. THE HTTSBtma DEPATOH, SATURDAY. MARCH B. 189a IRON TRADE REVIEW. Bessemer Sales at Prices Lower Than Ever Known in Pittsburg. ORE ALSO GOES DOWN A PEG. (Kerprodnctio 1 and the Craze for Steel Are Dt pressing Factors. KSrOF.TS FK03T ALL HE TEADE CENTERS Office oi-The DisrATCH. ) rrrrsEcno, Teiday. March 4. Eaw Ikon and Steed The iron trade continues in a demoralized condition. Prices for all descriptions are weak and unsatis factory. "Wo are now in the third month of the year, and the improTcment so long ex pected has not yet put in an appearance. As to prices there has been no further de cline, and there is a moderate demand for Bessemer pig at the low prices now govern ing the market Throughout the producing center of the country the inactivity pre vailing for some time continues and the present position is very unsatisfactory to the trade generally. Competition for busi ness has been active, and prices in some instances have been lowered to secure con tracts. Consumers, as a general thing, are only placing orders fcr iron as they need it. Unsold Stock Accumulating. Although consumption continues large, the output of the turnaces is of heavy pro portions, and there has undoubtedly been come increase in the amount of unsold stock hi nee the beginning of the year. It is the prevailing opinion that there can be no pro nounced improvement in trade until the lurnace companies shall recognize that there is an over production and take steps to re strict the output. In retard to values, the present seems to be the dark honr before the dawn. Prices have undoubtedly been the lowestfor years, and in some directions the lowest ever re corded. Prices, too, are something of a mystery these days. "While certain brands have a clearly defined position, other irons, claiming to 6e equal in quality, equal in crading and in all respects fully up to the standard, have been shaded before sales could be consummated. A large number of furnaces are being banked or blown out the more the better. Those who have piled np large amounts are getting ready to unload at some price. City lurnace irons have such an excellent repu tation that top prices are always obtained for Bessemer, gray forge and foundries. Manufacturers Simply Overstocked. Iron axd Steel During the week there has been quite a controversy in regard to these products. There seems to be a differ ence of opinion caused by a dull market and the discharge of so many puddlers at various establishments. A leading iron mau has this to say about the situation: "It may be sized up by the words over production. It has. been charged that the sev eral shutdowns mean a combination of the firms against the workmen, but there is not a word of truth in that "We are simply overstocked and must give our puddling iurnaccs a good rest before we can resume on legitimate business lines and at a profit Iron has of late been much crowded out by solt Bessemer steel. The steel we can use but not the iron. "We can sell the steel for exactly the same price as iron. It is altogether probable that we will never start up these Iurnaccs again." Another iron man defends iron. He says: "The iron business will recover. Steel is crowding it very closely. I am not of the opinion that it is going to be knocked out completelr because of the advantage that exits in the manufacture and uses of steel and its supreme adaptability to so many purposes formerly filled by iron." loirtr Prices Not Looked Tor. The Latest Market still weak. Prices seem to have touched bottom. Bessemer sales ate at the lowest we have ever re ported. The Cleveland Iiollinz Mill Com pany, of Cleveland, O., areabout ready to., resume mamng steel rails, xnis mill is not in the rail pool, and have not made rails lor several years. They will run one turn on rails and the other on billets. Iron Ore Few sales are being made. Some sales of Bessemer ores were at lower prices than last year, which gives late buvcrs considerable advantage. Scrap Material Dull, prices nominal. The low price of Bessemer pig is the cause of the dullness. Old iron and steel rails are cx.-eedingly dull; prices weak and uncer ain. Billets and slabs dull. "We are re ported the following sales: roKE-PMHrrD lake ajtd native orcs. S.ron tnm Hessenier. April. Mar. June..$14 T3 cash a noo tons Bessemer. April. Mav. June.. 14 75 cash 3.0CO tons Bt-ssfiiicn; April, Mav, June.. 14 To cath 3.fOtons Bessemer, April. Slav, June.. 15 00 cash 3.TO tone I!eciner, April, Slay, June.. 14 60 cash "0(O tons Bessemer, April, Ma, June.. 14 75 cash .000 tons Bessemer. AprlL Mav. June.. 14 75 cash 2.0m) tons Bessemer. April, Mav, June. 14 75 cash .iwions jiessenicr, April. May. June. - O-Xllons Bessemer. April, May, Juue. 5-jton jrrav forjre. Mirch...". batons No. loundr) .......... Son tuns Bessemer cltv furnace........ COO inns Bessemer, city furnace aotonsNo. : foundry J 200 tons No. 3 foundry. o1 tons Mh err. ......................... SO lonsHherj .................... SOtoniNu. 2 foundry 25 tons No. S foundry ................. 2 tons No. 1 foundry 20 tons No. 3 loundry it 75 cash 14 75 cash 13 00 cash 14 25 cash 1 00 cabh 15 00 cash 14 75 cash 14 50 cath 17 00 cash 17 00 cash 14 00 cavli 14 25 cash 15 .- cah 14 25 cash STrKL SLABS AXD B1LLLTS. S.O00 tons steel billets, April, May and June $3 00 cash 2. ten tons steel billets. March and April.. 23 25 cash 2 OiO ton- steel lulletf, April and May... 23 50 cash 2.0,'m tons steel tlaus, March, April and Mar 2(25 cash tfm tons steel billets, March, April and Mav 350 cash 500 tons steel billets 23 SO cash skelp ir.ox. 403 tons sheared iron J l 85 4m 350 tons Ide (trout ed 161 4in sou ton narrow grooved 1 57)5 4m rxHEO MAXCAN-ESE. 170 tons, to per cent delivered $53 00 75 tons, ao percent acllvertd 63 00 MUCK eau. cash cash l.trotonsnentraUMarcli, AprHMav... tti0 tons neutral. April. Mav. .".... Sniton neutral. March, ApriLMay... SOl tons neutral, April, May. 3m tons neutral STEEL WIRE EODS. .$25 50 cash . 25 50 cash . 25 SO cash cash cash 25 25 Kvter American fires at milt. ....$32 50 cash blooms, beams, bail axd c. exds. Lonfl tons bloom and beam ends $17 CO 100 tons bloom and rail cnibi 17 00 cash cash CHARCOAL. 100tons.o I fouiidir 100 tons .No. 1 loundfv ?!0 SO 2100 .25 53 18 50 20 50 2100 cash cash cash cash cash cash 100 tons cold blast. 100 tons warm blast. to tons cold blast 25 tons No. 2foundrr OLO IEOS AXI STEEL HAILS. 200 tons steel rails .$1S75 2U0 tons steel rails 16 25 cash SOME SALES AT CIKCUJ5ATI. A Considerable Amount or Business, but at Very Low Prices. Cij.-cin-ati, Mjrck 4. SpeccU. Rogers, Brown A Co. say: A very considerable amount of business has been transacted dur ing the past week, at low prices. The ton nage of sales made througn Cincinnati agencies will probably reach SO.CuG during the week. This has been largely or South ern coke irons, and it is needless to say that prices have been lower than heforr. made. Buyers for the most part, however, take nothing except what is actually needed for early consumption. One large consumer en tered the market for 10.000 tons, late deliver ies, but concluded not to buy. It Is a singu lar characteristic or the pig iron trade that when prices are at, the lowest buyers, as a rule, keen their yards as near empty as possible, and only take hold freely for future wants when prices are well tip. The very general talk of over-production naturallv excites fears among all Classen of buyers, and the general belief is that there is no bottom to the market Here and there a furnace or other holder of iron throws some special lot on the market for what it will brinz and adds to this feeling. All ex perienced observers know that the farther thH demoralization extends the quicker and more extreme will be the reaction. At present there is unquestionable over-production. From this time on, however, fur naces North and South will so out of blast, and production will be materially cut down. Ti:is is inevitable, because 35 per cent of the active furnaces are making .jakuMrVtasssiMBsssswsssK rLfwyi " i.J T.l PJWFffiwriiiroCTiT alMa '"MMIMI ' llllllsssssssssssSWllsssiMsLaMW I II IMI J31..:a;MJ-a.JitS iron at a loss on to-day's market Somo place the proportion much hieher than this. When it is unco clearly soen that production is reduced, consumers will conclude they had better stock tip, and there wtll bo an active buying movement that will quickly prove there is n bottom to the market, and that it is a higher level than srenorally sup posed. It should not be forgotten that practically the entire blast furnace capacity of the United States lias been employed- for the last three months. The total output has exceeded consumption by perhaps 8 per cent This Is 'during -a period when all brunches or the iron trade have been de pressed, Tbcro are few new furnaces in constrnction, cither north owsoutn, and it will bo years before another period of active furnace-building sets in. The averatro increase in consumption of iron in the United State-; for the past SO years lias been 10 per cent per annum. If the future is at all llko the past it is impossi ble that iron should continue for a Ions period below cost of production. A slight increase of consumption following the cur tailment of the output would bring about entire new conditions. Since onr last report two or three Northern furnnces of largo capacity have blown out, and two stacks in the South have gone out for "repairs. One new Southern lurnace of large capacity will blow in next week. It is the Embreville, in Easf Tennessee, near the. North Carolina line. It will use low phosphorus ores of a grade between Cripplo Creek and Cranberry. LOWEST OF ALL AT BIKMIHGHAK. Never Before Was Such a State of Affairs In the South. Bikmixohax, Ala., March 4 gpeciai The iron market is at the lowest point ever known in this district The quotations are given out as follows: No. 1 foundry, $12; No. 2 foundry, $11; No. 3 foundry, $10; Grey forge, $9. These are nominal figures. Tile tone is weak and the tendency lower, with demand light. Stacks continue to accumulate under heavy production and more iron is already in the yards than has ever been known. The general feeling anion; iron masters is that no compromise among producers is likelv to he reached whereby production can ho amicably limited, and that the struggle will proceed until enough furnaces arc forced out of blast to allow consumption n chance to catch up. Some hope is enter tained that the demand mav improve gen erally and restore the matket to at least the ficures prevailing prior to the new year, when rurnuces hero were fJiily well -atis-lled with the situation. Every pieparation is being made lor continuing in full opera tion, and there are no indications of a shut don n being in contemplation. Wa;es pave been cut down by some of the companies by 10 per cent, the reduction af fecting all employes from President down. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.how ever, has not made any cut as yet tbonzh it is carrying much the largest stock. The Presidents of the three largest concerns are now in New York for a conference on the situation. The railroads are asked to come to the assistance of the district in what is called the crucial struggle and as the reduc tion asked for is recommended by the local freight agents, it is belie ed the iquest will he granted. The oro supply is also being cheapened by the aid of the ore miner?. There nre no indications that the reduction of wages will be resisted. SHALL 0BDEBS AT CHICAGO. Consumers Disposed to Bay Simply From Hand to Mouth. CniCAGO, March 4. ifycciaZ Rogers, Brown Mcrwin say; There has been no chancre worthy of note in the pig iron market during the past week. While small orders have been numerous, business has been confined almost entirely to sales of this sort. Notwithstanding the fact that prices on both Northern and Southern coke iron are ruling lower than ever before known, consumers are indisposed to take hold, and are pursuing the policy of simply buving from hand to mouth. During December and January contracts were made by many of the large buyers covering delivery over the entire year of 1S92. Consumers thus provided will be out ot the matket for months to come, but the general trade must arrange tora supply, and can he depended on to buy heavily as soon as ymptoms of improvement arc 'seen. As long, however, nsi the present over-production continues bnt Iltt e animation, either in the wav of sales or prices, can be looked for. Marked improvement must come, and it is only a question of time as to when better conditions will prevail. Meanwhile, the blowing ont of iurnaces in all districts may be looked for. A Limit Fonnd at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 4. Special. Rogers, Brown A Co. say; Several large buyers have been tcstiug the market, and some sales are reported. Others who have made offers, thinking there" was probably, no price too low lot some furnaces to accept have found there is a limit beyond which sellers will not get Consumers or steel are receiving exeeedlnzly low quotations from the Pitts burg districts. No Change at St. Louis. St. Louis, March 4 Special. Rogers, Brown & Meacham say: There has been no change for the better since our last report A few small orders for Southern cofco iron have been placed during the past week at extremely low prices. There has been some sales of Lake Superior iron made in this mar ket dnring the past week, and the figures at which they were made were extremely low. Metal Markets. " New Tokk, March 4. Pur iron dnll and weak; American, $15 7?17 75." Copper dull and steady; lnke, $10 5010 63. Lead qniet and steady; domestic, $t 15t 20. Tin dull and steady; Straits, $19 GO. THE HAEKET BASKET, Ocean Products in Better Demand and Flowers Depressed. At the Diamond Market fruit and vegetable stalls trade is reported quiet for the week with no essential change in prices. Eggs have been up and down for the past two weeks, but are now retailing atSO cents per dozen, which was the price last Satur day. Poultry has been in limited supply of late, and prices show and upward tendency. Choice creamery and fancy roll butter sell at the same price as a week azo. The Lenten season, which opened the present week, has hud a helplul influence on the fish and o ster trade, but staple meats have suffered accordingly. At the butcher stalls trade is reported very slow, but stanle meats are unchanged in price. The effect of Lent is felt most in the lino of floral goods. Society has entered upon its qniet period, and floral decorations are, not so mnch in de mand as a week ago. The result is lower prices all alone floral lines, in spite of the lact that quality of flowers has sreatly im proved the week past Following are latest retail prices of mar ket basket materials: Meats Best cuts or tenderloin steaks, 25e per Jb: sirloin. lS?20c: standding rib roast, 1820c: " chuck roasts. 12c: corned beef. SfffilOcner m?n?7n lainb. 15c; leg of mutton, KVc Tor blndqnartcr and 8c for forcquarter: loin ormutton, 15c; lamb chops, 20c; stew Ine pieces. Cc per ft; veal roasts, 12y15c per ft, and cutlets. Sue. Pork chops, I2jkc7 and steaks. 10c. Vecetable; and Frcit Cabbages,5(ai0c: pota toes. 15c per half peck: sweet potatoes, 2025c per half peek: (rreen beans, 35c a quarter peck: wax beans 35e a iuartcr peefc; pie pumpkin?, 1525c: onion?. 25c a half peck; bananas, 20c a dozen; carrots. 5c a bunch; lemons. 20q5c per dozen oranpes, 15035c; lettuce, 10c per bunch, 3 bunches for25c; beet. 3 hunches for 10c; cucumbers.i0(325c apiece; celery. Sc a bunch: cauliflower. lSr&Bc apiece: apples, 15fB20c a half peck; tomatoes. 35c a quart box: Spanish onions, 5c apiece; Malaga crapes, 2025c a pound: beets. 10c a bunch, 3 lor 25c. UCTTEn KD Eoos Good creamerv. 23333c per ft; fancy brands. SS3tfic: choice country rolls, 2ja arc: rood cooking butter. 17c; fresh ejegs. 202ic perioren. Poultry Live chickens. 75S0c a pair: live turkes, I2(SlSc per lbv.live ducks. 7555iS5c a pair drcscd chickens. 17 to lScperlp: ducks. 17 to ISc per ft ; turkeys. Is to 20C Fish Following arc the articles in this line on the Etails. with prices: Lake sahnon.10 to 15c: Cal ifornia salmon, 35 to 40c per pound: white fish, I2i to 15c; herrlnit, 4 pounds for 25e; Spanish mackerel. 20c per pound: bluefish, 15c: halibut 20c: rock bass, 25c; lake trout, 12jc: lobsters, 20c: irrein sea turtle. 20 to 25c; oysters. New Ywkcnnnts, fl 75 per gal lon : smelts. 20c a pound: shad. tlOOto 112, each; scallop. 20c a pound; Mackinaw trout, 12.Sc per pound; frogs. (2 00 a dozen; clams, 11 50 a gallon. Flowers La France. 