New-York tribune., 1905-08-20

were week ago. They have hitherto been n.
rOwers of stocks in the loan crowd. 1l- there an
indications that they have bought some Of il bs,s
especially Steel Germany has been quite soo5
buyer of Canadian Pacifc. The activity tn Tenuss
see Coal and Iron seems to be practically all oa,s.
able TO the Moore & S-lIer pool IN that soct
which made a very successful campaign on the las,
outbreak of Southern Steel merger fever Ths
pool has affiliations with the woodward inter
ests but is apparently not being iuterfared with
PIG IRON CERTIFICATES Regular pis inn
certificates at the New-York Produce Exchanss
opened lower TO a shade higher Foundry was IN
changed to p cents lower. as compared vita F,iday
night. Immediately after the eau there a sals
OF zoo tons February regular at SIS 3D. Quotations
on the call follows ReEule--t'd-l. A1-
gust and September. Ei Sass 5I. October. $50
SIS -: November Sl5 2lQSl5 .. December. ST. 20
Si5 20; February SO sass Co. Fcundry-Ausua
E50sl5 20. September. S-yq S5 %; October, s. -
81 90; NoYembcr, SIS @GSl5 ~, December. 50 20
So 70; February. Sl5 59G$15 90
THE COTTON NOV OVE4AE.$T--Acc0rdins TO '"Ths
Financial Chronicle the total receipts 90 cotton
for the week ended August IS reached 50-S bales.
against $3.50 bales last week and HSS7 bales IA
previous week. making the total receipts sncs
September l. 1894 $685.. 40 bales. against "a
bales for the same period Of 1s8-H showing an IL
crease since September l. 1884 of 2.s-5lfi balss
Reports from the South indicate that IN some SEQ
tions the weather has not been quite SO favorabls
as last week In the Southwest rain has been
light, rule. and IN muCn OF ltNaS lArie nas
been no rain Along the Gulf and in places along
the Atlantic IT is said that there has been tOo
much moisture. Arkansas reports improvements
but there are some complaints Of rust and shej-
ding from Alabama
PREPARING FOR GOLD EXPORTS--Tha
Wall Street Journal says; Peace is generally
looked for as the result OF the Portsmouth meets
ing and the question OF shipping gold from this
country IS being discussed. IL is accepted cer%
tain that much OF the Russian loan 70 pay or
Japan will be foated here. In Treasury circles
1t is thought that most Of the gold that goes 0us
of this country TO Japan will be sent from san
Francisco To meet the heavy shipments from tnAa
roint ANTICIPATED as a result OF placing ths loan
or A large part of it here It will probably be necss-
sarv for the Treasury to ship gold direct from
New-York to San Francisco TO meet the dsInancss
as not more than 100000 gold IS kept IN tas SUB
Treasury there"
NATIONAL. ENAMELLING AND SFAMPINt-
The National EnameIing and Stamping CompanS
has set aside $4,000 which viii be used On sep
tember TO reduce it's bonded debt This VIII
make total of 81 10000 used for this purpose durF
ing the last four years. reducing the bonded aeos
from s.. 100000 TO S1,500,000.
BANK CI4EARINGS.-The total bank clear1nss
of all the clearing houses OF the United States tos
the week ended August 10 were .fslSS''1 against
s. go 81 s96 in the preceding week and A'sV-als
in the corresponding week last year.
STRUCTURAL. STEEL.-An officer of the Uniei
States Steel Corporation states that the output o.
structural steel this year Will break all past record
This is true, he says. OF the United States steer
Corporation and the general trade as we'll