Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-22
WEEKLY ROUNDUP.
~ smaller Excess of Imports
Over Exports.
FcTeign Sales OF Our Securities
exceed Purchases Abroad-Rail-
road Properties More Satisfactory
Generai Average Of Prices Ad-
vanced Little - Breadstuffs
oeronger-Raw Sugar Higher.

NEW YORK, June 17.-R. G. Dun & Co s
weekly review of trade says:
Inc better feeling which was observed a
week ago in the iron and steel and wooden
industries still continues, and improvement
Is now felt in prices as well as in magnitude
OF transactions. Meanwhile exports of
merchandise increases. Nevertheless. gold
goes abroad in large amounts, about s., 800, :
VOO having been ordered for shipment.
but In two weeks of June the value Of
merchandise exports from New York gains
~ per cent over last year, and the export of
oreadstuffs, cottons, provisions and oil for
May were 121a per cent above last year.
These facts point to smaller but consider
able excess of imports over exports this year,
SO that the outward movement of specie is
fully explained irrespective of trading Sc
curltles, but In these it IS still the impress
sion that foreign sales exceed purchases.
The news as to railroad properties is more
favorable. A proposition to settle the
Northwestern controversy on basis of an
allowance OF GO per cent Of through freight
to the lake lines is expected to be accepted.
shape, and earnings continue In excess of
last years. TIL g.leral average of prices
has again advanced little.
Reports from all cities indicate improve
ment in trade at Cleveland and Pittsburgh,
and In the wool and grocery trades at
Philadelphia, but are otherwise little chang
ed. Collections show no improvement on
the whole. Especial activity In leather has
resulted from the floods in regions where
many tanneries are located and crop leather
has advacced fully cents since June 1.
The glass trade of Pittsburg is fair.
For anthracite coal there is a better de-
mand with reduced output. The sales of
southern iron continue large and prices of
pig at Pittsburg are rather lower, but the
Thomas Iron company has advanced its
quotations to 81 for No. l. Better prices
are realized for structural and plate iron,
and q tenth of a cent better for bar iron,
while the larger demands for steel rails has
50 stiffened prices that $28 is now quoted.
Part of the demand, resulting from the ne
cessity of rebuilding work, bridges and
roads destroyed by the food, is but tempo
rary, yet the consumption otherwise must
be on scale hardly ever surpassed, since
market at the rate of 7,OO0, 0OO tons yearly.
Breadstuffs are stronger. Less favorable
crop reports the pretext; probably excessive
speculative sales are the cause. Coffee
has receded quarter; pork products and
hogs are lower, but oil has advanced 115c.
The rise in raw sugar continues; Al cents
per 100 pounds for the week, and refined has
been marked up to 9]S for granulated.
No disturbance results IN the monev
market here from the heavy exports of gold
in the past week, because the past week the
treasury has paid out 100000 more than
it has taken in.
The business failures number $50, as com
pared with 225 last week. and 215 the week
previous. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 90