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Show llfLHIl Tltllli: IIMIMls DUN A (I) , for tho week ending February:!, 1901, report much uncertainly uncer-tainly atmut the future of trade. Though there la do longer any expectation ex-pectation of silver legislation, jtt tho (llecta of the uncertainty of the post threo months still remain. Jlattbound shipments from Chicago for two weeks of February show n falling olf of :i )nr cent. This la attributed to short croj. Foreign trade, both Imports and ex. Arts, It falling behind that of last yuar. Iron It dull, wool manufacture 'nourishing, nnd cotton prosperous. Thu ri rt aa) a. 'Iho dicllno of alher below II r oanro, atone lime lov7) cents, dltcour age those who aro looking fora sieeu!a-tlioliooinln sieeu!a-tlioliooinln i rlcos. M limit Is one cent 1 iwer with sal of 1& million bushels, cotton a (pierler lower wllh sales of 077, two balls, an I till 3 it nit lower, torn an I oats hare adrauced half a c, nt each, an I hogs a slmdo. Tho exports of rotlon continue atmve last j ear's as well as tho reeel ts, but w heot and flour exsirts fall farbohlud, and tho moteuisntiu pro. slonsslionaliulolnereieso .'orthuprea. ent f irtlgn tra lo It slaeki nlng, though a ihange lu prices might soon entargo It. In Jauusrytheox(iortsof Lotion, tirisid stuns, rot IslonSfitiltiesnd oil were I'll,. IIJ.UtH In value agalnt pl,37t,7il la-t )esr,whhh l-ohtls lo a hear excis of extsirU titer Import for tliut month, but thu later alvnnca In Stirling ei. hango and tho mu lerulo outgo of go! I Inllmto that tlte merelilndl balance is out tiolghid at roMcnl by tl e rittiru of so CurlHea ur tho withdraw al of nllii r tsir its! proiloutlyluvisitl hore 'In this mum meiit rolutbl the laws imsse-d nr ieud tng lu soma Western Htates conlrlbule) thus, the Kansas house list paasitl n bill to tax all tmrtgagut, nolus nnd ls,n Is, making them not collei table unlis sLimpeil by atssors 'this and cthi r mi attires i auto much lulling of liiautand removal of cuplhd " Tho great colio strike still continue. Ylrgiulu nnd AlaUitui are oilerlug Iron nt rices whlth piraljro the tnark't, Tlie real nntket Is depressed, owing lo tint large oulrut this ' (ir. , Tm report uintlnilra as follows "llurlng Ihe etl week Ihe Tmtsury bat taken In alloztlhrr atsml f",'m mom ihsn It Iras pal I oul, ami there havo Iwn small nrdi ra i f got I fi r eirt, 1 at tho tain for money on cull has only advanced ad-vanced from 3 lo 2l l-sr cent, sterling exchange remaining slnady. The outgo ofriirrenry bt tho Interior appears lo bet liegun, however, notwithstanding the fact that at almost eviry nlher city the money market Is es.y, or growing eosler, nnd acarrety nno now reiotts tho market iloss. Iho stmk market haa been dspn ssml In ptrt by the f illuro an nounced, and tn -art by the reluctt.1 r-irnlngs n some roe Is, but nothing sp-pcirs sp-pcirs l Imllisite Hist negotiations le tsr n trunk line pmillcntt aro not progressing pro-gressing salJsf.ir.urll)." Tho failures for the week mentioned nro for tho United Htates SI), nnd Canada 41. For Iho cornspondlng tteek lasl)enr tho United Htatet had .13IallurraaulCnnadt II. |
