The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1900, Page 8

American - Sugar...118 Am Sugar prefd.. 14 Boston & Atbany..240 ston Elsvated... 99 Atchison 4s ........ 98 Mining Shares— $louez Min’ 10755 Aiantic. 12475 Boston & Mont. 123 | Butte' & Boston... 12315 Calumet & Hecla.. 185 (Centennial. 551 Franklin 4% |Osceola. SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS. - er lower. Financial quotations unchanged. IWheat futures higher and Barley held more firmly. ier cereals dull and unchanged. Beans no higher, but firmly held. Straw lower. Bran unchanged. Fitchburg prefd. General Eleetri Gen Eiec prefd. Federal Steel, Fed Steel prefd. Mexican Central. Mich Tefephone. Old -Dominion Lzedefeg S ] g Santa Fe Copper. . 7%/ Tamarack . 3735 Winong .. Hay dull and weak. Lumber trade in good comdition. o Union Pacific Union Land New York Il[onégv Market. NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Call loans easy, 2G2% per cent; last loan, 2% per eent. cantile paper,4@5 per ceént. steady, with actual business n bankers' at 4§74 ST% for demand and at $i SAK@ Posted rates, $4 85 and $4 83124 sS4l gsufia tatoes weak. Onions and Vegetables steady. utter shows signs of declining. Cheese and Eggs quiet and unchanged. ‘m[lr.\- and Game steady. wges sold better at auction. Fruits stagnant and unchanged. Provisions quict at previous prices. Hides weak, but not quotably lower. Meat market stands the same. Local securities quiet. Sterling exchange 4 841 for sixty days: $4 $5@4 5814, ' Commercial bills, 60c. Mexican dollars, 47ic. Bonds—Government, irregular; ‘State, firm: railroad, firm. Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: 3292,456,767; gold reserve, cash balance, London Markets. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. vertiser's. London financlal cablegram. says: The extreme {dleness which has characterized the markets during the evidence to-day. terday's rumors, Amerjcans were dull and {dle until midday, when they became strong on German buying and closed at_the best under the influence. of purchases by New York and: Berlin, mainly of ‘Atchison preferred. The Bank of England lost £60,000 in gold to the Argentine Republie. with the turn of the month and the release of | Mexican funds. was observed fn the bond operations, where the absorption was Charters. very heavy of market was l&:nmllcnu aggregating & advanced % and | Commerctal Ad- brond and activ » 380, weel was _again Prices began firm ‘on yes- but sagged in the absence 2s declined 3 in the bid YORK STOCK LIST. Baltimore & Ohlo Canada Southern . Chesapeake & Ohlo ... lcago Great Western s on & Quincy Chie Ind & Loulsville F 4 & Touieviile prefd. Meney was easier has enjored a bet- lumber trade than Ive months since 3 the middie part of, 4 more frequent than 2._Union Pacific. 77%: Can- orthern Pacific Grand Trunk. 7%; Bar silver, steady. 27%d per ounce. -——— Bank Clearings. — . YORK, Feb. 2.—The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clear- ings at the principal cities for the week ended with the percentage of increase and deerease, as compared with the correspond- ing week last year. adtan Paclfic, 88%; 2 Atchisan, 20% & Northwestern icago Rock Island & Pacific > C C & St Louls Colorado Southern 1st pi “olorado Southern 2d prefd Delaware & Hudson . Del Lack & Western Denver & Rio G Denver & Rlo Erie isi pretd . Great Northern pref Hocking Coal ... gle and shake depart- s good advantage, wer than by rights soon resume | indications are February 2, salala and West- perated by Flan- These mills will enter year and will mot in- “entral pretd rie & Western Lake Eric & Western prefd. ked-down boxes have 1900 will witness a Northern Pacific prefd Ontario & Western Oregon Rallway & exports from this Weather Report. —Paetfic Time.) o Grand> West . o_Grande Western p St Louis & San Franc! Bt Louis & S F 1st prefd t Paul prefd Salt Laks City. St Paul & Omaha, e: Southern Pacific Southern Railwa; Southern Railwa exas & Pacific . Union Pacific .. ion Pacific pre! Los Angeles . Wabash prefd Wheeling & Lake Erie . Wheeling & Lake Erfe 24 Wisconsin Central ress Companies— Tnited_States Miscellaneous— Cotton Ofl..... Cotton Ofl prefd. Malting pref Smelting & RIng. Smelting & Rfng Knoxville, Ten! wind velocities are miles per bour, ‘Steel & Wire. 26 milés, from th e Steel & Wire pre Rackford, 111 Springfield, 0. Fargo, N.'D. Sioux Falls, 8. D. Tin Plate prefd. Tobacco prefd. onda Mining Co. klyn Rapid Transit. orado Fuel & Iron. Continental Tobacco . Continental Tobacco prefd Federal Steel ... Federal Steel prefd. General Electric . Glucose Sumar . Glucose Eugar prefd. International Paper . International Paper prefd. Laclede Gas ... probably showers in udy Saturday. nity—Cloudy Saturday: fresh south- NDER G. MeADIE, Forecast Official. | Yourgstown, 0. Biscuit prefd EASTERN MARKETS. ational Lead prefd. Totals outside o New York Alr Brake. rth American . New York Stock Market. