Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-08-19
MARKETS on THE WEEK.
LATEST REPORTS FROM TRADE
CENTERS.
Outlook for Grain as Given by Com.
petent Observers Effects Of Cur
rent Events on Business.


CHICAGO, Aug. 10. The marke
outlook as furnished by McLain Bros
Il Co., commission merchants, Rialt(
building, this city, for the week end
ing today is as follows:
General business tends toward inn
pr0vement, with a noticeable increase
in the volume of merchandise pur.
chased for retail account in many lOca-
lions; the miners strike continues the
chief disturbing factor, and as coal is
gradually becoming scarcer industrial
operations are more difficult over a
wider area. The stock market has ex-
perienced a short season of great activ-
ity, the volume of transactions aggre-
eating fabulous amount; SO great has
been the number of shares traded in
that the public now undoubtedly Is d
large holder, for without enormous
sales from the possessions of the largest
traders, such volume of business
would have been almost an impossible.
lty AS therecent rise was chiefly pre-.
Dictated on the prospect of increased
earnings0f the granger roads, in cOnse-
quence of western crop promises, and
as the most important crop will, during
the next month, pass its most critical
stage. the shifting of the load at this
Jllnctnre is a speculative feat that en-.
riches the performers and relieves them
OF the anXielles which every indication
OF an early frost will engender. While
the urgent demand for wheat abroad
and the magnitude of our crop prom
lses an active traffic in that cereal. it
Will, without the assurance of ca ally
remuneratlve corn freights, he INSULT
cient to sustain the stock market. and,
as corn is late, and more than usual in
condition to be seriously damaged by
early trosts, the weather will soon be-
come an object of anxious interest
The export demand for wheat still
continues excellent. although some
ahotpmput in ito urro,,.v 10 .y;lo,t,
the market for fut,Iras h y" e,,uo" "
hrnadanimu and du,t,, a,; o" WV u, o, 10
ranid and wiJn au"s,;,llv for q" Ssn 'v,o
her, the nosrinn IF ,%n W ", 1' ltrant
con,inrunt i, do"htloss rasno'',i,' Jo't co.
is arratir conrv. and Il, nnar' ~,
arc wntrl,.d WITH attan,;ya ' ;"t'.n ,",'
After havinr disno.a1 ' ~ tha; '.o, ,,',oL
whpat nnd l,ni,l,ta ,hoi, I I'l, u%''
mas tbav ara haliara .V 70 J h;s '' sa,,
short heievino ,Ln, ,La, w o,' I%, to, oon
hrenk ne reaIiiv as ,hey , cn",a 'o nsSist
in an ndvance bmt divs,vorin " " tnn;r
error cnvaral n nnnsi]aroh b', ,S.a 'm .,d
again inanourn,e1 - hul I', n,m '"n' ;'
enterino ,hs markat ,t y o,"h L; "S"r
mice th.n wLan ,hav h,d DIVA nrnu; ,s"I,
ipft if Their nn.ra,ion" h, t's s,rva
show thn ,utilj,v NJ INV comh St w
pndeavorinw to m,nin,l,,a ,rh"", i,
onnosition IN leoit;m,to s',nn,v " amI IL, :"
mand relations Ahhourh' n,.r ' ,nn,i So
fnntna,os ran;J,v tha ' v,1, w" w. .a n.y.
is not commpnsnr a will its y, cr un
activity tho umbl;o ho, I h 'vo sio"a s
in IFS rpcounition of tha forsirn oitna
tion f,om which its rnsl s,rnn"t b' hoe
been derived Shonld a severs hreaL
occur and another advance follow
general specllative revival will do"ht
less accompany if '''
Eoreiru od,,ioos ;,Jioo+o th,t ~,
ropp's want viii ba mnre rathar ,h"n
less than earlier estimates and that III"
cron conditions II Eas,arn T'r ' ~" u v'n
romppl liberal nnrchases fran 4 merica
4 Ipmnnrnrv Iii IN ,Ya rara,,,n ,' hu, i've"
lever NAV reasonably no anticina,"I |
,ftpr s,lrL nroent huvino for immnJ;a,,'
shinment, tLese nurcbaseo viii sarvo w
rplieve messing nacassitioS MIL , w "
nome Wheat is rnady for martat ' amd
relieve thp tension ,,nt,l snmmIas . "o "I"
herome mononr whan anothar S" "S"
If active huvino mav he antiein,to aJ'j H.
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less Increase and st, cts "I rUey ~
near tbair uormai m su ~
in,l, N' wv INV ""s"'
Inier;or .ayioos st,to u,,t e.,,nor,
ara incine% tn soli I'n,o ,'" oroa ID, d
hreshing retnrns so ar, m mra,if,ina 1 I
,as,inn l. nronras "'o s'",, n,,,ls n"'
,or,hwast pynon 49, ~ ,"uH ~ '"o
h yNr rn :" thn ,oo n',t, Wne'e
,umner cron in That ' s oc,io" 10 W loos
,r' "oi W. n ~ ,lia. s'o.'on II less
,,mtS If nnGlIsl haa,Io " ,nd I oo
Nc r,,in AMI "' .,,nt "'"''' anu VI ""'""se
Corn il v,ill an ohioot If cro., into,
&c, md the co ~" J,,' 81 " i've, o o .m.ei
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