The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-09-12
CORN THE FEATURE
Certainty That the Crop This
Year Will Be Enormous.
AND PRICES HAVE STfADIED
Trade, Iron and Steel Being
at the Top.


Weekly Review of Trade SAYS
There is no real reaction in business.
The gains. which were recognized as
temporary, are vanishing, but there re-
mains a decided increase over last year,
although prices average 8.8 per cent
lower than a year ago. 1t needs no
keen observer TO see that the reaction
against the rapid advance of prices Is
strong. Hides were the first to rise,
but decided break has come. Coke
was suddenly raised to $1.40. but has
recently sold at $1.10. Wheat jumped
over 20 cents to "a, but is now slow of
sale above IS cents. Wool was late in
rising, but has lost about bc in aver
age price within the past fortnight.
Iron still rises. the strike having him
dered shipments OF ore, but with troops
guarding. the ore begins to move. Cot
ton is strong. but has paused.
The general tendency to curtail prices
where the prices have notably advanc-
ed grows clearer in boots and shoes, In
wool and in some products of iron. The
combinations have again advanced
prices of bar iron 81 per ton, and Of
wire nails 20 cents per key, while Bess-
emer is quoted at $17.40 at Pittsburg,
and eastern manufacture from import
ed ore has again commenced to supply
western consumers.
Consumption already hesitates and
railroads have not much expanded their
demand for rails.
Copper Is also turn weaker. Tin,
with 26, 800 tons invisible stock, domestic
and foreign. and lead with sales OF
1900 tons domestic, are lower.
Tn hA Oh, I'M
shops are discharging hands. and in
wooden manufactures the few works
are closing for want of orders. The
sales OF wool. which averaged over 49,
600, 900 pounds per week when great
speculative stocks were being taken.
have shrunk to 5,370.6OO for the week.
against 7.557,300 for the same week in
1892.
The brightest future In all the hori-
xon IL the certainty that the crop Of
corn will be enormous. The latest re-
ports OF wheat threshing induced the
best western judges to raise their esti-
mate of the yield over 40.000. 900 bushels
and at $50, 900 bushels added to TO-
000.00 bushels brought over, the supply
will exceed all probable demands.
Failures for the week were 1856,
against 2S6 last year.
BRADSTREETS REPORT.
New York, Sept. 6.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say:
Favorable crop reports from nearly
all directions and the continuance of
the boom in steel and iron continues
to characterize the general trade stu
alton. The latest advices as to the
corn crop have replaced anxiety with
confidence In larger estimates. in the
size of the crop and satisfaction with
the outlook for trade this autumn.
Harvesting and threshing are interior
ing a little with business in the spring
wheat country. Duluth, Minneapolis
and st. Paul jobbers IN general lines
are pushing for new business. In South
Dakota and Washington the farmers
show no disposition to sell their grain.
California reports perfect weather for
harvesting. The other side to the
crop outlook Is found In Texas. where
worms are said to have seriously dam
aged cotton in some sections.
Iron and steel prices have advanced
from 81 to 81. and the demand at this
time continues in excess OF the output.
All finished products are beginning to
show the effects OF higher prices for
raw Iron and steel In corresponding ad-
vances. Western iron and steel mills
have orders to keep them busy into
1896, and refuse to name prices for fu-
ture delivery. Apparently every mill
and furnace In the country is at work.
and the fiscal year will probably break
the record of production.
Actual gains In the volume of gem
eral trade this week are recorded at
Seattle and Tacoma and the Pacific
coast. st. Louis and Kansas City in
the west, Duluth and st. Paul, Chatta-
nooga, Augusta, Atlanta and Mem
phis.
WEEKLY BANK CLEARANCES.
New York, Sept. 6.-The following ta-
BILE, compiled by Bradstreets, shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage. increase or
decrease, as compared with the cor
responding week last year:
Inc. Dec
New York.. -. ...... $3.50. 161, s46 $50 go.
Chicago =. -. ........ "a, 421. 1868 80. 10.s
Boston......... :. ..... 75937,347 1879 -.
RnllaQelpnta.. Al lS3, 639 a.