" "THjpTa Tp5wWgrcj .1;..'-., -y s vy- ! r' -J i"wj"f rr-"''' "" jffSRrj--fir THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTIii i" II ' rf MERCIAL AND flo conditions for tho week ending erday were quite favorable, and busl- , allowed an Improvement over that of reek previous. Tills la somewhat un it the last week In tho month Is rr recorded as being particularly fa ble for trade. There has been a fair movement In produce during week. In spite of the fact that good ather for form work has kept farmers fcosy at home la many localities. Wheat, ,n eplte of the unsatisfactory prices. Is ying more freely, and the shipments March showed & slight gain over for the preceding month. The mar- rough tho week ruled slightly 'better , on the week- previous, but the of freights continues to be the ; drawback to a free movement. The ad for potatoes has fallen away to 'an extent that many of the buyers lout of the market, and those who are ', looking for spuds have their limits In most cases, to tho wrong aids IRG cents. Of course, there Is an occa- lal lot .ot fancy Burbanks which will hS. a few cents over these figures, but -ere are too -many new potatoes coming to hand to admit of the price for old' making very much of on advance. California vegetables are arriving by the carload, and peas, beans,- asparagus, cu cumbers, etc,, are plentiful at steadily de clining prices. There is an oversupply of hotnouso lettuce In the market, and con cessions In prices are made in order to 'clean np stock. Another carload of bananas arrived 'yesterday, and as they were In fine condition found ready sale, although prices are higher than they have been. The butter market la decidedly weak, and creameries will make a further -reduction In the price of butter fat during 'the coming week. Eggs were dull for the greater part of the week, Tiut seem to ha.ve steadied up a little at tho close, on account of a good many going Into cold storage. There Is some sale tor single cases at 11 cents, but In round lots 11 cents Is the outside figure, and If tho 'Eastern market continues to decline there will be some difficulty in making them move even at that figure. Poultry was dull for the greater' part of the week, receipts being entirely too large for the demand, and prices were off over Jl as compared with those of a week ago. Pork opened the week well, but fell away towards the close, and was hard to move yesterday at 6 cents for the best. The hop market Is In an Indifferent condi tion. There an a few sales made all the time, but as m,ost ot them are for Inferior stock the price Is so small as to be un interesting. New York advices state that there are less than 0000 bales unsold In that state outside of New York City, and that there was a firm feeling for fancy goods, with Inferior stock neglected. The wool market is quiet, and mohair has de clined a cent. iTCIEAT March wheat shipments from flour included, amounted to 1,- Chels, and Puget Bound, owing nest month's flour shipments L-d the million mark, mak- R&l, wheat and flour, from Ithwest of 2.C7.M9. These r Portland are but sllght- the shipments for last bat there Is more wheat L generally supposed. There ?e surplus to draw from. ' sred over such a big ter- ' jie aggregate the amount that IS -moving -all the time is large. The month's shipments from Pbrtland, details of which appear elsewhere, were: . . Bushels. Wheat 46,595 Flour (118.500 barrels) reduced to wheat measure 633,00 oiai ....... ......... .. ..... ........ 1, j t9,&u From Puget Sound, the shipments were: ' Bushels. near .. ...... ...... ...... ............. 3qZ.9S2 Flour (15S.91C barrels), reduced to wheat measure 715,121 xotai ...........1,043.101 Grand total for the Northwest 2.457,919 For the season to date, Portland has shipped 7.256,474 bushels of wheat and TKS, 617 barrels of flour, compared with 9,71S,S5i bushels of wheat and S5S.249 barrels tjf flour at a corresponding date lost year. Tho Sound has shipped to date 2.205.503 bushels of wheat and CS5.033 barrels of Sour, compared with 5,8G2r3 bujhels ot wheat and 477,253 barrels of flour for the same period last season. This makes a grand total of 16,115,923 bushels for the first nine months of the current cereal year, compared with 21.5SS.9e5 bushels for the same date last season, and 21.409,974 bushels for the corresponding date In the season of 1S97-9S. The movement this sea son to date hns averaged something less than 2,000,000 bushels per month, which In ordinary years in the past would be considered good business, but of course does not compare favorably with the two record-breaking years which preceded it. There is still enough wheat In the coun try to pull the average up materially In the remaining three months of tho cereal year, Tjut the scarcity of tonnage will In terfere with this being done, even should the. market advance to a price which would be satisfactory to growers. There have been some signs of