The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-27
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

SPECIE MOVEMENTS.-W be-
fore last: Silver exports $SSO,O9O, i'm
ports $55,71O; gold exports Sl,O72, 600. i'm
ports $37,2l4. Since January: Silver
exports SIG, 1858, imports $764.57O; gold
exports $16,027,1l0. imports $1S,002, 800.
MINES MAY CLOSE.-A Lansford
dispatch says: The official announce
ment is made here to the effect that all
cOllieries owned and operated by the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation company
throughout the Panther Creek valley
would close down at once and remain
idle until May 4. This move on the
part of the company is discouraging to
the miners. who have only been aver
aging about half time for several
months. This will be the longest con-
tinuous suspension which has occurred
in the Panther Creek valley for num-
ber of years. The shutdown is due to
the stagnant condition Of the coal trade.
GRAIN MOVEMENT.-Whea re-
seipts continue about steady. but ex-
ports are much lighter, the decline in
price this week failing to Immediately
counteract the bad effect on foreign
buying of last weeks advance. Ship
ments of flour are still less encourage
ing, and corn no longer goes out In
great volume, although slight excess
over last year is reported. Receipts Of
corn at interior cities show a heavy
gain over recent weeks movement, and
also exceed the arrivals for the corre-
spending week in 1895. The total west
ern receipts of wheat for the crop year
thus far amount to 1T,732,SSO bushels,
against 137.610209 bushels during the
in Nf
wheat, including flour, at the four prin-
Cfpuf CITIES TINS week. were 1,OS1, 1854
bushels. against 1,392S62 last week, and
1,7GS,S73 bushels year ago.
THE COAL TRADE.-The anthrac cite
coal market last week was firm at
$3.60a3.10 for stove, f. o. b., in New York
harbor The demand was fair, because
it was reported that an advance in
prices Of about % cents per ton for the
domestic sizes will be made early next
month If the state legislature adjourns
at the time expected. According to
Dun, it is shown in the caution which
is being exercised that the companies
in the combination do not care to risk
official Investigations. though they as
| sert that there Is nothing in the agree
ment contrary to the letter of the law,
The stocks of coal at tidewater were
further reduced by purchases of mid
dlemen, and the producing companies
sent most of their newly mined coal to
the lake ports. where 1t will this week
begin to he shipped largely to the west
and northwest by the water routes.
This movement will continue through
out the summer
4 \
FOREIGN TRADE.-The following
table gives the value of exports from
New York for the week ending April
q, and imports for the week ending
April II, with corresponding movements
| in 1895, and the total for the last three
weeks, with 1896 thus far, and similar
| figures for last year:
EXPORTS.
Week ....:............$ 7,627.h2O s 6.6OS, ,GiG
Three weeks ......... 2l,4S7,2O6 2l,4si,97S
IMPORTS.
Week .....,.............$ 9,9l3s13 s 1865. .Cj1
| Three weeks ......... 30,475,3G9 31,l79.5Ii
Year ................ 16l, ,1l9 1856, ,465 50,
Exports continue to increase in value,
aud comparison with the corresponding
week last year or In 1894 shows an en-
| couraging gain. The movement abroad
| Of merchandise for the month of April
thus far has been remarkably uniform
with the exports for the same three
weeks In 1895. Imports are larger than
week ago, but somewhat smaller
than for the same time last year. Heavy
losses occurred in dry goods, sugar and
hides; but were partially balanced by
imports Of coffee valued at $2,35O, 1856
against only $1,6S0,07 last year. -