The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-14
IT HAS BEEN QUIET
BUSINESS CT TIE WEEK Is SIMPLY
MORE OF THE SAME

Prices of Manufactured Goods Continue to
Recede from the High Water Mark of
the Speculative Tide. and the Post-Holi-
day Season is the Earliest Period In
which an Increase of Demand Need be
Expectcd-How the Leading Products
have Ranged During the week-Brad-
streets on the Retail Trade.
New York, Dec. 13.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S.
Weekly Review Of Trade, which issues
tomorrow, will say: It has been
very quiet week, without and distur-
Dances. Prices of manufactured pro-
ducts slowly recede from the high water
mark of speculation and no material
Increase in demand is now expected
until after the holidays, but there is
general confidence that great activity
will then appear, and that works which
stopped a little earlier than usual VIII
again be called into operation.
The government crop report caused
scarcely a ripple of interest, though dn-
dica ting $500 bales less Of cotton, and
larger acreage than had been expected
Of winter wheat. The great supplies
Of cotton brought over from previous
years render IL unimpoEtant whether
the yield of 1895 was seven or six mil
lion bales. except as affecting future
planting, and the extensive organiza-
tons Of planters 10 keep baks their cot
ton deprives small receipts of their
natural influence Whether from that
cause OF not. receipts have recently
10 IN bara 1a-
year, but takings Of spinners and ex-
ports are also smaller. The price rose
BIG cent and closed at $50 cents.
Wheat continues TO come forward so
rapidly that past estimates of the yield
whether official or unofficial are dis
credited. Western receipts were 6,003.-
404 bushels for the week against 3.403, ell
last year, while Atlantic exports, flour
included as wheat, were but 1865
bushels. against 2,357.21S bushels last
year. At current prices ii seems i'm
probable that marketing has been out
Of proportion 10 yield, and prices for
the week show little change.
Iron furnaces in blast Dec 1, turned
out 2l6,7S7 tons weekly, against 217,306
tons on Nov. 1, with an increase Of 5000
tons in stocks unsOld. But actual con-
sumption is much smaller than the out
put at present, and prices again declin-
ed, No. ] anthracite 10 $3.50; Bessemer |
pig at Pitusburg to $3.50 and Greyforge /
to $500. Finished products are weak /
and sell below quotations, though quot /
ed prices are about half Of l per cent /
lower for the week. Heavy orders by /
the Rockefeller interests for plates and |
other materials TO build vessels fo- /
of Mesaba ore next year
have strengthened the market some
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light, and most Of the works have shor-
tened force considerably, while at Pitts
burg structural forms, plates, sheets
and pipe are in light demand, and some
bar mills in the valley have shut down
for the want Of orders. Higher prices
are expected for ore and coke and il is
believed that this will cause an upward
turn In iron. Copper IS much democrat
zed with large sales of lake at 1O1s
cents. Lead is lower at $2.2S 1-2 and
Tin lower at S13S5 with increasing visi-
bic supply
Wool has not advanced with London
sales, as was expected, and $3.50, 900
pounds have been sold. 2,303. 700 foreign.
against 74,300 in the same week OF
Ss2, of which 1.5135O0 were foreign.
The slow market for dry goods binders
'ealings. In mems goods there is lit
le business as yet about last years
PRICES in low grades. and the largest
maker Of clay worsteds has reduced |
price 10 those OF last year since the
opening. Business in cottotn has not
yained and print cloths are lower at
* cents while a Few more reductions
ire noted in prices Of other goods. The
has had highly profit
Ible season. though dull now
Failures for the week have been 33S
n the United States againt $40 last
ear and 81 in Canada against 40 last
-ear.
TRADE REVIEW.
New YORK, Dec. 13-Bradstreet's to-
morrow viii say: With the exception
4 mild weather in cities in Missouri. /
Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, cold
weather. has stimulated sales of season.
BILE merchandise at nearly ali points. !
'ut only by contract with preceding !
7eek. Wholesale trade is dull. mer-
hants preferring 10 reduce stocks at
he end Of the year to make ready for ,
nnua! Inventories. In retail lines.
in holiday specialtles. there
as been a marked increase in demand. !
houSh thus far in soma instances not
1ual TO expectations. Irregularity is
hcwn in mercantile collections. general
rade throughout the country being | {
ela1vely most satisfactory in the cen
raj Mississippi valley ,
Exports Of wheat flour included as
-heaO from both coasts OF the United
ua'les this week aggregated Ass. 900 I
ushels against 3.156,00O last week. and
9S6.OoO in the week a year ago. 3.217. 600 7
N7o years ago. and 3.277. 900 in the CORE
ponding week Of 1892
Exports Of Indian corn amount to
S9l goo bushels. as compared with l. '
$, 900 last week. 292. 600 in the week one
ear ago. and .297. coo in the correspond {
* week of 1898. The present weeks 1
,tal foreign shipments of Indian corn
Ne the largest for any week since that r
1d!ng May ,. 1882, and are explained i
Y our teiegraphic service from New
rle2ns q an extraordinarily heavy
ltward movement there.
There We're S1S business failures in I
he United States this week. compared
lth ol5 last week. and SlS in the ike
eek one year ago; 337 TWO years ago, i
M as contraSted with 29S in the sec d
ID week Of December, 1892 I