Show I A Steady Lead Market Lead has been very quiet throughout the week with a slight inclination to soften in price from its previous ruling but the movement is looked upon as a fluctuation merely and not the commencement I com-mencement of any decline and in fact there is nowhere any evidence of any i I large stock which could cause a decline 1 The first shipments of a possible 2000 I tons of Richmond to New York has caused some timidity among buyers but none of this lead can arrive there much before November or December and can not consequently be of the least use for the fall demand which is over by tho middle of November and therefore it cannot disturb our present market The sales of the week reached market uc n very slight distribution for this time onsme of the yearat 123 and 415 St Louis the i Chicago and 425 New York There was considerable talk about lead ing 420 at St Louis but it was only bring in very small quantities Holders wa at the I West found any large sales at that figure impossible On the whole the f lead situation still remains very strong and ver its apparent offish Bun ofsh flurry must soon be checked by the demand for the Horn Silver company is producing nothing and I that sa loss of at least I 000 tons perl i month which per I so far as we can learn is not being made in any other locality and I j during no year since 1870 has our annual consumption been 12000 tons less than I II our production I is therefore I I and fair to logical I assume that under thoslcir cir cumstances the figures of 1885 will show a shortage which must be made either from put of time Richmond up j surplus or by importation The present London price permits lead to be laid dtwjTt at New York duty paid at 4 cents heezrer Circular |