The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1898, Page 10

ATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 15898 10 THE S FRANCISCO CALL, COMMERCIAL WORLD. SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS. Silver a fraction firmer. Wheat and Barley futures Oats, Corn and Rye quiet Alfalfa Hay weak and plentiful. Beans and Seeds unchanged. Rice firm Potatoes and Onfons the same. Butter weak. Eggs quiet. -dvanced. Po stead Game still in bad condition. Fresh Frult unchanged. Dried Fruit neglected. Provisions dull Hides weak, Hops firm and Wool dead. Hogs rule firm. Coal steady. WEATHER REPORT. Q20th Meridian—Pacific Time.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. W, 5 p. m. The following maximum temperatures were reported from stations in California to-day: Eureka, 60; Fresno, 86; Los Angsles, 78; Red Bluft, 82, San Luis Obispo, %; San Diego, 66 Sacramento, §2; Independence, Yuma, 9. San Francisco data: Maximum temperature, fmum, 52; mean, 5. CONDITIONS AND GENERAL FORECAST. Thé weather is cloudy over the plateau and @ ton and fallen over California and the plateau region. The temperature has Was! fallen decidedly over ary in other sections. Ce ns are becoming unsettled in Cali- fornia and scattered light showers are prob- able Central California Saturday. Forecast made at San [ i or thirty hours ending midnight, October 15, 1598: Northern California—Cloudy and’ threatening, with scattered light showers, Saturday; fresh, variable wind: cooler. Southern® California—Partly cloudy, somewhat threatening in north portion Saturday; fresh west_wind; cooler. ada—Cloudy mountains Satu Utah—Cloudy. Saturday: coc and probably showers in the ay; cooler. with showers In north portion cloudy Saturday. —Cloudy and prob- fresh west wind. —Cloudy; wind maximum, 68. 5 miles: temperature, WILLSON Local Forecast Official. G. H FASTERN MARKETS. STOCK MARKET. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—The local stock mar- ne successively the opening depres- from the earlier transactions on and the unsettiing effect of of the industrials. A in a rather extended put a stop to the upward market and brought trading The W YORK changes in ter in tl of th: ral iist almost to & standstill. ks traded much the d the m weakness diminished even in the cline. The relapse car- st part a fraction below close and the reaction from the reached a point in some rallroad Sugar, Tobacco,’Manhattan, Brooklyn Transit, Metropolitan and Northern Pacific, the latter the only active rallroad stock, were re of weakness. Some of the Southwestern raflways were con- , the belating movement of cot- to improve their earnings. None tive interests which took all active c spicuously fir ton s of the 1 specu the lead in yesterday's market were at all prominent to-d: There was a disposition to take r yre account of the depressed con- &n markets, with a growth of a ey situation in Berlin n other financial cen- ters fs more respo r the depression than political questior sm of the inter- al exchanges seems te nave devolved it- to @ question of how to shift the pres- bala n favor of the United y's additional small engagement rt is significant, in view of the ¢ rate ing in Europe. It is act that money is cheaper in New York than other great financial center, excepting possibly Paris. Yet the heavy demand for ex- port of our wheat and coarse grains continued to-day. Rates for ocean freights are strong, not only for present but for future shipments, and the large offerings of exchange in the mar- kets for future delivery are said to be against grain cngagements for November and December d January. There is no room for s ¢ of the preliminary statement of the trade for September given out to-day at Washington, showing an excess of merchandise exports over imports of over $42,- 000,000 o account of the Bank of Eng- dition conviction and the re t cre States. To- of gold for gh m preval & in any land in advancing the minimum discount rate t0 4 per cent and in borrowing from the market in order to make that rate effective and in so doing secure control of international exchange wi h a view of protecting specie reserve. It Is that_the pressure of this country's There were continued evidence of investment wand for high grade bonds as well as stocks. old fours registered, the new fours and the fives were % higher and the old four coupon % higher in the bid price. The total sales of stocks to-day were 291,100 shares. including: Atchison preferred 4952, Burlington 5174, L. & N. 3382, Manhattan 559, Northern Pacific 9,520, Union Pacific 8220, do preferred 4 >aul 12,771, Southern Rall- way prefer Tabacco 35,435, Sugar 100, 5%, Chicago G 5535, CLOSING STOCKS. Atchison .......... 124ISt P M & M..... 172 Do prefd . 33%|So Pacific <2 B & O, all ast jd. 4 |So Raflway cific .. 83 | Do prefd . sther Texas & Pacific.. 13% Unfon Pacific .... 32% Do prefd . . &% UPD&G . 1% Wabash . i Do prefd . Doy Wheel & L E..l0 3% Do prefd ........ 10% Express Companies— Adams Ex ....... 108 Del L & W. 14615| American Ex .... 128 Den & R G 13 | United States .... 40 Do prefd D1z 5% | Wells Fargo 13 | Miscellaneous— 33% | A_Cot Oil Erle (new) ... Do 1st prefd.. Fort Wayne ..... 170 | Do prefd . Gt Nor prefd..... 139 |Amn Spirits Hocking Valle: 44| Do prefd . Tllinois Central .. 108% |Am Tobacco Lake Erie & W. Do nrefd . Do prefd ........ Lake Shore Louls & Nash. Manhattan L 9410 | Col F & Iron...... 20% Met St Ry....... 1628 Do prefd ........ 80 Mich Central 106 |Gen Elec new.... 5% Minn & St L. 26 |Tllinols Steel ..... 90% Do_1st prefd 8 |Laclede Gas ..... 47 Mo Pactic 3214 | Lead DAy Mobile & Ohio... 26 = Do : * 10815 Mo K & T 10%|Nat Lin Ofi - eg Do _pretd 30" |Haw Com Co..... 38 Chi Ind & L....00 Ti|Pacific Mall ...... 32% Do prefd ........ 27%|Pullman Palace... 19 N J Central ...... 87 |Silver Certificates 6% N Y Central ..... 115%|Stand R & T..... § N ¥ Chi & St L. 11%|Sugar . Ll moy Do lst prefd.... 6 | Do pretd ... 106% Do 2d pretd.... 31 |T C & Iron... 2% Nor West ........ 13 |U § Leather .. 6 No Amer Co...... 6 | Do prefd . No Pacific ....... 40%(U S Rubber. Do prefd ........ 75%| Do prefd . Ontarto & L. 16" |West Union Or R & Nav...... 62 |C& N W.. Or Short Line..... 2 | Do prefd ... Pittsburg . D169 [StL &S Wl Reading 217 | Do prefd ... Do 1st prefd.... 40%|R G W..........ll 27 Rock Island ..... 101%| Do prefd ........ 6 Bt Louis & S F.. 7%|Intl Paper Co..... 8 Do ist prefd.... 63%| Do prefd . 86t% Do 2d prefd.... 29%|Pac C 1st prefd... 81 Bt _Paul . 110T%! Do 24 nrefd.... 61 Do prefd .......0 160 |Chicago G W Bt P & Om....l.] 78%|Minn Iron ... Do prefd ........ 157 |Brooklyn R T.. CLOSING BONDS. U S 3s. ~105%|N J C 5s. o U 8§ new 4s reg....127%|N Carolina 6s. Do coup . 1271%| Do 4s ... US4 . No Pac Tsts. Do coup Do 3s . Do 2nd Do 4s . 2 U8 58 reg . NYC&SLS Do 55 coup......113% |Nor & W 6s District 3 65s.......117% | Northwestern Con.142% Ala class A........108 | Do deb s 220% O Nav 1st L O Nav 4s. T 9 O § Line & ‘127 Atchison 4s . O 8 Line 58 t r....106% Do adj 4s. 1| Pacific 6s of 95....102% can So 2ds... Reading 45 it Chgo Terni 4s R G W lsts | 813, C & Ohio 58 SL & Ir M Con &5 97 C, H & D 4is. S L & S F.Gen 65119 D& R G lsts.....110%/St P Con...........159% D&RG 4s 9714 (St P C & P ists.. 120 ‘East Tenn 1sts. Do 58...... BT Erle Gen 4s........ 11|50 RY & i 1. 74%|S Rope & T Co'és.. 77 F W & D lsts t 108" | Tenn new set 3s.. 5314 Gen Elec 5s GH&S A 6s.. Tex P L G lsts... 107 Do 2ds Do rg_2de. Ty H&TC Union Pac 45 e Do Con 6s |UPD &G lsts... 77 Jowa C Ists . 1% La ney con 4 ) N Unf 4s.... ¥ Stisaourt 6. 100" | Va Ceneurdes. ... . 781 MK & T 2ds...... 62%| Do deferred ..... T4 Do 4S ..eooeoinnnn $5%| Wis C 1sts . 