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Show APPLES OF COMMANDING QUALITY IN THE MARKET Thcro wore some fine apples on the market Saturday, Jonathans and Bell-flowers Bell-flowers selling for $2.25 a bushel and others, oth-ers, including Hood Rivers, selling for $2 a bushel. Crab apples have not changed in price nlnce they first came on the market. Pears wero 5c a pound, grapes 5c and 10c a pound, and peaches S5c a box. Melons nnd cantaloupes were still very good, excellent muskmelons selling sell-ing for 10c each. Cauliflower, celery, squash, tomatoea, sweet potatoes and spinach wero tho loading vegetables on tho local market. Egg plant, beans. lettuce let-tuce and corn had a decidedly wilted appearance. ap-pearance. There was a good supply of cocoanuts. New York Monoy. By Associated Press. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. Close: Prime mercantile paper. 51(5)0 per cent. Sterling exchange, steady, with actual business In bankers' bills at $1.83.60 4. S3. 75 for sixty-day bills, and at $4.86.35 for demand-Commercial demand-Commercial bills. $4.S34.S3i. Bar silver. 531c. Mexican dollars. 44c, Government bonds, steady; railroad bonds', steady. Money on call, nominal. Timo loans, dull and steady; for sixty days, 33i per cent; for ninety davs, 4y 11 per cent; for six months, 41Q43 per cent. Now York Flour and Grain. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 17 Flour steady; spring patents, $5.405 60; winter extras, No. 1, $3.65fi?3.S5. winter extras. No. 2. S3.40"iji3.55: Kansas straights. ?4.S0(g1 1.90. Receipts, 26.37S barrels; shipments, 16,612 barrels. Wheal Spot firm: No. 2. $1.03E elevator and $1.03J f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.23?. f. o. b. afloat. Futures On account of firm cables and smaller world's shipments, with a better domestic domes-tic cash demand, wheat was steadier today, to-day, closing 1c to 1c not higher. Sep-lembor Sep-lembor closed at $1,033; December closed at $1,071; May closed at Sl.lllc. Receipts, Re-ceipts, 17,700 bushels; shipments, nono. St. Louie Wool. By Assoclaterl Press. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17. Wool Quiet; medium me-dium grades, combing and clothing. 23tf? 24c: light fino, 19(fi'2ic; heavy fine, 15 17c, tub washed. 25tfl'3;te. Bullion Movement. By Associated Preys. LONDON. Sept. 17. Bullion amounting to 250.000 wus wjtlidrawn from the BanV of England for shipment todav, 150.000 going to Egypt and the remainder remain-der to Constantinople. |