The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-03
MANY |lE!15 EN5ES,.,
| ~ EFFECT BUSINESS
Enong Them the Thrill Of
Politics is Noted
AND THAT TIRED FEELING
Fiat Comes From Shut Downs Boy
cots and the Like.
an THAT TIRED FEELING
THERE IS THAT WAR IN CHINA
f., p..c, Manufacturers Reduce Prices. Furn-
,,ss Go Out Of Blast Failures For This
Week Increase Over the Same
Time Last Year.
ihc Associated Press.)

IN. thp Associated lTeS5.)
,..rs. june Or. G. Dun &c Co.'S
,i. Review of Trade tomorrow will
...''.
.rn, country begins to feel some of the
u.. Of its new place among the ia
.. Influences affecting its business du-
.1o week ranged all the way from q
uo+- at st. Louis to a war in South
10, and from sun spots to the relief
polin. nroughts and sun spots have
.r.1 their part before, but none can
~, forcseo all the results of defending
.,.ri,tn rights in China. Political in
.,.as also tend to color current opin-
about most things in Presidential
,r All these and other influences
,r r~aretler to create a state Of IN
,r..tntv until the controversy is over.
Fine long effort to hold nominal prices
t. iron at Pittburg has ceased, and the
DECORATIONS now recognize an open mark
l.. IN which Ressemer is offered at $40,
|r7 biI1cts at $26. with Grey Forge at ST..
|Cssr.alv a single transaction is reported,
~yer- abstaining even more than when
rres we're purely nominal, and while
taro are many considerable contracts
WAITING for Il safe basis III cos of ma
arfaI the problem is a rather difficult
ma. over 80 furnaces are said to have
home cut of blast, and while some have
ef0 stopped for repairs, many more will
H. idle fer n time until wage scales for
.ho coming year have been settled with
[ntor organizations. With q proper ad-
nsrmcnt cf supplies and prices to the
actual demand a heavy business is pos
sIie. hut delay at his season may af-
fec. prosperity for some time to come.
|Ttb steel plates quoted at $3.50 at Pitts
burg and No. - sheets at 20 cents, nc
4 general gain in business results from
thu student decline in structural shapes,
Neither official nor unofficial accounts
have removed doubts about the wheat
/ rer. End f it proves as low as one esti-
na,c. tfo. 600. 600 bushels, the extent tc
! rbob it may now be displaced in Eu-
woaH consumption by corn viii be seri-
u5r tested. Experts of wheat and corr
were fG9. ace. GOO bushels in 1898 ant
@@0f61 bushels in 1899, and have beer
atelr 10000 ,000 bushels wheat and 210.
4 mmo bushels of corn in the crop ycal
=" hut never as large before. for il
h- when 20. 600. 000 bushels wheat Wen
aT0ad there were only 5000, 900 bushel!
Il corn. But all rccent estimates Of pro
Gt.on have been so far distrusted and i
scarcely good sense to base grave ap
i frfheuSjOn on any so early in date, an
The census this year will be awaited witt
especial interest because it will help t,
show how unworthy of reliance some es
t.~ates have been. In four weeks o
June Atlantic exports of wheat, flour in
.uI0d. have been To- $50, 076 bushels
sca-1st H.461.f3S bushels last year, and T
5tt exports 2,753.97S bushels, agailIs
-'''.ltt bushels last year, while cor
EXPORTS in he four weeks LAY been y,
s"-i4 bushels. against II, 4S5, 500 bushal
las, year. After rising -four cents whea
aasod unchanged for the week and cor
only half cent higher.
The Fall River Committee has mad
q sudden reduction to 2.S7 cents in tn
rice OF regular print cloths. with not
single sale recorded. Nor are new de
na1os ronOrtCd important. But neithe
Inc sudden reduction in prints nor tn
s1iet settling in prices of staple goods ha
iMnlated the market to desired a~ctivit,
repression in the market for goods ii
l' prevent raw cotton from advancin
" ten ents.
Failures fer the week have boon q
III tae United States against Isl la:
.F8f. and Il in Canada, against % las
year"