People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

Hew York FinanotaL New Yon*, Deo. 7. Money on cal’ wfcs easy at 1)6 per cant.; prime mercantile paper I*4 per cent.; sterling exchange to easier, With actual business in bankers' bills at 438)6*43014 for demand and 483)4*484 for sixty days; posted rates, 484*484)6 and 487)4*133: commercial bills. 48254Silver certificates, 6514; sales, £5,000; bar silver, 6614; Mexican dollars. 50)6. United States government bond* firm; 4's registered. 119)4; do. coupons, 119)4; fi’s registered, 113)4; do. coupons, 113)4; ♦'* registered, 109; do. coupon*, 110)4; '■>'* registered. 93; Pacific 6’aof ’97, 99)4. Chicago Crain and Produce. ChJSAoo, Doc. 7. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today; Wheat- December, opened 77)4=, closad 77%:; May, opeaai 80)4c, closei 8054c ;July,opened nominal, dosed 74J4=- Corn —December, opened 33c, closed 28c; May, opened 280, closed 26)60. Oats— December, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 2194=. closed 21)4a Pori —December, opened £6.73, closed £6.75; January, opened £7.60, closed £7.57)4. Lard—December, opened and oloaed nominal; January, opened £3.80, £3.80. Produoei Butter—Extra creamery, 230 per lb; extra dairy, 19s; fresh packing stock, B®9)6c. Eggs—Fresh stock, 220 per dos. Poultry—Turfceyi, 10*10)4o per lb; chickens (hens), 6c; spring ehiokeas, 6*34=; roniters, 6o; ducks, 8.*10e; gsese, 7*9 a. Potatoes —Burbanks, 20-*24a per ba: Hebron, 20@23c. Sweet potatoes—Uliuoia, (51.43Jk1.60 per bbl. Hooey—White clover combs. 10* 18c per lb; extracted, s*7c. Applai—Common to fancy, 50c*£1.50 par bbL Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Dec. 7. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows: Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 49,iM* sales ranged at $3.70*3.80 pig*. 8110*3.35 light. £2.90 *3.00 rough packing, £3.19*3.34 mixed, and £3.05*3.30 heavy packing and shipping lota. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 17,590; quotations ranged at £5.30 *5.70 Christmas beeves, £5.00*5.13 choics to extra shipping steers, £4.30*5.01 good to choice do., £4.15*4.50 fair to good. £3.63*4.10 common to medium do.. £5.50*3.93 butcher, steers, £2.80*3.30 stockers, £3.35 *4.00 feeders; £1.75*3.80 cows. £3.40*4.14 heifers. £1.7.5*3.75 bulls, oxen and stags, £2.83*4.20 Texas steers, and £2,75*5.83 veal calves. Sheep and Lambe—Estimated receipts for the day, 16,609; sales ranged at £2.35*3.63 western, £1.50*33)0 Texans, £1.50*9.74 native* and £2.85*5.40 lambs. East Buffalo Uve Stock. East Bdpfaio, N. Y., Dee. T. Dunning & Stevens Live Stock Commission Merchants, Blast Buffalo, N Y., quot-i as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 175 oar; market about steady for light bandy and heavy steer cattle; prime steers, £4.66*4.80; good to choice, £4.ff1®4.80; fair to mediums, £4.34*4.35; choice fat heifers,£3 65*4.03; oommon light to good, £2.90*3.25; prime fat cow*. £4.25*3.80. Hogs —Receipts, 322 cars; market dull and 10*Uo lower: Yorkers, £8.25*8.27)4; mixed packers, £3.30*3.35; heavy aui m>dium«, £4.23*4.25; light Yorkers, 83.90. Sheep anti Lambs—Receipts, 80 oars; market dull and lower; prime "native lama, £4.75*4.85; fair to gool, £4.85* 4.70; culls and commg i, £5.75*4.25; good to ohoice mixed sheep, £3.40*3.93; oommon to fair, £2.75*8.35; culU, £4.00*3.50; heavy fa ewes, £3.24*3,40. St. Louis Grain. 1 ■ Si. Loots, Deo. 7. - Wheat—Ho. 2 red oash elevator, 90o< track, 91)6*91)4c; No. 8 hard cash. 78)£o bid; December. 89)4; May, 8)69*900. Corn—No. 2 cash. 21)6c( December, 8054 c bid: May, S 3( Oats—No. 2 cash, 20c bid; May. e-34c bid. Milwaukee Grain. MitWAirxxa. Dec. T, Wheat—No. 9 spring, T9o; No. 1 northern, 88b; May, BQ)4a Corn—No. & 28a. Oats— No. 2 wh*a, 20*2134c. Barley— No. % t&4of samples, 24332 c. Bye—No. i, dC££a. JMiettChak. ivovwwwen n«e, x Wheat—Cash whim. 92c sake*; <tueik so\ 93s asked; December, Wf&Oi -Mas, Mfyfo Otojgked