The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-12-13
! CONDITION or TRADE.
But LittFe Change Detected In Curreae
g Business -Prospacts for Business Aktcf
january 4 More Hopeful.

Bus E,ittfe Change Detected in Carreae
Business-prostacts for Business After
January 4 More Hopeful.
New YORK, Dec. s.--R, G. Dun q Go. 2
weekly review of trade Saturday says:
SIT Is difficult to detect any change
In current business. Prospects for
business after January I are quite gen.
orally, considered more hopeful; in
some branches there are larger orders
and the west-bpund shipments OF mcr.
chand;se are little larger. But the
working force IS naturally diminished
near the end OF the year. and the holt
day traffic brings just now O temporary
activity which is of much general signit.
canoe. The meeting of congress ana
the announcement of the new currency
snlan, and OF various bills proposed,
have not affected the ssitration psr.
eeptihly. Payments tor bonds hass
been completed without disturbance.
but did rot prevent the shipment %
some gold to Europe Friday On the
whole agricultural products are scarce
ly.stronger, and wages do not advance,
but there Is reason to expect the en-
ployment Of somewhat larger work.
ing force after the holidays.
Heavy sales Of shoes during the pass
two months, at prices said to be Aye
and ten cents lower than recent pyiees
Of leatheriwarrant, cause general q.
fort for an advance, and some jobbers
have conceded two and one-halfco
on women's grain and buff shoes, bat
others protest that no advance is pos
sible, and cut down or withdraw thsir
orders. The orders for next season nre
quite encouraging as to quantity, but
It Is claimed that few can be filed at .
profit, and leather seems irmer. With
no prospect of o decline.
1.-THE average of 104 qualities OF
wool quoted by Coates Bros. is 1890.
the. lowest ever known, IA per cent.
lower than last year and SO per cent
lower than in 1892. ~ ste
Manufacturers are receiving more
orders for spring, and still have con-
siderable demand for heavy goods, par
tieularly for overcoat goods, on ac-
COUNT Oh d cllduS0 IL VIC AooieA0nt i's"AssS'
more confidence is expressed that they,
will be able to continue production ct
about the present rate after Janu-
airy l.
+ 1.-THE cotton manufacture shows no
material change, though the demand
for spring is very backward. ~
''The money market has not improv'
ed, and the drift of idle money hither-
ward is as large as at any time this
wear. A remarkable statement shows
that treasury transfers-of money have
been almost exclusively to New Or.
leans-s2, 375,O 900 in October, against
Sos, 600 to all other points, and 1895
600 in November, against So03, GOO to all
other cities. Commercial loans show
no increase whatever. "a
I 1.-THE liabilities in failures for the
last week Of November were S9,03s, 407,
against 81, 904, 47efor the same week Lass
year, but the decrease was wholly
I'm manufacturing liabilities, Sa2s, GA.
against 81, 1915, O27 last year, while trad.
ing liabilities were 1857, 34S, against
81, eos, 449 last year. For the four weeks
of November the aggregate was Sl0,-
5sl, 1878, against SEQ, s41, e21 last year.
''The failures this, week have been
3s5 in the United States, against s37
last year. and 40 in Canada, against ~
last YEAR,