strength all through the past week, and, while open quotations were seldom above SS cents for either Walla Walla or Valley, .very few sales were made at less than B3V4 cents, and 64 and even 55 cents was reported paid In the Interior. Mr. M. A. Toomey, treasurer of tho Pennsylvania Milling Company, has Just returned from an 11 months' stay in Europe, looking after the Interests of his company. He says that, while the United Kingdom has not over three weeks stocks of foreign wheat. It has gotten Into the' habit of buying from hand to mouth, and does not carry stocks of any size any more. Beside, their native wheats -are not used up, and are selling so low that they are only drawing enough hard wheats from America to mix with them and the Argentine wheats, which are cheaper than ours and make a good blend with our Spring wheats, as English millers now generally make blended flours. He said the prices received for English -wheats by the farmers are hardly equal to what they are paying for American mill feed for their stock, and that the wheat lands of Great Britain are being part changed Into pasturage for livestock, chiefly sheep. The Continent has fair supplies of wheat, and he does not look for any unusual demand for either our wheat or flour for the balance of this crop year. Saturday Bank. Clearings. , ,, Exchanges. Balances. Portland $rz.E) SCS.N1 Tacoma I3.il7 14.S97 Seattle 20C71S 78.3.U Spokane 1S1033 24.533 Bank Clearings. Tho bank clearings for the principal cit ies of the Northwest for the week ending Saturday, March 31, were as follows: . Portland. Seattle, Tacoma. na.7 $ 3S2.477 $ 343.900 $ ttUiS Puay 2S8.SH1 C04.02J 101,165 aesday .... 291.C34 205,652 1C6.794 ursaay 25I.51S -341.493 132.413 rr IZWCG 254.335 125.4K day ZSXCQ 2.6,743 12S.S17 ...1.781,MC Sl.E8Z.ia J 748,012 SSBSSBSSBSSBSSBSSBSSBSSBSSV rlttnwHHHpi FINANCIAL NEWS Tho clearings for corresponding weeks In former years are as follows: Portland. Seattle. Tacoma. (1S99 SU75.912 n.4S2.470 X S77.3W 1K l.tS).&l 1.6Z1.6S6 1.010.314 1S37 933.105 S43.M7 414.6M PORTLAND MARKETS. Grain. Flour, Etc "Wheat-Walls Walla, US Me: Valley. CIS He; Bluextem. KKJGOo per bushel. Flour Beat grades. 12 7033; graham. 12 CO;, luperflne. $3 10 per barrel. Oats White; 36e2?c; gray, S3334c; stained. 3ff30c per bushel. Barley Feed. 114914 B0; brewing. XlTfflT M per too. MlllstuCs Bran. X12313 -per ton: middling $18819; short llSgls; chop. X14. Hay Timothy. S&310; clover. J707 80; Ort goa wild hay, $0&7-per ton. Vegetables, Pratt, Ete. Vegetables Parsnips. Jl: carrots, fl; turnips. 60c: onions, $22H per- cental; cabbage, 90cS$l per rental; potatoes. 40S35o per lack: sweet potatoes. 2U3c; pecs. 4H8Cc: beans, lie; asparagus. 4 Vic; new potatoes, SHo pet pound. Fruit Lemons. 3 S033; oranges. J2S3 per bos for navels, 31 S0S2 for seedlings; tangerines, tl 73: Japanese oranges. 75c831 SO per box; pineapple. 34 600 per doxen: banana. 32 M 63 per bunch; Persian date 7Uff8e per pound; apples, 3101 CO; pear. TScffJl 23 per bx. Dried fruit Apples,' evaporated. 7C8o pel pound; sun-dried, sacks or boxes, 4G3c. peart sun and evaporated, &36c: plums, pllleas. 48 &Kc: prune. Italian. 3H05Hc: stiver, extra choice. C O Oc: -tigs. Smyrna. He: California black. 580c; do white, 10c per pound. Batter, Cggi, Poultry, Etc. Butter Fancy creamery. 45 9 50c; seconds, 40c: dairy, 3033714c: store. 25ff32V4c per roll. Eggs UOllHc per doten for Oregon. Poultry Chickens, mixed. 33 5084 SO; bens, J5S0; tlnck. fJEJ: geese. 0 S038 per doxen; turkeys, lire. lOCllc; dressed. lVAOUc pet pound. Cheese Full cream, twins. 12Ji013o; Tonni America. 14c per pound. Groceries, Xnts, Etc. . Coffee Mocha. 233SSc; Jara. fancy. 20332c; Java. good. 20324c. Java, ordinary, 18020c; Costa Rica, fancy, 18320c: do good. lG318c; dt ordinary, 10312a per pound; Columbia, roast. 312 73 per case; Arbuckli'a. 314 23; Lion, 312 73. Sugar Cube. 35 E2H: crushed, 13 S2: pow dered. 33 62; dry granulated, cane, 3 324: beet, 33 22 Vi: extra C. 4 82: golden C 34 7( net: half barrelo. VSc mora than barreli; mapli sugar. 15316c per pound. Beans Small white. SKc; baron, 4c; Lima, Gt per pound. Salmon . Columbia river. 1-pound tails, $10 1 60; 2 - pound tails, $232 (0; fancy. I-pound Oats. $1 CS31 TS; -pound fancy nats, 83393c; Alaska, 1-pound tails. $1 2031 30; 2-pound talis. $1 8032 23. Grain bags-Calcutta. $787 10 per 100 fot spot. 30 3030 62 for July-August. Nuts Peanuts. 637e per pound for raw, lOi for roasted; cocoanuts, 00c per dozen; walnuts, 10311c per pound: pine nuts, 15c; hickory nuts; 7c; chestnuts, 16c; Bra ill. lie; Clberta. 13c: fancy pecans. 12314c; almonds, 13 O lTVJc pet pound. Coal oil Cares. 214 Per gallon; barrels, 17c; .tanks. 15c Rice Island, etfc; Japan. 8c; New Orleans, 436c; fancy head. 737 60 per sack. Meat nnd Provisions. