The Portland daily press., 1895-11-30
A FALLING Off
In the General Trade Of the Past
Week.
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW OF MONEY
AND MERCHANDISE,

Navigation Closed on the Great Lakes
Western Jobbers Report Aotivity-HoI.
iday Trade About Due-FaiIures fol-
the Week-The Bank Clearings.
New York, November 29.-Bradtrest's
tomorrow will say; The volume of gen
eral trade shows q falling off compared
with the preceding week. largely owing
to the intervention of the Thanksgiving
holiday, in part to the continued effect
of mild weather, east and south, storms
In the central west, and the usual disin-
clination of buyers to add to.their stocks
during the closing.months of. the year.
Navigation is practically closed on the
great lakes, canals and at Montreal.
Western jobbers report an activity notice.
able in clothing, wooden goods, rubbers,
shoes, holiday specialties and some in
creased demand for coal and light hard
ware.
The general trade
REMAINS UNCHANGED
in the South, with mercantile collections
in soue instances improving; tendency
OF cotton to move slowly and the move
ment of merchandise smaller than in Oc-
tober. Texas merchants report fair
movement of notions and fancy goods
and check to Distribution of groceries
and dry goods. On the Pacific coast q
smaller volume of business is reported
from San Francisco with shipments east
Of wheat which strengthen local grain
market. Considerable merchandise con-
Htinues to 60 TO Alaska from Seattle. At
Portland, complaints are made that the
PASSENGER WAR RATE
between that city and San Francisco
threatens to hurt local trade The most
striking industrial feature is the con-
tinued reaction in the prices of iron and
steel, Bessemer pig iron being OF 25
cents. steel billets fraotionally lower,
reaction in prices for wire, sheets and
other forms. There is little Likelihood of
price movement prior to the middle of
january.
There is an improved demand for boots
and shoes at Baltimore, Chicago, St.
Louis, as we'll as some New England man
ufacturing places At Philxdelphia the
demand is not SO conspicuous as previous
ly. The restriction Of production by sew
eral tanneries tends to weaken the price
of hides. Dry goods are quieter with
continued unseasonably mild weather and
REVIVAL OF HOLIDAY TRADE.
The strength of cotton maintains the
price of cotton goods. The higher prices
for wool in London tend to revive the in
teIest here. Agents for dress woolens
report new orders for spring delivery.
Some New England woolen mills con-
traoted for about all they care to sell at
present.
The geLeral tendency of prices of
staples continues in line with that shown
in two or three preceding weeks, clear
majority OF those usually quoted,
SHOWING DECREAS SEES
compared with the week before; notably.
various forms of steel and iron, includ-
ing wire, hides, live stock, wheat -four,
Indian corn, oats, pork, lard, coffee,
petroleum and print cloths. There are
practically unchanged quotations ad-
vanced for lumber, coal, leather, naval
stores, lear tobacco, sugar and wool.
The more conspicuous advances appear
confined to wheat, 1-Sc. bushel, cotton
| l-Sc per pound. and some of the cheaper
grades Of paper stock, fractionally
The exports of wheat (flour included
as wheat, from both coasts of the Unit
ed States and Montreal, 2,46O, 600 bushels
compared with 2,667,000 in the week of
of one year ago The bank clearin gs
throughout the United States were ss70,
600, 900 this week. and refisot rather more
than customary falling of, incidental
to Thanksgiving week. The decrease
compared with the preceding week was
80 per cent, compared with the total for
the week one year ago. gaining only
per cent compared with the week in 1893,
and an increase Of 10 per cent compared
with the weeks total three years ago,
decline of 81 per cent.
There were 2SS failures reported through
out the United States this week, COM
pared with 307 one year ago.
Farm Buildings Burned.