes: Puts,$l 03KS1 ttSU; calls. $10 Other OH Markets. On Citt. January 3. Petroleum opened at $1 03; highest, $1 03; lowest, $1 03f; closed, $1 03J4- BBAsroRD. January a Opened at $1 03; closed. $1 03; highest, $1 0; lowest, $103- sw York. January a Petroleum opened steady at $1 02, and after the first sales moved np $1 03,, and closed firm at $1 0 EEALTI PICKED UP. Some Good Dents in Clly and Suburbs Mortfcnaree In Demand. L M. Pennock Son sold and settled a mort gage for $2,000, three years, on property in Crafton, and one of $1,500, three years, on a house and lot in the Thirteenth ward, both at 6 per cent. They also closed the sale of the residence property of Washington Beck, No. 1814 Sidney street, Southside, to John H. Da vies for $7,590 cash. James W. Drape & Co. closed the sale of about 3K acres of ground on Perrysville ave nue, Allegheny, near the terminus of the Elec tric cars, to Mrs. Gusky, for $5,000 cash. It is understood it is the Intention of the lady to erect a fine, large orphanage building on the property, to be known as the Gusky Memorial Hospital. They also sold a mortgage of $5,000 on a house and lot in McKeesport, at 6 per cent; also a mortgage of $3,500 on a farm near the citr, at 6 per cent: also fire other mortgages of $7,500 on city and suburban property, at 6 per Alles & Bailev, 161 Fourth arenne, placed a mortgage for $1,100 for three years, at 6 per cent, on property in the Eighth ward. BlacsF & Balrd, 95 Fourth avenue, sold to James McCartney lot No. 53 in tbe J. Walter Hay plan of Valley "View place, having a front age ot M leet uy uv 10 uepiu. tor sow. Reed B. Coyle & Co., 131 Fourth avenne, placed a $20,000 loan on an East End property for one year, at 5 per cent. LOSSES EECOVEREI). A Drop In Money Rates Stimulates Trading In Railroad Shares Goad Baying and Stronger Prlcee All Round. New" Yoke, January 3. The stock market was unusually dull to-day, and especially in tbe forenoon, when higher rates for money served to restrict trading to the smallest limits, but later there was a remarkable drop in the mouey rates and prices for stocks responded quickly, and although the business was but little larger than during the forenoon, the most marked advantages took place all through the list, the losses of yesterday being recovered, with large fractions in addition. There was little news of any kind, and what there was was of a nentral character, so the money question was the ruling influence In the making of values. The bears started off with the circulation .of stories abont a bad bank statement to-morrow, bnt as the sub-treasury baa paid to the Clearing House over $2,090,000 In two days, and advices from Chicago gave ex change on New York at 60 centspremium. these tales naa nine or no effect. The buying 1 at all timet was ot the bwt character, and late in the day the shorts entered the field, increas ing the business and accelerating the advance. The dealings were led by the Coal stocks, Missouri Pacific, St. Paul and the Lead Trust, and all of these stocks were conspicuous tor strength. There were rumors of the covering of a large short interest In tho Coalers, and no other explanation was offered for their extra ordinary strength In the face of the general unsatisfactory condition of the coal trade. There was some hammering of Missouri Pacific and St. Paul, but the impression was scarcely perceptible and tbe effort short-lived. Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line sold ex-rights, and both soou recovered tbe value of the rights, which were sold at from 1 to J per cent. Lon don, which has been standing aloof from this market for the past few davs, showed signs of more interest, and Louisville and Nashville, Erie and other favorites of that center exhib ited more life tban of late. The opening figures were irregular, but gen erally small fractions higher tban last evening's figures, and although the market was extreme ly dull, tbe strong tone became apparent, and a general advance all along tbe line took place, and although there was a partial reaction after tbe first demand had been satisfied, tbe easing off of money in the afternoon brought in more buyers, and a marked improvement took place in the temper of the dealings, and from that time the upward movement met with no check during tbe afternoon, and the close was fairly active and strong and about the best prices of the day. Illinois Coal and Coke, the new stock intro duced into the department yesterday, was more active, and sold up fractionally higher than Its best price ot yesterday. The entire active list, without exception. Is higher. Jersey Central Is np 1. Missouri Pacific lji, Louisville and Nashville , Sugar VA, St. Pan! 1, and Read ing L Railroad bonds maintained the nsual volnme of business, but the interest in the dealings centered entirely in stocks to-day, and there were few changes of note and no feature of in terest. Tbe Bales were $1,020,000, but there was no special animation in any one issue. Chicago and Illinois consols rose 2 to 120. New Jersey Midland firsts lost 2X at 113. The rollowmg taoie snows tne prices 01 active stocks on tbe Hew York Stock Kxcnange yester day. Corrected daily Tor Tics Dispatch by WiirriraT 4 stethknbon, oldest Pittsburg mem bers of .New York Stock Exchange, 57 Irourth ave nue: Clos Open High- low- lnr lor. esL est. Bid. Am. Cotton Oil Trust. . 30X 31K 30X 31 Am. Cotton Oil 35 35 31 33 Atch., Top.4 B. J" S1H 33V 3:iM 33K Canadian Pacific liii 7i 75H 75M .Canada southern 55 55?i 55 UH Central or.NewJersey.125V I27H VXH 128 Central Pacini S3 S3X Z3S 3U ChesaDeake4 Ohio. 2654 27 2GV 27 C Bar. 4 Oulny.....l07?i 107)j 107)2 10714" a. Mil. 4 St. Paul.... 69 70H 6 70 C itu.48t. p..pr. . .... in C. KOCKL4P V7 97V '96V 97M C., St. L. 4 Pitts 17 17 17 17 c, at. l. 4 Pitts, nf.. an 44 UH ax C. St. P.. M. 4 0 33H SIM 13J4 33 C. St. pM. 40.. pr. 5 C. 4 northwestern 1 10 lUii 110 111J C4 Worth western, nf. 142 C, C. C. 4 I eaH 6&X 63 7054 C. C, O.VfcL. nf. ... 98 93 93 9m Ool. Coal 4 Iron SUM H 39)4 41M Col. 4 Hooting Vat .. 19t )9X 19K 19 Dei.. L. 4V 138 136 138 13CH Del. A Hudson 143 143i 143 UHH Denver4KloO 18), Denver 4 Bio O.. PI... 50 &0,' 50 50V1 "E.T.. Va.4Ua 9)J B. T.. Va. 4 Oa. 1st pf. 87 at, Va. 4Ua.Zdpr. 20 Illinois Central. 117 LaKe Erie 4 Western 17 Lake lsrie'4 West. pr.. M 63 62V t34 Lite Shore 4 M. S 104J4" lMTi 104)4 101 Loulsvllle4Masbvllle. &6 87 86Ii eeji Mlchlatan Central 95 95J4 95 M Mobile Ohio 13 Mo.. Kan. 4 Texas 11M Missouri Pacific 71K 73H 71 73 M New rork Central 106 K. V.. L. . 4 (V 26 26 26 26 N.Y..L.K.4W.pref. 63 a. i c. tst. l i7M H. X., C. 4 St. L. pf. 70k ... C iSt.l.. 2d pf .... - 3s)( N. tjtil. is 44 44) 43 44l t.Y., O. AW 19i 19 19 19 ftorrolk 4 Western 19 Norfolk Western, nf. 60 Northern Pacific 30 31 30 31 ) -Nortnern faclfle preC 74 75 74 74 Ohio 4 Mississippi..... 22 Orefton Improvement. 43 44 43V 43 Oregon Transcon 34 34 34 34 PaclflCAlall 36. -37 86 37 Peo. Dee. 4 Kvans. 13 Phlladel. 4 Heading.. 38V 9 39 39 l'ullman Palace Car. ..ISO 18914 189 1S9 Klcnmona 4 w. p. T.. 21 21 20 21 Klcbmond4W.P.T.Df 77 St. P.. Minn. 4 Man.. 112 112 112 112 St. jj. 4 San Fran 15 St. L. 4 San JTran pf. 83)4 St.L. 4 San r.lst pH 92 Texas Pacific 20 21 20V 21 Union Paolflo '63 63 65 63 Wabasa 18V Wabash preferred 31 12 31 31V Western Union 33 83V 83 83 Wheeling 4 L. . 68 63 63 67 Sugar Trust. S3 59V 67V 69 National Lead Trust.. ZI 21 20 21 Chicago Uas Trust.... 42 43 42 43 Philadelphia Htochs. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney 4 Stenhenson, brokers. Ho. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Bx chanre. BM. Asked. Pennsylvania KaUroad. 53 63 Heading 19 11-16 19 Buffalo, Pittsburg 4 Western 7V 8 Lehigh Valley 53 53 Lehigh Navigation 52H 51 Northern Pacific 3'i .... Northern Pacinc preierrea 71 '5 Ooiton Stocks. A ten. 4 Top. B. B. pf 33 Boston 4 Albany.. .213 Boston 4 Maine. ....210 C U. 4U 107 -Linn. San. 4 Cleve. 24 Eastern E. K 130 Eastern K. It. 6s ....124 Flint FereM 25 Flint 4 Fere M. ord. 94 Mexican cen. com.. 18 Hex. Cist mtg. bas. 70 . Y. 4Newnr... 44 H. Y. 4 S. E. 7s... .127 Old Colour 176 Rutland, com 5 Uutland preferred.. 50 Wis. central, com... 33 Wis. Central pt... 62 AllouezMgUo 1 Calumet 4 Hecla....260 Catalpa 14 KranKiin 16 Huron 3 Osceola, 23 Pewablc 5 Qnlnor 70 Bell Telepnone 201 Boston Land 6 Water Power... 6 Tamarack 150 San Diego 2114" Santa Fe copper 1 Tbe Wool Markets Philadelphia Fleece wool in improved demand; Territorial wool quiet; Ohio, Penn sylvania and West Virginia, XX and above, o3K34KcJ X,3133c; medium, 3638c; coarse. 3637c; New York, Michigan, Indiana and Western fine or X and XX, 2931c: medium, S6K37Kc: coarse, 3536Ke; fine washed de laine and XX, 3136c; medium washed comb ing and delaine, S941c; coarse washed comb ing and delaine, 3738c; Canada washed comb ing, 3335c; tub washed, S2llc: medium unwashed combing and dlalne, 2JC0c: coaro do, 2723c: Montana, 1825c; Territorial, 15K 22c Boston The market for wool bas been steady and the demand good, considering the time of year, the sales of the week amounting to Z761.O0O pounds foreign and domestic In prices there is no change to notice. Combing and delaine are strong features of tbe situa tion and sales of the latter are reported at S6 36c for Ohio and 35c for Michigan. Consider able Eastern Oregon sold at 1516 and chnico at 19c Territory has been selling tairly at 58 60c for fine, &557c for fine medium and E053o for medium. Spring Texas sold in a small wav at 202lc and fall at lC20c Michigan X fleece steadv nt 30c Ohio X sold at 3233c and XX and XX and above at 8i35c The stocks of domestic on hand here at tbe begin ning of the Tear amounted to 21,391,000 pounds.ln eluding 6,071,000 fleeces, 2,009,000 pulled. 1,485, 000 California sprinir. 518,000 California fall, 2,875,000 Oregon, L343.000 scoured, 7.181,000 Ter ritory, 1,405.000 Texas 752,000 Kentucky and other Southern and 125,000 sundries. The stock of foreign wool was 15,000 pounds Cape, 1,303,000 Australian, 8,000 Montevideo, 30,000 English and Irish, 35,000 Russian and Bagdad. 100.000 East Indian, 115,000 camels' hair noils and 3,810,000 various kinds of foreign carpet; total, 5,416,000 pounds; total stock of foreign and do mestic. 29,810,000, as against 18,856,000 on Japu ary 1 lat vear, an increase of 10,954.000, of which 7,22,000 is in domestic and 3,725,000 in foreign. The Boston Commercial XuUeUn's annual telegraphic canvass of the wool supply in the United States shows a heavy increase over last years, rue uetauea ana ciassinea reports from tbe markets and the growers show a total supply in dealers' bands of 70,000,000 pounds domestic and 15,000,000 pounds foreign, against 60.000,000 domestic and 17.000.000 foreign in 1388. SICK HEADACHBCsrter,1 LUUe Utm 1uu SICK HJADACHECarteri Little Liver Pills. SICK HEAllACHECllrUr,1 Lutle ierpru,. SICK HEADACHECarter,i Lmle jjtcJpiiis. nole-67-TTSSu BROKERS FINANCIAL. TXTHITNEY & STEPHENSON, 7 FOURTH AVENUE. Issue travelers' credits through Messrs. Dreiel, Morgan 4 Co, New York. Passports procured. apS-1 JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO., BANKERS AND BBOKERa Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wire to New York and Chicago, 45 SIXTH ST, Pittsburg. ; &sA DOMESTIC MARKETS. The Lull That Follows Holidays in Trade Lines Here. CRANBERRIES SCARCE AND FIRM. Cereal Situation Unchanged Xeir Shelled Corn Weakest. AN UPWAED MOVE OP SUGAR BTAETED OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,) FRIDAY. January 3. 