People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

New York Financial. New Yobk, Dec. 14. Money on call nominally 1)4@2 per cent.: prime mercantile paper 4@o per cent.; sterling exchange was firm, with actual bush ness in bankers’ bill at 486)451)488 % fol demand and 483J4©4&394 for sixty days; posted rates, 4841$ and 48714; commercial bills, 48254. United States government bonds firm; 4’l registered, 120)4; <l°- coupons, 120)4; s’s registered, 11354; do. coupons, 11394; 4's registered, 109)4; do. coupons, 109)4; 2’s registered, 06)4; Pa. ciflc 6’s of W, 99)4. Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicago, Deo. 11 Following were the quotations on th« Board of Trade today: Wheat—December, opened 77c, close 1 770; May, opened 80)4c, closed 82c; July, opened 7394 c, closed 7694 c. Corn—December, opened 22J4c, closed 2294 c; January, opened 23c, closed 23)40; May, opened 2694 c, closed 20c. Oats—December, opened 17)4c, closed nominal; January, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 2094 c, closed 2094 - Pork—December, opened and closed nominal: January, opened $7.67)4, closed $7.76. Lard—December, opened and closed nominal; January, opened $3.87)4, dosed $3.93. Produoe: Butter—Extra creamery, 22c per lb; .extra dairy, 19c; fresh paoking stock, 8®9)40. Eggs—Fresh stock, 10c per doa. Poultry—Turkeys, 9@llc par lb; chickens, (hens), 6)4@oc; spring chiokena, 8®6>40; roosters, 4)4c, ducks, 9®10)4c; ge.-se, 7@9c. Potatoes—Burbanks, 20@240 per bn; Hebron, 20@28c. Sweet potatoes—lllinois, [email protected] per bbl. Honey—White clover 10<g)12c per lb; extracted, 5®70. Apples—Common, to fancy, [email protected] per bbl. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 11 Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows: Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 81000; sales ranged at [email protected] pigs, $3.80®3.60 light, $3.05®3.15 rough packing, $3.30®8.50 mixed, and' $3.20(2)8.60 heavy packing and shipping lots. Cattle—Estimated -receipts for the day, 16,000; quotations ranged at $6.85®5.75 Christmas beeves, $4.76®5.80 choice to extra shipping steers, $4.28@183 good to choice do, $3.85(2)136 fair to good, $3,40@100 common to medium do, $3,[email protected] butchers steers, $2.80® 860 stockers, $3.35®4.0Q feeders, [email protected], cows, $2.40(2)4.16 heifers, $1.75®3.73 bulls, oxen and stags, $230®110 Texas steers, and $2.75® 6.03 veal calves. Sheep and Lambs—Estimated receipts for the day, 18,000; sales ranged at $3.85®3.80 western, [email protected] Texans, 81AU23.75 natives and s2.Bs®&3olamba.