The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
THE TRADE REVIVAL.
1t Continues in Spite Of Gold
Shipments TO Europe.
WHEAT. CORN. COTTON DOWN.
Iron Factories Crowded TO the limit.
The Outlook for the Fall
Trade Good.

New York. July is.-R. @. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review OF trade which issues TO-
morrow, will say: AZ, lexis news 10
nor entirely encouTagsU<. eut is all the
more natural because thege are signs cs
midsummer aal3nesS
neat pros peefs are not quite so good
as last week, but stin there are lower
prices. as c0r1 and cotton have been
lowered. The exeorts of gold AID the lesx
favorable treasury returns for July ara
not unexpected. aud meaa nothlng as to
coming business. There Is a eeFcepribla
decrease IL the demand for moss manu-
iactnred products. ana the acsuaI dis
Irloatlan TO consumers naturally lessons
IN nldsamCaSr. MucA OF the recent buy
ing was TO anticipate a rise ia prices.
and such purchases fal OF when prices
have risen. There are still numerous
advances IN wages. bus strikes grow mora
numerous and important. In part be-
cause business was unusually large in
the first half OF July, q quiet one meess
reasonable expectations. The aeayy bank
failure at Montreal does not affec-
finances here aGd is passing there witn
less disturbance than vas feared.
Gold exports for tue middle AZ July,
when crops are beginning to move. II net
meant TO AFFECT stocks. can al all events
have only a speculative significance.
Wheat has declined = for September.
corn llsc and cotton &c for spot wes.-
era receipts of wheat are not half OF last
years. while exports for the week. ahou-
quarter of last years. and Ger thres
weeks only 2S-9.023 bushels. -four IN
claded. against 5.0t62ss last year. show
that foreign dealers are regarding The sit
uaiion with anxiety. Nor do British ac-
counts indicate any anxiety about cot
ton, while efforts are reported ny some OF
the American mills 70 sell part OF the
stock taken some months ago. which ap-
parently exceed their needs for he year.
IL unfavorable to some speeulat tors. there
are cheering indica, lions. for IL Is better
TO have fair crops than to get high prices
for what remains.
Orders have so accumulated In iron
products that some works forego the US
ual summer resi-, and Eastern furnaces
are soon 10 begin blast. which viii add
about 5000 tons weekly TO the production.
A few quotations have advanced gray
forge and Eastern bar. while Bessemer
pig Is shade weaker Al Pittsburg. but
the averages of all prices Is per cent.
higher for the week. and 2Ss per cent.
higher than February l. The strike ee
several thousand miners in he Mar
Quette region may have important con-
sequences. Producers of non-Bessemer
ore have sold largely Cor the future az
prices so low That they cannot add TO tbs
cost of production. and other mines in
the Northwest may he affected. Minor
NN~t~A
pounds of copper up to II cents for Lake.
and very firm in spite of a large visibls
supply.
Wool advanced IN the first half OF July
an average OF / cent for iet quotations
OF domestic by Coates Bros. Of Phila-
delphia, and is now per cent. higher
than a year ago. Sales naturally lessen.
being 1850 coo pounds for the week agains.
an average OF over 100000 pounds foe
each OF the two previous weeks. but ths
prices are sustained by German and
French buying In the London market.
Manufacturers do not support the adj
vance. and are huying only for imme-
dlate needs hut holders who have taken
for weeks past several times the quantity
consumed, are stiH. Cotton mills con-
time TO enjoy large business, ana sew
eraI have advanced wages this week, bus
Some strikes os considerable Importance
are threatened or IN progress. The weak
err tone of the material does not as yes
affect the prices OF goods.
Failures for the week have been 80
In the United States against s3s asst years
and 70 In Cauada against "a last year.
New YORK. July fa.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: All the previously re-
rsorted favorable industrial and CONNER
cial features are continued this week, ths
endurance OF the revival In the demani
for iron and steel. the further ADVANCE in
r,rices of the Same and additional Increases
OF wages Hl lFfiuSAi VIZ ''hiA'Ns -
most significant
srbe MERCHANTS az almost all the larger
cities are preparing TO send out travelerS.
and until they begin 20 exhibit results 20
exart estimate of how the fail trade VIII
omen can he prepared. Al this time ths
outlook is regarded as highly fsvoranie-
A. Boston Philadelphia and Baltimore
among Eastern cities. noteworthy gains
IN sales of STAPLES are announced. But
.ha evnanSior Of Industrial activity nc
f>t4carg, ST Louis. louisville and Cleve-
lana stimulates the distribution OF mer-
chandise staples generally Country ouy-
ers are present in unusually large num-
beers.
Reports from Southern cities show fur-
.her ir,norfant gains this week, being
moro marked than In a like period for
r,ar,hs before Country merchants In
south Carolina are rnuch encouraged w'tn
ne crcr outlook, als the derrand ~ TAR
and prices tend upward. Like reports
.,,ca from Augusta and In Texas cotton
h,,ve,s have begun 20 make their pres
enra fels Tho DELAYED paw ~ the srisar
s,c,,ntv checks trade fn the Louisiana sit-
rar 4ss.rsrts The volume Of trade -
smaller at Jacksonville.
Pacific coas, advfces are that the CALI
forn4a wheat ~ror, IS threshing out poorly.
lint IN the Northwest the prospects TOT u
~ror are Of the best
The total yAe,d ~ corn IN the country
wlIl probably exceed even previous lsrgs
crop views
Expor-,s OF wheat flour as wheaD frorr
the United States and Montreal This week
amount to only 1.s52 Go0 bushels. the small
90. similar total since that Of the hrst
-, 4, runa feqi A week aE-o the az
.--.~s.a ex-Nortef was 2H7.0A0. one yeir
600 y was $4,000 bushels: two wears aao
orr nna bushels and three years ago &c
vas 2 rs 600.