New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-02
NOTES on TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

GRAIN ExPoRTs.-From California and Oregon
about 1000. 900 bushels of wheat were exported
during he first half of January, and from the prin
! cipal Atlantic ports during the whole month about
5000 900 bushels whence it may he inferred that
the total exports for the month will hardly equal
! the IL, $50 900 bushels shipped in December But
the price has been higher; the value OF wheat and
| flour exported III December was 81 ,5i4, OS2 The
British official statements show that the receipts
from this country in 1884 were %. COG 100 cwt.
OF wheat, against 26.065, 500 In 1888; but not
withstandng this decline of ii per cent in wheat.
there was decrease of only per cent in Hour,
the imports from this country having been 103i0,-
5G7 cwt. in 1854. against IL ,27O,9lS in 1888.
More than two-thirds of all the flour imported by
Great Britain last year came from this country. but
only As per cent of tho wheat In 1888 the British
receipts from our Pacific States were 45 per cent OF
| the total receipts from this country, namely H.
! SOC, 637 cwt, but in 1884, the markets on the
| Atlantic Slope having been less mIschlevously
manipulated only 80 per cent of the wheat from this
country came from the Pacific Coast. The decline
in British receipts from India moreover, was al
most precisely the the decline in the re-
CO pts from the Pacific States. The " corners y IN
Eastern markets which cut down exports from
the Atlantic side in 1883 simply gave command of
foreign markets to the competing producers of
/
trading of 1884, the Atlantic States have fur
nished 30.4 per cent of all the wheat imported by
Great Britain, against % per cent in 1883, and
have, moreover. shipped thther larger proper
tion of flour
Standardization consumers saved $50 600, 000last
year. The London Economist reckons. by the fall in
the Price of sugar To the consumers of this coun-
try Notwithstanding the tariff tho saving was a
little greater. Owing To the stupid stIaglness OF
Congress. the official publication of trade reports
is SO far prevented that the latest official
statement obtainable for this Nations commerce
Is only to September 30, while British official
reports for January already lie before us. But
the belated returns indicate a saving in the cost of
sugar exceeding So 100, 600 IN the July-September
quarter alone, in which the imports were less than
ons-ffth of the total imports for the year. Doubt
less when Democratic reform - has free course to
run and he gonfed, shall have to go to Great
Britain for all the earliest information about our
own commerce. Why should we not buy our facts
abroad as well as our goods We can get them
cheaper by waiting three months.
IRON MANUFACTURE-There are indications of a
much better feeling, and increased orders have en-
abled many concerns to start work which have
been idle for time. 1t is reported at Philadelphia
that many pudding and heating furnaces will also
start TINS week, anu tnere are reports lne
bowing-in of several furnaces will soon increase
the make of pig iron An advance In nails has been
effected based upon the conclusion that no large
stocks exist nywhere and there will be extensive
building in the spring II Is admitted even by the
least sanguine. that the winter consumption has
been so much larger than usual as to ind cate an
unusual amount of building for the season. In
sheet-iron, also, employment is reported than
for any previous week this year, and prices are
more steady. Steel rail makers do not yet find
BUYERS of large lots ready to meet their views but
signs of improvement in other branches of the iron
business would soon induce purchasers to offer
better terms. II is to be noticed that the improve
ment is more general in the establishments of
Eastern States near the coast, though marked in
crease of orders and work is also reported North
eru Ohio,