People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

New York Financial. New York, Jan. 11. Money on call nominally 154@2 per cent.; prime mercantile paper, 354@454 per cent; ' sterling exchange was strong, with actual busines in bankers' bills at 48754@48754 for demand and 48*54@48454 for sixty days; posted rates, 48454@48554[ and 48754@*8854; commercial bills, 48254"Silver certificates. 649i@6554; no sales; bar silver, 6494; Mexican dollars, 60%. United States government b >nds strong; 4’s registered, 120%; do. coupons, 120%; s’s registered. 114; do. coupons, 114; 4’s registerel, 110%: do. coupons, 111541 2’s registered, 95%; Pacific 6's of "98,102%. Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicago, Jan. 11. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today: Wheat January, nominal, closed 7794 c; May, opened 8054 c, closed 80%c; July, opened 7854 c, closed 75%0. Corn— January, opened nominal, closed £2540; May, opened 2494 c, dosed 2454 c; July, opened 2594, .closed 2594 c. Oats—January, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 1894 c, closed 18%o; July, opened —c, closed —c. Pork January, opened and closed nominal; May, opened $7.95, closed $8.02%. Lard—January,' opened $3.92%. dosed nominal; May, opened $4.95, Olosed $4.1254Produce: Butter—Extra creamery. 19c per lb.; extra dairy, 17c per lb.; fresh packing stock, Bc. Eggs Fresh stock, 15@16 per . doz. poultry—Turkeys, 9@1154c per lb; chickens Chens), 6@7c; spring chickens, 6@7c; roosters, 454 c; ducks, 9@llc; geese, 754@90. Potatoes—Burbanks, 20@20c per bu.; Hebron, 18@23c. Sweet Potatoes—lllinois, [email protected] per bbl. Honey—White clover, 10@12c per lb; extracted, s©7c. Apples—Common to fancy, [email protected] per bbl. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Jan. 11. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows: Hogs—Estimated receipts for the d <y, 49,000; sales ranged at $3.05 ©3.45 pigs. $3.25©3.45 light, [email protected] rough packing, [email protected] mixed, and $3.15 © 3.40 heavy packing and shipping lots. Cattle—Estimated receip: s for the day, 12,000; ’ quotations ranged at [email protected] choice to extra shipping steers, [email protected] good to choice do., $3.0004.40 fair to goo i, $3.20©3.95 common to medium do., s3.2s®3.9obutchers' steers, $2.90 ©3.45 Stockers, feeders, [email protected] cows, $2.40©4.15 heifers, [email protected] bulls, oxen and stags. $2.80©4.10 Toxas steers, and $2.75® 6.10 veal i-alves. Sheep and Lambs—Estimated receipts for the day. l.' OO; sales ranged at [email protected] western, [email protected] Texans, $2.00®2.85 natives and [email protected] lambs. Fast Buffalo Life Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 1L Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merehiints.East Buffalo.N. Y.,quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 135 cars; market steady to strong for good shipping and heavy steers, with light butchers' and common to fair grades 15@15c higher, with trade rather slow; choice to best heavy steers, [email protected]; good to choice shippers. $4.65®4.75; fair to medium, [email protected] i; light half fat butchers’ steers, $3.6(1 @4.20; prime fat heifers, [email protected]. Hogs— Receipts. 192 cars; market a shade lower, but active at decline; Yorkers, half light, $3.55; mediums, $2.40; mixed packers, $3.40®3.45; pigs, [email protected]. Sheep and lambs —Receipts, 82 cars; market a shade lower for lambs; sheep fairly steady to strong: best 1 limbs, early, $5.15 ©5.25: good to choice, [email protected] common to fair, [email protected]; culls, $3.50®4.00; mixed sheep good to choice, [email protected]; culls to fair, $2.00©, 3.40: modocks ‘ wethers, 115 pounds, $4.00; haudy natives, $3.9)®3.15. St, Louis Grain. St. Louis, Jan. 11. Wheat—No. 2 red cash elevator, 87c asked; track, Bu@9oc; No. 2 hard cash, 80c; May, 800 bid; July, 7454 c bid. Corn—No. 2 cash, 2054 c; January, 1954 c asked; May, 2254 c bid. Oats— No. 2 cash, 1754 c asked; May, 1954 c asked. Rye —3sc asked. Milwaukee Grain. Milwaukee, Jan. 11. Wheat—No. 2 spring, 7654 c: No. 1 northern, 81c: May. 79%c. Corn No. 3,20 c. Oats— No. 2 white. 1854 c. Barley—No. 2, 34@34540; samples, 32@35c. Rye—No. 1,39 c. Detroit Grain. , Detroit, Jan. 11. Wheat— Cash white, 90o; cash red, 92c asked; May, 92c -sked; July, 7954 c asked.