1S90. J Country Produce Jobbing Prices. Trade is very quiet at old rates. There Is a fair demand for good creamery bntter, bat low' grades of all kinds ot bntter are slow. Tbe egg market is sluggish, owing to mild weather. A sharp frost would send prices np at once. A rise in cheese will be due in the next week or two. Cranberries are scarce and firm. Advices from sources of supply show that stock In tbe hands of growers is unusually light. For choice stock 513 per barrel was quoted in New York yesterday. Demand is not so active since the holidays, bnt prices are very firm. Potatoes are steady. Sweet potatoes are scarce and firm at quotations. The usual lull tnat follows holi days Is fully on, but produce commission men with one accord look for an active movement of stuff after January settlements. Butter Creamery, Elgin, 3031c; Ohio do, 27'!Sc: fresh dairy packed, 2426c; country rolls, 2324c Beans Navy hand-picked beans, t2 25Q2 30; medium. $2 102 2a Beeswax 2830c $1 & for choice; low grade, 1820c Cider Sand refined, J8 507 50; common, 3 501 00; crab cider,?8 008 50 barrel: cider vinegar, 1012c W gallon. Chestnuts !5 005 50 V bushel: walnuts, G070c f? bushel. Cheese Ohio, llUc; New York, UKc; Limburger, 9llc; domestic Sweitzer, 11 13Kc; imported Sweitzer, 23 Eoos 2425c f) dozen for strictly fresh. Fruits Applet fancy, 2 503 00 $1 barrel: cranberries, S12 0013 00 barrel; Malaga grapes, large barrel. 8 504210 00. Game SqnIrreIs,75cSl ffl dozen; quail, 1 75 ft dozen; prairie chickens. H 505 CO 5? dozen; pheasants, 5 005 50 1 dozen: rabDits,3035c a pair; venison saddle, 1012c jfl pound; venison carcass. 79c V pound. Feathers Extra live geese, 5G60c;No. 1, do, 4045c: mixed lots, 3035c ft Si. Poultry Lire chickens, 5065e a pair; dressed. ll12c a pound: ducks, 6575c V pair; geese, $1 2531 SO $1 pair: live turkeys, 1315c $1 lb: dressed turkeys, 1820e W &. Seeds Clover, choice, C2 Bs to bash el, n 20 i 40 p bushel; clover, large English. 62 Sis, SI 35 4 60. clover, Alsike. 58 00: clover, white, $9; timo thy, choice, 45 fis. SI 50; blue grass, extra clean, 14 Sis. SI 251 30; blue grass, fancy, 14 B.3. SI 30; orchard grass, 14 fts. SI 40: red top, 14 ft. Si 25; millet, 50 Bs, SI 00: millet, 6070o bushel; Hungarian grass, 60 tti. 65c, lawn grass, mix ture of fine grasses, S3 00 fl bn9hel of 14 fis. Tallow Country, 4c; city rendered, 4 5c Tropical Fruits Lemons, 'common, S3 50 300; fancy, S4 005 00; Florida oranges, S3- 00 3 25; Jamaica oranges. S6 006 50 $ barrel; bananas, SI 50 firsts, SI 00 good seconds $ bunch; cocoannts, H 0004 50 33 hundred; figs, 89c fl ; dates ,66Kc $ ft; new layer figs, 12l5c;new daces. 7c ft Si. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track, 4550c; cabbages. $7 008 00 a hun dred; celery, 40c $1 dozen: Jerseys, S4 a barrel; turnips, SI 001 60 a barrel; onions, SI 75 a bar rel. Buckwheat Flour 22c ft pound. Groceries. Sugars advanced 1-16C in New York yester day, and It is thought that a bull movement is inaugurated. Time will soou tell. We expect to advance our quotations to-morrow if tbe up ward movement receives no check. Coffee is fairly steady. Said a leading jobber to-day: "Coffee market is an enigma to all. The Bra zilian complications are the uncertain quantity of markets." Green Coffee Fancy Bio, 232)2ic; choice Elo, 2122c; prime Rio, 20c; lowgradeRio. 18K19fc; old Government Java, 2728c; MaV acaibo. 23i2ic; Mocha, 232c; Santos, 0K2tc; Caracas. 2224c; peaberry, Rio, 23 24c: La Guayra, 23K&2JC Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 24c; high grades. 2529c: old Government Java, bulk, 31K33c; Maracalbo, 2728c; Santos, 24K28Kc; peaberry, 28c; choice Rio. 25c; prime Rio, 23c: good Rio, 22c; ordinary, 2lc Spicks (whole) Cloves, l!)20c: allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c; pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 7080c PETROLEUJt (jobbers' price?) 