Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-10
CHOLERA AND TRADE.
he Scare Not So Intense as Last
Week, but the Quarantine Has
VISIBLE EFFECTS ON BUSINESS.
any Drugs and Articles in the Paper
Making Trade Are Higher.
MS AND BRADSTREETS REVIEWS

NS AND DhAUoIhEE1 kEflEW .
NEW YORK, Sept 9.-R. G. Dun & Co. s
-ekIy review of trade says: Last weeks
-ni-panic in stocks and grain has been
lowed by confident feeling about
alera Stocks have advanced about 20
is per share on the whole, though in
r markets the alarm disclosed weak
swhich still continues Meanwhile, the
ueral condition of industries and trade is
only remarkably good, but improving
rceptibly from week TO week, although
exports of merchandise are not yet
ge enough to prevent some exports of
;.osI.
Decided improvement is seen in the tone
vi the iron trade at Pittsburg, where glass
works are, also, resuming and the hardware
,.ade is good. The iron industry grows
more active. Nearly all works are full of
orders, and the output is now heavy. Nails
have advanced 10 cents per keg, but some
weakness appears IN prices of structural
ead plate iron. A meeting of railmakers
text week may give that branch chance
lor larger business.
The Coming Anthracite Coal War.
vania and the Reading adds to the dullness
in coal. Boots and shoes are in great de-
luand, Eastern shipments being 81, S26 cases,
against rs, 317 last year. Cattle receipts at
Chicago for the year are 13 per cent larger
than last year, and receipts of all live stock
therein August were nearly 25 per cent
larger.
All textile works are remarkably busy,
and in drygoods better demand is seen tor
medium grade worsteds, and demand in
excess of supply for plain wool goods, while
prices of cottons are very hrm, some ad-
vaLcing.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven DAYS
lumber for the United States lac and for
Canada 33, or total of 179, as compared
With totals of 176 last week and $50 the
,Eeek previous to the last. For the cor
responding week of last year the figures
verc PA. representing 1S7 failures in the
United States and q in the Dominion OF
Canada.
BrddStreet'S saws: At the New York Pro-
.'uce Exchange engagements to export
readstuiis have been seriously intertered
18th, and ocean freights at the Maritime
exchange are only nominal Cotton ex-
ports are not naturally active at this period
i,nd feel the influences less
Imported linen rags are up from 354c to
&c per pound, and higher rate is expected.
Fine writing paper is expected to be ad-
vanced soon. No foreign rags. cotton or
wooden waste are admitted now, and chem
ical wood pulp has advanced $40 per ton.
bleaching powders used by paper makers
and as a disintectant, are up from 2 17c to
&c per pound. The sale of fruits and vege-
rabies, as well as the importation of the
same has been affected unfavcrably. This
on account of the cholera scare. There has,
of course, been greatly increased demand
tor drugs and chemicals. Imports of Rus
sian bristles and woods have been stopped.
The effect of delaying merchandise at quar-
antine and disintecting is beginni ng to be
felt, not few varieties of goods failing to
Withstand the effects of the latter.
a number of wholesale houses report a
growing caution on the part of town buyers
Raw silk and stocks OF manutact ured silk
and embroideries are ample Tor tn e next six
months demand, but continued detention
of goods will affect trade materially. A few
orders for German goods via Hamburg have
been countermanded. 1t should be added
that sales of hardware, cutlery, houseiur-
nishngs wood and willow ware, china,
lamps, brass goods and glassware at New
York are in excess Of the total in like
period Of 1891.
Wheat Movements and Railroad Earnings.
Exports of wheat from United States sea-
ports, both coasts as reported to BrddStreet'S,
equal 3, J67, 900 bushels this week, about 10
per cent more than last week, and but %
per cent less than the week before. In the
like week of 1891 the total exported was
4,726. 900 bushels. In 1890 it was ], ,4S0, 900
bushels; in 1889. !, 426, 900 bushels and in
1888, 2,739, 600 bushels.
Reports from railroad companies through
out the United States to BrGdStreet'S show
al aggregate of gross earnings in August
amounting to 81, ,000, coo, an increase over
the total tor August last year of 10 per
cent For eight months the gain this year,
as contrasted with last, amounts to 6.5 per
cent, the grand total gross earned since JAN
uary having been in excess of $40, SOC, 900.
The only group showing decrease in Au-
gust gross earnings this wear, as compared
with last, is that of the trunk lines, due to
the falling off reported by the Grand Trunk.
Bank clearings throughout the country,
as wired to Br0dStreetS, aggregate 81 1885,
Coo, Q00 this week, an increase OF 16 per cent
over the week before, and gain of per
cent over the total in the like week of 1891
FittsburS Banks lake a Tumble.
BrGdStTect'S table gives the totals of bank
clearings at SO cities for the week ending
September 8, and tie increase or decrease,
as compared with the week ending Septem-
l,ar