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers snd ewes. $434 25: dreeaed, 737e per pound; spring lambs. J232 50 each. Hrgs-Onus, choice heavy. $3; light. $4 60, dressed, 580c per pound. Beef-Gross, top steers. $484 60; cows. $3 64 34; dressed -beef. 637Xo per pound. Veal-Large, 637c per pound; small. S39t Provisions Portland pack (Shield brand): llama, nmoked. are quoted at 13o per pound, picnic hams, Cc per pound; breakfast bacon, 13c; bacon. 8c; backs. 0c: dry salt sides, STic: dried beef, 17c per pound; lard. 6-pound palls. 10c; 10 -pound palli. a-jc; 60s. vc: tlerrea. 9J4c per pound. Eastern pack (Ham mond's): Hams, large. 13c; medium. 13ijcr mall. 13Jic; picnic hams. 9e: shoulders, 9c, breakfast baccn. 124c; dry salt sides. S39c bacoa aides, OfflO'ic; backs. 10c: "butt,' 8c; lard, pure leaf, kettle rendered. Cs. 10Kc; 10s, 10c. Hops, 'Wool, Hides, Etc Hops-306c per pound. Wool Valley, 12 13a for coarse, 10318c for beat: Eastern Oregon, 10315c; mohair, 2032Se per pound. . Sheepskins-Shearlings. 13320c: short-wool. 21 035c; medium-wool. 30350c; long-wool. COcStl each. Pelts Bear skins, each, as to slxe, $5313; cub each. $105; badger, each. SOc; wildcat. 25375c; bousecat, 6325c; fox, common gray, 40c3$l; do red, $1 7633 60; do ctosh, $2 803ti; lynx. $2C- 50; mink. 40cUl 75; marten, dark Northern. $5310: do pale. pine. $234; musk rat. 83 12c; skunk. B00c; otter (land), $4 (26; panther, with head and claws perfect, $103; raccoon, 25380c; wolf, mountain, with head perfect, $3 50 3' 3; wolverine, $2 6036; beaver, per skin, large. $637; do medium, pet kin. $433; do small, per skin, $132; do kits, per skin. $133. Tallow 336c; No, 2 and grease. 334o pet pound. Hides Dry hides. No. 1. 10 pounds and up ward. 16315o; dry kip. No. 1. 6 to 18 pounds. 15c per pound; dry calf. No. 1. under S pounds, 15310c; dry salted, cne-thlrd less than dr Hint: aalted hides, sound steers. 00 pounds and over, eH&OC; do 60 to 60 pounds. 888c; d under 60 pounds and cows. 7S6c; kip, 13 to 34 pounds. 7SSc; do veal, 10 to 14 pounds, 7c; do calf, under 10 pounds. 7c: green (unsaltedl lc per pound less; culls (bulls, stags, motb eaten, badly cut, scored hair slipped, weather beaten or grubby), one-third less. HCGAKDI-fG F-EUTILlZEItS. Professor Shovr Believes Thnt Pot ash Is Best for Oregon Soils. COHVALLIS. Or.. March 30.-In this ar ticle tho writer proposes to set forth in some detail reasons for the statement that whenever fertilisers are needed In Western Oregon and Washington they should un doubtedly be strong in potash. This con clusion has not been reached hurriedly but after very careful Investigation of a large number of soils, which characteriio the sections above mentioned. This con clusion has been strengthened by the In vestigation of other Workers and by fruit growers themselves. 1 deem It best, under tho conditions of this discussion, to dwell on the fact that potash Is an essential ele ment In plant productions Just long enough to mention authorities who have demon strated this beyond question to any who are not blindly prejudiced In the premises. It Is, of course. Impossible to go Into de tails of all tho experiments at this time and wo can only cite that about 200 trials WHEAT! A Most Astonishing Record Purchases of wheat made In March In variably show a good profit during Adtii and May. as the following table, compiled from tho official records, will prove: Low in Hlirh Tear. AP.",f ay- Adv. IS if "ii JlOHu 10iUSSSSSSSSS ?! X 12. 1 7i lo$3iitili4i4""H 1 W XSS4stsasos0 123, J12H 140 H3H 94 S3 SS Kr-4 106U 100 - 11C SI SS ill as 1$ 16H fsft 1. 1SS5.. 1RG.. 1SS7.. 1SES.. ms so lSSOss & Uvijls a j XSZssssssss 4$' 1S3 72' l&PTt, ' tt' Xsr5 ol XKv esssss &r' lOaf (SfsSfS l" UPS (Letter) 1 CO 1S39 CS 34 794 13H Take advantage ot an exceptional op portunity to Increase your Income. We have the facilities and solicit your busi ness. CULLISON & CO. Board of Trade and Stock Exchange Brokers. 214-215 Chamber of Commerce. PORTLAND, ... OREGON. with oats, barley ejid colza, subjected to a great variety of artificial mixtures, have been described by such workers as Sato, Hortmor and numerous others. It is not out of place here to state tho function of this essential element as found by the above-named authorities, as well as by Mercadante,, Schroeder and Erdman. the more especially since tho condition of our frults after several years' growth, consld. cred In tho light of this demonstrated function, gives circumstantial evidence of its limited amount In tho soils In question. Tho function of this element, as demon strated by the workers above referred to, may bo summarized as follows: First It is essential for tho assimila tion of carbon and its elaboration Into starch, giving strength to tho cell tissue. Thus the plant suffers greatly in Its woody portion latho absence of, potash In requi site quantities. Second It Is associated with starch In Its translocation from cell to cell and in Its formation into sugar. Hence the slzo and quality of fruit Is materially affected by a deficiency of potash Third It Is required