Show BUSINESS Comparisons Made With That of Last Year OF 0 OUTPUT 1899 PLACED LAP AT TONS PONS s Wool Quotations Quotation Per Cent Sign Signer er Than Last Year Teai Y i the tUe Bisa In Itt Goods Is Not Excessive Sales In Three Weeks Stock Exchange 4 Nes Torl J Dua Cos revIew i tomor Tow TT vH will say f Witter to a now year Will or 9 keep 1 ep paca pa with tHe te old to bt th gives S special in interest terest to v ry returns Con paring new with by ay far the anti and roost prosperous ever a year ago more mors than it 40 per larger than mn in 1845 in its turn had p heavier buM busi business Peso ness that than in any YZ preceding it fee expected that such a gain caIn wIlt will b be repeated But the da of ot 96 per cent in payments through dear dearIng Ing h boua is wholly due to great activity tf at t w Y rH last year with sale ion of against CAlLO to the same d te ie thIs year for outage tola city have beau cen 13 per than a year ar g ter than in the Die borne varae pan of toy ether month tItIS en On se tract o of tone for a western road and two for bridges bridge tOD are the only tig bl reported in iron products but itc up v we e secured by cn ce Iw platen ed t going golee materially for barn bare at Phil Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia below the of the Sheets a alao 2140 lower at th eSt east but fi 1 hUfh r af at Sales of foundry pig at Z reduced prices include two for tons t ns and Nto No ii is quoted at 34 4 but Bessemer arni gray forge at gt are held unchanged though without sales The copper output of this thia country in HM wi vai 2 tons tone greater by or 58 5 per cent than in 1896 1895 while the foreign product last year tons tone gaI in hi the tour four years only tons The prices at of copper and lead are un unChanged Changed with tin higher at 27 Perhaps most t important indus industrial industrial trial is th the marketing of woolen good at prices per cent than tact year many maKes mahee having been promptly sold up and withdrawn while others sell so well aa as asto to give gp eue tn As Aa wool quotations avar s MO per cen cent higher than a year ago age th the rise In boods is p pot t But hoped of e woo wool for fot a further rise ew dashed By the fhe fall of cf i S per cent Ln mari oe at London sale aIe with cross crosa bredt weaker and aI con d erable ales aIes at of to 3 of pounds Montana 26 20 cents with numerous orr or darn dara to neal ul consIgnments hitherto Held aff the Sates in weeks Rno M pounds have hav been smaller than in th ef of the previous years m in 2 cotton goods begins to nereM though in itt staples l te Th pawls now iw average per ent tilsa year a cor and iid with the rise ne this week we to 6 cotton 1 3 LI 14 per CM eon higher itt a tort ro rop ha ia helped th lbs W o a sad d still till tw a cUm cou i l a lower then than tt It wa won two mouthy ag 0 R c over oner onera a third than l et year out bet e ports Decreased mite as pm nt of Qt the ea neat t in execution of old ordera o continue larger than in any auy year esles a in three weeks over 28 20 per cent r than year an and 28 22 per larger arger than in But Bat lien nerr does oes not amount to a quarter of the production it is said sled and in very every line doubt about maintenance of lice kinder The for is not act Iy nor ba in 1 prIsm prices of ole ele valor beatt of any py consequence but ut the tha active M Mor y option shows a sharp harp Atlantic exports coea tar far below years in tare three reeks 37 against 1224 1 year and Pacific Pa thc exports ia In the Salle use were again 1163 94 4 last It year Wa tarn receipts were lr r three weeks against t YOKI COtS Com receipts are nailer last 01 year by 00 bush ele Is for fer the te three weeks while exi exports orts have lave been bushels bushela against 4 last year yer and this thin active move newt meat caused suet spot quotations to ad advance vance ance fee far tb the weak have buen 34 IR In tb the United t i against 24 74 01 u ur year r ear and 40 10 in aist 22 last loi yr f ar t tON ON THE STOCK EXChANGE sy Money the th Feature of Wall WallStreet Street Por the Week w York Jaa IS Bradstreets review tomorrow w wilt will say Money loney has as decidedly easier this thise e k ONI town rat jaton e wow back backo to o l r av at any time nee we early Supplies ef of r for th the purpose of Street are increasing and lenders lender n lot only nOW a disposition to lift out their money mone ow time at about 5 C per pm cent but bat lira t also much mitch teas less 05 s to ro the character and qualItY ItY ty of the collateral offered ogere The general easing oft off of ratas for looey in the and continental has ales alee relieved the situation I here ere by removing the matter of imme I dIate late gold exports exP ta In Ip short the con which wre responsible for or the n a on ot t the th specula speculates tes ta marta in December have under one a d o ed for the better Nevertheless the ability to carry once MOVe more on comparatively easy ba not hot had bad Its expected effect in speculative interest and Transactions have dwindled a nil d on seven days this week the dealings were so limited and the ton tone o f th the market so utterly perfunctory s 5 to suggest a comparison with the of midsummer The public is doing little or nothing and common mission houses report a dearth of orderS r so far as investors are eons nee more coming into Ins the tha market and taking picking up honda bends or dividend paying p and i Indus indue Industrials trials This fatter has bee nat eat urel rally some dimensions as rates ates for have declined though there le ho no v i ry y intense demand from the iho above source rOt The In the ase of the found little fly ty to indulge in lit any serious v d and their Activity B J been eun limited to a few stocks in Ip which board room q have pro pra Weed generally extremely moderate Speculation in short ecu to o be ke walling and the general satin is that feat th the factor in which its course depends Is the outcome of the in South Africa or orather rather ather the way In lit which tle London market will be affected by b the next developments from that m rt r Thin ia is ta to all appearances by the degre of strength which prices have developed on the neWs ws that the forces had bad a more advantageous strategic position the slight improvement which lowed in lit th the London market did not notI I develop uny ny particular foreign buying our It how wr th t the street anti and the public have come to the eon Con Conclusion elusIon that should the liners Boers inflict Indict any further serious detent defeat on the lInt Brit British ish hb army it would be followed by a severe disturbance In values at Lon Len London Lendon don and on the continent while de do developments calculated to encourage a belief in the early earl termination of the South African struggle might cause an advance O or at any rate ACord a basis on whirls which large interests would feel it was safe 49 t work actively for higher prices BUSINESS BUSINE OF OP THE BANKS Clearings pr the Week as Reported By Brads Agency New York Jan 19 The following ta We compiled by Bradstreet shows the bank clearing at All the principal cities of the States ar and i Canada Capada for In wt wick t ended Jan 19 with the af at and decrease an as compared with the Iha corresponding week last year I Amount J ciDe New York Tork I 25 42 70 St LouIs 88 I Sail I 43 Kansas City New Orleans Minneapolis Detroit 24 Louisville MI 10 OB MilwAukee St Paul Buffalo Ompha JB iio e Columbus Q 5 Denver enver hartford 3 PeorIa 93 1431 New 87 1445 SALT ALT LAKE CITY GITY 2 S 72 in Mass Mars MassI 1 Fort I 80 Portland M lu 45 Portland Ore 3 St it Joseph o oLo Lo 2 l Norfolk WI Des Del Fall Grand Rapids Augusta an Ga Lowell Dayton ayton O 2 MM 51 45 Nw 64 I el Topeka SSI 51 I Lii hy I Fin 1010 03 Ahron ae 1 e b ost jeg S 11 17 stings Neb nort norte e I 47 Ul L 1771 TAttle tittle Rock I 21 helena fa Total United State W Outside Nosy New Yak 44 Dominion of Canada C l A Amount II 4 fax T Hamilton amilton 8 St t John Victoria 7 44 Toted Total |