People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

' ** ' —* . New York Financial. \ New York, Jan. 25. Mtonoy on call nominally IJ4@3 per cent.; primte mercantile paper, per cent.; sterling exchange was easier, with" act u 4 business in bankers’ bills at 486)4@487 • for demand and 484J4@484J4> for sixty days; posted rates. 485@185%; commercial bills, 483J4. , Silver certificates, 65@65J4: no sales, bar silver, 64>4; Mexican dollars, 5>)4Unit.d States government bonds firm; 4’s registered, 12154; do. coupons, 12254: s’s registered, 11314; do. coupons, 114J4; 4’s registered, 11194; do coupons, 112; 2’s registered, 96; Pacific 6’s of ’98,103%. Chicago Grain and Produce. ' - Chicago, Jan. 25. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today: Wheat—January, -opened and closed nominal; May, opened closed 79J4c; July, opened 76%c, closed 75%c. CornJanuary, opened nominal, closed 22%c; May, opened 24c, c.osed 23%c; July, opened _2.5J.4c, closed 25c. Oats—January, opened 15%c, closed 15J4c; May, opened 18c, closed 17%c. Pork—January; opened and closed nominal; May, opened $8.05, closed SB.OO. Lard—January, opened nominal, closed nominal; May, $4.0714, closed $4.05. Produce: Butter-Extra creamery; 19J4c per lb.; extra dairy, 17per lb.; fresh packing stock, Bc. Eggs Fresh stock, 15c per doz. Poultry—Turkeys, B@l2c per lb.; chickens (hens), 6@»7p; roosters, 4@4J4c; ducks, 9@loJ4c; gpase, 6®Bc. Potatoes—Burbanks, 20 @2sc per bu.; Hebrons, 18® 22c. Sweet Pota toes—lllinois, sL.oo@l. I,sper bbl. Honey—White cl-ver, 10® 12c . per lb.; extracted, 6®7c. Apples—Common to fancy, [email protected] per bbl. Chicago Live Stock. - Chicago. Jan. 25. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today > anged as follows: Hogs—Estimated re ceipts for the >;av, 118,030;. sal s ra. go 1 at s>.2o ©.3.57U pigs, li lit, $3..’»?A68 rough packing. $3.&>®3.55 mixed, and $1.35 3.50 heavy packing a ilshipping lots. * Cattle— Ksh ..ated receipts for the day, 15.000; quotations ranged nt SI. [email protected] choice to extrashipping steers. £1.45j. koo good to ehoiea do.. $ !. UfM.-J) fair to good, $3.60 7 1.0-> common to medium do, s>.s butchers'* [email protected] stock; r;-,,. $1.5x4;;.05 feed ra, sl.l OXen and slags, .2) Texas steers, and $2.75v/,6.03 ve j. valve i. Sheep and Lambs—Estimated receipts for the day, 13.000; sal s ranged at [email protected],wesi- . erh, $2.';3-7'l.i 1 Texans, [email protected]) natives and $3.5 @5.10 lambs. Milwaukee Grain. " Milwaukee, Jan. 25. Wheat—No. 2 spring, 7tiJ4c; No. 1 northern, 79c; May, 79R,c. Com—No. 3, 20J4c. Oats —No. 2 white, 18J4®’9’4c. Burley—No. 2, 33J4@31c; •samples, 24J4@:WJ4e. Rye-i No. 1,38 c. St. Louis Grain. St. Louis, Jan. 25. Wheat—No.2 red cash elevator. *86%c bid; track, 88@89c; May, 86%c bid. C rn—No. 2 cash, 10J4c asked; May, 21J4@21%c. Oats—No. 2cash, 15J4c; May, 1894 c asked. Rye—34c bid track. . Detroit Grain. Detroit, Jan. 25. Wheat—Cash white, 90%c bid; cash red, 90%0 bid; May, 91%c bidd; July, 79c asked.