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Show OFFERINGS PLENTY, BUT PRODUCE MARKET QUIET Although the produce market was well supplied with tho season's best offerings Friday, business was rather quiet. A shipment of pineapples recently racclvod front Florida was otic of the features Friday, Fri-day, and there was a splendid supply of strawberries on the market. , Strawberries now arc at their best and the prlco of the fruit is about as low as IL wll? biieomc this season. Hood River berries also aro coming- moderately freely. free-ly. Cherries are becoming mora plentiful wtlh a. result that the fruit Is now being be-ing offered at a reasonable price. ' Boston Wool. BOSTON, June 3. The Commercial Bulletin will say of the wool market tomorrow: to-morrow: "A moderate business for a duict market mar-ket Is being dono In domestic wools with a fair aggregate of fine and tine medium clothing, territory selling at 56c to 60c, scoured. "The feature of fleeced wool activity Is the sale of 300,000 pounds of Michigan thrcfi-olghths at privato terms to Urn value val-ue of which is about 27c. "Three eastern mills bought 00,000 pounds of new wool at Ileppner, Ore., Tuesday, at 56c to 58c; scoured and landed. land-ed. At Mountalnhome. Ida,, nearly 400,-000 400,-000 pounds were sold Thursday, medium wools bringing 151c to I6S0 or about 55c clean landed Boston. With these exceptions excep-tions comparatively little Is being done In the west owing to the low prices offered of-fered by buyers." Treasury Statoment. WASHINGTON, .tune 3. The condition of the treasury at tho beginning of business busi-ness today was as follows: Trust funds G61d coin 557.49,809 Silver dollars 489.777.000 Silver dollars of 1S90 3.711,000 Silver certificates outstanding. 489.777,000 General fund Standard silver dollars in general fund $ 2,300.250 Current liabilities 96,350,590 Working bulanco In treasury ofllces 19,960,306 In banks to credit of treasurer of the United States 38,006,859 Subsidiary sliver coin 21.274,564 Minor coin 1,229,143 Total balance in general fund S3,306,'55S New York Flour and Grain. NEW YORK, June 3. Flour steady, with a small local trade. Receipts, 15.-391; 15.-391; shipments, 7726. Wheat barely steady; No. 2 red. $1.04 nominal c. I. f.; No. 1 northern. $1.00 nominal f. o. b. Options Wheat advanced early on small offerings, steady cables and cold weather, but cased ort under commission house selling on the weakness In the stock market, closing at flc net decline. July closed at 9D3c; September closed at 96Jc. and December closed at 96gc. Shipments, 5162. Bradstreet's Review. NEW YORK, June 3. Bradstroofs tomorrow to-morrow will say: Trade advices arc Irregular, varying somewhat willi tho socllons or lines reporting, re-porting, but with quietness the prevailing prevail-ing feature. In the northern half of the country unseasonably cooi weather hits been a bar to expansion in retail trade, which at many cities is classed as disappointing. disap-pointing. At these centers re-order business Is light and Jobbers' operations aro consequently conse-quently restricted. Probably the best reports re-ports as to trade come from the northwest north-west and tiic Pacific, while the Atlantic coast reports arc of unsatisfactory 'retail 're-tail trade. A-S the week advanced action bv the government against higher railroad freight rales resulted in rumors of suspensions sus-pensions of Improvement work by railroads, rail-roads, some of which were, however, denied. de-nied. These reports Injected an additional addi-tional clement of uncertainty Into the Industrial In-dustrial condition. There is more activity in iron, but largely at the expense of pricos. Wool Is weak and lower on liquidation of old stocks and unsatisfactory reports from the goods markdt. Cotton goods still feel the effect of contrast of high present prices with probably lower future quotations for raw material. The leather and shoo trades are quiet. Building Is active, but May totals will probably fall behind April. Business failures for the week ending Willi June 2 in the United Stales were 160, against 200 last week, 191 In tho same week of 1909. 225 In 190S, 155 in 1907 and 102 in 1900. Business failures in Canada, for the week number 18. which compares with 15 for last week and 19 in the like week of 1909. Wheat, including flour exports for the United Slates and Canada, for tho week ending June 2 aggregate 2.970.063 bushols. against 3,594,1 14 last week and 2,12S,19U this week last year. Corn exports for the week aro 3CS.710 bushels, against 345.361 last week and 30,193 In 1909. Wow York Money. NEW YORK. Juno 3. Close: Prime mercantile paper, 43tfj"'5t per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business In bankers' bills at $4.S3.75tfj' 4.S4 for sixty-day bills, and at $4.S6.S0 for demand. Commercial bills, $4.S3ig4.S3J. Bar silver, 53Sc. Mexican dollars. 44 cents. Government bonds, steady; railroad bonds, easy. Money on call, easier. 2'tfJ'3 per cent: ruling rale. 2S per cent: closing bid, 2i per cent: offered at 23 per cent. Time loans were very weak; for sixty dnys, 3J per cent; for ninety days, 33 per cent; for six months. 444 per cent. Imports and Exports. . NEW YORK. Juno 3. Imports of merchandise mer-chandise and dry goods with the port of New York for tho week ending May 28 were valued at $16,685,718. Imporls of spocle for the porl of New York for the week ending today were $183. S01; exports of specie from the port of New York for the week ending today were $226. GOO gold and $935,525 silver. |