The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-18
REVIEW OF TRADE.
orders for ksh Year Held Back by Prevailing
High Prices.

II. @. Dun e. co.'s weekly review Of
trade reports as follows for last week:
Industrial conditions could hardly be
better. After many months Of such
extraordinary buying that It's cOntlnu-
ance seemed impossible. even larger
buying still crowds producing works
In most lines beyond their capacity.
The iron furnaces are producing H.
OOO tons weekly more than ever before.
S7S.6l5 tons October /. and yet the &C.
tual consumption In manufacture re
duced unsold stocks In September by
1880 tons. while the demand runs
FAR ahead into next year for many
products. After the great buying last
week bessemer pig rises to S2f at Pitts
burg. with No. ! anthracite at Phila-
delphla and No. local coke at Chi
Gage both quoted al s23 30 and buyers
paying premiums for early delivery.
according to their needs. The finished
products still advance. eastern bar to
" 10 and tank plates TO 80 10, and the
average OF percentages 10 prices OF
January /, 1887. Is now 100G4 for fin
lshed products and 1886 for pig. In
some lines, however, production has
30 FAR gained that works are beginning
TO look for orders to cover next year.
The boot and shoe shops are getting
little better prices for mems kip
boots and wOmen's grain and buff
shoes, and shipments for the first half
OF October are the largest ever re-
ported. though orders for next season
are retarded by prices. Leather Is
shade higher, but buying Of sole has
been checked by the recent advance,
as manufacturers appear to have
rather large supplies and the Chicago
market for hides. though quoted lit
| tie higher, seems uncertain.
The demand for wooden goods Is
fairly large and prices are well sus-
tained though not further advanced.
| In goods Of the better grades there IL
some uncertainty. Sales Of wool are
smaller only 7473,00O pounds for the
week at the three markets, without
| further advance. silks are firm and
| linens tending upward, with good de-
mand.
The cotton manufacture meets so
great demand that prices advance
every week and supplies for early de-
| livery are in many lines restricted.
More business is turned down than Is
! done In brown sheetings and drills,
| and coarse colored cottons are rising.
| Big sales have moved a great part OF
the surplus print cloths. and prices
have been advanced for grades not
| until recently controlled by the selling
| committee.
Wheat exports are still larger than
from the great crop OF last year. At
| lantic, -four included. having been T.
l
6,ll6,6S9 bushels last year. and Pacific
i3O,44S bushels against 1,375,O34 bushels
last year The western receipts have
| been only 4.5ls.s92 bushels. against
20, $50. .495 bushels last year. but the
| course of prices is not calculated to
| encourage a big movement. for after
| starting at 75.37c and falling .75c, the
market closed at 7500c. with Decem-
ber options unchanged. The govern
ment deferred any estimate OF yield.
| and its figures are as usually yariously
| interpreted. but not influential. Corn
| receipts l3.7s9.7i9 bushels, against H.
| 0f7. 25S bushels In two weeks OF last
year. with exports OF 6.177,l4s bushels.
| against 4.37659s bushels last year.
show a supply and a foreign demand
which might we'll affect the wheat
market TO some extent.
| Failures for the first week OF Octo-
here were sl,6s7.06s In amount. manu-
featuring s3s7.slt and trading s40s, 500.
Failures for the week have been 10i
In the United States. against POS last
year. and 27 in Canada. against 25 last
year.