Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
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TRADE REVIEW.
Heavy Exports Of Gold Made Dur
Ing January.
Low PRICES FOR ALL COMMODITIES.

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ures for the Week.
NEw York, Feb. s--R q. bum
weekly review Of trade says:
Things look bettor near the close Of ths
week, because II " believed that new loan
will be negotiated. There was need for relief,
since January closed win the heaviest
gold exports ever made In any month and the
heaviest Withdrawals OF gold from the treas
ury, tl3 i6s, ,IOS, the hope OF now loan being
the one thing which has lifted prices during the
pnst few days January leaves behind II ths
lowest average OF prices for oil commodities
ever known; for cotton, Iron and It's products,
wool and silver tho lowest monthly average
ever known and for wheat, range above the
minimum, but vet declining rapidly toward
that point Industrial operations have not
materially diminished, though Il has been
disappointing month because the revival ex-
p'ctcdhas not come. The continuing drift Of
money To New York shows scanty commercial
demand In the interior aud no improvement
appears here In commercial loans. In abort
business Is stlll waiting and hnds reason Tor
hesitation In the condition Of the treasury,
speculation has not favored producsrA
Wheat was y cent lower but western reCslpta
were only ,0l2 bushels against lb7p, Ell last
year, and with exports larger than last year
might have helped prices had not the visible
stocks been so large. Corn Iy \ cents lower
with recop pts about half and exports not one
eighth Of last years, Cotton declined a slx-
lecath and Is close 10 the lowest point aver
touched, with an average of only &70A for
January. The movement continues large and
the maximum crop estimates are encouraging,
but there ls not little hope that decrease Of
ncrcpge may help the plantsts Neither here
nor abroad does the manufacture promise near.
iy the maximum output OF consumption.
silver ha' been weak and Tor tho month has
ma le slightly the lowest average ever known,
the output In 1874 being rsoksnsd by Wells,
ia 20 & Co. at t,s,Tsi, OIL, or u, 1891 0uncaA
The decrcao was T. pcr osat,, while the Ia.
ore so in gold was :, per cApt
ron AMI steel look less encouraging u ths
cst aud the demand Is disappointing, although
pfces are not wcaAcr AZ Pittsbursh and tho
west u larger demand appears, particularly Tor
wire and wire nails, which % Nv change In
price as yet, while Bessenev iron Ii "a oents
higher bllets u little stronger aud gray forSs
II cents lower. The structural denAad is GOOD,
but prices arc shade lsver, end whilo ths
market for bar ba, boon unusaslly good. prices
do not lit Considerable contracts for oast
pipe have been taken, or are ending, but Ia NE
aggregate new business since January ~
moi answered expectations
'leStlle manufacturers cannot score improve
meni for the week, for though print cloths
have advanced . shade, the demand for other
cotton goods Ia only moderate snd prices srs
irregular The opening Of mems |
woolcns has continued with sven more gen.
rral dc lAratIon Of belief BY tho domestic |
that they car sustain thsm.
selves In medium grades md IN worsteds but |
Ia the ilncrRrales much hesitation appears,and |
In the lower gra To-, the extremely low prioM
made by foreign dealers seem TO threaten tho
Wool IL so low that large salcs
or possible futures continue, and the total u
he chief markets Tor four wecis has been 2S,-
BOB pounds. against s5,77 10 two ycirs ago
Failures for the past wee, havo been 3,i In
he llnIlei Staiot against go last year and VI
n funuil,l upnl14l " IN VnAr