New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-07
vopK nuv rR1ErNF MONDAY OCTOBER FACES
... mt exports have been only 1S2o'S

sbortness But exports nave Dce" ~'''
bales. AGAINST s2s.55s last year to date.
The later estimates Of the wheat crop W
statisticans, who have been conspicuouS''
while the Government was absuroiy "io"e ,oe 100
s,,r,,aIlv agree on about 455 600 900 to 46ooooo~
bushels which is about three-quarters oi i"'
cron 90 tho acreage planted was enough for a
Weld Of 600 900 900 bushels The loss mere "
,,no, IN. winter wheat States. which happen 70
he I'm the main the very Statee In whicn cor" ma"
been most prolific. 1t is not to be expected ii'a'
wheat ,,l rico much while the quantity conhs
forward "a 2s 405 2s6 bushels In the last nVe weeh
against 2s Ato ee7 last year. the visible supply De-
ing over Al 200 900 bushels, and the Atlanuc en-
norris in sentember only 6666275 bueheis' noun
included. against 1O.b75,SS9 last year Inc speo"
lative furry early In the week did not hod' anu
the week closed with about half a cent loss Corh
declined nearly q cent, and at 81 cents Is Out ~
cent above the lowest point touched In io'V' "'''
IS the only year Of the last seventy III WIN" q"
low quotations have been made III 'he S'e''
proves the greatest ever known the price may "o'
unnaturally prove the lowest. Oats nave Dee.n
lower In previous years. although at less IMAM ~
cents at Chicago they seem low enough
The railroads have not done quite as well reia-
lively during the last half of September as theS
did early in the month and their increase IN earn
,ngs compared with last year, has been about 80
per cent IN September against 3.3 In August lf'4
in July A In June 81 IN May and IN April
Comparing with 1892, the last year OF full traHc IN
the fall September shows decrease OF ia per
cent and August earnings decrease OF lV'' PEI
cent II Is important TO notice that the Gust
bound tonnage from Chicago shows no such
decline but In September was 24l l5f tons against
o.. 57s IN 1892 and in August the decrease was
Vtvuc
,shIngIv little to do with stock trading, which has
resolved Itself into juggler's display OF socaiied
industraIs about as useful as the KafIir circus
at London More than half the shares SOLO last
week were Of six trust stocks. Whiskey, sugar
Gas Coal. Tobacco and Cordage, In the order
named the six largest sales Of railways being
about half as great. All railways advanced a
shade on the average, while the average Tor
Trusts declined a shade.
Whether the explosion of the kaf-'r buoDIe OF
the drain OF money to the interior brings cioatr
market 1t is likely to come in any case before the
month ends and with 1t there may possibly come
some change In many speculations which nave
had remarkable abundance and cheaphesS ol
money to shelter them from any storm AL pres
ent most Industries are to some extent efnDar-
raised by shrinkage OF demand because prices
have advanced so far and In the shoe business
many factories are reducing force or stopping
Experienced men also look for very general
stoppage Of woollen machinery before long, not
because prices have advanced much, but because
foreign importations have lpplied very large
share Of a market which IS restricted at the pest
| Cotton goods have been advanced about 20 per
| cent but the excitement does not appear TO a0ate.
The upward rush in iron halted last week, ana
for the first time since February 1t Is remarked
that the average of representative prices de-
cllned a shade Here the curtailment Is distinctly
due to the rapid rise in prces, but with FOUNDRY
coke suddenly hoisted 80 l3 per cent in day. ana
iron ore raised to 81 40 for Norrie at Cleveand 1t
| is not improbable that there may be some con-
| nict ahead Meanwhile the volume or business
represented by bank clearings in OCTOBER so lar ~
| 1T per cent smaller than n 49, although 49,
| per cent larger than last year