12 00 per dozen; Duchess i of Aibany,S20'Jper dozen; Mcrmets.fl 00 per dozen: Jinues, jrz w pef dozen; wnite and yellow roses, 1 5c per dozen: hostes, $2 50 per dozen: Senator Vootten roses, 2 00 a dozen; bennetta, t2 00 psr doz(.n; hjacinuu, 50c per dozen: illy of the val ley, 7c per dozen: orchids, 75c to SI 00 each; violets. l SO a hundred: carnations. 50c per dozen; frecrta, 50c per dozen: lilac SOc a spray: tulips. 75c per oozm: narcissus. 75c per dozen: CandlduslUIes, 75c per dozen; Caila lilies, 2 50 per dozen; daffo dils, 752 per dozen. lh Coffee Markets. New York. March 4. Coffee options opened barely steady, 5015 points down, closed steady and unchanged to 10c down. Sales, 13.X) baas. Including: Match, 13.55eias.1c; .'-Pl-;i. TS.05C: STav, 12 8.5Q12.809: July, 12.55; September. 3i.S0I2.35e; December, 12.050 11 1'-tt: spot Elc dall and nominal: No.7, Hc Baltimukk, Marot 4. Coffee firm; nn char:ped. Nets Csuass. March 4, Coffee strong; Rio, onlti'ary rr, fair, I17Jic. Tested bvrme, for bronchial affections, conrhs. etc. Brown's Bronchial Troche have proved their eClcacy by a teat of many yeais. Price 25 cent. TT8SO -s . A - -i' ioAiT jsrjfcL. UPTBE.M0N0N6AHELA Marvelous Changes in the Yalley in the Last Ten' Years, A GREAT INDUSTRIAL REGION. Birmingham Traction and Switch and Sig nal Weak Spots in Stocks. ANOTHER DEAL OK GRANT STREET There has been auother deal on Grant street Evidence accumulates of a brisk movement on that thoroughfare "before veiy long. A business house near the Cathedral will probably change hands in the next few days. A warehouse and an office building on the northeast and southeast corners of Grant and Fourth are among the probabili ties. The sale referred to was made through the agency of Larkin & Kennedy. They sold for GF. Klopfer to Larkin &Filson the three-storv building. No. 20j Grant street, lot 10x60, for $10,200. Fall of Business. The Monongahela valley has undergone a radical change in its material aspects in the last ten years. As far up as McKeesport, along the river, there are no large tracts of level unoccupied land. Within these limits there are four large towns and a population of about 75,000 workers. Among the im portant industrial concerns are the Carnegie mills at homestead, Braddock and Duquesne, employing between 5,000 and 6,000 men, the Carrie Fur nace, the Braddock "Wire. Works, the Howard Plate Glas3 "Works, National. Tube "Works, D. "W. Wood & Co.s Iron "Works, and a number of others. In this connection it is pertinent to note, as show ing the growing importance of the valley as a manufacturing quarter that the Carnegie firm recently paid 5255,000- for CO acres at Duquesne. Between Mclveesport and Mo nongahela City there are a number of unoc cupied level tracts, the most notable of which is the seven-mile stretch from Coal Valley up, including "West Elizabeth, and embracing the "Wiley, the Blair and the Corwin farms, which, report has it, have been optioned to the United States Glass Company or some other concern. Indus trial development has extended as far up as Charleroi, 42 miles from the city. The growth of this valley has been truly mar velous and to old Pittsburgers who have not visited it for some years the change that has taken place since their early acquaint ance would, if they .were to see it now, be indeed a surprise to them. A Big Thins; on Paper. Among the magnificent improvement schemes on foot in New York is one for the annexation of Manhattan Island to the mainland. The projectors of this enter prise contend that if th'pi were done it would increase the valuations of real estate in Harlem and the annexed district fully $100,000,000, beside saving to the city an immediate expenditure ot some 58,000,000 to $10,000,000 tor bridges and other improve ments between the points named, and re claim some 235 acres of land, or sav 16 city lots, 25x100, per acre, a total of 3,762 lots, worth fully $10,000,000 when the avenues and streets are extended. To accomplish this object it is proposed to fill in the Harlem river between Third and Eighth avenues, save a covered waterway 60 feet wide betweeij.tnege points, on the west side of the - river, so that the avenues and streets of' Harlem may be extended across into Morrisania. Movinc for Higher Prices. Producers of -hemlock lumber in Pann sylvania are about to combine to strengthen the market. People engaged in this indus try will soon hold a meeting to receive re ports from manufacturers, to whom a prop osition has been submitted to restrict pro duction 20 rer cent, and advance prices that much. The programme is that when 700, 000,000 ieet sign, an announcement of the fact will be made, and the season's business will be done on that basis. It would be useless to say whether there are any pros pects for success or not: those who are work' up the matter say there decidedly good prospects that the thing will go through, that the reduction in cut will be made, and that hemlocx will sell for more money than last year. Business Sem and Gossip. The school building in Edgewood will be finished in about a month. The contract price is $17,500. An important statement is promised at the approaching meeting of stockholders of the Luster Mining Comany. Robert Paul has sold to Nettie McK. Mothorel, 40x91 feet on Pacific avenue. Twentieth ward, with a moderate dwelling, for $6,300., An increase in the capital stock of the American Sugar Refineries Comany is talked ot. Three-fourths or the stockholders are reported as assenting to this. Blair & Co., New York, were the highest bidders for the $40,000 5 per cent High bcliool honds of Hamilton, U. OntalriA thA lTft1inTlTft VfcflWlftTr -Ti,tto T? StUrk sold $10,000 Birmingham bonds at I00j and John D. llaller 20 Standard Plate Glass at 40. Bond quotations: rittshurg Traction, Si, 105 hid; Duquesne Traction, 5s, 100 nsked: Point Bridge, second mortgage, 6s, 100 bid; Penn Incline first mortgage, 6. 101K asked: Allegheny County Li slit. 6s, 105"; Mannhestcr Traction, 5s, 1050107; Central Traction, 5s, 10Va asked. It is said that toe Carnegie firm is negotiate ing for a large tract of land a short distance un the Monongahela. Three permits were issued yesterday for the erection of six buildings, aggregating $3,035. The only one of importance was taken out by T. W. Hisbitt for fonr frame dwellings on Frazier street, Fourteenth ward. The response of the Pittsburg hanks to the Controller's call for statements will be entirelylavorahle. Movements In Realty. I A" clergyman of this city last year pur chased a piece of East End property at $70 a front foot. Last week he sold a part of it at $115 a foot. Ho thinks, from his experience, that the East End is a good place to invest in realty. Liggett Bros, sold for Mrs. HeEennan to Frank L. Ober, a house and lot 25x85, on Liberty street, Allegheny, for $7,000. They also old for Thomas J. .Hawkins two lots, 50x130, on Atlantic avenne, for $8,000, or $60 a loot, upon which the purchasers will erect fine residences. Black & Baird sold to Willis C. George lot No. 317 in J. H. Willock'splan at Hazelwood, fronting 24 fee ton Smith street by 100 feet In depth,-for $750. James W. Drape & Co. sold five houses and two lots in Allcgheny.belongingtoa corpora tion that IS winding up its business in thnt line, for $8,750; also a larm of 75 acres near the city, and a house and three lots in the Thirty-second ward, for $7,500; also seven lots in Munhall Terrace plan at $2,500; also two lots in Orchard Grove plan, Mansfield, lor $600: also two lots and small building on Susquehanna street. East End, for $150; also a collateral interest in a property in the suburbs of $3,500. S. A Dickie & Co. sold to as. P. Eeca a lot on Penn avenue, near Homewood avenue, being a part or the Pears property, 60x170.17. feet, for $6,000. Peter Shields sold lots Nos. 175 and 176, each 30x90 feet, located on Hoosac street in the Greenfield aveuue plan. Twenty-third ward, to John J. and A. A. Mellody lor $9C0. .T. E. Glass sold lor J. P. Bailey to a H. Watkins SO lots in the Oakland View plan, in the Fourteenth ward; consideration, $11,000, The purchaser. will improve the property hy grading streets, putting down sidewalks and erecting a number or modern dwellings. He also sold for A. C. Watkins lot