Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-06
A SURVEY OF TRADE.
Leading Features of Our Home Mar
ketS for the Week Past.
GOOD Trade IN BUTTER AND EGGS.
Cereals Improve NOt-FlOur and Hay Drift
ing Downward.
HIDES AND PROVISIONS STRONGER
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATURnAY Nav 4 1880

The weeks trade in produce lines was
scarcely up to last week in volume, The
intervention of holiday and chilly weather
gave slight check to trade Hens appear
to be taking a rest flom their long activity,
and eggs of an entirely reliable character are
not in supply sufficient for demand.
Creamery butter had a drop of &c at Elgin
Monday. Country butter is comingin SO freely
that all signs point to a drug before another
week has come ana gone. ,Peddiers report an
abundance through Pittsburg's bailiwick of
the very best Grocers should now be able TO
retail fair article at zoe. 1t is certain that
many of the farmers wives through this Sec
tion are selling butter under lac per pound. A
leading jobber of butter and cheese reports
Friday as one of his best DAYS this season.
His sales reached l26 packages of butter and
2S5 boxes of cheese on that day. The same
dealer said: "Our trade was larger for April
than it was last April. Sales were 81 900 more
according TO our books. This means more
than these figures show on their face, for
prices have been so low that We must have
handled 25 per cent more stuff than we did in
April of last year."
but old vegetables go as slow as ever. Pota-
toes can be bought within thirty miles of Pitts
burg for 10 to l5c bushel, which year ago
would have sold readily for ST.
The worry of farmers over low prices of their
last seasons products will soon be at an end.
In another week or two new stuff will have the
field.
Provisions.
As the season advances the consumptive de-
mand for hogs increases and provisions are
moving out more freely. Hams especially are
in better demand than they were week ago.
At the beginning of the week lard gave signs
of weakness, and was a shade of in price. The
lost ground has been more than recovered, and
markets at The close of the week are shaae
There is, however, large room for further
Improvement before pork packers can receive
talr reward for the capital and labor invested
in their industry.
Cereals.
There is but one sentiment among operators
in grain, -four and hay, and that is that trade is
wretchedly dull With the exception of corn,
markets have shown idrooping tendencies ali
the week This, in the face of light receipts,
the lightest for some months past. Hay is par
ticularly weak. Four is Csc of from prices of
last week, and the end is not yet. From all
points of the compass, and from over the sea
comes the report of dull and stagnant -four
markets The feature which has spoiled the
shrewdest calculations IF spectators in bread
stuff has been the light export demand. Stocks
of flour in the hands of our dealers here are
reported unusually light
The steady downward drift the past few weeks
causes dealers to pursue the hand to mouth
policy. This course is likely to be followed up-
I'll bed rock is reached.
Hides.
The cloud that came over the tannery indus
try a few weeks ago by reason OF the Boston
failures has not yet lifted. Confidence was so
shaken that it will be slow in returning Our
hons tanners are strong enough to stand MANY
such storms. Stocks are moving out fairly
well Light hides suffer most from depressed |
markets. AS our home consumption demands
heavy weights this grade has suffered little
Whatever Boston's troubles may be- in hide |
and leather lines, this city is solid.
Following are prices for hides and calf skins |
IS furnished by James Gallery d Co.