Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-08
FEATURES OF TRADE.
Rain and Mild Weather Depressing to
Gardeners Stuff.
VEGETABLES HAVE HAD A TUMBLE.
A PittSburger's Views on Business With
South America.
SIGNS OF OUR CITY'S PROSPERITY
VEGETABLES HAVE HADATUMBLE.
SIGNS OF OUR CITrS PROSPERITY
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH D
TUESDAY, October Z. 1880


TUESDAY, October Z, 1880. (
All garden products are a drug on the
market the past day or two. Tomatoes
dropped on Monday to soc per bushel, and
were very slow at that Green tomatoes are
selling at Soc per bushel, OF three bushels
for 81 90. Radishes and turnips are very
slow. Even roasting ears, which are not
more than two-thirds an average crop in this
section, have Joined in the downward move
ment, and were selling yesterday in the
Diamond market at 81 90 per bushel basket.
Egg plants are dull at 81 so per bushel,
against s. 80 at this time a year ago.
CucumberS are the only exception TO this
downward movement of garden stuff. Markets
are firm at 81 90 a bushel SAID a Neville
Island gardener yesterday: I'VE had better
crops last season than this, and generally better
prices. The weather of late has spoiled many
of the gardeners calculations. There has been
no frost to injuTe products and the growing
season has gAssed beyond Its usual limits. Late
rains and mild weather have very much i'm
proved growth in garden and field and we find
il impossible TO get rid of our stuff without
liberal concessions to the buyer. As the mar
6et has been this week it is hardly worth our
trouble to bring Jurnips and radiShes to market
as we get litt' or nothing for them. This has
not been profitable season to the market gar
dener IN this section. when compared with last
year or the average season"
Wheat and Flour.
According TO The NoyIhlUeSte,71 Miller, late
inspections of wheat show low quality as
compared with last year. In the early part of
last week prices Of wheat were on the decline
With the opening of new month, an upward
movement was naugurated, which was in the
main speculative The effect of lower wheat
week ago begins TO count in lower priced spring
patent -four Pittsburg flour jobbers are car
ryInE heavy stocks, and are as consequence
of the recent depression, not in a comfortable
frame of mind. One reason for present Quiet
mes Is fouGd IN the low prices when prevail in
Europe Wheat ana flour are rel .tively lower
there than here. The feeling however. with
Plttsburg lobbers of flour is that the present
quietness is but temporary. and that prices
must inevitably advance before long. In this
faith Jobbers here have laid IN heavy stocks,
and are confidently looking forward to an
upward movement. The late unfavorable fea-
ture is the European situation.
South American Trade.
= Pittsburger who has travelled extensively
in South America gives as a reason why that
counUry's trade is so largely controlled by Great
Britain in preference to the United states, the
cheapness of money in Great Britain. Said he:
The South Americans are very slow pay They
want at least years lime on the goods they
import In England merchants are very glad
American trade. In the United States every pro-
dUcer and manufacturer wants his money quick
Prompt payment is becoming more and more
d feature OF our trade. If a Pittsbrrg mer-
chant orders produce of any kind from the
v est he Is very liable to find a draft come in
before he receives his goods. The countries of
the Old World where money has been accumu-
latlng and low rates of interest prevail. can
well afford to wait when their claims are suffi-
Clently secured. To nv mind the old fory
dllatory business methods of the South Ameri-
can states viii prove one of the greatest
obstacles 10 onr getting their trade"
PittsburG's Prosperity.
Pittsburg's prosperity never before rested on
more solid foundation than now In the lines
OF dry goods, Shoes groceries, hardware. prod.
uce and cereals, the amount of stuff handled
was never as large and while margins of profir
are probably less than for many wears the
goods are going out and the consumer gets the
dement, OF the small profits to the jobber Apy
aouDlng Thomas who questions the reality of |
Ittsburg's Prosperity only DIS TO talk with |
oHT leading wholesale merchants dav by day as |
the writer's duties call him TO do. The uniform
testimony is that all rhe signs of healthy pros
psrlty are here.