Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-02
BRADsrREET's REVIEW OF TRADE.
Price situation of Notable Strength
Considering Conditions.

Price situation of Notable Strength
Considering Conditions.
NEW NORK, Dec. 1.-Bradstreets tomor-
row will say;
Warm weather and a holiday have i'm,
parted an appearance OF irreguiarlty ana
even dullness to some lines of dis tributiVe
trade, completing a month which has been
on the whole quleter than was the preced-
ing month, but one which still makes salts
factory comparison with corresponding
period year ago. The price situation gem
orally is apparently one OF notable strength
in view of these conditions Farm prod
ucts. 1t is true, notably wheat and corn,
have been weak and lower on unsatls-
factory foreign demand and bearish in
fluence exercised by increasing supplies of
the former grain. Other cereals are
stronger, however. Provisions have been
lower, largely on increased receipts or hogs.
but lard has been steady on good export
demand.
The situation in textiles has apparently
lost little in strength during the week,
though raw cotton has suffered from a bear
raid in domestic and foreign markets on
alleged estimates of heavy quantities being
been advices that sales OF actual cotton az
Liverpool this week are the largest OF the
year. Cotton goods have been been very strong, ,ftgs
for the third quarter Is of conditions the
best since 1892 Woolen goods have been
strong also despite H0ra6Ie o wehaer bsaSy
trading and what is additionally interesting
prices at the latest London wool sale ap-
pear 10 nave BdlUtu 10 Il purity Win IttcII
Crop damage reports from Brazil have
been n moving feature in coffee, which, like
cotton, started from a very low price level
and with large stocks carried over from
previous years The price OF this staple
advanced nearly cent in November. ~.
Iron and steel are even qu!eter than they
We're a week ago and some shading or
prices, more in the nature or readJustment Z,
sha9 or The has feature of
the week has been the agreement upon iron
ore prices, placing the price for the com
ing season, as was intimated in TINS col,
umn last week at nearly double that paid
at the opening of the present season
Other metals have been fairly firm some
fuctuation in sympathy with London prices
being noted in tin, marked tendency to-
ward higher prices for hardware Is reported
at number of markets, Holiday business
in this line has opened well and the pros
pect for apr.ng trade is regarded as en-
couraging, Coal remains strong IN, IN Price, price
lions OF trans portation. The industrial sit
uation has been rather improved by the
practical agreement upon a sliding scale
system in the New England COTTON manu-
some further advances in wages of rail-
way employees and OF glass workers are 20
be noted, and some strikes OF coal miners
have been settled.
Wheat including -four, shipments for et5 the
week aggregate "a SSs oS S dGahhs' G core
sponding week OF 1895 $50 bu in 1881,
1888, 100 bu in 1895 and Slo5S2S bu. IN 1879,
since July / this season the exports OF
wheat aggregate So,l679i6 bu.; against So
COS 402 bu. last year ana lo"S0s'oS' pu' III
Corn exports for the week aggregate 80 =
5l4 bu., against 4,l49523 bu. last week, 4i23,-
9SS bu an this week a year ago. 65S5, sos bu.
/ i'm 1897, i.7e9 iO2 bu in 1896 and l,S67O5i bu
7 i'm 1895 Since July /, this season, corn eN-
! ports aggregate 6,G6S, 600 bu., against bo'oib'-
! 7b0 bu during the same period last year
and 81 125 s51 hu. In 1S97-9S.
| Business failures I'm the United states, as
usual at this period number III Tor inc
week. as compared with 2O2 last week, 81
/ in this week year ago, 80 in 1891 S5s in
i'S Business sin ss failures in the Dominion Of