59% N Y Cen 1sts......11T% MINING STOCKS. ollar .. sj0ntario L350 Crowa Foint... ID!O hir . e Con Cal & Va.. 2| Plymouth . 10 AWO00d .....oonnn {.’,;Ql’l)lgkfllv‘e: 5 18 Gou 6 preferred. :dh‘NS‘rlcrgu.“ N!Slerfl Nevada..... 73 omestake . ..49 00Ftandard . . 350 n_Sllver. 57|Unfon Con.. . 18 nglm B 15/Yellow Jacket...... 15 Mountain regions and in Central Cali- | It 1s partly cloudy in Oregon and ssure has risen over Oregon and ngton and Oregon and remalned station- | was largely curtailed | BOSTON STOCKS AND BONDS. Do _prefd.......... 5% ieee2 @3%[Ed Elec Tel. ‘1% Time loans......3 @4 |Gen Elec prefd.....185 Stocks— Atchison prefd..... 32% AT&SF. 12" Bonds— Amer Sugar 1110% |Atchison 4s......... 93% Do _prefd 1061 Mining Shares— Bay State Gas. 134 [Allovez Min Co.... 3% Bell Tel.............275 [Atlantic .. L 26k Boston & Albany Boston & Mont.....238 Boston & Maine...163 |Butte & Boston.... 32% Boston & L. 69 Calumet & Hecla..575 Chi Bur & Q........114% Centennfal ......... 19% Gen Elec new. 7913 Franklin - 13% Mexican Cen... 41,1014 Dominion. 5 Old Colony 192" |Osceola 637 Rubber ... 38 |Quincy . 32% Tamarack ..........179 {Wolverine Do prefd... {Parrott . Westinghse Eiec... 32 |Humbold LONDON MARKET. NEW YORK., Oct. 4.—The Evening Post's London financlal cablegram says: The stock markets here opened steady to-day, but gave way later on the reported military conspiracy in France. They rallied on reassuring tele- grams from Paris, but finally closed flat on pessimistic telephone messages from the French capital, which were of a character to confirm the earlier reports. Americans shaped their own course consistently. They were good all day, although the support was almost entirely from New York. Norfolk and Western pre- ferned was especially good. Prices closed at about the best. Spanish 's and all the French specialties were_flat. Union Pacific... West End. A feature to-day was the sharp drop in bar gold to The buying for New York has Ceased, but Berlin has commenced purchasing and the price closed at about 7is 10%d. The London distount market is etill unsettled, but with a firm tendency, the Bank of Eng- land making further efforts to control the mar- ket at 3% per cent. The Germans are liquidating investment stocks and mines, but are retaining Americans fajrly well Lazard Freres announce that they will import $300,000 more gold. LONDON, Oct. 14.—The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England in bal- ance to-day was £140,000. CLOSING. Canadian Paclfic, §6; Grand Trunk, T%: bar silver steady, 27 11-16d; money, 2}3@3 per cent. FINANCIAL REVIEW. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Bradstreet's Finan- cial Review to-morrow will say: Speculation in the early part of the week was dull und the market heavy. Later it assumed more activity, | aieplaying a tendency to rally from the recent depression. Professional trading and manipu- lation surplied, however, the bulk of the transactions throughout, and the public has been conspicuously indifferent. It would seem that the decline in the industrials, the alleged unfavorable influence of election uncertainties and the unsettled political outlook in Europg have combined to reduce the outside Interest to very small dimensions. Bearishness on the part of traders, resulted, however, in the creation of a falr short interest, and while the large financial interests show very evident signs of disposition to walt until after the election, certain powerful interests in the street | seem to have taken advantage of the situation to create a rally in shorts. This was facilitated by a change of sentiment due to the rise in grain prices and the heavy forelgn purchases of American breadstuffs. Rallroad earnings also continue to make remarkably favorable exhibitions, even in comparison with the large revenues of a wear ago. The continued and apparently incréasing ease of money is another sustaining factor, and is partly responsible for the absence of any decided liquidation of speculative holdings in the stock market. No effect was produced by the advance of the Bank of England rate and the rise of discount rates in London to 3% per cent, and it is noted that the large supplies of money and easy rates here encourage investments in foreign exchange, a | class of transactions which was sufficiently | familiar a vear ago. The bond market is dull, with prices well sustained in the railroad de- partment, Governments are strong and the demand for the new 3 per cents {rom banks has this week carried their price up to 105% Industrial stocks have again been the prin- cipal objects of attention. Sugar continued its irregular decline, falling to 108%, but has had frequent rallles on the short interest. On Friday, however, it broke on alleged new cuts. Tobacco, though less ac- tive, has been irregular. The announcement that the control of the Drummons factors at St. Louls has been secured was accompanied by reports of the issue of considerable stock to pay for it and of a renewal of the plug to- bacco war. Of this the price of the stock sold down from 127% to 116, but support was ex- tended to it and the stock issue denled, where- upon it rallied to 120%. People's Gas and Brooklyn Rapid Transit were leaders in the recovery of the general | market and some attention is given to the new Federal Steel stocks which are dealt in in the outside market, a brilllant future being pre- dicted for the securities. ‘While a better feeling has been apparent about railroad stocks, that part of the list has been as a whole dull and neglected. Prices sagged wearily untii Wednesday, and then re- covered ea An incident was the advance of Great Northern to 140%. the highest price ever recorded for it. The very favorable week- ly earnings of the St. Paul road make a good impressian, but fail to create any decided movement In the stock. Nor have the yvellow fever reports from the South encouraged the bears to attack the eecurities of railroads in | that section. The principal feature of the railroad list was the movement of Northern Pacific. Under selling induced by stories of an internal disagreement in the management the price of the preferred was put down from 75l to 74% and that of the common from 42 to 3%, Later they were rallied to 76 and 413 re- spectively on short coverings and fresh buying, due to reports that the dissensions had been settled and that a dividend on the 'common was in prospect. BANK CLEARINGS. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—The following table comptled by Bradstreet shows the bank clear- ings at the principal citles for the week ending October 13, with the percentage of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year. Per Cent. Dec. Inc. New York .... $833,128,187 Boston .. 100,903,067 Chicago Philadelphia St. Louls .. Pittsburg 19,118,137 Baltimore ...... 20,291,082 San Francisco 17,239,798 Cincinnati 13,676,500 Kansas City 15,910,438 New Orleans 7,172,418 Minneapolis 11,917,448 Detroft ..... 6, ,193 Cleveland 7,562,258 Louisville 50, 293 Providence 5,506,900 Miiwaukee 5,462,409 St. Paul 6,026,459 Buftalo 474,328 Omaha ... 7,823,459 Indanapolis ...... 5,354,258 Columbus, O 4,060,600 Savannah 3,948,915 Denver . 3,551,323 *Hartford 2,806,111 Richmond 2,587,110 Memphis . 2,214.381 Washington 2,409,856 Peoria. 184 Rochestt . 1,981 New Haven 16 Worcester . 1,619,779 3 Atlanta 1,756,543 ] Salt Lake City 1,951,043 1 Springfield, Mass 1,768,658 z Fort Worth ..... 1,573,369 i Portland, Me . 1,590,816 % S Portland, Or . - 2, 1.4 . Bt. Joseph Sk, 0.3 5 Los Angeles 1 103 2 Norfolk .. oo Easee sy 2 Syracuse . 1 13 5 Des Moines . 11300 59 2 Nashville ..... 