The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-28
TREND 0E TRADE.
A Clear Gain In Business Circles Scored
Since the Election.

A Clear Gain In Business Circles Scored
Since the Election.
NEW YORK, Nov. CIR. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade tomorrow
will say:
When the rush of orders after election
slackened many began to think business
dwlndllng, Subsistence OF deferred or,
ders Is not decrease OF business. Broad
ly speaking, the gain has been greater
than anybody expected, and It Is not
surprising II 4 small part OF it Is in ex-
cess OF the present consuming demand.
Reports from all parts Of the country
show clearly enlargement OF trade, not
al, all points in the same branches, but
everywhere helped by 4 more confident
feeling. Extremes Of weather have
made the week not altogether good for
retail trade, but In that line also there Is
Improvement on the whole.
Wheat has risen over six cents for the
week, without material change in for
eign advices, which have been on the
whole less stimulating. Western re-
ceipts are falling behind last years and
for four weeks past have been only 49,
012,5S4 bushels, against 2I,902,612 last
year, while the exports, flour included,
have been 6,270,9Sl bushels In the same
week, against G,265,0lS last year and are
not large enough TO. create excitement,
But thirteen cargoes have left Tacoma
in November and thirty have left San
Francisco with twelve more loading and
forty engaged, The milling demand in
the Atlantic Statesiis also large, and Mt
four western cities the output Of flour In
five weeks has been 2,656,415 barrels,
against 2,Gl3.3U In the Same week last
year. Corn has sympathized with wheat
only little and Is coming freely, The
most important factor In the wheat mar
ket is that tho Visible supplies do not
gain as much as has been expected.
Cotton has gained only q sixteenth,
after its considerable decline and tho tol-
erably heavy movement puts the Spec
ulators for an advance In constant dliti-
cultlea and Yet there Is nll the time to re-
member that the fact that tho crop WAS
nearly one month earlier than usual and
tho present excess over last years move
ment, may be materially reduced here
after. Nevertheless tho fact appears
that the northern mills are taking much
less cotton than In previous years and
the demand for goods Is evidently disap-
pointing.
Wool was and still Is bought largely
for speculation and earlier purchasers
are unloading on the latter, but the mills
are not yet doing much more than in
October, 4 few more have been started,
but there IS scarcely more demand ap-
parent for staple goods, Including sneo-
.ulatiys operations tho sales OF wool have
been for, four weeks S7,Sl4,100 hounds, OF
which 26,212, 900 were domestic, against
24,296,O5 last year, of which 2l,6s9la6
were domestic, But the producing oapa-
city OF the works, and the stoppage Of
several large carpet mills within the
past ton days Is of Importance.
Tho collapse OF the nail combine, and
probably uf the beam combination, and
considerable reduction In quotations for
nails and beams, give reason to look for
q larger demand for products OF iron and
steel, hut at present the GALES against
speculative purchases made some time
ogo ara depressing prices and hessemer
pig has sold at Sla a5 and according to
some reports n little lower ut Pitts
burgh. The domand for such products
as are not controlled by the combina-
tions Is somewhat Increasing, but by no
means as rapidly rs expected. In minor
metals, tin is scarcely as atrong rs It
was a week aso, but copper and lead are
stronger, -
Failures for tho week have heen 800 In
the United States against a7o last year,
and IS IN Canada against AZ last year,