Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-01
THE TRADE OUTLOOK.
Western Cheese Supply Now in Ex-
cess of Demand and the
PRICES ARE BEING SHADED.
Dealers in Agricultural Implements Salts
fed With Business.
HOME TANNERS VERY MUCH AT SEA
PRICES ARE BEING SHADED.
HOME TANNERS VERY MUCH AT SEA
OFFICE OF The DISPATCH.
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OFFICE OF The DIsPAToH,
PITrsBURG, TUESDAY, May 81. {
By reference to home marker column il
will be seen that Western cheese is now il
supply bevond the wants of trade, and mar
kets are steadily drifting lower. The quail
ity of Ohio cheese on our markets thus fal
has not been ur to standard, and as a result
prices have been weakening. New Yorl
cheese, on the other hand, has held up we'll
and prices are firm. 1t is seldom that there
is such difference between prices in New
York and Ohio cheese as there has been Of
late. The wide divergence is due for the
most part to the difference in quality of of.
ferings. There is no new Sweitzer cheese
on the market and will not be for a month
to come.
Farmers Buying Implements.
Dealers in agricultural implements report
an active trade. with volume fully up to
what il was at this time last year. Mowers,
reapers and rakes are moving out very freely
at about the same prices as prevailed year
ago. Tho time for seeds is well nigh over
for this season. Volume of trade in this limo
has passed that of last son. with prices a
shade higher. Clover seed has not sold rs
high for years as it !la- done this season.
Tanners here ara very much at sea be-
cause OF the aCGlOn OF the New EnTlQnO tan
ners in shutting down for the month OF June
and July. Margins have been SO close of
late that manufacturers of leather have
.;r seen MT to curIail pro products in tho hope OF Of
the shutdown has been Il weakening of the
hide and calfskin market So far the weak
ening has affected mostly the shoe leather
industry. Pittsburg is most interested in
the harness leather trade, and up till this
time there has been no marked change in
this line. A movement counter 70 the action
0f Nax ,.ry1o n 1<.%
been inau-urated by Chicago hide dealers,
and the result OF the controversy only time
will tell.
Britain's Leather Imports.
The following is from the Chicago Hide
and Leather, and furnishes facts OF interest rs
to the leather trade in the mother country:
Imports ofleather in Great Britain during
last April show a decrease as compared with
those of 1891. The total importations last
month amounted to 9,J9, 7l2 pounds, valued
at S2.e4s, $40, of which 7,47O, 635 pounds of the
value of SIS 5000 went into homo consump-
tion, the balance having been re-exported;
the quantity of foreign leather received
during April, 1891. for home pur-
poses was s,Sl4.933 pounds valued at
S2.316 100, an excess of ,3A 35S lbs and $685.
N9 as compared with this years record
The total imports in Great Britain for the
first four months OF the year show a reverse
result however. as far as quantity is con-
cerned. as during that time 49, 723 lbs more
were imported than in like perioG last year.
Notwithstanding this increase in volume,
owing to altered market conditions, the
actual value OF these imDorts (for home con-
sumption) for the first four months of the
year is less than for last year by S45l,55O.
notable TACT in connection with the import
statistics for the present year is that while
their grand total does not vary much from
lat years figures, the sources from which
the imported leather has been drawn have
changed very materially. Against 1891, this
years imports from France for the four
months, fell off s99 $50, and those from the
United States s727. l36 All of this has been
made up by heavier drafts on the British
East Indies and Australasia, other countries
having held about their own. Is this merely
a chance circumstance or case of the
mother country looking after its own de-
Tendencies