The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-11-22
TRADE SITUATION.
No Ebb in the Business Flood a.
Vet.

New York, Nov. 18.-Pradstreet's
Review of Trade says:
Favorable features r still largely In
the ascendant, and the current OF busi-
ness is running full the country over.
In some directions, indeed, notably in
the matter Of forwarding OF general
merchandise, grain. ore, coal, iron and
lumber, complaints of insufficient
transportation facilities have become
more marked. ~Seasonable weather COM
ditions east, north and west have ex-
banded retail trade and enlarged reas-
sorting orders froiAejobbers. Weather
conditions at the south have, however,
not been entirely favorable, and COM
plants of slowness Of collections, due
to the backward cotton crop. or the
lower prices paid therefor, have been
more numerous.
A favorable feature as regards this
latter situation, however, is the turf
for h better in prices. Following the
active buying by manufacturers some
weeks ago at the east has come JUS
tained activity in wool at leading east
ern and western markets, without,
however, any special gain in prices. An
u~nfavorable feature noted at the west
Is h continuance of the drought in
some parts of Kansas and Missouri,
where live stock is being rushed to
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supplies.
Demand for iron and steel is heavy,
n nearly all lines share In the
strength. Pig iron is active at all mar
kets, and Is cents per ton premium is
freely paid for immediate delivery.
Stocks are smaller than a month ago.
Steel billets are also In demand, and
find ready sale at $28 per ton at Pitts
burg. The railroad situation is one Of
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ported as having Its output for the en-
tire year 1902 booked. New rail orders
at Pittsburg this week aggregate 100, 900
tons, and mills in hat district are
sold up to next December. The short
age of cars restricted furnace opera
tions In the central west, and COM
plants Of lack of motive power in adj
dttfon are heard.
Print cloths this week have lost one
eighth of a cent, while raw cotton has
gained three-sixteenths of q cent. In
WOODEN goods the scarcity Of mems
~sovercoatings TAI been marked, and de-
mand in this line is active.
Aside from the strength in raw cot
ton the features nave been the in
creased strength in such cereals as corr
and oats. due to the springing up OF a
better demand, some slight firmness in
lard, a s~easonable advance in butter
and eggs and other dairy products, but
stimulation to tin prices caused by
close control Of spot supplies. Wheat
n also -four nave weakened due
mainly to realizing upon the late adj
vance, but renewed speculative inter-
est is evident on every decline, and
though prices are slightly lower on the
week, the tone of the market is much
better than same weeks ago.
Wheat, including flour. exports for
the week aggregate 4, 9s3,734 bushels, as
against 5,469, 645 bushels last week, and
4,062,020 bushels in this week last year.
Wheat exports from July 1 to date,
twenty weeks, aggregate III, 1872, $50
bushels, against W.417,817 bushels last
season.
Corn. exports aggregate 62s,9 bush
els, against 7O8,284 bushels last week.
and 1876, 914 bushels last year July i
to date corr exports are. 1907, 76S bush
els, as against g. 4O, 228 bushels last
season.
Continued activity is noted in shoe
manufacturing and kindred trades. No
sign of o~verstocking is yet visible in
the leather nj hide markets.
Failures for the week aggregate 213,
as against 191 last week, and 227 in this
week a year ago.