Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17

upon aerfcs,5 tnraIs 81 daeta 8 ~ Us eIacrted
improved demand abroad FOR our staple
cereals should n0t| be lost sight q. AZ
the retail and jobbirg trade IN seasonal Bile
dry goods, clothing and shoes is reported,
and more seasOnable weather at the south
is responsible for some relaxation of the
absurd guarantees which have done SO
much to cripple trade in that section.
Particularly prominent in this connection
IS the loosening of the Quarantines in the
lower Mississippi valley. where it begins
at last apparently to be appreciated that
the guarantees are worse than the dis
ease they aim to fight. Good export de-
mand on general European account,
smaller shipments from Russian and DAN
ublan points, less favorable reports re-
garding Russian and Australian crops and
an undoubtedly active home demand for
wheat for milling. superinuuced by the
active foreign call for -four nave all
worked TO strengthen the price of wheat
this week, ard sympathetic reflection is
found in the improved call for other GER
eals at slightly better prices. This i'm
proved demand for breadstuffs, provisions,
cotton and mineral oils combined aggre-
gated a total s1S,o00,0 Geo less than Sep1em-
Der year ago, lower prices and smaller
quantities shipped alike working to reduce
the volume of export trade. Another IA
vorable feature in the foreign trade situ-
alton, too, has been the apparently sat
isfactory progress making in developing
trade with our new possessions in the At
lantic and Pacific. Large orders on Cuban
account are SAID 10 nave DSen placed re-
Gently in New York, and heavy shipments
TO Manila and other Pacific ocean points,
with the reported starting of new lines OF
ste amships to Honolulu and Australia, all
bear testimony to the energetic effort of
American business men 10 build up our
trade abroad Railroad earnings and bank
clearings continue to furnish favorable
measures of current business, showing as
they do healthy increases over CORE
spending periods one year ago. when ac-
tivity was especially marked. The general
tone of prices is firm, all the prominent
cereals figuring in the list of advances,
while cotton, the south's great product, is
conspicuous because of the decrease in
price shown for the week due primarily
to the heavy crop movement, foreshaGow-
ing another very large yield. The leather
situation has attracted more attention
this week because of the reported inten-
ton to shut down large numbers of tan
neries in an effort to affect the price of
hides, which are now said to be relatively
higher than the finished product. The
boot and shoe trade continues good. an
example being furnished in the statistics
of Boston shipments for the year exceed
ing those of one year ago by 24o 600 cases,
or about per cent. Iron trade reports
are repetition of recent weeks, new bus
mess being of moderate proportions. but
mills and foundries are kept fully en-
ployed on early orders. An example of
this is found in the withdrawing of stand
ard steel rail makers from the Chicago
near delivery. Some shading in steel bill
lets is reported on the week but pig iron
remains very firm Business failures for
the week number 22S, against 1853 last
week. 1856 in this week a year ago, 2T9 in
1856, 2S9 in 1895 and 253 in 1894.