The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-29
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS,
Dun's and Bradstreet's Reports on
the Condition of Business,
THE FIRST MONTH OF THE NEW YEAR
shows More Increase in business
and Less in Prices-Bonni in the
Wool Industries.
FIRST MONTH OF THE NEW YEAR

New York. January oS-t. G. Dun d Co. IS
Weekly Review of Trade will say tomorrow:
The first month of the new year has brought
rather more increase In Business but less i'm
proyement in prices than was expected, with
| payments through clearing houses 7.3 larger
| than in 1882 ana probably the largest ever
known in any month. and with railroad earn
| ings liz per cent larger than the best of
the past year. The fact that prices are very
| low only shows the increase In quantities of
products sold. Nor is thors any disposition to
refuse orders, even at present priccs-indeed
! the competition of manufacturers seeking Or
| de1s alone points to a rise Most of them
have all they can manage many working
| nigh' and day and one great steel concern
| running on Sunday, hut the works not vet
i'iled with orders are seeking contracts at as
low prices us have ever been made indioat-
axle.
inc settlement of wages on a 10 per cenr
advance April for 200,0l0 coal miners OF tho
central region. with other changes win tend
toward a larger demand for products of Mi
Kinds, though also toward some Increase In
cost of manufacture.
neat mas been conspicuous, rising cents
lm 'he week. western receipts have been
- i5VY'V3S bushels in lour weeks, against 605-
- lasl year, but Atlantic exports have been
y Oa,S2S bushels in four weeks against : 19S
o. last year. and Pacific exports. w.lthnit, ~
so'iia sol ior the week o!5s5 bushels, against
o't'i'"o last year So heavy an otigo with
wheat over 81 per bushel and with corn on
n .1t Tor the Tour weeks cqualing the extra
utuiu,aS movement of last year. dscloses IT,,
slfUDRth OF foreign demand even better tao.,
current accounts of disappearing slinments
rom Afesntine and poor prospects in Russia
s, ep'.oh mas ris9n 1-l6c. Notwithstanding the
s,l"es III Eastern mills and the official ~,
port OF decrease Of 10 & per cent In Dri+ieh
eNI'orts OF cotton goods Inst year Receints
S a,iI run so Ear beyond those of the largest
cfop on record that estimates once deenod e ey
un i agant are commonly accepted
-. ne cotton manufacture is more difacn,,
.nan my other. not merely because priees do
Hut improve but largely because mo mani
iactuters and workers have considorad 1911 w
SrrtE F''u"Nei"" at the
Tie WOODEN Manufacture Is doing vol, o,.
wcrsted goods having openeJ viii ~, VA. I INC
OF . -ue oyer last year, and the large mills nre
Instantly ~, buying wool even at current hiph |
frture wn,en implies great confidence in the
~ presumably based on larger orders |
.lnli are publicly reported Such u,rcba asss |
mi oot nave oeen frequent of late, even nv |
one pra vpasea TO n De supplied far ahead and
IN ooo 'ns,uVnoe mn appears to have taken |
.,,M,VVu pounds OF worstod wool M Wbeei,n,
IN Teeh' silles at the three chief mark |
10 ia "a Ky pounds, and for four weeks |
~, tsl,vW 81 which 1885,, 80 were dnmoeti,
We're domestic, - ""ieH -o'SsbVoo
inc iron manufacture IN getting largo ,,,a.
ins finished products whirb aarse orders
snn, ss alnost beyond their c.pncity. althn,,rS
I n 80 ntnefs are still in the market and Renn
p,i1t iron is steady, EXCEPT tbo, po,so
he; tSpuTg IS loe lower, the OUTPUT las, oa a.
Inc eop omraiy reported at I6526So tons and
considored eSl ia ~ me country, unsold stocks
ANA a pa als previous year, which was 1sa
United statSa aee week have been ai2 in tho
ea9aua, against 81 last year. gar ana ~ in