Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

It is estimated that the salmon pack for the season of 1898 on the Columbia river will be 100,000 cases below the average. The steamer Hiawatha, which went out in search of bodies from the Bourgogne, put into Canso, N. F., having found thirty bodies and buried them. She sailed again to continue the search. Dun's weekly trade review says: “Prospects of peace stimulated many kinds of businesg. In spite of records, the impression prevails that delay and hesitation have legitimately resulted from war, and larger contracts are, in fact, coming forward for iron products, with a better general demand in most industries. A few labor troubles only call attention to the fact that this season has been remarkably free from such hindrances. In spite of a promise of 700,000,000 bushels of wheat this year the price is 2%c higher for the week. The disposition of farmers to hold back their wheat for prices more like t tkose obtainable recently accounts for receipts 36 per cent smaller than last year. The visible supply is extremely low, but exports at the present rate throughout the year would have little lifting power if the crop is about 300,000,000 bushels more than home needs for seed and feed. Failures for the week have been 196 in the United States, against 237 last year, and 21 in Canada, against 29 last year.”