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—To-day's stock specu- | adequate proof that increased being manifested by supposition was based- o | ocks which | traversing a wide area. | operators perceiving that support | Louses could be relied on in t in the standard stocks | in this direction, caus- | secondary posi- | This change of front was | also 1o the fact th . ad sustained a sub- se showed evidences of good realiz. of the encouraging general rence of the local market ions was the primary cause Pacific Coast ist Pacific Coast 24 prefd Pecple’s Gas Pressed Steel Car p Pullman Palace Car. Standard Rope & Twine. upward move) M 7 1 e LS Bradstreet's Financial Review. United Etates Leather. DUnited States Leather prefd TUnited States Rubber... United States Rubber prefd Western Union . . Republic Iron & Steel. Republic Iron & Steel prefd. P C C & St Loafs. ion in the market Gue in & measure ustrials which NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Bradstreet's Financlal Review to-morrow will say: Monetary conditions have for the;time be- | ing assumed a condition of settled ease, which to some extent induces Investment buying of bonds and prime dividend paying raflroad and facility with can’ be carrled be under way by sub- to-day’s strength de- one group of railroad stock ther until the list showed gains In connection with the encrmous buying of the Baltimore and { stocks & statement that the management | bonds of the b of that of & subsi improvements accounted for their As the tendency of prices be- houses took ad- 1 to unload. but their of- ferings of 10.000 stares presented no effectusl £ the miadis grade SSuatont of the middle e Were covered and Wiocke of 1000 16 3080 Shars figured - plentifully -throughout the list. et was diffused into & great variety of stocks times some of the usually neglected ones vied With the recognized Jeaders in point Early operations indicated that powerful interesis were engaged in the Metal $tocks, ‘as_prives of the minor securities fol- 1 with a_jump of 6 points in Tennessee This stock suffered acutely from realization as the day progressed and ended With a gain of but roperties were b pmed from the best figures. Third Avenue continued to be of a sensational nature, an_early rise to 101 bel reak to 87 on Ilquldnllon’h the measures projected to finance the company’s indebtedness. - A rally to 99% pathy with the pronounced rise of ‘the general market in the late dealings Other utilities Jacked feature aside from the . did not fully rise. Western raliroad gave the frst indication of strength, in these waned some. the other groups became prominent verthédess held the extreme rise. riced industrials American and Sugar achieved a command- ing lead occasionally. but ended with narrow Predictions as to the character of to-morfow’s bank statement were uniform, advance statistics in cash from the receipts {rom the inter- -(mlnlt‘hflr.h 175, the stock market's strength CLOSING BONDS. 25 N Y Central 1sts..109% N J Cent gen os..123% North Carolina 65,127 North Carolina 4s.10§ Nor Pacific 3s.-.... Nor Pacific 4s...... N Y C & Bt L4s. 10714 or & W cons 4s.. 54 which speculative holdings has also led to-renewed activity by bull pools | and manipulative operators.and even attract- ed a certain amount of fresh public purchas- The tact that London itselt seems (o have discounted all the bad news from the seat of war in South Africa renders such intelligence as the abandonment of the forward movement of General Buller in Natal 3f litije effect in a bearish sense and the Amer- fcan stock market ‘also appears to have come the foreign financlal political comniications are to play a de- cided part In shaping the action of speculation on_this side of the ocean. -More attention has consequently been given to the favorable side of affairs at home. The continued excellent ex- hibition of earnings made by various rallroads is not neglected, but so far .as effects on the market are concerned they ylel ©d to the current developments concerning i Qustrial organizations. The most important development of the week for the market was the announcement on Tues- day that the American Steel and Wire. pany had declared 7 per cent on its stock out of the earnings of 1899, Elven out at the same time showing . concern had earned about 18 per cent on thal The buying of steel sunning fror 8 new 4s reg.... 7 S new 48 coup. S old 4a reg. § old 4s coup had wold $5,600 ing in Wall street. came pronounced ' o Vantage of the | U 8 5 coup. Atchison gen 4s. Atchigon adjust Or S L cons s, the conclusion that Reading gen 4s...0 R G Western 1sts.. 9§ StL & I M cons 58.111% 121% St L & S F gen 65,120 931 8t Paul consols. |Southern Ry Zs 69% Standard R & T 65 50 Tenn new set 3s.. 94 Texas & Pac 1sts_ 112 |Texas & Pac 2as... 54 {Union Pacific 4s. Prices of kindred T sustained, but atl Fluctuations in ng followed by . 