The morning call., 1891-07-08
Exports of Breadstuffs for Year-Custom-
House Charlottesville Coffee and Coal
Trades-Etc.

ports $50 failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the first six months Of
1891, with assets S2,134, 294, and liabilities
$3.50, 042, as comparedawith 513 for previ-
Gus six months, with assets 81, 203, 500 and
liabilities 81, 152, $40, and 479 for the CORE
spending six months Of $780, with assets ST.
56S,45S and liabilities So BOOTS Following
are the causes assigned for the failures:
lncompetency, 131; ineXperience, As; made
quate capital for the business undertaken,
1870; inludiciouS crediting, 81; personal eX-
trayagance, %; complication OF indebted
ness, B; neglect of business and bad habits.
10; excessive competition, Il; unfavorable
circumstances, floods, fires, etc., 80; specu-
latlon, 8; fraud, 46.
Local Custom-house collections during the
fiscal year of 1S90-91 were 1913. 267, the
smallest since 1SS6-S7. For the preceding
fiscal year they were SIS, $50, $50.
The San Francisco Real Estate Circular of
July 1st reports 246S mortgages recorded
against real estate in San Francisco during
the first half of the year, amounting to So
4S3,5l3, and l449 releases, amounting to &c.
626, 096, showing net addition of So. 857, 517
to the liens against city real estate in the
past SIX months.
The comparison of the first six months of
1881 with the first six months of 1890 shows
an increase for 1891 of S676, 900 in loans and
decrease of S52S, 900 in releases.
THE GRAIN MARKET.
Exports of wheat from this port in June
were TAG, 425 ceBtalS, valued at 81, 245, 049,
making total exports for the crop year OF
1S90-9l of 14,S44,S15 centals, valued at S19,-
924, 640, against 49, 7028 S7 centas at SIS, co.,
IT'S for the crop year Of 1889 80. The exports
OF flour during the past crop year were l, 1884,
546 barrels, against l1S9016 barrels during
the crop year of 1SS9-90. Reducing the
flour TO a wheat basis we have total wheat
Hrf- Il IA rFNrr tt,a -Nf
200 centalS, valued at S25. 1870 600, against H.
pa, 800 centals, valued at 81, $50 900, during
the crop year of 1SS990. The exports of
the past cereal year were the heaviest and
most profitable for number OF years.
Wheat is lower and weak, sympathetic
with decline abroad.
Barley is advancing, the rise being accom-
panied with increased activity in speeula-
ton.
Oats, corn and rye are slow and I'M
changed. Eastern corn is now flowing in.
Flour is in fair demand at the recent de-
cline.
Grain bags are weak and lower as the
dealers are cutting each others prices.
Ground barley has gone up in sympathy
with the raw product.
GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Hay has made a general and pronounced
advance since last review. Thanks to the
remunerative prices OF last year the farmers
are enabled to hold this season, and are gen.
orally doing so. hoping to realize better
prices by and by. Dealers expect more ac-
tivity from now on, as the heavy consumers
have not yet begun TO buy.
Beans are slow. Prices show very little
variation.
Potatoes and onions are in good supply
and fair demand
Most of the butter now coming In is soft
and out OF shape, owing to the recent hot
weather, and accordingly has to be sold low
Hard, Tine butter is scarce and higher than
last week Cheese is firm at an advance.
Choice eggs are also doing better, while COM
mon are weak and SLOW.
Honey shows no further fuctuation, and
receipts OF the new crop continue light.
Hides are quiet at the recent decline.
Hops rule duh. The louise question is APP
paIently as lar from settlement as ever,
continual reports of damage come from the
oregon and Washington yards, closely fol-
lowed by contradictions, and under these
circumstances nobody wants to contract for
future delivery, and trade is therefore at
StandStlll. Dried fruit aud raiSins are neg
lected. There is no Eastern demand, and
the markets are fiat and spiritless. Fresh
fruit is also easier. though there is no POSI-
tive decline in prices on canning account and
for Eastern shipment.
