The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-28
A TIDE OF PROSPERITY
SWEEPING OVER THE COUNTRY.
Bu'tloand Activity Noticed In all tho aia,ts
Tho Increase In the Iron business
Keeps Up Trade on the Pacific Coast
-lIowit Changed-ThO Fruit Crop,

NEw YORK, Sept, 27-Iha World this
morning publishes a long trade review in
which 1t ahows the great prosperity In the
various trades, The hustle and activity
in the dry goods district is apparent to all
who visit that part Of the city. Big job
hing and commission houses are lighted
up at night and the sidewalka are lum-
bered with bales and boxes ready for
shlpment to steamship. whaTis and rail
road shipping offices,
In Philadelphia the revival OF businsss
seems 10 bs general and solid. Merchants
Of all classes, commission men, jobbers
aud retailers are beginning to look for.
ward to an undoubtedly heavy trade, Tho
great dry fall goods houses, the wholesale
groCers and tho dealers In staple msrChau-
disc are working night aud day. The
great manufacturing dIstricta oi Kensing-
tln RlChmonl,snd Southwark cannot tuj n
out gOods last enough to I'LL their ordera.
The general opinion OF business men here
is that this IL not merely boom, but the
revival alter season OF unnatural de-
preston,
THE IRON TRApR,
In the iron'trRds, business has inCrsas-
ed 30 per cent, since this time last year,
and the demand for coal Ia senormous. Car
itlilts and manufacturers are still very
cautious about making large contracts,
on account OF the uncertainty still exist
ing as to the stability OF engagements
with operatives, and the exIstance Of
strikes IN Rome quarters, but on the whole
the relations bssween emp.oyers and EN-.
ployes are harmonious.
The Boalon, Mass, dispatch shows the
ssme bright outlook. The Atlanta, Ga,
dispatch says that there ia q marked re-
vlyNl Of business In that city is now placed
beyond the question Of doubt. The asser-
tions growlngout Of the prohibition dispute
that business had been injured has made
depression for this point very promi-
nent. There are eight railroads Centering
In Atlanta, and the outward freight upon
them is regarded as the best indication of
the trade OF tho city. All business is heavy
again.
In business interviews with merchants
and manufacturers Of all classes 1t was
NsGertaiued that the fall business shows
an increase OF from 20 to 40 percent over
the same date last year. There is a mark.
cd falling off In the credit business Coun.
ter traders purchasing with cash, which
shows that Atlanta's commercial territory
is standing we'll, In dry goods, hardware
and agricultural implements great activity
exists, The drug trade seems to be the
only one which langulshes,
TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
The San Francisco despatch says: Bus
incas IN this city Is very dull and there Ia
little appearance of a revival. During the
past month the heaviest iaiurcs ever
known have taken place. BY the suspen-
sion OF kearne Brotherp, Hobart, Wood
4 Co., Hoffman 4 Co., and Baumsond &
Co., more than S2,50O,00O has been lost.
The Pacific coasts failures for August
were sOventy.one against sixty for July,
and this does not include the four heavy
ones mentioned.
The exports from San Francisco by sea
during July we're $4,000, 900, and for Au-
gust $500, 900; whest and flour exports
by sea for July Sl,6lO,Oo0, August $l,1l3,.
OOO. The fact Is that the completion OF
the Northern and Canadian Pacific has
cut largely into the trade OF this city.
The merchants OF the southern counties
Of California now buy almost wholly in
the Last instead OF here, and merchants
OF Oregon and British Columbia do tho
same.
TIE FRUIT CROP.