No. 19 in the Allequippa' Place plan No. 2, for $450. Xi. Behen ft Son sold to James J lies for W. J. Dick lot about 77x89 'ieet, on corner of O'fiara and Alder streets. Twentieth ward, with a soven-room frame house, lor $5,000. J. E. Glass sold for J. P. Bailey to C. II. Wat kins 30 lots in the Oakland Vie w plan, Four teenth ward; consideration, $ll;O0O. The purchaser will improve the property hy grading streets, putting down sidewalks and erecting a number of modern dwellings. Charles Somers sold tbe commission mer chandising business of Messrs. Eoeuig i Schmidt, Liberty avenue, Including stock, leasehold and entire equipment for about $7,000. Ueorgo Schmidt told for Charles Hubaer a lot 80x53 feet, corner of Tan Braam and Edna Streets to John Ebrlinger for $2,600 cash. W. A. Herron ft Sons sold a new frame house of six rooms and attic, lanndry, modern fixtures; lot 30x140 feet on Claybourn street near Aiken avenue, Shadyslde, for $4,200, on easy terms. Dennlston, Etderkin ft Co., Limited, report the' following sales: For Wellington McCoy, house and lot on McDonald street, ,lot 24x100 feet to an alley, for $2,500; for Emma J. Be nitz to J. C. Dick, lot on the corner Penn avenue and Battery street, 65 feet front and 100 feet deep, for $15,000; for Frank Speer to Hannah M. Hake, lot on Murthmd avenue, near Idlewild street, havinjr a ftontage ot ?3 feet and extending hack 120 feet, for 92,300, the first party to erect a two-story Irame of .five rooms; for W. G. Evans to heirs of Fred erick. Briggs, deceased, house and lot on Shetland avenue," being part of lots 101, J02, 103 and 104 in J. C. Dick's Enterprise plan of lots, lot 29x100 feet, with house of nine rooms, price $5,300. ,H0ME SECURITIES. TBE STIMULUS OF WKGENT ORDERS LACKING, BUTING Bnt No Signs or a General Reaction Losses About Offset hy Gains Birmingham and Switch and Signal Lt Go a Little More. Business on 'Change yesterday was mod erately active and irregular. While some things were weak notably Birmingham Traction and Switch and Signal there wore some gains as an offset. Airbrake, Electric, Central Traction and Pleasant Valley im proved at the afternoon session and finished at the highest price of the day. Sales at first call were $6,000 Birmingham hobdsatlOOK, 10 Philadelphia Gas at 17, 100 at 1X, 20 Citizens' Traction at 61. 1 Bir mingham at 26, 20 Pipeage at 10. 50 Switch and Signal at ID. Second call. 100 Philadel phia Gas at 17, 100 at 1 125 Birmingham at 25J4'. 150 Pleasant Vallov at 24Vf. Third call, 145 Pleasant Valley at 24, 10 Birmingham nt zi,, to at 'OYv 3- awitcn anu signal at iaylt za .rnuaueipnia uas nt uy.. lnln 3 his At the hist call United States Glass, com mon, was offeied at 70, and 103 .was bid for Citizens' Traction 5'n. Electric scrip was offered at 94. Post call quotations on the un listed traction.; Birmingham, 25 bid, offered nt 25: Duquesne, 23J bid. ollered at 24. Manchester at the early call was offered at Z'Si. Bids and offers in detail follow: nr.sT CALL. B A SECOND CALL. B A THIRD CALL. R A EXCHANGE STOCKS. P. P. S. A M. Ex. First Nat. llauk. Freehold llanlc .. Cler. Nat. Bank.. KcvstoneB.ofP. Liberty Nat Monon iat O. F. S. Bank... P. N. B. ore... Safe DenosltCo.. 550 183 90 325 325 1044., 1044.. 133 .. l&S 72 260 C5 -Unlon Nat. II... 459 K.E..L.AT. Co.. Armenia Ins Ben Franklin In. Ger. Atner. Ins.. Char.Val. CasCo 77 51 8,4! W reo'sK.ti.AP.c lu 9M 17,4' '27 M '. 24 iu remi. Gas Co..., Phlladclnhla Co. 17 17J4 17JC 174. 7H" 01)4 54 . 244 17!4" Wheeling Gas Co Ft. Pitt lu. P.Co "5 "26 19 20 uentrarrractlon. 284 2S4 234 61 24 citizens' Trac'n PittshurgTrac'n, Pleasant VmIIpv 61 y. 54 . 34 Itt 24H 24,4 3U Allegheny Vallev Pitts A West, pra Point Bridge..... 2 20 , "w 12 i.uster Jim. to.. Red Cloud M Co. Westingire Elec. U. S. A S. Co .... U. S. AS.Co. prd Westlngh'e A;B. S. U. Gable Co... OH 9X 9M 924- 'ii4";; 1SH.... its 'iw 70 .... 154 194 3SK 15 184 154 11 38 107Ji.. 107,4 HO VANDERBILTS OVER ALL BIG GAINS -IN AI.L THAT LIST STOCKS AND BONDS. OF New England and Richmond and West Point the Weak Factors Intense Ac tivity In Both, Especially the. Latter 1 Lake Shore Scores the Larcest Gain. New Yokk, March 4 The stock market to day was again yery active, and after the first hour decidedly strong, although one group of stocks monopolized the actentlon of traders and the lion's share of the improve ment in prices. The general list, however, presented a firm front throughout the day, despite the early weakness in hoth New England and the Richmond and West Point securities, in addition to several specialties. The trading, as a whole, did not lose its pro fessional character, but there was more life to the dealings, and while the late advance may have been largely due to the frighten ing of the shorts hy the unusual advances in the Vanderbilts, the buying was undoubted ly of a good character and tho improvement substantial in other stocks than the leaders. The opening of tho market was made at irregular changes from the final figure? of last evening, out aavances were in a ma jority, and the market right at the start dis played:! disposition to break away from the weakening influences of hoth New England and the Richmond" and West Points. The trading in tbe first of these stocks was very large this morning, though not on the im mense scale of yesterday, and it gradnally settled down to ordinary proportions as time wore along. The early decline was also followed by a full recovery, and tbe cover ing of shorts in it was as marked during tbe afternoon as in manv other stocks. The Richmond and West Points are still suffering from the nncertalnty in regard tt the reorganization. The stocks to-day, however, were comparatively strong, while the honds took a header and closed ma terially lower. Later in. tbe day the feature of the day's operations was developed, and the Vander bilts quickly came to the front, with Lake Shore in the lead, Michigan Central follow ing, and even the Nickel Plate stocks coming in for a share in the rise. The upward movement in Lake Shore, however, over shadowed the transactions m the rest of the list, anu from 128 it mounted to 135. The Grangers, alio, became more prominent in the late dealings, and St. Panl crossed 80 once more, while the connection of North western with the Vandeibilts accounted lor a marked vise in that stock. Tho Coal stocks, however, wore weak and the Industrials quite nezlccted. The buying became more urgent as the close approached, and while there was some realizing on the advances, the final dealings were at the top figures, and the close strong and confident on a large volume of business. The important advances of tbe day included: Lake Shore, ; Michigan Central, 1; Nickel Plate lsts 1J& Northwestern, Canda Southern and St. Paul, 1: Rock Island, IK; New York Central and Rurlington; 1: Deuver and Rio Grande pre ferred, V-A Richmond and West Point, 1, and Erie! per cent. The total sales of stocks to-day were 514, 489 shares, including: Atchison, 7,800; Can ada Southern, 11,000; Chicago Gas, 5,130; Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western, 9,898: Erie, 64,100; Lake Shore, 23,370: Louisville and Nashville, 4,500: Manhattan, 5,400; Missouri Pacific. 3,270: Northwestern, 22,900; North American, 3,550; New Jersey Central, 4,141;' mew lore uontrai, 11, uo: .nortnern a-acinc, preferred, 3,733: New England, 101,316; Read ing, 69,000; Richmond and West Point, 28,700; St Paul, 29,000: St. Panl and Omaha, 3,300; Union Pacilic, 2,500; Western Union, 2,582. Railway bonds" were a little more ani mated, but the weakness in the Reading and Richmond and West Point bonds prevented the list from following the advances in the share list, though a firm temper was seen during most of the day. The total trans actions we-e $62,109,000, with very heavy trad ing in the Richmond and West Point 5's, which contributed $4S3,000 to the total, and also in tbe Reading 3 s. Tbe first named honds declined 2 to 64, while the Cs lost 3 at 95; Toledo, Ann Arbor and Cadillac firsts, 1 at 94. Important gains are few. aciiYB dally for the Dispatch hr Whitney ft bTEPHXXSON; oldest Pittsburg members or the New i ork Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue: Clos ing bid. Open High Low lug. est. est. iH 36V4 36 WW 70' C3!4 86H 86 Kh "saji "& "m's esh ao 8h em wh ei 141 142M 140 ai 31K 31 23.5, 20 3ft "iij, "; "iix 76W 77 Wi 10514 lMH 105 79)4 8US 79H 12TH 128U VBii 89 S0k 89 48 43), .48 116 116 113 1I8X 1195,' US 144 144 14.1)4 T1H 73 71 "ii" "jo" ' jsh JiK J1H 31 163 164)4 1623 141)9 142 141 18! UH IS 52i IZX 52), 'icali 'iia" "u&ii 25H 23 25 W TH ?6)a 158(4 13014 1& nH 74K 7V 109)4 112 108 Am. Cotton Oil. Am. Cotton Oil, pfd Am. Hurar Refining Co., 88 94 3-H ma WL las; 31 25 61 43 77X 10BH 80)4 12SVT 90H 4) 113 119)4 141), 72V 98 88 jig HO), IS), 53S4 i0o2 .2" 76), 138 Am. Sugar HeflulniCo., pfd Atcn.. xop. a a. Canadian Pacific Canada Southern Central or New Jersey. .... Central Pacific Chesapeake ft Ohio C. .to.. 1st prd C.iO.MpM Chicago Gas Trust C, Bur. it Qulncy C, Mil. ft St. Paul C., Mil. ft St. Paul. pfd.... C. Rock I. ft P C, St. P. M. ftO C. St. PM.