Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-15

TRADE coSD1rIoSs HEALTHY.
fsrnslAtrectS Review Shows That the
Weeks Business Has Bcen Good.

tEV IclcSf:lph.)
NEW YORK July 14.-Bradstreots
tomorrow will say:
New features in the general trade St
uation this week are OF an almost UNI
FORM character. So rare. indeed. ar
the disturbing and unsettled features
us to neceSSitatc considerable search l.
locate them. Additional statistics q:
past trade movements received are If
an encouraging naturn. foremost among
these being exceptionally good railroad
q rnin@s returns for J1'nc ana he first
hall oi the year and asccrtaincl total,
III an enormous export trade. pracli-
caily equal to the phenomenal business
OF the preceding fiscal year. The rec
ord. OF railroad receiVcrShips for the
first half Of the Year bears a striking
Scmblancc to the list Of business mi,rtal-
!tics. inaSmuch as they are the SMALLEST
in number reported since reccivcrship,
first became prominent.
FAVORABLE. ]ITLY CROP
Among current features might BE-
mentioned the quite favorable July crop
report of the Agricultural Department.
which. while confirming earlier adj
vanr@s Of It more moderate yield oi> win
ter wheat. ana therefore OF Il small.
average crop than that gathered last
year. admitted. however, to have been
largely under-estimatcd. point to Il
large acreage in corn and conditions
suit in crop in excess Or . 900. 900 900
bushels. Late unl:ivorablu reports from
RUSSIA point to 4 still more pronounced
diminution of crop yields in that coun-
try this Year. Official French crop es-
Inmates also have been Whitfield down
ana the outlook seems to saver prob
ably that Europe Will buy nearly as
much wheat in America as it did ,n,.
| last fiscal year. when ii might be adj
ded, exports exceeded the totals of thu
boom year 1898. In industrial lines.
the outlook is a promising one. The
settlement OF the coal miners strike in
Pennsylvania and of the tin plate work
ers' dispute. bid fair to result in neatly
10000 men resuming work after the sum
mer shut down.
WAGE INCREASES.
\ number of wage increases are also
am"a" the weeks developments. Iron
blast furnace report for July points Ia III
unprecedented current weekly produce
ton but available stocks of uicc iron ar,
down tc lass than one weeks supply
FROM some centers Of industrial activ-
Ky come reports Of sea city of Ia Dor. NIL
itating against even more pronounced
activity. Iron and steel. While retlcc-
ing the summer uuictness to some eX-
tent in the east are in quite active Ge-
manu in the west and some heavy sales
are reported from Chicago With further
price advances in structural material,
l'essen1er pig is now slightly more than
double what il was one year ago
Inc price situation is naturally n
strong one. wheat and coffee alone Of all
t.ie prominent staples being lover ON
he week and the former only fraction
ally 50. owing TO large receipts al nc
west and TO the check to export demand
caused BY reaction from the price reach
cd some time ago.
Wheat, including flour shipments for
the week aggregates 3.2G:. SIS bushels
against 3,'3S9.2 bushels last week. >
9loS2' in the corresponding Week OF 1898:
.a2.o32 bushels in 1897 2a6:,.94a in 1896,
ana 1.632,S"2 in 1895. Since July i. this
season, the exports of wheat ;lggre-
gate 1.ol".,S1 bushels against $500, 4pa
bushels last year and i024 co; in lSa1-9S
OTHET: EXPORTS
Corn exports for the Week aggregate
l'''a''"9 bushels against .l.O97 IA busha,.
last week. o.S.2.SiS bushels in this week
4 year ago. :. 123.10 bushels in 1897 -
llo'I bushels in 1886 and $50 5la bushels
IN lS?, Since July l. this season. corr
exports aggregate $3.50 S.; bushels
against 1900 bushels during the same
period = Year ago ana 3,456227 bushels
III 1S91-4S
Business fallures number III against
l'G last week. 23S in this Week 4 yeai.
ago, 24l in 1897, pa in 1886 and III in 1875.
Business failures in the Dominion of
Canada number - as compared with =,
last week. 2S in this week a year ago. rs
IN 1870; - in 1896 ana - in 1898.