Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-06-04
BUSINESS IN GENERAL.
The Reports More EncOuragiug-More
Doing, Confidence Increasing, Money
in Sufficient Supply-Etc.

Doing, Confidence Increasing, Money
In Sufficient Supply-Etc.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Review of
Trade for the week ending May 25:d
"The reports this week are a little
more encouraging. With volume of
business rather larger than year ago,
there are decidedly better crop pros
poets, and of late there is better
feeling in the branches of industry
and trade which have been most de-
pressed. i 4 The aver
age of prices continues to decline,
particularly for products in which
there is most speculation, and during
the past week the fall has been three
quarters of one per cent. in spite OF
some advance in cotton, wool, oil and
butter. Greater activity and better
prices in the stock market reflect
feeling OF increased confidence in the
business outlook.
"Wool is a shade stronger because
prices asked by growers are much
above the markets, but there is little
if any change as yet in the attitude OF
4 manufacturers, who buy for present
necessities, but hold that the goods
market must improve before even the
present prices can be proitably paid
!, for material. The Treasury decision
. on worsteds is still awaited with in-
= terest, and until it comes little change
:. is probable. The average price Of
y lO4 grades Of wool ON the 18th was
n tenth of cent higher than May LIST.
# The auction of about II, 100000
is worth of cottons brought prices q
% per cent. below those Of agents, and
: is expected to form basis for more
y confident trading hereafter; cotton is
'e sixteenth stronger, and exports as
y we'll as receipts now fall far behind
las. years, but the crop reports from
the South are generally favorable, es
u pecially from Texas. The dry good
ae business is on the whole not moro act
IT. i've. but with a more confident feel
to ing, though clothing dealers are il
many cases complaining Of the slo'
collections which result from sma
distribution last winter. Close o
III the heels of the fail.re of one larry
co. wors.ed uill at Phi!ad.lphia come
81. the beginning OF work ON 1mmen'
% mills for the Botany Worsted Go.
avg Passaic.
on, "rhere is better feeling, but
~" ,o yet without improvement Of prices,
n.y. the iron aud steel trade. VIII
70 Southern No. foundry is still free
Nv offered here a, SIG, the higher grad
'''a of No. l Northern are taken me
lei, freely at sls at Philadelphia, and
ecu il hoped that tho decline has been
a'e' rested. Bar iron is in better demar
'o"' plate and tank, though at the low
prices of the year, are wanted to
capacity of works; structural iron
.,o fairly active, and there is good br
~ ness in wrought pipe at the late
f.a. vance. But in rails no change
boa pears, and the run of small orders
-. at about S2G.75 at mill. In anthr
~. tie coal, an advance IN prices j.
1st is announced, and many mi
are resuming work, the total out
to date being about 100000
a.ho, below last years. Lead is weake
please lsSs; decision by the Treasury on imp
of Me xican being awaited. Tin
advanced abroad, and sells here
.tsr. 2Os cts. The agreement to
Lake copper at II cts. is not expe
by consumers to prevent a further
raw raw" cline, and the buying is therefore
nav stricted.
is,nv. "Accounts from interior cities
without important change anywl
and show q full volume of bus'
mt IS for the season, the bank excha
e tin outside New York exceeding
or OLD years by about Z per cent. AT
'ands' waukee trade larger than last
posi- is considered disappointing, bee
ASK it falls short Of expectations, and
:ment' is probably the fact at many
is per points. Collections, however,
rather slow there, and "not
.u good" at Kansas City, and at
:. o,, delphia poor in boots and
~ stin clothing aud groceries, but the