Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-04-19
BRISK RISEN CATTLE
The Main Feature in Trade for
the Week.
DUN'S REVIEW OF BUSINESS
In Nearly Every Line the situation Has
Improved for All but the
Consumers.

New York. April 12-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
THE feature in trade circles Is found
in the price movement. more particular
ly those for cattle, dressed beef and
| petroleum. Drouth, low prices and hard
times within the past two weeks have
| resulted in shorter supply of cattle,
| prospectively 80 per cent less than last
year. Live cattle are SLIGO higher per
100 pounds than last year and 81 higher
| than the lowest point asst year. Dressed
beef Is 21sc higher than the average last
year. the highest since 1885. The COM
parative scarcity OF high grade cattle is
emphasized by the fact that present
quotations when made in previous per-
! iods of scarcity have never failed to
bring a supply when one existed.
1.-The recent gains In prices for Bes-
| senaer pig and steel billets are main
tanned. but the request at Pittsburg and
Chicago is checked.
Coffee and sugar are firm al prev
ious prices, while the list Of reactions
included fractional declines only in
wheat. corn, oats and pork, the latter
on lower prices on hogs.
Compared with February, the March
returns of the gross earnings of 1870
railroads may be construed as favor
able, the increase over March 1894. be-
ing to 2h per cent
1.-THE exports of wheat from both
coasts of the United States this week,
flour included as wheat, hold up to a
high average, 2,934,179 bushels against
2,S53,933 bushels in the previous week.
The maintenance of a generally high
er range of clearing house totals, an
improved outlook for manufacturers in
the staple line, the spread of a feeling of
confidence that the volume of business
will increase in the near future, and
an improved crop outlook In western
and northwestern grain states are
among the more significantly favorable
features"
DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
New York. April 12.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade which
issues tomorrow will say:
THE progress toward better business
continues, but 1t is slow and amid many
obstacles. In speculative aspects, as in
the wholesale demand for goods. the
week shows improvement. Money mar
kets are undisturbed and little more
active. But among the chief obstacles
is the anxiety of operatives to secure
better wages, even while many manu-
featuring works are running without
profit and others at risk of loss. The
retail trade has improved on the whole
since March as the approach of Easter
brings more business, but distribution
to individual consumers still lags be-
hind the purchases of Jobbers and there
is small demand for products as springs
from building and other Investments
looking into the future. The crop pros
poets will greatly affect the course Of
trade for some months and the govern
ment report had little influence to dis
courage.
For consumers the worst feature is
the rapid advance in meats. The de-
crease in the receipts of cattle are ex-.
aggerated. $50. 406 having arrived at
Chicago against 7S9,543 to date last
year and the prevalent opinion is that
western packers are helping nature to-
some extent.
The output OF pig iron April / was
1882 tons weekly, practically the same
as for March /. with a decrease of ,OS0
tons in unsold stocks during the month.
Bessemer iron has advanced little fur
Their TO $10.75 at Pittsburg. but there is
no change whatever in prices of finished
products during the week, and while
the demand continues good for struc-
tural forms and little better for bars,
the marked decrease in the demand for
wire. owing to the scant purchases of
farmers for fencing. affects the out
look.
THE sales of wool are particularly in
teresting, amounting for the week to
100 pounds and for five weeks prev
ious to rs. 621 200, against 25, 1873 in the
weeks of 1892. In brief, the sales are
close to the quantity required for a full
consumption and the long delay in plac-
ing orders and the lateness of the sea
son make the proportion of mills al
work larger than usual. No improve
ment in prices appears and domestic
wool does not respond to recent adj
vances In foreign markets. The low
price encourages manufacturers to COM
pete much more vigorously with foreign
goods of many kinds than they had ex-
pected, and for the medium and cheap
er grades of goods they have more than
the usual demand. because purchases
OF consumers have for two years been
comparatively slim.
Failures for the week were 2O7
against 21S last year.
BANK CLEARANCES.
New York. April 1.-THE following
compiled by Bradstreets, shows the total
clearance at the principal cities, and tho
percentage, of increase or decrease al
compared with the corresponding week
last year:
Inc Dec.
New York ........ $50, O2s. PSI 1915
chicago .,...... SO, 131, 233 81 49,
Boston ......... SS,l40,119 90 80
Philadelphia -. :. 61734,O43 36
81. Louis ............ 25,671.91 1879 go
San Francisco 49,. 12 lO1, sos ~ SIS
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