Wool continues inactive.
Mutton and lamb are scarce and higher.
but other meats are in sufficient supply and
unchanged
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
The private circular of R. Hochkofier
gives the receipts Of coffee at this port dur
ing the first six months of 1891 at l29, 766
bags, against 109,609 during the same time
in 1890. and us, 476 in 1889. The sales from
first hands were $685. bags, of which %
POI went overland. The stock in first hands
July 1st was 4S, 221 bags, against 40, TAT bags
July /, 1890. The circular says:
The statistics for the first half OF the year as
given above show gratifying increase as COM
pared with the preceding two years, both as to
imports and distribution. The movement over
land officially revised) comprises 1883 bags 10
81. Louis, Chicago and other points In the
Central States and 460S to the nearer
of the better grades of washed Guate-
maa, which quality is mostly In re-
quest with Eastern buyers. future shipments
VIII be necessarily restricted. AS The mar
| kets have not favored speculative buying lob
bers and retailers have been carrying narrow
stocks Tor many mouths and The local sales from
MT h"hus during the past SIX montiI~-sdy 64.-
| 1888 bags. OF monthly average OF 10.797-mlIst
very closely represent the actual Coast require
ments DUNG That period. Taking the average
imports for the last half of The five preceding
| years as a basis for the next six months, we
should receive about &c. 900 bags during the re-
mainder OF The season (incudftg new crop ar
riydis in November and DecemDer), furnishing
as statistical conclusion, an available supply 10
which Is not excessive. Good au, horitIes disa
gree, however. as TO future arrivals. Influenced
| by somewhat less favorable crop news from Bia
| al ana Inc reaction natural after marked de-
| cline The New York MAJ ket has recovered some
what from the late depression. Under the slim
| ulus OF an advance III New York OF about BALI a
cent per pound in both spot and options our mar.
ket has been more active than usual during lie
| holiday season, and closes steady, but without
any improvement III prices.
Sugar is in average demand at the estab-
| liShed prices. Rice is quiet and featureless.
| Provisions meet with fair inquiry at pre-
viOus quotations.
Gamers report canned fruit very dull, as
| the Eastern buyers positively refuse to touch
| this market, and prices, though no lower
are weak. Canned salmon is firmly held
but not active, though some sales are being
made.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dry goods are in moderate demand. To-
bacco and cigars are quiet
The private circular of /. Steuart gives
the receipts OF coal at this port in June at
5000 tons, against 81, $50 in June, 1890, and
1920 in June, 1889. The deliveries during
the first SIX months OF 1891 were 677. 020 tons,
against 4o4, 23O during the first six months Of
1890, and 549,213 in 1889. OF the June re-
ceipts 46, 700 tons came in from British Co.
lumbia and 25,400 from Tacoma, nune COM
ing from Seattle. The circular further saws:
The coal market during the month has been
quiet, as usual at this season. No coal has been
shipped from The Seattle mines TO this port DUR
Ing the month In consequence of the labor
troubles prevailing In that district. AT present
writing the prospects of the peaceful working Of
the min es ibeie appear somewhat remote and
the consequences arising from the present rela-
lions tXistlng between the miners and their
employers may not remain confined 10 that sec.
ton. Meantime the supplies from British Column
bla have been liberal. Quotations for shipment
OF coal from Great Britain and Australia are
higher aud cargoes sailed and Oh the way are
hrmly held. FIices OF all kinds Of foreign coal
tend upward
Lumber is in fair demand and prices are
more or less unsettled. The receipts at this
port during the first SIX months of the year,
compared with the corresponding period in
1890, were as follows: Pine, 133, OF. 600 feet,
against lib, 756 600; redwood, 76.3S5. 900 feet
against S7,29S,Q00; shingles, 90, 529, 600.
against %, 753,o00; railroad ties, 1888, 1856,
against 676,776. Pine and oak wood are
lower. Tan bark has declined.
HIS JAW REMOVED.