Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-14
THE COUHTRYS BUSINESS.
REVIEW or THE SITUATION ron
THE PAST WEEK.
Only Twenty ont of iei Raiiwo,
Companies show nm Increased
Business--rhe Hank oIearnhccs
show Wrong Percentages.


BY Associated Press
New York. April i3.-Bradstroets
Trade Review tomorrow viii say: No
special charges noted at Galveston.
Memphis Nashville. Chattanooga or
Charleston. Business Is fair only at
New Orleans, orders received being
numerous but small. and transactions
In rice most conspicuous. Western
cities usually report more favorable
business features, from the exception
this week. At Chicago the rush Of
spring trade Is over. although orders
for dry goods hold out well. notably for
cotton dress goods and light silks The
trade In shoes and hardware is de-
creased. unfavorable weather has re-
stricted sales Of millinery. dry goods,
clothing carpets and drugs at st.
Louis. but manufacturers OF shoes re-
port trade as active as previously Bus
mess at Kansas city appears quite ir-
regular, and at Duluth It IN disap-
pointing, Iotbers In some Instances re-
fuslng to IN orders. But improving
weather at ST. Paul Is reflected In
better and more frequent orders for
y
ware. and manufacturers OF imple-
ments and OF Irvine are Increasing their
forces, while jobbers generally report
collections improving. At Minneapolis
greater activity Is reported In flour
and lumber, aud at Omaha business is
on a broader basis than during March,
hardware nnd lumber being cousplcu-
pusly more active. AT san Francisco
aVftlfff IA
more freely, ond u better feeling no.
uceable, Extreme heat with north
Winds, are reported to have very scri-
ously damaged growing wheat In
Southern California, and I'm the West
san Joaquin valley Prices of wheat,
iron, steel, cuttlp, corn aud cotton are
all lower, the extreme drop In wheat
being occhHloned largely by eNtruor-
dinnrily heavy realizing. based In part
On the government report that the
wheat crop * less damaged by the re-
cent cold weather than reported, Prices
OF iron West and East have been fur
Their scaled, due to cutting OF railway
rates aud competition furnaces. nl-
though there are adviccs from Pitts
burgh Of advance In some trades. oats
hive advanced Ia; lard, IA; pork 90;
white sugar aud print cloths remain
| unchanged.
The Industrial situation Is more com
pllcated and less encouraging There
~ a Il'Hllt'A bl u widespread Hilkt OF
coal miners and others this month
with probability nf further strikes
and lockouts at larger cities early IN
May. There are tlfty-slN strikes now
In force throughout the country, in
volvng about 10000 people
Gross railway earnings OF 12l com
panies during March show inorcases In
only twenty Instances over March
1898 March earnings We're S31 800. i32.
nearly u per cent less than last year.
For three months earnings are nearly
IOi2S9O25, n falling OF OF 12.4 per
cent from last year. Bank cleariugs
show another smaller total $3.50, 900
for the week, compare with S9iS 900
last week and with sl.2l5. 600 600 In the
second week NJ April, 1893
Available wheat stocks In the United
States and Canada, afoat for and In
| Europe have decreased less than an
ucipated, owing TO tho Increase in Eu-
ropcnn available etocks where a de-
Crcnse is expected Wheat exports.
both coRsts Clour included. aggregate
600 bushels this week. against e.
l7S0O0 bushels the week before, 2.9iS 600
bushels In the woert last yenr, 2,Hl00O0
bushels In the wcel, two years ago, and
with e.d50OO0 bushels In the second
week OF April, 1891.