The San Francisco call., 1899-09-30
DluI'S ReVje7v of Trade.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade will say tomorrow:
September is the twelfth consecutive month
IN which the volume Of business both at New
York and outside %. New York has been greater
than in the same month at any previous year.
In these twelve months payments through the
clearing hsuse have been $50, 500 600 coo, against
Sol POO. R10 Coz In the twelve months ending with
September 1882, an increase of SIS 400, co. o00,
over 46 per cent. When the tremendous eX-
pansion began, men called II repleIishment Of
long depleted stocks. then for time 1t was
called crazy outhurst of speculation and when
demands stil expanded some permanent in
crease Of business was. recognized as a result
OF increased population earning better wages
But the demand still grows, Row ranging about
CO Der cent greater than in 1892, while popula-
ton, according T. treasury estimates, is Is per
cent greater and wages are not over 10 per
cent greater. A reconstruction OF business and
industries o.. producing and transporting forces
IS ia progress throughout the lana, with results
which none can now measure. Iron eonsump-
ton instead Of Io0. 900 tons per month in 1882,
is ROW over l2Hu,tVJ tons Per monLh ana yer Is
SO lar behind the demand for products that
the catacity Of most works is solG Iar INTO
next year. With sales Ol Z1pV at ilttsburs,
I3essclaer pig rose to S23 "a, Chicago coke and
Southern pig again rose 81 and new furnaces
are sold many months ahead before they begin
1gork BarS hard to get at any price, the
whole output OF the Republic Company being
sold to January, and s. 3 is quoted for COM
demand for car-bulldlng falls on WORKS over
Contracts for 5000 plates have been placed at
PittsburE and at all points the price is rising
with. astonishing demand Sheets are also
higher with the demand intensified by renewed
efforts for consolidation,
Shipluents of boots and shoes from Boston in
nine months have been 500,676 cases, against
1853 Gs2 il 49, and in four Te7 Ks 399,622 cases
against 26o 6sa last year, 3IG al in 1897 and less
in any other year, Here the increase is more
nearly rroportioned to population and wages,
but works all month or more behind
their orders for the season. Spring orders are
fair. but restricted still by unwillingness Of
makers 70 contract largely at prices now OBJ
tafnable which average about cents advance
where makers deem 7i2c necessary. The wool
market is active with general advance, ag-
gregating about nc on washed fleece conbing
and some unwashed; the entire list quoted by
Coates Bros. probably averages about 4c high
er. Heavyweight wooiens are well cleaned up
and of spring worsted many lines are with
drawn, the clayS being nomlnalIN advanced TO
81 As with some fancy warsteds per cent
higher. Stronger demand for cotton staples
causes an advance Of hc in brown sheetings
end drills and &c in some bleached goods. \
broader selling arrangement at Fau River
seems likely To prevent the proposed consoli-
dation-
Cotton opened the crop year at SC D and has
risen to 81 81, although about quarter more
has come INTO slsht uiah IttSl year from lhe
greatest crop on record ana stocks here and
abroad, commercial and military, are 65S GEO
bales greater than year ago. But belief in
serious loss by droughts gains ground and also
belief in largely increased manufacture
Wheat exports from Atlantic and Pacific
,,or-tss have been 294 3s6 bushels fo.- the week
four included against !. SCI 022 last year, and
in four weeks p 295l,2G9 bushels against 15,06l,
Ssa last year. The foreign demand has aided to
sustain prices which closed sc higher than
last week although Western receipts have been
% 1910 SIS bushels in the past four weeks against
81 sSG5 $40 last year. Corn is unchanged in price
and stiIl IN large foreign demand. exports lav-
ing been in four weeks 12,155,9of bushels,
against & .64t last year, with Western re-
ceipts of 24,433,S74 bushels against 1913 ZOE
last year.