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Newspaper

Pittsburgh Dispatch

Location

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jul 24, 1891

Page

7

Big Pig Iron Cuts Signal Stronger Demand From Ocean Contracts

The Iron Age notes mixed iron and steel market signals with cuts on Southern pig iron and steady Northern brands. Intra-market chatter hints at a weakening sellers trend, while demand for ship plates and structural steel grows from western and eastern mills, with prices firming in spots and shipments down from earlier projections.

New Yeas The Iron Age Southern Pie Gray Forge Spiegeleisen Ferro Romers Lestem Lance Western Works Board of Control Tidewater Pittsburg Holyoke Shell Ae Enceiin Carly

Foreign pig iron markets steady with little price change

London sees narrow movement in pig iron warrants with steady prices as stocks remain flat. New York reports 592 000 tons Feeteh and 100 tons Cleveland held. warrants quoted around 47s 1d for Secteh and 40.1 for Cleveland. Copper and tin show declines while forwarders adjust prices amid slow demand and uncertain near term outlook.

London Cleveland Chile Wi Gi Traervcnn Rat Stitt

Demand for Coke Market Steady Amid Strong Shipments

July 26 dispatch reports a healthy coke market with large shipments and active demand. Some companies show price gains while others see steady or falling orders and plan to close several ovens. Outlook for midsummer remains bright with supply adequate and transportation constrained. weekly shipments averaged 107 cars with breakdowns to Pass West of Purlung Pitts and river tipples and totals around 6450 cars.

Purlung Pittsnd

A Flurry in Oats The Tailied Cereal for Once Leads the Market

The Chicago wheat market showed dull, varied movement with a late turn upward as short-covering and a stronger corn sector emerged. Reports from Paris and private cables noted higher prices while benefiting from rain and poor early demand. September and December contracts fluctuated, with notable drops and rebounds as longs reduced positions and selling pressure eased.

Chicago Shorts Trence Paris Mage South Dakota Sige Lowdett

New York Cotton and Cloth Market Report

New York July 22 report shows staple cottons in moderate demand with shirt makers buying more. Clothing woolens show activity and prompt delivery of foods by Western buyers signals favorable conditions. Market remains unchanged with firm prices.

Coffee options steady in New York market

Coffee options opened steady with most contracts unchanged and 26 750 bags traded including July. Rio spot prices firm and quiet with cargoes showing limited activity while futures for September and October held near prior quotes.

New York Iksbc Spot Rio Carious Ngo Batrmnons Rio Cargoes New Oxiays

Metal Market shows mixed Pig Iron and Ore Prices

In New York on July 23 dull and firm pricing appeared for several metals. Pig iron held at 8 16 1s 30 with slight inactivity while steel ore and other domestic metals showed firm price levels, reflecting steady demand and market conditions.

Wool Markets in St. Louis See No Price Improvement

Wool receipts reach 15 400 pounds and shipments total 218 500 as farmers push for price gains. Market reports indicate no improvement in prices despite activity.

St. Louis

Rich Highland Park Homes Portray Fast Growth in Pittsburgh

A reporter surveys Highland Park and adjacent avenues highlighting opulent residences of Clark Magee Warrings and others, new stone houses under construction, improving roads and water works at Aspinwall, and a booming real estate market with rising lot sales and ambitious development plans across the district.

Wood Street Highland Park Duquesne Ellsworth and Craig Avenues Park Forbes, Craig, Ellsworth North Highland Avenues America Pittsburg Forbes Avenue Soho Charles J. Clark Hon. C. L. Magee the Wearings Vankirks Craig Avenue Mr. Farrell Lloyd Samuel Wilson Lewis Ellsworth Avenue T. A. Rex Mr. Hays Guthries Bidwells Laughlins Allerton Schoonmaker McClintock Renshaw Robert Pitcairn Max Moorhead W. J. Friday M. J. Becker Esq North Highland Avenue J. C. Buffum O' Ty Brainard Wainwright Charles Lockhart Senator Flinn J. D. Callery F.M Hamilton Thomas Campbell Ohio George Stewart Highland Water Basin Allegheny Jerron Hill Pittabury Highland Basin

Land transfer and auction notes in Allegheny City area

Tand Company transfers lot 22 to J R Fullerton with frontage on Fleming Avenue and rear to a 20 foot alley along California avenue electric road in Eleventh ward Allegheny City for 150. Auctioneer H B Smithson reports selling 60 Hammond district lots near Mount Pleasant for 12 320.

