Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-27
WEEK S REVIEW0F TRAD {
Business Dull and Stocks Are
Lower.
A QUICK CHANGE is COMING
Bradstreets Reports That Wheat aud
Cotton win Suffer From
the Complications.

New York, Dec. 2O.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade will say
THE strong Americanism of the pres
ident's message has given it's character
to the week. Popular feeling was pro-
foundly moved. but excepting in stock
and cotton markets. business was re-
markably duh and scarcely affected.
The selling of securities held abroad
was a natural impulse. though the sell
ers are not unlikely in time TO discover
that no other securities are safer from
Internal ional complications than the
American. Coming at time when near
~ all produce markets are inactive and
industry unusually dull the disturb
ance has affected values much less than
| might have been expected. not because
of any foreign question, but solely be-
cause of influences which have been in
continuous operation for months. The
| prices of manufactured goods continue
| to decline. There is no great change
| in boots and shoes and in some branches
| the demand appears little better,
though gradually prices are affected
| and jobbers look for prices lower still.
| Shipments from the east are an eighth
smaller than last week, but 8 per cent
for the month to date. Leather still
declines. averaging 2 per cent lower.
prices of iron and steel have fallen
| about per cent for the week and are
now 3 per cent below their maximum,
Bessemer. pig and Grey forge and most
kinds finished products having yielded
more or less. PURCHASES by the great
ST niac 4 tc ovid
much in excess of their actual consump-
ton and it is believed that some fur
naces will have to suspend production,
as the demand for manufactured prod
ucts is too small to support the output.
Minor metals are weaker, copper being
offered al $40 net. The American pro-
duction in November was 1880 tons
and the foreign 7070S tons. Lead is
weak at $500, and tin, after a rise in
price, is selling at s13.75.
1T sounds strange to hear the many
complaints of slow collections and
scarcity of money at the west on &C
count of the tardy movement of prod
ucts from the farms, when western re-
ceipts in three weeks have been 1858
1870 bushels, against 14.346,3 44 last year
, while Atlantic exports Qiour included
| are only 5,S23,272 against 6.453, 100 las
, year.
: Failures for the week have been 377
: against S49 last year"
4 BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
New York, Dec. 20.-Bradstreet' to
morrow will say;
THE general business situation ha
been affected by the precipitation o
| possible complication with Great Brit
ain. The first to feel this will be tn
a prices of cotton and wheat. The seri
Gus nature of the presidents statemen
Of the case has had the effect here an
e in London of causing free selling of Sc
: curities, even in spite of the fact tina
expectation of war is slight.
THE most unfavorable effect is con
tinued negotiations and the uncertaint
, | which now exists.
THE total exports of wheat flour in
cluded as wheat from both coasts o
h the United States this week amount t
t 2.O56000 bushels, compared with 2.45S
900 bushels last week, and 3554, 900 /
i wheat from the Pacific coast show
e sharp decline as compared with pre-
o ceding weeks
: BANK CLEARANCES.
New York, Dec. 20.-The followin
= table, compiled by Bradstreets, show
n the total clearances at the principe
$ cities and the percentage of increase o
n decrease as compared with the CORE
s | spending week of last year: