Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-22
TRADE REVIEW.
Some Irregularity Noticed in the Volume
of Trade in the Southwest.
Business Failures for the Week-General
Condition CT Trade.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-R. Ct. Dun s.
Co.'S weekly review of trade: AT st.
Paul, Mimi :, the weather is held as the
cause of tie tardy trading, and the
movement of Kansas City is rather light,
but more activity is noticed at Detroit,
and other reports from the northwest in
dictate & satisfactory volume of trade. In
the southwest there Is more lrrcgularlty,
and while the cotton movement is now
large andthe clearings heavier, the situa-
ton seems less wholesome. AT Memphis
the character of recent failures is
thought Indicative of an unhealthy state
of trade. Pittsburg finds southern IRON
underselling northern products, and the
same is reported from Philadelphia. The
payments through all the clearing houses
are about per cent. larger than year
ago, and at all| cities outside Of New
York the amount is about 80 per cent.
larger. The weakness in<the iron mar
ket is distinctly due to oversupply.
Sales of Alabama iron, equal, 10. eastern
gray forge which sells III lt5 to SIG 80,
are reported at SIS. Trade III bar
iron is weaker,si and $
cents Is quoted by the :, mills
which want orders. Nails are ruinously
low at $3.50 or even less. I,ghe.Aillcial
report shows sales of steel T&tis.GSH,s5l, -
III tons in eleven months, win! ,Il6,-
7S8 tons deliveries. Coaris weaker, with
an increase i'll tide water STOCKS of 2I0,-
OOO tons in November. phe+anthracite
coal trade closed with stocks Accumulate
ing and sales below current quotations.
Cotton staples are Only in 3uoderate de-
IsaisdLts.and print cloths at So 81, bid.
sssssss goods are steady and. q better de-
mand appears for low grade 'oFercoatipgs
and satiuets, but other men s. V3ble1s
are quiet. More activity is Observed in
carpets. A French syndicatg,Has bought,
heavily of raw silk. y sudden advance
of 20 per cent. in French and ItAlian =
and 10 per cent. in Japans has followed.
Raw cotton is 90 for midfling up,
lands. Sales here for the Week were
800 900 bales.
Coffee has been, lower at 1880 with
sales for the week of.370 900 bags.
Oil speculatior-is more active.
Copper is dull anG'1ower at SIT 40 for
December and tin at f22.
Wheat prices afE4e.5awer for the week.
The sales here have b6en only I 800 600
bushels, and the saat of difficulty is at
nLIa5O, where IL 'AFaDIG itpOTtS tFr, W
growing winter whsat begin to b& felt.
The. TREASURY has pssd out dying the
week at ~ n5ints 81 Soc l9 eco lnsTe THAN it
has taken IL. Bankers look far q. furth9r
outgo of gold in January, although an
nual disbursements are expected to- stiff
len the market for securities.
Business failures during the last seven
days number 81 as against L total of 303
10 + Iraal- gri 2t- TTpply TppyigtrS
For the corresponding week Of last gssJ;
the figures were 290. s52s,es% "a '''
&, French tZesg3ss,isE fa;ssffer Sets. =,
, NothiBgis itlessS fhnn something of;tl1is:'
( ipdSissss Christmas presepss II "a Il sS5otif
saf4S fIfend. s,sss:sZ $&':F
7"5 FoEr WSolssa CuINA Co.
-.re.sts ls4-s y z---
Musie, lsd&es from 81 TO 5000 at Hall s.
Hsskfs9s, 800 Houston street.