The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-19
TRADE AND COMMERCE.
Bradstreat,s Trade Raviaw


Trade Review tomorrow says: No
special change is 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 which form the ex
ception this week. AT Chicago the
rush of spring trade is over, the orders
for dry goods holds out we'll, notably
for cotton dress goods. Trade in shoes
and hardware is decreased, Unfavor.
able weather has restricted sales of
millinery, dry goods, clothing, carpets
and drugs at st. Louis, but manu>
facturers of shoes report trade as active
as previously.
Business at Kansas City appears
quite irregular, and at Duluth it is
disappointing, jobbers in some in
stances refusing to fill orders, but i'm
proving weather at st. Paul is re
Elected in better and more frequent
orders for dry goods, clothing, mlllin.
cry and hardware, and manufacturers
of implements and of Irvine are in
creasing their forces, while jobbers re-
port collections improving. At Min>
neapolis trade is reported active and
at Omaha business is on broader
basis than during March, hardware
and lumber being conspicuously more
active.
At San Francisco iobbers report
moving more freely and
a better feeling noticeable. Extreme
heat with north winds are reported to
have very seriously damaged growing
wheat in Southern California and in
the west San Joaquin valley
Prices of wheat, iron, steel,
cattle, corn and cotton are
all lower, although an extreme drop
being based in part on the govern
ment report that the wheat crop is
less damaged by the recent cold
weather than reported. Prices of iron
west and east have been further scaled,
due to cutting of railway rates and
competition between furnaces, al
though there are advices from Pitts
bnrg of an advance in some trades.
Oats have advanced 1.4c; porh SOC;
lard 1-4c; white sugar and print cloths
remained unchanged.
The industrial situation is more
and less encouraging.
There is prospect of wide spread
strike of coal miners and Others this
with probability of further
strikes in larger cities early in May
There are So strikes now in force
throughout the country involving
about So, 900 people.
Gross railway earnings of 121 COM
panies show increases in only 90 in
stances over March. 1893. March
were $37 $3.50 ,442, nearly II per
cent less than last yetr. For three
earnings are nearly $l04,2
625, falling off of 1874 per cent from
last year. Bank clearings show smaller,
total $500, 769, 900 for the week, COM
pared with $94S, 100000 last week, and
with ST, 900 in the second week
of April, 1898, e, Available wheat stocks
in the United States in Canada afloat
for and in Europe have decreased less
than anticipated, owing to the in-
crease in European available stocks,
where decrease is expected. Wheat
exports, both coasts (hour includedD,
aggregate 1895, 900 bushels this week,
against 2,77S,000 bushels the week be-
fore, 3,94S, 600 bushels in the week last
year, 1910 600 bushels in the week two
years ago and with 2,456, 900 bushels in
the second week of April, 1891.