Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-08-28
Fall Trade Prospect Shows Signs
OF Hesitancy and Delay.
TWO AGENCIES HAVE REPORTED
Wheat OF the Pacific Coast Goes For.
ward More Freely Than That
Across the Continent.

Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade viii say
tomorrow:
The volume OF business shrinks. as is
natural In August. and the shrinkage
seems rather larger than usual be-
cause transactions in July were some
what inflated for that month. Some
Industries are doing more than ever be-
fore In August, and the prospects for
fall trade are good In others. although
much depends upon the crops and the
outcome is less clear than spectators
on either side are disposed to admit
industrial troubles have not entirely
ceased, but during the past week have
become much strengthened.
The price OF wheat has fallen 3A
cents during the week. recovering a
fraction on Thursday i'm spite OF all
Efforts to hold back supplies from
farms and to encourage buying. Wheat
ought to go abroad freely at present
prices, but Atlantic exports, -four In
cluded. have been only 1861. .602 bushels
last week, against 2:692, $50 last year,
and for four weeks only 4,349. .639 bush
els, against 10.9I7. .i47 last year. Inn
pressive stories of short crops abroad
have little weight In the presence OF
such record, and the abstention of
foreign purchasers prove more effective
than the withholding OF wheat by west
ern farmers. Naturally the 57-cent
wheat of the Pacific coast still goes for
ward freely in place of the Atlantic
supplies.
In iron, Notwithstanding some un-
easiness because the output has great
ly increased. heavy purchases by two
leading companies have advanced the
ri 80 n
combination has raised galvanized
barbed wire TO $3.50. while combina-
tions are being formed in wire rods and
common wire. and an advance In prices
Is expected. Other prices are un-
changed, and the new orders for iron
and steel products are not at present
large.
In cotton goods the demand is rather
more active, with the price of raw ma
terial advancing. Quotations for print
cloth are a shade lower this week
The sales OF wool are again smaller
and for the month thus far have been
1851, 200 pounds, OF which 912l, 800
pounds were domestic, against 1g.072, $50
last year, of which 16.3i6.350 were do
nestle. But the speculative buyers still
hold prices stiffly and are supported by
strength In foreign markets No
marked change appears In the demand
for woolen goods. but this is increasing
apprehension shown by agents regard
ing the extensive sales of foreign wool
ems.
The failures for the week have been
222. against 234 last year.
BRADSTREET's REPORT.
New York, Aug. 23.--Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
The volume of trade throughout the
east, south, southwest and on the Pa
eific coast is no larger Several south
ern and eastern centers are quieter
than reported last week.
At western and central-western
points. with some exceptions. signs are
conspicuous of a favorable influence on
the business prospectiveIy from the .
enormous crop of corn and the very
largest harvest of spring wheat. At
the east stimulations are found In the
activity in the leading indus
trial lines, notably iron and steel, the
recent marked advance in prices of
which metals at eastern centers In be-
Ing reported from Chicago and ST. Lou
Is. AT the south groceries. hardware
and dry goods jobbers are relatively
most active. General trade is as favor
able as anywhere south OF the Caro-
iinas. General trade at the south IN
practically waiting untn cotton begins
10 move.
WEEKLY BANK cLEARINGs.
New York. Aug. 23.--The following ta-
BILE. complied by Btadstree:,s, shows the
total ciearances at the principal cities
and the percentage of increase or de-
crease. as compared with the correspond
ing week OF last year: