Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-19
BRADSTREET,S REPORT.
The Volume Of Business Appears
Slightly Smaller, This Week.
Manufacturing Industries Show No Material
Gain Except in West.

New York, Oct. 1s-Bradstreets, to-
morrow, will say: There is less push to
the general commercial movement, this
week. as indicated by the reports from
Eastern jobbers and others whose travel
iers have returned from trips West and
Northwest There are, of course, note
worthy exceptions, baltimore merchants
finding relatively the most satisfactory
trade This is largely due TO remarkably
favorable changes at the South.
10 general the volume of business ap-
pears slightly smaller, this week, with
widespread although somewhat irregular
dfmand Manufacturing Industries show
no material change, except that in central
Western and Western cities, shoe manu-
facturers announce better demand than
ut the East
A falling off in the demand for besse
mer pig iron and steel billets may or may
not be due to consumers refusing 10 Iuf
ther discount future requirements,
Nominal declines IN these metals are yet
to meet tho test OF any considerable order
getting into market.
Wooden manufacturers find no more en-
couragemcnt than heretofore Manuiac-
turers of cotton bolstered by high and ad-
vancing prices for raw staple, find the
demand and quotations for specialties
satisfactory.
Favorable trade reports from the South
continue to specify continued increases OF
Wholesale and retail demand. Cotton Is
moving freely. Collections arc improving
and merchants are-Gnticipating their in
dcbtcdness inssOme instances.
Throughout the West there are favorable
trade conditions, except north OF Missouri
ard Kansas where there IS NJ change from
the previous moderate volume, or where
the recent weather conditions have some
" hat checked trading. All the lake ports
report an active demand for tonnage and
firm rates. Kansas City announces an
active week in commercial circles, as do
Chicago and ST. Louis, with an outlook
for good seasons business. At the
Northwest the "hold your wheat" senti-
ment is spreading but thus far does not
appear to have had much effect.
Seattle reports more fall whcst being
so8n In Washington than last year. and
Tacoma that tho export trade with the
Orient and the United Kingdom continues
active. At Portland there seems to be
relatively less activity. and at San Fran
ClsGp lub bHiJ Itit II IL
ported in dry goods, fruits and vegetables
being plentiful and low in price.
Among the higher prices for staples are
those for cotton and cotton goods, which
reflect an immense speculation and a good
actual demand. growing out of the be-
lief in short crop. Reports are that New
Orleans houses have tried to corner the
October delivery, and 1t is said to be con
iirmed by the strong support from that
market
Wheat closes higher on better export
demand in the continued dry weather, al
though the spring wheat receipts are very
Large. Winter wheat brands of flour are
scarce and higher. Corn is firmer on re-
strcted receipts, and oats, coffee and coal
are higher, the latter on the continued
progress toward paying rates.
The lower prices for steel billets reflect
the subsistence of the late furore in the
iron and steel trade, but bessemer pig is
unchanged. Hides are lower, as is also
ref ned sugar on a decreasing demand for
and the weaker tone OF raws. Lard is
slightly off, pork is weaker and unchanged
on the free offerings Of the West
Bank clearings aggregated 81, 15S, 600,
600. this week, gain over last week of
per cent, over the week. q year ago, of
% per cent, and over 1898 Of "a per cent
Compared with the week in 1892, it is a
decrease of Il per cent. The gain, this
week, at New York, over the year, was 27.9
per cent, and outside the metropolis an
increase of Is per cent The gain at Bos-
ton was Is per cent
Exports of wheat from both coasts of
h. TT,,ft aI Sknta ,iu tn,
cluded as whc,t), was 2409, 600 bushels,
aga inst 3,I92 600 for the corresponding
week of year ago
The number of failures throughout the
United States, this week, was $50, against
o53 in the like week of a year ago. At the
West the failures were practically doubled,
this week. as compared with last.