Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-26
A DULL JANUARY TRADE.
Business Prospects Not as Bright
as Expected.
COMPARISONS ARE NOT FAVORABLE
Only Few Oenters Show an Increase in
Business.
The Feature OF the week Was the
Heavy Sales of wooi--Extrnordi-
nary Demand for WOODEN Goods
Hank Clearings for the Week.

New York, Jan. 25.-Bradstreet's re-
view tomorrow will say; Special tele-
graphic and mail advices from the more
important distributing centers failed
to relate any marked improvement in
the movement Of merchandise and pro
duets and the conclusion is forced that
the great trade situation remains as
previously characterized by small
volume. low prices, hand to mouth
sales, and the outlook favorlng a very
conservative trade for some time to
come Gains in demand have been
oteworthy only at eastern wooden
mills for mems wear fabrics, among
Providence manufacturers, while the
dealers in staples at Augusta, Memphis
and New Orleans and in the west
and northwest at st. Louis Kansas
City, st. Paul and Minneapolis, report
the only improvement being rather by
contrast with recent dullness than with
the volume of trade ordinarily trans
acted at this season An exception is
in wool sales though prices are no
higher. Mills report unexpectedly
heavy orders of mems wear woolens
for fall delivery, in spite of foreign
competition, Clothlers having placed the
bulk Of oVerCoQung and general suit
ing contracts with domestic mills.
Ginghams are of fair proportions, the
latter having been stimulated by cut
! in prices Prices of staple articles re-
| port a tendency toward Improvement,
/ there being nine showing an advance,
| ten which are firm at the range of a
week ago and five of Importance which
| are lower Advances in quotations
| for petroleum, tin and prospectlvely
| for iron ore, are due TO these products
being practically in the control of
dealers or producers or both. Smaller
! receipts of cattle, poultry and potatoes
| due to severe weather, have put UP
prices. Other advances are for wheat.
| lard and turpentine. Wool, leather,
| hides, lumber, sugarrosin, hogs, besse-
| mer pig and steel billets and rails are
reported firmly held, although the
| Philadelphia iron market SHOWS signs
| of weakness. The falling off in ging'
| hams has been recovered but declines
remain in quotations for uork, cotton
corn and oats. Exports Of wheat (loul
inclpdcd as wheaD from both coasts OF
| the United States this week amount tc
2S40,O00 bushels: last week the tota
was 1864, goo bushels, somewhat largel
than usual. one year ago the total wa
| 2,94IOOO bushels; TWO years ago zb6l'uu
bushels and three years ago 1t was g.,
BOZ 900 bushels. The dull resistance
which prices in the New York specula
tive stock market offer TO the heavy
gold shipments and rapid sinking Of the
treasury gold reserve would indicate
a belief that when matters shall
once come TO a crisis, re-
lief is more likely to be obnined. Their,
has been some liquidation in the stocks
of properties subject to reorganization
\ and on which heavy assessments are
anticipated Apart from this, however
the bears still find great difficulty il
dislodging stocks Some selling in in
vestment securities is reported 70
European account Toronto PROCESSES
to find the outlook for business fairl.
satisfactory.