Knoxville Vilsack Scott and Tappey Penn Avenue Howard Public School H. Schmidt Prominet Cooper Gilbert M. Black Samuel W. Black Fifth Avenue Jamonville Street Ann Street George Schnidt Max Hosenberg Perowsky Simon Mattheis A. J. Pentecost Jane Kennedy Eleventh Street Second Ward Allegheny Binck & Baird George Hazlett Boston Henry Brenner Ward Street A. Dickie & Co L. A. Hope M. Juckson Bennett Street Brushton Steed B. Coyle & Co Della C. Roose Grenmawr Park Haysville Pitts Fort Wayne Chicago Ilway Riverview Avenue Alpe Byers & Co Ridgeview Tand Company J. R. Fullerton Fleming Avenue California Avenue Eleventh Ward Allegheny City H. B. Smithson James Pershing Hammond Mount Pleasant

Market Report Highlights Mixed Trading and Bargain Bias

The stock market showed scattered activity with small gains in Luster Mining and Westinghouse affiliates while Tractions remained weak. Deals noted include a rise in Philadelphia Gas and minor shifts in Birmingham bonds and Pleasant Valley, with overall sentiment that prices may have bottomed and a potential bull move ahead.

Smiths Electric Westinghouse Bears Philadelphia Pleasant Valley Birmingham

Financial Market Roundup Shows Steady Rates and Banks

Reliable figures indicate steady general trade with similar volumes to last year. Wall Street reports a general demand for commercial paper but limited purchases by interior banks as discounts rise. Money on call in New York remained easy, with rates around 2 to 2.5 percent and mercantile paper trading at 4 to 5 percent for various terms.

Dalances Wall Stree News New York

Closing Bond Quotations A Fragment from the Market

A compact list of bond prices and debentures appears, with quotations for Northern Pacific Mississippi Missouri Louisiana and other railroad and utility issues. The fragmented text shows prices like 1005 111 102 75 and 97 3 108, reflecting market distances and minor corrections among several issuers.

U.S N. N.C Pac Louisiana St. AL San St. Paul Pacific St. Paul, Chic Drees Tex. Pac L. G West Ists BS Sc Siasanasee Tex. Pac. BR. G X &T Unison Pac Mutat Union A West Shore

Bank Clearings And Money Rates From A Regional Ledger

A historical ledger shows New York Bank clearings at 93 083 763 with balances of 24 522 506. Boston Bank clearings 11 873 82 balances 1 562 908. Pananetrnia Bank clearings 10 330 713 balances 2 259 715. Battlemoke Bank clearings 2 363 257 balances 315 915. Louis clearings 655 449 balances 495 419. Exchange on New York varying with small premiums and discounts. Money rates listed at 246.38 percent, 4 percent, 6 percent and general rates steady. Total bank clearings recorded as 15 205 000.

New York Bostos Pananetrnia Battlemoke R. Louis Mewrnis New York Exchange

Wall Street Slips as Major Stocks Lag and Rail Bonds Dull

New York July 23 The stock market is exceptionally flat with St. Paul Burlington Louisville Nashville and Rock Island showing the only signs of activity. Louisville and Richmond lead declines while Burlington faces pressure late in the day. Railroad bonds move little with overall small fractional losses and light volume.

Burlington Louisville New York St. Paul Nashville Rock Island Richmond Western Union Seeeetoex Exchange Whitney

Electric stock quotations from RostTos July 22

STEFHENSON, oldest Pittsburg member of the New York Stock Exchange at 7 Fourth avenue, reports today’s electric stock quotations. Items listed include Eastern Electric Cable Co. pfd at 51, Thomson-Houston Electric Co. at 40.00, Thomson-Houston pid. 300 Ft. Warne Electric Co. at 12.00, and Westinghouse Trust Receipts at 125, 1273.

Stefhenson Pitsburg New York Stock Exchange Fourth Avenue RostTos Eastern Electric Cable Co Thomson-Houston Electric Co Warne Electric Co Westinghouse Trust

Mining Stock Quotations New Year July 3

A compact list of mining stock quotations includes Alice Adams Agpen Deadwood Homestake Horn Sliver Tron Silver Mexican Ontario Savace Plymouth Sierra Nevada Yellow Jacket with various figures such as Ontario 3800 and others like 155 200 120 110 20 100 200 40 188 230 130.

