The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-10
With All Indications Pointing to
a Large and Successful Business
Orders for Farm Machinery
Placed EarIy-GeneraI Trade
Wool Market Firm.

bers report satisfactory filling in orders. Min
nesota leads all states in new railroad mile
age, and real estate transfers are $343 l22, with
building permits $23, eS5 for the week Imple-
ment sales exceed last years by IL to 10 per
cent, and the binding Irvine trade has opened
with prices to 1919 cents. Lumber ship
ments are 1906, 900. against 1,365,O0O feet last
year. The flour output, reported by the
Northwestern Miller, Is: Minneapolis. S03,6SO
barrels, against 243 290 last year; Superior
Duluth 57,47O, against 1880; Milwaukee. 49,
no. against 81, 800; st. Louis, $500, barrels.
High freight rates affect the demand for flour,
but Minneapolis sales approximate 100000 bar
rels, with foreign shipments 122, 645. Produce
sales were 20 per cent larger in 1898 than in
1ss7.-Dunn's Review. Jan. T..
st. PauI-There is considerable activity in
most jobbing lines, but it is largely incident
to preparation for the business Of the COM
ing year. Inventories are not all finished, and
trade has not settled down to the usual rou-
tine although sales are fair and collections
are proportionately good.--Bradstreets JAM T.
MfnneapOIis-Them most noticeable feature
of the week is the large number Of farm ma
chinery buyers In the city, and orders thus
far placed indicate material increase in the
volume of business for the coming year over
that just closed. In dry goods, hats, shoes
groceries and drugs there is considerable &C
Observation-Disclosures, jan
WOoI-Sales for the first week of the new
year were about uD to the full consuming
demand in good years. 5,s72,SO0 pounds, against
IL, 855, $40 in the speculative craze last year,
and 1855 900 in the same week~of 1896. Deal
ers are hoping that higher prices may be OBJ
tanned at the opening Of the heavyweight
season for wooden goods. 50 that there are
fewer concessions, and some holders are ad,
vancing quotations. But Philadelphia quota
lions Jan. 1 average 1900, according to Coates
Bros, against 823c Dec. 1 and 20.71c year
ago. The stocks reported by the Boston COM
mercial Bulletin are about POI, 600, 900 pounds
to which must be added mill stocks and the
quantities held by farmers, making about
full years supply for all mills on hand
Dun's Review. Jan. T..
WoOl-The market maintains firm tone,
but business is rather more quiet this week,
the turn of the year affecting operations to
some extent The sales in Boston for the
week foot up in excess of 100000 pounds,
of which about 100000 pounds were territory
grades and about 100000 pounds foreign.
Australian woods are firm, and while consid-
cradle inquiry is noted, buyers are bidding
too low to get the wool in most instances.
Territory woods are yet selling on about the
same basis of prices that have ruled for
for some time to come. A fair call for
washed medium feeces is noted at steady
prices, while a fair movement in pulled and
secured woods is reported. The market for
carpet woods Is quiet, with prices steady
Sale of East Indian wool at Liverpool will
open Jan. 16 with %, 900 bales offered. Steam
er Ultonia, from Boston TO Liverpool, took
SOC, 600 pounds South American wool on her
trip last week.-Bradstreet's Jan. Z.
WOODEN Goods-The opening of the
Washington mills-beavers, kerseys and clay
worsteds for the fall of this year-has been
the chief feature Of the week. The prices
named show decline from last season of
from 10c TO 15c per yard in beavers and ker-
seys, and of 2R to SC per yard in clay
worsteds This is the first open declaration
in connection with any important lines OF
mems wear woolens, and although 1t may
not absolutely fix values of other lines it will
confirm buyers in their expectations of a
lower general range OF value this season
than last In other respects the market has
been without new feature of Importance.
Recorders for spring weights have been mod
crate and readily met at previous prices. In
dress goods the week has been uneventful, a
quiet demand coming forward at previous
prices. Flannels aud blankets are quiet and
barely steady.-Dun's Review, Jan. Z.
Dry Considerations in the general dry
goods market have undergone but little
change during the past week. Holiday and
year end influences have had their usual re-
strictive effect upon the demand, and the ag-
gregate business has reached an Indifferent
total only So far as cotton goods
cerned this has had no effect upon the tone
which continues as strong as before. The
year opens with this division of the market
usually well situated Stocks In first hands
are small in the aggregate, considerable
proportion of production for the next three
months is sold ahead. and all evidences point
to a steady growth in actual consumption.
Advances in prices secured so far should be
maintained without difficulty and in various
directions a stll higher level is probable. In
the wooden goods division the outlook is not
so promising, and prices named on one or
two leading lines of heavy weights for next
fall show decline of from to 10 per cent
frtm last season.-Dun's Review. Jan. T.
Dry GOOds-Business Is opening hopeful
ly and it looks as If a good spring trade would
follow. This is particularly the case with cot
ton goods. Values have been working higher
ON the gray fabrics, and now the finished
goods are being advanced in price. Buyers
have shown more confidence of late and have
been liberal purchasers of supplies for spring
The finished materials are yet selling below
the basis of the cost of gray goods, and this
encourages general free buying to take ad-
vantage of the market. Jobbers are opening
spring styles in prints and ginghams. and are
also putting out the goods much more freely
than is usual at this season, while mill agents
are being pushed for quick deliveries. Dress
woolens are yet slow, the most excitement
at present being On the cheaper summer fab
Men r;af huf 3ha
feeling is more Observation-Disclosures Jan. 7.
Cotton GOods-There has been an indif-
ferent demand for heavy brown sheetings and
drills, but the market continues decidedly firm
and is occasionally slightly higher. Fine
yarn light weights are also against buyers
Ducks and Osnaburgs quiet but steady.
Bleached cottons in moderate request but
prices are tending upwards in all grades Wi'e
sheetings firm, and cotton flames and blink
cts steady with quiet demand. Denims, ticks.
plaids and other coarse co,ored cottons in
light request but prices maintained. Kid-in-
ished cambrcs very firm and white goods
generally against buyers. The following are
approximate quotations Standard brown
sheetings 42sc to 41ac; 3-yards, 37sc to 4c; l.
yards, SIC to 35sc; A bleached, SIC to SIC;
81 square bleached. s1ac kid-fn.shed Gamble,
e4 square, 2Ss to 2%c. Sellers of print co his
are reserved en- the basis of use fer regulars
and business limited. Prints have been in
quiet request but strong, and in low grades
prices have generally advanced &c per yard
Fine printed fabrics are very firm with mod
crate sales. Staple ginghams and dress styles
also quiet but prices we'll maintainei.-Du
Review, Jan. Z.
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