The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-16
The RECORD
OF AUGUST
COMMERCE
Better Than all Other News--Ex'
ports Were Twenty Millions
Larger Than Ever Before,
VASTLY EXCEEDING IMPORTS.
The Volume of Business That Is
Now in Progress has Never
Been Rivalled.

Ni@W .,,ttf ,0,y
Co.'s weekly review Oh 't"es 49,. "'l- 80.
tomorrow: Better lnan au 49, .'So,,,'
the record OF August "on'lie'T .at - ,,.s.."
the relation or Onltei etl'f' uu,'''-,. ..'.-,.
to that Of other countfl"" HHpotsn ol'n
were $2o,OS9,s75 larger tnan ever DeiUtN ~
in August, and exceeded Imports W
$31.929,e9O, partly because oApof9 ~. '.
staples were se,sss''1S larger tnah !,al.. lass
year. but also because exports OF ol"eE @
products. mainly manutaeturlhs' wets :
3iO,S49,oOO larger than last SeaF' s. unu
larger than In any otneF hon'h 0i '4'
year.
Fears that great advance IN prlSes
might shut on exports OF manutucVure1
products have not peen unnatural ''iS
1t is most gratifying to nnd that susn
exports still continue ana expand Ihe
excess Of exports over imports gives
fair promise Of as large a balance IN
foreign trade to the oeneht OF TINS
country during the winter as mas ever
been seen. That manufactured eN-
ports do not fall of, but are larger thsh
ever, Is both surprising and gratlfyihs'
The volume of business now In pro-
gress has never been rivalled'
Great Movement In Cram.
The great movement In grain IN
wheat and flour little larger than las.
year in August and In two weeks OF
September 5,920,27S bushels, flour IN
cluded, from Atlantic ports against
5.428,O7s bushels last year, and from
Poetic ports 755,559 bushels, against
S64,144 bushels last year, is far more eff
fective in preventing a decline in
prices than any official or unofficial es-
Innate Of the yield. Government re-
ports indicate wheat crop OF only 5is.-
100000 bushels and afterwards the on
clal return made 1t s75,oOo,oOO bushels,
and none would be surprised to see a
like revision this year. The price in
spite Of good exports has fallen one
quarter Of a cent for western receipts
have been 13,sse,455 bushels. in two
weeks, against 4,33l,s3l. The feeling Is
not unreasonable that foreign needs are
just now we'll indicated by the corn
movement at this season. Cotton ship
ments are always small and hopes or
fears rule the market, but prices have
declined during the week n sixteenth,
with little less buying on foreign ac-
count.
Iron Trade Situation.
Extraordinary efforts to increase the
Iron output failed in August. partly be-
cause stoppage of a few large furnaces
for repairs more than balanced the ad-
dition Of thirteen small furnaces to tho
producing force and partly because hot
weather prevented full production. The
reported output 2s7S95 tons. against
2a1sT2 August /. with decrease Of 22,S47
tons in, unsold stocks, indicates a con-
sumption of i,2Os,oi2 tons during the
month. Purchases OF $1,000 tons Bes-
semer and 10000 tons other Iron are re-
ported with advance OF Bessemer to
S2s % at Pittsburgh, but quotations are
wild because of premiums paid for early
delivery Plates at the east and common
bars at Pittsburgh are 81 per ton high
er, and wire nails have again been ad-