The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-29
CONTINUE TO HOPE
Rat Tradesmen Can Hardly Say
Business Is Better.
FAILURES NOT SO NUMEROUS.
sc.s Demand for Trsn Of some sorts
Continued Rise In the Price
OF wheat.

~sw YORK. Feb -Era6strse<'s toner
- ~ssf xay. fsaauzraess aid a fines an
.ss.e,safsa weather has cOutilt1ed 30 an
ss~e~algy Inszance the distribution q gesi-
~rs1 szsychagslse. JOooers 81 large West
- eentsrs % rot anticipate 4 heavy
saezg trade. IS tlio ositsook y Tor retailers
~.s~vfag over larger stocks taan expected.
- rxsea movement 81 leading staples Is
,-ov4 favorable. Expcrts Of wheAt, -four
$3.50 a. wEsat from both coasts ~ the
fsrsssa Stat sals week showed a mark
= fziSs4g Of a9s only from s0e t1ta4 one
-skk ag0. hich was 5,isi. fsa bushels. bat
=. esasparaa with CORES onsiing totals for
go z weeks IN k'snFusTy. II -four pre-
..s.rg years. One year age tic week 3
s4aarss amounted 10 z.ssss % bushels. and
&c Years ago 10 was 2s51es9. In tsas r
was aEieU ard IN i8t- x vas ASSOC
zsaeis-
- saJline or ia the total r1ufnher oe bus
sse~s failures thrgHghosst The United States
geek ago iB Continued. tae i0sai being
= a. compared with z7e last week. and
"A in the CORES p0adsng weex o. Isss.
BrasIstreet'= Financial Review.
nraGstrscts financial review vii say:
sns market this week was aull and reac-
sonary. bat without any large decAae, ex-
60 II special eases. up 70 Friday. when
= froke rather sharply on somsusisat Jade
as4ts fsars That The CUBAN question might
81 70 trouble with Spain. The recession
se.sarsd natural. in view Of the pTOfes-
sgpai character Of the preceding advance
- re failure 10 attract any piitaic DiIy-
= e.soeg here or Sc I4onlson- The foreign
4ae4ssess nage. lafaea. bean adverse. TIE
ssfasAal situation So south Africa - not
gngrsge4 by the popular approval mani
s.sEed Ia isoadau 81 Dr., jameson and his
ssaaNera and yae f0gtni.Sntsy settlement
i -. raarkes Developed an sl4oft Interest
= Ane~.caa stocks. London. ieeeesi. VAS
seller of qaF stocks foE several GAYS,
stough & seut higher quotations on tfi-
aav and At the CLOSE 81 the week seems
sors disposed 80 purchase The market
~ Americans there r. however, largely
asxsfeseoual ~ may be noted that the bti-
.a4eaa hsllVIrg OF bonds CONTINUES. though
- = more rsstFietea scale than las week
pF.sfsssfonal interests ia Wall street. how
ever. "a some extent acted on the bear
s18e 81 the accouat, tlsough the ahseaca OF
fs.atfat5aa and the case with when The
nsarkes becomes ovefsoid - an oostacse
il rhssr success. The Increase Of the money
naarset and the fading Of the disturbance
due 10 the payments FOR government bond
xs1fesffpttonS has caused q haFdeufag OF
.xsa4aaas rates. Though net to 81 degree
Which would make the renewal OF gold
sxporis a pressing question. fhe pfscfl-
"a abandonment IN the t'u3tef States sea
~ 81 he tariff bill was not productive OF
gay speculative effects beyond silght al
xanee sn sugar refining stock ~ the
sssss ~ lha week The possibility OF con-
pileagsens with spa3n were used as bear
eFEameat
Rank Clearance.
TIE following table compiled b. Brad
streets. shows the total elpafances AZ the
principal cities aud the percentage 81 IN
sfsase or decrease as compared with the
corresponding Week last year.