Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-26
AST0 TEAS AND SALT.
The Upward Movement of Tea Has
Been Arrested and Prices
DRIFTING BACK TO THE OLD LEVEL.
PIttsburg Salt Manufacturers Going From
Gas TO Coal.
THANKSGIVING TURKEY In DEMAND.
DRIFTING BACK TO THE OLD LEVEL,
THANKSGIVING TURKEY IN DEMAND,
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY, November 25, 1890.
Teas on the Decline,

Aeds Oh tue Decllne.
In the early autumn teas advanced sharp
ly, particularly those of low grade. Some
grades advanced as much as &c per pound.
The upward movement was due largely to
speculative influences. Spectators made
the most OF the increase in value of silver
exchange. The higher grades of tea were
slightly affected by the advance. The recent
financial furry has upset calculations of
spectators and jobbers here are now able
to buy their teas at very slight advance Oh
lowest prices of last summer, when prices
were unusually low. Present price OF teas
varies very little from rates of this time year
ago. The crop tins season is full average,
Doth in quantity and quality.
There are no reports of shortage from any of
the Reproducing countries. Within the next
month all the tea crops of this season will be
cured, and from present indications the yield
VIII De full average. The products of India
ana all the British possessions are received
through London. When the Mckinley tariff
ON was before Congress, importers of Japan
ana emma teas made strong effort to have
uuty OF 10 per cent ad valorem placed on India
teas but the effort proved abOrtive Working
on the fear that this move would prove success
1ul, Spectators maTaged for a time to stiffen
prices. But dealers who banked on the advance
were doomed to disappointment. since prices
are now down to almost their lowest price for
this yeaE
Said one of our leading dealers whose trade
is confined exclusively TO tea: i recently
bought very large quantity of India teas in
New Ork At prices as low almost prevailed
before the advance OF last August There was
little advance ia high grade teas and the adj
vance In low grades Is now almost wiped out
Tlttsburg's tea trade calls for more varieties
than any city on the continent, owing to the
great variety OF our population. The Irish and
" elsh are great consumers of the plant that
caeers but not lnebrlates as we have large
population OF races in PIttsburg and surround
ing country. the consumption is very large.
Ine regular lnbblng tea trade OF this city is
not Tar from l,5O0, 900 pounds annually. In aG-
diuun To this there are a number of companies
here which represent Eastern firms. Pitts
burg Jobbing tea trade extends as far east as
Altoona and Cumberland, and as far west as
Columbus. Through this territory we have no
longer, as IN former years, any serious compe-
Litlon outside OF New York and Philadelphia
firms"
The salt Industry.
The salt manufacturers of Pittsburg and
Allegheny with one exception have recently
abandoned natural gas and gone back to coal.
he change has curtailed output and if de-
mand had been as brisk as it sometimes is at
tins season, it would have been impossible to
MI orders. The condition of country roads
through Pittsburg's baiiiwick for the past
month has made it next to impossible to deliver
Eoous 10 country stores of the line of railroads
me llne Tor changing from natural gas 10
c"al mas, therefore. been propitious. Demand
Tor salt cannot very much decline. Not less
than three-quarters of a million barrels are
called Tor from PIttsburg manufacturers and
sack time, such as we have been having for a
lew weeks past, only means heavier demands
later on.
population is steadidly increasing and this
means more need of seasoning. In addition to
fhe ordinary demands, the steel and glass man
uiactorIes nave of late years found that salt is
very important factor in producing the results
aimed at
salt has long been an important ingredient in
glass uIacture, and it is becoming more and
more valuable ingredient i'll the manu-
facture of steel and iron
Thanksgiving Turkey.
AS an illustration Of the growing disposition
OF Americans to give thanks over turkey, a
representative of the East Liberty Express
Company reported that four wagon loads OF
live turkeys we're delivered by this company on
Monday, 20 East End families and stores. The
total was above 800 head. With Tuesday and
"Wednesday still 10 hear from it is evident that
this season will snow well in the East End as to
Thanksgiving. Whatever may be the ups and
downs of stocks and banks the American bird
VIII do full duty on the last Thursday of No
vember in this section.