113% West Shore és. Y interests dis- portion. of fits cagital 1 wire stocks seemed to stimulate renewed pur- | chasing in othy ks of the same ghasing in other stocks o same group and Gecurred in sy finally extended to to the raflroad share list as well. ment was helped .by the existence of a large | professional short Interest, which covered ex- | tensively on Tuesday and Wednesday. | the buying from this q | there was a jull in the day the pools and bullish manibulators had | little Qifficulty in starth Iin various speclalties, interest of the street and the the incidents of the week was the fallare on ‘Wednesday of a members its seem: on the short side of tl 28k 20, IO, Sordients of apparently’ ess D Sugar. The matter much unfavorable which, howev a - substantial wnd aithongh r was exhausted 1vity, but by Thurs- “thus. - malntal: EREEEEEL H net changes. _house whose “heavily commil industrials and general to escape by large show that the and sub-treasury Previcus week A:&anu or mo_relations to the general market It failed influence. prices to an extent beyond creat-. ing ‘some’ tem| ough sharp fluctuations g oy hporary though ‘sharp. fluct The further decline 1n .’ was ‘expectéd by conditions. pecullar to that company in connection with- the ntundlns of its large floating debt, and:the passing of Feb- s in_meln Yands en the Brokivn wefe: comm| g ctive reorgani- 2o G R & O ear 16 at- Tect the speculative community. Bradstreet's on Trade. NEW. YORK, Feb. 2.—Bradstreet’s to-mor- row. will say: Weather influences have played no small part:in.the general trade sltuation this week and yet some of the unquestionable improvements in tone can- hardly be charged to- the jmore seasonable wenther e'xgerlenced. Whatever the causes, however,-and these have been -divers, the fact remains that ‘a number of staples, no less than speculative securities. have hardened-in value during the week. One industry, that of anthracite coal, prices in which have begun to droap because of the open winter, has been perceptibly braced. The in- fluence of colder weather, t00, is- perceptible in the wheat imarket. . Much of the winter- Sown crop Is uaprotected by -#now and .other influences of strength in the market have been the reports as to foreign crops, the Argentine plague and consequent strength of European advices, Among products not affected « by _current Jeather conditions, however, might be men- tioned the. South's great staple, cotton, which, owing largely to. the better foreign buying and the reported abandonment of ~extremely large crop estimates, has reached the highest point for a number of years. There is little comfort to the hope for lower prices in the reports from the iron trade this week. It {s true that some concessions have been made from the highest points reached on @ number of products, but the concessions in PIg iron are ‘claimed’to have been few ‘and mostly on the product of furnaces recently put in biast, whose output had not been contracted for. - Inquiry at-the leading iron markets of the country fails to indicats any widespread ‘Weakening and the concessions are claimed to have been really in the nature of readjust- ments. The steel situation is not overclear and some business Is reported possible at conces- glons of §1 to $2 per ton, where the product has not been contracted shead. Some export business in rails to Norway is reported this week, while from Birmingham comes- reports Of ‘some good eales of pig iron with further export business checked by advancing freight rates. The production of leading Southernin- terests is reported sold up to July. Iron trade authorities are slow fo predict beyond that date, but the strength of forelgn markets i3 regarded as a_guarantee against any possible perpendicular drop in domestic quotations. In distributive trade - the - reports for. the month of January vary with the branches of trade concerned. Retafled distribution was undoubtedly ~unfavorably aftected by mild weather and -stocks of retailers in some sec- tions of the country are reported large. O spring account, however, the January business appears to have been in a high degree satis- factory, shipments from leading . centers be- ing much heavier than in January a year ago, whatever complaints were recelved of back- ward new business being attributed to earlier buving have anticipated the regular season. Woolen goods are. holding the advances re- cently asked and raw wool is firm, though sales are smaller than for some weeks past, owing, it 18 claimed, to domestic stocks of desirable wool being small. London auction sales wit- messed good prices obtained for good 1o considerable quantities were carried over um disposed of. Hides are no weaker. The strength of sugar and coffee among groceries {8 no’less pronounced than of late, raw and refined grades of the former having again been marked up and small crop reports being made the basis for further strength in coffee: Wheat, including flour, shipments for the weele aggregate 2,124,907 13, against 3,581, 167 bushels last week, 6,085,415 bushels in the corresponding week of 1899; 3| 035 bushels in 7898; 5,165,746 bushels in 1 bushels in 1596, Business failures for States are only 171, as compared With 252 last week, 207 in the week a vear age; 205 fa 189%; 206 _in 1897, and 308 in 1806 For the week Ca.adian failures number only 31, as compared with 39 I Veek a year ago; 42 In Is: in 1596, Dun's Review of Trade. D L — EW YORK; Feb. 2.