The age-herald., 1899-09-09
BRADSTREE1'S
 REVIEW OF TRADE
 ssA- The Price Situation is One of Notable Strength. LATE STEEL DELIVERIES Coffee Has Gone Lower Than Ever Be fore Recorded-Failures for the :. Week Were 123 Against
 I3l Last Week

New York September S.-Bradstreet's to- morrow will say:
 Strength of staple prices, activity in fall demand, large railroad earnings, reports of heavy lake traffic and of activity in lead ing industries are the features; none of them necessarily new but still presenting themselves in the trade situation this week. Expansion in fall demand is perhaps most notable at the leading western and north western markets, but advices from eastern markets furnish evidence that active in- terest is manifested at these centers.
 The price situation is one of notable strength, the events of the week, in fact having seemed to accentuate, in many cases, the advances shown during August.
 Cereals are generally higher, and trading has been within rather narrow limits, the advance in wheat having been mainly due to short covering, induced by more bullish foreign cables and increased export de- mand. The hot weather in the west is re- sponsible for further shading in exuber- ant estimates of the corn crop and for the slight strengthening in prices shown there- in.
 The only changes in the iron and steel situation are in an upward direction as to prices. Complaints of behind hand sup plies and scarcity of material are still made Work has in many instances, nota- bly in ship building been delayed by backward deliveries of steel. Some im- provement in the position of anthracite coal is reported, and prices obtained at the east are claimed to be nearer the scale, while recent advices at the west are maintained. The production for August was fully 12 per cent larger than in the same month year ago.
 Good demand has evidently had the effect of strengthening raw wool prices, which are firm whole, and slightly higher for the finer grades Crop damage reports have been again the important feature in cotton this week, and prices are higher as a result, in face of very heavy receipts at most southern points, claimed to be due, however, to premature ripening in some cases.
 Further strength is to be noted in dairy products this week. Early dry weather conditions still affect butter prices, while good foreign and home demand has strengthened quotations for cheese.
 A conspicuous exception to the strength
  found in coffee, which this Week reached the lowest price ever recorded thus reflect iEg enormous stocks of Brazilian grades and a possible heavy crop this season. Wheat Gncluding four) shipments for this week aggregate 1850 590 bushels against 3613,4i3 bushels last week; 3,2OO POS bushels In the corresponding week of 1898; 5,461 ,505 bushels in 1897; 3799, ,l41 bushels in 1896, and 1,s10,3O9 bushels In 1885, Since July 1 this season the exports of wheat aggregated 31476,2i6 bushels against B, 800 bushels last year and 3S,312,7 ,762 bushels in 1S97-9S.
 Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,- 7S6,S73 bushels against 4167 S6S bushels last week; 3,86S S69 bushels in this week a year ago, and 4,9i3,349 bushels in 1897. Since July l this season corn exports aggregate 4G07,9H bushels against 2S,4 ,S67 bushels during the same period a year ago, and 30,476,707 in 1S97-9S.
 Business failures for the week number only 123 against 131 last week; 142 in this week year ago. 173 in 1897. 30S in 1896 and 213 in 1895. Business failures in the Do- minion of Canada for the week number 21 against 25 last week and r in this week a year ago.