The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01
FINANCE AND MINING
Lead Shows a Further Decided
Weakness.
ORE AND BULLION OUTPUT
Silver Steady-Business Matters at Home and
Abroad-News Of Many Utah Mines
and Miners.

Trade in Salt Lake is not as brisk as it
might be, and the cause, in great measure,
is due to the unreasonable weather. A fall
of several degrees in the temperature would
make marked difference all around.
The reports from other cities are, on the
whole, moro favorable At Boston the i'm
provement In trade is slow, but more orders
are seen for boots and shoes, and while
domestic hides are easy, foreign are active
and firm. Wool Is steady with sales of
:, 14S, 600 pounds at unchanged prices, and
lumber is in moderate demand At Hart
ford wool is quiet, the dry goods trade not
quite so brisk, but trade in hardware and
groceries good. At Philadelphia the boot
and shoe trade is satisfactory, increasing
demand is seen for iewelry, and groceries
are active with decline in sugars. Canned
goods are also quite active, and in chemi-
Gals, tobacco and liquors, there is fair bust
ness; the paper trade is reasonably good,
and the demand for wall paper stronger.
In paints, lumber and glass business is
quiet and for carriages very dull but dry
goods jobbers are doing fair business,
dressed goods being favored, and hosiery is
active; Rt Cincinnati retail trade is brisk,
and clothing active; at Cleveland business
is good and the tone confident, though iron
is inactive AT Detroit trade aud manufac-
lures are fully up to last years mark. At
Chicago increase appears Of a third in re-
ceipts of hides, dressed beef, -four and corn,
though new corn moves slowly, and receipts
of rye are three times last years, but some
decrease appears in oats, barley, cured
meats, lard, cheese, butter and wool. The
dry goods trade is much larger than q year
ago, the receipts of cattle larger by Is, 900
head for the week, the shoe and clothing
trade large, and business gradually increas-
ing IL all lines. AT Minneapolis the lumber
trade is very good, prices rising and ship
ments for the week 9, 600 900 feet more than
last year; the -four mills again beat the
record with 1876, 900 barrels, and general
trade is good there aud at ST. Paul. At
Omaha and Kansas City business is salts
factory, grain and cattle receipts being
above the average, and trade in agricultural
implements active. At St. Louis trade
shows encouraging strength, grain comm
in faster; and at Memphis business is very
fair. At New Orleans better feeling is
seen with large receipts of cotton, and fair
of rice and sugar, and money in active de-
mand. At Savannah trade holds WELL cot
ton receipts reaching %, 600 bales in enc
day, and at Jacksonville trade is steady with
bright prospects.
The stock market is hesitatipg, with little
change for the week, though depressed on
Thursday by sales from Paris and the con-
tinent The Paris Bourse IS disturbed by
heavy selling OF copper shares. But the
Bank of England does not change its rates,
though losing this week 81, $50, 900 gold.
Here the treasury has put out, including
new treasury notes, s 600 more than 1t
has taken in during the week. The mer-
chandlse exports for the past two weeks
have exceeded those of the corresponding
weeks last year, while imports fall far be
low those OF year sgc, 80 that the balance
of trade in products strongly favors con-
tinued imports OF gold. Foreign exchange
has declined hall cent during the week.
aud money at New York has been easy and
chean