1186398 ... ) Wilmington, Del ... o X} Fall River '......... 953, Scranton ........ Grand Ra Augusta, Ga Lowell Dayton, Ohio ... Seattle Tacoma ....... Es Spokane ©1. 1,168,406 Sloux_Clty 1,056,088 New Bedford ... 678,808 Knoxville, Tenn . 580,607 Topeka . 500,325 Binghamton Z 353,000 £ Wichita .. 382,118 39 {Bnghampton ... 353,000 Lincoln .......... GO 3T R Lexington, K 445 224 Jacksonviile, 247,363 30.1 Kalamazoo 260,378 ... Akron 385,900 410 Bay City . 208242 3.4 Chattanoogs ...... 39,488 51.0 Rockford, Tl . 28,988 6.2 y Canton, Ohlo ... 26400 158 5 Springfield, Ohio . 21867 268 g argo, N Dak . 08741 311 3 Hastings, Neb . 16,432 152 2 Fremont, Neb 118,7: 20,4 % | Davenport ... 28,212 268 % | Toledo 1611279 ... ) s*Galveston ..... 542,600 320 ... **Houston 20,219,951 atae T **Youngstown e T e e **Macon 619,000 A s*Evansville .. 797,696 e **Helena ........ 798,029 esLittle Rock ..... 300,213 Totals, U §. Sl Totals outside New York . 556,133,465 6.8 DOMINION OF CANADA. Montreal .. e $14,830,652 Toronto . . T a02mseT 3 Winnipeg ...l L9§7,014 e Halifax . 1,280332 18 Hamilton .......00000. 687,631 35 St. Johm, N. B.LILL 506,294 12 N 380,510 1.2 DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade will say to-morrow: With actual payments through clearing-houses % per cent larger than in the same week Of 1892 1t cannot be said that business is in any sense falling off, and yet many are complain- ing because the amount realized as profit is smaller than was formerly realized in good times. 1In almost every branch of husiness trade is now transacted on a narrower margin of profit than in any other time of falr pros perity. There is a great change, and perhaps & permanent on2, in the percentage of profits derivable from the trade and manufacture as well as in the profits obtainable by transport- ers. Progressive civilization calls for a lower range of profits and of prices as the volume of business transacted increases in order to make possible {mprovement {n the condition of the working millions. Wheat business is more active, with prices about 2c higher for spot and nearly dc for De- cember optfons. Very heavy purchases have | been. made within the past few days, not as yet reflected in the official record of shipments, but the exports from both coasts, flour in- cluded. have been 4,10L770 bushels, against 4,856,015 for the same week last year. It 1S es- pecidlly. fhteresting that 1n splte of the general isposition of farmers to hold back their wheat the Western receipts have been for the week much larger than last year and for two weeks 20,790,455 bushels, against 16,695,054 last year. While attention is now pald to the official re- gorts, they seem to foreshadow a larger return or the crop than has been made In any pre- vious year. The price of corn has advanced about Zc, though the receipts are just NOw larger than a year ago. The. price of spot cotton I§ & sixteenth lower than a week ago and the\January option has also lost a few points, while there is a weaker market for goods. This is partly due to the official ad- mission that the prices of print cloths, now a sixteenth below 2c, cannct be sustained witho out a selling agency, which s now proposed Although the production at Fall River is in excess of demand the difficulty in priges is probably largely due to the bellef that a Dbig Yield of cotton must reduce the price of the materfal. While eome woolen mills have started operations during the week quite as many have stopped. Although wool is about 10 per cent lower than it was February 1 the manufacturers are not buying and the market is remarkably dull, with sales during the past two weeks of only 6,178,700 pounds at the three chief markets, against 24,331,600 last year and 14,636,300 in 1896 and 13,703,500 in 1892. The gen | eral feeling s that the price of the material must decline before the manufacture can much increase its sales. Orders for'goods have been a little better and a few mills have resumed Gperations, but there is as yet no such demand as is necessary to sustaln current prices of wool. The iron manufacture again reports a small increase in the weekly output, 215,633 tons, against 213,043 a month ago, and With the de- crease in quantity of unsold stocks on hand outside the great Steel companies the apparent consumption for the month of September was 983,504 tons, against 950,503 in August. There are quite heavy Bastern orders for foundry iron, fully supporting prices, and at Chicago prices of local iron are strong, with less dispo- &ition to sell Southern pig at reduced quota- tions. The orders for finished products include a very heavy demand for plates, especially for Ehipyards, several of considerable magnitude for structural works covering about 13,000 tons and an unusually heavy demand for bars. In pipes Pittsburg has been able to place orders | for thirty miles of ten-inch pipe and other or- ders for 100 miles are practically closed. Fallures for the week were 205 in the United States, against 223 last year, and 25 in Canada, against 36 last year. BRADSTREET'S REVIEW. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Bradstreet's to-mor- row will say: While the advent of cooler weather in most sections of the country has undoubtedly been instrumental in causing improvement in the tome of the distributive trade, perceptible at most markets this week, beneficlal effect upon general business and par- ticularly upon agricultural products, the report of imoroved demand abroad for our staple| _ereals should not be lost sight of. At most | Western centers an improvement in the re- tall and jobbing trade in seasonable dry goods, clothinz and shoes is reported, and more seasonable weather at the South is responsible for some relaxation of the absurd quarantines which have done £o much to cripple trade in that section. Particularly prominent in this connection is the loosening of the quarantines in the lower Mississippl Valley, where it be- gins at last apparently to be appreciated that the quarantines are worse than the disease they | aim to fight. Good export demand in general European account, smaller shipments from Russlan and_Danubian ports, less favorable reports regarding Russian and ‘Australian crops agd an undoubtedly active home demand for wheat for milling, superinduced by the active foreign call for flour,” have all worked to strengthen the price of wheat this week, and sympathetic reflection is found in the improved call for other cereals at slightly better prices. ‘Another favorable feature in the foreign trade situation, too, has been the apparently satis- factory progress making in developing the trade with our new possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific. Large orders on Cuban account are said to have been placed recently in New York, and heavy shipments to Manila and other Pacific Ocean points, with the reported starting of new lines of steamships to Hono- lulu and Australia, all bear testimony to the energetic efforts of American business men to build up our trade abroad. Railroad earnings and bank clearings continue to furnish favor- able measures of current business. The leather situation has attracted more atténtion this week because of the reported intention to shut down a large number of tanneries in an effort to affect the prices which are now said to be relatively higher than the finished production. Tron trade reports are a repetition of recent weeks, new business being of moderate pro- portions, but mills and foundries are kept busily employed on early orders. Wheat, including flour. shipments for the week aggregate 4,729,935 bushels, against 537, 224 bushels last week, 5.939.720 bushels in’ this week a_vear ago, 4,516,817 bushels in 1396, 2,409,- 445 bushels in 1595 and 3,182,098 bushels in 1594, Since July 1 this vear the exports of wheat aggregate 56,628,115 bushels, against 65,920,132 bushels during the same period a vear ago. Business fallures for the week number 233, agalnst 163 last week, 195 In this week a year ago, 219 in 1896, 269 in 1595 and 253 in 1894. Buainess fallures in the Dominion of Canada number this week 22, against 23 last week, which are only half of what they were one year ago, and compare with 30 in 1866, 37 in 1895 and 39 in 1894. NEW YORK GRAIN AND PRODUCE. | | | 1 NEW YORK, Oct. 14—FLOUR—Receipts, 23,- 774 barrels; exports, 17,052 barrels. More active and firmer. WHEAT—Receipts, 296,000 bushels; exports, 115,810 bushels. Spot easy; No. 2 red, T4%c f. o. b. afloat. Options were weak and lower early under disappointing cables and short selling. With a later development of heavy ex- port business, however, shorts stampeded and a violent recovery took place, leaving final prices %@%c net higher. No. 2 red May, 69_13-16@70%c, closed 70%c. WOOL—Quiet. METALS—There was somethinig of a,_ bull move in the Metal market to-day, all the de- partments exhibiting a marked change for the better in general temper, with prices in some instances a shade higher. The chief feature was an_advance in the price of Lake Copper, which for weeks has been inactive and nom- inally unchanged. At the close the Metal Ex- change called: PIGIRON—Warrants steady, with $700 bid and $7 20 asked. TIN—Firmer, but not active, with $17 05 bid and $17 15 asked. LEAD—Quiet, with $3874 bid and $3 9% asked. The firm naming the settling price for lending Western miners and smelters quotes Lead at $3 7. iz-:LTER—FIrm, with $4% bld and $ asked. COPPER—Firm; brokers', $12; exchange, $12 374 @12 50, COFFEE—Options closed Wwith prices un- changed to 5 points lover. Sales, 5000 bags, In- cluding OctoBer, $5 20; November, $ 3; Sep- tember, $6 05. Spot Rio—Quiet. SUGAR—Raw, firm; fair refining, 3 11-16@ 3%c; centrifugal, 9 test, 4 7-32@4%e; molasses, 3'7-16@3%c. Refined—Steady. BUTTER—Recelpts, 2125 packages. Market firm. Western creamery, 15@22c; Eigins, 22c; factory, 11%@14%c. EGGS—Recelpts, 3935 packages. Firm; West- ern, 18%c. DRIED FRUITS. NEW YORK, Oct. M4.—California Dried Fruits steady. EVAPORATED ~APPLES—Common, 638c; prime wire tray, 8%c; choice, 9c; fancy, 9%c. PRUNES—4@s°c as to size and quality. APRICOTS—Royal, 11@13c; Moorpark, 12@16c. PEACHES—Unpeeled, 7@dc; peeled, 12@lic. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. CHICAGO, Oct. 14—Much to the surprise of the leading portion of the grain trade, the Liverpool market opened at a decline over night of %d and closed at a loss of 1%@1%d. The result was a decidedly weak opening here. December started with plenty of sellers at 641 Gb4%c, compared with yesterday's closing price of 64%c. This was practically a ‘“‘put’” price, and & £ood deal of buylng was done by olders of these privileges. Outside of the demand from this source, how- ever, there was little support given the market and ‘a still further decline occurred, December finally getting down to 64c. In the afternoon the market became quite active and strong. Reports from the seaboard showed very heavy export engagements, the figures ranging ail the way from 70 to 150 boatloads. This indica- tion that the foreigners were taking advantage of the deciine to satisfy their wants started shorts on the run, December going up to 65@ 6534c at the close, & gain of %c for the day. There was a fairly active trade in corn. The market was weak in sympathy with wheat, and a decline in cables. When wheat turned strong corn responded. The cloze is %@%c higher fory December. Oats were qulet all day. The opening was weak and prices ruled lower until late in the day, when they rallied with wheat and corn, closing unchanged from vesterday. ‘A good business was done in provisions. The market started easy with grain. There was a little too free selling d the early weak- ness and when the rally in grain came the demand from shorts was so heavy that prices ! | St. Louts . advanced very rapidl; higher than vesterday. The close is T%@12%c The leading futures ranged as follows: Articles— _ Open. High. Low. Close. Wheat, No."2— October 65% December .. 6% 64 655 Maviaee s 6z 66% 6% 664 Corn, No. 2— October ... 30 0% 2% ° 30% December 1, 3l % 3L May . By R B% Oats, No. 2— December .. 221, 2% 2y May . 23'% 23 T4 T8 T January .... S.9000 92 900 9 Lard. per 160 Tbs— December .......... 4825 4021z 482% 40 January ... 490 502% 49 5 Short Ri per 100 1bs— Qctober ‘.5 0v.0xee 5 53T% 5 2% January .11 450 465 Cash quotations as rollows. strong, millers asking spring’ wheat. 63@6dlze; 2 corn, 20%@30%c; No. 23%c; No. 2 white, {. o, f. 0.'b., 24%@2%%c; No. 1ey, {. 0. b., 31@43c; No. timothy seed, $2 2042 2%; mess pork, $7 90@7 9: lard, per 100 pounds, short ribs sides (loose), 415@4%c; shoulders_(boxed), (bcxed), $ 30@5 40; w goods, per gallon, §125 granulated, $5 4. 10@15¢ advancs No. 2 red, 66@6ic; No. 2 oats, f. 0. b, 2X@ . b., 25%c; No. 3 white, 2 rye, 49%c; No. 2 bar- 1 flaxseed, 30ic; prime per barrel, 34 95@4 970 $5 15@5 40; dry salted short’ clear sides ky, distillers’ finished ; sugars, cut loaf, $ 77; Articles— Flour, barrels Wheat, bushels Corn, bushels Oats, bushels Rye, bushels bushels Receipts. Shipments. -. 12,000 15,000 160,000 ~21465,000 385,000 25,000 market was firm; Crea On the Produce Exchange to-day the Butter meries, 13G20c: Dairies, 12@17c. Cheese, steady, $@%%c. Eggs, firm; fresh, 14%c. WHEAT MOVEMENTS. Receipts, Shipments, Cittes— Bushels. Bushels. Minneapolis 350,640 Duluth ..... 531,357 Milwaukee 78,650 Chicago Toleds Detroit Kansas City Totals Tidewater— Boston ...... New York Philadelphia Baltimore New Orleans Galveston .. Totals 737,605 LIVERPOOL FUTURES. ‘Wheat— Oct. Dec. Mar. Opening . 5 10% 5 8% Closing . 5 S sk 5T PARIS FUTURES. Flour— Oct. Jan.-Apr. Opening 4755 36 40 Closlngs ;- iiiy 4570 Wheat — Opening 21 80 Closing . 2185 EASTERN LIVESTOCK MARKET. . steers, $1 305 80 for co CHICAGO, Oct. the greater part fetchi mon fed Texans and stockers and feeders, canners sold at better veal calves brought § $4 505 HOGS—Prices ruled CATTLE—Native beet mmon grades to extras, ng $ 2@5 60, and com- fed Westerns, $1@4 30; $3@4 80; Dbutchers and prices and a few fancy 7 20G7 40; stock calves, steady at $3 35@3 92% for common to fancy, the greater part changing hands a pigs went below $3 an 33 30@3 50. SHEEP—Offerings of well taken at $3@4 60 sheep, choice to fanc: @4 75; Western range ers, $i@4 20; lambs sol for common, up to $6@ t $3 65@3 80. Very few d sales were largely at sheep and lambs were for _inferior to choice yearlings bringing $4 50 sheep. 33 60@4 60; feed- 1d_briskly at $4 25@4 50 5 25 for choice to. prime flocks, choice range lambs selling around $5 60; feeding lambs were in 515 Receipts—Cattle, 3000 7000. active demand at $ S0@ hogs, 27,000; sheep, KANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 16,000. Market steady t $4 25@5 40; cows and he and feeders, §3@3 90; b HOGS—Réceipts, strong; bulk ¢ @3 75; packers and mi 9000, sales, $3 55@3 63; heavies. $3 55 14.—CATTLE—Receipts, o strong. Native steers, eifers, $1G4 25; stockers §2 5001 25 Market steady uils, to lights, ixed, $3 30@3 65; $3 403 62%; pigs. $3 2643 €0. SHEEP—Receipts, 2001 $3 10@5 50; muttons, $3@ DEN DENVER, Oct. 14.—CATTLE—Receipts. 