Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-20

New York, Sept. 15.-Bradstreets'
weekly report says: All features of
Improvement reported week ago
have been retained and from a number
OF important centers further gainst are
reported. At various northwestern
centers colder weather has, stimulated
sales III drygoOds, clothing and shoes.
Encouragement is gained from the i'm
proved demand for money at Savap-
nah, Augusta and New Orleans. At
Chicago money is also more active.
Sales Of pig iron at Nashville thus
far this month equal the total sales IN
August. The demand for pig iron is
also marked at Chicago, but has de.
creased at Pittsburg and st. Louis.
The check LII the purchase of wool
tends to weaken prices and cotton re-
acted lie, Pig iron is % cents per
. ton lower, and hardware and dry
goods jObberS at western centers re-
port increased sales, due to lower quo
tatiOns. Live stock at Kansas City
and Omaha has weakened, but is offset
by firmer markets and advances for
leather, petroleum and sugar.
Wheat went up Ia, corn 81, oats
l Is, pork II, lard Is and coffee
IA. The gross railroad earnings for
August show gain of nearly one per
cent. compared with the decrease of
l. per cent. in July. from July 1898.
Exports of wheat for the six days
past were 2,7S9,000' bushels, con-
trasted with 5,357,000 last year
Two hundred and twenty-three fail
ures were reported throughout the
United States, against 800 a year ago.
New York, Sept 15.-Dun & Go. S
weekly report says: Business, met DO
set back this week, and continues in
creasing. The country has passed
nearly three weeks under the new tar
fff and al will admit that the changes
are Of less Importance than was eX-
pected. If in some branches, business
has materially increased, it has gained
but little or fallen off in others.
The most favorable estimate of the
experts put the loss of corn. at about
800 1850, 900 bushels, whereas the gov
eminent report is by some interpreted
as meaning the loss of a billion BUSH
els The opinion OF the trade does not
favor the official estimate. All realize
that shrinkage of 4OO,OO0,O 600 bushels
is SerioUS, since it must affect. prices, OF
meat for a year or more Pork is I'M
changed but lard has risen 80 cents
per hundred. Western receipts Of
wheat for two weeks were II, 1S4, 6SI
bushels, against 1864, 76t last year
and Atlantic exports were only 2,074,-
100, against 5,1O6,562 last year. The
injury is reported to cotton and the
price is 1-16 lower. There is, an in
crease IN iron trade productions, which
has followed the removal of the coke
difficulties. The measure of the 'capaci-
ty of furnaces in blast September L,
was Isl, lib tons, against 1886 On
August ]. Unsold stocks have de-
creased 1884 tons during the month
The output thus rises to 80 per cent.
of the full production, but the cor sump-
ton may be less, as the main increase
in output was near the end of August
and prices since have weakened a lit
tie. Bessemer iron is S11.40 at Pitts
burg, while grey forge sells at SO. 95
Barbed wire is a shade weaker, but
the other prices are unchanged. There
is less activity in drygOods. Sales of
wool amounted to S,255,20O pounds in
two weeks against 5,647, 900 last year.
This weeks failures numbered 207
against 314 last year.