The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-13
Duu's Review of Trade.

New York, April 12.-R. g. Dun's &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade which
issues tomorrow will say: Progress To-
ward better business continues, but 1t
IS slow and meets many obstacles. IN
speculative aspects and in wholesale
demand for goods, the week SHOWS I'M
provemeus Money markets are UNI
disturbed and a little more active. but
among the chief obstacles Is the allH-
iety of operatives to secure petIer
wages. even while many manufactuI-
ing Nrcks are running without prohI
and others at the risk OF loss. IN Il
number of establishments better wages
have been conceded, thus increasing
the purchasing power of the people,
but strikes have largely overbalanced
settlements, several of Importance nav
ing thrown about IL, 900 workers out OF
employment this week.
Retail trade has improved on the
whole since March, as the approach Oh
Easter brings more business Out us
tribution to individual consumers stun
lags behind purchases of jobberS ana
such demand for products as springs
from building and other investments
looking into the future.
Crop prospects sill greatly affect the
course of trade for some months ana
the government report had little IN
fiuence to discourage. For consumers
in meats. For the first time in long
period. prices Of commodities average
a shade higher than for a year and IN
Great Britain also, owing to dlferent
causes. a slight advance occurred IN
March. On both sides of the ocean the
lowest level ever known may naturally
/ be followed by some rise.
Cotton is. on both sides, more buoy
| ant than anything else except meat
risen to S1.S0 the highest price Tor over
| seventeen years. Nothing supports the
! advance of an eighth in cotton the past
/ week except the impression that the
! next crop will be short, for receipts are
! large and about 100000 bales more than
/ the largest crop ever grown nave al
ready come into sight this year.
! Wheat has yielded nearly cent al
though Atlantic exports for two weeks
| have 3. zoe 6.3 bushels, -four included
| against 35gS. SIS last year, with west
! ern receipts only 20SS,4S1 against 4,225,-
| asa last year. Receipts OF corn are
about half and exports fifth OF last
| years.
| Decrease in receipts of cattle are eX
| argerated, 659, 400 having arrived al
Chicago against 7S9.5i3 TO date las
wear and the prevalent opinion IL thai
| western packers are helping nature K
| some extent
The output Of pig iron April l was
l5S.5S5 tons weekly, practically tn
same as March !. with decrease o
OS0 tons in unSOld stocks during IN
month. Doubtless heavy stocks wer'
taken up by manufacturers in anuci
nation Of a strike in coke works, bU
the apparent consumption Is large
| than at any other time for som
months and only a sixth less than j
| March. 1892. BeSSerner iron has al
| vanced a little further 10 sos al Pitts
| burg but there is no change WhateNe
! in prices OF unfinished products dur
! ing the week. and while the deman
continues good for Structural forms an
a little better for bars. the market Dc
rease in demand for wire, owing 70 IN
scant purchases OF farmers Tor fencing
affects the outlook. 1t seems prohaoi
/. that pig iron must recede unless
: larger demand for finished product
soon developed
sales OF wool are particularly inter
esting. amounting for the week 10 5
csc no pounds and for i've weeks pr
, yious 10 1852. 2is0, against -2,-sl-S'S ]
: the same weeks Of 1899. In brief, sale
, srs close 10 the quantity required Tor
/, | full consumption and the long decay J
pIaciug orders and the lateness OF N
: season make the proportion Of mills q
| work larger than usual No improve
rnenr in prices appears. and oonssu
wool does not respond % recent az
/ yances in foreign markets The To-
: price encourages manufacturers
! compete much more vigorously VIZ
e ! the foreign goods ~ many xmas ina
! they had expected and for the mediul
! and rhsaper grades 81 goods they has
. | NOR than the usual demand, nsc2 Is
> | purchases CT consumers have tor "
: | wears been comparatively small tt
| better goods fare not so We'll. foTsiS