The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-30
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1 dropped 1900 tons but expanding il
every month afterwards, the industry
now producing about 100000 tons weekly
and unsold stocks are reduced to 122 90:
tons, and yet orders untitled will require
six 20 nine months work from most of the
establishment. Prices have not changed
the past week though demand for small
products improved a little. The average
of prices closes 1875 per cent higher than
January for pig and 102S per cent high
er for products
Industries which depend on individual
consumption have gained less, though
more than population. Consumption of
cotton has been larger than ever, with an
average Of 29.5 per cent in prices Of goods
though cotton was for time 81 per cent
and is now % per cent higher than Janu-
airy L Wool has ben raised by specula-
ton So per cent but has been very large
~ consumed with great demand for
goods. which have advanced but Il per
cent. Stocks now held are said 10 be
Isl, 39S,s79 pounds OF boots and shoes
the east has 400 600 cases, OF 9 per cent
more than last year. 271k per cent more
than 1892, butp rices have advanced only
about II per cent since January l. In all
the. products trade shows a continuing
strong demand although quotations in
last week
Failures for the week have been POI in
the United States against 252 last year.
and % in Canada. against % last year.
BRADSTREETS
New Yark, Dec 29-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: Holiday quiet and
stock-taking impart an appearance of
dullness to general distributive trade,
broken, however, by fair activity in re-
order business to fill up stocks depleted
by the heaviest holiday trade that has
ever been experienced Anticipation Of
spring trade wants has given a more
than ordinarily active appearance TO
business in dry goods at New York while
in industrial lines the efforts of manu-
facturers to keep up with filed order
books is resulting in unusually active OPP
erations. Following the furry in money
stocks and in some lines of speculative
commodities noted last week. has come,
as was expected, a more cheerful tone
and firming up Of quotations is noted In
such staples as cotton, which was affect
ed by last weeks money Developments
and also in hog products, coffee, copper.
tin and lead. The failure Of cotton re-
ceipts to increase has been a source of
strength in that market, more especially
as the break recently Is understood TO
have afforded an opportunity for heavy
short covering by foreigners Aside from
these features prices have displayed ex-
ceptional f1rmness, cereals holding I'D es-
pecially we'll. The strength of textiles Is
still feature which finds justification in
statistics of large seasons re-
ceipts and sales of wool and in reports
Of enlarged old and heavily increased new
in manufacturing lines. Another
Of this is found in the fact that
wool receipts at Boston for the |
year aggregate nearly double those of a |
year ago, the stock held at the close Of /
he year IS actually smaller than at the |
md Of 1898. One of the last of the manu- /
textiles to feel the impetus Of |
expanding demand, cotton thread, has |
his week been advanced. Boot and shoe I
statistics point 20 an increase of ship |
nents from Boston OF over 10000 cases
'ver the preceding year, and although /
ecent mild weather has dulled the de-
nand the outlook in this trade and in
lides and leather is of considerable
trength.
In iron and steel seasonable quiet as re-
,ards new business is observable, but
activity on earlier booked or
ers Is reported. In some cases no shut
own was made for the holidays by mills
nd furnaces. A production a little be-
DIV 100000 tons of pig iron is anticipat-
d, with all other branches Of the same
rades representing similarly heavily in
reased outputs and prices, despite the
reat advance of the year and doubtless
the large orders ahead excep-
iOnally strong. Again in other metals
) feature calling for note this week
Hardware is seasonably quiet. but that
rade reviews the old year with satisfac-
ion and faces the new with confidence
Wheat, including -four shipments for
he week aggregate S.s10.557 bushels.
gainst 2S13714 bushels last week. &. 2a2.-
= bushels in the corresponding week OF
'9S, and 5,945061 bushels in 1895. Since
uly 1. this season, the exports OF wheat
ggregate f03. 9S4, 1877 bushels, against 121.-
s. TO bushels last year and 12e. os1 SIS
ushels in 1878. Corn exports for the
eek aggregate 1926, 30 bushels, against
90 600 bushels last week, 1858. 745 bushels
this week a year 90, 4.0s6,sss bushels
1897. 2742 9a4 bushels IN 1896 and s72 al
Ishels in 1895. Since July l. this sea-
ms corn exports aggregate 121637.145
1shels. against so.950. $50 bushels during
le same period a year ago, and 30 81, 260
lshels in 1919
Business failures for the week number
o. as compared with last week. 2ls In
IFS week a year ago ~ IN 1897. 200 in
Is and 315 in 1895 For the wear failures
2 the smallest in number for seventeen
sars past and were It not for a few
savy financial suspensions in December
abilities in which will exceed those Of .
90 slightly would have been the small
t for twelve years past. Business fail
rs for the week in Canada nur,ber %.
compared with p last week Is In the
eek wear ago. % in 1897. 81 IN 1895 and
in 1895.
Canadian bank clearings aggregate ga {
800. a decrease OF y per cent from
e. week but gain % 2 per cent over !
is week q year ago. ]