The Portland daily press., 1895-12-07
M MARKED CHANGES.
10 Says Bradstreet's Weekly Re-
port.
PRICES GENERALLY SHOW A MORE
FAVORABLE TENDENCY.

Orders-B Boom CEN Now Be Expected
i western Elevators Being Filled With
Gra1n-A Decrease n Bank Clearings.
New York, .Decem ber 6-Bradstreet' G. s
tomorrow will say: The general trade
contlnues In the features of the preced-
Ing weeks smaller volume, quiet in most
lines-business being conducted conserva-
lively. There is activity only among deal
ers In woolens, clothing, shoes and hard
ware The new orders are generally of a
niling-in character. The season has evil
IDENTIFY been light the prolonged mild
weather having delayed orders until the
Christmas demand and belated autumn
request came together. Notwithstanding
the almost uniform reports Of quiet and
unchanged conditions noted, Jacksonville,
Augusta and Birmingham in the South,
and Milwaukee, Kansas City and ST.
Louis In the West, prove exceptions to the
rules by reporting gain in. the demand
for wholesale staple goods compared with
the preceding week. The course Of
prices shows
MORE FAVORABLE TENDENCY.
| Sugar, Indian corn and wheat are
showing advances. The prices of wheat
-four, wheat, pork, rice and tobacco are
firm, and unchanged, lower prices are
furnished by oats, lard, coffee, cotton.
print cloths, petroleum. leather, hides
and lumber, coal, southern pig iron,
Bessemer pig iron, live hogs and live cat
tie. There will be continuous
| DEPRESSION IN WHEAT,
finally followed by an advance, due to the
continued heavy shipments of wheat from
the Pacific ooaht and oonfirmatory reports
OF short crops in Australia and the Ar
gentine Republic. Minnesota. Iowa, Ne
braslSa and Kansas farmers are endeavor-
ing to hold large proportion of their
cereal produce as possible. Buyers try
ing to purchase wheat and corn to hold.
Duluth advices are that with the close of
navigation grain receipts are filling tn Q
elevators there to overf1owing. Leather
Is going abroad to parties who sold hides
to this country at an advance, and who
are now buying American leather after
g reaction of % per cent in price. The
fractA nal declines in pig iron prices are
now regarded as bottom, which in addit-
ion to lower quotations for bilIets should
have the effeca of reducing the price of
steel rails, witn which 1t Is thought, busi-
mess for rail mills may follow. No signifi-
canoe is attached to O recent order for 10, =
900 tons of English steel rails for far
Western railway.
IN DRY GOODS
the holiday specialties are more active,
cotton goods remain steady and woolens
are in only moderate demand with the
outlook not favoring particular activity
early next year. The wooden mills are
said to be receiving fair orders for spring,
and holders Of wool are sanguine on ac-
count Of stronger London quotations and
higher prices in Australia and Arg en-
tine Republic. The coal receipt ts at San
Francisco from Great Britain and Aus
tralia are unusually heavy, as ara the ex-
ports Of wheat from that port. Wheat is
reported moving slowly at Tacoma. The
railroad passenger and freight rate be-
ed in changing the usual currents of the
Pacific coast holiday trade somewhat.
The falling off Of 25 per cent in
BANK CLEARINGS
last week, which was an ususually heavy
one. even for Thanksgiving week, was
more than offset by 81. 47o, 900, 600 clear
ings this week, 4S per cent more than last
week, Z per cent more than in the first
week of December, 1894, and II per cent
more than in 1898. The decrease this
week compared with the corresponding
period of 1899 (when the total was prob
ably the largest aggregate of clearings on
record), Is only IA per cent as com pa red
with the like week in 1891, decline OF
only per cent
The November bank clearings are g.
6ss 594. .995, or 9.6 per cent smaller than
October, 1S g per cent larger than Novem-
Der, 1894 and IA per cent smaller than
November, 1892, the record month in
clearings, with the exception of October
: and May.
The total of the month just closed is
larger than any month since May, 1893.
AT New York the gain over November
OF last year Is is per cent, while outside
: OF that city the gain is over II per cent
Twenty three oities show decreases fol
the month compared with 1894, larger
number than for some time past. The
decrease at the larger cities are mostl J
fractional. The total olearings at so cit
les for II months aggregate SAT- SUS, 239, 595
gain of II per cent over last year. G
| decrease less than three per cent from
1898. and decrease of IA per cent from
1888 Only 13 Of 81 cities show decreases
this year from last III II months period.
The failures in the United States this
week number 315, against 232 the frs
week OF December, 1894.
: The exports Of wheat, (flour included
as wheat) from both coasts of the Unltet
States this week (none from MontreaD
are y. 1855. 90 bushels, compared with 3,0Ol,
l0O In the week year ago.
. The worlds available wheat stock.
compiled by Bradstreet's show 1877, 600, 0O(
bushels December l. 1000, 600 less thai
year ago and &c. 600, 600 less than tw'
years ago. The European and afioat stock
are 68, 600, 900 which, while larger than {
year ago, are much smaller than the cor