The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-25

f8Ass - -
ssr-ezs ..ss-a :, szs.s = ls.es
q = ea em4
as.@s~snsasss feesem ~ Fa~se.
e
- f Ma asssaae #fszs
ma MN aasHF HHee sees
sn* eeasts
sass te@ @as fs#
- Aelsse aesas tss tsH f aaat
s ass ssaa fsases So 4sassa..a ~assHsf
taW masHsss 81 tas ea - tN NaaN sefaaaa
- EsEeass.H "a essess sfaas Esa eeaae
$500 ~ mhamA f# hsaaM tmsaffAas
Ea4fAefs - $50 esaff.aiist 81 hassss 4l.4
g. aiisf siaies. ta.iAa = - @~A -
Afaerflsaa asaafg a. 49, - Mesh fe-
slrlriaa eaml@fs4 so Tfsxteas 5taFs
aaa Aastraim leff tne nst ~ exppFfsra
Whan ehf sesAn a. i1nlsart ~hsMf afan eAn
xFanrasra Fecenfly. f.mssfic y 4eaf afos ~
ars l4rxsF than earlier ohcial AMI tfa-e
estimates. buf ths expert demand has IN
ereasei ~ TAR bsyond What Has antici-
f,atsd. ara gives - much pToffiise of hsins
c0ntiuaed. that The balls Ia the speculative
markets are counting on alxaer oriees.
At such uenters as Chicaga and 81. Louis
reports are made that interior merchants
have ben disappointed In the Seasons bnsi-
meas. and ars buying somewhat more spar
fngly than expected. although many OBJ
bers al those cities report that travellers
for clothing. dry goods. shoes ani hard
ware houses are taking fair o..iers for
spring delivery.
Total exports OF wheat, -four included as
wheat. from both coasts os Ihe United
States this week amount TO 3,Sia.'oo luFf els.
as compared with $4,000 last week ard
a.s40.O in the same week one year ago.
There were 20 business failures reported
fn Canada this week. against "a last week.
thus indicating a large falling OF. But
when contrasts are made with IKE weeks
in preceding years the 81 this week is seen
90 be an unusually large number. one year
ago the total was 3s IL was 4s In each Of the
corresponding weeks in 1894 and In 1888. and
~ in iss2.
pun's Review of Trade.
n. G.. Dun a. Co.'S weekly review OF trade
tomorrow will say: Prices OF some pro-
duets have risen. bat only because supplies
are believed to be smaller than was cx-
pected. The senate still Injuries all business
iv doing nothing. and the treasury cannot
expect to gain IN gold as yet, but loses less
than was expected. IL Is generally assumed
that the new loan will be placed without
difficulty though the successive payments
may cause continued disturbance. A deluge
OF foreign reports favorable 10 wheat spec
uiatlon found ready answer in an advance
~
5o per cent larger than last year. Atlantic
EXPORTS for the week were also much larger
than last year, for the first time in several
months but for the crop year TO date all
exports have been about li.SS9,cW bushels
smaller than last year The market has
the idea that foreign demands hereafter
must DO much greater because OF de1ctenN
supplies elsewhere, but no one expects that
tho Increase viii be at all commensurate
with the enormous Increase in Western ie-
eeipts OF q per cent since the crop year be-
gan, l33. .ea.0o0 bushels, against iol,SSe,l lgl
bushels last year
The iron and steel business finds encour-
agement Ia the advance OF Bessemer pig 10
SIS at Pittshurg and grey forge 10 81. *,
but these are results OF the advance or
dered hy the combinations tn coke and ore.
Anthracite Is not dearer at the East. and
Southern pig is pressed foT sale. Finished
products are not stronger. While pig iron
has advanced 1919 per cent since January
]. prices OF finished products average II
per cent lower that ut that time The de-
maud Is plainly too small for the supply.
nnd the works IN operation are killing protts
for each other by undertaking. In such n
case lower prices for pg and coke would
seem inevitable. but last year the raw ula-
Ser.als hoisied everything else and some
expect the operation to oe repeated. While
thirteen furnaces IN the Plttsburg region
have stopped since January l. the demand
for products OF iror has not or the whole
increased. paray because the bar, naii ana
ran associations have all refused 10 lower
prices Minor metals are ali weak. lake cop
per being sold az 1915 by brokers. with an
output OF it.s4S tons "a this country IN De
canber and T.lse abroad and o. as FOR the
last half Of iS5. against a. 63i tons abroad
Lead and tin are practically unchanged.
The failures FOR the week have been 50
in the United States. against St7 last year.
and 81 in Canada. against - last year.