Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22
THE TRADE OUTLOOK.
Pittsburg's Drygoods Business in a
Prosperous Condition.
AGREAT RUSH FOR SUMNER GOODS.
Garden Products Are Making Up for Lest
Time in the Spring.
THE LEATHER OUTLOOK AT CHICAGO
AGREAT RUSH FOR SUMNER GOODS.
TIE LEATHER OUTLOOK AT CHICAGO
OFFICE OF THE DISPATCH, I
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY, June 81.


Everything in the line of garden stuff has
been backward this season owing to the cold,
wet spring. In general the products of the
garden in this section are three weeks behind
the average time In the past week or two
rapid strides have been made and it now
looks as if the lost time would be fully
made ND. Under the influence of hot
weather and timely showers there has been
an extraordinary growth since summer
fairly started. The gardens around Pitts
burg are now after so long time in splen-
did shape, and the yield both as to quality
and quantity promises to be full av-
erage. An old-time Neville Island
gardener in an interview to-day had this to
saw of the outlook: 81 have never seen
garden stuff come forward as rapidly as it
has done the past week or two. The ground
was wet, and the extremely hot June
weather, accompanied with light showers,
has brought everything forward in won
derful manner. Everything in my garden
looks frst-rate Tomatoes will be some
what late, but the condition of plants is all
that could be desired"
A Light Fruit Crop.
The latest advices from fruit centers indi-
cate a light yield this season. In this vi
cinitv the promise for good Weld of cher
ries. plums, ounces and apples is far from
good.
An untimeIy storm in the early spring,
which covered the branches of the fruit
trees with ice proves to have been blight
to the fruit crop in this section. Certain it
is that fruit will be much dearer the COM
ing iall than it was last fall In the great
trRit growing regions on the Eastern shore
ba her
the influence of the declining prospects for
fruit, canned and dried fruits which have
been unusually dull since the beginning of
the wear, already give signs of animation
and jobbing prices are already advanced.
A Healthy Drygoods Business.
The wholesale drygoods trade of Pitts
burg was never in better shape at this sea-
son of the year than it is at present. A
representative of one of the leading firms of
the city had this to say in an interview to-
dav: "Our volume of trade for the months
OF NAV and June has been fully 10 per cent
larger than for the corresponding period of
last year. The rush for light summer goods
and notions the past week or two has been
unprecedented. Light colors in the line of
domestic goods have the lead this season
more than for many summers past.
Fancy dress goods are a shade higher this
season than last under the operation of the
increased tariff, but increased cost has made
no impression OH volume of trade. Fall
orders for hannels and blankets have been
coming in freely of late, and all signs point
to still heavier trade in the fall than we
had in the spring and summer Fall goods
do not usually move freely till the latter
part of july, but we have now orders
enough on our books to insure brisk trade
through the last quarter of the year. In
the line of gents furnishing goods the same
activity is reported as on dry goods lines.
The Leather Outlook.
The current number of the Chicago Hide
and Leather has this to say of the situation
OF leather and hides:
The sole leather situation is becoming
very interesting. The burdensome surplus
has been reduced. and holders of hemlock,
union and oak sole are feeling frmer in
their views. Some buyers placed contracts
in good season for supplies of bottom stock.
Those who doubted the resolution of tam
ners to curtan production, postponed pur-
Chases and now find that it is less easy to
obtain concessions in selections and prices.
1t is believed that foreign buyers are not too
well supplied with American leather, and
that they are limiting their purchases to
soften the market. Holders with this
knowledge, are naturally determined in
their views to sustain values. Grains,
splits, calf and kip have not been actively
inquired for, but seem to hold their own
pretty well on the quotation lists. Upper
leather tanners seem so earnest in their de-
termination to restrict production that
their anticipation of an improvement in
values has some Justification. Oak and
hemlock harness feathers are dull and de-
pressed. Prices. rule, are very low, and
tanners feel much discouraged. 1t would
not be surprise if tine harness tanners fol-
lowed the example of the shoe leather men,
and met to discuss needed remedies in their
business.
The Chicago packer hide market is not Dy
any means in the condition fondly hoped
and prayed for. While many tanners agreed
TO stop wetting hides, no restriction was
placed on their buying. In consequence, the
Chicago packers have not only been selling
quite freely, but have been refusing to take
orders for late kill until their spring hides
are cleaned up. Orders for several carloads
OF hides are not infreQuent. Country hides
are slow and somewhat neglected. Receipts,
however, are not oppressive; this tends to
sustain values