Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-22


New York, Dec. ar G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review which will Issue
Saturday Will Say;
But for ihe large export OF gold and
Vhe uncSrtainty about financial legs
laNon. the Indications would be more
encouraging. Some Increase is seen In
orders given 10 manufacturing works,
though until the year ends, the force
actually at work naturally diminishes.
The holiday trade has been rather plor
az most points. partly owing 20 mild
weather. There Is distinctly more con-
fldence shown about the future de-
mand for Industrial products. though
prices are not better. Domestic exports
increase little, though exp0rtable sta
PIES are not better In prices.
On November the excess OF merchnn-
disc exports over imports was S2'.-
$3.50 besides S2,gSi ,0ai silver, and
December returns Indicate as large All
excess. For this very reason the eN-
ports Of 5,3s2,-il In gold since last Fri
day and the Withdrawals Of about three
times as much gold from ;h0 troas-
ury ore the more notlced)
Money continues 10 accumulate, ind
there Il no enlargement in the legitl-
mate demand FOR commercial loans,
though some offerings uf paper, up
mems, have excited remark.
Prices of agricultural products do not
Improve. Wheat is unchanged FOR the
week, although Western receipts have
fallen TO 2,3iO,925 bushels against p
b9iSl0 FOR the same week last year.
and 1t does not count for much that
the Atlnutic exports were $50 CAT
against 1851 last year. rhe visible
supply still! grows and Is now Ss.i73000
bushels. Corn fen cents for the week,
although Western receipts were only
l,52263d bushels against a5S2.20i last
year and Atlantic exports more than a
third smaller. Government estimates
do not seem TO affect actual trans
actions. Cotton has declined a six
teenth to 500 and receipts from plan
tatiOns continued larger for December
than in 1891. when the crop was over
nine million bales. The theory that
producers viii not make the current
prices does not yet nj the facts.
Larger orders for manufactured
products and yet, except IN boots and
shoes, the general tendency Is down
ward IN prices. Steel bnle;s soil at
sl5 at Pitisburg and Bessemer nig at
$3.50 at Valley Mills. and In other
products the tone Is on the whole,
weaker, except in structural beams,
which held the recent small advance.
Yet quite large transactions are re-
ported In pig iron and biilcts and i'm
proved demand for barbed nails while
nothing Is doing In steel rails and
business in sheets and plates is light.
Competition between the works Is not
enough to keep them employed. push
ms prices la many cases below the ordi-
nary cost Of production. Copper,, il
strengthened by customers dcni1iid
and the output in November, 1854
tons domestic. and 1894 foreign was
the smallest since February.
Lead mas sold largely at 1910 and
tin has been depressed 1-2 cent by
speculation. In shoes manufacturers
are obtaining a good many orders at
1-2ff5c advance over last years
prices, where still large differences in
tho cost Of material are claimed, hut
many jobberH hold OF FOR want Of en-
tire agreement among producers, rnis-
Ing doubt whether the advance win
be maintained.
The failures for the week have been
$40 IN the United States against 3ti
last year. and thirty-slN in Canada
against thirty-sevon last year.