Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-12
big VOLUNB0F TRADE.
October Was a Record Breaker In Ear
nest, Says Buns Review.
THE INCREASE In EXPORTS.
The Weeks MarAet In Breadstuns
and Staples = Heavy Foreign
Orders In Steel = High
Prices I1Leather.

New York, Nov.l2.-R. G.. Dun &
Co.'S weekly reviewer trade says:
betore the electiQn everything except
political uncertainties favored business
enlargement. The volume of trade has
been the greatest ever known in Oc-
tober and the greatest ever known in
any month except December, 1892. The
record of Novemb<r thus far shows
clearings 1o.4 per cent larger than last
year and 9.3 per cent larger than in
1892. The railroad Earnings in October
have been So per cont larger than last
year and so per dsnt larger than in
1892. Foreign trade shows an increase
Of 20 per cent in October in exports,
with 3S per cent insexports from New
York last week, white imports showed a
gain Of only 20 per cent in October and
credits against foreign bankers were
piling up at an inconyenient rate There
was and is absolutely no anxiety about
the currency. and tie treasury is only
too strong.
Wheat sold at 74scents a week ago
against 1912 Thursday night, with At
lantic exports, flour included. of $685.
500 bushels against 3,274,4SS last year.
and Pacific exports 1.016,961 against
1,592352 last year. Western receipts,
9,924045 bushels for the week against
7,255,5l4 last year, continue to render
the holding back Of btecks manifestly a
failure. Corn has bpt slightly changed
els against 2,474.641 last year. and an
iHcrease of more thansa half in western
receipts. Cotton rerniins at the lowest
price on record, with heavy receipts.
Iron production Nov. / was 22s,935
tons weekly against 215,6 ,635 Oct /, and
decrease is seenxof 1924 tons in
stocks unsold outside the holdings of
the great steel companies indicating an
actual consumption ~ 1,O19,6f6 tons in
October, about 2s3 ions daily greater
than the largest ever shown in any
previous month on record.
Big Export Demand.
The export demand is beyond all
dreams. 10000 tons rails for northern
Europe and 100. .oC0 tons plates. besides
4,500 tons billets from Pittsburg alone,
with great quantitiessof bars, rods, wire
and other finished products. The works
are generally filed with orders, Inc ud-
ing many from sseeSp and lake ship-
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able demand for ether products.
Cotton goods are on the whole in bet
ter demand, although denims are slight
ly lower, and little can be said Of en-
couraging character as to the demand
for staple goods Of domestic use. The
boot and shoe industry still hesitates
because of high prices of leather, and
the others booked are nowhere near
what they should be for the season,
buyers looking for lower prices of boots
and shoes while manufacturers are
waiting for lower prices of materials.
There is much stubbornness in the
leather market, without much change
in prices, although weaker feeling ap-
pears in some qualities. Hides have
declined about 2.2 per cent for the week,
with prospects of a lower market at the
west and receipts only 127,S00 head at
the four western markets less than last
year.
Failures for the week were 211 in the
United States against POI last year, and
26 in Canada against "a last year.