-R. Dun & Co. Weekly Review of Trade will say to-morre This year starts with much of the year's busi- ness already done and all comparisons will prove misleading if that fact is not taken into account. Last year the certainty of great im- provement - became manifest before the year ©opened and there was a rush to orders before works become prices advanced. ~ This _year works are already —crowded for months ahead in most lines and - prices had already advanced 80 far - ‘that recofl had ready commenced in some branches and thought probabl: in others. “With the one ex- ception of woolen manufacture the chief in- dustries have met with more new business in January than last year, though deliveries on previous contracts have been larger than a year ago. The work turned out the past month probably surpasses all others and rightly con- sidered ‘the fact that new contracts for works already well supplied are smaller than last vear is mot of itself discouraging. The great burst of speculation last year swelled Janu- ary payments through clearing-houses far be- yond those of this year at New York and such payments at other (5i0) cities also averaged per business day a_shade larger than this year. But a much greater decrease must have appeared In transactions connected with for- mation of new companies. Wheat rose 1 cent, but soon reactsd. Atlantic exports of only 1,466,502 bushels, flour in. cluded, for the week, against 4,942,436 busheis iast year, had more influence 'than the de- crease 1n Eastern receipts, which. has. been for the week 43 per cent and for five weeks 4 per cent less than last year, while the de- crease n Atlantic. exports for five weeks has been 57 per cent. Pacific exports have been 4,209.300 bushels in five weeks, against 3,670,852 biishels Jast year. The-price of corn is fafrly steady, with exports for the week much smaller than 'last year, Wt in five weeks 16,119,529 bushels, against 16,365,514 last vear. Specula- tion- fn cotton has raised the price to Sisc without improvement in demand. The recelpts from plantations. sti}l fall so far behind last year's that low estimates of yleld are ex- pected. Wool is rather weaker In some grades, but stronger in others, 8o the average is steady notwithstanding sales- at concessions. The mills have taken extraordinary orders for the heavyweight season - without afterward -look- ing for wool, and obvionsly have on hand large stocks, so tha' the market depends upon the sufficlency of the supplies they hold. Prices of goods are still rising & little, but are rela- tively lower than the material. Boot and shoe manufacturers have passed all records in deliveries, nearly 20 per cent be-ond those of January last year, but new orders have been greatly restricted, Recent sales of hemlock_ sole and of rough hides at Chicago continue their .decline. The fron and steel industry is so tied up by contracts reaching through much of the year that the effect of production exceeding con- sumption is felt only fn some branches. A little lower prices have been made for foundry fron in considerable transactions. though Bes- semer does not yleld, ~but . stesl billets are offered. by some at $33 per ton. Differences between producers and some of the largest con- sumers of steel Llock the market. In plates and bars. concessions are still made to secure business. In sheets the: demand is stronger and in rails, structural forms, tin:plates and nafls prices are held firmly. Failures for the week have been 232 in: fhe United States, against 224:last year, and 34 in Canada. against 2 last year. the New York Grain and Produce. -— s NEW YORK, Feb. 2—FLOUR-Receipts, 15,794 barrels;. exports, 16,437 burrels; sales, 6300 packages. Neglected - and ‘unchanged, closing steadier with wheat. WHEAT—Receipts, 39,200 bushels: exports, 44,777 bushels. Sales, 1,930,000 bushels future 240,000 bushels exports. Spot firmer. = No. 2 red, %e elevator:-No. 2 red, %c L. o, b afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, T%c £ o. b, afloat prompt; No. 1 hard Duluth, §1%c f. 0. b. afloat prompt.. Options opened steady and shortly ‘Improved on cable news, developing later ‘Into positive strength and 'considerable actlvity.. Demand was stimulated by renewed bullish crop news from France and. complaints as well from our own belt; closed strong at %@%c_net higher. March, 75%@76%c, closed c:. May, T4 1-16§74 15-16c, . closed T4%c; July, TR@T4%e, closed T4%ec. 5 HOPS—Steady. HIDES—Firms. LEATHER—Steady. WOOL—Steady. % _COFFEE—The market closed . firm, with gflcu 10 points highér to' 5 points lower. otal _saies, 28750 bags, including: - March, §7 05@7 10; April, 37 20; May, $720; July, 37 30 @1 %; August. 4135, " Septémber, 37 407 45; mber, $7 557 60, Spot coifee—Rio, stcady. | No. 7 invoice, No. 7 jobbing, §%c. Mild— Steadier; Cordova, S%@1%e. SUGAR—Raw, strons. fined, firm; but quiet. g R 'BUTTER—Receints, - 2882 pacl firm. June creamery, i ne 2e; factory, 16@19%e. . 2 EGGE—Recelpts, 9021 packages; firm. West- off; Western ungraded at ‘mark, DRIED FRUIT. Desirable grades of evaporated apples were Tatt Lo Taln UL TRIIE, REctilE e vic e coun to buyers. " California dried fraits danl Dot mo¢ quotably lower. - NS TR STATE EVAPORATED. APPLES—Common, m: prime, §}@0%e; choice, TR@T%c; fancy, CALIFORNIA DRIED PRUNES—3%@lc. APRICOTS Roval, 1@17e: Moorpar 15c, ; Western creamery, stock copper $16 2. Dut.