Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-27
IT'S A GOOD THING, is TRADE,
so PUSH IT ALONG. SAY DUN AND
BRADsTREErs.
SPECULATION CONTINUES ACTIVE
WITH A HIGHER LEVEL OF
PRICES, AND THE INDUSTRIES
MAKE A GOOD sHowING-BANK
CLEARINGS.
NEW YORK, April rs.

r. q. Dun & Co.'S weekly review OF
trade. which issues tomorrow VIII
say;
Neither the rising speculative mar
kets nor the steady gain in Industries
has ceased and it is wholesome that
there are fewer signs of hesitation In
the productive Industries than In spec
ulative prices.
Wage strikes grow more numerous
and cause some troubles and retail de-
mand lags behind wholesale anu Jop-
! hing purchasing behind production in
some branches, but through many CON
flictIng reports, the fact shines out
that the Industries are gaining, not
with a rush and whirl, but more
safely. II is less clear that the rail-
roads are increasing their earnings OF
that oyerproduction of cotton win pe
cured by the advance Of i 3-sc IN
price. or that cornering short sellers Oh
wheat will help to market the large
surplus. But revival OF activity IN an
these directions, II possible inactive
IN some, helps confidence to take the
throne so long held by distrust.
Cotton mills are getting Wore money
for goods and have quite generally ad-
Vanced wages, Consumption OF the
NuIlntFn kHllllltlS at NAAu
would in eight months be l,3JO,OOO bales
but they have actually taken 100000,
and have u profit ON 100000 bales con-
trolled OF over S4,O0O,U00. The con-
sumption Is larger and advances seem
to be warranted. Iron production
stimulated because ore, coke,
and oil products were to be
dearer Is retarded by shrinkage
demand for products. for on the whole
new business is said to be smaller
than, IN February or March. The struc-
ttIral demand for buildings throughout
the country was never larger, the
frenzy in oil has started a large de-
mand for pipe and sheets at slight
advance. Rails are stagnant though
shade better at Chicago; wire for
fencing, for nails and wire rods, are
so dull as to be scarcely quoted, and
bar, though lifted shade, meets no
increased demand Bessemer pig is
lower and sales OF Southern pig In
Northern markets have been large at
25c advance, Finished products are
nearly all at their lowest price. Wool
has sold at the lowest price on record
this week, Ice for Ohio and &c for Texas,
and offers to clear stocks before new
supplies come forward tempt manuhac-
turers to purchase beyond present
needs. Sales Of foreign, S,ll7, 300 pounds
In three weeks Of April and 9,O2g5OO
domestic, make the total II, 400 800,
against 1896, 100 in 1892, and less, OF
course, In 1898 and 1894. Demand for
dress goods continues large and i'm
proving, but uncertainty In mems wear
goods continues. Colored fiannels are
o to Z IL per cent lower and an auc-
ton sale Is to be held, and some ir-
regularity appears in prices for fancy
goods, Higher prices for wheat, nearly
sc above last weeks, tend to check
Atlantic export Wheat, flour inolud-
ed' was only S2S,S73 bushels for the
week, against 2,62O,4 i5 last year though
for the previous week, about equal 10
last years. Cotton touched cents
receding to 6.9S, Last week 9,3lg.sO6
bales had come into sight. and British
exports 10 goods were 100 900 yards
less in the first quarter this year thnn
last. with such facts the rise does
not help to lessen Southern acreage.
me failures for the week have been
2SO In the United States, against l7g
last year. '''''''' ~