Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-22

ports OF products. Wheat has fallen cents
during the week, corn about cents and
oats 21z cents, sales OF 45, 900, 900 bushels OF
wheat here indicating large liquidation.
Cotton has fallen one-eighth, coffee half
a cent, oil AZ cents, pork IS cents per bar
rel and hogs 80 cents per 100 pounds.
Sugar is also one-eightn lower, tin is de-
moralized, lead weaker and no takers are re-
ported for copper at 16H cents.
PRICES DECLINING.
The general average of prices has fallen
IL per cent this month, but is still about
per cent above that of the same date last
year. Yet neither the shrinkage in prices
nor the stringency in money markets Can be
attributed to operations of the Treasury,
which has put out during the week s., 300,-
900 more OF the new silver notes. while
taking in only 5000, 900 of other forms of
money. The volume OF currency in cir
culation outside the Treasury is now over
$40, 500, 000 but there are very few interior
markets at which more or less strIngency
is not reported. Baltimore, Pitttburg and
Galveston are exceptions, being we'll sup
piled. But at Chicago and most other
points, while the demand is sharp, no
trouble is reported.
Reports of trade from other cities are en-
couraging. The South is moving the lar
gest crop OF cotton ever grown, and, while
exchange causes some embarrassment, the
movement Is rapid.
SOUTHERN PRODUCTS.
Sugar comes in largely at good prices, and
the receipts of molasses at New Orleans are
liberal at some decline, with moderate re-
ceipts of rice. Trade is healthy at Memphis,
Louisville, Atlanta aud Galveston. though
in Texas lower prices cause some country
failures. Baltimore notes no disturbance
because of Eastern troubles, and at St.
Louis trade in all lines is good, with bright
prospects.
Trade at Denver and Kansas City is fair,
at st. Paul active, though money pressure
is felt at Milwaukee, and at Detroit, good,
except that mild weather checks retail
trade, and the same cause affects the shoe
trade at Cleveland. Cincinnati reports
manufacturers busy, drygoods fairly active,
and the carriage trade closing very profit
able season. Pitts5urg notes fair business
at all mills, no change in iron or steel, and
good trade in glass.
CHICAGO FARES BEST.
Of the great centers, Chicago fares the
best, feeling Eastern troubles little.
The movement of wheat and corn is
slightly less than for the same week last
I@ol' OuICu lhCdLSJ ldluJ OutICi ohu ShSSoS
are larger, and oats nearly double; but in
dressed beef and hides there is heavy de-
cline. The drygoods trade equals that OF
last year, and the trade in clothing and
shoes is ending profitable season.
Even at Boston and at Philadelphia the
great failures are felt less in commercial cir
cles than might have been expected. AT
Philadelphia money is tight and CONNER
cial paper almost unstable, but trade IN
wool improves. In groceries trade is good,
though in tea and coffee dull, In produce
trade is fair, though collections are slow.
Boston notes a very quiet wool market.
Lumber is in very fair demand, and prices
of boots and shoes are firm, though some
grades of leather are lower and hides are de-
pressed. On the whole, the commercial out
look is decidedly more favorable than might
have been expected, and while the demand
for iron and rails is slack, buyers holding
off as far as possible, the producers of fin
| ished forms of iron and steel are generally
well occupied and prices do not decline.