Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-12
TRADE REVIEW.
Brads.rset on the Condition 80 Trade-Kf.
fects of the StriLa.

ISCCS OF the 6LEtk8-
NEW YORK, July 7.-Bradstreet says:
Aside from the Intervention Of a holiday,
there is q sharp restriction OF general trade
and Industrial production, due to railway trou-
bles west OF the Alleghenies and north OF the
Ohio river, which extend west and southwest
TO The Pacific coast and make their influence
telt in all other directions
The combined railroad strike and boycott
has had a steadily increasing damaging in
duence upon the general industrial situation
Calculations as 10 the number of men out are
not complete, but there is little doubt that the
total number idle result CT this railway
tie-up far exceeds the outcome Of any previous
labor trouble in this country
All cereals except wheat have shown de-
cided advance in price, pork and lard are up
sharply, as are fruits, vegetables, meats and
other produce. Pig iron west is commanding
. cents more per ton, and cattle, hogs and
sheep are noticeab1y higher even At far western
markets, where receipts are restricted The
foregoing features are most conspicuous at
Chicago and San Francisco. but are having a
q very unfavorable effect at Minneapolis, St
Paul, Milwaukee, Omaha. Kansas City, St
Louis and Cleveland
General trade at New Orleans. Mobile, Sa-
vannah- Nashville and Memphis has been m
favorsbly affected by the railway tie-up, melon
producers and others interested in shipping
vegetables and fruit have already suffered
great loss. Charleston reports trade dull and
without feature. Augusta says it is good for
the season, with the results Of June's business
more favorable than in June year ago. Fa-
vorable crop reports from Texas stimulate
merchants to expect good fall trade.
At the larger eastern cenJers there is no ma
terial gain in the situation beyond a speculs-
tive squirt in wool, which increased the volume
OF sales at Boston to total fouc times as large
as that reported in the week a year ago Six
New England cities shipped I05,O0O cases OF
shoes last week against 10000 in the week q
year ago. while BosSon's receipts OF hides
were $1,000 Of all varieties compared with
| 247 600 in the week a year ago One Of the
LARGEST c0ttOD Misunderstanding COMBINATIONS in
Rhode Island has closed down for week. and
other cotton mills continue to pile up stocks.
Aside from the increase in restriction of
trade at Pittsburgh, due to the railway Sltua-
ton. there is revival in demand for biIletS for
future delivery at SI9 Baltimore reports quite
an unsatisfactory trade, wholesale dry goods
dealers being the more favorably situated
Reports from Philadelphia are that the volume
and results OF business in nearly all lines are
very unsatisfactory. Trade is no better at
Buffalo; if anything. lake business is even less
active.
The United States and Canada carried over
on July 1 fully 73,50lO 00 bushels OF wheat,
against 75,5OO.OJo bushels one year ago. and one
half to one-third as large quantities visible in
preceding years. The total here, in Canada
and ahoat for Europe July /, was l46,al9OOO
bushels. compared with I52, 3oS, 600 bushels one
year ago. With Australian stocks included.
the worlds available wheat supply July l was
! I54SI9,0o0 bushels against 157,20S,0O bushels
one year ago, when the total was the largest on
record for like date.
Materially higher prices for wheat at an
early date would appear to depend on the truth
OF the assertion that domestic invisible wheat
supplies are practically exhausted, for which
fact there is certain evidence Total eX-
port OF wheat, United States and Canada, -four
included, this week are LBS 900 bushels against
I7I7, 900 last week 3,677 600 bushels in the week
year ago, 2-O6O,O9O bushels in the first week of
July, 1892, and !, 225O 900 bushels in the CORE
| spending week of 1891
Business failures show further decrease
within a week, the total being only I64 against
IS9 last week, 3l9 in the week year ago and
l52 in the week two years ago
Trade continues quiet in Canada, particularly
at Toronto, where the railway strike this
side is having effect There are thirty nine
failures reported from Canada this week, last
week twenty-eight, in the like week of June,
1898, it was twenty-six, and the year before
that twenty.