-ft O.. pfd.. C. ft North western C. ft Northwestern, pfd... C C C. ft I C, C, O. &.I.. pfd Col. Coal ft Iron Cot ft'HocklngYal Del., Lack, ft West Del. ft Hudson. ..I.. Den. ft Rio Grande Den. ft Rio Grande, pfd... E. T., Va. ft Ua Illinois Central Laxe Krie ft Western Lake Erie ft t estern, pfd. Lake Shore ft M. ti Louisville ft Nashville Michigan Central JllS 39 624 04S 105 IB 118', 20)2 784 Wi 33 i, 77 H 20 14 4S 164 23 68, 26 37K 193J 68), 27 64 188 1H 71,4 44 103 111 10J 47 13 29 88J 35 76X 484 2U 82J4 62 1073 iisji 201? 95 107M National Cordafc Co,,pfa. .uvuaijjew .iruab....... New York Central N. T C. t St. L Jj. T., C. 4 St. L.,lst pfd. S:?:-l&?E!!:v.Sf:::: N. Y. AO. IV Norfolk A Western NoHolfc AWestern. pfd.... North American Co Northern Pacific. i Northern Pacific. pfd Oregon Improvement PaciSc Mail Peo Dec AEvans Philadelphia A Reading... P., C., C. A St. L P., C.. C. A St.L., pfd Pullman Palace Car Richmond A W. P. T Richmond A W. P. T pfd St. Panl .t Dnlnth iis 19 76 41 32V 33 Tlii 754 51M 21 TOU US VH 674 'jj" 19!4 58X ia; 154 23,4 em '37" 1914 1 57 28,4 374 191i 6S54 27 13.V 70 44X 123 09 44 72 St.PaulADulnth,pfd St. Paul. Minn. A Tdan.... Mexas Pacific JJiilon Pacilic Wabash Wabash, pfd Western Union WheellnnAL. E Wheeling A L. E.. pfd.... Dis. A Cattle Fd. Trust.... National Lead Co National Lead Co., pfd.... 10K tf 'S 83,4 36 767, am 82,4 v4 47H '29 8854 34 78 46M 33)2 82,4 104 46! 87 J 35 76H 4T4 33M ir-'A Boston Stock- Atch. A Topeka 38! Boston A Albany.. ..205 do Maine 1B7V( hi..Bnr. A Qulncr.ioejs FltchbuncK.lt...... 88 Flint APsreM 24 FllntAPereM.pfd.. 79 Mass. Central 1754 Mex. Central, com.. 19. N. Y. AN. England, 52,4 do 7 120 Old Colony J724 Rutland common.... 4 Rntlandpfd .'C5 Wis. Central, com.. 184 do pfd 40 Alloncz M. C. (new). 1 Atlantic SJ4 -Clpalnc Prices. Boston A Mont 355f Calumet A Hecla 260 Franklin 115 Kearsarge 1114 Osceola 27K Santa Fc Copper 22J Tamarack 15 Iloston Land Co 6 San Diego LandCo.. 16 West End Land Co.. 19Jf Bell Tetcphone 2094 Lamson store S 1334 Water Power 3' Cent. Mining 10!? N. E.T 53 B. b. copper 14, pper...... louston.. Thomson-. lit 59)4 Philadelphia Stocks. GlOQlne oudtatlnns of Philaflelnhla atonies, fur nished uy Whitney A btcphenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth aveuue, members of New York Stock Ex change. " Bin. Pennsylvania Railroad Kl4 Asked. 53 29 1-15 94 5S?a 244 684 54 404 Reading Railroad., 23 Buffalo. N.Y. A Phlta.. Lehigh Valley Northern Patiflc Northern Pacilic. pref.. Lehigh Navigation Philadelphia A Erie , 38 . 24 . 67.'$ ', 404 notion Electric Stocks. Boston. March 4.-cSeeteM The latest electric stock quotations to-day were: Bid. ....105 .... 59 .... 2SV .... 124 .... 143 .... 12 Asked. Ill 59H 29 12 1M4 15J Boston Electric Light Co., t. n. e. Co ......:.., Do preferred Ft. W. E.Co W. FCo European W, Co Mining Stock Quotations. New York, March 4. Aspen, 300; Best & Belcher, 200; Chollar, 100: Consolidated Cali fornia and Virginia, 435; Eureka Consoli dated, 100: Gould A Currv. 110; Hale & Norcross, 175; Homestake, 1325; Horn Silver. 355; Mexican. 180: Ontario, 4100; Ophlr, 300; Plvmouth, 175; Savage, 100; Sierra Nevada, 130: Standard, 135: Union Consolidated, 150; l'ellow Jacket, 115. Bar Silver Quotations. New Tokk, March 4. Special. Bar silver in London 41 7-16d per oz. New York dealers' price lor silver, 90Jfc per oz. FEATTJBES OF MONEY. Eastern Merchants Said to Be More Anxious for Funds. Good snpply and moderate demand were the features of the local money market yes day. There was no change in the interest rate, which was steady at 6 per cent. As showing that merchants are beginning to reach out. New York reports time money in hotter demand and tho rate somewhat high er. This is also noticeable in Pittsburg hut not perhaps to tile game extent. Small notei were scarce. Bank clearings were $2,320,760 98 and balances $J88,G40 25. The London Chamber of Commerce re cently sent a circular to the leading financial and commercial houses, inrefeience to Mrs Goschen's currency scheme. Ont of 500 re plies, 200 nre in favor of the issue of one pound notes, with an increase of the gold re serve in the Bank of England. This result determines Mr. Goschen, to place his pro posal Ijefore Parliament. JU New Yorkyesterday money on call was eay at to 2 per cent; last loan at 2; closed offered at 2. Prime marcantile paper, 45. Sterling exchange quiet bnt steady at $4 S5 for 60 day bills and ?4 8S for demand. Closing Bond Quotations. V. S. 4sreg 516 TT. S. 4SCOUP 117 U.S. 4Ks reg "WO U. b. 4S$scoun Pacific 6s of "OS '109 Loulsana stamp. 4s.. 82 Missouri 6s 81.. E. AT. Gen. 5s. 49i Mutual Union 6s 108 N. J. C. Int. Cert.. .112 Northern Pac. Ists..ll7 Northern Pac. 2ds.ll5 Northwestern cons.. 13 Nurthwn d'brs 5s.. 10 Tcnn. new 6et. 6s. Tenn. new set. 5s. Tenn. new set. Ss. Canada Sn.2dsv... Cen. Pacific lsts.. Den. A R. G. lsts. Den. A it. R. is... Oregon Trans. 6s... St.L. ft I. M. t!en.5s.85H St.L.&SanF.GenM..107 St. Paul Consols 128 St. P.. C. &P. lsts.. 117 Tex.P.L.G. Tr. Rets 81 Tex. P.R.G.Tr.Hcts 33 Union Pac. lsts 101 WestShore losjf R. G. West 79 Den. & R. G. Westls Ene2ds 107 it.. K. ft T. Gen. Gs. 80 Bid. Bank Clearings. New York Clearings, $12C,123,678; balances, 6424,967. Boston Clearings. $13,737,204: balances. L $1,337,042. Money, 2 per cent. Exchange on New xork 1217c discount. Philadelphia Clearings, $11,674,483; bal ances, 51,327,875. Money, 3 per cent. Baltimore Clearings, $2,205,630; balances, $323 656. Rate, 6 per cent. Chicago Money easy at 45 per cent on call and &6 per cent on time loans. Clear ings, $15,050,000. New York exchange, 70c discount. St. Louis Clearings, $4,197,854; balances, $529,963. Money, 607 per cent. Exchange on New York, par. MEMPnis New York exchange selling at par. Clearing, $742,089; balances, $394,047. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Receipt, Shipments and Prices at East Liberty and All Other Stock Tarda. Ofpice op The Dispatch, i Pittsburg, Friday, March 4. , Cattle Receipts, 945 head; shipments, 693, head; market notbing doing all through consignments. No cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hoos Receipts, 3,600head; shipments, 3.200 head: market slow; all grades, $4 905 25. Ten cars of hogs shipped to New York to day. Sheep Receipts, 900; shipments, 400; mar ket, nothing doing, nothing on saio. By Telegraph. New Tork Beeves Receipts, 2,745 head, including 35 cars for sale; market steady; native steers, $3 855 10 per cwt.; dressed beef steady at 6Sc per pound; shipments to-morrow, 1,459 beeves and 4,250 quarters of Deer, calves Receipts. Vo lieaa; maritcc steadj'; veals, $6 60 per 100 pounds. Sheop Receipt, 054 head; market slow, bnt firm: sheep, $5 Oi'QG 60 per 100 pounds; Iambs, $S 75 7 50: dressed mutton steady at 810o per pound: dressed lambs firm at 9llc Uogs Receipts, 3,401 head, consigned direct: nom inally steady at $4 90Q5 60 per 100 pounds. Chicago Cattle Receipts. 0.000 bead; ship-' ments,' 3,000 head: market steady to shade higher; good to choice steers, $4 50 5 75; fair to good steers, 3 7594 25; heavy leeders, $3 253 50; stookers. $2 (X)3 25. Hogs ReceiDts, 21,000 head; shipments, 4,000 head: market fairly active and lower; rougli and oommon, $4 404 55: mixed and packers, $4 754 83; prime heavy and bntchers' weights. $4 904 95; light, $4 704 85. Sheep Receipts, 8,000 head: shiDincnts. 