Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
More Business Being Done
Than the Best of Past
Years.
IDLE FURNACES START.
Nearly n Million Tons of Iron Bcing Goa
orders Which viii Keep ;lhcm
Busy for MonthS-Structural
work Heaviest Ever Known
at pittsburg.

New YORK, Sept. 16.-.R. q. Dun Il cos
wc,ily review OF trade tomorrow will
say:
business u passing well through the
difficulties that attend the winding M of
a war which are generally greater than
those involved while war is I'm progress.
shr rush OF orders kept back while war
lasted 10y those who thought it shrcWd
not to take any chances has lifted prices
Il It'll" ana caused a larger demand ior
the time than can continue but though
1t has passed, there is ample evidence
that the couSumius demand H. very large.
How large can only be Judged after some
weeks of waiting but once more ii looks
rs ii those who waited longest are likely
10 pay tn, most. The business of the
country is cHpaudiug 80 that payments
| through clearing houses in the second
week of September were % per cent.
| larger than I'm l>72. and for two weeks 800
| per cent larger From these and railway
returns and such trade reports as are in
I strJct.Vc 1t must be concluded that much
more business Is being done than In the
best of past years, though not always
with much pront.
| Wheat has come forward much more
| freely and the price has advanced two
| cents. 1t IL supposed that the advance
/ is Hrrcly du, to milling demand coming
/ upon narrow supply. Exports are large
3,',1,91" Bushels Uluur included from At
ports and FOR two weeks 5.G9I 39o bushels
/ from bota coasts against l0.7oG.S5 last
| year. Widely different accounts Of for
/ ,ieu supplies and demands do not explain
/ the market but II may be noticed that
largo flour contract mas been closed ut
Seattle for Russia, and receipts of wheat
/ for Two weeks Of September have nccn
lLf3.Ni bushels dp''nst +.G1.l'G last year
one certainty th,rc Is that the tu.cisu
demand VIII be smaller ana tie american
crops larger than last year. IN, eight
/ yielding Ia corn was due rather to the
government report which is not entirely
dis, r,ditcd as to that c;ro. man to any
chang" in movement. which has been
small compared with last year. The cN-
ports fui two weeks have been 1851, 32l
bushels against 7.o15.3d3 last year.
/ With the starting of /" furnaces idle a
month ago, partly not included as yet
the weekly Output sept. iIrSt was 2i3.dt3
tons against poo -, August / and the de-
crease in stocks 1889 tons IN two m-nths
indicat consumption but little below
a million tons per mCntH. structural
wor.. Is the heaviest ever known at Pitts
burg Thought smaller than last year at
New York Bar m lis are crowded. with
the general railway demand for automdti'
IonuplcrS and orders for new cars S1u for
OF, 70 I'd, and large order for street
cars to japan ana plate mills are every
whore crowded. pittsburs aaviug orders
for 10000 tons Of shin plates. ihc dcnua1
for pipe Is the largest luT u Ions time and
also ipr boiler tubes, and the sheet mills
are crowded west Of Pniladolph while
tle foundry CouSumpti1u h heavy and
the "ail mills are not yet ready to- accept
ord ~ Nhicl they cannot deliver for
months, being engaged far dh al. south
trn piS has been sold fer export 5000
tons m an including ii.uu to Scotland and
ord ~ for 800" more have uo,n refused.
Tin T. quiet at lGuI cents ana lead at four