The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-27
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Wink, May 8.-R. G.. Dun =
1870 Ssview II trads viii ssy -
y acne fear. that 1ns no oeh1F
- The habit O3 tear. Man hayo
- many yonss .6ioooter 1Soo4-
~ heDas Of appgehen9lon that th4y
5k - good things present and -
DVoTy year there - worry about
- and yet the crops grow larger.
te u snonetASy strouble haunts
Seurn0W that the country - strong
any need. Promoting methods
IN who are already quite aware
II r only needfuI 70 put proOoteA
a class by themselves. But all
- me volume Of business n rising.
1918 payments through the chief
~ houses ere Oz.1 per cent. larger
- year and . Per cent. larger than
rOf the month thus TAI the daily
- = s7.S per cent. larger than 1a1k
81 ~ per cent. larger than n
noepoSee. this week and every other
"a 1o1ser wages 70 many and In
u parchasing power. saaa the de-
~ products y consequently ex-
- = oil branches Of consumption.
- In Bessemer pig iron to ei7.E
tobufy. y In two weeks: In gray
q tlS.6: In anthracite No. hsso
~ and IN local and oouthern iron
1ea4o, results directly from the tact
nnpplies are fer the time less than
nands. Many more furnaces ase Ia
- begin wo.k. some succeeding, but
mndered by difficulty Of getting
deliveries Of needed parts Of ma
* bf6mpt suppglSs Of ore and ft1a.
atural remedy that neW orders now
TT less work than WAS done In April
flD1ch II for the time hidden By en-
1naut Of nearly al eoncsrns for
~ ahead. The largest and beat
y are catching up with their orders.
"a much behind and obliged 1osrekeao.
-. while others are entertno Me hsad.
3Dfoof OF an astonishing demand that
= nearly Ave months this congestion
nues and the rise In prices. including
ices OF q per ton In plates and bars.
~ forced or unnatural.
~ metals have followed London 30
Nat tin sticks at s16.es though sticks
131fgs and the demand y remarkably
1pnd lead at N.is. though the demand
-. while copper weAkens 70 1874 cents
|Ake. British statistics indicating fail
1oriy quarter In consumption for four
- this year compared with last.
y heavy saies Of wool. SAss4. ooe pounds
~ fhreo chief markets In three weeks.
1e 0.7eo. 800 for the same week In 1887.
= he disastrous speculation OF that
} had negun to turn. and N.11.lO Ia
sose mostly to specuiaforx ~ manufa0r
- are doing scarcely anything. Weeks
j sAey held that pRicU vere Jno hish.
j after some decitne FOR. the .nrtces at
= goods coulds b SON ! nut 'MeskefM+
1Dtern a1peculAtors have settled Il
j Ne manufactures will be forced 10
II such prices az they may M and
MIXING large quantities.
AT advanced , cents. but lost nearly
~ gain on Friday. Western receipts
: fallen to about half last year's and
- In four weeks from Atlantic ana
ports have bssn ie.Ge1. - bushels.
mcludcd. against f.eM.1R bushels
~. while from northern laAe ports
btiAhels have gone out this year.
80 1erget that foreign demand. II not
100 ~ II. was last year. With famine
ling. IL much larxee than In the same
Of 1881. when wheat exports were
4N4 sA bushels and also forget that
liter speculation caused q wholly I'M
1yGl May movement last year. for tho
IN receipts In the past four weeks.
- buGhels compared with ie.n1, IS
- last year. ware but ASA $40 IN the
~ weeks or 107 and reserves In that
! we're not especially reduced. but closed
W large enough.
grl1fes for the week have been il4 in
uAlsed States against Is last year and
- IN Canada against twenty-one Last
~
DraAstpeet's Review.
-ooDtreets tomorrow win say:
leNAbls features Of current trade still,
"a long time past. largely outnumber
49, q IN opposte character. Wholesale
4uolcn IL naturally lsss active a. the
- advances. but comparisons with last