The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-27

NEW YORK, Nov 26,--R. G, Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade viii hay
In It's issue of tomorrow:
The heavy exports OF wheat, with the
renewed advancein price ts the most
Interesting and important feature of the
week. Since August /, when the extent
of foreign deficiency became realized,
exports have been larger than In COR
responding weeks OF any previous year.
The cotton exports also haye become
very heavy, and the outgo of corn falls
hut little below last years. unprece-
dented record. while in exports OF man
ufactured products, especially machln-
cry, all records for the season have been
surpassed While the aggregate for
November last year was over sos, 100000,
shipments from New York for three
weeks have been but slightly smaller,
with fair prospect that the known In
crease In cotton and other, products
from other ports may make up the de-
flclency. Meanwhile, imports are run
ming behind last years at New York.
nearly $4,000, 900 this month, 80 that an
other excess of exports over imports
amounting 10 about SGO,OO0,OOO for The
month Is probable. But this would
make an excess of about s225,0OO,OOO in
four months,
After the slight decline last Saturday,
wheat rose to 81 OO1S for November, with
No. g red and other grades selling many
cents higher. Yet western receipts are
OF enormous magnitude In four weeks
q, ,072, ,104 bushels against 2,9l4S3S In the
same four weeks last year. while Allan
tlce exports, flour Included, were for the
week 3,62S,445 bushels, and for four
weeks l3,429. $3.50, against 7,737 0Sb last
year The shipments from other ports
have also been heavy, and neither ap-
pears 10 change the former estimates
OF European needs. Corn also continues
to go abroad In quantities almost as
large as last year, when all past rec
ords were broken, but the price has
slightly declined.
Print cloths and other staple goods are
at the lowest quotations ever known.
In such conditions weakness IL natural.
although extreme estimates of yield are
not by some entirely credited, The de-
mand for goods from the south is larg-
er since the removal OF embargoes, and
recent reductions In prices have stimu-
lated larger transactions by dealers.
hut stocks held by The mills are still
heavy. With 100000 pieces of print
cloths on hnnd, 2,l22,OOO one year ago,
and only 100000 pieces two years ago.
the output of 2,0OO,OOO beyond consump--
ton last year has been a heavy load
ever since,
Tho iron industry shows no decrense
| In production or consumDtlcn of pig but
much reduced orders for products In
excess of production is expected and
Bessemer falls shade to $40 TO- ana
Grey forge TO 80 % at Pittsburgh,
though Chicago and eastern markets
show no change. Blllets are also weak
er at Pittsburgh. at $l5. Expectation
Of lower prices tends to produce them al
a time when new business is naturally
small. and the mills are working mostly
| on oldSorders, with buyers Impatient for
deliveries. Other large orders are held
back in plates by inability OF the works
TO deliver in the time desired. In bars,
| agricultural and railway manufactur-
ing cause some heavy demand Mt Chi
cago, iron being preferred to steel, and
thin sheets are also In better demand,
| but bars are q shade lower at Pitts
| bHrgh, and both wire ana steer nells'
Some large orders for rails by eastern
railways are reported.
The wooden manufacturer is still con.
suming heavily in execution OF past or
ders, and many agents are sold so far
ahead that they seek no further busl-
ness, while others are beginning 10
question whether the demand for tho
ndxt season will suffice II prices ave
mhde TO correspond with the present
quotations OF wool. Some reductions In
prices OF wool appear possible, aver
aging one-hal cent, with sales OF
Australian amounting TO 2,7OO,0OO
pounds in a few large blocks ut Boston.
but the tons is still strong. No change
has occurred In the cotton manufacture.
and the market for its product Is still
Irregular,
Failures for the past week have been
23G In the United States. against 800 last
year, and 2b in Canada, against IS last
year.
Something Of BeeL
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov 2e'-The
| rovernmnnl experlmont station Mt pur-