The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-06

BUSINESS NOT IMPROVING.


Tzfares Break the Record
SEw ycEK. Oct 5-R G. Dan 4 Co.'S
weekly reyisw CT trade sonor-ox viii say:
Win the cAief crops Of the Vest and
South sinking IN value s. Is not strange
that purchases Of manufactured pros acts
are smaller than uss expected Wheat
has touched tie lo.est polns ever knosn
for options an9 the accumulation Of stocks
is dssooarsgsnx 10 The purchaser for an
advance Holders are com peeled 10 sell az
prices beiox the ordinary coat OF raising
crops. an6 in some Western states there i
also lamsnfable failure Of the cora cror.
Caie- the conditions IL would Be strange
If the demand for man af&csured products
should be qniie Is large rs II other yesrs
Wheat sase-s most from the accumulation
Of stocks in sight, which are far beycna
What j. usually expected for the season.
and exports IN September we're unusually
small. For ;he first week Of October
Atlantic exports we're i0i-.caS bushels.
againsss3 ~ last rear and Western r.
CENTS we're oasy ass coo h1shess, against
s iS16 81 last year. These figures give
some encouragement but have iIEs.e in
Ensnee IN vies Of the raas2.s visible sup
ply. The price Tor cash wheat Is = small
fraction higher for the week Germ re-
esipts s. The Vest Aaye oaly been q third
ss large as shey vere last year. vita sx-
ports amounting 10 nothing. bat tie price
has nos further declined after fhs heavy
fz.i during the prsvio1s fortnight Pork
products are weak n toae. though only
lard is oaoiab!y lower. cosioa 10 =. Of
q cent .e~e-. The cash being TIE
loves; knowa for forty-fve years. aad,
considering the difference IN class fic.sson.
Il y. perhaps. lower thsa in aay year
since is42 Estimates that the crop Is
more than 10 90 900 bales are more com
raonly credited nov than estimates OF
Ssoos hsles we're tao months ago
MIsh favorable weather the yieic seems
likely 20 be The largest ever xu0xa.
The condition az the industries IS in
sozne respects more satisfactory Xvi
3eniiy there IS larger demand fo- araa
products than there xas = snoaih ago. a.
though the increase IN the output has
been scrneshsr greater than the Increase
in The demand. SO that prices steadily tend
downward. B<sseEner pig Is selma At $50
q; PlststGrg. and bar iron 81 So, With steel
bars nj sio5. while 8 contract 10 suppress
tie principal Western eon pesifor N nail
rnanufacta-e is expected 70 bod the price
81 ~ 4lL WV 49, - NcElA1 ANT Cze 2Al4S
The structural iron market is fairly active
in tae West. without change IN the East.
sad While the coke outp.s h.s naw become
The heaviest ever known. fsa. 20 tons for
the seek, the price 10 declining sad .sec.
are being taken 10 hrnis the sapply. The
boot aaa shoe trads continues 10 deliver
more goods than in say previous year, as
IL DAD IN septic bar. and most % the xorks
stu have orders fer cue or tao more
months AhsA3. mainly for low OF Medium
priced goods There Is $ little better de-
nsad sais week Ter goods CT higher saal-
ity. howsvsr. and the demand for lsAsher
j. still redacins tae reserves
The failures for The nssf seek lave been
80 IN tie United States. against SD asa
year, and thsrty-ains ia Canada against
fogxy-dve last rear.