Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-07
DAMAGING INFLUENCE.
TRADE is BADLY AFFECTED ny
TIM RAILROAD sTRIsE.
BradHtrerrs aud nun'- Reviews OF
Trade for the week-Esports Of
wheat show an inrrcaS. OVER
Last xcar-rrcscnt outloois.


ny Associated Press.
New York. July 6,--Rradstreet's re-
view. tomorrow. July Z, will say:
aside from the intervention Of o
holiday. there Is sharp restriction
OF general trade and Industrial produe
ton. due to railway troubles Wsat OF
the Alleghenles and North Of the ohic
river which extend wost and South
west to the Paclnc coast and make
their Influence felt In all other diroc
tions. The combined strike and hoy.
colt has had steadily increasing
damaging influence upon the general
Industrial situation. Calculations as 10
sthe number OF men out are necessarl-
ly not complete. but there is little
doubt that the total number idle MS
a result OF this railway tie-up far OK
ceeds the outcome OF any previous
labor trouble In this country, All CO.
reals except wheat have shown a de-
clded advance In price, pork and lard
are up sharply, as are fruits. veget
ablcs. meats ana other perlshable pro
ducts Pig iron West is commanding
20 cents more per ton and cattle, hogs
and sheep are noticeably higher, oven
NJ far Western markets. where receipts
are restricted. The foregoing features
are most conspicuous at Chicago and
San Francisco, but are having very
unfavorable effect In Minneapolis, ST,
Paul. Milwaukee, Omaha. Kansas city.
St. Louis and Cleveland.
Southern Trade Effected.
General trnde at New Orleans Mo.
bile, savannah. Nashville and. Mem
phls has been unfavorably affected by
the railway ue-up, Producers and 9TH
ers Interested In shipping vegetables
and fruits have already suffered great
loss. Charleston reports trade dun
and without feature. Augusta say
that II IL good and that the results OF
June's business is more favorable than
In June year ago and while at Birm-
inghnm trade is very quiet In all lines
Favorable crop reports from TeXa
stimulate merchants TO expect u good
fall trade
AT the larger Eastern centers therG
is no material gath In the situation be
yond a speculative squirt In wool which
lilfAAdNtu Ailt Nululllh VI ANf NblF VI
the same at Boston To total OF four
times as large MS that reported IN the
week year ago. Six New England
cities shipped 10000 cases OF shoes last
week. against 10000 in the week a
year ago, while Boston receipts OF
hides were $4,000 Of all varieties as
compared with 1900 in the week
In ..f LAT
manufacturing corporations In Rhodt
Island has closed down for a week
and other cotton mills continue to pile
up stocks,
Demand for niiiets.
aside from the Increase In restric.
tion Of trade at Iittsburg due TO the
railway situation. there is "a revival In
demand for blllets for future delivery
at $40 Baltimore reports quite a sat
isfaotory trade, wholesale dry goods
being the more favornbly situated. Re
ports from Philadelphia are that the
volume and result OF business IN nearly
all lines are very unsatisfactory, Trade
Is not better at Buffalo; Il anything
lake business is less active. The United
States and Canada carried over on
July fully 7s,sOOOOO bushels OF wheat
against 75,5OO0OO bushels one year ago.
and one-half TO one-thlrd as large
quantities visible In preceding years
The total here in Canada aud afoat foi
Europe July l was l5G.5l9,QOo bushels
compared with i52, 3Os 900 bushels one
year ago. with Australian stocks in
cluded the worlds visible wheat supply
July was 1854, $4,000 bushels, z-sinst
157,2OSOOO bushels one year ago, when
the total was the largest on record
for like date.
Exports Of wheat.
Materially higher prices for wheat
at an early date would appear to de.
pend on the truth OF the assertion that
domestic invisible wheat supplies ara
practically exhausted. of which fact
there Is no certain evidence. Total ex-
ports of wheat. United stntes and
Canada, both coasts. flour Included,
this week are 1.S5O00O bushels, against
1,7l7OO0 bushels lust week. 1867 .OOc
bushels In the week n year ago, 2,OGO,.
600 bushels in the first week OF July,
1892. and 2.225,0O0 bushels IN the CORE.
spending week OF 1891.
Business failures show further
decrease within "A week, the total be-
ing only l6l against is9 last week. so
In the week yenr ago and i52 ia the
week two years ago.
Trade continues quiet throughout
the Dominion Of Canada. particularly
at Toronto. where the railway strike