1,000 head; market lower: mixed, $4 9005.40; Westerns, $5 205 65. St.Louls Cattle Receipts, 400 head; ship ments, 800 head; market steady; fair to good native steers, $3 004 50; fair to good Indian and Texas steers, $2 703 80. Hogs Re ceipts, 3,567 head; shipments, 3,313 head: mar ket strons; fair to prime heavy, $4 704 85; mixed, ordinarv to good, $4 164 73; light fair lo best, $4 654 SO. Sheep Receipts. 316 head; shipments, none; market strong; fair to desirable muttons, $4 006 00. vKansas Cltv Cattle Receipts, 3,500 head; shipments, 600 head: choice steers active and firm; others steady; cows 10615c lower; canners steady: steers, $3 803 35: cows, $1 20 1 50; stackers and feeders, $2 4002 60. Hogs ReceiDts, 6,800 head; shipments, 3 500 head: choice hogs active, strons and easier, but steady; extreme range, $3 604 75; bulk, $4 50 4 65. Sheep Receipts, 1.200 head; ship ments, 800 head; market active and strong. lSnflklo Cattle-Rcceipts,104 loads through; market weak; good steers $4 004 10. Hogs Receipts. 62 loads through, 20 sale; heavy grades, $51505 20; packers and medium, $5 10 435 13. Sheep and lambs Receipts, 7 loads through, 12 sal e;market opened strong; sheep, extrn fanoy, $6 00ffl6 25; irood to choice, $5 60 i 85; fair tp stood, $5 005 60; lambs, good to extra, $71007 S3; fair to good do, $G 60S 7 00. Cincinnati Hozs strongor: common 'nd light, $3 404 75; packingandbutct a', $4 50 5 00; receipts, 3,330 bead: shipments, 2,450 head. Cattle barelv steady; receivts, 250 head; shipments, 153 head. Sheep easy; re ceipts, 20 head: shioments, 190 bead. LamDs steady; common to cholco, $5 00860 per 100 pounds. MobileOhIo Missouri Pacific THE HOME MARKETS. Eggs Weak, With a DownwardDrift, and Dairy Products Film VEGETABLES AND, EEUITS QUIET. Hay and Millfeed Steady, and Corn lending to a Lower Level. SUGAE HIGDER AKD COFFEE STE0NG OmciOT The Dispatch, ? Pittsbubo, Fbiday, March 4. Country Produce Jobbing Prices Eggs are weSk and job lots are selling a shade below yesterday's prices. New York egg markets are about the same as here, whereas the'rule is that prices there are 1 to 2c per dozen higher than here. Poultry is still scarce and prices show an upward tendency. Dairy products are in fair de mand and prices are steady at quotations. There are no signs of improvement in frnit and vegetable lines. Price of potatoes, cab bage and onions has not been so low at this season of the year. The snpply of maple syrup is liberal and the outlook is for lower prices. Apples $1 7332 50 per barrel. , Butteb Creamery Elaln. 33c: Ohlobrand3. 28 COc: common country batter, 1718c; choice coun try roll. 2325c. BEAJJS-Sew York and Michigan pea, 81 S5l SO; marrowfat, $2 1.2 25: Lima beans, 332c V lb; band picked medium, 31 8C1 8. BEIS WAX Choice, 3032c? B; low grades, 22 25c. Buckwheat Flocts New, 2!tfS)25Sc lb. CiHESE Ohio choice, ll)jM2c: New York cheese, 1212)c; Liniburiter, l313)c: Wisconsin sweitzer. lull cream, 13uu4c; Imported svreltzer. 2626c. Cider Conntrv claer,$3 505 00 per barrel; sand, rcflned. S3 01OH 50: crab elder. 57 508 00. Cbanbebbies Per box, 81 2563150: per barrel. $5 000)8 00. Eggs Strictly fresh nearby stock. 16Mffll7c. Featiiiks Extra live geese, 5758c; No. 1, 48 50c ? R: mixed lots. 3040c. Diukd 1'BtriTS Peaches, halves, 6)$c: evapo rated apples, 7Sc; apricots. 9llc; blackberries, 5fl!6c: raspberries. I8is;ic; huckleberries, 7c; Cal- liornia peaenes, , &($y.?sc. Hosey New crop, white clover. 1617c; Cali fornia honey. 1215c 33 lb. JlAl'LE bYKCP New, (tyEDOc gallon. JlAPLKCG Ml 7SC? a. Poultry Alive Chickens, TOJSSOc apalr: large. 65O70e, medium; live turkeys. u12c ijf lb; ducks. 80S5c a pair: llre jreese, 31 ocl 10 a pair: dressed chickens, li15c jB lb; dressed turkeys. 1518c 9 lb; dressed dncks. 1415c lb. Potatoes Carload lots, on track, 3540c;from store, 4045ca bushel; Jerseys, 82 753 00. Seeds Western rcclcaned medium clover. Job bing atfS 80; mamnoth at S3 75: timothy, $1 55 for prime and 11 G'J for choice: blue grass, 52 652 80: orchard grass, 51 75; millet, 51 CO: German, 51 15; Hungarian, i 10: line lawn, 25c lb; seed buck wheat, 81 4Ql 50. Tallow Country. 4c: city rendered. 5c. TROFICAL Fruits Uemons. fancy, Messina, 53 75 14 11: Florida oranjtes $2 252 75 a box; bananas, 81 501 75 firsts, M 00131 25 good seconds, per bunch: Malaga grapes, 510 00(213 CO a half barrel: Persian dates. 4,4:5c per pound; layer figs, 1214c per pound. Vegetables Cabbage. 54O0(3G0O a hundred; yellow Danver onions. 52 252 50 a barrel; toma toes. 53 00tfS3 25 a crate; celery, 2530c per dozen; turnips, 90c31 CO a barrel; Bermuda potatoes, S3 00 a barrel. Groceries. The sugar advance is now an assured fact. Our quotations are advanced an c per pound, as was foretold in yesterday's mar ket column. The' wretched condition of country roads throughout the region of which Pittsburg is tho center proves ad verse to trade. Coffees are firm at prices quoted. GREEXCOFFEE-Fancy, 22323c: choice Rio, mi t22c; prime. 20c: low grade Bio. lsWc: old ovcrnment Java, 2729c: Maracalbo, 2iZ!c: Sioclia. 2S29c: Santos. 2W(g)S2ic Caracas, 2 24"c: La Gnayra. 21K22,'c. Roasted tin nanersl Standard brands. 19.65c: hiph grades. a.40OK!c: old Government Javn, bulk, 3123c; Maracaloo, 25c: Tieaberrv. 2fiWc: choice 221324c: Santos. l'Ja 26Mc; choice Rio, 21,c: prime Rio, 20!c: good Rio. lOWc: ordinarv. 17( Ir. spices twnoiej uioves. iutor.c: allspice. 10c; cassia. 8c: nenncr. lie: nutmeg. 7tt350c. .. : -r. -- ....--. vi w..... PETROLEUM tdooners prices; 110- test. 6c: Ohio, 120, 7,'4c; headlight, 150" test, 6c: water white, 7J(38c; globe. 1414Jc: elalne, 13c;cama- dine, lie; roralinc, 14c red oil, 10llc; purity. 14c: oieine. izc. Mixers' Oil No. 1 winter, strained. 3940c per gal.: summer, 35(337r; lard oil, 5255c. Syrup Corn svrnp, 2328c; choice sugar syrup, Wottc; prime sugar syrup, 3032c; strictly prime, 283Cc. .. O. Molasses Fancv new crop. 4042c; choice, 404Ic; old crop, 363Sc; N. O. syrun, 44f350c Soda Bi-carb, In kegs, 3J3Xp: hl-carb. In Ms, 5ifc; bi-carb. assorted packages, 5Gc; sal soda. in kegs, lc; uo granuiaiea. zc. Candles Star, lull weight, Oc: stearine, per set, vflicx parafnne. ll12c. Rick Head Carolina, 66,Vc; choice, 5Ji8Kc; Louisiana, 5S51fc. Starch Pearl, 4c: corn starch. 53(6J(c; gloss starch. )irfifc. Foreign Fruits Laver raisins, 52 00; London layers. 52 23: Muscatels. 51 75; California Muscatel9, $1 40i3l CO; Vulencla, 54'6c: Ondara Valencia. H'i (37c; Sultana. 8(3!3c: currants. VtfiiUo; Turkey prunes. 4J5)c; French prunes. SGlDHc; cocoanuts, 100, 5000; almonds, Kan.. fl lb, 26e;doIv!ca, 17c; no shelled. 50c; walnuts. Nap., 1314c: Slcilv Al berts, lie: Smyrna figs, 13313c, new dttes, .VoSc: Brazil nuts, 7c: necans, 13'l4c: citron, t lb. 2122c; lemon peei, luc & id; orange peei, 11c. jjried .truits Appies. sucea. 6M(!f8Mc: ancles. evaporated.'6lSc: jieache3, evaporated, pared, 1820c: peaches. California, evaporated, nnpared. o((jc; cnernes. pmea, i.c: cnerries, unpiicca, 6c; raspberries, cvanoratad. 1718c; blackberries, 44)c: huckleberries. 7c. Sugars Cubes, 4c: powdered, 4c: granulated. 45c; confectioners', i'Ac: soft white, nami;; yel low, choice. 31J3 c; yellow, rood, ZK&sfic; yel low, fair. 3H3Xc. Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), $1 25; medium, half bbls(6G0). $:V. Salt No. 1 bbl. tl 20: No. L extra. S bbh 81 10; dairy, bbl. $1 20: coarse crystal. jer bbl, SI 20: IligKins' Eureka. 4-bu sacks, fi 80; Biggins' Eureka, 16 14-lb packets, 83 00, Canxed Goods Standard peaches, fl 731 90: Ms. (1 30rffil 40: extra peaches. 82 0X31 10: pie peaches, SVSOOc: finest corn. 1 25(31 50; Ilfd. Co. corn, 81 (Si 10: red cherries. 81 001 10; Lima beans. 81 35; soaked do. 85c; strinrea do, 0f5)S5c: marrowfat peas. 90c(at41 10; soaked peas. 6075c; pineapples, 1 C01 30; Bahama do. $2 00: damson plums. $1 00; Rreen gages. $1 85; egc plums, $100; California apricots, $1 al'2 CO: California pears, $210312 30: do greengages, 81 85: do egg plums, $1 85: extra white cherries. $275285: raspberries; II 1-vai 25; strawberries. 95c(341 10; gooseberries, 81 001 05; tomatoes, 9095c; salmon, 1-lb cans, $1 30I 50: blackberries, 80c; succotash. 2-tb cans, soaked, 00c ; do preen, 2-15 cans, f 1 255)1 50; corn beef, 2-H cans, 81 651 70; 1-lb cans, $1 20; baked beans, 81 401 55; lobsters, 1-Jb cans. 8- 25; mack erel, 1-lb cans, boiled, $1 50: sardines, domestic, ks. 84 0WR4 10: s, $i 50; sardines, imported, Ws, -$1 5'il CO: sardines, imported, Hs, $18 00; sar dines, mustard, 83 40: sardines, sntced. S3 50. FISH Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. 