for a proper devel opment of fruit acids, so Important In Im parting on agreeable flavor to fruits. Having thus fet.forth the above func tions which science has demonstrated to be true concerning tho .relation of potash to plant growth. It remains to state the evidence on which rests my belief In the need of potash on the soils of the North west, west of tho Cascades. This evi dence I shall develop under two heads (A) circumstantial evidence: (B) direct ev idence. The former would lead us to con clusions from a priori reasons. Under this head I beg to discuss, first, tho sources of tho mineral constituents of the colls hero found; second, the condition of fruit trees as to general health, as to flavor of fruit, as to the keeping quality of tho fruit. First Soils are formed by the natural disintegration and abrasion of the original rock masses. This being the case, it fol lows that a study of the chemical char acteristics of tho rocks of a specified re gion will at least give some clue as to what may be expected to be present In relatively large or small quantities In tho resulting soils. To Illustrate: In regions in which Umestono rocks are abundant, soils aro markedly calcareous. It may be argued that tho- process of weathering. Including tho solvent action of the water, changes the proportions In which these soil Ingredients are present. This I admit In certain cases, but It cannot In any case go so far as to supply material which is not present in the parent rock, nor to make a soil even fairly supplied with an ele ment which Is present In only limited quantities In the parent rock, and. In fact. In this particular case, the soluble salts bf potash, as developed from the Insoluble minerals, largely fsJdspar, as shown by Merrill, will be to a considerable extent lost, provided tho soils thus formed are subjected to heavy leaching, which will bo tho case throughout the region In ques tion. Bearing these points in mind. then, let us consider the character of the parent rock of these soils. This is mainly basalt, resulting from the great lava overflow, and the lesser subsequent ones, which coveted the whole of Northern California and a great part of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It Is true that basalt Is a complex rock and carries the fertilizing elements of a. variety of rocks; but It is still further truo that the composition of tho constttu. cnt minerals In the basalt influences the chemical characteristics of tho soil. I pass over the varietlM of basalt. Inasmuch as they cut no figure in the discussion, and conflno myself- to tho particular variety present In the locality In question, namely, plagloclaso basalt. This class of basalts consists essentially of the minerals plaglo, clase, englte. magnetite, with apatite and olivine as accessory Ingredients. Of these ccnstltutnts. plajdoclaso Is the one which demands closo attention. Inasmuch as it Is commonly recognized that clay soils ore the result of tho disintegration and de composition of feMspathlc rock, to which class this mineral belongs, and that such soils aro usually rich In potash. This is undoubtedly true, but It does not follow that the decomposition of all feldspars pro duce soils rich In nntnvh fnr cnm ri,i .spars are far from being potash-bearing. no iue mai ciay spits are rich In potash sprang from the wide predominance of such soils resulting from the orthoc:ase feldspars of tho East. It Is a great mis tako to make this conclusion a general one, for the plagioclastlo division of feldspars. Including, as It does, ollgoclase, labrador He. ar.orthlte or andeslte, are all non Dotash bearinf?. hut It la nn. n- .. theso plagioclastlc feldspars soda lime compounds which exist In the basalts of this region. There are, however, as as sociate minerals not essential a limited quantltyof pitash-bcarlngmlncralsprcscnt often In these rocks. Hence, the presence of more or less potash In soils derived from this class of rocks. Tho fact still remains, however, that from a priori rea son of soil origin, we would expect to find tho soils to be quite limited In potash con tent. This condition is still more to be expected from the tendency of' the potash Ingredients toward loss In the process, of roll decomposition. This Is illustrated by tho following annly8C9. which are typical of basaltic rocks. A rock of this charac ter, carrying Si per cent of potash, after decompoFltlon. by weathering, showed but 20 per cent, a loss of 61 per cent of tho total. Other Illustrations might be died, but we shall let this suffice as an Illus tration. (Merrill, "Rocks and Their De composition." page 223). Still further there m'ght be ndded the annual less cf available potash compounds through the medium of very heavy rnlns, common to this section during the Winter months. Theso are. I say, reasons for expecting a soil of lim ited potash content. G. W. SHAW. THE CnAl.V MAnKETS. Prices for Crrenls In European nnd American rorts. SAN FRANCISCO. March 3L Wheat Steady: spot, quiet. Barley, quiet. Oats, firm. Spot quotations were: Wheat-Shipping. No. 1. JKTi4c: choice. 