110 test, 7Kc; Ohio, 120. 8Kc; headlight, 160, 8c: water white, 10Kc; globe, 1414Kc;elaIue, 14c; car nadine, llKc; royallne, 14c; globe red oil, 11 llKc. purity 14c Miners' OIL No. 1 winter strained, 4617c ft gallon: summer, 4043c. Lard oil, 70c. Struts Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar syrup, 333Sc; prime sugar syrup, S033c: strictly prime. 3335c; new maple sjrnp, 90c N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop 4850c; choice, 47c: medium. 3S43c; mixed, 4042c Soda Bi-carb in kegs, SSSKc; bt-carb in 5c; bl-carb, assorted packages, 66c; sal soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c Candles star, full weight. 9c; stearine, $ set. Sc; paramne, ll12c Rice Head, Carolina, 67c: choice, 6 6Kc; prime, R$26c: Louisiana, 56c Starch Pearl, 2c; cornstarch, 56c; gloss r tire ta 40?7c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, 52 65: Lon don layers, 52 90: California London layers, 52 75; Muscatel?, $2 40; California Muicatels, 82 25; Valencia,7&c; Ondara VaIenciae8Kc; sultana, 93c;cnrrants,5J5Jfc; Turkey prunes, 45c;i- French prunes, 6)c; Salonlca prunes In 2-& paokages, 8Kc: cocuanuts, ft 100, SO 00; almonds. Lan.. V Si, 20c; do. Ivica, 19c; do, shelled, .40c; walnuts, nap., 1415c: Sicily filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 1213c; new dates, 66Kc; Brazil nuts, 10c; pecans. ll15c; cit ron, ft &, 1920c; lemon peel, 18c ? Si; orange peel. 17c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c, ap ples, evaporated, 9c; apricots, California, evap orated, 14KI8c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 2628c: peaches. California, evaporated, un pared. 19Q21c; cherries. pitted,13K14Kc; cher ries, unpitted. 56c; raspberries, evaporated, 25K26Wc: blackberries, 7Sc: huckleberries. 1012c SUGARS Cubes, 7Jc; powdered, 7Jic; granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 6c; soft white, 56Kc; yellow, choice, 6 64ic; yellow, good. 5Kc; yellow, fair, 6Jf 5Kc; yellow, dark, 6Jc Pickles Medium, bbU (1,200), $5 60; medi um, half bbls (600). S3 25. Salt-No. 1. $ bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex. ft bbL SI 05; dairy, ft bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal. $ bbl, SI 20: Higglna' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 52 80; Higglns' .Eureka, 10-14 a pockets, $3 w. Canned Goods Standard peaches, 52 00 2 25;2ds, SI 651 SO: extra peaches, 52 402 60; pie peaches, 95c; finest corn. SI 001 50; Hid Co. corn, 7590c; red cherries, 90cSl; Lima beans, SI 20; soaked do, 80c; string do 6065c: mar rowfat peas, SI 101 15; soaked peas, 7080c; pineapples SI 301 40; Babama do, $2 75; damson plums, 95c; Greengages. SI 25; egg plums, 82 00; California pears. 82 50; do greengages, SI 85; do egg plums. SI 85; extra white cherries. 32 40; raspberries, 95cgSl 10; strawberries, $1 10; gooseberries, $1 301 40; tomatoes, 8590c; salmon, 1-ft, SI 651 90; blackberries, 65c: succotash, 2 ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2-ft, SI 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, 82 05; 14-& cans. S14; baked beans, 81 45 1 50: lobstei, 1-ft. SI 75l SO; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 50; sardines, domestic Ks, 84 254 60; sardines, domestic K. 86 757 tX); sardines, imported, , SH &012 50; sardines, imported. s, 818; sardines, mustard, S3 30; sardines, spiced, 83 60. