The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-03-27
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
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r. @. Dun & Co. 's Weekly Review
Of Trade says:
Trade reports indicate a little
more activity and the percentage of
idle machinery decreases, but more
reductions in wages and dividends
show that the process of readjust-
ment will take some time. Inactiv-
ity continues in the New England
footwear industry, factories running
on short time as rule. Many cities
report an output of 40. per cent. of
full capacity, and shipments through
Boston are about Is per cent. below
year ago. Best news is received
from Chicago and st. Louis, where
liberal orders are received for fu-
: ture delivery. Some Increase is re-
ported in the local jobbing trade in
spring lines. Leather is more active,
although some lines are dull and
many tanneries are practically shut
down. A firmer feeling in the hide
market is not accompanied by many
actual changes in prices, but larger
sales have reduced packers stocks.
Bradstreet's says:
Improvement in. sentiment and in
actual demand continues, but it pro-
ceeds under the check rein of con
servatism, which limits buying to
small lots of staple goods. Spring
Jobbing trade has apparently passed
Its zenith, with total trade larger
perhaps than was expected some
months ago, but smaller by far than
a year ago. Fall trade is four to six
weeks late in opening up. AS hither-
to, the chief activity has been in dry
goods and allied lines, especially mil
linery, which, SO far as spring trade
preparations are concerned, makes
relatively one of the best showings.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended March 10
number 298, against 278 last week,
1877 in the like week if 1907, ITO In
1906. 204 in 1905 and 215 in 1904.
Wholesale Markets.
New York.-Wheat-R Receipts, s.
900 bushels. Spot firm; No. red,
l.01 zs elevator; No. 2 red, 1.02M
f. o. b. afloat; No. / Northern Duluth,
1-151s +. o. b. afioat: No. hard
winter, 1.13k +. 0. b. afloat.
Corn Receipts, 1925 bushels; ex-
ports, 4,482 bushels. Spot firm; No.
2, rs elevator, and 20 f. o. b. afioat:
No. 2 white. nominal, and No. 2 yell
low, nominal f. o. b. afloat.
GA s-Receipts, 79,500 bushels.
exports. 2,110 bushels. Spot dull;
mixed, 26 to 80 pounds, 81; natural
white, 26 to 80 pounds, $1,000;
clipped white. 80 to 40 pounds, so
@65.
Rye-Dul; No. Western, SO,
nominal, +. o. b. New York.
Poultry-Alive. firm; fowls, IA;
turkeys, Is; dressed firmer; turkeys,
12@17; fowls. 1001S1k.
Eggs Easier; receipts, 35,S7O;
State, Pennsylvania, and nearby
fancy, selected, white, 1000; good
to choice. 17@18k; brown and mike
ed, extra, 17@17k; firsts, 1870
16h; Western and Southern, firsts,
Is; seconds, 15A @15k.
Baltimore.-Flour- and un-
changed; receipts, 3,115 barrels.
Wheat-Quiet; spot, contract, SO
@98N; spot No. red Western,
9SR @9SA; March, 9S@98N;
April, 98k @98A; May, 100;
steamer No. 2 red, 95; receipts, g.
526, bushels; Southern, ON grade.
931s 098.
Corn-Firmer; spot, mixed, 665s
@66A; No. white, 67N; March,
66A @66A; April, 66%@67; May,
67R @68A; steamer mixed, 62M q
62A; receipts, 1918 bushels;
Southern white corn, 63A @67;
Southern yellow corn. 6SA 067.
Oats Steady; No. white, $50
591a; No. 3 white. 56@581s; No.
2 mixed. 56@564s; receipts, 1872
bushels.
RyeDull and easier: No. 2 West
ern export, $50 80; No. Western
domestic. 5000; receipts. 2,258
bushels.
Butter - Firm. unchanged; fancy
imitation. 25@26; fancy creamery,
81: fancy ladle. 23 @ "a: store pack
ed, 1890.
Eggs Steady, unchanged; 1S.
Cheese - Quiet. unchanged; large,
14%; fats. 14A small, IS.
Philadelphia.-Wheat firm; con-
tract grade, March. 97h @98c.
Corn steady; No. 2. for local trade
7l@73c.
Oats firm: No. 2 white. natural.
59@59hc
Butter steady; fair demand; extra
Western creamery, Soc; do, nearby
prints, 81.
Eggs Arm; good demand; Pennsyl-
vania and other nearby firsts, free
cases, 17c.: do, current receipts in
returnable cases. 16 at mark; West
ern firsts, free cases, II at mark; |
do, current receipts, free cases, 16 !
at mark.
Cheese firm; good demand; New
York full cream, choice, 15% @16c.;
do, fair to good, 15@151kc.
Live poultry steady; fair demand; I
fowls. 14@15c.: old roosters, 91k a |
10: chickens. 14@15: ducks, $50 |
16; geese, 11@14.