The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-18
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to note that business broke down and ex-
changes fell below the normal average
about this time two years ago nan+
With material and steady. enlargement
In domestic trade. there is still great
want of employment in the interior fos
money which hither, $s5oo, IVY our
account stimulates speculation. Accord
ingly wheat has risen s cts, although
the reports of injury by frost DO not ap-
s Ssaa de0A proportion Of the growing
e grain nsv western SagA aaan rs J s,4 e, for S,1sb tyo aS wssn5
3,059, 44 bushels against 4,555, 1O1 last year,
being reduced by the advance in price
less than would be expected because OF
generally current reports of decrease in
acreage. With only six weeks of the
crop year left, the stocks in sight ,indi-
cate a heavy. surplus. il not as large
as some Western statisticians estimate.
Corn has vance only half a cent,
though apparently injured more than
wheat. but he acreage gives promise OF
a yield of 1000 bushels.
Cotton is an eighth stronger. in spite
Of the fact that 9.461. 081 bales had come
into sight last Friday, which is over
100000 bales more than the largest crop
ever recorded. Northern ~spinners have
AXE q little less than three years ago
to date, when the crop was over nine
million bales, but at least 10000 more
than they have consumed as yet, and
foreign %spinners hold nearly 8O0.e 600 bales
more than they have consumed. while
commercial stocks here and abroad are
246. 900 bales more than three years ago
The manufacture is prospecting, though
quite at the .iaximum. and for The year
it certainly has not been. Goods are in
aavances in prices arc fully main
tanned.
heavy he; for 18th the ( g Pc t5o week ins at and 5h for th 1we
ISL, 100 in the same week of 1892. the last
y yaias Of Of fall aenan We're I5 5.ss Sh lso y and tbs tbs
year 5.6S1. $50 lbs. The markets are quiet,
almost unprecedented apathy for the
f fens1n l%p woois hgsiid o here because ars r%en ss9ias "
large, and are offered at prices relative-
" lower than those demanded by West
e ern neressi Hiaying Ghi Is a Ra Selling I'M i al
16 cts. against Australian cleaned at -
to IS cts. The. orders for mems goods,
Il fa0 fair f foa the season aneaeas and new ass s orders
for dress goods ave of late been modsr-
ate. but the mills are fairly supplied Tor
e ese prs maah d Sffiasf an esp rsaa Sl i a'f'd des
laying deliveries on past orders. Retail
trade in carpets is exceedingly good,
and the demand for f he irag m WnrSers nv
Mr.. Frick. of the Carnegie Company.
are as significant as were the advances
In wages OF coke WORKERS ny lile rIiCh
Coke Company. Apparently it is a
strategic movement in the great battle
between iron producing interests. al
proof that the outlook for trade is sufh-
cient to warrant a material advance in
wages and prices. Most furnaces. in the
Mahoning Valley have also advanced
sii.6 at Pittsburg, with Grey Forge to
1866. Finished products are in larger
demand, but as yet not enough larger TO
cause any general advance in prices,
and proposals of combinations in mer-
chants steel, structural iron. cast pipe,
wire rods and cut nails. with the exist,
ing combination in steel rails. show that
the market does not rise of itself. The
shoe manufacture is doing remarkably
well as usual, though operations for the
future are materially retarded by the
advances in leather n in hides. which
many begin to think have gone some
what too far. Within the past "
weeks the demand for shoes has some
what diminished.
Foreign trade for the week shows q
heavy decrease, 36 per cent. compared
with last years in exports, and the de-
crease in May thus far is about, rs per
cent. On the other hand, the imports
for May increase less than 2 per cent. IN
consequence the government revenue has
materially decreased. the excess of ex.
penditures over receipfs for the montp
thus far being s5,572.6T.