Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-12-25
WEEKS REVIEW OF TRADE
Business Dull ard Stocks Are
Lower
A QUICK CHANGE is COMING
Brudstrssrs Reports 4hsr wasas and
Cotton win suffsr From
the Complications.

New York, Dec Cor. o. Dun q Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade viii say:
The strong AmericaniHm Or the pres
ident's message has given its character
10 the week. Popular feeling was pro-
foandly moved. but excepting IN stock
and cotton markets. business was re-
markably dun and scarcely affected.
The selling OF securities held abroad
was a natural impulse. though the SELF
ers are not unlikely In time 10 discover
that no other securities are safer from
International complications than the
American, Coming at time when near
ly all produce markets are inactive and
Industry unusually dull the disturb
anee 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 ls no great change
in boots and shoes and IN some branches
the demand appears a 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 per cent
/ declines, averaging per cent lower.
'.PFices 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
steel companies, AZ Is now evident. were
much Ia excess OF their actual eonsump-
| tion ana II Is believed that some fur
naceE win have To suspend production.
| as the demand for manufactured prod
ucks n too small 10 support the output.
| Minor metals are weaker. copper being
| offered al $40 net The American pro-
duciion I'm November was 1880 tons
and the foreign T0.70s tons. Lead Is
weak at S32o. and tin. after a rise In
price. Is selling at sis.75.
''It sounds strange to hear the many
complaints OF slow collections and
scarcity OF money at the west on ae-
count Of the tardy movement If prod.
ucts from the farms. when western re
celpts In three weeks have been Is.61s.
100 bushels. against Il. .s465t4 last year
while Atlantic exports dloGr included
are only 5,Sas.2I2 against s.tsa.ioo las
year.
Failures for the week have been s71
against 3ts last year
nRADsTREETsS REPORT.
New York. Dec a0.-Hradatreetsa to
morrow win say.
'.The general business situation ha
! been affected by the precipitation o
possible complications with Great Brit
! ain. The first 20 feel this VIII be tn
prices OF cotton and wheats The SER
{ nus nature OF the presidents statsman
OF the case has had the effect here an
IN London OF causing free selling Of 81
I eurities. even In spite Of the fact tina
= expectation OF war Is slight
The most unfavorahle effect Is cor
5 tinued negotiations and the uncertaint
s which now exists,
.Ehe total exports Of wheat flour Il
! cluded aa wheaO from hntI coasts {
n the Upitea States this week amount /
\ 2.AEE.no0 bushels, compared with lass
000 bushels last week. and $500
che week one year ago Exports
Y wheat from the Pacific coast show
= sharp decline as compared wlth pr
y ceding weeks."
BANK cIsEARANCEs
New York. Dec. 7p.-Tha foiiowiI
table. complied by Hradstreeta. shos
the total clearances at the prineip
cifies and the percentage Of increase
8 decreaae as compared with the corr
$. spending week of last year.