0. Market firm. Lambs, 4 50. VER. 800. Market firm; feeder demand good. Beef steers, $3 To@4 25; cows, 3$2 50@3 50; feeders, freight paild to river, $3 75@4 2%; stockers do, $3 0@ 4 20; bulls, stags, etc., §2@3. HOGS—Receipts, 200. Market 5¢ higher. Light packers, 33 6063 70; mixed, $3 35@3 65; heavy, $3 501 SHEEP—Recelpts, 1000. Market firm. Good fat muttons, $3@4 25: lambs, $3 90@5 25. OMAHA. OMAHA, Oct. 14.—CATTLE—Receipts, 3000 shipments, 400. Strong to higher. Beeves, 3 60 @5 20; cows and heifers, $2@3 50; stockers and feeders, $3@4 20; Weste HOGS—Receipts, 4500 rns, $2 504 20. Market 2}e@5c higher, active; range, $3 60@3 70; bulk of sales, $3 6212@ 3 65. SHEEP—Receipts, 6200. Western, _$3 0@4 25; lambs, $ 90@5; feeders, RIED FRUIT MARKET. * NEW YORK D! The New York Commercial under October § say: ““Cooler and more having its effect and for dried fruits. somewhat Inquiry <howling that the distributing trade Active and stronger. yearlings, 34 20@1 55; $3 854 85, date of seasonable weather s there is more demand is also increasing is thinking about the winter supplies. “There is little change noticeable in prunes. Trade is slack because of Holders of large sizes small offerings. on the coast are keep- them to work out their less desirable fruit. Small sizes are muc- i and there lsn’'t much g will ture the prune market be accepted eventually. possibility of a French combination to n evidence in offerings, uestion that small sizes The suggested cap- of the East hasn’t ma- terialized vet, and the efforts will hardly be made this vear. The French crop lacks large sizes and that is what the Fastern trade wants this year. “The raisin situation is unchanged. First arrivals of the new crop are reported satisfac- tory. change October 15. U little business done, t and demand will be lik “Figs are firm under Later reports cut the 11,000 camel loads. and pulled at 16@24c. sell at 10%@12c, and bags 5%@sc. prices are held firm, pending the probable ntil then there will be hough inquiry is brisk ely to Increase. reports of short crops. vield down to perhaps Fancv ~re selling at 15@2Sc California fancy layers Some effort is being made to force the sale of California fruit, and if the keeping quality was as fav- orabie as the packing there would be no diffi- culty in disposing of any quantity in this mar- ket. “Dates are held stea dy, but spot prices are small and trade restricted in consequence. ““Apricots are firm, with export demand in- creasing. Local trade but prospects of higher to holders. ‘‘Peaches show o ch: is somewhat restricted, prices are encouraging ange from last reports. There are no stocks in first hands, and all in second and third hands are held stiff, with upward tendency.” CALIFORNIA FRUIT SALES. NEW YORK, Oct. 14 .—The Earl Fruit Com- pany auctioned California fruit to-day with the following results: Grapes—Tokays, 9%0c@ $140, average $123; double crates, §2 75G3 20, average $2 99; Muscat, Peaches—Salway, $1 35.# October Late, $1 80@2 10, Pears—Kieffer, Prunes—Italian, $137; favorable. Seven cars PHILADELPHIA, $1 15@1 80, average $1 3 330, average 29I crates, 33 16; Malagas, Peaches—Salways, George's_Late, 50@8oc, Clings, 65c; Heath, 65c. Grapes—Tokay, G5c@$1 75, ot averaged §lc; doubla CHICAGO, Oct. 14. average $1 one. crates, $272; Malagas, $1 52; double crates, $3; favorable. Oct. 85c@3 $1 80; Cornichon, $1 10. $133. §1 82, ‘Weather average Silver, $140. sold. 14.—Grapes—Tokay, 4; double crates, $2 400 Cornichons, $1 60;" double assorted, . average $103; average 62; Lemon Three cars ‘sold. $1 69; 1 26. $1 b $1 30@1 50; Cornichons, assorted, $130. Weather Eight cars sold. BOSTON, Oct. 14.—Grapes—Tokays, 65c@$1 30, average $1; Cornichons, Peaches—October Late, Three cars sold. CHICAGO, Oct. 14. sold California fruit t $0c@s1 70, average 96c. $9c. Weather cloudy. Porter Bros. Company day as follows:—Pears-— Bartletts, $270@3 40 box; B. d'Anjou, $2 65; Glout Morceau, $265; Lawrence, §2 25} Duchesse, §2 06; Winter Nellis, $2; Easter Beaurres, $1 75. Grapes—Cornichons, $3 25 dou- ble crate and $1 40@1 60 single crate; Tokays, $2 50@2 75 double crate and $1 05@1 70 singlé crate; Black Morocco, § 55c@$1 15_box; George's Late, NEW YORK, Oct. 14. 4 box; Beaurre Clairg is, $190. Grapes—Mu: crate; Black Morocco, $1 7 Malagas, $1 40; assorted, S0c@s! 35. 1 20. Peaches—Salways, @85 —Pears—Bartletts, §2 95 2 ‘Winter Nel- eaus, scats Sulways, $125@1 65 box; October Lates, $1 (5. CALIFORNIA RAISINS IN THE EAST. NEW YORK, Oct. 14 merce says: .—The Journal of Com- As an advance in the price of California raisins, to take effect at midnight of the Iith inst., has been without material trade. been expected, it has effect upon the Eastern The demand has not been stimulated to any extent of late by the prospect of higher prices and there has been no great effort to sell_goods. In fact Eastern commission mer- chants as a rule do not seem to like the meth- ods followed by the association, claiming that they restrict business by causing an uncertain feeling. They will sel 1i goods under assocta- tion terms because they cannot do otherwise, they say, but they are not in the plans of those who regulate tion’s operations. An sympathy with e assocla- dence of this is found in flagrant violations :t!‘ the association’s rules by some of the large handlers of ralsins in and unchanged | Eastern consuming markets. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction expressed by Eastern sellers in regard to the methods followed by the syndicate and some of the handlers of Call- fornia raisins here do not hesitate to express the opinion that the organization has made it- self so unpopular that next season it will cease to control the market, while some assert that it will be only a matter of a few weeks when its authority will end. On the other hand there are a number of people who contend that the aesociation by {ts action in securing con- trol of the crop and regulating prices has been a benefactor not only to growers and packers, but to distributors, by putting an end to in- discriminate consignments which in past years have kept the market in a demoralized con- dition. NORTHERN WHEAT MARKET. OREGON. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 14.—There was less firmness in the Liverpool market to-day, but Portland exporters hung on to the old figures and paid 60c and over for Walla Walla, some speculative buying being reported as high as 61762c. Valley and biue stem, 62@63c. Foreign wheat shipments from this port for the week ending to-day amounted to 400,650 ushels. SHINGTON. TACOMA, Oct. 14.—Wheat—Club, 60%c; blue stem, 63%zc. FOREIGN MARKETS. LONDON, Oct. 14.—Consols, 109 5-15; silver, 27 11-16d; French rentes, 101 92ic; wheat ca goes oft coast, nothing doing; cargoes on passage, nominal, unchanged; Walla Walla, | 285 6d; English country markets, firm. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 14.—WHEAT—Steady; No. | | 1 standard California, 6s 7d@6s 8d; wheat In | Paris, steady; flour in Paris, quiet; French | country markets, quiet and steady; weather in England, cloudy. COTTON—Uplands, 3 3-32d. CLOSE. WHEAT—Spot No. 2 red Western winter, stocks exhausted; No. 1 red Northern spring steady, 6s 112d. Futures closed quiet; Decem- ber, is 8%d; March, 5s T3d. CORN—Spot American mixed new quiet, 3s 6%4; October steady, 3s 6%d; November steady, 3s 6%d; December steady, 3s 6%d. COTTON MARKET. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—COTTON—Dull; mid- dling, §%e. PORTLAND'S BUSINESS. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 14.—Exchanges, 3306, 190; balances, $10,03. LOCAL MARKETS. EXCHANGE AND BULLION. Sterling Exchange, 60 days... — #s Sterling Exchange, sight............ — 48 | Sterling Cables ceaeeees — AW New York Exchange, sight. — 175 ew York Exchange, telegraphic.. — 2 ine Silver, per ounce. — [} Mexican Dollars 4T% 1% WHEAT AND OTHER GRAINS. WHEAT—Futures continue to advance, but the spot market, albeit firm, is slower to re- spond to the improved conditions East and abroad. The demand, however, is improving, and the situation is better all around. Spot Wheat—Shipping, 31 18%@1 20; $12215@1 2. CALL BOARD SALES. Informal _iession—9:15 o'clock—December— 16,000 ot §1 20%; 12,000, $1 20%; 38,000, $1 20%. May—4000 ctls, $1 22%; 4000, $1 22%. Second _session—December—10,000 ctls, $1 21; 6000, $1 21%. Régular morning session—December—2000 ctls, $121%; 10,000, $1 21%: 4000, $1 22; 40,000, $1 21%. Afternoon session—December—2000 ctls, $122%; §000, $1 223%; 4000, §1 22%4: 2000, $1 22. . BARLEY—The market is in about the same situation as wheat. Futures are rising, but spot. prices remain stationary. The demand is slack. Feed, $1 17%@1 20; Brewing, §1 2% for No. 2. CALL BOARD SALES. Informal Session—9:15 o'clock—No sales. Second session—December—4000 ctls, $1 22%. e T sesslon—December—2000 ctis, 1 235, Afternoon session—No sales. OATS—The demand continues slack, though there are some jobbing sales all the time which keep the market from stagnation. Fancy Feed, §120@1 2% per ctl; good to choice, $1 201 22%; comman, $: 15@1 17%; Sur- prise, ' §1 301 3; Gray, §115@120; milling, 4l 2001 % per ctl; Red, $140@147%; Black, milling, 1 50@l 70. CORN—Prices remain unchanged. Small round yellow, $1 20; Eastern large yel. low, $105@1 07ia; white, $i10: mixed, $1@1 05 per ctl; California White, §1 12%@1 15. RYE—$1 17%@1 22% per otl. The crop this year Is light, which renders possible the pres- ent imports from the East. BUCKWHEAT—Eastern per ctl. is quoted at $175 FLOUR AND MILLSTUFFS. $4 15@4 25; bakers’ FLOUR—Family extras, extras. $4 per bbl. MILLSTUFFS—Prices in sacks are as fol- lows, usual discount to the trade: Graham Flour, $325 per 100 Is; Rye Flour, $275 per 100; Rice Flour, $7: Cornmeal, $230; extra cream Cornmeal, $325; Oatmeal, $ %; Oat Groats, $ 50; Hominy, $3 25@3 50; Buckwheat Flour, $4@4 2i; Cracked Wheat, $375; Farina, $450; Whole Wheat Flour, §3 50; Roiled Oats (barrels), $5 85@6 2; in sacks, $5 65@8 05; Pearl Barley, $5; Split Peas, § 25; Green Peas, $4 50 per 106 Tbs. HAY AND FEEDSTUFFS. Alfalfa Hay contindes to arrive liberally and is weak in consequence. Grain Hay is steady, though the market continues quiet. Feedstuffs range the same. BRAN—$13 50215 per ton. MIDDLINGS—$18@20 per ton. FEEDSTUFFS—Rolled Barley, Ollcake Meal at the mill, $32G32 50; Cocoanut Cake, $24@25; Cottonseed Meal, $25@30 per ton: Cornmeal, $23 50@2¢ Cracked_Corn, $24@25. CALIFORNIA HAY — Wheat, $I7@19 for £ood to choice and $15@16 for lower grades; no fancy coming in; Wheat and Oat, $15@18: Oat, 14316; Island Barley, $12 50@14; Alfalfa, $1i p11 50; Stock, $11@I2 50; Clover, nominal. OUTSIDE HAY—(From Oregon, Utah, etc.)— Alfalfa, $10G10 50 per ton. STRAW—40@70c per bale. D $26 per ton; $31@81 50; *jobbing, BEANS AND SEEDS. The market is dull and unchanged. BEANS—Bayos, $1 $5@1 9: Small Whites, $2@ 215; Large Whites, $150@170; Pinks, $2 35@ 2 40; Reds, $3; Blackeye, $3 25@3 50; Butters, nominal; Limas, $3 25@3 35; Pea, $1 §@2; Red Kidneys, $2 50 per ctl. SEEDS—Brawn Mustard, $4 50@4 75_per ct] Yellow_Mustard, $4@4 25; Flax, none here: Ca- nary Seed, 24@2%c per b, Alfalfa, 6@6k4: Rape, 24,@3%c; Hemp, 23@3c: Timothy, 5@5%c. DRIED PEAS—Niles, $1 35@1 50; Green, 31 50 @1 7 per ctl. 2 ONIONS AN POTATOES, D VEGETABLES. The market is dull and well supplied all around, but prices show little variation. POTATOES—40@60c for Early Rose and 40@ 0c for River Burbanks; Salinas Burbanks, 85¢ @1 10; Oregon, Tic@sl; Sweet Potatoes, Toc@$l for nearby and $1 2 for Merced. ONIONS—35@50c per ctl for yellow; Pickle Onions, 50@s5c per ctl. VEGETABLES—Mushrooms, 10@25c per Ib; Green Peas, 3c; String Beans, 1%@2%c; Lima Beans, 50@ic per sack: Bay Squash, 35@50c: Green' Peppers, 50@b0c_for Chili and 0@s0c for Bell; Cabbage, i0c; Carrots, 35@i0c per sack: Bay Culumbers, 60@c; Tomatoes, 40@66c; Garlic, 3¢ per Tb; Green Okra, 50@8Sc; Drled Okra, '10c per Tb: Egg Plant, 35@6lc per box; Marrowfat S.uash, $@12 per ton. EVAPORATBD ' VEGETABLES — Potatoes, eliced, raw, 12 per Ib in lots of 25 lbs; sliced, desiccated, 16@lsc; granulated, raw, Onions, 60c; Carrots, old, 13c: new, 18c; Cab- bage, 30c; Sweet Potatoes, 25c, doc; Turnips, 50¢. String Beans, 30c; Tomatoe: POULTRY AND GAME. A car of Fastern sold at $6 for Hens, $6@7 for young Roostérs, $5 for old do, $ 50@5 for Fryers and $4 for Broilers. Local stock was not materlally changed. The greater part of the game came In spofled again and the quotations below repre- sent good stock only. POULTRY—Live Turkeys, 15@l6c for Gob- blers and 15@l6c for Hens: Geese per palr, 31 2@1 50; Goslings, $1 25@1 50: Ducks. $4@5 for old and $4@6 for young:; Hens, $4@5; Roos- ters, young, $5@6; Roosters, old, $4 25@4 Fryers, $4@4 50; Brollers, $3 50@4 for large; $30 3 50 for gnall; Pigeons, $1@1 25 per dozen for old and @ 75@2 for squabs. GAME— Quail, $2@275: Mallard, $5@7: Canvasback, 7 50; Sprig, §2 50G4; Teal, $2 50G3 50; Widgeor 31 50@3 50; Small Duck, $i 25@2; English Snipe, $2 50; Jack Snipe, $125; Gray Geese, $2@2 i0; Hare, '$1; Rabbits, $1 25150 for Cottontalls and §1 for small. BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. The Butter market continues very soft and Qull and close buyers get concessions from the quotations. There is nothing new in Eggs. BUTTER— Creamery—Fancy creameries, onds, 25@6c. 27%@20¢; sec- Dairy—Cholce to fancy, 24@2c; common grades, 22G23c. Pickied Goods—Firkin, 18@20c; pickled rol, 19@2ic; creamery tub, 21@22%c. Eastern Butter—Ladle packed, 16@18%c per 1b; Elgin, 22G22%c. GHEESE—Cholce mild new, 10@1lc; old, 8%@ gigc: Cream Cheddar, 10@llc Young America, 10(4@11%c; Eastern, 12@13c. EGGS—Ranch Eges, 30@35c per dozen; store Fggs, 18@%¢; Eastern, 15@15c for ordinary and 22@23c for fancy. DECIDUOUS AND CITRUS, FRUITS. There is nothing new whatever. The market is amply supplied with all seasonable kinds and prices vary very little from day to day. DECIDUOUS FRUITS— Strawberries, §1 75@4 per chest for large and $1@9 for 2 % g3, 40@7T5¢ box, doubl Cahtaioupes, 5@ioe per crate; Nutmegs, 150 5 o 30c per box; Watermelons, $15@17 per hundred for large and $8@12 for small to medium. Huckleberries. 6@7c per Ib. Quinces. S0aise per bax. Pomegranates, 50@7sc’ per small box. Cranberries, §8 per barret for Eastern and $250@2 75 per box for Coos Bay. Ordinary Grapes, 2@30c per box; crates sell about 10c higher than boxes; Isabellas, 50@75c per crate; Wine Grapes, $14@17 per ton for Zin- fandel and $12@14 for common kinds. Blackberries, $4 per chest. Plums, 35@Te per crate and box. Peaches, #0GTc per box. Raspberries, $5G5 per chest. Apples, 35@60c for common, 75@85c per box for No. 1 and 2)e@$1 for choice. Winter Pears, 3@7e per box. _CITRUS FRUITS — Oranges, $150@2 30 for Valenclas, $1 25@130 for Mediterranean Sweets and $1G125 for Seedlings; Lemons, $1 50@2 50 for common and $3@5 for good to cholce; Mex- ican Limes. $6; California Limes, —; Ba- nanas, §1 25@2 25 per bunch; Pineapples, $3@4 per dozen. DRIED FRUITS, NUTS, RAISINS. ETC. The conditions of the New York market will be found in the first column. The local market continues very dull. DRIED FRUIT—Prunes, 6%4@ic for 40-50's, 5@at4c for 50-60's, 4@4%e for 60-10's, 3% @Ik for 0-80's, 2%@3c 10r 80-90°s, 24@ec for K0-100's and 1%@2 for 100-110's; * Silver Prunes, 5@Tc; Peaches, 6@7c_for good to choice, TH@S%e for fancy and lfl’%‘l;“‘mc for peeled; Apricots, 10@ 12c for Royals and 12@12%c ' for Moorpark; Evaporated Apples, T%@7%c; sun dried, 4@ #sc; Black Figs, sacks, 2@2ic: Plums, 412@ 6 for pitted