Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-14
DuN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.

NEW YORK. October 13.-R. G.
Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade,
which issues tomorrow, will say:
Industrial conditions could hardly be
better After many months of such ex-
traordinary buying still crowds pro-
ducing works in most lines beyond
their capacity The iron furnaces are
producing II 900 tens weekly more than
ever before, 27S,615 tons October /, and
yet the actual consumption in manu-
facture reduced unscld stocks in Sep
TENDER by 1850 tons while the demand
runs far ahead into next year for many
products After the great buying last
week, Bessemer pig rose to $24 at Pitts
burg, with No. 1 anthracite at Phila-
de..hia and No. / local coke at Chicago
beth quoted at $235e and buyers pay
ing premiums for early deliveries ac-
cording to their needs. The finished
products still advance, eastern bar 10
S215 and tank plates to 1910, and the
average OF percentages to prices OF
January /, 1897, is now 100.64 foIwfn-
ished products and 1856 for pig. In
some lines, however, production mas so
: far gained that works are beginning
to lock for orders 10 cover next year.
The boot and shoe shops are getting
a little better price for mems kip boots
and womens grain and buff shoes, and
shipments for the first half of October
are the largest ever reached. though or
ders for next season are retarded by
prices. Leather is a shade higher, but
buying OF sole has been checked by the
recent advance, as manufacturers APP
near 10 have rather large supplies and
the Chicago market for hides, though
quoted q little higher, seems uncertain.
The demand for wooden goods is fairly
LARGE aud prices are we'll sustained,
though not further advanced. In goods
OF the better grades there is some UNI
certainty. Sales of wool are smaller,
only 7,473,3CG pounds for the week at
the three markets without further adj
vance. Silks are firm and linens tend
ing upward with good demand.
The cotton manufacture meets so
great a demand that prices advance
every week and supplies for early de-
livery are in many lines restdicted.
Mere business is turned down than has
been done. In brown sheetings and
drills and coarse colored cottons are
rising. Big sales have moved a goo6
part Of the surplus print cloths and
prices have advanced for grades not
until recently controlled by the selling
committee. The rise Of about lie in
cotton with current reports of short
yield have much influence, and though
the quantity coming into sight is larger
to date than last year, it has recently
been falling behind enough to support
the idea that growers are disposed to
hold it back. Wheat exports are still
larger than from the great crop of last
year, Atlantic -four included, having
been 7,351,990 bushels in two weeks,
against 6,116,6S9 last year, and Pacific
T30,44S bushels, against 1,375.034 BUSH
els last year. The western receipts
haze been only 14,51S,892 bushels,
against 20,790,495 last year, but the.
course of prices is not calculated to
encourage big movement, for after
starting at 1887 cents, and falling rs
cents, the market closed at $500 cents,
with December options unchanged. The
government deferred the annual state
nent Of yield, and its figures are as