The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29
TRADE news OF rnE WEEK.
Reviews by Dun & Co. and Bradstreefs Show
Marked Steadiness In the List Of
Quotations.

New York (SpeciaD. r. G.. Dun e.
| Co s Weekly Review Of Trade" says:
with reasonable pfomptness busl-
ness Is recovering both activity and
! tone. and fortunately without the
| sharp rise in general prices which was
] seen in the Spring and which was fol-
| lowed by a sudden and serious trans
| ition to a more natural range Manu-
| facturCd goods are rising i'm response
to n better demand from distributing
| sources. The ordinary measures OF
business reflect increasing operations
at all points, but the textile markets
are at the point of least response to
the improved undertonc of trade.
Recital of conditions in the iron
and steel market has become n
monotonous repetition. Each week
there is the same record of activity, so
generally distributed that everything
from the raw material to the finished
product enjoys share. There Is also
the same freedom from speculative ac-
emulation in anticipation of fancy
| prices that has been for weeks the
most encouraging feature. Railroad
| companies compete for rolling stock.
| Export, orders in some lines are filled
| with difficulty. owing to the unusual
| domestic demand for all forms of iron
and steel products; but in no quarter
| Is there any unreasonable imitation OF
| prices such as was seen during the
meteoric ascent last year.
Two factors initiate strongly
| against the activity and strength in
wool and woolens. Mild weather has
| been the chief adverse influence, re-
ducing sales far below u normal vol
ume in this vicinity, while liquidation
of embarrassed concerns threatens to
throw a considerable quantity on the
market at forced sales.
Failures for the week were 238 in
the United States, against 19l last
year, and twenty-nine in Canada,
| against twenty-five last year.
"Bradstreets" says:
Unsettled weather conditions have
operated TO curtail recall and jobblng
| distribution this week, and impaired
a quieter tone to several lines indirect
ly associated Herewith.
I'm marine shipping circles a dis
tinct improvement is reported since
the first week of November. While tho
volume of business in pig iron is still
large, it does not apparently come up
to that OF last week or the week pre-
vious. No disappointment, is, how
| ever, ltll dJ lulS, hiOlt pdilltuldllg do
| quotations have again been marked up.
Reports of preparations to resume
come from many places for some time
idle and a sample instance is the re-
port that every furnace in the Chi
cago field will he at work next week.
Reports from Pittsburg are that de-
mand for steel billets Is still back
ward, not so much because of the price
demanded, $3.50, but because OF its
being fixed by the pool at that rate.
Foundry pig Is, however active and
tending higher. What the market for
cruder forms lacks in the way of ac-
| tivlty, however, is made up for by the
immense demand for finished pro-
ducts, which is reported in excess Of
| all records for this period.
Wheat, including -four, shipments
| for the week aggregate 1897 ,296 bu-
shells against 4,062,020 last week; g.
68S,677 in the corresponding week of
1899; 5,S24,766 in 1898; 5,465, 1853 in
1897, and 3,753696 in 1896. From July
| to date this season wheat ex-
ports are 75,301 1897 bushels against
So, ,46S, ,542 last season and SO, ,124 0S3 in
| 1S9S-99.
Corn exports for the week aggrc-
| gate 5,235,56S against 3,976,914 last
week, 4,149,523 in this week a year
ago; 3,993,S46 in 1898; 2,S69,705 in 1897
and 2,920,802 in 1896. From July / to
date this season corn exports are 90,
SS0,561 bushels against 92,170, ,4S9 last
season and 60,S22,76 in 1S9S-99.