Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-07
A TRADE RETROSPECT.
Dairy Products and Eggs Steadily
Take a Turn Upward.
sUGARHIGHER AND COFFEELOWER
Heavy Steer Hides Scarce and Firm and
Mghtweights Weak.
BETTER OUTLOOK FOR THE SHOE TRADE
OFFICE OF PIrTsBuRa DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. Sept, 3,

| OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
| SATURDAY, Sept. g.
In produce lines the marked features of
the week past have been the upward ten.
dency of dairy products and eggs. The lat
ter have been relatively lower in this mar.
ket of late than in Chicago or New York,
and the equilibrium has been reached.
Choice grades of creamery butter have
been in short supply all the week and
prices are tending steadily toward ahigher
level The same is true of all good grades
of New York and Ohio cheese. The peach
supply this week was the largest for
years. but demand proved equal to supply
for all good stock Receipts for the week
were over 100 carloads, and the week closed
with very little on hand. Other fruits go
slow and will until the peach crop is worked
off. The receipts of bananas on Monday
were the largest for any one day in the MS
tory of the trade, the total for that day De-
ing above 20 carloads.
The events of the week past in grocery
lines were the rise in sugars and drop in
coffees. Fruits of all kinds are so abundant
and cheap that housewives are evldently
making the most of their opportunities by
laying up in store for the coming winter.
The demand for sugar has been very active,
and as result an advance of &c per pound
has been made this week. The only sur
prise as to the coffee drop is that 1t dld not
come sooner. The crop of Rio is unusually
large and the present decline was due weeks
ago.
Hides and Calfskins
The green hide market is practically as it
was a week ago. At all events quotations
are unchanged. Heavy hides, however, are
reported scarce and firm, while buff hides
and calfskins are slow and dull. The latter
are particularly dull, and all signs point to
lower prices. A number of kilograms from
Eastern tanners were shown to this editor
to-day, the purport of which were that they
were not in the market on calfskins at pres
ent prices. A letter from a leading Boston
dealer to one of our leading firms has this to
say of the hide situation: Markets here are
ment in the West, but these improvements
are not reflected here. Still there is no
pressure to sell at present prices" Appear
ances are that prices are down to hard pan
on heavy hides.
The great activity in this line reported for
week or two past has eliminated in q rise
of lc per pound all along tine line. Our home
stock as fast as it can be turned out. All
heavy stock is in very strong demand, and
supply in this line is scarcely up to demand.
The immense crops of the country already
begin to tell in the increased demand for
horse equipments, and the end is not yet.
With the present activity further advances
are probable at an early day.
Following are the prices of harness
leather, as established by the Allegheny
tanners:
No. trace, CSC ~ h; trace, 3Sc p h; No.
extra heavy, 100 MS and over, Sec T3 h; extra
heavy, Bic p b; No. extra heavy, 29c % IL;
No. heavy, 100 to l60 fbs, SEC r. h; B heavy,
3Oc % n: No. heavy, 2Sc y Ii; black line, 29c
p Il.
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