The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-04
CINCINNATI COMMERCE.


port, We reproduce the following:
Bran, Middlings ETC. The business in
millfeed has been more than maintained
throughout the year, the receipts having
been 12705 tons, in comparison with H.
O52 in 1S77-7S, and the shipments 6,39i
| tons, compared with 5,684, the movement
both WAYS showing an increase. Bran has
been in good demand throughout the year.
prices not having undergone much fiuctna-
ton. The principal inquiry has been for
home consumption, though at times, slim
ulated by low freights, it has found its way
to the East. shipments having been made
at one time to Philadelphia at the ex-
tremely low rate of 10 cents per 100
pounds. Early in the year, the quotation
for bran was 5000 so per ton. Prices were
81 per ton better in October, after which
they we're unusually equable until the hot
weather had fairly set in, when there was
decline, the year closing at 81 25(g9 5o.
The average quotation for the year was
$40 50 per ton, in comparison with Sll 30
| in 1S77-7S, $12 so in 1S76-77, $l2 SO in
lS75-76, 4l8 AZ in 1874-76, and $14 96 in
1894. Middlings have been in good de-
mand, with larger sales than usual for local
uses, though some have gone East, which is
unusual. The market has been well sup
piled in the main, though at times there
was scarcity, and the quality has been
poorer than ever before known. Prices
have been equable, the quotation for fine
middlings having ranged from SIG to Sl7
during the first four months and slowly
declined subsequently, to SIS 80, which was
the closing quotation. The average quota
ton for fine middlings was $15 GA per ton,
| nd will in 1Q77-TQ SD1 D1 in
1S76-77, and $22 AZ in 1876 for coarse
$l7 "a in 1867, and $1s 50 III ta75-76. The
average quotation for shipstuff was S11 49,
in comparison with S13 Al in 1878, $l4 30
in 1857, and SIS So in 1S75-76.
Boots and Shoes-In no department of
our trade have there been more pronounced
evidences of better times than in boots and
shoes, wht ther the subject be regarded
from a purely commercial or an industrial
standpoint. During the winter the bust
ness shared in the condition of uncertainty
incident to what proved transition pc
riod from depression to better state Of
affairs The experiment of resumption
concerning which there had existed deeply
grounded fears and strong preindices, had
yet TO be made, and though business men
I IlldlDlI SynlpdtulZGu Will OllC pun pOoC OIL
the Government in driving straight to re-
sumption on given day, there were Very
many who doubted it's expediency, and
who were afraid that it would net be sue
cessful. This was sufficient to produce,
during much OF the winter, a disposition TO
await the development of facts. When it
became more and more apparent that
the real crisis was over, even
before the day appointed had arrived,
ana That resumption was an assured fact,
an improved tore was soon manifest in all
branches of business This was specially
apparent in boots and shoes. A liberal re-
Punishment OF stocks by country mer-
chants which followed soon announced the
dawn of better days Early in the spring
there was a hardening of prices, and bv
midsummer there had been decided adj
vance established in many kinds OF goods.
Since that time there has been a further
stlffenng of the market, though it has not
been confined uniformly to all classes ol
goods. In mems boots it is estimated that
the entire advance has been about $2 per
J case, and in women's shoes about 10 cents
per pair. Some of our manufacturers, how
ever, report little appreciation in the prices
of goods thus far, though they give posi-.
all classes Of the boot and shoe trade. The
aggregate advance has probably been 597
per cent. With advancing prices has come
, an improved inquiry for goods. Not only will
! the aggregate production and sale OF goods
of this class be larger here than i'll the pre-
ceding year in bulk, but the aggregate val
ue will exhibit material increase. A bet
ter feeling runs through all classes. Collec
l tions have improved. Country merchants
( are in better condition, and are buying with
confidence which has not been witnessed
for painfully long period. Our manufac
turers will show larger production thar
ever before. In Cincinnati this is grow
y ing business. 1t has already developed will
astonishing rapidity, and there is the bes
r reason to expect the improvement viii
e continue. The movement in boots ant
/ shoes is the largest in the history of tn
a CITY. the receipts having been 1877 .062 cases
: compared with IS, 93l in the previous year
and the shipments III 1926 cases, in compaI
y ison with 81 1872. The total production q
boots and shoes in this city in 1878 wa
l. s., $50, ,262, and the hands employed in thi
IS industry numbered 5,179.
4 Brooms and Broom Corn-The bushes
q in broom corn at this city has not onl
u been we'll maintained, but has been slight
larger than during the year preceding, tn
receipts in 1879 having been 1,44l, 80
"a pounds in comparison with 1,4o3, 80
~ pounds in 1S77-7S. The shipments hav
T. been 733, 700 pounds, compared with 1852
7s GO. The old stock Of 1877 which was ca
m red over to 1878 was small, while the GRO
j. in 1878 was perhaps the largest ever ha
ID vested. Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, low;
# Illinois and Indiana supplied our marke
~ We had some receipts from the South an
ie it is worthy of notice that a larger qual
r. tity of broom corn was raised in the Soutl
Is ern States for home consumption than ev'
s. before in their history. The crop of 1877
w large as it was was not profitable ol
"a to either growers or manufacturers. III
g 8 corn generally was very long all
n coarse, frequently having to be shorten'
er and subjected to waste in man
re featuring. The cry from consumers "
m for cheap brooms, tempting the manufa
turers to make them as light as possibl
no thus making the short corn the more 9
rL sirable. The cheap corn throughout t
lA year was much more largely sought. Thee
20 rect expectation to Europe which was not
[r. in the previous year has continued wi
OF satisfactory results. In the matter of pri'
en- the wear has witnessed wide iuctuatiol
&C. The closing month Of the calendar year
to 1878 brought great Generalization in t
W. values OF corn. Large quantities in
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