The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
CHECKED BY HEAT.
TRADE rs THUS RESTRICTED IN THE
: CENTRAL WEST.
the Wooden Goods Trade is Not
What 1t Would Otherwise Best. Louis
and other Interior Cities Distributing
to the Southwest Report an Excellent
Movement in All Lines-Production O.
Iron and Steel Goes on at a Gallopirg
Ra.e-Texas Cotton Crop Short-Rail-
way Earnings--Bank Ciearings.


New York, Sept. 13.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: The week is char
acterized in trade circles by an unex-
pected turn. This is reflected at mar
kets from which supplies are distribut-
ed to these regions.
Relatively unfavorable features are
felt in quieter tone in dry goods job
bling circles; check of seasonabie
trade throughout the central west, due
to the unusual heat; low prices for
mems woolens and an unsatisfactory
outlook due to depressions abroad.
There have been only moderate orders
for wooden manufactured goods.
The most bulHsh report .omes from
st. Louis, where there are many ooun-
try buyers, and all lines of staple rler-
chandise are active, with railroads max
ing freer purchases, and the manufac-
turing industries pressed to keep Up
with requirements. Kansas City, toe,
also a distributor to the west and south
west, report unusually prompt mer-
camille collections and relatively enor-
nous orders placed with the wholesale
ers for shoes, dry goods and hardware
AT the south fall trade is openiag up
iiiOAC 1ACSly L-ldH clillCipdlGC, VIII
ked Improvement in business AMI in
creased confidence as to the outlook at
Jacksonville, Atlanta and Augusta
The improvement in iron has hal an
influence at Birminghom and through
out the tributary region, an evidence Of
which is found in the temporary inabil-
fy of the Birmingham wholesalers to
meet the demand for hardware ard
groceries. As for the firmness of cot
ton goods prices, this is a feature in
trade circles. North and east the most
conspicuous movement is the continued
activity in iron and steel, highest quo
tations yet reached having no effect in
restricting demands. The present
rate of production of pig iron exceeds
1000 tons weekly, the largest N our
history, at the rate of more than iC,-
100000 tons per annum. Lake cities re-
port improved demand for general ner-
chandise, stronger lake freightS and re-
quest for tonnage active.
At Chicago relatively more orders are
received from the south and southwest
than ever before. Revised estimates
from Texas point to only half cotton
crop, but trade is active and the out
look favorable because of a greater re-
lative increase in the price of cotton
than the reduction in out-turn. The
sugar CIop
10 per cent to 20 per cent SIN aile' than
that of last year.
Gross railway earnings of 1o7 rail-
roads for August aggregate $i3, 139 GA,
a gain of lie per cent over August a
year ago when there was a gam of
nearly per cent for August. 1898. Good
gains are shown by the eastern, gran
gers and frung lines in the order nam
ed. The coal roads show the only in
portant decrease, although earnings of
the central, western, southern and
southwestern roads show falling eff
from August last year.
Exports of wheat from the United
States and Canada, both coasts, -four
included as wheat, amount only 20 J.,
$40, 900 bushels this week compared with
e. 300. 900 bushels last week, 2,7S9, 0l0 bush
els in the corresponding week year
afo, and 5,537, 900 in the second week Of
September, 1898. This weeks total eX-
ports are a little more than one-half
the corresponding shipments three
years ago, and about one-qu9rter the
exports in the like week of 1891.
Failures for the week were 137 in the
United States against 21S last year, and
thirty-four in Canada against forty
four last year.