824 00 per bbl; extra No. 1 do. mess, 820 00: No. 2 shore mack erel. $18 00- No. 2 large mackerel, $17 00; No. 3 large mackerel. $15 59; No. 3 small mackerel. $10 00. Herrings-Split. $8 50; lake, $3 05? 100-Ib bbl. White flsh. 5 00 100-tb half bbl. Lake trout, V 50 5 half bbl. Finnan baddies, 10c 9 lb. Ice land halibut 12c lb. Pickerel, hall bbl. $4 00: quarter bbl, $1 60. Hollaud herring, 73c. Walkoff herring. 90c. OATJIEAL 81 755 00. Grain, Flour and Feed. There were ao sales on call at the Grain Exchange to-day. Receipts, as bulletined, 22 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wajne and Chi cago Railway 6 cars of oat3, 2 of hay, 1 of ear corn, 1 of feed, 1 of rye, 3 of flour. IT Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis 1 car of middlings, 2 of corn, 1 of hay. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie 1 car of rye, 1 of middlings. By Pittsburg and Western 1 car or oats, 1 of wheat. Corn Is tho weak factor of cereal markets. Millfeed and bay are firm at quota tions. Oats are qniet, bnt future changes are apt to ho upward. At present prices here oats cannot now be laid down and sold at a profit. Following quotations are for carload lots on track. Dealers charge an advance on these prices from store: WHEAT No. 2red, 99e to $1 00; No. 3 red. Sic to Cons No. 2 yellow ear. 46k47c; high mixed 4646Mc; mixed ear, 4ji5)ic: no. z yellow shell. 44)(a4c: bigh mixed shelled, 4444)ic; mixed sneuea, 4i;j(c. OATS-No. 1 oats. 8553360 ; No. 2 white, 3535)ci extra No, 3 oats, 34)ti5c ; mixed oats, 33Ki34c. RYE No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio. 8233c; No. 1 Western, 9091c. Flour Jobolng prices Fancy spring patents. $5 SV5 50: fancy winter patents. $5 2Si SO: fancy straight winter, $5 O05 15; fancy straight spring. 85 1.vS-5 40: clear winter. 84 755 00; straight NXXX bakers'. $4 50a4 85. Rve flour, $ oum 75. MILLFEED Noc I white middlings. $19 0M320 00 per ton ; No. 2 whWe middlings. 817 50(418 00: brown middlings, $17 0017 50: winter wheat bran. $17 25 17 75; chop leed. $17 0020 00. . HAY-Baled tlmothr. choice. $13 00013 25: No. 1. $12 50)312 75; No. 2, $10 0T10 50: clover hay, $11 50 12 CO; loose from wagon, $13 00314 CO, accoidmg to quality; packing bar. $9 009 50. STKAW U3 0' U49J ilUi HUh fU UtWi JC, $7 0037 25. Provisions. Sugar enred hams, large. , tngar cured hams, medium. ........... Sugar cured hams, small Sugar cured California hams Sugar cared b. bacon Sugar cured skinned hams, large , Sugar enred skinned hams, medium.. Sugar cured shoulders , Sugar cured boneless shoulders , Sugar cured skinned shoulders , Sugar cured bacon shoulders Sugar cured dry-salt shoulders , Sugar cured, beer, rounds bugar cured, beef, setts Sugar cured, bed', flats Uacou, c.eir fides, SOlbs , Bacon, clear bellies. 2ulbs , Dry salt clear sides, 30 lbs ave'g Dry salt clear sides, aiibsave'g Mess pork, heavy... lo 0)1 10 10 7 8 7K ' 11' 9 9 6K 7M 13 m 13 00 Mess Dork, family.. Lard, refined in tierces Lard, refined In one-half bbls.. Lard, refined in 60-lb tubs Lard, refined In 20-lb pails Lard, refined la 50-lb cans. ..... , s; !.i. Lard, refined In3-lb tin palls..., Lard, renned in 5-lb tin palls.... Lard, refined in 10-lb tin pails., 8M BAD EUROPEAN WEATHER Slakes a Good Grain Market in Chicago Trading Bather Dnll In TVheat A Moderate Shipping Demand for Cora Oats Steady Hog Products Firm. CHICAGO Wheat opened firm andhigber this morning, hut weakened after a time, and after a number of rather sharp fluctua tions closed without change compared with yesterday. Tho foreign news was very generally bullish. This, .In 1 the face of the weak closing here, was rpgarded as quite en couraging and stimulated tbe buying. Crop damage reports from France were, again plenty. Cold nnfavorablo weather was also reported from Great Britain and Holland. The weather in th'is country was seasona ble and tho movement on a fairly liberal scale, especially in the Northwest, where an immense amount is, statistically at least, waiting shipment, but these facts were not potent in the making of prices. Trade was rather dull as a rule, and largely confined to the professionals. May opened at 90Q91Jc against 91 yic at tbe close yester day,and advanced topiyic; but at this point the selling became free, partly in the way of realizing and partly in tho pulling out of shore lines, and there was a season of weak ness, the price dropping c, or to 90c. After this selling was over tuere was a bet ter tone, and May reacted to 9iKc on con tinued bullish foreign weather cables, which started shorts to cover, but near the close renewed selling weakened prices and tbe close was at 90Kc Corn was quiet, but rather strong, and H ic higher. There was a moderate shipping demand, and the report that over 800,000 bushels were taken at the seaboard yester day for export helped to cause the firmness. The fluctuations, however, were extremely harrow, and the close was unchanged com pared with yesterday. Oats steady, fluctuating within Y,c range and closing fie higber. Hog products opened Arm at yesterday's closing prices. Lard and ribs were steady, closing slightly lower. Pork advanced for a time on purchases by packers, bnt then weakened owing to a lack of demand, and closed with a loss of 7Kc The leading futures ranged as foiiows. as correct ed by John 31. Oakley ft Lo.. 45 Sixth street, mem bers ot the Chicago Board of Trade: Open- High- Low- LCIos- Arttclis. ing. est. est. ing. WnEAT. No. 2. March 88K t 893,' $ BSU $ S8J Slav., 91Ji 91J4 90 SOU Coax, No. 2. Starch 415. 413 4154 aV May 42 42? 42 42 June , 41K 41, iiH ilH OATS. NO. 2. March 29J 13 29S 23l May 31 31 S0 30 Mess Pork. March 11 00 II 07H 10 875 10 92K May 11 20 WSH II 07$ 11 12 Lard. March 6 40 6 ASH 6 37)4 B3JH May G47 6 50 6 45 6 45 short Ribs. March 5 82J 5S2J4 5 77H 5 77,'i May. 580 590 585 5 85 Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dull and unchanged; No. 2 spring wheat, 880; No. 3 spring wheat. 83S5c; No. 2 red, 925c; No. 2 com, 41c; No. 2 oats. 29Kc; No. 2 white oats, 3!c: No. 3 whito oats, 30c; No. 2 rve, 86c; No. 2 barlev, 56c: No. 3. f. o. b., 4155c: No. 4, f. o. b., 4730c; No. 1 flaxseed, $1 00K; prime timothy seed, $1 22 1 29; mess port, per bbl, $10 90; lard, per 100 lis, $C 33; short ribs sides, loose, $5 77K: drs salted shoulders, boxed, $4 75 5 50: short clear sides, boxed, $6 25; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gallon, $1 14. Sugars unchanged. No. 3 corn, 39240c On the Produce Exchange, to-day, the butter market was steady and unchanged. Eggs, 14K15c. NKW TORK Flour quiet and unchanged. Cornmeal dnll. Wheat Spot market unset tled, moderate business, closing steady; No. 2 red, $1 04K1 06, store and elevator; $1 07 1 OS afloat: $1 0&K1 08 f. o. b.: No. 3 red, $l-00ffll 01; ungraded red, 79c$l 07; No. 1 Northern, $1 04J1 05 No. 1 hard, $1 07K1 07: No. 2 Northern. $1 Ki. Op tionsNo.' 2 red. March, $1 03K1 04K, clos ing at $i 03; April. $1 0391 M. closing at $1 03; Mav, $1 01 15-lb 1 02, closing at$l 0: .Tnne,$1005gl 0 closing at $1 05V: Jnlv, SaODc, closing ac 98c; August, 9BK9rKc. closing at 96?fc. Rve steady and quiet; Western, 97c $1 01K- Barley dnll and steady. Corn Spot irregular, easier and qniet; No. 2, 49t49c, elevator: 50KC530c afloat: ungraded mixed, 4SK51Kc: No. 2 white, 67c: No. 3, 49g50c: steamer mixed options dnll and unchanged to ic up on firm cables: March, 4949c. closing at 49c: April, 50c closmir at 50Kc; May. 4949c, closing at 49c; June, 48c; July, 40Jic Oats Spot quiet anu unchanged: options moderately active, firm; March, MXc; closing at 36c: April, 36Jic;cloInffat3faJic: May, 37c, No." 2 white, M:ii-elv3SUc; April, 38J; spot No. 2 white, 3SV38Uc; mixed Western, 35K33c; white do.3939fc Hay firm and quiet. Hops easy and qniet. Tallow steady and quiet. Eggs easier and quiet; Western, 16c Hides steady and quiet. Pork qniet and steady. Cut meats steadv; middles dull; eay; short clear, $6 55. Lard steady and qniet: Western steam, $6 73; options, March, 6 72; May, $6 80, closing at $87SS 79: July, $6 90 6 92. Butter, fair demand, steadv: Western dairy, 1823c: do creamery, 2130c; do factory, 1623c; Elgin.", 30Jc. Cheese firm and quiet; part skims, 610Xc PHILADELPHIA Flour dull. Wheat firm: No. 2 red, March, $1 03V1 03; April, $1 0301 03: May, $1 01XQ1 02; June, 99J 1 00.' Corn Options lower; carlots scarce and hizher: No. 2 yellow in elevator. 