Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-10
THE STATE OF TRADE.
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT APP
FEARING.
Business Greatly Restricted by
Strikes, Floods and Bad Roads.


B'adstreefs report less satisfactory cons
dltion of general trade than last week, due in
large part to thu continuation of strikes at
various Industrial centers, as well as to the
interruption to railway traffic in the South,
west. Floods in the Central, Southern and
western States have helped depress trade
through the destruction of bridges and over,
flowing of country raods.
Atlarse K lstern cities. the volume of mer-
chandise moving is OF only moierate pro
portions. A. Western centers, the demands
are quite as much for Learhy wants as they
were week ago. In general, it NAV be sta
leo that the progress made thus far during.
1856 has been Disappointing, though at Chi.
cage and some other cities tbs total sale, of
staple goods for the first quarter of 1856 are
said to fully Equal those Of the first quarter
OF 1880 Bal roads are very generally re-
pc; tie throughout the country, and coliec>
lions from interior traders are slow.
In Kansas and Missouri coll, c.ions are not
expected to improve until new crops are gath
cred and sold. NJ ,ney is in only fair demand
a' hlost points, and the markets rule easy at
unchanged rates. Improvement in general
trade is mentioned at st. Louis and Kansas
City, due TO the resumption of traffic tbere
Inc iron industry continues depressed by the
check to industrial enterprise caused by ex-
tended Strikes as we'll as enhanced cost for
fuel for furnsces. Anthracite coal is fem at
Ihe advance and in better demand. The coal
pool has not arranged percentages for 1880
yet.
The industrial stu ,tion is better, in sp to of
The prolongatioa Of thu Fl ,lt az ,inss the rail-
ways oy tbs kn' shts Of l. ,b)r at the West.
The knitting mill striks a. c ,ho,, and Nav
Britain, Conn: tle boot and shoe strike nc
Beverly, Mass, AMI thai am,lg the suit
mt kers at New York, have largely d,slp>
peared, putting 1900 operatives at work and
cutting down tn, total striking from s., 900
to $1,000 within week. There is, however.
possibility OF auothsr outbreak a. C>hoss.
Light consump.ive dem l1l co1tnu % to
depTess sugar prices, but mill c,ff,s, are
higher. Oly fair SUE, of dry g,ois ara re-
ported, the m ,vemelt b,tns sn ,ller. Stock,
in first hand are small, ard prices, with few
exceptions are finn Prints are off l,,6 ia
l-S:i,r 6i, To wl,ltmlrs,. i, only
moderately firm despite the freer sales for
export. Lite takings by Italy, abo1t 2o), 600
bus lel', are sign ficlnt, as our grain ship
nients thithcr have herstofors bssn oh, efly
Indian corn.
B'odstreets reports OF visible suppl os OF
wheat eis5 OF the r c'ly Mountains, March
q, show iecling of but 8, %, 900 bushel,
since .nuary l, against s,757,OOO tu,hel.
decline repo ted by the New York Produc,
Exchange. Toe visible stock of flour
amounts to l,7S4, roo barrels, or 10000 bar
res more than Janu,ry l. TIL re are no au-
thentic repor's Of damage to winter wheat
yet.
Not spring wheat planting has been
done. Cash No. . red at New York closes al
1871 against 90 a. We, ago.
Hog produces are quiet and steady, with
| light demand.
Tnere wers two huairel fai. nres in the
| United States reported to Bradstreets this
| week, against on, hun lrel and min ety~one
last week, tw hundred AMI twenty five in
the first week ending in April, 'S5, one hun
bred and for y,three in 81, one hundred and
ninety in 'Si and one hundred and twenty
nine in 80 Canada hail eighteen this week
against thirty last. Toe total number of
failures in thu Uhit,l Ssatos from January
to April is tire, tho Is and throe hundred
and lhirty-nine, az inst tn e, thousall nine
hu ,dred ant FL wen in II lik, pDrtion OF 'S5,
decline OF fiys hund Ell AMI s,venty-two
| against three thou md ono hundred AMI
ninety in ~ three thou and one hundred and
sixty in 49,; ani two tn )u;l mi o,,s hundred
AMI for.y-six IN 80. Cinail h I'd thro, hum
drel and sixty in three m ,nths OF sc, against
four hun Ire an thrty-seven in like share
Of IS, decline of CT.