New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-08
RECEIPTS At PORTS.

1872. 1000 az
Since september 6acs $50 475lS4G 47O5'27S
EXPORTS.
Since september l. bales jO,sl0 S6Os.l40 36s0'5S
There is nothing In the trade and the Western
city the closed mills is estimated at 400 OF man
featured iron per day The coal trade has got into SO
bad shape that IL is announced the Pennsylvania Coal
Company viii regulate Its June product by the orders
received mt satisfactory figures and not by the quota III
oted to it in the combination OF course IL all the pro-
ducers should follow the same plan the trade woulu
quicker get into good form But of the large companies
the Pennsylvania Coal Company the only that has
no interest to pay and no rentals OF unremunerativo
railroads TO care for II has no debt but has large
surplus invested and all profit, be 1t 10 cents or
per ton over the cost of mining and marketing us coa
belongs TO It's stockholders ana not i 10 a rs
similarly situated; but the other companies haveherest
and rentals that payable first out OF the prOhts I
mining coal ami hence tonnage important as fair
profit on smaller output. Prices for both anthracite
and htumnous are much unsettled in all the markets.
and are not quOtable for actual business
Business AT the stock Exchange last week was more
restricted than before to the operations OF hand
ful OF professionals and small scapng trading by the
board room operat0rs and Last week the latter element
contributed much less than Its usual proportion 10 tue
total volume OF transactions. And this condition seems
likely to continue wcarisome, so long
as the edict stands. which put into plain ENGLISH reads
whether properties sound or not whether g. rnhgs
increase decrease. whether dividends are declared
or not nor what the prospects OF tho crops II
sell what you have not got, will advance the price
we have cheap money IN cur favor, ana Tor inc othcr
conditions not This is not the exact language
employed, but IL the plain meaning OF such as is used
day by the powers which the time being con-
troll prices the Stock Exchange and something very
like IL occasionally has appeared la print III IL
notice to the world that current quotations now are less
than usually the representatives OF comparative values
aud while II has killed speculation II Is discouragng 10
the beginning of growth % legitimate business wnich
all must he the real basis OF the value OF STOCK
Exchange membership The business of the week Ill
stocks amounted only 797427 sharcs-a daily average
OF 1872 9Ol shares, against 1881 shares In the pre-
cedng week and II 39l shares in the week preceding
that or last weeks total five stOcks-Dclaware lAcka-
wanna and Western. st. Paul. Northwestern, Union
Pacific, aud Central aud IIudsOn-cOntributed oI3.ZOO
shares. 73 per of the whole. There were
sharp fluctuations during the week, but the inal
changes In the five principal stocks are as follows De
cnes-Ccntral and Hudson 3 Union Pacific p, Della
ware Iackawanna and Western g. and st. Paul y per
cent; Northwestern shows Is per cent advance. The
other important changes are Adyanccs-Western
Union ~ and Michigan Central ll2 per cent
Declines - Missouri Kansas and Texas "
Long Island l3s, Manitoba 1l9 Pacific
Mail X. ~. Louis anl San Francisco preferred ~
Houston and Texas .. Illinois Central 3, ana oregon
Railway and Navigation jas per cent
Government bonds fairly active and ruled strong
advances. Aside from some small business dOne
In the first mortgages at full figures, and some
further depression IN Erie seconds and Nickel rate
rst the railway bond market Is subject TO the same re-
marks those applied 10 the share market
The suboined table gives the highest lowest and maj
prices number Of shares sO together with the maj
figures Of week ago OF thiry-scyen active or repre-
sentative shares:
WEEKLY RANGE.