Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
MILLERS COMBINING
In the Great Northwest to Hold Up
the Price of Flour.
MORE FIRMNESS NOTED HERE.
The Harness Leather Situation and Outlook
in This Section Reviewed.
OPINIONS OF A HOME MANUFACTURER
MORE FIRMNESS NOTED HERE.
OPINIONS OF A HOME MANUFACTURER
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH.
TUESDAY, February l9, 1889

TUESDAY, February lS, 1889.
The local department of the Minneapolis
Miller in its last issue is devoted almost ex-
clusively to pressing the idea of organiza-
ton and combination in holding up the
price of -four. Organization is de-
clared to be the salvation of trade.
Mnlers of the Northwest are tenderly ex-
horted to join in the saving business, and it is
claimed that vast amount of missionary work
has already been well done in this line the
good effects of which are seen in the improved
tone of the markets..
So good has been the effect of the combina-
tion to curtail output that the agreement TO
curtal for the balance of February and March
by spring wheat millers is declared of. The
salvation of trade and missionary work so wen
done, by which the price of bread is enhanced,
will not be viewed by the millions in the same
light as by the syndicate and the Mlnneapohs
Miller.
Increasing firmness in -four markets here
and at all commercial centers of the land is one
of the marked features of trade the past ten
DAYS. Spring patents have advanced to y W
per barrel, and one of our leading Hour 1oDoers
said to-day that they are very cheap at tins
figure, in view of the high price OF cholce
spring wheat. With the rise in price comes
the increasing demand, and Jobbers report
greater activity than since the beginning Oh the
year.
bread seems TO be a success, but such success
breadvinpers can hardly be expected to en-
thuse over the success OF those missionaries
who Make to themselves friends of the MAN.
mon of unrighteousDess" with vengeance.
Harness Leather.
The time is here when, according to past ex-
perience, the active movement in the harness
leather trade should make its start. Said
member of one of our leading manufacturing
firms: "Our trade does not look up as it
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fair it ought to be better at this time of the
wear. We sold more pieces in January than
ever before in that month. but the amount OF
money taken in was below the average for the
month. Margins were never as close. Our
trade has footed up more dollars, when we
were tanning 800 hides a week, than of late
when we have been handling :, $40 hides" Speak
ing of the amount OF stock on hand this manu-
facturer tsaid: mo. / harness leather is better
cleaned up than usual by our tanners. Our
home harness makers manage to use up this
stock as fast as 1t is turned out. and from what
We know, are as busy as bees turning out work.
No. stock, which goes in the main TO the
West and to large harness factories which
manufacture for the wholesale trade, has been
going off slowly, and in this line the accumu-
lated stock is larger than usual.
THE time cannot be far away when the de-
mand for this class of harness leather will set
in. Factories will soon begin to cut the No
leather and should be doing it now, according
To past experience. But while our trade in
this line does not start out as briskly as we eX
pected we have no fears of the final outcome.
As PIttsburg harness leather is at a premium
in the market, it will undoubtedly be the first
to reap the benefit Of any active movement in
the trade" In the course of the interview the
faith was expressed that there is no better
point in the land for a wholesale harness manu-
factory than Pittsburg. At Philadelphia and
Cincinnati are immense establishments in this
line. At the little village of Harmony har-
ness maker has developed quite an extensive
wholesale trade the past year. Pittsburg is
ripe for an enterprise of a similar kind. ac-
cording to the views of many of our tanners.