| | 19@22¢. and 2,907,334 | the week In the United ' t week; 36 In this | : 58 in 1897, and 60 | | others | nigher in | active: calves highest on record; feeders about crowaed ™ and | | with Chicago, but spot quotations were un. demand. hars gl New York Metal Market. - |" larity. existed in the tin department all da, er etals and et. Fre Fhnton news Was larsely responsibie. for the action of tin here, causing a sharp rise in the price and leading to increased demand from local and Western buyers.. At the close the Metal :Exchange called: Ly PIG_IRON-—Warrants dull. E "LAKE COPPER—Unchanged at $16 25. - ttled, $27 75, nominal: i "sx:ginmn—c)um. with $70 bid and 38 ask The brokers' price for lead is $4 45 and for < . : Chicago _Grai'n Market. —_— CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—May wheat opened- a shade under vesterday at 61%@6i%o. Cables were barely steady—Parls 10 centimes lower and Argentine shipments. indicated that' the plague was not curtailing the export business to a great extent. The market soon turned firm as Parls at the close showed some re- covery und. apprehension was felt far the do- mestic crop. Upon the arrival of private cables announcing a serlous prospect for the French crop the advance, which had been rather. ir- regular, recelved a new impetus which carried May to 8S%ec. The close was 5@%c higher at 6815@68%c for May. The Jast hour of the ses- slon trade, previously rather quiet, was active. | Small _country offerings and -a good. cash business were. s:imi" in the strong corn mar- et. May clot ¢ up.. B o e o oo (rmpathy. Srith othier grains and on small country offerings.. “May closed %@Yc over vesterday at.23%c. The provision market was strong. Small re- ceipts of hogs and the fact that stocks in- creasad -much less than. last year caused a d demand. May pork closed 20c over: yes- Serdays May lard higher and May Tibs 10@12%¢ “up. 2 The leading futures ranged as follows: ‘Wheat No, 2— 6% - 093 0% .- 30% 3y . 824 B 8y u% W% bt - S < 4 2% - WL WY 1510 95 10 7735 (10 % 10 90 10°97%. 10871 1097% e 610 59 60T 7 60T, 61714 607% 615 100 pounas— 582 59 - 58NE. bong 59 597% 690 595 “Cash quotations were as follows: Flour, | steady. No. 3 spring wheat, .65c; No. 2 red, 8@ | .- No.'2 corn. 31%e. No. 2 oats, 2@23%c; N | 2 White, S%@26%4¢; No. 3 white, 245G, 2 | rye, Gdle. "No. 2 barley, 38@i2. No. 1 flax- | seed. $150. Prime timothy seed, §265. Mess POTK, per bbl, $9 60G10 S5, Lard, ‘per 100 1 585416, Short ribs sides (loose), $. 7@6. Dry. | saitea shoulders (boxed), 5%@se. ~Short clear | sides” (boxed), 35 96 05. -~ Whisky, = distillers’ | finished goods, per gal, §1 23 Receipts. Shipments. Articles— Flour, barrels . Wheat, bushels 10,000 Corn, bushels 248000 Oats, bushels 237,000 Rye, bushels 14.000 | Barley, bushel 17,000 | "On the Produce Fxchange to-day the butter | the feeling is steady. Game, too, stands about market was steady; creamery, 19@2ic; dalry Cheese, steady, 12g1%. Esgs, stead fresh, 16@16%c. Foreign Futures. LIVERPOOL. Wheat— Mar. May. July. | Opening 5 10% 5 10% 5:10% | Closing . . 510% 6 107 510% ! PARIS. | Wheat— Feb. May-Aug. Opening 21 00 Closing 216 | Flour— | Opening 72 Closing . 2760 Chicago Lit'istfcfe Market. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.--CATTLE—LIight receipts | in native steers: native steers about steady, slow; Texans firm, receipts. Ll bulls ; butcher. stock and canners strong and steady; good to cholce, § 15@6 25; poor to medium, $4@5: mixed stockers, $3 %5@3 85; selected’ feeders, 34 254 §5; good _to chotos cows, §3 4064 #0; heifers, 33 30@5 05; canvers, $2 2532 %: bulls, $2 70@4 602 calves, -35 30GS 75; Ted Texas beeves, $4@5 20. HOGS—-Weak to 5c lower; top fancy, fair clearance; mixed and butchers, $4 5G4 9 good to_cholce’ heavy, $4 10G5; rough heavy, $4 & 475; light, $4 60@4 T0%; bulk of sales, 34 80¢ * GfiEP_Sheep ana lambs strong to 10c higher; " native wethers, ‘ 34 75@5 40; lambs, 34 T5G5 35; West- & Toq 2. Western wethérs, ern lambs, $a7 10. - m}gecelyh—-f_‘nule, 2500; - hogs, 21,000; -sheep, Sal: of Sheepskins in London. LONDON, Feb. 2.—A sale of sheepskins was held in Mincing Lane to-day, the offerings amounting to 86,312, all of which were sold. The attendance was good. Coarse-wooled skins were In strong demand. Long-wooled skins were 1%d, lambs 4d and short. parcels %@%d lower. Portland’s Business. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 2.—Clearings, $268,051; balances, $§27,989. Northern Wheat Market. OREGON. PORTLAND, Feb, 2.—There is' some milling demand for milling wheat and as high as 2@ B3¢ is pald for Walla Walla and an occasional small sale of valley is made at 52, but this {s about a cent above the prices quoted by ex- porters. Bluestem is easy at 53@54c. Forelgn wheat shipments from Portland for the week ending to-day were 299,116 bushels, WASHINGTON. TACOMA, Feb, 2.—WHEAT—Club, 5ic; blue- stem, bdc. Foreign Markets. LONDON, Feb. 2.—Consols, 100%4@100%; sil- ver. 21%d; French rentes. 100f 60c. Wheat car- goes off coast, nothing doing; cargoes on pas- ;lxa. rather easler: English country markets. rm. - LIVERPOOL, Feb. 2.