The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-02

NV ToEK, Dec. 3l.-s. G. Dun 4
COS weekly review of trade says The
old year has closed with Il little more
than the usual holiday dullnesa in gen,
eral trade. At Chicago it was the hcav-
lest ever known. At Philadelphia i'm.
%provcment is seen in the iron business
and reports from the west are
ing 10 dry goods dealers. At Pittsburg
pig iron is stronger. finished iron in bet
ter demand, and glas5-works all in OPP
Grafton. At Cleveland there is a large
inquiry for rolling mill products, but
general trade is inactive, especially IN
winter clothing and boots and shoes. and
at Detroit unreasonable weather affects
general trade. but there is more demand
for iron. At Chicago receipts of wheat
have doubled in comparison with the
same week last year, and in corn, rye.
dressed beef, and wool the increase is a
third. with the same increase i'm cattle
and flour. but a decrease Of a third in
hides and a quarter in oats. Sales OF
general merchandise much exceed last
years. At Omaha and Kansas City the
car famine restricts the movement of
products; on the other hand. the west is
peculiarly favored by the enormous for
eign demand for crops, which would
otherwise be depressed because Of the
largest ever known.
Wheat cOmc forward as rapidly as the
crOwucd condition of railroads will permit
and exports, though reduced last year.
are very large again this week and for
six months have exceeded 12O,OOO.GOO
bushels, flour included. whereas the
greatest movement ever known in the
last half of any previous year YVES 1lJ,-
100000 in 1873. The price has declined
nearly n per cent during the last week,
corn % cents and oats u cent, but
prices are highly satisfactory to western
farmers. Pork products are "A shade
lower, coffee nearly "A cent lower. oil
5sc lower and prices of commodities av-
erage more than half of one per cent
lower for the week. Money markets
continue well supplied and undis
turbed. Foreign trade continues ex-
cecdIngly favorable. for while the increase
of imports at New York during the past
month have been about ~ per cent, the
increase in exports here have been TO-
ll1,GOO, or about 81 per cent. which
would indicate an excess of exports over
imports exceeding S%iG,OO0,OOO for the
month. The records of receivership
during the year includes ~ railroads
with 2,lJ9 miles in operation and ssh
$4,000 in stocks and bonds. The an
nual statement of failures in 1891 Just
completed shows AN increase over last
year of l,jGG in number, the total in the
United States being l2,273 against 1O,9O7
in 1880, but substantially no increase
appears in the amount f liabilities.
SlS9,SGS,G3S against SlS9,GjG,9G4 for last
year, so the average Of liabilities for
each failure is reduced from S17,4OG to
Sl5,471 for the past year. In the middle
and eastern states liabilities have de-
creased largely, but the south has in
creased from S27,O00.OO0 to S45,OOO,OOO in
amount and the proportion to the num-
Der Of firms in business is one to fifty
nine in the south against 100 in the mid
die states and 100 at the west. Business
failures occurring throughout the coun-
try during the last seven days number
32H as compared with the totals of 292
last week. For the corresponding week
Of last year the figures were 34S.