Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
THE TREND OF TRADE
Great Activity in the Line of Boots,
Shoes and DrygOOds.
RUBBER BOOTS IN SHORT SUPPLY.
Provisions Steady, in Spite Of the Sharp
Decline in Hogs.
PITTSBURG ELEVATORS In DEMAND
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH I
TUESDAY, November rs, 1889. I

OEElOE HITTSBURG DISPATCH. 4
TUESDAY, November 70. 1889.
November weather has been great boost
to the trade in rubber shoes and boots. Our
jobbers report difficulty of late in having
orders filled, as factories are unusually
we'll cleaned out for this time of the year.
An advance in prices at an early day is
generally expected. In the jobbing shoe
trade November has made the best showing
Of any month this year. The latter part Of
last year made good showing, but the year
1889 opened with trade very slack. This
slowness continued through the spring and
summer. Our local trade did not pick up until
September. Since the beginning of that month
there has been unusual activity, and the trade
Is now at its best for this year. All signs point
to continuance of this ae ivity from now on
To the close of the year. If these signs do not
fan, the lost time OF spring and summer will be
fully made up, and the years record equal that
of last year.
Outlook for Footwear.
One Of the leading iobbers thus puts the sit
uation and outlook of the boot and shoe trade:
I'VE have not been able OF late to secure
from the factories enough rubber boots to fill
orders. One of the largest factories in the
country, located at New Haven, is away behind
on orders, and is advertising for workmen to
help them out all over the country. We have
been able TO meet demands for other rubber
goods, put with some difficulty, and there is no
accumulated stock as we had a.year ago at this
time. In the general line of foot wear we have
been short of full supply all fall, and have
frequently found it difficult TO fill orders. At
times we have been away behind in orders, and
when SO to 100 cases came in, after few days
delay, they were gobbled up like hot cakes
"a result of this scarcity is seen in a stiffen-
ing of prices, and prospects now are that peo-
pie in the future will pay more for footwear
than they have been doing OF late. A hard
winter viii certainly bring an advance in our
goods, and, in any event. we are sure to have
firm markets"
DryROods Get a Damper.
The effects of continuous rains and wretched
cosatry roads is as much felt in the drygoods
trade as any other. Drummers have found
very hard or rather soft roads to travel through
Pittsburg's bailiwlck the past few weeks.
Orders have not been coming in SO freely as
was expected at the beginning of the month;
but the weather has been entirely responsible
for this. Notwithstanding, this adverse infiu-
ence, Novembers wholesale drygoods trade ex-
ceeds in volume that of last November, and
the same is true of all the fall months
Said one of our leading jobbers this after
noon: IF we can but have few weeks of
sharp frosty weather, we will easily make up
for lost time, and in any event our volume of
u.
staple drygoods are stiffening, and the outlook
rs for higher level of prices"
Provisions Down to Hard Pan.
Advices received by one of our leading pork
packers this morning from Chicago, are that
receipts of hogs there to-day were IS, 900 head,
and that the inside price there for the best was
IS 1913 50. At East Liberty the same range is
quoted as at Chicago. A year ago at this time
prices were fully 81 so higher per IUO than now.
There has been no perceptible effect on provi-
sion markets from this late drop in hogs.
The truth is that prices of provisions had for
some time been down to hard pan, and there
was no lower deep. In order TO a reasonable
rates. the outside price of hogs should be So So
and il is the opinion of many that this will be
the level at which markets will settle. A large
dealer In hog products predicted through this
column months ago that hogs would go below
s. before the year closed. Many Thought the
prediction a wild one. The same dealer now
thinks that So so will be reached before the
regards tins as a sufficient price in view of the
prices at which hog products must be sold
Elevators for the Far West.
The one concern of this city which manu.
factures elevators. namely the Marshall foun-
dry on Diamond street, reports no boom, but a
full line of trade, and business fully up to any
previous season. A member of this old-time
firm was seen to-day, and reported that orders
were coming in freely, chiefly from the West.
Two elevators are in process of construction by
the Marshalls for a new pottery in Seattle.
Washington State. Elevators for private
dwellings are growing steadily in favor and a
goodly number of the finer residences of the
city are furnished with these appointments.