The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-10-24
weekly REVIEW Or TRADE.
General Business Has Been Brisk In Nearly
All Lines of Trade.

All Lines of Trade.
New York, Oct. 21.-Eradstreets
says:
Among the notable features brought
out in trade dispatches to Bfadstreel
this week, are the reports of imulat
retail trade, due to cooler, settied
weather and advices of continued ac-
tivity in all leading industrial llnes' no
tably iron and steel, shoes and leather
coal, lumber, jewelry and cotton ana
wooden goods.
The shipments of products of these
Industries and Of groceries to consum-
ing sections continue heavy n are
accompanied by reportss of delays que
to the scarcity of cars. Announcer one
of those slight upward swings IN prices
of staples, so numerous of late, mas also
occurred, by which the general lever
of cereals, Jaw cotton, dairy products
and lake copper has been raised.
Clearings have expanded because or
an extension Of interests in the secu'
rity market, but also because or con-
tinued good collections, which in turn
have induced rather more ease IN
money rates at leading markets. Al
vices from the south are still OF a BACK
ward cotton crop movement, hamperlns
fall demand and collections, but even
here there has been an Improvement
noted this week.
Iron steel consumption continues
fully equal to, and in some cases in
excess of production. Steel billets have
continued scarce and are practically
unobtainable for prompt delivery. Pig
iron stocks in the central west are sald
to not exceed one weeks supply. Or
ders for fully 1000, 900 tons of rails for
next years delivery have been booked.
Plates. bars and sheets and structural
material are all active. but iron bars
are reported easier. Tin plate mills
are catching up with their orders and
a cut is reported in the price Of wire
nails.
Railroads are in the market for cars
and n western system bought 1000
this week. Export business in iron n
steel Is not promising.
Cooler Weather and fear Of frosts
coupled with good reports from the
print cloth industry have stimulated
raw cotton, n his in turn Is reflect
ed in higher quotations for nearly all
leading bleached cottons. The convic-
ton seems to be growing that the cot
ton crop this year will not be as large
as hoped for and estimates by leading
authorities point to all available pres
ent and possible future supplies being
needed.
Wooden goods are rather quiet as re-
CARDS new demand, but the mills are
busy on heaVyweights, and when these
are out Of the way a large volume of
orders for spring weights guarantees
continued activity. Wool is steady and
firm, with a large consumption pro-
crossing.
The cereal markets were rather apa-
thetic early this week. Reduced specu-
lative interest II liquidation, caused
by larger receipts at the northwest,
weakened prices early. Decreases in
these receipts and smaller Argentine
shipments and poor crop reports
brought a rather firmer feeling later,
by which the early loss was regained
and a slight advance registered on the
week. All estimates agree hat the
worlds wheat supply will be larger
than a year ago, the increases being
here and in Canada and the decreases
in Europe, but against this is to be
cited the fact hat the rye, corr and
oats yields, not to mention other food
stuffs, are smaller this year than for
some years past.
Wheat, including flour. exports for
the week, aggregate 5,536.073 bushels,
as against 4,719, 1898 last week and $780,
643 in this week last year. Wheat ex-
ports, July l to date fourteen weeks),
aggregate 95,104, PSI bushels, as against
54, 254, S91 last season.
Corn exports aggregate 64O,o 33 bush
els, as against $751; 46 last week and
2,SS6, 993 last year. July l to date, corn
exports are ID, 945, 113 bushels, against
As, sS9, 1926 last season.
Failures Tor the week number 1913, is
against 1873 last week and 22S this week
a year ago.