Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-12
FINANCE & COMMERCE..
ST.. Paul. Dec. L. 1883.

Oh. AUi, t'ec. IL, 1000.
The unusual, almost unprecedented
weather materially affects most branches
of trade. December we'll advanced, with
weather as mild as May, with sunshiny
days, and thermometer ranging among
the sixties and seventies, must necessarily
have a depressing effect upon many
branches of business, especially clothing,
dry goods, boots and shoes. December is
an off month at best, but when it is ushered
in like smiling Mey or sunny June, with
out ieck of snow, or so much frost as to
harden roads, nothing but very dull
time can be expected by business men.
What is wanted to give stimulus to busl-
ness is a good fall of snow and little
thorough Minnesota weather-this present
Missouri and Floridan importation ia
somewhat disarranging matters in bust
ness point of view, however delightful the
novelty may be to few who cannot ap-
preciate a bracing climate. The dry
goods market is reported very dull even
for the off season; prices, however, are IN
changed for all staple articles. The great
trouble, however, in the dry goods bust
ness is that, like ths manufacture OF iron
goods, the production exceeds the demand
and Until widor feld is found by an on
sleught upon high tariff and thus breaking
down barriers to extended trade, there will
always be times Of sluggish if not stag
nant business. The boot end shoe trade
is feeling the effects of the phenomonally
fine weather, and there is not the demand
for heavy winter goods, Arctic and rubber
goods, as there would be with snow and &
lo6er thermometer, and prices in the lat
ter named goods are twenty per cent off
old quotations. There has been an IN
usually brief business in drugs, paints
and oils and the market is
firm and steady at quotations given in an
other column. There is nothing unusual
to report in the grocery trade; prices hold
their own and fair healthy business is
being done by the many large houses of
st. Paul. In foreign seasonable fruits
such as oranges, lemons, dates, figs, etc.
and n nuts there is lot that brisk move
ment such as the nearness of the holidays
would lead Us to expect, and dealers attri-
butte the slugg ishness CT The market to the
nliidness Of the weather. Leather is re-
ported as firm with quiet business. There
are a feR changes in quotations favorable
to the buYer. The iron trade is unchanged;
prices aIe not lower, as they hardly can
be, and all the time fresh stocks are being
built by eastern producers, and the field Of
demand remains limited, they can hardly
become higher. Our quotations for lum-
Der ara more favorable TO tho buyer IL
rough goods. ons;derjng the open weather
there should be an unusual dsmand
as there IS nothing 30 prevent buildlog
opera lions continuing and no doubt if the
weather holds out to the holidays the great
lumber firms viii be busy shipping to
p1ovlecial dealeas 10 FL up their stocks
selections are variousiy l5ports,. from
f. ;3 5000, only o1s house reporting
money slow. The banks say there is
good healthy ton9 peGyading monetary
transactions throughout the state aud the
northwest generally. For prices current
upon all branches OF merchandise, We re-
fer 70 our tabalated forms, as follows.