Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-28
FEATURES OF TRADE.
Fire Brick Observation-Disclosures
Cannot Fill Orders.
HEAVY DEMANDS FROM BRADDOCK.
An Alleghenian Furnishes Facts of Interest
en- Cereals
AND LIVE STOCK IN THE OLE WORLD
OFFICE OF PIrrsBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY. August q. 1889 4

ID.
TUESDAY. August q. 1889.
The supply of fire brick of higher grades
has not been up to demand. The new fur
naces in process of erection at the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works will require upward
of 10000 900 fire brick and orders are already
out for this amount The Pittsburg firm
with whom these orders were placed has
within few days given notice of their inability
to meet orders. This firm has now on its books
orders for 700 900 brick TO be delivered in eight
months and their capacity is only l,0OO 900 per
month. If not single order comes In for
wear to come this fire brick firm will have about
all 1t can do to meet orders already booked.
The wants of the Braddock steel works will
call for about all the fire bricks which our
largest concern will be able to furnish for the
balance of this year.
A representative of another firm said to-day:
I'VE have never had = more lively trade than
we are having now. The demand for fire brick
is first class Competition is sharp and margins
of profit are extremely close, but goods are
moving out freely. We do great deal OF bus
mess for very little money, but such is the
drift of trade in all lines these days"
1t appears to be with tradesmen in all lines
that only the fittest are to survive in this era
of low prices and narrow margins. Woe unto
the merchant or manufacturer these days who
him to take advantage of the low prices which
prevail in all departments of industry.
Cereals and Live Stock In Europe.
Mr.. Latimer, an Allegheny merchant, who re-
turned yesterday from a tour through Great
Britain, France and Germany and gave special
attention TO Erin, from which he sprang reports
as follows concerning the cereal and live stock
situation in the Old World: Crops all through
Ireland are unusually good this season. The
yield of fax, hay and potatoes has been seldom
better IN quantity and quality. The crop of
oats, which in Ireland is called corn. is large
and of the very best quality, better than any
thing produced in this country. The oats Of
Scotland and Erin furnish material for bone
muscle ana brain building, which the Ameri-
can article, in its best forms, fails to reach.
The cereal crops of Scotland show up unusually
well this season, owing to seasonable rains.
As You go southwark and eastward, in
European lands. nature does not seem to
have been as favorable TO the agrIculturist as
in the North aud West The earth's increase
lessons as you travel eastward in Europe.
Along the Western coast, and for a couple of
hundred miles toward the rising sun, nature
appears to have been very bounJiful this sea-
Son, and cereal crops are above the average IN
that belt. Eastern Germany and Russia will
fali far below the average in yield this season.
In Ireland cattle dealers are having harvest
this year. England and France receive large
supplies of beeves from Parnell's country.
There has been no drop of prices in the old
country such as there has been on this side.
Stock raisers on the Western coast of Ireland
have found their trade unusually profitable
this season. found. however, that the quality
of sheep was much better in the midland coun-
ties of England than in Scotland or Ireland
The Southdowns in central and Southern Eng
land exceled anything in this line / have ever
seen. The Scotch and Irish sheep may have
been all right for wool but England leads both
countries IN the quality of its mutton"
The interview with Mr.. Latimer developed
this fact concerning live stock operations in the
mother country, that sales there are made by
lump anQnot by weight The buyer of bunch of
Irish cattle views the prospect Ger" and then
makes an offer of so much per head. 1t seems
strange to an American that potatoes, peaches
and apples should be sold by weight and steers,
sheep and calves by the head, but such is the
custom in the Fatherland. The cattle trade in
England has experienced no such depression
the past year as has been encountered on this
side of the pond Prime beeves are fully &c
per pound lower at Chicago than a year ago.
In Liverpool the decline has been slight, and
the result has been that cattle raisers in Ire
land and exporters on this side have been reap
ing rich harvest for year past.