The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-22
TRADE MATTERS,
Slight Improvement Sotcd- Condition of
tho Wool Market.

| tHo wool Dllrket.
New YoRK, Dec. 2O.-Special tclegrams
to Bradstrrfs from the leading business
centres point to slight improvement il,
the sales Of heavier fabrics and clothing
At a few points the holiday purchases
form noticeable contrast with the dimin.
ished volume month ago, yet there arc
no advlces where such are eQualing the
total OF sales at like period last year
The movement Of general merchandise
continues in restricted volume, which is
likely TO bc the case SO long rs in New
lork city anu other money centres the
surplus bank reserves remain SO large.
The only favorable features in this direc.
ton are the increased demand for funds at
Boston from cotton buyers and the shin.
ment OF currency from Cincinnati TO nav
for hogs. There has been some improve.
ment in the boot and shoe trade OF the
East, but no special activity in cotton
goods there. In few lines at Chicago
there is reported a slightlyincreased move.
ment, in part due to tho holiday trade, but
mainly to tho settlement OF old debts by
farmers, which put little life into trade.
INDUSTRIAL.
Iron is fiat. Anthracite coal is quiet.
domestic sizes are little more animated
under stimulus OF the weather. The com.
panies have named committee to form n
plan for mining next year. Petroleum
has been excited and higher, owing to the
fire among the oil-tanks in the Thorn
Creek region. The industria! situation
MS elaborately reported TO Bynasi,yet's,
shows over $4,000 fewer employees in
manufacturing industries in leading lines
IN the States north OF the Ohio River
Valley and east OF the Missouri River.
The cotton markets have been auieter
but prices have again advanced. Dry
soods agents at New York regard both the
foiume ol the weeks business and tho
iuture stlilening OF prices as tending ia
improve the outlook for the new year
THE wEEI's s FAILURES,
There were 305 failures in tho United
States during the last week reported to
BradStrtcts, IS compared with 3l6 in the
preceding week, and with $50, 23G and HIS
respectively, in the corresponding weeks
OF 1883, lSS2, and 1851. About 81 percent
were those Of small traders, whose capital
! was less than 5000. Canada had twenty.
six, an increase OF four.
WOOL.
BosTos, Dec. 90.-Thc .adrertiser in its
weekly review OF the wool trade says:
Prices remain much MS they have beer
Holders will not make concessions, and
manufacturers will not pay any advance,
Some small odd lots. it is true have been
sold at some concessions, in order to close
up accounts, but this is always the accom-.
paniment to the close OF the year. Medi.
um woods are slow and neglected, but
holders think they will be wanted before
the spring arrives. Medium Kansas is
weak and at lower prices. The demand is
limited rather than the supply excessive
There continues to be q good demand iol
good conditioned and super, but irrecula,
and Western pulled have no steady mar.
ket quotation. The low price OF wool i:
causing q large slaughter OF sheen at tho
West and Southwest, and the supply q
poor pulled is likely to increase. Fine
woofs are firm. There is no call for No. {
fleece, except such as runs to staple; n sale
OF 10000 lbs Ohio NN and above, Mt 35ic
may be considered 10 have obtained /;
fancy price. What wool there is in thu
country is firmly held, and prices rul,