Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-10
BUSINESS is BETTER.
GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT SINCE
OCTOBER CONTINUES.
NOVEMBER TRADE BIGGEST EVER DONE
Exports Last Year I'm December Mar
velIous, But This Year They Are
Starting Ahead--Cotton Rises Some
vhat-Orders I'm Iron Enormous.

NEW YORK. December 9.-Messrs. r.
G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review OF trade
tomorrow will say: The most significant
thing this week has been the entire ao-
sence Of the customary nervous fright
before or after the meeting OF Congress-
the Presidents message, and the urea
sury report. No one showed the least
alarm, and nobody could find occasion Tor
any. Money and stock and grain markets
moved on exactly as If the governments
were automatic, certain TO do no less
and no more than the country hao ue-
cided and expected.
The gradual betterment since OCTOBER
continues. There Is a larger demand TOT
products in nearly all the great INDUSTRIES
a larger export demand for foreign heeuS'
a more healthy domestic demand since
eeasonable weather arrived. and com
fortlng conviction that the November
business was the biggest ever done. Ex-
uorts last year in December were mar
velIous but this year are starting aheau'
The Atlantic wheat exports ulour lhcluu-
ed) have been for the week 0,b5o'ioi pusn-
els. against 4,312,l bushels last year. d lo
pacific exports 723 bushels, against
OH 0s3 bushels last year, and prices nave
declined 23-4 cents for cash, but western
receipts Of TO- 135, lS9 bushels, against o-lo'-
al bushels from last years great crop,
stops argument. The wheat does hot
come out at low prices, If the people nave
less to sell than last year at ~ Cehe9
more per bushel. So the corn exports WeIe
4169Sl bushels, against S,Sl3'oob pusnels
last year. and such foreign oeihd"u a,
-
WITH wheat cheaper. is proof or state
NJ things abroad which Americans nardly
annreciate. The price declined only II
cent. with enormous receipts.
COTTON AID WOOL.
Cation shared in the export movement
fuIIv and nevertheless has risen $40 III
nrice with a feeling that the estimates
- ,Ioy have been achieved with the
extremely low prices yet quoted, Euro
nasr buvers do not stop TO cavil at COM
mercial and mill stocks on hand' Inc
consunption of this country is not very
large being but little changed by trou-
No about wages at the South, althouen
,horo hos been voluntary curtailment III
Tew England. The price OF print-cloths
has been lifted Is, and that OIL o'"e'
goods shade. ,o,, hottar
WoolIen goods have been In much pettel
demand. and many OF the smaiier mus
have been buying. after CONCESSIONS
cured by the larger. The much ploae g.
earl[at is more healthy, and promises Iar
49, for the Industry. and sales OF 1901
ono nornds in the two weeks past at tIle
tbree chief markets, against IVoo-r'W
nounds i'm the same weeks OF le'z arc
quito in line with demand in prosperous
yeare Prices yielded about IL cent IN
H-o,,er,ber. according 10 100 quotations py
Coates Brothers, and from PhilaaeipIu'
6isnatches appear TO be about cent low
er this week.
IRON AND STEEL
The rupture OF the inchoate ran COM
bination. IL appears. resulted IN 4oNC'
nrices and larger sales in the trst WeeS
az sharp competition than were real|0u
y r,ealr ago. Prices were made IN some
transactions much lower than were theh
or are now quoted and while SlI at Fltls-
burg is now named, speclal oIu.ls az
said 10 command lower figures. Inc pun
chase Of 10000 tons OF Besseiner pig "e
$40. at Valley furnaces ana OF rV,VV Col ~
20 biIlets for Pittsburg works, at $lo5V'
- Which 40 COO tons went 10 hoop-mlu
,,,itb II 900 tons of rods at Chicago, at W.
and % COO tons Of plates for one concern
az pittsburg besides enormous orders Tor
hars and plates in car and shipping hhes'
a steamship contract on the Delaware
and a contract for 5000 tons for bridges
at CHICAGO. give some idea Of the heavy
business coming forward, just when the
works usually expect a season of idleness
and waiting. Pig iron is $ll5O at the
East. and quotations for pig throuShout
the country average a shade higher than
AT any time this year. though prices TOT
finished products have recently peeA ue-
cining, and are lower than IN 'he eaiA'
months of the year.
RECORD OF FAILURE.
This weeks failures have been 24S In
the United States, against 81 last year.
and % in Canada, against % last year.