Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-03
DulIuess In Produce, Cereal and Leather
LInes-ChOics Corn is None Too Plenty
Heavy Steer Hides and Harness

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Leather Drifting Lower.
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATCH,l
SATURDAY, February !, 1890.
Markets the past week do not show i'm
provement, but in some lines the reverse.
Receipts have been larger than for num-
Der of weeks past, and only the best grades
of corn and oats command prices quoted.
Large quantities of corn coming to the front
falls below standard. A Pittsburger who has
just returned from an extended trip through
the Western States said to-day: There is no
end to the corn in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas.
but the weather this winter has been very un-
favorable to its drying out. Dry cool weather
is very much longed for by the farmers that
they may preserve their bountiful crops after
they are produced"
Wheat and -four are quiet and except on
bakers flour holders are not as firm in their
views as they were week ago. For the latter
there has sprung up strong export demand OF
late.
As to Produce Trade.
Commission merchants report light trade
for tie week, with frmer prices for poultry,
apples, cranberries and sweet potatoes. The
egg market gives no signs of revival. The
higher grades of creamery butter are firm at
quotations, but anything below the best drags
heavily.
There has been great scarcity of fancy ap-
pies all the week, and prices have taken an up
ward turn.
Soft weather and bottomless roads are still a
prolific cause of complaint by produce men. In
Eastern markets there is firmer tone to
cheese this week. and on some grades there has
been an advance.
Hides and Leather.
The market for heavy steer hides is still
weak, and though rates are nominally the same
as they were last Saturday, there is some shad-
ing in order to sell. Light hides and calfskins
are In good demand and prices are well main
tanned.
In leather lines harness is the weak factor
A representative of one of the largest harness
leather tanneries reports that there has been
of late uncomfortable accumulation of
stock, and that January's trade was not above
two-thirds that of the same month last year.
The price Of harness leather ranges from l to
&c lower than year ago. The present depres-
sion in this department of trade accounts IN a
good measure for the dropping tendency of
heavy steer hides. The time is here when Or
ders should be coming in freely for spring
trade. Retailers are carrying light stocks, and
the present burden is necessarily borne by the
tanner.
How Sole Leather Shows Up.
In the sole leather department of the leather
trade the situation and outlook are much bet
ter, though not up to former years. At the
tannery of A. & ]. Groetzinger it was learned
that sole leather is moving out as fast as fin
ished. The only articles which tend to accu-
mulate are the trimmings from the leather
betting, for which there is good foreign mar
ket when the home trade is slack. The above
mentioned firm worked up over 10OO 900 hides
last year and gave employment to about
175 men. Following is their latest price list:
Texas Oak Sole Leather-X overweIghts No.
brand, % to 80; A overwelghts No. brand, q: B
overwelghts. No. brand 25; G overWeights, No.
brand or more. %: X middleweights. No. brand,
% to 29: A middleweights No. brand, 26; B mid
dleweights. No; brand; "a; g Cmiddleweights. No:
brand more, Y No. 0verweights, mixed
selection, %; No. middleweights, mixed selec-
tion, q.
Oak Backs-X heavy, No. brand. 81; A heavy,
No. brand, IS: X medium and light, No. brand, |
81; A medium and light No. brand, 90.
Oak BeltinR-WhOIe hides, first quality, =; oak |
butts. first quality 35 oak bellies. rolled II; oak
heads, rolled, 10.
Oak Harness Leather, La Belle Brand-NO. 1 |
choice trace weights, 81; B choice trace weights
80; No. choice backs, all weights, :; No. Sc |
lected heavy weights, %; No. selected medium |
weights, 2s No. selected light weights. q; = Sc
lected all weights 25 black line leather, 25; No.
selected bull backs, =; harness bellies, =.
Union Leather-No. union backs. heavy, 30; /
No. 2union backs, heavy, 2S; No, union backs |
medium. %; No. 2 union backs. medium, q; No. |
union backs light, %; No. union backs, light,
"a; union bellies, rolled, IL.