The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-12
dun AND BRADSTREET'S
There hes Been But Little nesIts,lon In
Any Line Of Trade.
IRON IS STILL THE IMPORTANT FACTOR
Wool and Cotton Goods Have Been
Very Active, with Manufacturers
Far Behind with Orders.

| New York, August 11.--R. G. Dun 4
Co.'S weekly review OF trade tomorrow will
say. After great expansion, business hest.
tntes. This year It is astonishing that TIN
hesitation has been sc slight In one
branch after another buying has halted
onl. to be followed by larger buying.
The output CT iron furnaces in blast Au-
gust was 2s9,os2 tons weekly CO.'S ner
cen. more than In 1892 and 2.O7 per cent
more than last year. With decrease of
27,367 tons in unsoid stocks, nearly halt
in charcoal iron, which barely equals the
lowest record OF production to August l.
and other furnaces have started since that
Gate. with several more 10 follow. TIE
supply appears to be at least equal to the
demand, although new demands for the
week have covered 21O0 tons for new
buildings at Chicago, with much for
bridges aud 1000 tons for Eastern build
inss at Pittsburg. In bars, both East and
West, the mills are unable to take all
orders offered. nor in plates can they take
al orders anywhere. while in sheets the
Western mills are overcrcwled, though
the Eastern demand is lighter.
The Connellsville coke output is again
192,656 tons for tie week. with only $50
ovens idle, ant prices are unchanged.
Tin, following London, has risen to 80
cents. but fallen to S1.S5 cents, and cop
per is hard to get, at Is 1-2 cents for lake.
Lead Is quoted at 4.50 to 4.60.
Sole leather has slightly advanced, with
buff and split, but the convention of boot
and shoe manufacturers proposes to adj
vance prices, though without definite au-
thority. New orders are now in some
lines larger than the works can accept.
though in many others more moderate and
not exceeding half the output Chicago re-
ports hides slightly lower for packers, but
a shade higher for country buff and heavy
COWS.
Cotton has risen three eighths owing to
crop reports, but nobody believes that the
years production, with the heavy stocks
carried over, will fall below the require
ments for consumption. The demand for
goods is enough to cover a heavy consum-
tion of cotton, but it does not appear to
be gaining.
Wool is little less active after its great
rise, and inside quotations are sometimes
accepted, but sales at the three chief mar
kets have been 20,206 $50 pounds in two
weeks. against 2S,495,S0O in the same
weeks in 1887 and 16,436600 in tho same
week in 1882.
Wheat receipts at the West have been
S.65a,579 buehels In two weeks. against
5,645,960 bushels last year, making II hard
to believe the unfavorable crop estimates
which still come forward from unofficial
and official sources. The exports have
slackened, amounting to only 6,269,iSS
bushels, flour included, from Atlantic
ports, against 5,945,311 last yeec. and from
Pacific ports 100000 bushels, against 924-
155 last year. other exports being 457,oSs
bushels.
Corn exports were in the two weeks
7,975,599 bushels. against 4.743,766 last
year, but receipts continue enormous in
two weeks, S,S39.911 bushels against
6,479,173 last year. Contradictory stories
about foreign crops weigh but little COM
pared with the actual buying of grain and
movement from the farms. The truth
seems to be that the supply of wheat in the
spring wheat region is larger than any
body has supposed.
Failures for the week have been 1856 In
the United States, against 1876 last year,
and go in Canada, against Is last year.