The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-12
STOCKING UP AGAIN
MANUFACTURERS AND MERCHANTS
READY FOB THE RUSH.
BUSINESS Not Greatly Increased, Yet Conf
dence in the Future Still Inspires BUSH
ness Men--Eastern Cities Report Rela-
lively Best Increase--HardwoOd Trade
Bound to FlOw--FOreign Wooden Dress
Goods Active--Pacific Coast Merchants
Marking Up Many Lines.

| new YORK, Jan. 1l.-BradStreet to-
morrow will say: The second week Of
the new year brings few reports of an
| increasing volume of orders for season.
| able goods. Whether conditions in the
east are unfavorable, those west and
| south are the reverse.
Chicago, st. Louis, Boston, New York
and Philadelphia report relatively great
est Improvement with increased orders
for dry goods, clothing, rubbers. shoes,
hardware and wooden dress goods. At
some centers it is too early to judge of
the outlook for trade. Travellers in MAN,
instances have not all gone out. West
ern furniture manufacturers are stock
ing UP, which has had an influence on
the hardwood trade and western deal
ers in iron and steel expect increased
orders by Feb. l. Production of iron
and steel is going On in excess of de-
mand but manufacturers expect that
necessary repairs, renewals and addi-
tons to plants by railroads. car manu-
facturers and other enterprises will
have a stimulating influence in the near
future.
A feature among jobbers at Boston
and Philadelphia is the extent to which
dry goods and shoes have been pushed.
Prints and ginghams have been opened
and new orders are freely received.
Foreign wooden dress goods are active,
going to all parts of the country. Not
a few recorders are already received.
This has had a quieting effect for de-
mand for domestic dress woolens. Wool
mills, while fairly busy on first orders,
are in the market for wool only TO cover
contracts
Mercantile collections south and in
the central west are reported fairly
satisfactory or improving to greater
extent than for thirty days previously.
Confidence of wholesale dealers in
staple lines that the near future future
in business promises increased activ-
ity with an upward tendency in quo
tations, is pronounced in some cities.
On the Pacific coast trade at most
larger cities is quiet, as quotations for
hides have been working higher, while
for wheat, Indian corn, pork, lard, cof-
fee, cotton and plate glass have all
been marked up. Prices for shoes,
leather. coal, lumber, naval stores, rye.
sugar, tobacco and live cattle have
been held firmly. Cruder forms of iron
and steel are no lower but are weak.
Neither is wool lower, but it is fiat at
the lowest quotations known. while
prices for cows and for live hogs have
declined.
Total gross railroad earnings for the
calendar year 1894 are the most I'M
favorable for many years. Earnings
Of ia leading American lines with $4,000
miles of road amount to S47S,000,000,
eleven per cent less than in 1893, in
which year gross earnings fell off 2l
per cent from the total of 1892, when
there was a gain in gross railroad
of per cent as contrasted
with 1891. Every group of railroads
showed reduced earnings last year as
with 1893. The most favor
able exhibit is that by southern lines.
he decrease for which was only 2 per
,ent. Gross earnings of Mexican rail
Dads are in contrast with those in the
United States, reporting gain over
1893 of per cent
The best available data with respect
o the size of the domestic wheat crops ,
n 1898 and 1894 together with supplies
n sight at various dates. quantities
planted and exported, and consumed
~ animals in 1894, together with Brad ,
streets report of stocks out of farmers q.
lands make it plain that the total
wheat supply in the United States on
January /, 1895 was 10000 600 bushels
mailer than one year previously and {
hat stocks back of available supplies .
we're fully 34,000,0 900 bushels smaller. ,
Exports of wheat flour included as l
vheaD both coasts of the United States |
Turing six business days ended January q
0, telegraphed exclusively to Brad /,
treet's, amount to 2,5S7 GOO bushels com
AIRED with 3,343. 600 bushels last week. Q
,409, 900 bushels in the second week of 2
anuary, 1894; 3.40S, 900 in 1895 and with {
,1S3, 900 bushels in 1892. Supplies of
valuable wheat in the United States,
'anada and Europe, out of producers q
ands and afioat for Europe from all L
xporting countries together with those y
4 Australia, furnish total Of 1s7, 253, &
90 bushels on January l, this year, a !.
ecrease of $40, 900 bushels compared
18th January l, 1894, but an increase of Il
Il. 900 bushels compared with January n
1898. and of IS, $50, 900 bushels as COM Z
AIRED with January l, 1892. ;,
Toronto enjoyed a rather better -
-holesale business in some lines in the Il
arlier portion of the week. t.
Failures this week are 400 in the
'nited States against 474 last year and =,
in Canada against 81 last year.