, 1880-07-18

corresponding week last rear. ~z,sajt+N VIZ
On tho Chicago Mining Board there were sales
of 100 shares of Boston Consolidated Mt 100: 20
shares of Sierra ut 430: $500 shares Of Chicago T.
Silver Gilt ut 507!1; 1000 shares Of Shenandoah
common at :5oG360; and 200 shares of Shenan-
doah preferred at 40.
CHICAGO NOT ONLY SURPRISES ALL THE OTHER
LEADING CITIES
of the country in its growth, but In the improv-
ing condition of mercantile credit The Public
says Of Dun. Barlow g. Co.'S recent circular
about failures:
The comparisons made Ia the report are ex-
ceedngly interesting tn respect to tho condition
Of business In different cities and States. In New
third 10 number of failures, without any decrease
in aggrezate liabilities; III Philadelphia there is
decrease Of more than onc-third in number,
while there is q large increase in liabilities; in
Boston both failures and liabilities dccrease,
while in SAN Francisco the decrease Of liabilities
Of Of firms fai3ng u; is 20 PER cent IN St Louis over
Chicago over 20 per cent. In some Of the States,
also, the decline in magnitude Of failures is re-
mArkatly Iurge; As in Massachusetts. where 1t
IS about 30 per cent, IN Connecticut and indiana,
where tt Is over 20 per cent, i'll Louisiana. where
1t is over % per cent IN Ohio where it Is over 10
per cent, and in Rhode Island, whore it is over
Is per cent In truth, the returns are mich tho
most cheering ever issued by the Mercantile
Agency since the pauic of lSs3-
COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
Sr.v Fork Nat1na, J.s.e 1c.
The value OF the exports to foreign countries
from New York during the month of June WAS
$+3,0S4. 56s. uf which 81, l,:e53l5 represented do
mestic produce. Never before Ia the history Of
the port did the exports amount to go much In
single month. III June, 18Th, the value OF the
exports w'Ms $S.&Ag06. The value of the fn-
ports Inst mouth was $405l2 404 against $3I471-
6.e In June. 1871. These figures give some idea
Of ,he expansion in the foreign trade, which has
been nor less extraordinary than that tn tho do
mes1ic trade. US reflected In the Clearing House
exchanges. The foreign trade OF New York
during the fiscal year ending with June shows
total imports Of $5a4 and total exports Of
$400.:as.oso. against total imports during the
preceding year Of S3G s48. .125 and exports "
$:55l.3l9,6l0- A large part of the enormous cx-
ports during June was nude up Of breadstuffs,
which were hurried forward by the spectators
who '.savcrstayed their market" before the new
crop figures could he positively known. RAIL-
ftlad earnings Tor June were as remarkable la
the trade figures. 4 list OF thirty-four rail-
roads publishing earnings shows an average
increase Of - per cent over June, 1S7s.-whfch
is due not only TO the increased Iounxge. but to
the higher rates maintained by ''pooling" ar
engagements OF the leading roads. The
money market was very easy during the week.
hanks is nearly S1S.Ool0oo- In addition to the
domestic influences working in favor of low
rates WAS the decline in the rates for bills on
London to within oue-han Of per cent Of the
Stock Exchange speculation was governed by
"crup dispatches" =" from Chicago and Miwau-
kee atsou1 the spring wheat III the Northwestern
States The weather has been sufficiently un-
favorable there to furnish the grain OF truth
needed for stories of great damngc and blight
ed crops" Wheat WAS - bulied'' on these uis-
patches and the stocks Of the railroads truvcrs-
ing the Northwestern States were "bearcd-"
The State OF Minnesota produces more wheat
1han any other of TIC northwestern States tas
last year was less than per cent Of the total for
the country.