The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-30
RETAIL TRADE IMPROVES
Manufacturing Industries Are Run
ming at Full Speed.
THERE IS ONE UsfAV0RA3le FEATURE
This IS the Growing tension lHrted by tie
Strike of the Anthracite Coal Miners.
Enorm lis Oematd Tor Iron
and Steel.
tBy the Associated Prc-s.)

New York, sept. 26.-Bradstrret's to-
morrow WI! say:
Large yields of nearly all crops ray"
been secured, jobbing trade activity -
undated, manufacturing Industries ~
nearly all lines are running at 1uil
speed. retail demand is improNlnG. fali-
Way and water transportation interests
are pushed to handle business offered
and the only unfaNorable feature IN the
situation is the growing tension eNerted
By the anthracite coal strike, which now
finds sold weather almost here and in
dustr:cs in many lines threatened with
interference caused by the enhanced
price of the bituminous product. Collec-
ions in a majority of instances remain
oeoa, most OF the exceptions being noted
at the South. Where the feeling, owing 10
reported shortages III yield of cotton, is
a trif1e less optimistic.
AT the South heavy rains during the
cotton picking season has been an unfav-
orable feature so far as affecting the
gathering of crop already open is con
cerned, but beneficial to the late crops in
Indian Territory, Texas and Florida, and
in fact wherever they have fallen.
AT the East business is reported
good in nearly all branches of the New
York Dry goods trade and outlook is very
encouraging. The strength OF cotton
goods, based largely on the position OF
the raw material, is notable.
"Among the industries the feature of
transcendent interest is still the enor-
nous demand, greatly in excess of the
supply, for iron and steel in its cruder
| forms. The scarcity of coke is as mark
o1 &c over hllt 2 INK her OF furnaces are
shut down. Buying of foreign iron and
steel is liberal despite adVices from the
central West and find diff
Guilty in utilizing some OF the already
imported.
'Buainess failures for the week num-
Der 10 as against 1871 last year
| New York, Sept. 26.-For the week end
ing Friday, September 26th: Net receipts
at all United States ports during week
270, I'll; net receipts at all United States
| ports during same week last year 49,
0S2, total receipts to this date IA, 1851;
total receipts to same date last year
1863, 979; exports for the week 1885, 9z; eX-
ports for same week last year S4,806; to-
tai exports to this date 405, $50; total eX-
| ports to same date last year 232, 1856;
stock at all United States ports 4G6, S63;
stock at all United States ports same
time last year $40, 324;. stock at all IN
terror towns 17S, 855; stock at all in
terror towns same time last year 200, 1G2;
stock at Liverpool 270, 600; stock at Liv-
erpool same time last year 239 900; stock
Of American afloat for Great Britain So
coo; stock of American atiOat for Great
Britain same time last year p, 1000.
TOTAL NET RECEIPTS.
New ork, Sept. 26.-The following are
the total net receipts OF cotton at all
ports since September 1st-:
Galveston, 256, Ats bales; New Orleans
1856; Mobile IA ,S73: Savannah 1863 ,257;
Charleston ASIA; Wilmington 1922;
Norfolk %, 30G; Baltimore 500; New York
1.214; Boston so: Newport News 2,022
Philadelphia $3.50. Brunswick 400; Pensa-
cola 1870; Port Townsend 1892; San
Francisco 2,S0O. Total 723S67. bales.
TOTAL BANK CLEARINGS.
New York, Sept. 2G.-Total bank clear
ings week ended September 25th 1868,
| 310, 224, increase 81 per cent: outside OF
New York $779,57l,G31, decrease II pei
cent.