The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-10

NEW YORK. Dec AR. q. puh q
Co.'S weekly review Of tIods Will Gayl
tomorrow;
The most significant thing this week
has been the entire absence Of the cus-
tomary nervous fright besoro or asten
the aeeanE of Congress. the Presidente
mes a.ga and the treasureEg report. No
one howed the least alarm, and nohody
could hnd occasion for any Money ana
stock and grain markets moved on e1-
actiy as Il the government were auto
matte, certain to do or say no more thAti
the people had already decided and exc
pected and 50 the sradttai bettesnaens
since october continues
There Is a larger demand for produCta
in nearly ali the great industries, iarger
export demand for foreign needs. q noro
healthy domestic demand since season-
able weather arrived and q comforting
conviction that November business, the
biggest ever done in this country in any
month, was but q step toward something
better.
Exports last year IN December were
marvellous, but this years arc starting
far ahead. The Atlantic wheat e1porta.
flour Included, have been for the week
6.698,7B7 bushels, against 4,S12,1SI laat
year, and Pacific exports 558,53S bushels
against Oh, ,Os3 last year. and prices have
declined 2Rc for cash, but western re-
ceipts OF i0,lS5,169 bushels against 6,SlS,s
4II from last years great crop stops ar
Rtiment. Ihe wheat does not come Ott
at low prices II the people have less 20
sell than last year at 20c more per
busheI. So the corn exports were 4.lbi,-
9Ssl agaiust s,Sis0Ss last year, and aucn
q foreign demand at prices much higher
than hast year and with wheat cheaper:
is proof OF q state OF thingg abroad
which Americans hardly appreciate The
price declined only 10 with enormous
receipts.
Cotton shared in the export movement
f1Ilv ana nevertheless has risen S-fBc M
price, with q feeling that estimates OF
Weld may have been excessive. AZ the
extremely low price yet quoted. toreign
buyers do not stop 70 calculate CONNER
clal and mill stocks on hand.
The co1Sunptioll in this country ia not
ver1S large. being but little changed by
fyoiy6lea about wages at the South,
thourh BY more voluntary curtailment
IA New England, but the demand Tor
lqoods Is better, and has lifted the prlcs
OF print cloths an eighth ana some OF ths
other goods shade.
WooIen goods have been In much bet-
ter demand and many OF the sm1lleI
mills have been buying after conces los
secured by the larger. The mncn orGao- .sll-
q, market Is more healthy and promises
far more for the industry a9a siiss li.s o. ~
II. g55 200 pounds In two weeks pssL y
the three chief markets against lOs5s,-
S60 mounds In the same weeks OF lsss, are
0uite In line with demand In prosperous
vsars Prices yielded about 9zc IN No-
yenber. according to one hundred quo
tatIons by Coates Brothers, ana lront
phIIadelphia dispatches appear 20 oe
about q cent lower this week.
The ruuture OF the lnchoate rail com-
1,tnafton. Il appears, resulted In ioWer
nriees and larger sales in the first week
"A sharp composition than were realiEso
q week ago. Prices were made In SOM
tranghctiona much lower than were SneiS
or are now quoted, ana while Sn AG
Pittsburg Is now named. special or9SES Is,I.
are aid so command lower figures. The
purchase Of $50. 900 tons Bsesesr Tsr pig 81
$40 at a valley furnaee and lOG,VOS oisleS is ~
for Pittsburg at $3.50 at which N.OO1
tons Ion went 10 q. hoop mill with H. ,oOo tons
rods So. N Chicago at $22, and 1900 tons
plates for one concern at Ptttsourg' oe7
,-ides enormous orders for 0afs ana
Mates n, car and ship building, 3 steam
sSIn contract on the Delaware and
contract for 5000 tons for bridges ss.,e,s g
f,hjcaro, give come idea OF the heaxy
SnsinesS coming forward, Just when the
works usually expect a season Of ldiet
ness and waiting. Pig iron has risen ma. a.
tbs EAST TO St1.5O, and quotations aver
os,s Tor Mig throughout the country q
sssde higher than Al any time this year.
though prices for finished produces, nave nave
Teoentiy been declining and are loves
tbsn In the early months OF the year;
Thls weeks failures have been ~ ~
the United States against 5ts iast yeaff
and 90 in Canada against " IasI SeNE'