Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-28
Observation-Disclosures
! DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
: observation-disclosures,

New York, December Pr. G. Dun *
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade, which is
sues tomorrow, will say:
THE sales for the quarter of the year
1895, not yet finished. cannot be definitely
stated, but the aggregate Of deferred
Liabilities for the year, while much small
er than In 1893, viii vary but little from
that of 1894.
The years aggregate OF, commercial
Liabilities Will prODaDly be about $lV,UV-
30 IN manufacturing over $lSvJ,VJU, or ten
per cent more than last year, out III TRAD
ing ABOUT $oSOOU.OOO, or nine per cent. less
than last year.
from the President was followed Dy VOL
ent reaction in the stock market lasI
Saturday, with grave fears OF monetary
trouble.
The sudden panic checked business in
many departments and the industries
cannot be expected to show signs OF I'M
provement until the new year begins.
Orders have been for months so much
smaller than they were in the summer,
when production was expanding ana
prices mounting rapidly, that new causes
Of uncertainty have the more influence.
Bessemer pig has declined sc more at
tlltSDurg, the Bar Association has re-
duced us price, not yet to the rate at
when steel as we'll as iron barsr are ac-
tually sold in most departments, this in
vance IN prices and production last sum-
mer. II Is noted that Bessemer and open
hearth steel We're offered at the same
price in bids on 5000 tons, which a Pitts
burg mill VIII produce for appraisers
stores here. Minor metals are a shade
lower. Coke makers. after three meet
lngs, decided not 10 Tx prices except by
months. and combination of Messaba
ore producers is no longer expected.
Anthracite coal is selling at $40 in New
\ Ork harbor. In the great textile manu-
tactureS the usual holiday dizziness IS in
creased by delay or orders, though there
is some accumulation or goods for the de-
mand expected soon. In wooden goods
the market is extremely dull. soft wooden
goods and ladies cloths are a shade low
er and the average Of quotations is about
IL per cent lower for the week Some
makers have gone below last years quo
tations in securing orders.
The shoe and leather business does not
improve. and both leather and manufac-
tured goods decline slightly, the specula-
ton is again hosting hides about ten per
cent. for all in two weeks, and for some
kinds y per cent.
Wheat and cotton were depressed by
last weeks panic. and have had little
time 10 recover. Wheat receipts con
tnue enormous for the week. S,7i90l2
bushels, against 1,712.9OS last year, and
Atlantic exports, -four included, have
been 1926 960 bushels in four weeks of De
cember against Z. 163 600 last year. Russian
and other supplies are moving freely.
Official estimates are wholly forgotten.
and the men who predicted 81 wheat have
disappeared Cotton has remained at SIC
since last Saturday. and enormous com
mercial and mill stocks here and abroad,
with a demand for goods much smaller
than in September. hinder an advance
The quantity which has come into sight
is thirty per cent. les than last year 20
date. but slightly larger than in 1892
when the crop was $4,000 bales.
Failures for the week have been go In
No. y South Huron street. aged 81 years.
and forty in Canada against forty-one last
year.