The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-22
CONDITION OF BUsTNEss.
What Bradstreets Has to Say in Regard to
 the Matter.

l " naU bTHusIfeetS Has to say Tn Regard 10
 the Matter.
 New York, Feb. 21.-Bradstreets will
 say tomorrow: General trade during
 the Ca shor) week has been more irreg-
 ular. A moderately improved demand
 has shown itself at cities along the Ohio
 river valley and in the lower and upper
 lake regions, coincident with the partial disappearance of the extremely unfa- vorable weather. South, southwest and
 elsewhere to a smaller extent practical Iy impossible country roads have retard-
 ed all trade and slow collections pre-
 vented purchases of goods, even in the
 face of requirements. The success of
 the late emergency bond issue has re- | vived confidence somewhat in the gen. l eral financial situation. Iron and steel l are no more active, recent advances be- | ing barely maintained. Textile indus 1 tries in New England and Pennsylvania
 do not report increased demand, the lat | ter announcing checked requests from | the south and west. The outlook in the
 soft coal industry is more settled owing | to efforts to form a pool and steadier prices and wages are expected. New York city is a center of industrial dis | turbance as a result of a sympathetic strike of building trades employees, which may involve 25, 900 men, and bitter fight between clothing trade con tractors and employees which may in- volve large number additionally.
 Prices have not reacted materially, concessions in quotations for cattle, lard and oats being the only losses of note. Cotton goods, it is true, have been bare ly steady, but hogs. pork, cotton, iron and steel remain firm, while prices for wheat corn, coffee and refined sugar made fractional advances during the week. Prices of wool continue about 200, ,00O pounds of XX and above having been picked up by manufacturers below 17 cents In dry goods foreign dress wool was relatively most active, job bers supplies being taken about as fast as they could Cottons are quite dull, buyers being half cent lower in their views than sellers Milder, brighter weather has stimulated sales by retail CTS and jobbers somewhat.
 Exports of wheat from both coasts of the United States Seattle telegram
  al for week, owing to the holiday, the total amounting to 1,8OS97S bushels, 1 against 2572O00 bushels last week, l. ,O00 bushels in the week a year ago, 2,596, GOO bushels two years ago, and B. 2O7 900 bushels three years ago.
 West and northwest the condition of 1 general trade has been quite variable. In the Ohio river valley and north l thereof and including Chicago and Mil waukee and St. Paul the volume of | business shows a gain in nearly all the | staple lines. notably at Cleveland, Gin | cinnati, Louisville and Detroit. Less | favorable advices are received from St. | Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Duluth. | where restricted demands are the rule. At Minneapolis jobbers report shipments merely to meet immediate wants Port land, Oregon, reports that retailers are buster. Wheat is steady and holders in cline to await an advance in prices. At Seattle trade remains quiet though ! lumber camp supplies and collections are slightly improved. General trade quiet at San Francisco.
 At the south relatively greatest inn present or prospective, is reported by Galveston, due to better wea ther throughout Texas,an by Mem phis, although collections are slow there. Birmingham and Jacksonville make like reports. The influence of bad weather, heavy country roads, checked demand and retarded collections, in 1 whole or in part, characterize exports of trade at Charleston, Nashville, Chat Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, and at New Orleans, where business has been practically suspended for two days by storm.
 Larger eastern cities report no ma terial gain except in a slight degree, due to better weather conditions. Bos- ton reports production in nearly all lines in excess of consumption and prices low and heavy; Providence that ! gain in mill supplies is offset by de- creased demand for rubber goods; Phil adeIphia that textile mills are selling a sair quantity of goods, but at unsatis- factory prices, with a check to orders | rom the south and west, and Baltf- nore that shipments of merchandise ire small and the number of orders re- ,eived is still very small bad condi- ions of southern roads being in part 1 for this as well as moderate Pittsburg reports the iron l md steel industry quiet, but more hope ulness as to the outlook for spring rade in merchandise lines. Net rali- way earnings for 1894 are not encour- Dging. Gross earnings of 138 roads last { ,ear are $S67, ,62S,623 and $267 1872, a l respectively of Ill and II. I ger cent from 1S93 In 1893 a similar { comparison showed a decrease of 1.G ger cent. in gross and 3,4 per cent. in let