Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-11
REPORTS DON'T JIBE
BRADSI Rect SEES SIGNS OF I'M
PROVEMENT.
BUT Dun SURVEY is GENERALLY
DISCOURAGING.

Cotton TOUGHEST he Lowest Price in
A Years, and the Rates for Iron
Products Tend Steadily Downward
Outlook for Better Returns Oh
Wheat Very Dark.
New York, Oct 6-Bradsreets' week
ly report says: While no radical change
appeared this week, there are features
pointing to continued progress in the
direction Of improvement. This is true
OF the country at large. All indus
Trial lines, notably manufacturing
jewelers., have received liberal orders.
with the exception of manufa cturerS
Of machinery. From Omaha a better
feeling is reported throughout the trlb-
utary region, and there is more buying
of dry goods, clothing, shoes and gro
cerieS. Duluth also finds business i'm
proved. st. Louis and Kansas City
report stimulation in wholesale as we'll
as retail lines, due in part to the influx
Of visitors to the carnivals. From the
south most favorable reports come
from Jacksonville. AS previously re-
ported the large volume of business
Of Chicago jobbers is maintained. At a
number of points east and west the
demand for money has increased, and
changes in the character Of mercantile
collections as a rule are in the direc-
ton of improvement.
Wheat, corn and oats have advanced
from the previous lowest levels. Some
plate and a few other staples remain
steady in price, but refined sugar is
lower for reasons which may, or may
not, be similar to those governing
prices in other lines. Concessions in
prices are also made for pig iron, steel
bullets, lumber, lard, cotton print
cloths and live hogs. Gable and tele-
graphic advices show the heaviest total
available stocks of wheat on record
for October first in the United States
and Canada, on both coasts, afoat for
and in Europe, 1872 ,206,00O bushels, not
withstanding the sharp increase in
European stocks of late. September's
worlds wheat increase is 1O.5S4 600
bushels, which is moderate contTasted
with that of 1890, 1891 and 1892, but
heavier than in 1889 and 1898.
Dun'S weekly review says: With
the chief money crops of the west and
south sinking in value, it is not
strange that purchases of manufact-
ured products are smaller than ex-
pected. Wheat touched the loves
point ever known for options and cot
ton the lowest ever known in any
form with the present classification,
and the accumulation Of stocks in both
products is uiscouraginS to the pur-
chasers for advance. Producers are
compelled to sell at prices below the
ordinary cost Of raising crops, and in
some western states there IS also a
lamentable failure of the corn crop.
Wheat suffers most from the accu-
mutation of stocks in sight, which is
far beyond what is usually expected
for the season, and the exports for
September are unusually small. For
the first week in October, Atlantic eX-
ports are 1,097,372 bushels, gainst $685.
746 last year, and the western receipts
are only 4,615,6O0 bushels, against s.
13O,6S7 last year. These figures give
some encouragement but have little in
f1uence in view of the unusual visible
supply The price for cash wheat is a
small fraction higher for the week.
Corn receipts at the west have been
only one-third as large as they were
last year, with exports amounting to
nothing, but the price has not further
declined after the heavy fall during
the previous fortnight. Pork products
are weak though only lard is quotably
lower. Cotton is One-eighth lower, the
cash price being the lowest known for
45 years, and considering the differ
ence in classification perhaps lower
than at any time before 1S49, and es-
Inmates that the crop is more than 10,
100000 bales is more commonly cred
tied now than the estimate Of 100000
were two months ago. With favorable
weather the yield seems likely to be
the largest ever known. The condi-
ton of industries is in some respects
more satisfactory. Evidently there is
a larger demand for iron products than
there was a month ago, though there
is an increase in the supply, so that
prices steadily tend downward. The
structural market is fairly active in
the east and while the coke output has
now become the heaviest. ever known,
149, IT'S tons for the week, the price is
declining, and steps are being taken to
limit the supply.
The boot and shoe trade continues to
deliver more goods than in any pre-
viOus year, as it did in September, and
most of the works still have orders for
one or two months ahead
Failures in the United tates for the
past week have been 219, against 800
last year.
A statement compiled by Brad
streets shows the total bank clear
ances Of the principal cities in the
United States, for the past week,
5000, 555,127, an increase of III per
cent. as compered with the CORES
ponding week of last year.
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