The Portland daily press., 1894-09-22
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
The Mercantile Pulse Firm and Reg
ular.
PRICES ON STAPLE LINES ARE
GENERALLY IEASIER.

alrly Heavy Shipments of Wheat Have
Begun from Portland Oregon, San
Francisco and New York-There Were
21s Failures During the Week Against
321 Year Ago,
New York, September 21- Brad
| STREETS tomorrow will say: The condi-
tion of general trade this week is an i'm
provement over n week ago in that fav-
orable features reported then have been
maintained. Surprisingly good reports
OF business are received from the south
and west some exceptions as indicated
by our special advices from Baltimore
Nashville, Chicago, St. Louis Portland,
| Oregon, and San Francisco. Balti-
| more jobbers in all leading lines report
| the volume of merchandise distributed
in excess OF expectation especially in
dry goods. Alsoin South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, except in the fruit and coal
regions. Other southern products being
| in good supply orders continue liberal
| and mercantile collections easy. Nash
Vile while reporting no improvement
over favorable features made last week
notes their continuance and collections
tons of southern pig iron this week and
| the activity reported in almost all lines
at Chicago week ago is continued, mer-
chants being satisfied with the volume.
Far western buyers who used to buy
in eastern markets are purchasing stocks
shown in dry goods, clothing. millinery,
and shoes.
WOOL is ACTIVE,
one lot of--7oo, 600 pounds being sold
to Rhode Island manufacturer. Sales
Of millinery and dry goods are large,
as we'll as lumber. The seasons ship
| ments of wheat from Portland, Oregon,
and San Francisco have begun, and one
vessel sailed this week from the city
| first named, and six from the Golden
| Gate. General trade at the larger cities
on the Pacific coast is improved in lead
| ing lines.
| The receipts of Alaska salmon are
very heavy. and exports promise to be
correspondingly large. The favorable
| featurs of trade which characterize the
| large areas is corroborated by the bank
! clearings totals for the week of 5000 :
| QUO, 900, or. 81 per cent more than last
week, and 10 per cent larger than the
third week of September, 1898, but
| "a per cent smaller than the like week
| found in the larger sales of steel rails
| by northwestern mills to western rail
road companies, and by increased de-
| mands by railroads for car iron and the
! like. Reverses are seen in the increase
| of the production of pig iron last
| month, when it overlook the demand,
/ depressing prices. Bessemer pig sold of,
as have. steel billets. Gains in volume of
business at
LEADING EASTERN CITIES
in the preceding fortnight are generally
maintained. Boston reports less activity
in dry goods, with cotton goods firm,
| due to the strike and the demand for
| dress woolens is active, with mills we'll
| employed. Neither Buffalo nor Pitts
| burg announces gains or reactions, ex-
| cept in the prices for metals. Philadel-
| phia textile manufacturers are only fair
Iy busy, the relatively active trade in
| other lines being in dry goods and no
tions. Providence reports improvement
in cotton yarn manufacturing, due to
the Fall River strike, and Charleston
| telegraphs that general trade is fair,
| without new features. At Chattanooga
there has been some slight improvement
in businaB, and Memphis business
and groceries; A tlanta collections
are Tree anf trade improving: at Savan-
nah, the volume of business continues
! to improve, and extraordinarily heavy
dealings in SPIRITS of turpentine have tax
en- place. Dry goods jobbersa at Angus
ia have been doing larger business
than for some time previous.
A Jacksonville the local trade is cut
into by the heavy rains. Only fair
volume of business is reported from Bir-
mingham, and at New Orleans there has
been very little change. Galveston re-
ports sales of dry goods will continue
smaller until the middle of October,
when recorders will be received Texas
cotton is beginning to move, which
helps business and collections.
AT THE WEST
The favorable features announced BY
Cleveland last week are continued, the
volume of trade being larger than a year
ago, and at Cincinnati the tende ncy to
gain is maintained. Only fair volume
of business is reported by Detroit. Lou
isville continues to do larger busin ess
in dry goods, groceries, paints, OILS,
glassware. There is said to be improve
ment in all staple lines at Kansas City.
except livestock. Even at Omaha there
is fair volume of business, without
special activity. Milwaukee reports no
changes within week, and at Dulut b
numerously and for larger amounts
st. Paul and Minneapolis announce a
fair volume of business without special
activity, equalling that of year ago.
Heavier exports of wheat from New
York city, San Francisco and Montreal
further increased the weekly total of
wheat (and flour as wheat) exported
from both coasts of the United States
and Canada within six days, such a
total being 1857, 900 bushels; year
ago it was 4, 4,727, 900 bushels.
The prices movement this week is
downward, cotton having sold to within
two points of the lowest price on record.
and wheat having made another "lowest
record" Other decreases are shown in
hogs and cattle at western markets,
based on heavy receipts in Bessemer pig
iron. steel billets, Indian corn, oats.
naval stores and refined sugar.
On anthracite and bituminous coal
prices have been weak, and those for
lumber likewise at some eastern mark
cts and quotations for pig iron general
lily. Steady quotations during the week
announced for pork and lard at eastern
markets. Advances have taken place liz
leather, and to relatively small degree
in wool. There were 21S failures re-
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