The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02
It is Seen in Distribution of
Merchandise.
AND IN PLACING ORDERS
PARALYSIS of the Anthracite Industry
Almost Complete.
WORLD OF TRADE WATCHING AND WAITING
In the East Conditions Seem Generally Favor.
able For a Quick Recovery With the
Strike Over. Prices Unchang-
ed in Iron and Steel.
(By the Associated PresS.)

ed in Iron and Steel.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 2S.-R. G. Dun & Co s
weekly Review of Trade will say tomor-
row:
"Not Wall Street alone, but the entire
business world as we'll watched the prog
ress of efforts to bring about a settle
ment Of the anthracite coal strike with
active interest. This week the paralysis
of the anthracite industry was more com
plete than last. and the effect was seen
upon the distribution of merchandise in
the East and the placing of new orders
with manufacturers. Coal advanced %
cents above last week and the larger
companies refused to name selling price.
The strike involved about 5000 more
miners and hundreds of trainmen, but the
working force has increased largely
Through the settlement between the.
Amalgamated Association and several
steel companies, whose works employing
go, coo men have been idle. while only
500 men were affected by the shut down
of the Suscuehanna Iron and Steel Com
pany by a strike. In the East the condi-
lions seem generally favorable for a quick
recovery with the coal strike over, while
in the West there has been no noteworthy
reduction in the distribution of any class
of goods.
aside from the expected reduction to
S26 for steel rails and a sale of BesSemer
pig at Pittsburg at $13.75, the whole list
of iron and steel products is unchanged.
The feeling grows stronger that bottom
has been reached. Take the eleven arti-
cles quoted in our price tables, it will be
ISpon that after an advance Of OVpr ono
hundred per cent. in 1899, prices have
declined only about So per cent. this year,
and there is already a tendency toward a
higher level.
Wheat rose to &c., but failed to main
tain the advance. Corn for prompt de-
livery was scarce and advanced ten cents
above the price at this date last year
or over % per cent.
Failures for the week were 2O4 in the.
United States against 157 last year, and
IS in Canada, against p last year. =
COMPARATIVE COTTON STATEMENT.
New York, Sept. 2S.-For the week end
ing Friday, September 2Sth, 1900: Net
receipts. at all United States ports during
week, 26S. 1923; net receipts at all United
States ports during same week last year,
24e, 566; total receipts to this date, sol SAB:
~ " SdIlc d ldoC yCol,
72S, 772; exports for the week., So, 64S;
exports for same week last year, 129 ,SQ7;
total exports to this date. 227. 283; total
exports to same date last year. 412.349;
stock at all United States ports, 1896, 631;
stock at all United States ports same
time last year, 657.125; stock at all in
terror towns, 10000; stock at all interior
towns same time last year, 359, 321; stock
at Liverpool, $50, 900; stock at Liverpool
same time last year, 1856 900; stock of
American aloat for Great Britain, 40, 900;
stock of American afloat for Great Britain
same time last year, 3 5000.
TOTAL NET RECEIPTS.
New York, Sept. 2S.-Following are the
total net receipts Of cotton at all ports
since September 1st, 1900:
Galveston, .4S, 1854; New Orleans. $780,
1882; Mobile, 1924; Savannah, 167. 144;
Charleston, 0,S26; Wilmington, 1877;
Norfolk, 1920; Baltimore, 497; New
York, LIB; Boston. 2,c1O; Philadelphia,
1,135; Pensacola, 1850. Total, SCI ,S43.
TOTAL BANK CLEARINGS.
, New York, Sept. 23.-The total bank
clearings at the principal cities of the
United States for the week ending Sep
TENDER 9th were $1,452, 549, 465; decrease,
PIP per cent.
Outside of New York city the total
clearings were sG1O, S97, S36, decrease, 80
!, per cent.
r HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT.
I New Orleans, La, Sept. 2S.-Secretary
Hester's weekly New Orleans Cotton Elk
! change statement issued today shows the
amount of cotton brought into sight fol
. the week ending this Afternoon to be
T 339, 222 bales, against $50, 729 bales for the
~
593 year before last.
This brings the total of the crop moved
into sight for the % days of the new sea.
son to s12, 222, against 935, $50 last year
and $50, 80 year before last.
Receipts at all United States ports
since September 1st were 561 ,S43 bales
C against 691, 259 bales last year; overland
Y across the Mississippi. Ohio and Potoma,
Y rivers to Northern mills and Canad;
d 1852 bales, against SO, 173 bales last year
: interior stocks in excess of Septembe,
list, 123, lis bales, against 131 sol; South
ern mill takings 109, 372 bales, agains
121, 626. Foreign exports since Septembe
list have been $50, 424 bales, against 334,
e 81 bales last year.
n The total takings of American mills
g north and south. and Canada thus ia
for the season have been al. 144 bales
20 against 215.6 last year.
" Since the close of the commercial yea
IL stocks at American ports and the 2
. leading Southern interior centers hav
been increased 44O, 654 bales, against a
IL increase for the same time last year @
$50, 269.
Including amounts left over from tn
last crop the supply to date is 934, rs
bales, against ,614,75 bales for the sam
period last year.
Secretary Hester's statement of tn
TO worlds visible supply Of cotton issue
today shows the total visible to be 1,13S,
24a bales. against 1.126.711 bales las
sh week and 1905. O06 bales last year. {
this the total of American COTTON is aSS