The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-21
Due Mainly 10 Purchases hv a
Single Sp culator.
EUROPE STILL a POOR suYsR.
shipments 100000 Bushels Less
Than in the Week a Year Ago.
The Iron Combine Cannot Force Prices
Higher. for Purchases Are Vow Re-
ing Made in the English Market
General Trade Good and Improving.

New York sent o1-R. G Dun 4 Co.'S
weekly review cf trade Will say. In spite
of gold exports wheat advanced for some
DAYS. t0 an nearly cents. mainly hncauSs
% single SpeCulstor bought. hat on Friday
fen abosit / cent. Corn rose ard fell IN
sympathy with wheat. NTH as LITTLE rea-
son. Western wheat receipts for three
weeks ot September have been 1871 .ehat
bushels. against i6.49lb29 ;as, year. whiia
Atlantic exports. four Included have heeo
39il tS3 bushels. against 7.ss1.P>S last year.
Coed reports or foreign crOpS. weakness or.
flour ia Minnesota and large exports Of
corn from this country all were against a
rise in wheat. though scarcity Of contrach
grades may help q speculative advance.
Pork products have been reasonably Yield
ing. with prospects of a large corn crop,
hut before the close bad a stronger tone.
The cotton market hfiiae and falling a
fraction sach dav alternately. shows no set
tied tendency big stocks balancing an ua-
doubted hut as ser indefinite decrease in
yield
The surprising increase IN production ard
advance in prices OF iron seems 70 bring "a
natural check as prices have gone 80 high
ss 70 cause some purchases from Europe.
both pig and finished products. and have
also caused a distinct shraukage in home
demand Pig bought ~ Niadleshoro for
American ard foreign orr ordered in largs
quantities ~ make iron iB Eastern fur
iittf% tft - tff~Hffi fNft@fftlfF anu 1tifH~
hurC 90 $isa1 though gray forge Is higher
st SIS.s0 Lake ore fretghts have advanced.
and the beginning % the strike OF the Con-
nellsvllle coke workers will tend 20 prevent
a reduction IN price unless soon stopped
hv concession Of the II per cent advance
FRI wages demanded Refined bar So quoted
az SLE, and tank steel at cents az Phil
adeiphfa. and he combination has raised
cut nails 20 cents. 30 that the average ot
all iron products has risen - per cent. ia
September and 5S'2 per cent since the low
est point last January. and Is now higher
than in October. 1872. Nearly all the mills
in operation have orders enough for soma
months, though "A decrease in demand IS
admitted
The failures this week have been 2iS in
the United States, against 30 last year.
and - in Canada, against - last year.
Brad~treet's Review of Trade.
New York. Sept. 20 Bradstreets tomor-
row viii say. General trade throughout,
the United States shows further improve
mcnt this week. more particularly Ia man.
ufactuTiug and commercial lines at the
East and South, In the South Atlantic.
Gulf and Southwestern states and on the
Pacific Coast general trade has been in
creasing In volume. with improving mcr-
camille collections and goods selling with
less effort in many instances In support
OF favorable influencing conditions are
this weeks heavily increased total bank
cleaTings, tho largest weeks aggregate OF
wheat exports within three months, the
heaviest weeks shipments of Indian corn
in seventeen months, the maintenance &C
full proportions OF the extraordinarily
heavy demand for iron and steel. and the
significant hardening Of the leading mon
ey markets, accompanied by reports OF
increasing mercantile discounts
Price tendencies this week are more fav-
orable from the holders point Of view. ad-
vanccs having been recorded I'm wheat.
corn and oats. after a prolonged reaction.
well as in wheat flour. raw and refined
sugar coffee. cotton goods. leather and
turpentinc. a special inquiry by Brad
streets into prices for more than 100 staple
products show that I'm the second quarter
of the current calendar year there were
advances iu quotations FOR rs no change
for H. and lower prices reached by only 2s
Wheat exports. both coasts Of the Unit
cd States and Canada. aggregate 2.53S. go
bushels this week. -four included as wheat,
"A gain Of one-third over last week but in
contrast with 3.5S7. 900 bushels one year
ago. 4.Te7 n0 bushels two years ago. and
S.1lino bushels IN tho same week in 1870.
Now York and Montreal and the Pacific
Coast shipped more freely. The exports
of Indian corn aggregate t.sfG600 bushels
this week. twice what was sent out last
week. q much larger quantity than in y
like! week IN preceding years. and the
heaviest week total since April. 1894.
Treasury statement,
Wash'ueton city. Sept - Todsy's
statement aT Tho condition ~ the treasury
sh0Vs Ata liable cash halanee. flsi.lso.03i:
gold reserve. ftt.7,7.FS.
q fhase Fan iarks' How rond when