97Hc: milling. SSin 01U. Barley Food. TOQTSXc: brewing. KOnffiHd. Oats Gray. Oregon, $1 01Hn 12H; mill ing. $1 ISffl 17H: red. 93cC$l 15. Call board sales: Wheat-Steady; May, SSXc; cash, 975ic Barley No rales. Corn Large yellow, $1 10S1 12S. Chicago Crnln ami Produce. CHICAGO, March 3L The wheat market concluded a month which has boosted tho price of May wheat up lfiinHc in n very quiet manner. In vain did holders point to tho higher cables from Liverpool, and again without effect to tho reports of damages by rain to the Argentine crop. Those who were selling serenely called at tention to the liberal receipts, the fine weather and the crop prospects, which point to bulging bins at the end of next Summer's harvest. So there was not tho demand today that characterized yester day's session, and there seemed to bo plenty for sale, but It was not a large .speculative market. At tho opening thrre was a short-winded upward spurt on the bullish considerations, but thereafter It was the other way. Export sales -were light, but seaboard clearances in wh-sat and flour were equal to 622,000 bushets. The cash demand was slock. The com market had some strength early, becauce of the higher cables from Liverpool and the usual light country .of ferings. May selling at 29c several times, but this was lost. The weather probably acted along with a desire for profits In causing liquidation. May closed HGHe under yesterday. The oats market yielded with other selling of both July nnd May by a cash """ -uuj- cioseo. ac tower. There was nothing like a repetition ol the activity of tho recent days in the pro. visions pit today. The market was easier, too. Hogs were generally weaker; thcr was profit-taking nnd some selling on stop, loss orders and less of an outside demand than during tho period which 031716(1 May pork for gains of more than $1. Liver pool was lowet for lard. The feature ol the trade was the demand for May ribs. May pork closed 10c under yesterday. May lard Be lower and May ribs THcf lower. The leading futures ranged as follows: WHEAT. Open. High. Low. closed. March , May July September .. 30 66H SOCTH $0 .CSS, 67 6S CORN. March ......... May .... July September .... 2SH 33 . J9H 40 OATS. : i& .! & MESS PORK. May July May July .13 65 ..12 25 12 70 12 39 UK ,1260 1220 1322H 687 637 6 45 0 47& LARD. . 6 43 6 43 . 665 6K May July SHORT RIBS. May 6 65 6 67 6 65 July 6 65 6 S7 6 47 Cath quotations wero as follows: 67H 6 47 ii Flour Firm: Winter patents, 33 60QJ 65; straights. $2 9003 25; clears. $2 7003 05; Spring specials; $3.80: patents; $3 1033 45; straights, $2 6003: bakers'. $292 45. Wheat-No, 3 Spring, 62gC6c: No. 3 Red, C9370C Corn No. 2. 3So. Oats-No. 2. 24H05Hic: No. 2 27S27j;c: No. 3 white, 2.27a white. .Rye No. 2, Kc Barley-No. 2. 4645o. Flaxseed No. 1. $1 65. Timothy seed Prime, $2 8502 40. Mesa pork Per barrel, $11 KQU 60. Lard Per-100 pound?, $5 2&g 37. Short ribs Sides', loose. S 5f6 73: dry salted, shoulders, boxed, $S258950; snort clear sides, boxed, $C 7566 30. Whisky Distillers' finished goods, pet gallon, $1 25. Sugars Cut loaf, $6; granulated, $S 44. Receipts. Shipments. Flour, barrels 23.u 26.000 Wheat, bushels 41.000 10U.COJ Corn, bushels 255.000 216.000 Oats, bushels 2T3.0) 361,0 0 Rye, bushels 16,000 2.C01 Barley, bushels 53.000 13,10) On the produce exchange today, the but ter market was weak. Creamery. 19S22cl dairy, 1622c Cheese, firm, 12813c Eggs, steady; fresh, 10c Xctt York Grnln nnd Produce. NEW YORK, March 3L-Flour-Re-celpts, 24.377 barrels; exports, 15,8CG bar rels; market inactive but steady; Minne sota patent. $3 7003 5; Winter straights. S3 4S3 65. ' Wheat Receipts, CE.C00 bustiels; exports, 63.62) bushels; spot, steady; No. 2 red, so;c, f. o. b. Options, after a momentary advance at the opening, due to stronger cables, yield ed to local unloading and ruled rather weak throughout the forenoon, closing dull and easy at c net decline. March. TSTsQ 79c; May closed 73Tc; July, 73c; Sep 'tember, 74c. Wool-Dull. Hops Quiet, European Grain Mnrkets. LONDON, March 31. Wheat Cargoes on passage, buyers indifferent operators; English country markets qu(et. LIVERPOOL, March 31. Wheat Firm; wheat In Paris, steady; flour In Paris, quiet: French country markets, quiet. Wheat Spot, No. 2 red Western Win ter, stocks exhausted. Futures, steady: May. Es 10d; July, Ss r4d; September; nominal. . . . Corn Spot, firm; American mixed, new, 4s Id; American mixed, old, 4s lUd- Fu tures, atrdpg; May. 4s ld; July, 4s ftd. Tacoma AVhent. TACOMA. March 31. Wheat Nothing doing, and quotations nominally un-, changed. Bluestem, 52c; club, c. SCW YORK STOCKS. Prices nt Which the Principal, Se-. curltlcs Closed. NEW YORK. March . The total Sales of stocks today were 403,400, shares. .The closing quotations wcro as follows: BONDS. U. S. 2s rcf ..104AtchIspn adj. 4s. S4TJ U S. 2s reg ..10&H 'i . is reg ..iwi uen. isiec 63 0ld.H0 do 3s reg 110JN. Y. Cent, lsts.,110 no 3 f.lnn HAL- XTw T)nih. 4. .01 3envEIec 63'old.llo do 3s coup 110b Nor. Paclric 2'.'