The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-07
TRADE REPORTS.

TRADE REPORTS.
Bradstreet's report last week says.
Distributive trade, that from job
bers particularly, increases as the va
cation season wanes. Reports from
leading western centers are more fav-
orable, and large aggregate OF bust
ness in dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats
and hardware are features noted this
week. The iron and steel trade, too
notes a decided gain in tone and vol
ume of sales, though prices, except in
a few instances, harden but slowly.
Clearings, rejecting past business and
dormant specializing, are small, but
railroad earnings, rejecting the really
heavy movement into consumption,
maintain their old gains. Relatively
the most quiet and least satisfactory
conditions rule in the primary textile
markets of the east, rejecting the back
ward state of next springs business.
Corn crop advices are viewed as rather
better, because of the ending of the
late dry, hot spell at the west. Cotton
crop conditions are still only partially
defined, and leading state authorities
are quoted as predicting short crop.
The steadiness of staple prices is a
feature in the present quietness of
trade.
Among the metals, copper is firm On
the combination, while tin is lower aft
er little squirt. In the volume of bus
mess doing, the iron trade compares
favorably with recent weeks and
months, and the tone of trade is GER
tainly moore cheerful than at any
time since the break last spring. The
history of the slump and rally in the
finished material market, however, is
being repeated in the pig iron trade.
Producers are apparently so anxious
to have supply of orders on hand this
fall that they are readily selling their
production ahead at relatively low quo
tations, some of these, in fact, Being at
bottom rates. On the other hand, an
offer of an order for $4,000 tons for
next years delivery has been rejected,
the claim being that present quotations
are too low and will be exceeded in a
month or so. Export inquiry for all
classes of material is and has been good
Bars, shapes and planes note good do
nestle and export inquiry, and are
firmer at the east and 81 to So higher
at Chicago. Southern iron blocks of
higher goods are reported oversold
at Birmingham.
To disappointing foreign adv .ces
and the backward state of the spring
demand for cotton goods are to be at
tributed the shading in raw cotton this
week. The spring season in mems
wooden wear has been rather disap-
pointing so far, while the jobbing de-
mand for dress goods is quite favora-
BILE.
Manufacturers are buying only
enough raw wool to caver- orders for
goods, and prices are weak at the low
est point reached.
Wheat (including fiour), shipments
for the week aggregate 3,24S,313 bush
els, against 1886, 1913 bushels last week
1884 bushels in the corresponding
week of 1899, 3,6S7,04O bushels in 1898
6,62S,247 bushels in 1898 and 1858, 1862
bushels in 1896.
From July LIST to date this season,
WHSdI SApOIlS are AO,Jtt, tO1 UuSnClo,
against 33,122,333 bushels last season
and 29,593,5 92 bushels in 1S9S-99.
Failures aggregate 164 for the week,
as against 1876 last week, 131 in this
week year ago, 164 in 1898, 1S9 in
1897, and 1874 in 1896.
Canadian failures number 80, against
20 last week, and 25 this week year
ago.