The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-20
THIS IR)P|C WEATHER
Cuts Winter Retailing But
Spring Business
IS RIGHT UP TO THE MARK
Cereals Dull = Textiles and
Products Advancing.

New York, Jan. 1s.-Bradstreet's tomor
row will say: General trade. and pr;ce
as whole. maintain an even biaanc
which has been the leading feature fo
some time and in which it will reouir,
the advent of distinctly new features t.
affect anw basic changes. General de
mand is large for this, season of year. but
speculation is quiet to the extrema NJ
dullness in some lines and especially In
those branches of speculation which go
to radically affect financial affairs and
therefore the volume of bank clearings
close examination of leading lines of in
| oustry fails TO show marked unfayorabIe
FEATURES 1t is true that retail trade in
seasonabde goods has been and is being
! aHected by phenomenally mild winter
weather but wherever spring trade par-
ticularly in dry goods, has been deveIop-
| ed 1t has been in such volume and accom-
panied with such readiness of accen-
lance of advanced prices as to point TO
undiminished, confidence in the present
trade world as to the outlook for snrinq
business.
Inc iron and steel industry, Justly re-
earded as trustworthy index of general
trade is still actively employed on old
orders, and new business is limited for
reasons unnecessary to recapituIate II is
Aevident that the fe wreactions in nrices
8 hown in such an ordinarily DIM nariod
al this have strengthened rather than
1eASehed confidence in the future Signs
Oh preparation for the coming seasons
neetls are shown in the reported active
inquiry for steel rails at the west recent
sales at Chicago aggregating $1,000 tons
some OF which are for northwestern rail
Roads and some for export. Production
IS as evidently hard pushed as ever and
the question of fuel Supplies rather than
Of new orders engrosses manufacturers,
atteL tion. Some concessions in foundry
iron ire noted. but aside rom this nrica
chang rs are within very narrow limits
The OF her metals are rather stroneer
copper and tin being weak. the latter in
sympathy with advances abroad Sprine
trade in hardware is 'opeII1ng well and ad
Vances in prices are generally reported.
Cereals we dull in nearly all directions
and the pre- ssure Of enlarged stocks. mar
ticularly .'oad has been influential tbis
week mi bringing about a reaction in
prices. Corn and oats. however. are
rather firper on foreign buying. though
sympathetically affected by the decline in
leading cereals. Coffee is active, specu-
lation being influenced by higher Euro
pean advices and a dvance of. a large do
mestic consumption Apparently iniprov
ed British prospects in South Africa are
assigned as the cause for the better buy
ing of cotton, resulting in a fractional
advance this week. The crop movement
still continues much smaller than ex-
pected by the bears. cotton goods are
meeting with good demand on spring ac-
count. Concessions at second hands are |
reported, owing mainly to backward de- |
Iiveries now arriving being resold by re-
cetvers. Rather more inquiry is noted for |
WOOL particularly at Boston, and mems |
wear sales for next fall are meeting with |
good patronage, notwithstanding the adj |
vances demanded
Lumber is strong, particularly white |
pine grades. partly because of smaller
stocks and a possibly smaller cut in the
northwest as a result of lack Of snow.
and partly because of a hopeful feeling
as to the building outlook the coming
sDring.
Wheat, including -four, shipments for
the week aggregate 3,O61O26 bushels,
against 4,24S,926 bushels last week, 5,19s,-
GIL bushels in the corresponding week of
1899, 3,72e,O64 bushels IN 1898; 2,916 7O6 bush
els in 1897 and S,S4s,2n bushels in 1896.
Since July l this season the exports of
wheat aggregate 1903 S31 bushels against
159 2S4, 719 bushels last year and II, 56S, ga
bushels in 1878. Corn exports for the
week aggregate 3,1993l2 against 3.314576
bushels last week, 1928, 191 bushels in this
week a year ago, 34S9,713 bushels in 1895.
5, 1922 bushels in 1897, and 3192,365 BUSH
els in 1896. Since July 1 this season corn
exports, corrected, aggregate 10. 1859
bushels, against 92,020,190 bushels during
the same period a year ago and 81, 91S,139
bushels in 1878
Business failures in the United States
are fewer in number. there being 255 for
the week, as compared with 295 last week.
269 this week a year ago. 500 in 1895, AZ in
1897 and S41 in 1886. Business failures in
the Dominion of Canada for the week
number 80, as compared with IS last
"OoN' "V III liliS "eeh d year ago, 10 IN
1S9S, 81 in 1897 and 80 in 1886.
DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
New York. Jan. 19-R- C. Dun's week
ly review OF trade tomorrow will say:
Whether the new year Will surpass or
keep pace with the Old is the question
which gives special interest to every
weeks returns. Comparing now with
business By far the largest and most
prosperous ever known year ago. more
than 20 per cent larger than in January.
1885, which in its turn had shown heavier
business than in any year preceding. it
cannot be expected that such gain Will