. 6S uo new s reg.134 do 4s coup.. .'..134 do old 4s reg...lli do 4s coup.. ..116 do 5s reg 114K uu is iut Or. Nav. lsts...iio tin .i l(ULi O. S. L. 6s 12S' do 5s coup 114 -wis. wo. , a. 72 :,R. G. W. lsts... 94 1J13. Cl L.OU 3-basllV v.m et si. v. con. 7s ......... .142 do S. F. deb 5sl21 D. & R. G. lstB.1031. I do C. & P."istsJ19 St. P.. C. & P. 5sl21 union t-actnc Hs.iwft Wis: Cent. lsts.. 91 do 4s S3Vi When Issued. STOCKS. Atchlfon do pfd Bait. & Ohio Can. Pacific . 29HlUnlon Pacific ... 6S 3, S2 Wabush 7. do nfd ?: s; Can. Southern.. 4 Wheel. & L. E. 11H Ches. & Ohio.... 32K C G. W 14?i uu ius pio 3Z4 P.. f C! Jt. a T. C.. B. & Q UliThird Avenue....104 Chi.. Tnd Ar T.. VU-t wmn.-ce rr a ' JChl.. Ind. Ac L.. 25H; express nn s uo pia rob1 Adams 115 American H9 United States.... 4S Wells-Fargo 123 MIS'LAX'OIIS. ChL & N. W...1G4 C R. L & Pac.1131 C. C C. & St. L. C3;! v.010. soutnern Am. Cotton OH.. JCtf do lsts ptd 43; do pfd 94 do 2ds nfd 19 Am. Malting do ptd ....'. Am. S. & R., Del. & Hudson. .117 Del.. L. & W...1S1 ' J , 22 42 . 90 2 D. & It. G zea do pfd 74-i fc.rie .............. it4 do lsts pfd 42 Grt. North. prd.ltS'i Hocking Conl ... ls Hocking Valley. 26 uo prd Am. Spirits.., do Dfd Am. Steel Hoop.. sc , i; uo ma M.V. Am. Steel & W.. utj tiiu yy Am. Tln-Plate..v 25 do nfil -.. Illinois central. .11 Ion a Central.... 19 do pld , K. C. P. & G L. E. & West 57 Am. Tobacco 10C4 "7Z uu uiu im . 23 Anaconda M. Co. 51 . 87 Brook. T T ?9V do pfd Lake Shore ....200 Colo. Fuel & I.. JoS Louis. & Nash.. S6i;Cont. Tobacco... 22k Manhattan L... 9iil do pfd 84 Met. St. Ry lMVilFederal Steel.... 6 Mex. Central.... ISJh do pfd 7ii Minn. & St. L do pfd Mo. Pacific .... 67 uen.. .twee trie. ...129 . 96 50 Ulucose Bugar.... 53 do nfd nu MobUe & Ohio.. 43 Int. -Paper 21 Mo.. K. & Tex.. 12 do pfd 36 N. J. Central. ...US N. Y. Central. ..127 Norfolk & West. 3Ci. uo prd 66 LaClede Gas .... 73 National Biscuit. 36 do pfd S3 National Lead... 24 do pfd .104 National Steel.. 45 do pfd 94 N. Y. Air nrake.130 North American. 15 do pfd 76 North. Pncinc.61 do pfd 77) Ont. & West.... 26 O. R. & N 42 do nfd 76 rnciuc LOasi ... bj do lstn prd 82 do 2ds Dfd K2 Pennsylvania ...133 Reading 19i do lsts pfd 63 Pacific Mall 37 People's Gas ...1CS Pressed Steel Car 52 do pfd $2 Pull. Pal. Car.18l Stand. R. & T 7 Sugar 107 do pfd 10 ' Tenn. Coal & I.. 97 U. S: Leather... 13 I -do pfd 73 U. S. Rubber.... 31 do 2ds nfd.., 33i R. G. W do pfd St. L. & S. F., do lsts pfd..., do 2tls pfd..., St. L.. S. W.. do pfd ........ St, Paul .90 .11! . 72 . 35 12, .124 do pld .it:h St. P. & Omana.108 South. Pacific... 41 do nfd . ;' Southern Ry.... 15lVest. Union. ..... 83 do pfd CDSlRep. I. & S...... 23 Texas & Pacific l. do pfd Wis. Central 20 Money Exchange, Etc. " .SAN FRANCISCO, March 31. Sterling on London. 60 days. $4 83; sterling on London, sight, $4 87: silver bars, .69c; Mexican dollars, 4S043c; drafts, sight, 17e; telegraph, 20c NEW YORK. March 3L Mopey on call. 3 per cent: prime mercantile paper, 40 6 per cent; sterling exchange, steady, with actual business In "bankers' bills at $4 8Cli demand, and at $4 824 52. 60 days: posted rates.. $4 S304 87: commer cial bills, $1 S204 83; sliver certificates, 60S61cr bar silver, 59c: Mexican dol lars, 47c; Government bonds, weak; state bonds. Inactive; railroad bonds, firm. LONDON, March 31. Consols, 101. Stocks In London, LONDON, March 3L Canadian Paclfio. 100: Union Paclfio preferred, 78; North- W7 ""t 67 67 6S3 C814 .... mi s4 , ss I9H 2H 21 ern Paane preffy-d. 79: Atchison, 30: Grand Trunk. 8t' Anaconda, 10. The Metnl Markets. NEW YORK. March 3L Tho firm that fixes the selling price for miners and smelters quotes lead at W 43 at the close; oar suver, bPftc - , SAN FRANCISCO. March 31- Bar sil ver, E9c LONDON, March 31. Bar sllvei, 27d. SAX FIIAXCISCO MARKETS. SAN FRANCISCO March 3L Wool Spring Nevada, lafflSc; Eastern. Oregon, 12916c; Valley Oregon. 2022c. Fall Northern mountain. 1012c: mountain. 8 10c; plains. 8010c; Humboldt and Mendo cino, 14815c Hops 1KB crop. 11013c for choice. Mlllstuffs Middlings, $17020: bran, $12 50013 50 per ton. HayWheat, $609 50; wheat and oat. $609; best barley. $57; alfalfa. $506 50; stock, $505 50; compressed wheat. $7010 per ton; straw. 25040c per bale. Potatoes Early Rose. CO07Oc; River Bur banks. 40075c; Oregon Burbanks. 65c$l per cental: sweet potatoes. $2 4002 60 per cental . Vegetables-eilvetskln onions; $2 2503 75 per cental: garlic. 203c; green peas. 101ie; string beans. 60Sc; dried okra, 2c per pound; asparagus, 65c0$l 50 per box; egg plant. 8010c per pound. Apples $1 25 for choice; common, 50c Citrus fruits Oranges, 'navels, $1250 2 50; Mexican limes, $3 5006; common California lemons, II J do choice. $1 2601 0 per box. Bananas $1 2503 23 per bunch. Butter-'Fancy creamery. 