The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-03
TRADE REVIEW
VIVA. is GoIng on, In the Commercial
WorId-State OF TradS.

What is GoIng On In the Comnerclai
worId-Natc OF Trnds.
Special kilograms to Bradstr0et's from
leading eastern trade centers show a
moderate decrease in the volume of dis
tribution Of some staples. A hand-to-
mouth demand for leather aweaker
wool market are noted at Boston, q de-
cline in volume OF jobbing sales OF dry
goods at Philadelphia, lower prices for
grain and produce and lambs at Buffalo,
with better sales at Baltimore due to
recently reduced railway rates and an
increased volume OF transactions at
Pittsburgh as compared with ninc
months OF 1891. Baltimore also reports
slow collections, due to lacl; oil free re-
ceipts OF cotton and grain.
AT the south TRADE features continue
to vary. At Nashville, with Conserva-
tive selling and buying, business is
healthful. Charleston merchants say
the trade outlook is brighter, and at
Birmingham, Alabama, tho volume OF
business is larger, although collections
are slow. Galveston announces fair col
lections and larger volume OF TRADE
than u year ago, and disappearance
OF the cholera scare. Business is I'M
changed at Memphis, with collections
improving, but at New Orleans business
has slackened some, although higher
prices for cotton and splendid sugar
crop prospects encourage merchants:
Enormous rice receipts have unsettled
prices. The sugar harvest will begin in
about ten days. :.
The west also shows varying condi-
tons. AT Chicago staples are very
firm, with leather and hardware, dry
goods, etc, in very active demand: Pig
iron is more active, with coke 25c higher,
and agencies for southern furnaces re.
porting the latter sold ahead to the end
OF the year, while pine lumber is up SOC
at$2 90 per 1000 feet. Warm weather
checks business some at Minneapolis
and st. Paul, and collections are slow
there. Flour il firm and the output
heavy. Spring wheat farmers are
blowing. The outlook for general
trade, however, is fair. There is no
change at Milwaukee, but ut Omaha
the record Of exceptional activity IS
continued.
Throughout the central west trade is
likewise irregular. AT Cincinnati lead
ing staples remain in good demand,
with tobacco and whisky las at Louis
ville) firm Business is also OF full
volume at Kansas City, but at st. Louis
there is less doing in some lines las at
st. Joseph), although farm produce is
firm. Mill Irons have advanced soc per
ton. On the Pacific coast exports OF
salmon, canned fruits, wine, barley aud
flour have increased, but that OF wheat
is less active than year ago. Word is
sent that California expects TO have
100000 tons OF wheat for export this
cereal year,
Exports Of wheat from United States
seaports, both coasts, this week flour
included az wheat) as reported to BrdH-
streets, amount to 4,045,0O0 bushels lone
half being four, compared with SILL
600 bushels the week before, 1854, 600
bushels the week before that, and with
3,4O5,OOO bushels in the last week OF
September, 1891, with l,50S,000 bushels
in 1890, with 1,624,000 bushels in lSS9,
and with 100000 bushels in the like
week OF 1888.
The New York stock market is narrow
and irregular, the advance in CALHOUN
rates and speculative apathy causing an
abandonment of bullish manipulation,
with declines in industrials and special
ties. The collapse of tile Western
Traffic Association seems to have been
discounted, but curtails trading in the
granger stocks. The strength OF few
stocks, notably Reading, New England
and Northern Pacific, has checked a
general decline and furnished tho only
interest the market afforded. Foreign
exchange, after an advance, is weaker,
in sympathy with the symptoms OF an
advance in the loan market. Silver is
steady and inactive.