and 1@1%c for unpitted; Nec- tarines, 6@ic for prime to fancy; Pears, 6@ic for quarters and §@sc for halves. RAISINS—2%e for two-crown, dc for three- crown, 4%¢ for four-crown, 4l6e for Seedless Sultanas, 3%c for Seedless Muscatels and $1 20 for London Layers; dried Grapes, 2c. NUTS—Walnuts, 6c for hardshetl, 7c for soft- shell: Almonds, 5@6e for hardshell, 13c for softshell, 13@l4c for paper-shell; Peanuts, 4@ Gige for Eastern and 4ize for California: Pe- cans, 6%@Sc; Filberts, 9%@l0c; Brazil Nuts, $@sc. per Ib; Cocoanuts, $4 50@5 per hundred. HONEY—Comb, 10@ilc for bright and s@sc for lower grades: water white extracted, 6%@ ;. light amber extracted, 6c; dark, 5@sic per 1. BEESWAX—24@26c per M. PROVISIONS. CURED MEATS—Bacon, 7%c per T for heavy, Sc for light medium, 10c for light, 10ic for extra light and 12@12%c for sugar cured; Eastern sugar-cured Hams, 10c; California Hams, 9@9%c; Mess Beef, $10@10 50 per bbl; extra Mess Beef, §11@1150; Family Beef, $12@ | | 12 50; extra prime Pork, $10; extra clear, §IS@ 18 50 mess, §$15 50@16; Smoked Beef, 11@12c per . LARD—Eastern, tierces, quoted at 5%c per T for compound and 6%@7c for pure: pails, The: California tierces, 4%@sc per I for compound and 6c for pure; half barrels, 6t%c; 10-Tb tins, Tc; 5-Tb tns. e, COTTOLENE — Tierces, 5%@6lc; packages less than 300 Ibs—I-Ib pails, 60 in a case, 9ic: 31 palls, 20 in a case, §%¢; 5-Ib pails, 12 in a case, S%c; 10-Tb pails, 6 in'a case, $%c: 50-1b tins, 1 or 2 in a case, Tic; wooden buckets, 20 Ibs net, Sic; fancy tubs, § Ibs net, T%c; half barrels, about 110 Ibs, T%c per Ib. HIDES, TALLOW, WOOL AND HOPS. The talk of closing down the tanneries in the East by the leather trust on account of the low price of Leather has a depressing effect on the Hide market, which Is weak and dull. Hops are firm at full qutdtions. Wool con- tinues neglected. HIDES AND SKINS—Culls and brands sell about 1c under the quotations. Heavy salted steers, 10c; medium, Sc; light, Sisc: Cow- hides, $%@3%c; Stags, 6e; salted 'Kip, Sc; Calf, §c; dry Hides, sound, Ioc; culls and brands, 12Gi13c; dry Kip and Veal' lic; dry Calf, Iic; Sheepskins, shearlings, 15@2c each; short wool, | 30@40c each; medium, 60@Sc; long wool, %0c@ 3110 each; Horsehides, salt, $2 for large and $1@1 50 for small; Cols, 50¢; Horsehides, dry, $150 for large and 31 for small TALLOW—No. 1 rendered, 3%4@3%c per Id; No. 2, 214@2¥%c; refined, 4%.@4%c; Grease, 2c. WOOL~—1897 clip, Southern Mountain, 7@l0c; | free Northern, 9@ize. Spring clip—Southern | Mountain, 12 months', $@llc; San Joaquin and Southern, 7 months’. $@i0c; Foothill and Northern, free, 12@14c: Foothill and Northern, | defective, 10@12c; Middle County, 13@léc; Hum- boldt and Mendocino, 11@léc; Nevada, 10@ldc: | Eastern Oregon, 10@12c; Valley Oregon, 15@17c. | HOPS—1898 crop, 11@l4c per M. GENERAL MERCHANDISE. BAGS—Calcutta Grain Bags for nominal, at 4%@5c: Wool Bags, Quentin Bags, $ 85; Fruit Bags, 6%c for the three grades of white brown. COAL—Wellington, $8 per ton; New Welling- ton, $8; Southfield Welilngton, $750; Seattle, $6; Bryant, $:; Coos Bay, $5; Wallsend, $7 5 Scotch, $8; Cumberland, $10 in bulk and $i1 in sacks; Pennsylvania Anthracite Egg, $14: Cannel, $10 per ton; Rock Springs and Castle Gate, §7 60; Coke, $12 per ton in bulk and $14 in_sacks. Harrison’s clrcular says: “‘During the week there have been three arrivals of coal from Washington with 10,300 tons, two from Austra- lia, 4054 tons; one from British Columbia, 4218 | tons; one from Oregon, 400 tons: total, 1,872 tons. Everything in the fuel line is moving along smoothly; no changes to note of any mo- ment; stocks on hand are ample to fill all re- quirements, and prices remain the same. The outgoing transports take barely sufficient fuel | to reach Honolulu, where they coal up for the remainder of the vovage to Manila; the Gov- | ernment _supply is very large at Honolulu, as | the purchases made by the Navy Department for that section were on the basis of a possi- ble continuation of the war for fully twelve months, hence they are overstocked there. The Australian list {s gradually diminishing, which is_evidence of a scarcity of coal carriers in colonial waters, in fact, all the transporta- tion from that section is being dome by our ccast owned vessels seeking to come home. All the foreign vessels there have been diverted to the grain carrying trade to Europe, as the com- ing harvest there indicates a surplus for ship- ment of over 100,000 tons. It is early to predict what our rainfail may prove to be this coming season; the showers we have had to date have fallen most propitiously. Retallers have been already benefited by the late storms, as their sales have been materially increased.” RICE—Storms in the South and the yellow fever quarantine render the market very firm. China mixed, $ 15@420: China No. 1, $ 5@ extra do, _$5 30@5 60; Hawallan, 35 25@ ; Japan, $;80@6 40; Louisiana, $5 50@6 50. SUGAR—The Western' Sugar Refining Com- pany_quotes, terms net cash: Cube Crushed and Fine Crushed, The; Powdered, 8%c; Candy Granulated, 6ic; Dry Granulated, 6c; Confec- tioners’ A, ‘6c; California A, 5%c; Magnolia A, 3%c: Extra C, 5%c: Golden C, 5%c; half-barrels, ‘ec_more than barrels, and boxes isc more. No order taken for less than 75 barrels or its equivalent. SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET. Hogs are quoted firm and In moderate re- ceipt. The other descriptions under this head, are unchanged. 2 Wholesale: rates from slaughterers to dealers S ERr O iret quality, 68k a o 3 ; sec St third quality, 4@sc i VEALLarse, s@éc: small, 6%@Sc per M. next season, 26@2Sc; San 5c, 5%c and and 7@sc for MUTTON — Wethers, 667c; Lwes, oGt per . LAMB—Spring Lamb, Ti@Sc per M. PORK--Live Hogs. 3%@i%c for large, 4 for smeaium Bnd LGS Tor sraall; sesek s 2@dc; dressed HOgS, 5%@hYc. ¢ RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE. For Friday, October 14. Flour, gr sks ... lafllsugnr. sks ...... 4,801 Wheat, ctls ..... 40| Quicksilver, ‘fisk. 100 Barley, ctls ...l 760 Lumber, ft ...... 45,000 Oats, ctls . - 420/ Leather, rolls ... a0 | Butter, ctls ..... % Straw, tons . 15 Cheese, ctls ..... _ 80 Hay, tons .. 424 Beans, sks ...... 2,061 Hops, bales 11 Onlons, sks ..l1 215 Wool, bales 95 Potatoes, sks ... 1,345 Pelts, bdls 110 Bran, sks 1 1640! Wine, gals 67,800 Lime, bbls .10 51 Hides, no 207 Ralsins, b . 1200 Begs, doz 7,350 OREGON. e T e T VR NEVADA. 10 Barley, ctls Corn, ctls . FAMILY RETAIL MARKET. Butter, Cheese and Eggs are selling at last week's prices. The Poultry market is well supplied and prices show no particular change. Game has been in bad condition of late, owing to the recent warm and moist weather. Fruits and Vegetables are about the same as usual, though some of the summer kind are growing dearer, as the season is drawing to a close. Following price list: Coal, per ton— is The Call's regular weekly Cannel .. 12 00/ Castle Gate..§9 60@ — Wellington . —@10 00 Southfield New Welling- | Wellington —@ 9 50 ton . . —@ 700 SRS w|coss Bay Seattle 8 e | |Cheese, Swiss. —@8)| Common_Eggs. @53 Ranch Eggs, Dairy Produce, ete.— Butter, fancy, per square ..... Fruits and Nuts— Almonds, Ib.......10@12{Nutmeg Melons. Apples, ib......... 4@ 6 Oranges, doz. Blackverries, per |Pears, per 1b...... 1@ § drawer . ..25@40| Peaches, per 1b... 4@ 8 Bananas, d0z.....15@2) ([Plums, 1b.......... 4@ & Cantaloupes, eachl)@15 Quinces, b... 5@ 8 Cranberries, per Raspberries, per, quart ....... drawer ..........40@30 Figs, per ib... Raisins, 1b.3...... 