18c; do sec onds. 16017c: fancy dairy. 16016c; do seconds, 14015c per pound. "Cheese California, new. 7G5c:. Young America, S09c; Eastern. 16017c per pound. ' Eggs-Store. 12013c; fancy ranch,. 143 '15c per dozen. Poultry Turkey gobblers. 9010c; tur key hens. 12013c per pound; old roosters. $3 5004 per dozen; young roosters, $60 6 60: small broilers. $2 5003 50: large do, $404 50; fryers. 4306; hens. $305 60 per dozen; geese. $202 23 per pair. Receipts Flour, quarter sacks, 7510; Oregon. 7031; oats, centals. 220; beans, sacks, 1S4S; wool, bales, 2CJ; wheat, cen tals, 82,931; barley, centals, 3OS0; Oregon, 290: corn, centals, 1000; potatoes, sacks, 140S; Oregon. 4224; bran, sacks. 650; hay, 25S; hides. 4(1. EASTEIIM LIVESTOCK. CHICAGO. March 3L Cattle Receipts. 200. Nominally steady. Natives, good to prime steers, $4 90S5 73; poor to medium. "1104 65; selected feeders, $404-75; mixed stockers. $3 4003 90; cows. $304 25; heifers, $3 2004 75; canners. $202 75; bulls, $2 60 04 25; calves. $4 5005 75. Texans Re ceipts this week, 3500; last week. 4000. Texas-fed steers, $3 9006; Texas bulls. $3 2003 60. Hogs Receipts today. 14,000; Monday. SO.OOO, estimated; left over. 2500. Mixed and butchers. $3 1505 45; good to choice heavy, $3 3005 43; rough heavy. $3 150 5 25; light. $3 1005 37; bulk of soles. $5 3005 37. Sheep Receipts, 2000. Sheep and Iambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $3 850 6 25; fair to choice mixed. $2 5002 93; Western sheep, $3 7306 25; yutrllngs, $60 6 75: native Iambs, $5 6007 35; Western lambs, $607 35. Receipts this week Cattle, 49.000; hogs, 137.003: sheep. 53.300. Receipts last week Cattle, 43,000; hogs, 141.000; sheep, 57.000. OMAHA. March 3L Cattle Receipts. 300. Market steady. Native beef steers, $105 3): cows and heifers. $3 3004 30; can ners, $202 25; stockers and feeders. $3 70 64 90; calves, $3 5007; bulls and stags, $2 7503"7O. Hogs Receipts, 7600. Market 2c lower. Heavy. $3 1003 20: mixed. 53 1005 12; light.. $405 12: bulk of sales. $5 1003 12. Sheep -Market firm. Fair to choice na tives. $3 9006 25; fair to choico Westerns. $3 7506; common and choice sheep, $4 23 05 25 lambs, $607. KANSAS CITY, March 3L-Cattle Re ceipts. 100. Market unchanged. Texas steers. $205 13; native steers. $405 40; na tive cows and heifers, $2JJ3 15; stockers and feeders, $3 2305 33: bulls. $2 7504. Hogs Receipts. 5000. Market steady. Bulk of sales. $3 1075 15; heavy, $3 O70 5 25; packers. $3 0503 25; mixed. $4 970 5 15; lights. $4 9005 10; porkers, $3 0505 10; pigs, $4 2505 05. Sheep Receipts, 500. Market strong. Lambs, $507; muttons, $105 70. Coffee and Suicnr. NEW" YORK. r March 3L Coffee-Options closed barely steady, unchanged to 5 points lower. Sales, 13.500 bags. Includ ing: May. $6 45; July, $6 60; August. $6 CO; September. $6 65. Sugar Raw firm. Fair refining. 3 31-32c; centrifugal. 96 test. 4 15-32C Refined dull. Granulated. $5 15: cut loaf. $5 65. EIGHT MONTH'S TRADE. Details Show Sisrprislnjc Commercial Developments. WASHINGTON. March 27. The details of our foreign commerce for the eight mont'jo ending with February are as re markable and as gratifying ns these re lating to the grand total for that month, which, as announced some days ago, sur passed tho record of any preceding Febru ary. The details of the export and Import figures for tho eight months ending with February show surprising developments in our commerce, and especially that which relates to manufactures. An Increased Importation of raw materials for the use of our manufacturers and an Increased exportation of manufactured articles arc the striking features of the February statement of Imports and exports. The Importation of "articles In a crude condi tion which enter ,into the various processes of domestic Industry" ntnounted In tho eight months ending with February. 1300. to $195,237,754. against $134,781,199 In the cor responding months ot the preceding fiscal year, an Increase of $53,000,000; while ex portation of manufactures In tho same time were $2CS.5J7,972. against $206,822,237 In the corresponding months of last year, an Increase of $61,000,000. Thus the Importa tion of manufacturers' materials increased during the eight months In question $60, 000,000 and the exportation of manufac tured goods Increased $61,000,000 In the same time. In the 2S daya of February, the Importation of manufacturers' mate-' rials amounted to $25,926,601, or nearly $1,000,000 a day, and the exportation of manufactured goods amounted to $34,226, 123, or. In round terms, $1,250,000 for every day In the month. In the eight months ending with February, the exportation of manufactures averaged $1,100,000 per day (Including Sundays and holidays), while In the corresponding months of the preceding year the average dally exportation 'of manufactures was only $S51,70): In tho cor responding months of 1895-37, it was hut $700,000. and In tho samo months of 1S35-M. but $333,000. - Thus the cxportatlons of manufactures during the eight months ending with Feb ruary, 1S0O, arc double thoso of tho corresponding months ending with Feb ruary, 1S9S. while the Importations of man ufacturers' material In the eight monthi ending with February, 1900. are 23 per cent In exeem of those of tho correspond ing eight months ending with February. 