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, 836 ft bbl.; extra No.l do, mess, S40; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore. 832; extra No. 1 do, mess, 836: No. 2 shore mackerel, 824. Codfish Whole pollock, 4VJc 1 ft; do medium, George's cod, 6c; do large, 7c; boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod In .blocxs, 67Kc Herring Round shore, $4 50 ft bbl.; split, t6 50; lake, 82 75 ft 100-ft half bbL White fish, 88 00 ft 100 ft balf bbl. Lake trout, 85 50 ft half bbL Fin nan haddock, 100 ft ft. Iceland halibut, 13c ft ft. Pickerel. K bbl. $2 00; K bbl, SI l(k Poto mac herring. So 00 ft bbl, S3 50 per M bbL OATMEAL-Sti 006 25 ft bbL Groin, Floor and Feed. Receipts as bulletined at tbe Grain Exchange, 40 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago, 8 cars of bay, 6 of corn, 1 of bran, 1 of middlings, 2 of rye, 1 of malt, 1 of oats. By Pittsburg, Cin cinnati and St. Louis, 4 cars of wheat, 1 of corn, 2 of hay, 1 of oats. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of hay, 1 of, rye, 8 of oats. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, lear of oatsl of straw, 1 of malt. Bales on call, 2 cars of middlings, 811 50, 5 days, P. R. R.: 1 car No. 2 y. e. corn, 37c, 10 days, P. R. R.; 1 car bran, 511 25, 5 days. P. R. R.; 1 ear mixed oats, 25Jc 10 days, P. R. R. The cereal situation is practically unchanged. New shelled corn is tbe weak factor of markets. In all other lines markets are steady, particularly for choice stuff. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHEAT-NewNo.2 red,8586c; No. 3,82 83c CORif No. 2 yellow, ear, new; 8837c: high mixed, ear, old, 8940c; BW 343350; No. 2 yel low, shelled, old, 39a40ct new, S233c: high mixed, shelled, 4041c; new high mixed.shelled, 81032c Oats-No. 2 white, 2928Sc; extra, No. 8, 2828Kc; mixed, 26827. Rte No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 53854c; No. 1 Western, 51g52a x . , Barlet Western. 4535e; Canaaa barley, flour Jobbing priooe; Fancy winter and spring patents, 85 005 50: winter straight, ' $4 23s4 60; clear winter. S4 O04 25; straight XXXX bakers', S3 GC3 75. Rye floor. S3 60 ' 4 75. Millfeed Middlings, fine white. 815 009 15 OU ft too; brown middlings. 812 00014 00 . winter wbeat bran, 811 2SU U; chop feed, S15 6016 CO. . . Hat Baled timothy. No. L SU 60012 00; No. 2 do, 83 0O10 00; loose from wagon, SU 00 12 00, according-to quality: No. 2 prairie hay, 87 008 00: packing do. 86 607 00. Straw Oair. 86 757 00; wheat and rya Straw, $6 006 25. Provisions. Sngar-cnred ham, large, 9c; fngar-cnrsd hams, medium, Jc; sugar-cured hams, small 10c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8 sngar cnred shoulders, 5Jc; sugar-cured VrVjeless shoulders, 7c: sngar-cnred California TiamJ, 6c; sngar-cnred dried beef flats, 9c; sngar-cnred dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon shoulders. 5c: bacon clear sides, 7c; bacon clear bellies, 7c: dry salt shoulders, 5c; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess pork, heavy, 811 50; mess pork, family, S12 00. Lard Refined, in tierces, 5ic; half-barrels, 6c; 60S tubs, 6c; 20-& pails. 6c: 50-ft tin cans., 5c; 3-& tin pails, 6Hc; 5-ft. tin pails, 6Kc; 10- tin pails, &c: 5-ft tin pails, 6c Smoked sausage, long, 5c: large, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless bams, 10Jc Pigs' feet, half bar rel, S4 00; quarter barrel, 53 15. Dreaaed Olent. The following prices are furnished by Armour & Co. on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 550 Bs, 5c; 560 to 650 Bs, 6c; 650 to 750 fts, 6X6 6C, Sheep, 8c ft ft. Lambs, 8c ft ft. Hogs. 6X& Fresh pork loins, 7c MABKETS BY WIEE. ' Good Sprcnlntlve Movement In the Wheat 'Pit, but Heavy Benllzlng Weakens) Prlcea Corn Better OaU Weak Pork Unchanged. Chicago Fair specnlative trading to. day, and the market ruled a little un settled. Some of the large traders sold freely during the early part ot the session, and as the.e was no outside support, weaker feeling set In. Besides, operators haveot late felt qnite bullish, and were evidently pretty well loaded with wbeat from the smaller to tho larger traders, and some of these, evidently fearing a decline, started to sell. Hence, not withstanding the generally favorable tone