Alice Adams Agpen Deadwood Homestake Tron Mexican Ontario Savace Plymouth Sierra Nevada Yellow Jacket

Turpentine and Rosin Prices Across Markets

Market notes show turpentine dull and lower at times in New York and Savannah, with rosin prices varying by firm. Wilmington reports spirits of turpentine and rosin firmer values, including steady or rising figures for different grades such as yellow dip and virgin.

New York Savannah Wilmington

Late News In Brief From The Era Wire

A crowded bulletin of global brief items notes a bad break in the Erie canal near Schenectady, gold fever in Central America, flood damage in Moravia and Silesia, and a British tailors lockout threat. Also reported are a Decatur injury cured by rib grafts, harvesters tested near Joliet, a NSW government confidence motion defeated, Chicago gifted an equestrian statue, a fatal shell explosion at Felixdorf, and Wheat movement HQs in St Paul.

Schenectady Central America Moravia Silesia Liverpool Addie L. Day Decatur Joliet New South Wales Felixdorf St. Paul United Farmers’ Alliance United States Volta Detroit

Prices Plummet as South Potatoes Lead Market Slump

Receipts of fruits and vegetables exceed demand causing pervasive price drops. Southern potatoes sell on track at 150 to 170 per barrel with store prices 2 to 2 50 higher. Home grown produce floods markets, cabbage tomatoes cucumbers and apples vary by current bids. Dairy prices hold firm with Ohio cheese steady and Swiss and Limburger improving.

Pittsnone Distatch Tuvespar Cotrray Phopvox Ohio Choice Paul Ohta Brinds Beaxs—Navy Ono New New York Liinberger, PLC Mirasina Gran Califorr California Rio Amie Catheri Sakic Java Bae Maracaibo Anita Elaine Bone Ken Iance London Moscatels Valencia Ondara Turkey Baise Salentes Califoria Ellow Yelowe Soiggins Fureka Higgins’ Burek George Blork Gilirac Lal Raat Haddie Holland Ring Sakon Errin Pat Ehal

Grain Market Report From Pittsburgh and Chicago Edges No Sales

Grain, flour and feed items in today’s Bulletin show no on call sales at the Grain Exchange. Receipts total 18 cars with details from Pittsburg, Ft Wayne and Chicago Railway and Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis lines. Oats lead prices rise in Chicago on a recent corner, but gains lack staying power while Pittsburg mirror steady or unchanged levels. jobbing flour prices and hay ranges are noted with various grades and regional quotes. Provisions outlook notes another advance in hog products expected Saturday.

Grain Exchange Pittsburg Ft. Wayne Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Pennsylvania Michigan

Live Stock Market Report from Providence Distance

Orricz of Providence Distance Twnspar July 23 101 cattle receipts 98 head shipments 1 head market slow at yesterday quotations no cattle shipped to New York hogs receipts 1150 head shipments 1604 head market firm choice Philadelphia 590 4650 common to fair Yorkers 50570 fair to best pigs 755525 five cars of hogs shipped to New York today sheep receipts 100 head shipments 600 head market native and a shade stronger than yesterday's quotations

Orricz Prrvancee Trunspar New York Choice Philadelhiss

Turbulent U S Cattle Hogs Receipts Across Major Markets

Telegraph summary reports Chicago cattle receipts 14 000 head with mixed shipments 4 000 and slower market steady to lower native primes quoted around 5 and 5 50 per cwt Texans and shipments noted. Hogs nationwide 15 000 head with varied demand and Texas Illinois and Ohio prices ranging from 4 50 to 6 50 per cwt. Cincinnati St Louis Omaha and Kansas City show softer tone on cattle while sheep and lambs hold firmer values. Buffalo and New York show weaker beef trades with limited activity. Prices per 100 pounds listed for several regions and classes including calves and butchers stock.

Boxer Iynley New York Chicago Corerin Enbie Szige Mayes Bic Tie Mie Mise Glee Wie 4Lgee Bsige Western Ohio Flats Philadelphia Inc Mme Mg Se Pennsylvania ST. Louis Sige Baltimore Milwaukee Cincinnati Idige Minneapolis Eye Trace NPM c Northern Kansas Duluth Sic Mzge Toledo Stee Zoo Ager Sermanle Eexaae Beeves Heceipte O Man and Light Omaha Kansas City

Slaver James Brennan Bound Over In Wood Case

The preliminary trial of James Brennan for the killing of Colonel Samuel Wood occurred yesterday at Hugoton before three justices of the peace. Brennan is bound over to the grand jury and jailed without bail. trial set for the September term. A guard of three men with Winchesters protected the scene to prevent disturbances.

Colonel Wood J. E. Thomas

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