Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-14
DUN'S REVIEW OF BUSINESS
After Months of Extraordinary Buying
Larger Buying Crowds Producers,
IRON OUTPUT GREATER THAN EVER KNOWN
Production In Some Lines of Manu-
fncturc, However, IL oycrtaking
Dcmand-Cotton Mills Turn
Down business.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade, which issues to-
morrow, will say:
Industrial conditions could hardly be bet
ter. After many months of such eXtraordi-
nary buying that its continuance seemed
Impossible even larger buying, sun crowds
producing works IN most lines Beyond tneir
capacity. Inc iron furnaces are producing
lLVJl tons weekly, more than ever before;
-, Ito tons OC ODer L. anu Yet the aCtual
consumption In manufacture reduced unsOli
stocks IN September by 2I,3SO tons, while
The demand runs far anead into next year
tor many products. Atter the great buying
last week Bessemer pig rises to S2l at
fittsburg with No. | anthracite at Phila-
delpnia and No. coke at Chicago both
quoted a $3.50 and buyers paying premi-
ums for early deliveries accorulng to thgir
needs. Bessemer products still advance
eastern bar to S2l5 and tank plates to $500
ana the average of perCen. ages TO prices OF
pr,oduets and sios7 for pig. ,,
In some lines, however, production has
SO far gained that works are beginning t.
| iook for orders to cover next year. The
boot and shoe shops are getting little bet.
ter prices for m MS kip boots and women's
grain and buff shoes and shipments for III;
hrst halt of October are the largest ever
reported, though orders for next season art
higher hut Duying of sole has been checked
by thc recent advance, as manufacturer:
lne Cnicago market for hides, though
quoted a little higher, seems uncertain. Thl
demand Tor wooden goods is fairly large
and prices are well sustained. though no
! further advanced. In goods of the bette
grades there is some uncertainty, sales o
,he better woods smaller. only 7,743,3I
pounds tor the week at the three mark is
! without further advance. Silks are tirn
and linens lending upward with good de
mand.
| The cotton manufacturer meets so grea
| demand that prices advance every weel
| and supplies for early delivery are in many
! lines restricted More business is turne,
! down than is done in brown sheetings ant
drills and oarse-cOlored Cottons are rising
| Big sales have moved a great part OF tn
surplus print cloths and prices have beef
advanced for grades not until recently con
! trolled by the selling committee. The ris
| of about l cent in cotton has much iniiu
e.Sht is larger to date than last year, i
mas recently been falling behind enough t
| support the idea that growers are disposed
, to hold 1t back.
| the. great crop of last year, Atlantic. nou
| included, having been $3.50 bushels ii
two weeks, against 6,ll66S9 last year, AM
! Pacific l3O,iiS bushels, against l,3i5,l3i las
! bushels, against 20719,495 last year, but tn
| course of prices is not calculated to en-
courage big movement, for after startin,
at 1915 cents and falling to 10 cents, tn
deferred any estimate of yield and it's fig
ures are, as usual, variously interpreted ed
but not influential. Corn receipts are IS,
$50, 149 bushels, against 11,0iI25S in tw
! weeks of last year, with exports of 6,1I7,l4
bushels. against 4,361, ,59S last year, show
| supply and a foreign demand which nigh
wei affect the wheat market to some eX
tent.
Failures for the first week of Octobe
were $l6S1,06S in amount, manufacturing
$SSI 9li and trading $i0S59s. Failures for tn
week have been l6i in the United States
! against POS last year, and twenty-seven II