of European advices, and the encouraging influ ences which were presented, the market did not respond to these in the manner it was cal culated tbey would. lhe market opened steady and advanced Jc, bnt soon weakened and prices started down, under free realizing, declining c, then improved c, ruled easier and closed about Ko lower than yesterday. A feature which might be construed as favorable to holders was tbe report that the elevator proprietors had con cluded not to advance rates of storage at least not until July. A very steady feeling prevailed in the corn market, fluctuatlons'showing but little change compared with yesterday. A fair trade was transacted early, but later the market becamo quite lifeless. The market opened at yester day's closing prices, changed but little, and final quotations were a shade better tban yes terday. There was some buying of May corn for foreign account reported. Oats were slow, weak and lower, due to good receipts, a light demand, more disposition on tbe part of holders to sell, and also to the con tinued weakness in corn. Tbe only business ot consequence was in May. but fluctuations were hardly c The near futures were neglected. In mess pork there was only a fair trade. Early in tbe day tbe feeling was stronger and prices were slightly advanced. Later, a weaker feeling was developed and prices receded SQ 7Kc but toward the close there was moro steadiness, and the closing figures showed lit. tie change from those of yesterday. Little interest was manifested in lard. Trad ing was chiefly in February and May. Price were without material change. A small business was reported in short ribs. Prices were a trifle higher early, but the mar ket closed easy. The leading futures ranged as 1 ouowv: Wheat No. 2. December. 777877JQ 77c; February, 79g79K07979Kc; May, 83ji Corn No. Z January. 292! cuuji, .TCiiuiWfti;, iiuj, o.wHH,'.Biy,-,v- uats jno. January. ajMiaiia-oiereojlc; May. 22K22422S22Hc Mess Pore, per bbL-Jannary. 89 159 22 9 159 22K; February. 59 309 359 S09 35; May. 89 629 709 6009 67X- Lard, per 100 fts January. 85 805 80: February, to 87X5s75 855 85; May, 86 05 6056 02K6 05. Short Ribs, per 100 fts. January. $4 60 4 GO0li 5504 55; Febmarv. S4 674 674 62 4 65; May. 84 854 854 854 85. Casta quotations were as follows: Flour nominally unchanged. No. 2sprlngwbeat,77Kc; No. 3 spring wheat, 6769c; No. 2 red, 77c; No. 2corn.29Kc No.2 oats,20J20Kc Na2ryc44Jic No.2 barIey,5860cNo.lflaxseed.Sl 34K- Prima tlmotby seed. 81 17. Mess pork, per bbl. 89 25. Lard, per 100 lbs. So SO. Short nba sides (loose), 84 55. Dry salted shonldera rboxedj, 84 12K4 25; short clear sides (boxed), $4 955 00. Sugars Cntloaf, 78c; granu lated, 6c; standard A, 6c Receipts Flour. 22.000 barrels: wheat. 43,000 bushels: corn. 510,000 bushels; oats, 129,000 bushels; rye. 13,000) bushels: barley, 31,000 bushels. Shipments Floor, 27,000 barrels; wheat. 26,000 bushels: corn. 234,000 bubels; oats. 223,000 bushels; rye, 14,009 bushels: barley, 43,000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was dull and unchanged. Eggs, 17c New Tore Flour firm and In fair demand. Cornmeal steady. Wheat Spot firmer and dull; options dull and unchanged to Kc np and steady; trading chiefly local. Rye firmer; Western. 5760c: Canada. 67060c Barley firm; Western. 62c: Canada. 58ffi72c Barley malt quiet; Canada, 70S5c Corn Spot steadier and moderately active; options fairly active and unchanged to c up and Arm. Oats Spot weaker; options moderately active and Kc lower. Hay quiet and steady. Hops firm and quiet. Coffee Options opened dnll;1015 Soints down: closed barely steady, 10 points own to 5 points np: sales. 41,500 bags, includ ing January. 1545015.55c; February, 15.45 15.50c; March, 15.45015.60c; April. 15.50 1570c: Mav. 155015.70c; June. 1550 I565c: July. 155015.60c; August, 1555c: September, 1550015.65c: October. 