The San Francisco call., 1898-12-10
DUN's REVIEW OF TRADE.

NEW YORK; Dec 9.-R G. Dun 6 Col weekly review of trade will say tomorrow:
 The most significant thing this week has been the entire absence of the customary nerv- ous fright before or after the meeting of Con- gress, the Presidents message and Treasurer s report. No one showed the least alarm and nobody could find occasion for any. Money and stock and grain markets moved exactly as If the Government was autonomic, certain to do say more than the people had al- ready decided and expected, and so the gradual betterment since October continues. There is a large demand for products in nearly all the great industries, larger export demand for foreign needs, more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived. and a com forting conviction that November business, the biggest ever done in this country in any month, was but step toward something better. Ex ports last year in December were marvellous, but this year starting far ahead. The Atlantic wheat exports. flour included, have been for the week 5,636,I67 bushels, against 4,Sl2 lS1 last year, and Pacific exports, S56, o23 bushels. against S.0S2 last year, and prices have declined 2ac for cash, but Western re- ceipts, l0,l35. lS9 bushels, against 6.213, Al from last years great crop, stop arguments The wheat does not out low prices if the people have less to sell than last year at 20c more per bushel.
 Woolen goods have been in much better de- mand, and many of the smaller mills have been buying after concessions secured by the larger The much broader market Is more healthy and promises far more for the industry, and sales of u, 655 200 pounds in two weeks past, at the three cnlSt markets, against 1U S02, f00 pounds in the weeks of 1892, are quite in line with the demand in prosperous years. Prices yielded about half cent in November. according to 100 quotations by Coates Bros, and from Philadelphia dispatches appear to be about cent lower this week
 The rupture of the ipchoate rail combination, It appeared, resulted in lower prices and larger sales in the first week of sharp competition than were realized week ago. Prices were made in some transactions much lower than were then or are now quoted, and while ST at Pittsburg is now named, special orders are said to command lower figures. The purchase of 15o,000 tons 5essemer pig at s1O at valley furnaces and 100 0GG tons billets for Pittsburg works at Sl5 5o,, of which 4O,oOO tons went to hoop mill, with 11000 tons rods at Chicago at SZ2, and 2, 900 tons plates for one concern at Plttsburg. besides enormous orders for bars and plates in and shipbuidng a steam ship 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 season of idle ness and waiting. Pig iron has risen at the East to Sll 50, and quotations average for pig throughout the country shade higher than at any time this year, though prices for finished products have recently been declining and are lower than in the early months of the year
 This weeks failures have been PAS in the United States, against 312 last year. and twen- y-two in Canada, against twenty-nine last year.