—Wheat easy; wheat {n Paris, steady: flour in Paris, steady: French country markets, firm; weather —in England “eold. COTTON—Uplands, 4%d. CLOSING. 0 LIVERPOOL, Feb. 2. —WHEAT-Futures closed_steady: March, §s 10%d; May. 58 10%d; July, 58 10%d. Spot—No. 2 red Western winter, fteads. & 11%ad; No. 1 Northern apring, steady, Colihx—uswt American mixed frm, new, 33 74; old, Thd. tures—Quiet; February, March, 3s 6%d; May, 3 6%d. -— LOCAL MARKETS. : Exchange and Bullion. Sterling Exchange, sixty days. Sterling Exchange, sight .... Sterling Cables .. New York Exchange, sight. New York Exchange. telegraphic Eine Sliver, per oun Mexican Loliars ... Wheat and Other Grains. WHEAT—Futures were higher in sympathy o 3 B238 P changed.: £a% £ Paris was higher, while Liverpool showed lttle change. Chicago was firm with an up- ward ‘ tendency, owing to renewed reports of crop damage in France and. unfavorable weather, There was more buying ‘than_ sell- ing, and the seaboard reported a good export e - Argentine shipments ‘were . 800,000 ushel SRR Exports from this port in January were 631,- 150 ctls, valued at ml, , making ‘tdtal ex- ports for the first seven months of thé crop Year of 2,506,997 ctls, valued at $2,665,995. ogm Wheat—Shipping, 97%4@%%c; milling, §1 :CALL BOARD SALES. - - Informal Session~-9:15.0'clock—No sles. Second’ Sesston—May—2000 ctl: 1 i s y—2000_ctls, $10I%: 18,000, Regular - Marning _ Session—Decéniber--4000- ctls, $1 06%; 6000, u%'ll 10,000, " $1 02%. Afternoon Session—2000 -~ ct)s, . $1 02; 4000, $102%: 2000, $1 023. December—2000, $1 04%. a4 “s(afinum The market was more firmly hefd, Toed, 75@TTte for No. 1'and 656725 for off - grad Brew and Shippl rades, S0QNTigc; Che: mnn:l‘nu"‘ e . Thforma) Session—9:15 a'clock—No. ealea. B o Aot 1o s .&m&ulw—x‘(&yflq AR cordition, Dty very. oum‘_?‘r‘:a- ‘remaln yn- | nwmn%.”fi-mrmfigw : per ctl and Eastern Yzllow at §1@1 05; e BUCKWHEAT-Nominal, s . Flour and Millstuffs. The China steamer took out 15,812 bbls Flour. FLOUR—Callfornia family extras, $3 60@3 15 usual terms: bakers’ extras. $3 40@8 50: Orexon and. Washington, 2 75@3 per barrel. MILLSTUFFS—Prices in sacks are as follows, usual discount to the trade: Graham Flour, £ 25 per 100 Ibs; Rye Flour, §2 7; Rye Meal, $2 50: Rice Flour, $7: Corn Meal, $2 50: Oat Groats, 34 50: Hominy. 33 35@350; Buckwheat Flour, $4@4 25; Cracked ~Wheat $3 75; Farina, $4 50; Whole Wheat. Flour, $330: Rolled Oats (barrels), $6@7 25; in sacks, $5 /5@7;: Pearl Bar- ley, $5; Spiit Peas, $5; Green Peas, %5 50 per 100 Ibs. Hay and Feedstuffs. Previous prices rule, with a duil market. The only exception 18 a decline i Straw. Hay 1s_very weak. BRAN—§14@15 per ton. MIDDLINGS—$17@20 per ton. FEEDSTUFFS — Rolled Barley, $14@17 per Oftcake Meal at the mill, $26@27: jobbing. 327 G0@2s: Cocoanut Cake, §20G21: Corn Meal. §23@123 §0; Cracked Corn, $28 50G24; Mixed Feed, $15 50; Cottonseed Meal, $25 per ton. H. $6 50@8 50 for common to good and-§9 for cholce; Wheat and Oat, 36 30GS 50; Oat, $6GS; - Barley, $5@T; Alfalta, $@750 per “ETRAW—25@40c per bale. Beans and Seeds. The advance in Beans has apparently halted for the moment, but there {s no weakness vis- ible. . Seeds rematn dull and nominal BEmF&mhfl 2;8;:: xl;ntnP‘WhK..afl 20 3 3; large e, nks, 32 50Q s 75; Blackeye, $4 50: ho‘i.;,.,“&"'gfi.. O o e e Y B Butters, neys, 504, - SEEDS—Brown Mustard, 3G8%c: Yellow Mus- tard, 4@4%c; Flax, $1 @2 20; Canhary, 34c per Ib-for California and 4c for Eastern; Alfaifa, 7@Sc: Rape, 2%@3c; Hemp, 4@4%c: Timothy, DHIED PEAS=Niles, §1 0091 90; Green, §1 75 @2 5 per ctl. Potatoes, Onionflmd Vegetables. Potatoes continue weak. The Oregon steamer falling due on Monday is expected to bring 9600 sks. Onions are steady. String Beans sold higher, having been scarce for eome days. There is no Marrowfat Squash of any consequerce in the market. POTATOES—Early Rose, %c@$1; River Reds, 60@75c; - Burbanks, 50@75c per sack; Oregon Burbanks, §0c@3110; Sweet Potatoes, §175 for New Potatoes, 2@3c. N S—$1 40@1 75 per ctl for-all kinds. VEGETABLES—Green Peas, 2%@sc per Ib; String Beans. 10G12%c; Cabbage, 40@50c: Los Angeles Tomatoes, $131 50; Egs Plant from Los Angeles, 10@g12%c; Dried Okra, 12%sc per .Ib; Garlic, t@7c; Green Peppers from Los Angeles, 4@Se for Chile and — for Bell: Dried Peppers, S@l0c; Carrots, 30@40c per sack; Los Angeles Summer Squash, $1 per box; Marrowfat Squash, nominal. Poultry and Game. The seven cars of Eastern Poultry which ar- | rived this week have been so evenly distributed that the market has not been disturbed, and the same, though large birds are weak. POULTRY—Live Turkeys, 12g13c for Gob- blers and 13Gi3c for Hens: Dressed Turkeya 12@glic; Geese, per palr, §1 5@2; Goslings, 31 75 @2: Ducks, $4@5 for old and $1@5 for young: Hens, $3 50@5; Young Roosters, $4@5 Ol Roosters, §4@4 60; Fryers, $4 Brollers, § @4 %0 for large and $3@3 50 for emall: Pigeons, 1 gl 5 per dozen for old d 32 50@3 for squabs. GAME— 160; - sAMBCQun, 820: Mallard, HOU, Canves Widgeon, 31 50@t ck, §1 %5@150; Doves, @150: Rabbits, 31 2%5@i 7 White. 