The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-02
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW.
The Price Situation Is One of Notable
Strength.

The Price Situation Is One of Notable
Strength.
| New York, Dec. 1.-Bra dstreet's to-mor-
row will say:
| Warm weather and a holiday have i'm
| parted an appearance of irregularity and
even dullness to some lines of distributive
trade completing. a month which has
been on the whole quieter than was the
| preceding month, but one which still
| makes satisfactory comparison with the
| corresponding period a year ago, when
| the weather conditions favored distribu-
| ton.
! The price situation generally is appar-
entity one of notable strength. in view OF
these conditions. Farm products, it ia
true, notably wheat and corn, have been
week and lower on unsatisfactory foreign
demand and a bearish influence exercised
by increasing supplies of the former
grain. Other cereals are stronger, how
ever. ::
Provisions have been lower. largely on
increased receipts of hogs, but lard has
been steady on good export demand.
Wooden goods have been strong also
despite unfavorable weather. Raw wooI
has again advanced on heavy trading ana
what is additionally interesting prices at
the latest London wool sale appear to
have gained to parity with recent al
vances here.
Crop damage reports from Brazil have
been a moving feature in coffee. which
started from a very low price level and
with large stocks carried over from pre-
vious years. The price of this staple ao-
vanced nearly 1c in November.
Iron and steel are even quieter than
they We're a week ago and some shading
of prices, more in the nature of readjust-
ment, however, than of weakness has
given an appearance of irregularty to
the market and the feature of the weak
has been the agreement upon iron prices
placing the price for the coming season.
as was intimated in this column last
week. at nearly double that paid at the
opening of the present year. Other metals
have been fairly steady in sympathy with
London.
A marked tendency toward higher
prices for hardware is reported at num-
Der or markets. Holiday business in this
line has opened well and the prospect for
spring trade is regarded as encouraging.
Coal remains strong in price, the chief
difficulty, as heretofore, being questions
of transportation. The industrial situation
has improved. Some further advances in
wages Of railway employees and of glass
workers are to be noted, and some strikes
of coal miners have been settled,
Wheat, including flour shipments, for
the week aggregate 1863, 400 bushels,
against 3,6S3,617 bushels last week, 1888
$50 bushels in the corresponding week of
1898, 6449, $50 in 1897, 1868 100 bushels in 1896
and 3,15i,S2S bushels in 1896
Since July i of this season the exports
of wheat aggregate IS, ,94S bushels
against 96, 4S2,456 last year and lO7, 1893 6o3
bushels in 1S979S.
Business failures in the United States,
as usual at this period, number Ill for
the week as compared with 2O2 last week,
212 in this week a year ago, go in 1897, 359
in 1896 and 315 in 1895.
Business failures in the Dominion of
Canada for the week number Is against
38 last week, % in this week year ago
81 in 1897 AZ in 1896 and 80 in 1895.