Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-16
BRADsrREET's REVIEW
or Trade Puts a Much Less Rosy Hue
Upon Matters Than Dun's.

Upon Matters Than Duns.
Various special reports to BrGdstreets
respecting tendency toward quiet, II
not dullness, in many of the leading
branches of general trade are rather
more conspicuous this week, This Is
noticeable in advlces from Boston, New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Memphis, Kansas City, st. Louis
and Galveston, while at others, Chicago,
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth,
trade maintains a fair volume, decreased
in some lines as compared with a few
weeks ago.
Dry goods and clothing sales have
dragged in almost all directions. Low
water is restricting the output OF cot
tons in New England. Trade in wool
ems has been disappointing, and manu-
facturers are slow to buy stocks OF raw
wool, which remains dull and heavy.
Exports of cottons are restricted by
unsettled trade in Brazil, China and
Chile. Cotton is weak on large crop
movement. Philadelphia carpet yarn
spinners report an unfavorable season.
Mild weather has checked the move
ment of green meats at the west, and
hog products generally are in smaller
demand, with a downward tendency.
Live hogs are sc lower and free receipts
OF live cattle weaken quotations for
them. Raw sugar is 1-16a1 sc up on re-
duced beet crop estimates, better de-
mand and decreasing stocks. Sales OF
leather and lumber are more active at
nearly all points, except for the former
nnnnsfin
while foreign are higher. Eastern boot
and shoe manufacturers have begun
work en- spring orders. Disturbances
In Brazil continue to advance the price
of raw rubber here. Mercantile COL
lections are only moderately prompt
south ana quite variable elsewhere.
The pig iron trade thus fer is disap-
pointing, demand not having met ex-
pectations, being materially below cur
rent takings at many points. The
anthracite coal market, too, is far
from satisfactory at the moment, with
the prolonged spell OF unseasonably
mild weather and practically un-
checked production. Business failures
in the United States number 26S,
against 23S last week and 200 this
week last year. The total January to
date is ,3s9 against s,7O2 last year.
Exports of wheat Qncluding fiour)
from the United States ports this week
reported TO BrddStreet'S equal 4, 100000
bushels, about twice the quantity sent
abroad in corresponding weeks in four
preceding years. There have been gains
in exports or wheat land -FOUR for two
Io+ To- l. 81 In
fully 700, 900 bushels. For twenty weeks
exports of wheat and -four from the
United States ports reported equal
nearly 100000 bushels, against 81
POS, 600 bushels from United States and
Canada in twenty weeks OF 1S90-91,
and as comp pared with 80, 1874, 900 bushels
in 1889, 42. 44S,00 Bushels in 1888, and
81, 35S, 900 bushels in 1887.
Bank clearings, as wired exclusively
to BrddStreet'S, are from sixty-fve cities
this week. The total, S1,315, 2S7, 1875
from fifty-seven cities in the United
States, is l3.1 per cent. less than in the
like week of 1890. The decline is large
ly due TO the decreases at New York
city and at Boston. Chicago's total in
creased ~ per cent. as compared with
the week year ago. Out OF sixty cit
les reported twenty-eight show de-
creaSes.
October's gross railroad earnings are
among the best this year, the gain being
slightly less than that of September
over the like month in 1890. Increases
are large and more numerous, and de-
creases correspondingly less noticeable
than for many months. Large gains by
the grangers reflect the heavy grain
movement. Gross earnings Of 140
roads for October aggregated S56,712,-
$40 on total of 81, 764 miles, gain of
ST. per cent. in earnings, and is per
cent. in mileage over last year. This
follows gain Of Al per cent. in Octo-
Der, 1890 over 1889. For ten months
the earnings aggregate is S454, 421, 751,
gain over ten months of last year of
5.S per cent, following gain in ten
months OF 1890 over 1889 Of o. per
cent.