Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-19
TRADE OF TIE WEEK.
A Noticeable Gain in the Demand from
Interior Merchants.
Increase In the Earnings Of Railways for
Mnrch-yVhcnt Firm and the Money

Increase I'm the Earnings of Railways for
Mnrch-Whcnt Firm and the Money
Market Ensy-Fewcr Failures.
Special kilograms to Brddstrcct's show that,
owing to more prevalent Spring weather and
improvementint the condition CT country roads,
there has been noticeable gain in the demand
from interior merchants. This influence has
been the more conspicuous at Boston, Chicago,
Memphis, st. Paul, Omaha, Kans S City, st.
Pittsburg Fears offurther damage from over
flows along the Mississippi arc subsiding.
Mercantile collections gcner.slly are unsits-
factory, though signs of Improvement are
noted. Cattle arc firm at Omlha, but dull at
Kansas City, where hogsare lower Raw sugar
is up 1929, and refined is about. tcady. Coffee
his advanced slightly on reduced total vis-
bly, supply. Hog products are fairly active
with tract onr advances, but utter and &c $
have declined sharply.
Earnings OF l29 railroad companies for
March aggrcg tc $3l,D04 10, a gain over
March, lastyca of i per cent. This ssmaller
: than any mnnthly.inc-ease since last Summer.
Reduced overland cotton mo. cmcnt and floods
at the South have reduced earnings of roads
in the Miss ssippi Valley. The heavy move
meut of crops West and n rthwcst does not
quiz offset the effect of tic cutting in that
section. Earni, IS of 127 onpinics for the first
quarter of the year aggr' ga $50, 3 ,S9o q
{ i'll owe. last year of y per cent.
Exports of wheat land Hour as wheat the
past week have cquallcd 2,0S3,1l9 bushels,
against l,2aG,073 bus he s in the like week OF
1859 and ! ) j ,SaG bushels stweek. The total
shipped July / $50, TO date is SO, $50 39i BUSH
els, Il ainst 70, 6; '93 bushels in Il like share
of lSSS.S9. California exports continue small,
hut this week 9J,000bus els were Gle rel from
San Francisco FIR ], Janeiro, q new demand
on Pacific coast supplies.
Wheat has shown marked tlrmneS; OH UNI
favorable weather condit Ons u q reports OF
falling Off in condition of the Winter sown
crop, and prices have advanced a34 Indian
cora. with decreased interior movement Is
Sulc. higher, and oats sympathized to the ex,
tent of sa9c per bushcl. Available stocks OF
wheat east of the Rocky Mountains show an
average rate Of deere Sc during Murch, but
stocks nGoat for Europe ncrcas: about 3,000,-
0G0 bushels during that month, thus leaving
European. afloat ard United States stocks
April only ) o. 900 bushels smaller than OIL
March |. whereas the decrease hnd averaged
I0,OU0.O00 monthly duringthe first two months
of the year
Eastern dry goods commission men report a
slightly better recorder demand form Western
iobbers There is IL considerable distribution
of Spring dress gools through price conccs-
sions. rice in the regular WY are firm,
except as to blcachcd cotton, which tayors
buyers, and print cloths are l. &c. higher.
Wooden goods arc dull, and further rest lotion
of mems wear produ on is discussed. Raw
wool is generally dull and unchanged. EXCEPT
at Boston, where there's IL improved demand
from manufacturers. Raw cotton IS l-l6c.
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