The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-31
nm BUSINESS WORLD.
# the First Month Of the
Us"S" New Year.
.r, { co.'s WEEKLY REPORT.

uern an increase !"
Wi. there s,, Has Were we're No, a. H's. t"
pushes. respected wheat is conspie"-
Had Been a Rise of Cents Per
Gus bs'aa vv Exports of Grain--iro"
J SS..ui.c,arers Busy
Ian. SIR. @. Dun e. 20.
New iT Review of Trade says an,
vesn .a'D,n of the new year has pro' s,,t
trt num- 'ore increase in business put
''l'' ,mD n in prices. than was vas
less imp'' with payments through the
Spec'su' ,ouse of 7.S per cent. larger
sds'rns , co., and probably the largest
Aan - in any month; with rail-
csi Innings ,u ii.2 per cent. larger tnan
rsa co.. s.., Of past years. the fact tha'
n' .rs very low only shows more
Pn0' ,ba increase in the quantities
's' co., 0roducts sold Nor is there any
,.s :. to refuse orders even az
= s s.s.snt prices. Indeed only tne com nr
prsssn' ~ manufacturers seeking or
Flluon '. 90 a rise. Most of them
ae'' ~ ,hev can manage, many work
S - r,gbt and day, and one great steer
w 's. sT running on Sunday put 'le
~ a's. NOT vet filed with orders are
sa a,sr -" contracts at as low prices as
Cyan" sror been made, indicating that
Ne ,sosa are not entirely unprofta-
settlement Of Wage Scale.
No. .0ttlement of wages an III per
:. =. ADVANCE April for 100000 coal
''ns - ~ the central region, with 9TH
!, changes, will tend toward a larger
s.mand for products OF all KINDS
I though also toward some increase III
-. cost Of manufacture. Wheat has
Wv, conspIcuous, rising cents for the
49, with 5k cents for May options.
rss western receipts have been H.
aa AZ, bushels in four weeks, against
.w n, last year, but the Atlantic ex-
w.. have been 12,003,S2S bushels in
~, weeks against 710S,674 last year.
!. .,d ths Pacific exports without Tacoma
IN the week, 4,015,5SS bushels, against
,nsS last year. So heavy an outgo
IN wheat over 81 per bushel, and with
,0rn exports for the four weeks equal
ps tbe extraordinary movement OF last
YEAR dlscloses the strength OF the for
dim demand even better than current
4 account of disappointing shipments
= rom Argentina and poor prospects In
Russia.
Advance In Cotton.
Chiffon has risen a sixteenth, not
outstanding the strikes In eastern mills
and the official report Of a decrease or
los per cent. in the British exports OF
cotton goods last year. The receipts
!. still run 50 far beyond those following
; he largest crop on record that esti-
mates once deemed eXtravagant are
commonly accepted. The cotton manu-
iscture is in more difficulty than any
other, not merely because the prices
DO not show much improvement, nor
yet the demand for goods. though
both are helped by the closing of many
\ mills but largely because the manu-
7 hcprers and workers have considered
TO little the rapidly growing produc-
ton at the south. The wooden manu-
fcture is doing well, fine worsted goods
having opened at an advance of 20 per
cent on last year and the large mills
are constantly buying wool, even at the
current high prices, which implies great
= nm In hn fsttt III
rSased on larger orders than are public
y reported.
Sales Have Been Frequent.
Such purchases of wool have been fire.
Quent Of late, even by mills supposed
10 be supplied far ahead, and one Prov
idence mill appears to have taken 250, 900
pounds worsted wool this week. The
sales at three Of the chief markets have
been SOSO,lOO pounds. and for four
weeks, SO42l,O70 pounds, of which 21,-
S,'2O pounds were domestic. against
hal,SOO pounds last year, Of which 49,
sLSVV pounds were domestic. The iron
manufacture Is getting larger orders
TOT finished products, which crowd
many works almost beyond their ca
Spaoty, although some others are still
u 'he market and keeping prices down.
rls'ron is 10 cents lower, the output
~. year being officially reported at g.
"-,'Sv tons and the consumption In this
s unsold stock considered, o.
s'''SS tons, against 9,6O1, 5O4 tons In the
Asest previous year, which was 1895.
suu s,SSi'sS2 tons in 1892. The failures
|'~l 'ne week have been S42 in the
saed States, against 3S1 last year, and
"V,lour In Canada, against fifty
even last year.
~n save 100000 Bushels OF Wheat
." Louis, Jan. S1.-An examination of