The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-14
HE SIAIE OF TRADE.
B. g. Dun & Co.'S. Weekly Review of the BuSi
ness Situation Throughout the Country.

B. g. Dun & Co.'S. Weekly Review Of the BuBi
ness Situation Throughout the Country.
NEW YORK, March S.-R. G. Dun
& Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
The failure Of an Important iron es.
Enlistment has checked at least for a
moment feeling OF increasing conf
denee which seems TO have been due
less to any increase in demand than to
a decrease in pressure to sell. At
Pittsburg prices were a little better
and at Philadelphia and New York
more firm without advance. But the
Reading failure has SO changed the
feeling that buyers are likely to be con-
sentative. In bar iron and plate there
is no improvement. Rails are IN
changed. Nails are weak and the mar
ket for structural iron is slow.
The coal market is also so despond-
ent that meeting Of the companies is
expected next Tuesday it is said to re-
duce the schedule of prices, but actual
sales were reported about so cents
below the schedule already. The
market for bituminOus coal is dull.
The copper syndicate is supposed to
have been much relieved by consent of
the American mines to reduce their
output from Is to % per cent. In Feb
ruary, however, the syndicate had to
take 10. 900 tons while the sales were
only 1897 tons and an outlay of g.
500, 900 per month must ultimately
here declined only to Is ga cents for
March, but fluctuations at Boston
were severe. In tin there was not
much change. Lead is inactive at 81
cents.
Oil has risen a fraction, but coffee
has again been advanced nearly l cent,
to 10, and the market for pork products
is stronger with mess pork so cents
higher, at S12-
After declining sharply to 944 cents
fall of 8 cents. wheat rose to 96 on
Thursday, but declined cent on Fri
day. The decline was due to further
information of the large stocks re-
manning in Dakota alone. according to
the last figures about IL ,000, 600 bush.
els, but on Thursday there was quick
advance. Corn and oats have risen
a cent each with but moderate transac
tioDs.
The price of cotton has been main
tanned. Reports from Cuba helped AT
advance of 3-16th in raw sugar, but
leather is again a shade weaker for
some grades and the tone of the WOO
market is depressed by conservative
demands of manufacturers and reports
that the spring clip is likely to show al
increase of 20 per cent. The dry goods
market has been irregular.
Reports from interior towns gener
ally indicate an improvement in thu
volume of business and in the demanI
for money which still, however is ampl
at nearly all points for legitimate de
mands. The reports of slow collection
continue. The rate of foreign exchang
remains unaltered though money her
| has been rather dearer.
| During the past week the treasur
has taken in only $500, 900 more than
has disbursed and the outgo to the in
terror has continued, but withdrawal
for Europe do not appear as yet.
The stock market has been dull, If
regular and somewhat depressed, bu
transactions have been mainly confine
to the traders on the floor and the hop
of success in organizing the inter-stat
compact still sustains holders.
The general average of prices 70
commodities has declined during tn
week about third of one per cent.
The business failures number PSI a
compared with total of 232 last week
and go the week previous. For tn
corresponding week of last year the fig
ures were 253.