1S96, nnd nearly double those of the eight months ending with February. 1S37. Manu facturers' materials, which In the e'ght months ending with February, 18D3. formed 2S per cent of the total Import", formed 25 per cent In the eight months erdlng with February, 1900, while manufactures which In thp eight months ending with February. 1896. formed 21 per cent of the total exports, formed 29.7 per cent In the eight months ending with February. 190). The following table shows the Importa tion of manufacturers' materials and the exportation of manufactured goods In the eight months ending with February for each year from 1EJ0 to lTOO. and the per cent which they formed of th total Im enrts and exnozls. respectively; The Q. Downing, Hopkins & Co. Chicago Board of Trade New York Stock Exchange Brokers Continuous market quotations 'at principal centers of trade received over our own wires. Branch offices at Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane. Walla Walla, Colfax. Wash., Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. Room 4t Ground Floor, Chamber of Commerce. Both Telephones. LIVE STOCK CAPE NOME The Iron Steamship "Willamette," 3000 Tons WILL SAIL FROM SEATTLE FOR Cape Nome, Jyne T The Willamette Is especially adapted for carrylas livestock, her spacious decks afford amplo room for feeding, watering and attention Being a stanch vessel, low rates of marine Insurance aro assured. Sails direct to Cape Nome without stop. Amplo and safe lighters for landing have been provided. For rates and space appjy at onco to Telephone 229. N. CAPE NOME S. S. GEO. W. ELDER, S. S. NOME CITY' S. S. DESPATCH The above first-class steamers will sail every 10 days during the season for Cape Nome, York and St Michael and Yukon river points. First Sailing, May 15, FOa IXATE5 AXD IXFOIULVTiaS APrtT Tt CALIFORNIA & OREGON COAST S. S. CO. F. P. BAUMGARTNER, 2S3 Washlnaton SI. W. A. Mitchell A Co.. General Agent. San Francisco. li Pacific Coast caB20 F Cape Nome Gold Fields' THE NEW PAbATIAX. STEEI. STEAMSHIP sIssKkHiI Senator" will soil from San Francisco. May 14. Scattls.May 19. Subsequent trip lll be from Seattle direct namely: June 21. July 21 end August 20. Th "Senator" hss s oapacltr of 2JO0 tona. Her second cabin and atesrefw aeconnnofia.tloB srs superior to the nist-clssrs acccmmoOaUoas of most, of tfts steamers advertised for Nome. Tfte Paclfio Coast Steamship Co. baa been running Its steamers to Alaska winter and sum merfor Tears, and Is trie pioneer Pacific Coast line. Seattle fwlebt snd passenger rates ap ptr from Portland. For further Information Inquire of OOODALU PERKINS & CO., General Acesta. 10 Market. Ban Francisco, cr X. P03TOM. Affent. S40 Washington t. Portland. pr., urea designated "manufacturers' mate rials" Include only those articles classed by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics ni? "articles In a crude condition which entet Into tho various processes of domestic In dustry." Imports of manufactured materials for the eight months ending with February In the years given: Per ct. of Tear. Value, total. 1KS0 J119.a4.1S2 23.G 1S31 1,SC6.S4S 21.0 AoiW. l&It 4 !., sl ) ISM o7,032.K 2t.7 1&5 119.517.371 25.6 1S9G 154.S0l.f59 S.1 liWl lltk4Za)tlG VOa 1S98 133.E54.21I 34.0 XAvtf... ...................... . ..7..' A.l.J .Mil lS00...a. ... ... ....... 1.5.337. i.r4 w.2 Exports of manufactured articles, for the eight months ending: with February In tho years given: Per ct. of Tear. Value. total. 1SS0 99.722.137 1C. "! lv-aft4aK-.r.PF -Xl 3 1SS2 lttl.(Zfi.-,03 14.S 1S9J 99.290.1C4 17.1 1334 123.2SS.2T.7 19.7 1S93 11S.R2S.KG 51.2 19S 14US7.S3S 21.4 aSJj i X t"ilI..cB .I1. 3833 K0.CW.VIZ 22.C 1S99 206.822.331 25.0 1900 2GS.DI7.972 29.7 Pacific Const Commercial Murnm. SAN FRANCISCO. March 21. Dr. 'Will iam P. Wilson, director of the Philadel phia Commercial Museum, and 'William Harper, chief of the Bureau of Informa tion of the same institution, have reached here from tho Hast for the purpose of lending" their advlC6 and co-opcratlon to the promoters of the Pacific Commercial Museum. Dr. "Wilson and Mr. Harper nre enthusiastic over the prospect of fee ing a -commercial museum started on the Pacific Coast, and make the unqualified prediction that, with good management. It will accomplish a world of good for tho commerce of the country, and divert ( mucn 01 tnc iraac 01 Australia ana ma Orient to the Pacific Coast. Get Two Months' Cxtra Pay, NEW TOIUC. 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