Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-09-07
1899. The foregoing figures do -.
cover yachts or government vessel.
TRADE REPORTS.

Bradstreet's report last week ..,..
Distributive trade, that from ;oh
bers particularly, increases as the ~
cation season wanes. Reports ,ro,.
leading western centers are mora ~
orable, and a large aggregate of hn.L
ness in dry goods, clothing, shoes hat
and hardware are features noted Mi.
week. The iron and steel trade. too
notes decided gain in tone and vol
ume of sales, though prices, excent !.
few instances, harden but Slow,
Clearings, rejecting past business ana
dormant specializing, are small. hu,
railroad earnings, rejecting the reall,
heavy movement into consumption
maintain their old gains. Relatives,
the most quiet and least satisfaction,
conditions rule in the primary textil.
markets of the east, rejecting the bact
ward state of next springs bushes,
Corn crop advices are viewed as rattle,
better, because of the ending Of tn.
late dry. hot spell at the west. Cotton
crop conditions are still only PARTIAL,
defined. and leading state authorities
are quoted as predicting a short cron
The steadiness Of staple prices il III
feature in the present Quietness Of
trade.
Among the metals, copper Is firm On
the combination. while tin Is lower aft
err a little squirt. In the volume Of bus
mess doing, the iron trade compars
favorably with recent weeks and
months, and the tone Of trade is cer
tainly moore cheerful than at am |
time since the break last spring. Th.
history of the slump and rally In thu 4
finished material market, however. bs
being repeated in the pig iron trade
Producers are apparently SO anxiowl
to Rave supply of orders on hand thh!
fall that they are readily selling theh
production ahead at relatively low quo
tations, some Of these, in fact, Being ii
bottom rates. On the other hand. al
offer of an order for $4,000 tons iU
next years delivery has been rejected
the claim being that present quotation
are too low and will be exceeded in Z.
month or so. Export inquiry for u
classes of material is and has been god7
Bars, shapes and planes note good al
nestle and export inquiry, and al
firmer at the east and 81 to 81 higAs
at Chicago. Southern iron blocks
higher goods are reported oversol
at Birmingham.
To disappointing foreign advicq
and the backward state Of the spriH
demand for cotton goods are to be
tributed the shading in raw cotton th
week. The spring season In menu
wooden wear has been rather dial
pointing so far, while the jobbing
mand for dress goods Is quite favor
BILE. E|
| Manufacturers are buying on
enough raw wool to caver- orders n
goods, and prices are weak at the lc1
est point reached.
Wheat (including flour), shipmer
for the week aggregate 3,248.313 bui
els, against 2,695,168 bushels last We
3,613,443 bushels In the correspond
week of 1899. 3.6S7,040 bushels in IL
6,628,247 bushels in 1898 and $685.
bushels in 1896.
From July LIST to date this seas
wheat exports are 26,944,761 bushd
against 33,122,333 bushels last sea-
and 29,593,592 bushels in 189S-99.
Failures aggregate 164 for the We
as against 1876 last week, 131 in
week a year ago, 1874 in 1898, 1&
1897, and 1874 in 1896.
Canadian failures number 80, agar
20 last week, and rs this week
ago.