The herald., 1895-01-12
THE WHEELS OF COMMERCE,
Bradstreet's Weekly Review of
Trade.
Business Generally Seems to Be on
the Up Grade.
in fSs4-Produce Markets of
the World.

NEW YORK, Jan. I1.-Bradstreets tomorrow
will say:
The second week OF the new year brings few
reports of an increasing volume of orders for
seasonabe goods. Weather conditions ia tho
east have been unfavorable, those west and
south the reverse.
Chicago, st. Louis, Boston. New York and
Philadelphia report relatively the greatest i'm
provement with increased orders for dry goods.
clothing, rubbers, Shoes hardware and WOODEN
dress goods. At some centers 1t is too early to
judge of the outlook for trade. Travellers in
many instances have all gone out Western
furniture manufacturers are stocking up,
which has had an influence on the hardwood
trade, and western dealers in iron and steel ex-
pect increased orders by February L.
Production of iron aud steel Is going on in
excess of the demand, bat manufacturers ez
poct that necessary repairs. RENEWALS and ad-
ditions to plants by railroads, car mauufactur-
ers and other enterprises, will have stimulat-
ing influence in the near future.
A feature among jobbers at Boston and Phila-
dolphin is the extent to which dry goods and
shoes have been pushed Prints and gingha ms
have been opened and new orders are freely
received. Foreign wooden dress goods are
active, going to all parts of the country. Not
few recorders are already received. This has
queting effect for demand for domestic dress
woolens. Wooden mills, while fairly busy on
first ORDERS are in the market only to cover con-
tracts.
Mercantile collections south and in the Gen.
trail west are reported fairly satisfactory or i'm
proving to greater extent than for 80 days
previously.
The confidence of wholesale dealers in staple
lines that the near future in business promises
increased activity. with an upward to ndency
in quotations, is pronounced in some cities.
On the Pacific coast. trade at most of the
larger cities is quiet Quotations for hides
have been working higher, while wheat, Indian
corn, pork, lard, coffee, cotton and plate glass
have all been marked up. Prices for shoes,
leather. coal, lumber, naval stores rice, sugar.
tobacco and i've cattle have been held firmly.
Oruder forms OF iron and steel are no lower, but
are weak.
Neither is wool lower. but it is fiat at the
lowest quotation known. while prices for COWS
and live hogs have declined.
Total gross earnings for the calendar year are
the most unfavorable for many years in rail-
roads The earnings Of il5 leading American !.
$46S, 100000 Ii per cent less than in 1898, in
which the gross earnings fell of 2.l per cent
from the total in 1892. when there wasa gein
in gross railway earnings of five per cent, as
contrased with 1891 Every group of rail-
roads showed reduced earnings last year. com
pared with 1893. The most favorable exhibit
Is that by southern lines, the decrease for
which was only per cent.
Gross earnings OF Mexican railroads, as in
COnUdsb WIN tnOse III tne UnlIeu othteeI tsPiS-
sent gain over 1898 of per cent.
The best available data with respect to the
size of the domestic wheat crops in 1893 and
1894, together with supplies in sig hit at various
dates, quantities planted and exported aud
consumed by animals in 1894, together with
BrAdstreets report of stocks out of farmers
hands, make it plain that the total wheat sup
ply in the United States on January 1, 1895,
was 100000 smaller than one year previ-
ously, and that stocks back of availab' Q sup
plies were fully 81, 600, 900 bushels smaller
Exports of wheat (flour not included as
wheat), both coasts Of tho United States during
six business days ended January 10, tele-
| graped exclusively to Bradstreeps, amount TO
| 2,5s7 900 bushels, compared with 3,143,00c
bushels last week. 2409,000 bushels in the
| second week of January, 1894, 4,30S 900 In
1898. and with .4,ls3,o 900 bushels in 1892
| Supplies of available wheat in the United
States. Canada and Europe. out of the produc
ers hands and stloat for Europe from all ex
porting countries, together with Australia
| furnish total of 1877, 253 600 bushels on Janu
airy, this year. decrease Of $40. 200 bushels
| compared with January l, 1893, and OF 2S.-
| $1,000 bushels as compared with January l,
1892. a
Toronto enjoyed rather wholesale business
in some lines in the early part of the week.