Show BRADSTHEETS OPINION Reports of RecordBreaking Holiday Trade All Over Country Now York Dec 27 Bradstreets tomor row will say Reports of a recordbreak lag holiday trade of seasonable quiet In leading wholesale lines of exceptional ac tivity at top prices In Iron and steel of sustained activity In other Industries con tinued complaint of car and motive pow er shortage and a general hardening 10WS of speculative markets for food products are the features of trade advices to Brad I streets this week The year closes with the greatest activ fly In iron and steel Pig iron sales for the week have never been equalled at this season and lack of adequate trans S port facilities alone Is a bar to still I greater volume of l distribution The look la for a production of 10000000 tons out of pig Iron gf 0000000 tons of ore and of 12000000 tons of steel In 1301 Prices have advanced oC late and 1575 < 5 > 1GOO Is freely paid at valley furnaces for Bessemer de liveries In tho Hrgt quarter of next year In Mulshed products the mills are crowd ed with business Wire rods have ad Van eci 1 per ton In the coke trade supplies are plllnp up near the ovens but furnaces are shutting down owing to the lack ojC cars to move one to the other Wheat apparently cut loose from corn this week and displayed exceptIonal ac tivity and strength for a holiday weole The winter wheat markets took the lead I In this respect buying being specially good it St Louis Reports of lack of snow over the winter crop were circulated and roi > orts of a smaller surplus in Ar gentina better cables light receipts West and Northwest I and smaller gains In tho visible supply have all been features r Export the rise business has rather been aided by Corn has been dull though steadied by V wheat while oats have firmed up a lit tie Provisions have shown more strength and cheese has been helped also The cut In refined sugar of 10 to 25 points Is < really a rclluction of the reduc the tion In raw quotations though talk of war continues Coffers Is strange and In better demand r BiislnesafaHUrca for the week number L 21D aa against 253 last week 213 In this 1 week last year 220 In IbO 218 In 1893 and 297 In JL807 Cmiadlan failures number i ii1 aa against 21 Inst week 1C In this week a year ago and 22 in 3805 Bank Clearings Now York Dec 27The following table compiled by Brndstrcet shows the bank clearings at principal cities for the week ended December 26th with the perccntago of Increase and decrease aa compared with the corresponding week last year Inc Dec New York 117GS77359 Deci BOaton Chicago 142150079 IP 304008232 u7 Philadelphia 913323 1M St LoulH 450C0700 1117 Plttsburg TCI5109T IGiS Baltimore 18003703 8G San Francisco < 1SM910G 71 Cincinnati t 15S S7uO 83 Kansas City 153100G4 2C Minneapolis 13034347 359 Cleveland i 11602139 137 Now Orleans 13777337 2 ii 1 Detroit 102iOl9 3l7 Louisville 812SC 79 Indianapolis 8037S02 219 Providence 5809900 58 Omaha 6341113 112 Milwaukee GOOtJGKJ Buffalo D44SJ1R 113 St PfUl 4782132 11 Savuiiiuih 4033022 14 Denver 1 3712251 117V I St Joseph 410570 310 I HIchmcnd 1T 35202CO 19J Momphls 2U0778 211 Scatllo tias45 > 3 47 Wa3hlnptont1i 2503543 115 1 S Hartford r 5 110J03 197 Los Angeles 3230001 41S SALT LAKE CITY 33735S3 17G r Tolodo 2223rOS 137 Portland Or 2102932 85 Rochester 1S3C652 57 Pcorla 2450451 102 Fort Worth 2137301 216 Atlanta 2631505 214 Norfolk v 1285333 194 Dts Moines 13511494 615 Now Haven 1270012 71 Sprlnclleld Mass 1219253 75 Augusta 1CC09S1 306 Nashvlllo o 1458512 13R Worcester 1S73201 2C5 Grand Rapids 110SJ52 Sioux City 1121099 333 Dayton 0 1170500 33 Syracuse J1GS741 29 Scranton 14W003 Portland Me 1107035 83 I Spokane I1450i77 39L Tacoma 100125G 15 Kvansvlllo 2oso 230 Wilmington Del 101GG37 Davenport 719893 150 Fall River lt 9I6COO 37 Birmingham U 1211770 11 1G Topeka 1127179 219 Macon 7SGOOO 37S Little Rock SiOlOa 150 Helena 711302 83 KnoKVllle GC3762 17fi Lowell 02S9S2 313 Wichita 55CS31 237 Akron 410700 105 Now Bedford 422CC2 159 Lexington 4JiC39 27 Springfield Ill I73E09 8G Blnchamton 300COO 47 i Chattanooga 309705 130 1 Kalamazoo 3034G3 46 Fargo 40ISDS 109 Youngstown 455303 409 Springfield 0 30JIIO 225 Rockford 299550 212 Canton 317000 101 Jacksonville 310831 324 Sioux Falls 235S7G 577 Fremont S6002 203 Bloomington Ill lRGG6fi 137 Jacksonville Ill 101034 110 Columbus 0 5920100 73 Galveston S5SIOOO 222 Houston 11310GJS 4GO Colorado Springs KS41 Wheeling W A a 6S3242 Wllkesbarro 701115 Albany 3211018 Beaumont 172336 Totals U SLS0620Li6 30 Outside N Y G637495S7 91 CANADA Montreal S 137GS277 84 Toronto ySSO707 80 Winnipeg 3425474 72G I Halifax 1030349 135 Vancouver B C 719561 117 Hamilton 731002 40 St John N B GS3951 79 Victoria B C 518SC3 Quebec 1242145 Totals Canada 31304219 120 Not Included In totals because containing contain-ing other Items than clearings 1 cNot Included In totals because of no comparison for last year I |