The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-16
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
Storms and Low Temperature
Effectively Checked Trade.
COAL CARRYING RAILROADS HAVE
DONE GOOD BUSINESS.

In Staples Lines Trade Is stagnant Hold
ing the Prices of Last Week With the
Exception of Bleached Cotton Which
Dropped to It's Lowest Notch-slight
Improvement at the Westin Some Lines
Small Bank C1earings-The Weeks
Failures.
New York, February 15.-Bradstreets TO-
morrow will say: Milder and pleasanter
weather following the severe storms and
extremely low temperature have. with few
exceptions, failed to stimulate orders for
seasonable goods or a distributive move
ment generally. The exceptions include
revival of the demand in a few lines at
Boston and New York, and in drugs
leather and paper at Philadelphia. general
mere handise, lat Savannah and Jacksonville,
which are the only southern cities report
ing trade, as better. and mercantile ooiiec-
tions good. At the West improved sales are
reported by Chicago jobbers in dry goods.
clothing, furnishings, shoes and rubbers.
and Kansas City announces larger volume
Of spring business. The demand for staples
has increased at Milwaukee as at St. Paul
pointing to the small stocks held by the
country dealers. Elsewhere the general
trade remains at low ebb. The iron and
steel industries find the week not up TO ex-
pectations. The spring trade outlook at
Baltimore is less favorable, having been
falling off in receipt of orders from
travellers. Mercantile collections South and
West, with few exceptions. are slow and un-
satisfactory. Southern merchants and
manufacturers in some instances aye make
ing greater efforts to collect the amounts
due than to sell goods, and as one conse-
quence of the recent extreme weather.
trade at Augusta has fall en- off TO a marked
degree, as at Rrning ham, Chattanooga,
Atlanta and New Orleans, the merchants at
the latter point finding an uDfavorable in
fuence also in the stoppaee of the payment
of sugar bounties. Word comes from Texas
that snow throughout the state has checked
the volume OF trade in all directions. Prices
on the whole, have maintained position
Of relative steadiness. eastern manufacture
ers OF shoes making higher prices in view of
the late advance in leather. Spruce lumber
for frames is marked up about twenty per
cent Live cattle and hogs are higher. due
to improvement in the eastern demand.
and the decline in the receipts at western
centres. A check in the receipts of Indian
corn is responsible for an advance in that
cereal, and lead is also higher. Prices are
unchanged for leather, oats. pork. cotton.
iron and steel, but bleached cotton sold
lower and at some points the lowest on
record. Wheat is off ON additional evidence
of heavier supplies. both at home and
abroad than anticipated, and lower quota
tions are likewise made for copper, raw
sugar, lard and ine feeces. The only note
worthy gain in the volume of sales of staple
merchandise at the larger eastern centers
has been of dry goods, aside from cottons.
foreign dress wooleLs being the most popu-
lar. Seven New England shoe manufactur-
ing centres report 95, 600 cases. as shipped
this week against $4,000 this week year
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