31 50% Brant, ‘i 3434 50; - Bnglish Snipe, $2 50 per dozen; Jack Snipe, $1 50. Butter, C;gex_e and Eggs. Butter shows signs of giving way. Dealers ask previous prices, but are prepared todcome down liberally to sell, and the purchaser is not | allowed-to leave the store without the Butter. Stili, stocks are accumulating, nevertheless. Cheese and Eggs are no lower, but both are weak. There are plenty of Eggs here. BUTTER— Creamery—Fancy = Creamery, N%@2c; sec- onds, 25@27c. Dairy—Fancy, 25@%ic; §0od to choice, 2%@ %c; common, 156! CHEESE—Choice mild new, llc: old, 10%c: Young America, 11@lc; -Eastern, 15%@lic: Western. 134 @15e per Ib. ‘EGGS—Quoted at 16@17c for store and 1S@19c Jir Josen. for ranch. Easters—Cold storug, Deciduous and Citrus Fruits. At _the Orange auction 676 boxes of Navels sold as tollows: Fancy large, §2 40; cholce, $150 | 185; standards, $1G140. Lemons brought 3@ | DECIDUOUS FRUITS— Apples—3;@65c per box for common, Te@$! for xood and $125@1 7§ for choice. BERRIES—Cape. Cod Cranberries, #G7T FRUITS—Navel Oranges, 31 50@2 25 per box; Seedlings, 50c@$l 25: Japanese Man- darins, $1G1 2%5; Pomelos. $1@2 50: Lemons, $i9 150 for common and §2g2 5 for Kood to choice; Mexican Limes, $5@5 i0: California Limes, 2@ 3c; Bananas, $1 75@3 Der bunch; Pineapples. $3 50@4 Der dozen. Dried Fruits, Nuts and Raisins. Trade is Stagnant, at the old quotations. DRIED FRUITS—Prunes, in sacks, 44c for 40-50°s, 4@<%c for 50-60's, 3tke for 60-T0's, 3uc for 70-80's, 3c for $0-30's and 2%c for W-100's; Apricots, 11@13c for Royals. 12%@16e for Moor- orks and 120Uc for Blenneims; Peaches. 543G for Standards, 64@6%c for choice and 7@Sc for fancy; Peeled Peaches, 10g12%c: Evapo- rated Apples, 6G7c: Nectarines, $@c: Pears, 31@4i4c for dark and i@Se for bright” haives; Black Figs, 2G2%c; White Figs, @c; Bleached Plums, $@dc; Un- Bleached Plams. i@74e for pitted and 1%e for ed. AISINS—Bleached Thompson’s—Fancy, per T g Ryt bleached Thompson's, per b, Sultanas— Fancy, per Ib, $c; cholce, Tl%c; standard, 6lc: rime, bc; unbleached Suitanas, Sc; Seedless. &-1b boxes, ie; 2-crown, loose Muscatels, e 8-crown, Gic: 4-crown, 7c: London Layers, 2-crown, 3150 per box: 3-crown, $1 80. Fancy Clusters, $2; Dehesa, $2 50 Imperial, 8. All s are f. o. b. at prices are £ at common shipping points NUTS—Chestnuts, $@%c; Walnuts, $@% for Almonds. standmds and $@i0c for softshell; 11%@i2c for paper-shell, 3@10c for soft and 4g Mutton | Spring Lamb.. | Hens, ecach Younx R 0ld Roosters, ea. 6% | Fryers, each... Bro each. ... " per pair Turkeys, per 1b...15@2) Widgeon, pair Ducks, each ......60 Small Duck. p Geese, each.. §1 35@1 30 Wild Gees: Cranberries, qt.. Artichokes, & Beets, dozen Beans, white, Ib. Egs Plant. Green Peas, ib. Lentils, per Ib- Lettuce, ver doz.15G— Tomatoes, ver Ib. SG12 Onions, per Ib..: Sun-dried. 5@5%c per Ib: | riounders Halfbut Herring Kingfish | Mackerel . Do, Horse! 3 Perch —@— Do softsheil. —@—| Mussels, quart Fompa: Rockfish . Salmon, fresh. G for hardshell: Peanuts, %@6%e f S o Dok it Tatat N A pstern berts,"12G125c; Pecans, 11g1sc; Cocoatuts, # 50 @s. HONEY—Comb, 11%4@12 for bright and 10%@ e for lisht amber: water white extractad c: light amber extracted, TX@T%c; %@ e liehe R dark, BEESWAX—24@26c per 1b. Provisions. CURED MEATS—Bacon, $%c per Ib for heavy, 10c for light medium, llc for lght, 120 for extra light and 13%c for sugar-cured; East- ern sugar-cured Hams, 13@13%c: California Hams, nominal; Mess Beef, $12 per bbl; extra Mess, $13; Famiiy, $14; extra Prime Pork, $14 50; extral clear, $17: "Mess, §16; smoked Beset, 116 per Ib, LARD—Tierces quoted at 6%@70 per Ib for compound and S¢ for pure: half-barrel ey 0.0 tine, 8%e: 5-1b tins, S5, B COTTO! b LENE—Tierces, = o Wi TR@S%c per 1b; 10-1b —aall Hides, Tallow, Wool and Hops. Dealérs are quoting a weak Hide market, though there Is no positive decline. The other dflcfll}tflm N‘: :l\cfi"lllltd. HIDES A KINS—Culls and brands about : lc - under "quotatios Heavy nl::!l steers, 11%@12c; medium, Hc; light, 10%e: Cow- hides, 10%@11c; Stags, 7c; Saited Kip, 1ic; Calf, 1lc; Dry Hides, sound, 1S@2e: culls and brands, : Dry Kip and Veal, 17@1sc; Dry Calf, 14 ; Sheepskins. yearlings, 10G30c each; short 1 VVNL 35G0c each: medium. 70@90c; long' Wool, | 90c@$1 20 each; Horse Hide: 0@3 arge and §1.3502 tor smali; Colts, &uc. o —No. 1 rendered, n ; % 4fic; rennca, $5c: wreise, Bigh Fall clip, San Joaquin ern; $G10c; Middie County, and Mendocino, 17@20c Valley Oregon, is@2oc. free, 11@l4c; Northern $@10c; South- 1@13c; Humhnl.gl Nortbern ll'oulzg:ln.' Mountain, defective, 106G 1ic_per 1b. HOPS—I@1lc per Ib. - San Francisco Meat Market. BEEF—6%@7c per Ib for.fatr to. chotee. VEAL—8@10c per b, ' Jeariings, sai0c per 1o, : q8%e. district in Fresno ¢ af 1899 were 319 carloads, an average of ity carloads per month. ary, 190, the shipments were 131 carloads. second mortgage 4 per cent bonds of Valley Water Compan has deciared a quarterly d per_share payable on the iith. of % cents per Lor Small. SausXc f | mmwaen AUCTION SALES SPECIAL SALE 40 HEAD BROKE HORSES. AT 2 1515 MISSION ST., BET. UTH AND ITH. TUESDAY, Feb. 6, at 1I O'CLOCK. By order of W. G. PALMER we will sell without reserve or limit, 40 horses. Must be sold regardless of price. berland, $12 In bulk and §I3 50 In sacks; Penn- sylvania Anthracite Egg, $13: Cannel, i1 ; ton: Coke, §15 per ton in bulk and $17 in sa Harrison's Circulaf say: During the we there have been thres arrivals of Coal fr Oregon, 1545 tons: three trom British Colum 5738 tons; two from Washington, 2961 tons. tot 10,244 tons. This is less than three days’ ¢ sumption. thus creating a _greater gap in o.: already depleted stock. If we should have s peager shipments weekly for the next Weels matters would become somewhat a3 our reserve is about all consumed. have so few sources to draw from. and tr portation is practically unprocurable for moment. Ofl fuel has come to our rescue opporturely; jn its absence Coal would t be fetching fancy figures. - Some of our consumers_have been forced to adopt c s a fuel, and find its use remunerative ¢ as present Coal values are sustained. Th ent colllery_ prices demanded in Great for their products will not. permit any ments here. The asking prices to-day for AUF Coal at Cardiff is the same as it was id here. for last year, vi 5 per tom, t ¢ there at that time being about $25 per rop The fuel question is becoming a mast tous one to-day in England, and will ma diminish dividends on all steamship lines and industriale throughout Great Britain. RICE—China mixed, $4 15@4 20; Ch! $4 254 70; extra do, $4 90@5 10; Hawal 5 25: Japan, $4 75@5; Loutsiana, $5@7. SUGAR—The Western Sugar Refining y quotes, terms net cash, in 100-1b ubes. A Crushed and Fine Crushed, 5%c. Pou dered,’ Candy Granulated. §%c: Dry ulated, Confectfoners’ A, 5%c: Magnolia A, 4%c: Extra C. 4%c: Golden C. 4l4c: barrel 1-16c more; half-barrels, %c more: boxes, 'y more; 50-Ib bags, %c more. No orders taken for less than 15 barrels or its equiv Dominos, haif-barrels, 5c; boxes. fi - LUMBER~The Invincfble took for Melbourna 248.305. feet redwood, 459,000 feet pine. 4 00 feet Tuce and 81,000 feet yellow pine dooreioe PAPER~—Shipment of 974 rolls to Me| ¢ Receipts of Produce. FOR FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2 Flour, qr sks. s.m[omon.. aks Wheat. cti 3,990/ Lime, bbls._. Barley, ct 3,795 Sugar, bois._ .. Oats, ctl 90| Leather, rolls Corn, Easf Butter, cth Cheese, ctl Tallow, 835 OREGON. WASHINGTON. Oats, otls. - L e— Family Retail Market. e R Butter is dearer and Eggzs ars cheaper this waek. Cheese remains the same. Meats, Poultry and Game stand about the same, and prices for t seill high, with no prospect for immediate reductions in the near future. There 18 nothing new in s and Vege- -39 0g— —gem Wellington. New Welling. B tofl coeveeee —@10 0 C Dairy Produce, etc.— Butter, fancy per £quare ... Do, per roll... Do, good Corned Beet Ham, Cal. Do, Fastern Lard | 4@ Porterhouse, ¢ %75 Smoked Peot —@15 Pork Sausages 25 Veal ... b Poultry and Game— .03 Quall, doz Mallard, pas 65073 Canvasback, each . Pigeons, Dair......40@%0| English Rabbits, pair. 0% Hare, each —a Doves, per $1@° Fruits and Nuts— Almonds, Ib.......15@20! Lemons, dozen....10@20 Apples ... 4@ & Limes. per dozen..1 Bananas, dozen...10@15 Ralsin —@10) Walnut WG Oranges, aoz Vegetables— c@$1 25| Okra, dry, per Ib.— 12@15| Peppers, green, 1b 5@ 5@/ Potatoes, per Ib.. 39 5 eet Potatoes.... 3@ 4 Parsnips, per doz.15%— ib. Colored. Lima, Ib. @35 Summer Squash, @20 per Ih. : sao 5@19(Thyme, per Ib....20@30 6@ S| Turnips, per doz..10@13 29 3 ers, Cal. 100...40@5) Do Eastern, dz25g#© Do, smoked — & THE STOCK MARKET. _— & There was fair trading on the morning ses- sion of the Bond Exchange, with weakness in the sugar stocks, though there was no pro- nounced decline. ‘There was nothing new on the afterncon call. The ofl stocks continued quiet The Alaska Packers' Associatfon will pay its_seventy-fourth dividend of 7> cents on the 12th. Sales on the Bond Exchange in January were $500,850 in_ bonds, against $714,040 in January, 1599, and 37,151 shares of stock. Against 61,522 The shipments of earth ofl from the Coalinga unty for the calendar year In the first balf of Janu- Quarterly interest on the new United States 4s and 3s was pald on the Ist at the rate of $1:and 7 cents respectively. id on the The quarterly coupon of $1. was the Spring on the ist. Fire Alarm Con Auxiliary mpany dividend of § cents The Pactfic The Hana Susar Plantation Company has passed its quarterly dividend. The Honokaa Sugar Company pald a dividend the 1st. D EXCHANGE. FRIDAY, Feb. #-2 o, m. STOCK AND Bid. Ask. Bid Ask. U S Bonds— #» - |Equit G L Co. 3% 4 48 quar coup.. — - Mutual El Co.. 13% 14 s quar reg.... — 14% O G "o B = 4 quar new...13%14% Pac Gas Imp.. 8% — 3s_quar coup.. — ~— | Pae Light Co.. 4% 4% Miscellaneous— SF G & E.... 0% 0% Cal-st Cab 5s..17 - — . San Francisco. 4§ % 10713 ‘Stockton Gas.. 12 — B2 ! Insurance— {Firem's Fund.20 | Bank Stocks— fAnglo-Cal Lid. 653 — Bank of Cal.. Cal S L & T 9 10 Fivst Natnl... %0 35 Lon P & A, 138135 S 103 | Merchants” ¥x — 10 L 308 -~ |Nev Nat Bk... — = Siar b T NC 105 NR L118% — EReoamim— N 2 Unton T, 06 109 i Oak - Qak = eas = - O C Ry 6ol — 1zvis O 8 P & CLRy 85,14 1041 Presidto . W= Pk & ORyfs. — — ' Powder Stocks— ::ow;}} R #5119% —. California -