The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-28
BETTER SOME WAYS
THEN IN OTHER WAYS, AGAIN,
BUSINESS IS NOT.

Notable Feature of the Weeks Failures Is
Concerns That Go Under - Foreign
Trade for Three Weeks shows an In
crease of Exports and Decrease of Inn
ports-wheat Gains-Corn and Cotton
Unchanged-Grain Movements-Wool,
Cotton, and the Dry Goods Market.
New York, March 27.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade will say:
No important change has occurred in
the general condition Of business dur
ing the week and if the trade in some
respects looks worse, in other respects
it looks better. Some failures Of mag
nitude have occurred. which have caus-
ed much apprehension and unwilling
ness to lend among bankers, and there
have been somewhat less favorable fea-
lures in the dry goods market, but in
iron and steel. conditions are slightly
improved, and in boots and shoes con-
siderably more hopeful. Foreign trade
is a little more satisfactory, exports
from New York for three weeks show
ing an increase over last year OF per
cent, while imports have shown nearly
the same rate Of decrease, and there
are not wanting signs that the domes-
tic markets have been somewhat over
loaded with many kinds Of foreign
goods. In general, the course of DOM
este prices tends TO favor the market
ing of staples abroad.
-, Il oh - fy,+ hui
corn and cotton remain unchanged.
Receipts Of wheat at western ports con-
tinue surprisingly large for a most I'M
favorable season, and make it hard 10
believe that the crop of 1895 was as
small as estimates represent il. for such
receipts amounted during the past
week to 2,901 ,724 bushels, against 1,S49,-
1872 last year, and for four weeks Of
March have been 11,SS4,2C5 against T.
474361 last year. There has been
slight increase in Atlantic exports this
week, but in four weeks exports, -four
included, were 5,47S, 119 bushels against
6,4SS,10s last year.
In the dry goods market the latest
indications do not warrant expectation
that the mills will continue full produc-
ton throughout the season. The de-
mand for Women's dress goods is the
there is about as much difficulty as at
any time in mems wear departments,
the operations of clothiers being hinder
ed, not only by the prevalent strikes,
but by slackness Of immediate demand.
The sales of wool have fallen TO less
than half a weeks full consumption.
A striking feature this week has been
a sale of $4,000 pounds OF American
wool for shipment to England.
The iron and steel markets have dis
closed a similar feature for a little AL
ALBANIA pig has been sold for export
by the Sloss company, though few i'm
agine that much business of that sort
is possible. The combination of lake
ore producers has at last announced It's
prices for the coming season: 81 for
first-clasS bessemer; $3.40d375 for Me-
saba and 50 for non-bessemer ores and
1t IS calculated that with coke at 81
per ton bessemer pig can be produced
at about s12.25 at Pittsburg, which is
now the current price there. But the
slow marketing of finished products is
still the main trouble. There has been
a little more activity this week, and the
Carnegie works have sold 10000 steel
rails to Japan, thus scoring a notewor-
thy success, but in the main the market
is inactive and insufficient as it has
been.
A heavy failure in Texas will swell
the aggregate for the past week, which
include 259 in the United States, against
234 last year, and SO in Canada against
AZ last year.
BRADSTREETS TRADE REVIEW.
New York, March 27.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say: The week has
brought more favorable weather, which
tends 10 create a better feeling. But
trade, except at Baltimore, Minneapo-
lis, ST. Paul and Chicago, and, TO
moderate degree, at other points, re-
mains duh and unsteady. The most
encouraging feature is the advance in
prices of wheat, Indian corn and besse-
mer pig iron, the latter being based on
the higher value placed on lake ores.
While there have been larger sales Of
dry goods, shoes. hardware, iron and
leather at Chicago, business in other
lines continues slow. San Francisco
exports TO Asia have fallen off, but
those to Mexico and Central America
are the heaviest on record. Portland,
Ore, is sending large quantities of lum-
Der to the west coast of South America