St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-30
COMMERCIAL.

ST.PAy1, April 3A-Two thousand one hundred
and forty five cars or sixty four millions three
hundred and fifty thousand pounds Of freight
shipped into st. Paul from April 90 to April 30
inclusive, with about three millions six hundred
thousand pounds brought in by the boats, is
hardly equal to the entire receipts of the former
week, but the shipments of the past week
exceeded those of the previous week by
AZ cars. OF these gross receipts and shipments
544 of the former and 500 Of the latter were
classed as merchandise. These compared to the
former week show gain of II cars received and
a falling off of SO shipped. This is not tax
ing into consideration the steamboat freights
which are considerable and if a strict calculation
were made including these there is no donbt the
volume of business would at least foot up to
equal figures with the previous weeks trade. 1t
is quite evident thatthe jobbing and general
wholesale mercantile business Of the city is not
falling off and this opinion is greatly strength
ened by witnessing daily the apparently healthy
display of activity In the veritable commercial
hives on Third, Sibley, Fourth, Fifth and other
wholesale streets. Grocery houses as usual have
been especially busy and this has been the case
particularly with some half dozen leading
houses in this line. The market generally may
be termed active. Canned goods are firm; toma-
toes are higher and still advancing, and dealers
may look for higher prices before the new crop
comes in, for very heavy demand prevails and
prices are lower than the cost of canning; west
ern canned corn is also advancing, with strong
market; canned gooseberries and blackberries,
us well as marrowfat peas, are higher and will
still advance on account of the scarcity, There
are large quantities of dried peas sacked and
sold marrowfat Sugars can hardly be quoted
as steady, although they present slightly
| iona how how Gofr
weak and on the decline, with &c off old quota
tions. Teas are just now about steady, but what
the manipulators will accomplish in q week it Is
hard to predict; the indications just now are for
a frmer market. Salt fish is firm and steady;
Lake Superior white fish is scarce; trout more
plentiful but firm; macllerel is scarce and prac-
| tically higher; herring and cod are steady at
former quotations; foreign dried fruits are firm,
and if the demand were more
urgent prices would advance Domestic
dried fruits sell freely evaporated blackberries
are IL higher, and apples have taken turn up
wards, with no prospect of a reaction. Rice has
advanced shade; other goods are unchanged
There changes in the boot and shoe or
leather market on record; the position remains
just the same az last week. The jobbers and
factories for foot wear have been quite busy, and
notwithstanding the continued firmness of
leather and scarcity Of sales the price lists have
not been changed. The jobbing houses III dry
preceding one; personal buyers have not been
quite so numerous and orders hardly so heavy,
but still good weeks trading has been DONE
The market is very firm for cotton goods, the
raw material having advanced about &c; it is
thought that domestics, prints, ginghams, tick
ings, sheetings, etc, will move up before long.
Carpet warp has advanced 1c per
pound. There seems to be just now
very great demand for colored seine
Irvine which is used for knitting netting and
knotting into tides, bags and thousand articles
of utility and ornament. The name is obtained
from the seine net used for catching behring's
and mackerel along the sandy shores of the
ocean, the twine or cord being similar N make
TO that used In manufacturing these miles of nets
There seems to be let up to the activity of the
drug market. The demand for chemicals and
drugs continues; the market Is firm and with one
single exception quotations unchanged; the ex-
ception is ipecac which has declined 10c. The
demand for paints, oils and window glass is in
creasing; prices hold firm ahd steady; lead is es-
pecally firm. Hardware is exactly as we found
it week ago-business booming and prices
steady with no changes in quotations. Manufac-
tured iron and steel are in much better de-
mand and the trade in heavy goods is
improving, bnt the principal business continues
to be in smithy supplies Lumber men are at
length happy. They have all the business they
can attend to and as many orders as they can pos
sibly fill. The shipments hence have increased
during the week to 428 cars, while one firm alone
has shipped direct from the mills 200 cars. The
only drawback to the happiness of dealers in
lumber is the lowness of prices, and this seems
| to be on the eve of a remedy, for from the
scarcity of water for driving, logs do not come
down and it is thought prices will considerably
advance, in fact the Minneapolis firms have al
ready advanced and some few changes have been
made here in the prices current. 1t is Just pos
sible that the heavy rain fall which is at the
present writing almost deluging the streets here
extends to the st. Louis and St. Croix rivers and
will supply the needful driving power and arrest
farther advances of prices. The following tables
have been carefully revised and corrected: