Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-01-07

The average price Of these sixteen stocks
At the beginning OF the year was 45h. and
the lowest average price reached was f04 (;
the highest was 63A, md last night The
average price was 0sss. The smallest decline
from the highest prices have been made BY
the Nanderbllls but the Northern Pacific,
Oregon Transconilnenial and Pacific Mail
follow closely behind. The railway bond
market has sympathized with the improve
ment IN price Of shares. The total sales
for the year amounted 10 about secs. 000,-
O00 Erie seconds, c0nsols and West Shore
frsis, and recently the guaranteed Is have
been most conspicuous for their activity. At
the beginning OF the year. West Shore
lirsts were selling at 3gjS To-day the guar
anteed is closed at an equivalent OF SIX.
Erie seconds at the opening Of the year were
selling at 579s aud last evening closed at
9l4.
NEW YORK, January 1.-The mercantile
agency OF r. G. Dunn 4 Co. reports that
the total number OF business failures In the
United States during the year 1885 were
l0.63T, with liabilities OF q little more than
si24, 600 600 as compared with lO,98s fail
ares in 1884, with liabilities Of Sa26. 6.0O0, 600.
While the failures OF 1855 are only per
cent. less In number than IN 1854. the LA
bIllties have decreased nearly 50 per cent.
The number OF traders reported in business
IN 1855 was 9l9,9gO. OF these one In every
eghty-slx failed. In 1878, with 65i,00O
traders. one In every sixts -four came
to grief The average amount Of liabilities
Of each failure was In 1885, sl1 1878,
against s206s2 In 1854 and 81, ,S69 In
1873.
CLEVELAND. O., January 1.-The IRON
Trade Rcrlag 70 morrow will publish
large number Of letters from manufac,ar
Frs principally OF machinery. throughout
the country, concerning trade in 1855, and
the outlook inr the cunning year In wood
working machinery business has been large
n volume, but prices have been too low To
be satisfactory Machine tool works have
had a comparatively dull year, with unre-
muneratiye prices. Manufacturers Of spe-
cial patented tools notice no dlminution
In either volume or prices during the
year. Some Of them, on the contrary,
report decided llitrase. In freight
aud passenger elevators there has been
an active demand throughout the entire
year, some works running over time. Bolt
and nat machinery ha, had ready sale
MIL machinery WAS IN about The same de-
mand as IN 1854. Blast furnace and mining
machinery has suffered from dnllness, but
not as much as might be expected, Manu-
facturers Of iron roofing enjoyed good
trade. Hardware works have been gener-
ally well employed. All branches OF the
iron and machinery trade note decided in
crease in both orders and inQulties within
the past sixty days, and the prediction Is
made, without exception, that 1885 will be
a year OF widespread prosperity
CmcAso January |. The Daip Bust
ness gives the following review for the
year. The tables which we present to-day
form an interesting study. During the first
eleven nnnihs Of the year the United States
exported goods to the value OF S6l4, 1862. $50
and imported goods 10 the value OF S535,-
$50. 032, a balance IN our favor Of about
s75, 900, 600. Both exports and imports are
less than for several years, but the relative
difference Ia our favor Is not narrower than
usual, and despite the moumful fact that
Europe positively and perempt0rlly refuses
70 take a bushel OF our wheat or barrel of
our flour, We managed to slip mp on the blind
side OF our foreign nelghbors aud work Oh
upon them 81, i62 956 bushels Of wheat and
S,06S, ,2l6 barrels Of flour this year against
5s.sO4,9 ,97s bushels OF wheat and 9,5l2,i77
barrels OF -four during The year 1854. Ex-
ports aggresa cd 60,9S0, 633 bushels against
20 3Si, ,645 Bushels last year, and exports of
oats aggregated s,sS37l6 bushels this year
against $500, 44i bushels last year. Thus,
il will be- observed, that while we lose by
comparison with last year q, 900 bush
els os wheat we gain $4,000 bushels OF
-four, %, 500, 900 bushels Of corn and 5000,
900 Of oats, which isn't so bad when We
stop 10 consider that no business whatever
was done, export trade having been com
pletely ruined
A glance At the following summary Of ex
ports Of hog product will show how the
provision trade suffered during the last
twelve months: