The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-04
THE STATE OFF TRADE.


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NEW YORK, Aug s-R. @. DUN 4 Co.'S weekly
review az trads will say:
II Is often hard to read encouraging symptoms OF
general business In declining prices Of commodities.
hut lust now II Ia reasonable to look for them.
Some raw materials and some manufactured prod
ucfs one stage removed from the are selling at
vance set in. but there is cnnfdense among buyers
that the downward swing is nearly over. while sell
s. are adopting caution. MI .,, p.,,sy w hss un
Iron and steel markets werc startled BY reports Of
sales Of steel bars At SOC per 100 pounds. but bust
Chicago on : basis Of abou, sias Increasing de-
msnd for bar iron from makers Of agricultural i'm
and 81 a ss and
piatss The trads believes that orders viii increass
the advances and that total needle OF iron
consumer will compare well with last year.
Heavy bids appear for foundry iron. buyers being
uneasy. without reducing stock, and the selling
prices q many descriptions spproxmatns so,r , az
cept reports Of purchases Of foreign rails f delivery
In the South. Some traders not satisfied with
ing 70 the report Of the production Of pig iron In
the nrst half of the exceeding all records and
contrasting It with recent dull maIket.
Copper exports for July estimated at 1o.esl
tons, against I $50 in 1879. and the amount coming
into sight in the last half year for home eonsump
The foreign demand iof b.uminoas coal i heavy
hut producers hesitate TO contract shipment while
while prices are above the 1870 opening IN woolsns
they materially below figures reached last sea
son. The wool market has been active. An average
% sic Vide shss,nss are reduced Is to % per cent
hut the decline attracts more business.
Bradstreets Review.
Bradstreet's tomorrow viii say:
Trade conditions stiii favor the buyer General fan
demand though fair. In view Of the midsummer
dion. u s,ill below expectations and below year
ago Rank clearings At the lowest for two
years past. aud failures slightly more numerous
though no marked tendencies are pereeptitls ON
the other hand groS railway earnings hold their
peFccutaRs a. ssin, and where prices are made low
enough 20 satisfy BUYERS, heavy business Is uneov
cred and readily booked. pointing demand being
s,in prcven, ard swsitins disposal. The crop it
i for AGO oo 90 bashei crcr spring wheat Is
turning out better IN quality and quantity than
pcctef and there has beer An nn9nesttcnahlr i'm
prnvemeps in cotton crop conditions The Yield o.
APPLES VIII hs the largest IA many years and fruits
generally are yielding literally and commanding
me iron and steel industry furnishes tho mos.
neiAAe stsnnfas q retaeed nficss inducing heavy
the volume q trade IN flashed material. notably In
tAr And plates. Is very large
Fruniry ris iron has beer in better dc-asnd. but
=, concessions, and the din Of crude prices h sen-
orally toward = lnwrr level Move inquiry Is re-
rpffst Tor rails AZ the West and for iron a. the
sgn'h ei' ,h,rIoon 'Apsei,y esss'peis business
tes ccr rsrors partly aH iewer n bes hs;s largely
nc growth q seArss feeling after shs late rrAe-
tion
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u,tuf vhne Tin i seeking fevsr level in sympathy
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