The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-22
CROP PROSPECTS
An Advance IN Wheat -csal ssril. -. .
oiAorod oerious y"

r. q. Dun 4 Co.'S weekly rev,.
rep0rtsi Excepting the great eo.,
ers' strlke. which may terminals = ni'
time. there Is scarcely a featprs a. a.
business outlook which is no, o.
aging. the season conslders6e encou
prospects have been improved ~ cr1
ed rain In some regions and forsyi.nee nee
vices continue to promise a ia,ss
mand. In many home industr,ssse q
tioularly In building. there is mo-. paI
tivity than In any year since isose az
the week has brought a better a. an
IN Doo,s ana snoes and In wooisl
whiie the movement Of freight, ma,aa n
IRON ore, through the Sault Ste Waa
canai Is the largest In its history W,,
money markets unclouded tbe,s
nothlng IN sight to hinder rapid -
legislation has been removed aoou
miners strike could not las, or u
business and industries shonjS hohs
active. There is much less ueyomS
sion Of q failure OF fuel sunnI,
there was during the first fe,s ma
when prices rapidly advanced ana ,uay
quantities Of coal from West V,.meS
have reached northern markets SIM
some OF the miners in that STATE ~, ouY
struck. Ve hay@
The advance in wheat TO 81 Ia
not due to the government estIr,".l
which was followed by a decline hns
foreign advices and considerabla h,.
ing for export. Demand Is alread,, ~ ~
from Australia, South Africa p,ae ,e
and even Argentina, while the nro.,
ise for European crops Is not cons,Saa
ed bright. The disposition of fas.'1
to keep back wheat for higher nr,ss
may affect the outward movement H'
Atlantic exports during July, fonr ~
cluded, have been 3,lJ5,A3 busha,rI
against 2.953,S17 bushels last wear =,
though in the same weeks 4sss ri
bushels corn went out, against &.
072 bushels last year. Wheat closed
higher for the week and corn hc b,cs
er. Cotton Is a sixteenth higher III
closing or partial stoppage OF imno.1
tant New England mills hardly nsn
tralizing In market estimation the sn
prehensions Of injury from drought,
Speculation In the wool market co,.
tinues with price at Boston adyancln.l
with signs Of a boom among dealars
in which manufacturers are tallnsI
little part at current prices. and at nv
West where holders are looking for n
great advance. Imports at Bostnnl
were 2s.S62 bales in two weeks anil
dealers are said to have bought loo NiI
bales more in London. Sales were IN
452, 800 bales at the three markets fo,|
the week and 24,572. 800 in two weeks al
which 1850, 200 were domestic.
The output of iron furnaces Julv n
was 164,064 tons weekly. against lSS AL
tons June ! bYt several furnaces have
output is large for the season. Pr.
sumably an unprecedented share Of nj
is to supply the great steel companes
which are even now putting more fur.
naces into blast, and have heavy ord.
ers taken, when prices were dropped
while the demand for structural shapes
and plates is large. and for bars In.
proving, though steel bars are now Al
the lowest quotation ever known n
Pittsburg, S7a to 9Oc, with bessen,r
pig quoted slightly lower. Tin plate,
are also lower at SO 10 for full weight
and less than So is paid for lOO.pound
boxes.
Failures for the week have been a3
in the United tates. against 2sy las,
year, and q in Canada, against 80 last
year.