Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-01

about 10 per cent. Foreign trade for the
month will certainly prove much the largest
ever known, and the great industries are
all unusuall active.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
Boston notes increasing capacity OF the
largest wooden mills. Manufacturers are
paying advanced prices for wool. Hides
are lower, but leather very firm. Philadei-
phia reports wool very firm, and the trade
healthy and promising; a greater trade than
ever before in paper, stationery, printing
and leather products.
At Chicago receipts of grain fall below
last years, and hides and wool a third; but
cured meats and dressed beet show an in
crease. The drygoods and clothing trades
surpass last years, and the shoe trade as
well, though lately less active.
St. Louis finds trade perceptibly weaker,
with retail trade fairly active but feverisb.
Cleveland notes good trade except in cloth
ing, and manufacturers are busy. Detroit
reports good trade and active manufactur-
ing; st. Paul very good trade, and Mime
apOlis -four output of 175, 600 barrels, with
wheat receipts 1000, 900 bushels. Kansas
City notes satisfactory trade, and Denver
fair. Milwaukee notes steady trade, i'm.
proving with cooler weather.
SOUTHERN BUSINESS THRIVING.
At the South, business is thriving. New
Orleans reports large receipts OF sugar and
rice and good prices, though baling OF cot
ton is hindered by weather, but ut Calves
ton trade improves with better weather and
orders are free.
1t may be said, moreover, that reports as
to collections throughout the country are
more satisfactory. There is scarcely men,
tion of complaint or tardiness; the money
markets are about as last reported, though
firmer with sharp demand at Boston, firm
but easier at Philadelphia, still tight at
Chicago and scarce at to per cent at
st. Louis, somewhat stringent with large
demand at Cleveland and Detroit, strong at
Z per cent at Milwaukee, tight at Savannah,
and with good demand at Denver. but easy
at Kansas City, and easier in spite Of the
demand at New Orleans. The rates at New
York have varied widely. The demand for
the interior does not cease.
IRON STRONGER, STEEL WEAKER.
The great industries are doing more on
the whole than at any time in the past.
While iron production is at the maximum
Mixed" iron seems stronger and steel
weaker. Best foundry iron is unchanged
here, at Philadelphia and at Pittsburg, but
Bessemer iron is weak and at Pittsburg
lower, with steel rails so cents lower. Dis
agreements in the association are reported,
and the market here is demoralized, with
sales reported at S29 at mill. In bar and
plate iron large orders are less frequent. but
the mills are busy and small orders are ac-
tive.
Copper is sold by outside parties at 1852
cents; tin is steady at 21.50 cents, and lead
strong at $50 cents. October trade in coal
was below expectations, but an advance OF
10 cents in price has been ordered, and the
output for November fixed at g. ,250, 900 tons.
Cotton Is a quarter lower with goods un-
changed and in active demand and takings
by Northern spinners fully up to last year s.
FARM PRODUCTS.
The packing business is heavy and prices
of pork products steady, with hogs go cents
per 100 pounds lower. Speculation has not
been remarkably active in breadstuffs,
though wheat is Il cent higher on sales of
$4,000, 900 bushels, and corn has risen Il
cents on sales of 9, 600, 900 bushels, oats being
"a of cent stronger also.
Oil has declined about 81 cents on small
trading. Sugar, both raw and refined, is s
shade lower. But the general average OF
prices, because of the advance in bread
stuffs. potatoes and dairy products, is a frac-
tion higher than a week ago and SO per
cent higher than a year ago. This accounts,
in part, for the enormous volume of e1-
changes throughout the country, but there
remains an apparent increase of over pei
cent in the volume OF business, exclusive oi
the difference in prices.
The exports from this port for four weeks
have been $40, 900, 900 larger in value than
last year, when October exports for the
whole country were nearly sos, 600, 900,
which indicates for the month much the
largest movement on record. Imports here,
also, show an increase over last year o!
$15, ,000, 900, so that the aggregate for the
month may reach $50, 900, 900.