5@10 Grapes, per Ib.... 4@ §|Strawberrles, per, Huckleberrles, per drawer 1bez sQ10| wamnuts, 1b.... ,12315 Lemons, 25 atermelons, Limes, doz. each ... ...16@30 Vegetables— Artichokes, doz...40@50|Green Okra, Ib.... 62 8 Beets, doz 1215, Mushrooms, 1b. 35 Beans, white, 1b.. 4@ 5 Onions, ib. L4 5 Colored, Ib...... 4@ 5 Peppers, green.... i@ § Lima, Ib......... 5@ 6|Potatoes, 1b....... 2@ 3 Cabbage, each..... 5@10| Do, Sweet....... $@8 Caullflowers, 5@10| Parsnips, doz.....15@20 Celery, bunch.... 5@— Radishes, dz bchslo@i2 Cress, doz bnehs..20@25/Sage, doz bnchs..2s@33 Cucumbers, doz...15@2)|String Beans, Ib.. 4@ § Egg Plant, per Ib 4@ 6/ Summer Squash, Green Corn, doz..12@%| per Ib... lsa8 Green Peas, Ib....—@ 5 Thyme, Ib. 20@30 Lentils, 1b......... 6@ 3 Turnips, doz......15@20 Lettuce, doz......15@2%! Tomatoes, L@ 4 Fish, per 1b. Barracuda. . $@10|Shrimps . Carp .. 5@ 6| Shad .. Codfish . 3@10!Sea. Bass. Flounders ... 5@ 6 Smelts Herring —@—, Soles . Halibut .. 3@10| Skates, each.... Kingfish . $@10( Tomeod . Mackerel . —@— Clams, gal.......- Do, Horse.. 8@—| Do, hardshell, 100.40@50 Perch ............. 8@10| Crabs, each.......10@15 Pompan> .........50@7 Do, softshell, doz.25@33 Rockfish . —@10 Mussels, qt........10@12 Salmon, sm 207— Oysters, Cal, 100..$0@— | 0@ 12 Salmon, fresh Sturgeon |Do, Eastern, doz.25g40 THE STOCK MARKET Local securities were in average demand at about the usual prices, mercial Hutchinson, which rose which advanced axcept Hawalian Com- to $39, $3050, and to $60. Mining stocks were dull ana featureless. The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company will pay a regular quarterly dividend of 3 per share next week. ‘The California Safe Deposit and Trust Company will pay a regular quarterly divi- dend of $1 50 per share The Bullion-Beck Mining Company to-day. of Utah has declared a_dividend of 10 cents per share amounting to $10,000, payabl will make a total of since the organization, e October 10. This 2,535,000 in_dividends of which $70,000 has been declared this vear. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company of Montana has declared share, payable November 1. a dividend of $125 per The total amount of the dividend is $1,500,000 on 1,200,000 shares of capital stock. was paid in May and w The total of $1,500,000 now being paid by any United States. The last previous dividend as of the same amount. is the largest dividend mining company in the The total dividends paid by the Anaconda to date amount to $8,250,000. STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE. FRIDAY, Oct. 14—2 p. m. BId. Ask. U S Bonds— 4s quar coup 4s quar reg 4s quar new...12713127% 3s_new 105 105% Miscellaneous. Cal-st Cab 5s..115%117 Cal El 6s.....125 € C Wat 55...100% — Dup-st ex c.i = 9% E L & P fs...131% — F & Cl Ry 6s.114% — Geary-st R 5s. — 100 H C & S 4%s. L AL Co 6s.. Do gntd bs.. Market-st 6s n Do 1st M 3s..114 114% Nat Vin 6s 1st — 7% N C 1 CRy Ta.104% — N Ry Cal 6s..113 " 113% N Ry Cal 5s...103%104%% N PCRR 65103 106 N P C R R 55.100%101 N Cal R R 5s. — Oak Gas Bs....108%108% Om Ry 6s.....126 121 P & Cl Ry 65.106% — P& O 6s...112 Powell-st_6s. Reno W_L&L.100 Sac El Ry 58.100 SF & N P 55.109%110 SierraRCal 6s. — S P of Ar 6s..107%108% S P Cal 6s.....110%111% SPC 1s cg 55... — 103 S P Br 6s.....115% S V Water 6s.1173:118 V Water 4s.103%103% Stockton Gas..101% — Gas & Electrio— Cent- Gaglight.108 1011 123 Cent L & P. — Mutual El €o. 9% 10% Oakland Gas... 53% 54% Pac Gas Imp.. — S8 Pac L Co..... 471 48% Morning 65 Glant Powder Con T T 90 do do . 05 2400 ol L 50 Hana Plantation Co. 12) Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar. 00 do do 15 Hutchinson S P 5 Spring Valley Wate: $1000 U S 3s Bonds (coupon).... Street— 110 Alaska Packers’ Association ... 52000 S P Branch Ry Bonds. Afternoon Ses 40 Alaska Packers’ As: 25 Hana Plantation Co, b 5. 565 Hawaiian Commercial & 8 do do 70 do do . o 10 do do 320 Hutchinson S P Co. 50 Market-street Rallway . $1000 Spring Valley 4s Bond: do do 2 1000 210 S F Gas & Electric Co. $3000 S P of A Bonds... Street— 1 Fireman's Fund 100 Oceanic Steamship ..111341121 | San _Fran SFG&E Stockton Gas.. 13 TInsurance— Firem's Fund.208 Water Stocks— Contra Costa.. 47 Marin Co.. — Spring Valley.108%101 Bank Stocks— Anglo-Cal 63 — Bank of Cal...249 251 Cal SD & T... 98 "99% First Nat .....207% — Lon P & L.1% — Mer Exchange — 16 Nev Nat B....161 — Savings Dar.is— Ger S & L..1600 1630 Hum S & L.1050 1160 Mutual Sav. 35 45 S F Say U.. 4% 500 S&LSo.. — % Security S B 200 - Union T_Co.1025 == Street ailroads— California ....108%109% Geary . 5 — Market st ..... 53% 54% Presidio . 85 — Powder— California ....125 145 E Dynamite... 85 95 Giant Con Co. 48% 43 Vigorit ........ 2% 2% Miscellaneous— Al Pac Assn..101% — Ger Ld Wis. 160 Hana P Co.... 17% 17% HC &S Co.. 40 40% Hutch S P Co. 60 — Mer Ex Assn. 0 Nat Vin Co. Oceanic_S_Co. Pacific A F A Pac C Bor Co. 9 1 W Par Paint Co. Sessfon. T .. sociation INVESTMENT BOARD. Morning 60 Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar..... 35 do do $4000 Spring Valley Wa 40 Oceanic Steamship Afternoon Session. 75 Giant Powder Con .. 40 Oakland Gas, Ligh 35 Market-street Railway Co-. 35 Hawalian Commercial MINING Session. w ter Co... 2388 t & Heat Co. 838 824% %2!‘6 # & Sugar.... STOCKS. Following were the sales in the San Fran- cisco Stock Board yesterday: Morning Session. 150 Best & Belcher. 17| 200 Mexican 1 500 ...... 8| 500 Ophir ... 51 100 Challenge . i 52 50 Con Cal & Va... o1 I500%-cgr o = 21 50 Crown Point . 20 500 Gould & Curry. [ 200 Justice . Afternoon Session. 100 Best & Belcher. 181300 Qverman 0 500 Caledona ....... 20/200 Potosl ... bt 200 Challenge 131600 Savage 05 500 Con Cal & Va... 68 200 Sierra Nevada... 78 400 Crown Polnt ... 10/350. 7 200 Exchequer - 011250 3 300 Mexican ........ 14/600 Utah "l 08 00 OPRIE «eveiuniee 481100 Yellow Jacket.. 18 Following were the Board yesterday: Morning 300 Andes .. 09 200 Belcher . [ 300 Best & Beicher.. 18 250 Con Cal & Va... 12 300 7 200 k) 700 ... 1 200 Gou urry.. 17 sales in Pacific Stock Afternoon Session. 1500 Andes .. 300 Belcher 500 Bullion 300 Caledonia ....... 400 Con Cal & Va... 500 Justice . 500 Mexican Session. 200 Hale & Norcross 500 Mextcan S 350 Ophir .. 5 500 Overman I 300 Potosi . 12 300 Sierra Nevada... 76 300 Union Con 21 300 > 2 50 49 48 03 % hed 20 CLOSING QUOTATIONS. FRIDAY, Oct. 14— p. m. Bld. Ask. Alpha ... 0L 03 Alta . 04 05 Andes 08 09 Belcher o7 0 Benton C¢ g — 07 Best & Belcher 17 18 Bullion ... o o2 Caledonta ... 20 21 Chollar ........ 10 11 Challenge Con. 12 14| Confidence ... — 4! Con Cal & Va.. 67 63 Con Imperial .. — 01 Crown Point ... 10 1L Con New York. — (L Eureka Con ... 30 —| Exchequer ..... — 02| Gould & Curry. 15 18 Hale & Norcrs. 9 100 Bid. Ask, Tnlla oo a Justice .....0010 05 08 Kentuck D02 03 Lady Wash ... — 2 Mexican ST 1 Occldental = Ophies 0. oo e Overman 02 03 Potosi ... 12 13 Savage . 0% o Scorpion 0@ 05 Seg Belcher ... 01 03 Sterra Nevada. 75 78 Silver Hill ... — 10 Syndicate . = Standard = Union Con » Utah Yellow October, 1598. Tast Quarier,| October 7, - NOTICE 1‘6 5@ dozen ............35@40 22 tajfli\.;my Comb, perué | Firkin, per ib...—@30| 1215 Charkin, per Ib. — Do, exiracted Cheese, Eastern...150— Mea b.— Baton s Pork, fresh. Beef, o Pork, salt. o Beet. und Stake. S Sirloin Stake. Porternouse, {Smoked Beef {Pork Sausages... Poultry and Game— Hens, each.... @ 65|Hare, each.... 2 Young Roost- Quail, per doz.3 00@3 50 ers, each..... 60@ 75|Mallard, uair.l 00@1 25 Old _Rooste! Sprig, pr pair. 100 each ... 40@ 50[Teal, pr pair.. 7 Fryers, ‘eac 60l Widgeon, pair. S Brollers, each. 40[Small duck.... 3 Turkeys, pr 1b Ducks, each. & T, Rabbits, pair. A branch of the United States the M tfice, located in MARINERS. 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