The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-30
LOCAL TRADE
a WEEKLY REVIEW OF EXIST
ING CONDITIONS =.

- lNG CUMD1T1ONS
- - -sea.s-s>
Twin Cities Trade for Closing Week
of Acknowledgements Are Salts
factory and Show Improvement
All Around-Some Reports ON
observation-disclosures Harvest
Increases Confidence.
The following is a weekly summary Of
conditions as they exist in the several lines
of business in st. Paul and Minneapolis. Also
general reports in special lines of staples:
TWIN CITIES TRADE CONDITIONS.
st. Haul-August trade in the Northwest
has been satisfactory grocery sales 10 10 -
Per cent above last year, and hardware sales
70 to % per cent. The output of drugs is
about equal to last years and the volume of
and jobberS have orders to keep them busy
for some time, and dry goods houses are
working night and day. Retail trade is bet
ter than for several years past.
Observation-Disclosures conditions generally
Improve, and the movement of goods has
betn large. Groceries have been in good de-
mand, with fruit higher and produce steady.
Jobbers are still busy in hats, caps, dry goods
and boots and shoes and wagons and piowS
are IN demand, with general advance in
harGvare; nails 10 cents and barbed wire
cents A heavy fall trade is expected in
furnishing and building material. Shipments
OF lumber were 100000 feet against 7,110000
for the week, and -four output reported by
the Northwestern Miller was at Minneapolis
216.s $50 against 1895 barrels last year, Su-
perior-puiuth 23,100 against 1870, Milwaukee
1o,oGO against $3.50, and st. Louis IS 900
against 6l.sG0. The -four market is quiet
with foreign shipments $500 barrels against
1880 last week.-Duns Review, Aug. q.
ST. FauI-Business in the lines of gen.
eral merchandise continues good, with dry
goods the leader. Millinery is beginning to
show activity with prospects for good sea-
son. IN general collections are satisfactory
and dealers are pleased with the outlook
Threshing is well under way in many sec
lions and indicates fair yield of good quail
ity.
MiRneapoiis-Bu Business of the week has
been very satisfactory 10 jobbeIS and ship
ments have been large radstreets, Aug
Boots nnd shoes-The situation is al
most iacomprehensible. With enormous de-
manGs in sight, most makers ask prices
which dealers will not pay, except for cur
rent rent necessities Retail trade, is good, old
factories are getting close TO the end of their
orders, buyers hesitate. Ole result is Cir
eIlar reducing prices Of mems Creedmoors
we're too ov * f fi Pr6 thai 'fs is
evident that in most qualities tie manufac-
tturers have to wait for cheaper leather
Meanwhile actual shipments in four weeks
o. august have been 1852: 2S3 cases, the larg-
est ever kl6NE in the corresponding period,
exceeding those of 1925 by about 5000, and
those OF 1892 by about $4,000 cases.
Lentber-The market is torpid with
mary sales, but small. One attempt to buy
10000 sides hemlock sole showed a difference
OF several per cent between possible buyers
prices ard sellers prices, and was aban-
and grain nearly equals the supply because
most producers have ceased operations.
stronger for packers and higher on native
and branded cows but easier for country
hides, with Bluffs at Zoe. Weakness Of leather
has its influence, and arrivals of cattle are
largely increased by the advance in prices.
WOol-The history of a market killed by
four weeks at the three chief markets have
been 49,, 100 lbs, against SO. 032 last year.
and 2sl35t 500 in 1892. Part of the sales this
year are by manufacturers themselves and
their distrust as TO the market OF goods
causes sioppage OF some mills and presum-
ably the heavy auction aies of dress goods
75,oC0 pieces at prices said to be 80 per cent
below current quotations. Western holders of
wool appear as stiff as ever, Montana report
some demanding 24c CT no sale. few
months of depression in manufacture, If cost
" TO other people, will at least educate these
holders OF WOOL
Dry Goods-The event Of the week was
the auction sale of The Arlington mills d ess
agents valuation about 81, $4,000, were dis
posed Of The sale was largely attended, tut
competition was very irregular and prices
low. Staples showed average decline OF
20 per cent, and fancss an average de-
cline of 40 per cent from open quotations.
result which is not regarded By the trade
as satisfactory. Another feature was tn,
t-i,ure Of the movement to secure curtai.-
ment of production by COO spindlss at
Fan River, but this has ben patty off ct
by individual action which indicates that
some 1,0G0C10 spindles will curtal mcre CT
less before the end OF September. Coinci-
dent with this threat has been marked
Improvement in the demand for print clio h
goods, but no advance in price. In the gen.
eIai marke: for cotton goods conditions have
not undergone any material change. con-
siderable business has been done, but it
seems though sellers in staple Inns were
60 have some difficulty in resisting the in
huence Of the low price CT cotton. Further
curtai-ment OF production by wooden mills
is reported, and the wooden goods situation
generally continues unsatisfactory.
WOoIen GOOds-As already noted. the
dress goods auction sale brought low pr.ces,
and the situation in medium and low grades
wooden and worsted dress goods is decidedly
unsettled Business in mems wear, woolens
and worsteds. continues dlsappointing,y re-
stric.ed. Buyers appear determined t. do
little more than order sample pieces for their
spring trade in the majority of lines and
some mills, rather than cater for business
at lower prices than are now current, a~e
curtailing production. Compared with a year
ago, the business secured SHOWS, acccrl-
ing to good authorities falling eff of fully
90 per cent in the majority OF lines. Record rs
on heavy weights show little of the expo ctad
improvement. Satinets ard cot on mike d
goods in no better demand Than all wool
or worsted makes. Overcoatings and cloak
ingS are in slow request Businls SIS in fan
neis and blankets dull but prices firm
Dun's Review. Aug. q
Cotton GoOds-Heavy brown sheetings
and drills in all leading makes are steady
for prompt deliveries, but sellers show no
disposition 20 cater for forward contracts
In light weights printers have bought free
" and there is occasionally a hardening
tendency noticeable on print cloth yarn
goods. Duck firm with improved demand
Osnaburgs slow and easy. Beached cottons
quiet and prices unchanged in ticketed goods
but irregular in other makes. Wide sheet,
ings slow, with an easier tendency in some
directions Cotton blankets scarce and in
one or two lines per cent dearer Cotton
fannels quiet but firm Denims dull and
weak. Ticks in request for low grades only
quotable change in prices. Kid-fnished cam
brics dull and Lice per yard lower. The fol-
lowing are approximate quotations: Standard
brown sheeting, 41ac to 4Hc; 3 yards &c 10
41sc: yards, SIC to 35sc; "A bleached, sac
TO &c; GA square bleached, 31sc; unfinished
cambrcs, Ga square, 21sc
-Four mills are shut down at Fall River
suit The demand for cloths has been ac
tive and sellers have met it without raisine
prices. Fancy prints in good request hSS
Western and Southern ma rkets local demand
quiet. Other prints in average demand for
time of year and prices steady. Staple ging-
firm and early demand for new lines for next
spring is encouraging Cation bosiar,, "a