People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

New York Financial. Nsw York, Jan. 4 Money ou call easy at 9 per cent; prime mercantile paper,2)4@4)4 P« cent.; starling exchaug© was steady, With actual business in bankers’ bills at 480)4@48f1)4 for demand and 483)4@48394 for sixty days; posted rates, 484)4 and 437; commercial bills, 48214. Silver certificates, 88)4; no sales; bar silver, 64^0; Moxloau dollars, 5091 United States government bonds firm; 4's registered, 13014; do. ooupona, |23>4t 6’s registered, 114; do. coupons, 314? *’s registered, 110)4; do. coupons, 111; B’s registered, 85)4? Pacific «'s of ft), 10254. Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicack>, Jan. 4. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade todayi Wheat—January, opened SlHjo, closed nominal; May, opened 85)4c„ closed 84)4o? July opened 81c, closed 7054 c. Corn—January, opened 83)4 o, closed 8i)4o; May, opened 200, closed 35?40( July, opened 270, closed 2054 c. Oata January, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 19)40, closed lime; July, opened and closed nom> nal. Pork January, opened $7.55, closed nominal; May, opened $1.85, closed $7.82)4Lard—January, opened 88.85 c, closed $3,80? May, opened $4.03)4 closed SS-ftlH-Produce: Butter—Extra oreamery, Ifto per lb; extra dairy, 170 per lb? fresh pstoking stoock, Bc. Eggs—Froah stock. 18@16c per doz. Poultry- Turkeys, o@Uo per lb; ohiokens (hens), ; spring chickens, o@B>4c; roosters, 4)4c; ducks, 6@Wo? geese, 7©90. Potatoes—Burbanks, 18@24q per bu; Hebron, 18@20o. Sweet potatoes—lllinois. SLIS(§I.OO per bbL Honey—White clover, lo@l2c per lb? extracted, 6@7c. Apples—Common to fanoy, [email protected] per bbL Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 4. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows; Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 21,001; sales ranged at $3.10 @3 60pigs, $3 85@3,6) light, $3.05®3.15 rough packing, [email protected] mixed and $3.20®3.55 heavy packing and shipping lots. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 11,000; quotations ranged at 84 73 3.5.10 ohoice to extra shipping steers, $i.80@475 good to choice do., s3.&)<g»4.2sfair to good, [email protected] common to medium do., $3.10©8.75 butchers’ steers, $2.60 @3.86 stackers, [email protected] feeders, [email protected] cows, [email protected] heifers, [email protected] bu Is, oxen and stags, [email protected] Texas steers, and sl76® 6.4‘i veol calves. Sheep and Lambs—Estimated receipts for the day. Id,000; sale 3 ranged at [email protected] western, [email protected] Texans, [email protected] natives and [email protected] lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock, East Bufealo, N, Y., Jan. 4. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 120 care; market steady to shade stronger for good grades and desirable •batchers’ kinds; common steady; beet heavy Bteers, st.76@s.<X)t good to choice shippers, $4.40@4.«3; good to extra fat heifers, $3.75® 4.15; light to fair, [email protected]? old to prime fat cows, [email protected]; # veaa active; tops, $7.0f>@7250? others, [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 103 cars; market active and higher; Yorkers, good to ohoice, $3.70@&70; light, siLftO@3.«dt pigs. $175 @3.90; mixed packers, [email protected]: heavy, $3.60; roughs, [email protected]; stags, S2UH@&7S. Sheep and Lambe—Receipts, 60 cars; market active? sheep 10@15c higher; lambs stronger; best lambs, [email protected]>r, fair to food, [email protected]; culls and common, [email protected]? mixed sheep, Sood to choice, s3.s)@a.Bfc oomnjon to fair, [email protected]; culls and common, s3.oo@lßfi? handy wethers, [email protected], Milwaukee Grata. MinwACKEK, Jan. 4 Wheat—No. 2 spring, fftXc; No. 1 northerly 83c;. Corn—No. 8, $Dn, Q»t»-*4o. 8 White? 18@Ukv Barley-No. ft HMm maapim. OQSix Rye—No. 1,3994 c. Detroit Onto. Drtntorr, Jan. 4. Wheat—Cash white, OtMcioaah red, 6K3£*| May, »i)4o bid.