Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-11-02
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Volume OF Business Offered Trans.
%portatIon Lines Largest Ever Known.

p%ortatlon Lines Largest Ever Known.
New York, Oct. 28.-Bradstreet's
says:
trade Is over, and attention Is now at
tracted to the movement of staple
goods into the channels OF consumption.
Despite the smaller movement OF grain,
and, up to this week, the lighter move
ment of cotton, 80 heavy is the volume
Of business offered the railroads OF the
country that complaints OF "a short
age come from all parts OF the country,
notably for iron ore M steel, lumber,
grain and coal. In the coal trade the
shortage is marked, because the an
thracite tonnage is very heavy, being
estimated at 557. 000, 900. or one-ffth
larger than a year ago.
wholesale and jobbing trade gener-
ally Is characterized as fair to moder-
ate the country over. A fair recorder
business is noted in the northwest, but
trade generally Is awaiting the move
ment OF goods from retailers hands.
Collections are generally good, except
at the south, where the slower 10Y
nent OF cotton has tended to retard
business. AS for some weeks past, the
iron and steel trade returns the best
reports, n these good reports are be-
Ing prolonged to an extent which has
rarely been witnessed. The largest
total rail order OF the year was placed
this week, In all $50, 900 tons, being
taken at the ruling rate OF $2S per ton
by the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
any.
Special activity in other lines Is
noted, in structural material at Pitts
burg, additional orders for implement
manufacturers and continued activity
In tin plates and steel sheets, mills pro-
ducing the latter being months behind
on orders.
Railroad companies are buying cars
freely. The market for wire products
is tagging and nails are lower.
Weather conditions have been favor
able to the cotton crop this week.
Frost is holding of; receipts have heav-
lily increased, though IL is claimed this
Is but temporary, and the situation at
Fall River Is not SO favorable owing
TO a further advance In wages by one
manufacturer, and there are fears OF
a strike. Estimates OF cotton consump-
ton made public this week are bullish,
authority saying that a crop Of
IL, 500, 600 bales is required to prevent
q squeeze"
Wooden goods remain In a strong
position. Consumption OF raw wool Is
large and prices are held steady
thereby.
The large crop OF wheat and the ad-
mitted increase In the worlds supplies
have heretofore been balanced by the
knowledge that the rest Of the worlds
food supplies are shorter than last
Prices this week have been
pushed over h dead center" by re-
ports OF droughts In Argentine reduc-
ing yields from 20 per cent TO 40 per
Exporters hav bought on reac-
lions. Flour has strengthened with
wheat, and production Is very heavy,
the Minneapolis mills last week break
ing all records. Corn is little changed
the week, liquidation and weakness
being offset by a good export bust
ness. Shipments are the heaviest for
three months past. hog products are
lower, the feeling growing that. the
high prices Of the late boom have
consumption. Statistically,
the situation is, however, still bearish.
Wheat, including -four, exports for
the week aggregate 4,052, 1874 bushels, as
against $780, 73 bushels last week n
932. 958 bushels I'm this week last year.
Wheat exports, July ! to date, seven
teen weeks. aggregate 100, 056 1856 bush
els. as against 50, 1877, 500 bushels last
season.
Corn exports aggregate ,183, 288 bush
els. as against $40, 033 bushels last week
and 1866, 651 bushels last year. July l
to date corn exports were 1918 ,40l
bushels, against SO, 1855 77 bushels last
season.
The strength OF leather products con-
.inues undated, and shoe shipments
are heavily In excess OF a year ago.
Failures for the week number 233, as
1893 last week and l6l in this
week a year ago.