51:-No. 2 white in do, 51c: No. 2 mixed, March, 49 19c: April 49KQ49c: May,49Vi49c; June, 48K89c. Oats UarioJ firm; futures higher; No. 3 n hite,33c; do clipped, C6c; No. 2 White, siisi'yi.c: ao. a wnite, jiarcn, itjoiVic: April, 3S3Sc; May, 3S39c; June,38K Eggs dull and low er; Pennsylvania flrsts,16c. BALTEHOr.FA-Wheat quiet and steady: No. 2 red spot, the month and April. $1 03K 1 03: May, $1 031 0 June, $1 011 01; steamer No 2 red, $1 00. Corn dnll and steady; mixed spot, 4950c: tho month, April and May, 4950c: steamer mixed, 4S 48c. Oats dull: No. 2 white Western,37o asked: No. 2 mixed Western. 36c asked. Rye strong; No. 2,- 97Kc bid. Hay firm; good to choice timothy, "$13 60014 50. Provisions steady and unchanged. Butter firm and un changed.. Eggs unsettled at 15c ST. LOUIS Flour Arm. but unchanged. Wheat No. 2 red cash, 92c; May closed at 92Jc; July, t6c. Corn higher, but very slow; No. 2 cash, 37Jic; May, 38Vic. Oats higher; No. 2 cash, 30c; May, 31c. Rye nominal at 85c. Barlev active: laree lots of I Missouri and Minnesota sold to arrive at 55 K$ouc; inwa, lofjiDc. imiter steaay; cream ery, 2428c; dairy, 15025c Eggs lower at 12Uc. Provisions verv aniet. Pork. new. $11251137; old, $9 25. Lard, $6 2308 30. NETF OKLEANS-Suzar steady; open ket tle, fnlly fair at 2 15.163c; fair to good fair, 2Jf2c; common to good common,. 2Q 2c; centrifugal off white, 3c; choice yel low clarified, 33 11-16; prime do, 3J 3 9-16e; off do. 3QS 7-16c; seconds, 2KS3Vic Molasses Open Kettle, no sound goods offer ing; fermenting, 1522c; centrifugals, strictly prime, 19c; good prime, 1517c; lair to prime, lC13c; common to good common. 69c. CINCINNATI Flour in moderate demand. Wheat in fair demand and firm: No. 2 red, 9495t4c Corn strong; No. 2 mixed, 42c. Onto in lair demand and flrmr No. 2 mixed, 3233c Bye steady; No. 2, 89o. Pork weakerat $11 12. Lard weak at $6 206 25. Bnlkmeats firm at $5 75. Bacon steady at $6 80. Butter steady. Eggs heavy and droop ing at 1313c. Cheese barely steady. MILWAUKEE Flour in. moderate de mand. Wheat higher; No. 2 spring, 87c; May, 87e: No. 1 Northern, 91c. Corn higher: No. 3, 394lc. oats unchanged; No. 2 white, J iSSy-ttKf for Infants and Children. "Ctttorlahso wen adapted to children that Irecommenditaa superior to any prescription , known to me." H.A.Acnr,M.D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. "The use of 'Castorfa Is so universal and Its merits so weU known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Cxelos Karttw, D.D-, New York Oty. Lata Pastor RTooTnlngdalo Belcrmed Church. t Tbs CctTAua iks&S&s 3 do. 30531We. Barley neslect- ed; No. 2, 52k53c: sample, on track, 37658c c,on trac, ofQoov. Provisions lower. njtwoaier.jo. 1, etSKC. DULTJTH-Wheat No. 1 hard, cash, 85He; March, 85Jfe: Mav. mic; No. 1 Northern, cash, Sic; March". 84c: May, 88c: No. 3 Nprthern, cash, 77c: No. 3 Northern, 72c; rejected, 60c; on track No. 1 hard, 86&c; No. 1 Northern, 85Jc TOLKDO Wheat dull and lower; cash and March. 95c: May, 96Kc; July. 91J4C Corn dull and firm; No. 2 cash. 42c; No. 2 yellow, 42c; No. 3. 41c; No. 4, 3354c Oats quiet; cash, 32c Eyo dull; cash. 87Kc I SI1NNEAPOLT' Wheat Xo. 1 Northern, March, darch. closed, 84Jic: May, opened, 86c: h: :st, SGc, lowest. Soke: closed, S5Kc: rack No. 1 hard, f 6Jc; No. 1 Northern, 83 nign- est. oc track- 85Hc; No. 2 Northern, KANSAS CITT-Wheat-Lower: No. I hard cash. ,c bid: No. 2 red cash, 84c. Corr higher; No. 2 cash, 33cbid. Oats steady: No. 2, cash, 23c bid. Ess3 active, lower at Tho State of the Flour Trade. MiifiTEAroLis, March 4. The Northwestern Miller for this week says: The mills last week raised their flour output about LOOO barrels per day. The aggregate production or 17 mills was 177,550 barrels, averaging 29, 595 barrels, against 171,620 barrels the pre vious week; 123,275 barrels for the corre- spondinr time in 1891, and 131,950 barrels in 1890. With -an improving water power ono more water mill is running, makinir 18 in the operative list. Close to 30,000 barrels are now being turned out dally, bnt the decided falling off in or ders is causing some of the millers to talk of a reduction soon. One or two of the heavier companies here still have a good many orders unfilled, and they are running strongly on this account. Trade in flour for a week nast has been very slow, and probably less than half the production was disposed' of in fresh sales. Therein scarcely anything doing for export, and bakers and low grades are very hard to gee rid of anywhere. It is impossible to keep them cleared up. Comnlalnt i3 made that certain Minneapolis millers are cutting prices badly in order to sell flour, and at Chicago this practice is claimed to ho especially flagrant. Prices at Minneapolis mostly ranged at $4 2504 50 per barrel. Wool Markets. St. Louis Wool Receipts, 15,000 lbs; ship ments, 12,000 lbs. Market unchanged. New York Wool quiet and steady. Philadelphia Wool market quiet and largely nominal. Boston The demand for wool has been, steady and the sales of the week are quits large, amounting to 3,573,000 pounds of al kinds. Prices remain the same, low and in lavorof buyers. Quite good sales ofObic fleeces are reported at 2727c for X, and 2S 629c for XX and XX and above. Miohigan X sold to a fair extent at 26c. In No. 1 wools there has beena aniet trade at 3)Q35c forOhio and 334334c for Michigan. No. 1 combing woois nave oeen aun at 3t&3sc me aeiaina fleeces have been quietat3J934cforOhioand 3132c for Michigan. In unwashed combing wool tbere have been moderate sales of one quarter blood at 2426c and three-eights at 26Q28c t Turpentine markets. Savaxxah Turpentine firm at 37". Rosin firm at $1 151 20. Charleston Turpentine steady at 40c Rosin firm; good strained, $1 35. Wilmington Turpentine qniet at SSc. Rosin firm; strained, $1 15; good strained, $1 20 bid. Tar steady at $13. Crude turpentine steady: hard, $1 00; yellow dip, $1 90; vir gin. $1 90. tfprfEbs OlV ENJOYS Both the method and results. when Sjrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreahins to the taste, and acta nXcj trentlr Yet-oromDtlv on the Kidnevj. i Liver and Boweb, cleanses the sys- ; tern enectuallr, dispels colds, nead aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tha ' only remedy of ita kind ever pro- j duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ' ceptable to the stomach, prompt in 1 its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it tho most .' popular remedy known. j Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o j and $1 bottles Iby all leading drug- gists. Any renaaie aruggist wno may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. c Do not accept any substitute. Jf b CALIFORNIA FIG' SYRUP CO. SAN FBAII01SC0. CAU louisviuE. xr. r . hew roue, mn BROKERS FINANCIAL. Whitney. Stephensou 57 Fourth -Avenue. arJOJi IP SAVINGS BANK. 3 81 FOURTH AVENTJH. JaDltal. $300,000. Surplus and undivided. profits. $11LK i. D.McK. LLOYD. EDWARD E.DBTF. 4 President. Sec Treaa. per cent interest allowed on time, da. I posits. QC24-64-P ESTABLISHED 1SS4. John M. Oakley & Co., . BANKERS AND BROKERS. 455IXTH ST. Direct private wire to New Tort and Chi cago. Member New Yore, Chicago ana Pitt. hurg Exchanges. Only Pittsburg; member Chicago Boardof Trade. Local securities bought and sold for cash or carried on liberal margins. Investments made at .our discretion and dividends paid quarterly. Interest paid on balance (since 1835). Money to loan on calh Information hooks' on all markets mailed on appUcation. tei Cartorim cures Colic, Cbnstrpaaon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhcea. Eructation, Sails Worms, gives sleep, and promotes! i restion, lont injurious medication. . - For several years I have recommended jour Castoria, and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Edwtm F. Pixdzs, K. D., "Tho Wlothrop," lSSth Street and 7th Ave., New York ( CoKPJurr, 77 Htnuur Etextt, Nrr Yoa. 2cH t- " BSSSIIIIBIBSSSISIIBlBSsiVtfStM AJaI'2 H & K -3 i J
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