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Show BUSINESS IS SLOWER 01 rilOH MARKET As Visitors Drift (hit of City, Demand for Katables Becomes Be-comes Less. As th Qrand Army encampment isit-ors isit-ors drift out of the elty again, business on the produce market becomes more quiet. Friday the dealers on Market row-had row-had a fairly good day, but It was not neai so busy as the several preceding days The demand for fiepi, fruit and garden truck was the heaviest, but meat and rlsb dealera reported a moderately good day. Heef wag about the best sell'. Ing me, it In the vegetable line, fresh corn, new potatoes, cabbage, lettuce and radlshep sold well, while in the fruit line the greatest demand was for cantaloupes. watermelons and similar edlhien Cantaloupes Canta-loupes were exceedingly plentiful ami a' good variety was obtained at 6 and lo cents each Apples are iiov beginning to come In moderately freely and dealers offer the fruit at 00 rents, a peek. Ctah apples have not appeared on the market yet, but dealers are looking for them within the, next several weeks. New York Flour and Grain. KEV7 YortK, ug 13. Flour Receipts, 16,489; exports. 1072. Market steady, with a fair jobbing i rade. Wheat -Receipts, 72.000; spot firm; No 2 red. now- $1.03), sales, elevator: No. 2 r-d. new. 51.10. prompt f o. b afloat. NO 1 northern Duluth, Old, $1 35 nominal nomi-nal f. o. h. adoat, No. 2 hard winter nominal nom-inal $1.11 f. o b. atloal Wheal was generally plrong -today, especially es-pecially In the last hour, when a bullish "modern miller" report and rust news from ihe northwent promoted a scare among room shorts. From the low point prlees jumped Ijc per bushel arid closed Ic to lc above last night. September closed $1.07; December De-cember cloned ?1.041: Mav closed $1.06. |