1550c; December, 1550c: spot Rio, fair cargoes, 19c Sugar Raw firmer and in good demand; fair refining, 5c; centrifugals, 06 test, 5c Mo lasses New Orleans steady. Rice steady and quiet. Cotton' seed oil firm. Tallow firmer; city, 82 for packages, 4 15-32c Rosin dull. Turpentine quiet and steadv. Eggs quiet and about steadv: western, 18019c; receipts, 6,104 packages. Pork steady and in fair demand. Cut meats dull; pickled bellies, 5K5c: middles quiet. Lard steadv and quiet; sales, 250 tierces western steam, 86 15: options, sales 1,750 tierces January, S3 15 bid; February, 88 22; March, 86 30 6 31, closing at 86 31; May, 86 41: July, 86 53. Butter quiet; fancy steady; others weak; Elgin, 28029c; western dairy, 918c; do cream ery, 1327c:do held. 10018c; do factory, 6018c Cheese uuii: western, wetiuc Philadelphia Flour dull and barely steady. Wheat steady and rerv little In de mand; No. 2. 5C055c; rejected at 5565c; fair to good milling wheat, 78085c; choice and fancy longberry. 8893Kc; choice ungraded long berrv in grain depot, 92c: Nc 2 red. Jan nary, 81081Kc; February, 828Sc: March, 83 84Jic; April. 84$fS5c Corn Firm local trade, demand light and prices are of low grades, weaker, irregular and unchanged: No. 2, however, offered sparingly and firmly held; No. 4 vellw in grain depot, 29c: No. 3 yellow in do. 3232c; No. 3 mixed in Twentieth street elevator, 34c: Nc 2 mixed and high mixed in gram depot and Twentieth street elevator, 38c: No. 2 mixed in export elevator. 38c: No. 2 mixed Jan uary,8636c: February. 36K36c; March, 3637c; April. 373Sc Oats Car lots ilnll and barely steady; No. 3 white, 294r; No. 2 white, short storage. 30c; do regular. 30c; un graded clipped. 30c; speculation tame and futures beyond this month Via lower; Nc 2 white, January, 29K30c; February, 2914a 29Kc; March, 29K2asC: April, 3030i. Butter dull and irregular: Pennsylvania creamery, ex tra, 27028c Eggs unsettled and lower; Penn sylvania firsts, lS19c. Receipts Hour. 1,600 barrels; wbeat. 2,300 bushels; corn, 124.000 bush els: oats, 20,000 bushel'. Shipment Wheat. 3,800 bushels; corn, 41,000 bushels; oats, 5,000 bushels. St. Louis Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat, the market was firm throughout and the close was strong at yesterday's figures; No. 2red, cash. 77c; Janu3rv.7778ic: dosed, at Tike bid; May. Sl&Ac, closing at S2a bid; July, closed at 78$S bid. Corn weak; No. 2 mixed, cash. 2525Kc; January, 25c closing at 25Jic asked; February, 26Hc, closing at260 bid; May. 2SJ4285C, closing at 2SKc Oats lower: Nc 1 cash. li20c: May. 2I&0 bid: January. 19e bid. Rye firm at 42l2c Barley Steady; Minnesota, 5458c Flaxseed, 81 30. Provisioni quiet and essentially un changed. MINNEAPOLIS The early demand for cash whfct.was not as act 're as it was yesterday. Bb jpsa were apparently holding back hoping to eettter terms, with sellers asking the pre viots) day's figure. Tbe wheat was wanted andkter most of it fit for milling purposes was disposed of at yesterday's range of prices. Re ceipts for tbe 24 hours were 210 cars, with ship ments 45 cars. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard, January, 80c; May, 84c; on track. Sic; No. 1 Northern January, 77c: February, 78c; May, 82c: on track 7K679Hc:Nc 2 Northern, . January. 85c; February, 7bc; May, 79c; oo track, 7677Kc Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat quiet; No. 2 spring on track cash, 75076c; May, 7674c: No. 1 Northern. 8oKe- Corn steady: Nc 8, on track, 27K2Jc Oatz steady; No. 2 white, on track. Zic Rye quiet; No. 1 In store. 45c Barley steady: No. 2. in store, 47c Provisions firm. Pork. 89 22K. Lard, 85 SO, Cheese unchanged; Cheddars, 9Qic Toledo Cloverseed dull and steady; cMfc 840i February, fUSH a fej- ... . '4' .aS&i V..t
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