Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-13
BUS'NE IS IS SLUGGISH
Uudistrib uted Stocks Stand in
the May Of New Orders
THE FAC TORIES Ru INNING WELL
Wool Is p Shade Higher-Exports of
Whe at Above the Average
Bank Clcarances.

New York. Dec. 6.-R. @. Dun G. Co.'s
Weekly Review Of Trade tomorrow will
say:
Business is still sluggish, as II gorg-
ed by the excessive indulgence of an
petite for buying when prices were ad-
vancing. In nearly every branch stocks
not yet distributed to consumers stand
in the way of new orders, and COM
petition of producing forces largely ex-
ceeding the present demand, puts down
the prices that decline retarding pur-
chases yet more. After the holidays
many look for larger demand. For
the present the springs Of new business
are running low. but enough Is doing
on old orders to keep most of the works
employed in part and good proportion
fully. Financial influences have not
hindered, and rarely has the opening
OF session Of congress affected busi-
ness so little.
wool has been slightly strengthened
by the London sales, but the average
Of quotations by Coates Bros. is only
tenth Of per cent higher. Sales con-
tinue large, 6.463,100 pounds for the
week, of which 60 per cent was foreign.
Iron and it's products are lower.
Plates sold at SIS and bar $13 and Bes-
semer pig $12 at Valley mills, with
oillets 1880 The average of all quota
tons is Sh per cent below the highest
point in September, but the actual sales
are frequently made below quotations.
Rails have not changed. while Bessemer
pig has declined S. and billets Sc per
ton, and purchases of 10000 tons for
San Francisco from England is noticed,
with considerable portion of wire nails
at Boston,
Copper Is weaker at $14 for lake,
with narrow demand. and tin Is NC
weaker, with the visible supply here
and abroad 1921 tons against 22.445
tons year ago.
1.-THE failures for the week have been
s24 against 1856 last year."
BRADSTREETS
New York, Dec. 6.-Bradstreet's will
say:
General trade continues the features
Of preceding weeks-smaller volumes,
quiet in most lines, business being con-
Quoted cohservatively, active in WOOL
ems, clothing. shoes and hardware, and
new orders generally of a filling-in
character The season has been a late
one, mild weather having delayed or
ders until the Christmas demand and
eAiS DSiotGu dutuiuIl TtQucSt came To-
gether. Notwithstanding nearly uniform
reports of quiet and unchanged condi-
tons 1t should be noted that Jackson
vile, Augusta and Birmingham in the
south, and Milwaukee, Kansas City and
st. Louis at the west prove exceptions
to the rule by reporting gains in de-
mand for wholesale staple goods COM
pared with the preceding week.
exports of wheat Clour included as
wheaD from both coasts of the United
states this week amount to $3.50, 900
bushels, as compared with 2.460 900 last
week, and 3,O11,000 in the week a year
ago.
THE total business failures were 315
as against 2S8 last week"
BANK CLEARANCES.
New York, Dec. 6.-The following ia
Bile, complied by Bradstreet's, shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage of increase or
decrease as compared with the CORE
spending week last year: