New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-29

, ooo mn bpsbes for one week, and propaoiy
oxceedinc IA 600. 600 bushels in February. Oa,s
bovo declined n quarter Of cent, ana Poi"
nroducts are steady, but oil is l-2 Genus lo"ei
Cotton has fallen an eighth during the week ~
: os cents. receipts from plantations having peeh
7O3. ZIG bales for the month, against o94,'o| i"'o
vear. Exports in February have peeh ouV
soventy-nine bales smaller than year ago. ouo
the takings of American spihhers are he"s
%. 600 bales less. With six months OF 'he ciop
v.ar gene the quantity which has come lhlo
;oht ia still asa 600 bales greater than at the
same date from the exceptional crop OF looo'
The volume of domestic business unquestiohaoS
exceeds that Of year ago. in spite OF much lo"ei
prices Exchanges at all clearing houses ou,si,'
of New-York 1875 per cent greater lor re'
ruary than last year, when the amount was ia o.
than in any previous year. Doubtless this Is
uartly due to the activity of speculation, puC Tue
ronorts of earnings on eighty-seyen roads for the
first week OF February, lightweight for the second
and forty the third, exceed last years by So
uer cent. The large movement Of breadstuifs anu
cotton counts here, as in the aggregate of generai
trade and some decrease in other trade may NC
inferred. Coal consumption in January was over
\ per cent less than in the same month last year,
thouph much greater than in any other year
Consumption of cotton and wool in MANUFACTURES Is
unite up to the maximum of previous years, ana
at some cities favorable prospects for the Dulld-
ing trades are seen.
The iron manufacture is increasingly depressed
by overproduction and accommodating stocks Inc
demand for finished products does not enlarge, ana
some important establishments have stopped dur
ING the week Rails are still held at fixed price
NV the combination, and consumers do not yet take
steel beams largely, as great foreign supplies were
ordered before the Trust collapsed. Pig iron is
offered by some makers at prices so low that
financial necessities are suspected and yet il does
not onpear that production has materially de-
creased Consumption is supposed TO be about as
great as at any other time, but the quantity pro-
ducod il greater than the country has at any time
consumed.
The stock market has been affected but little
by foreign sales and gold exports. The average
price is $67 81 per share, against S67 80 week
ago, and S67 80 February IS, so that In spite OF
the deafness of speculation prices are curlousiy
maintained The advance last week in Delaware
and Hudson, Lackawanna and Jersey central was
about 81 . for the three shares While the aggre-
gate price Of hfty-scven other shares was "a less
than week ago. Large earnings have helped 10
maintain a market thus inactive, III The lace oil
large sales but the Reading has reported for
January slight loss in net earnings, and the
Pennsylvania loss of $3.50, 403 on Eastern and
Western lines
Money has not yet become closer, though the
banks lost 100000 of their reserve, while in-
creasing loans by S4,3OO,oOO. The Treasury took
in about 81 500, 900 of other kinds of money while
putting out Sl,2OO,0O0 in legal tenders, and with
IA Congress in session which proposes all sorts Of
things, there may well be disposition in the
Treasury to guard as far as possible against
emerge ncies.