Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-02
PICKLED CONDIMENTS.
This City Now Leading Source of
Supply, East and West, in
THE PICKLE AND PRESERVE LINES.
Prices Lower Than Last Year, and the
Demand Very Active.
THE COFFEE SITUATION AND OUTLOOK
THE PICKLE AND PRESERVE LINES.
THE COFFEE SITUATION AND OUTLOOK
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, !
TUESDAY, December ].

OFFICE OF IITTSBURI bIsFATCH,
TUESDAY, December l.
There are five firms in this city, or rather
Allegheny, engaged in the manufacture of
pickles, catsup, preserves, fruit buffers etc.
Trade in these lines has been unusually &C.
tive this fall, and prices are lower than they
have been for a season or two past Last
season the cost of materials was high through
out this section. This season there were
abundant fruit and garden crops, and op-
portunities for laying in supplies at low
prices were never better. With reduced
prices comes larger demand for goods. The
trade in this line is now approaching its
hest time of the wear, as the season for
domestic fruits and garden stuff is practical
lv over.
So long as stuff could be gathered from
garden and orchard, which was the situa-
tion up till within few weeks past, de-
nland for pickles and preserves was slow.
Now, that winter is here demand has very
much increased. Pittsburg has of late
years become center for this class of
goods as well as for heavy weight products.
Large Quantity Exported.
The amount going out from this CITY to
the different parts of the country is simply
immense. A representative of one of our
principal firms, had this to say: "Our ship
ments of pickles, preserves and mincemeat
the past week or two are equal 10 five or
six carloads daily. Our goods go princi-
pally TO the far West, as far as to the Pa
ci6c coast. But the Eastern markets are
also extensively supplied from this source
Within the past week we have shipped
half dozen carloads 10 the Eastern cities
and number of cars to the far South.
There have recently come to US a result
of displays at Atlanta and Augusta
fairs four gold medals Chicago is
the leading competitor in our
line of goods, and, that we are making in
roads on Chicago's territory is proved by
the fact that from that source heavy COM
plants have come of late against the rail-
roads of the country on account of the low
freight rates granted to our and other East |
ern firms 1t is well known that in such !
heavy weight goods as iron, steel, coal and |
coke Pittsburg leads all American cities in |
volume of trade, but the fact that over 40 !
car loads of pickles, preserves, mincemeat, |
etc, are going out from our city weekly to /
the worlds markets is not so well known. |
Pittsburg is proverhially modest in assert !
ing its claims as a center for the manufact- |
ure OF lightweight goods.
The Coffee Situation.
The following is the latest report of the
outlook, from the Boston Herald, which is
authority OH this question:
There has been a good movement in coffee |
in New York of late, and that market is tele-
graphed as firm. Trade here has also been
good, the principal roasters and grinders
working to their full capacity. At present
the market is firm, but as to the future of i
the market there is wide diversity of
opinion. One prominent coffee merchant in
New York advises his coTresD0OheptS here
in the strongest terms as to the extremely
firm outlook of the market, from the fact of
the exceedingly small crop and supply of
mild coffees. He claims that the idea of
Santos taking the place of these mild cofTees
is simply absurd, and that there must be
great shortage of mild goods. He goes
further and claims that the outlook for
even Rio coffees is very firm, and that i'm
mediately on any improvement in business
prices are bound to advance.
But in the same mail as the above advices,
a lending coffee house here gets letter
from one of the most careful houses in New
York, and house noted for its conServa-
tiSm; the letter advising caution, and claim
ing that soon as the great crop of Rio and |
Santos coffees begins to again move freely
there cannot otherwise than be a decline in !
prices. 1t even goes on TO show that pros
poets for the next crop of both Rio and
Santos coffees are most brilliant, and that
easier prices are bound TO result, as soon as
the untrammeled movement of coffees from
the war-clouded South American States
shall again he eSta ablishcH.
saturdays New York market was reported
strong. with 10 to I5 points advance. The
daily Rio cable gave. that market strong,
with receipts of II. 900 bags in Rio and of
q, 600 bags in Santos. The total BIO stock is
cabed at e1s000 bags; same time ayear ago,
220 900 bags.
The further statistical features are shown |
in the weekly Rio cable to be Il stea dy mar |
ket, with exchange up to l2Ad. The daily |
average OF receipts for the week was 1909
bags: shipments TO Europe, $4,000 bags: to
the United States, 5000 bags. The total
visible supply is now 464 500 bags; same time
last year, 32s, G39 bags: same time in 1884, 49,
pa bags. Tie total receipts at Rio the
crop, up to November %, had been 1.s49 600
bags: same time last year, ], is, 900 bags: same
time in 1889. SCI 900 bags.