Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-15
FEATURES OF TRADE.
What a Western New York Fruit and
Vegetable Dealer Has to Say.
THE CROPS In THAT SECTION.
An Advance in Rubber Goods Looked for
by Manufacturers.
TIE LEATHER TRADE STILL QUIET
7HE CROPS In THAT SECTION.
TIE LEATHER TRADE STILL QUIET
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH.
TUESDAY, October IA. 1890

TUESDAY. October IA, 1890 !
Fred A. Moore, of Clarkson, Monroe
county, n. Y, has been in our city for the
past day or two to dispose of some of the
products of that prolific section. Rochester
is the central city of Monroe county, and
Mr. Moore is one of the leading traders in
fruit and vegetable lines.
In an interview yesterday Mr.. Moore thus
gave the situation as to farm and garden
products in his section: "The apple crop in the
region around Rochester is failure this sea
son, and there is not more than one-fourth the
average yield of pears, ounces or plums- Last
year my town sent out 1SOOO
baskets of plums to the worlds markets,
while the entire product this year VIII NOT e1-
ceed that many hundred baskets. In vegeta-
BILE lines about the only good crop we have TINS
season Is cabbage, Onions are very scarce Jhe
yield of grapes was never larger. The princl-
pal products of Monroe county are beans and
barley. and as We come into sharp compe-
1ition with Canada in these lines, our people
are feeling good over the new tariff bill. Where
oats, peas, beans and barley grow as protuseIy
as they do in our section, we are just as much
for protection as the iron and steel makers OF
Western Pennsylvania.
The Boot and Shoe Trade.
Prices of boots and shoes show an upward
tendency. While there has been no marked
advance. all signs point in that direction. Buy
ers are disposed to pursue the hand to mouth
policy in hope of a decline in leather. The
general view of jobbers is that they are hoping
against hope and that present prices VIII pc
fully smaintained. Any improvement IN de-
mand for leather would at once strengthen
markets. The situation OF the leather market
is oujet but manufacturers are holding stock
firmly The demand for light rubbers has very
much improved under the influence Of late wet
weather.
There are some kinds of rubber goods very
hard to get. and If we should have a severe
winter IL will be impossible to meet the de-
mand. Manufacturers have learned caution
from the two open winters just passed, and
have been curtailing output. Jobbers are car
rying light stocks of rubbers, and in the event
of very severe weather there will not be enough
rubber shoes and boots to go round"
The India Rubber Outlook.
Following is what the Shoe and Leather Re
sieaU has to say of the rubber situation:
There is avery good demand for lightweight
rubbers, not ouly at the mills, but in all the
distributing centers. The recent rainy weather
has had much greater influence upon the
trade than would have been possible but for
the extremely light stocks carried by the re-
tailers, jobbers and manufacturers. We have
had two mild winters IN succession and dealers
and producers alike are operating with great
caution. Stocks are nowhere excessive. There
has been q noticeable disincllnation to buy, in
view of the absolute impossibility of forecast
clements have become so capriclous that sue
Cession of frost and snow cannot be depended
upon as a natural carollary of December and
January.
Prices continue to be somewhat disturbing
factor. The advanced rates in boots and shoes
do not cover the increased cost of production
resulting from the late rise and scarcity of raw
stock. If the fates have in store succession
of snowstorms for the coming winter, there is
likely to be rapid rise in prices and a consid-
cradle scarcity of desirable goods. The manu-
tactuTe, however, is in the hands of few COM
panies of undOubted strength. Although there
is now no surplus stock. yet by crowdlng their
plants and ayailing themselves of all their re-
sources an actual shortage could soon be
made up.
Crude rubber has declined but at the latest
quotations it is still proportionately higher
than the boots and shoes made from it. At the
beginning of the year new fine Para was held
at 7S cents; owing to the short crop it steadily
advanced until the middle of September, when
The quotations stood at 95 cents Since then
prices have weakened until the latest advices
place new fine Para at IS cents to arrive, and
30 cents for future delivery.
"The worlds stock of Para rubber on the lst
of October was 500 tons. against 2, $50 tons
October l, 1889. During September the visible
supply of rubber increased 365 tons. The Sep
tember receIpJs were l. ,430 tons, against ], l2U
tons for September of last year."