The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-17
THE INDUSTRIES ARE BUSY
ALIDSUMMER QUIET MORE CON-
 SPICUOUS THAN LAST WEEK.


 It is Less So Though, Says Bradstreets, in
 Industrial Than in Commercial Lines-As
 Rule Manufacturing Industries Are
 Exceptionally Busy For the Season.
 New York, August 16.-Bradstreets
 says: Midsummer quiet Is more con-
 spicuous than a week ago. though less
 so in industrial than in commercial
 lines. As a, rule leading manufactur-
 ing industries are exceptionally busy
 for the season and the increase in out
 put of demand and prices for iron and
 steel still continues. Many in the
 trade were surprised by the very un-
 favorable cotton crop report by the
 government and the price of cotton
 speedily advanced. Steel billets have
 also been marked up, as well as some
 varieties of print cloths. Quotations
 for flour, oats, pork, sugar, copper and
 wool have remained firm but unhcang-
 ed while declines are recorded by h.
 dian corn on crop reports by lard and
 by wheat, notwithstanding the statis-
 tical strength of the cereal in every
 direction except exports.
 Jobbers In staple lines at Chicago, St.
 Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Milwaukee,
 Minneapolis and St. Paul report an im-
 proved demand. The outlook at all
 those points is for an active fall busi-
 ness and the larger among them re-
 port country merchants personally se-
 lecting fall stocks quite as freely as
 expected. Kansas City dealers do not
 regard an early advance in prices of
 live stock probable. At Omaha coun-
 try merchants are said to be buying
 more freely than for years. At San
 Francisco leading commercial lines are
 quieter Hop-piclSing is about to be-
 gin on that coast with the outlook for only a moderate crop. The wheat crop prospect in California is,rather less favorable. Washington crops are good. Tacoma reports easier collec- tions, lumber shipments about equal to those in the preceding month and the receipt of 10000 tons of freight this week from the orient. Portland, Ore, wires that the spring salmon catch on the Columbia river is large.
 Throughout the south general trade remains as quiet and i'll cases quieter than a week ago. Mercantile collec- tions have not begun to improve and at some points jobbers report a small falling off in the volume of sales, though in several instances this is due to rainy weather. On the other hand rain is needed in South Carolina, while ;,D t. | favorable conditions from this time on | the Texas cotton crop will not exceed 1 2250,000 bales. Word is received that Texas interior merchants have been cancelling bagging and the orders. Ex- ports of wheat and flour during seven weeks of the fiscal year amounted to l F ,000 900 bushels. Tn the like period l one year ago the total exported was l 19,000 GOO bushels. Two years ago 1t
 was 34OO0OOO bushels. Bank clearings | for the week continue to hold up re- | marka'bly well, the total being $894, ,OO0,- | 900, 8 per cent. less than last week, but | 13 per cent less than a year ago.
 | At Toronto some improvement is | shown in trade At Montreal the week | has been quiet and the tendency of | prices of cottons and woolens and iron
 has been up. On the other hand coun- | try produce is lower. Mercantile col 1 lections are reported satisfactory from l Quebec city, but trade there is dull. 1 Nova Scotia houses report fair vol 1 ume and collections good. Crop re- l ports from that province are also flaw | orable, but bad weather has interfered | ,,,;+l, tho frishine ey indr1StrV