The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-22
The Weeks BUSINESS.
Dun's Report For the Week Makes a Fa'
vorabIe Business Showing.

Dun's Report For the Week Makes Fa-
vorabIe Business Showing.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-R- G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says: Actual i'm
provement in business continues. The up
ward movement in prices which was no.
ticed last week has not been sustained. the
general average for commodities being
about half of per cent. lower than week
ago. The output of pig iron has dimin-
ished. The furnaces in blast February
were producing 147,111 tons weekly,
against 152, ,270 January 1, decline of By
per cent.
The rail business is stagnant again,
only three mills out of fourteen now rum
Ling. The plate and tank iron trade is
dull, and in structural iron the business is
slow. There is cutting in sales Of pig iron
by some Northern as well as Southern
furnaces and purchases are generally
confined to immediate needs. The coal
trade is depressed by over-production and
cutting of rates. The copper market has
been weaker abroad, and conflicting
runners about the refusal of American
mines to contract with the syndicate are
current. Sales Of lead have reached !, 400
tons, with prices declining to $500. The
tin market is demoralized, with sales at
$2L %
Wheat has advanced 1c for the week
Atlantic exports were, in five weeks, end
ed February 3 only 242, 453 bushels.
against 1, 764, 333 last year, and of -four,
5s3, 760 barrels, against 1,032, 532 last year.
This, compared with exports of 10. lis, 333
bushels of corn during the same weeks,
against II. tbs, ,56T last year, shows that the
foreign trade has been affected by the
speculation which holds the prices of
wheat at Chicago far above prices at the
seaboard Corn has advanced but nc with
sales of 1000, 900 bushels, and oats are un-
changed. Oil speculation has lifted the
price 416c, with sales of 1000, 900 bar
rels here. Cotton, with sales Of
$40, COO barrels, and coffee, with
sales of 2OT, 900 bags, have each de-
clined and 5Sc, and pork is SOC lower, with
lard 27hc lower per 100 pounds. The dry
goods operations, as in other branches of
business, are, to some extent, retarded by
the close scrutiny of credits which the
slowness of collection in many quarters
prompts, but the reports from the interior
in that respect are this week of a rather
more favorable character than before.
Clearings through banks last week were
1916 larger than a year ago, outside OF
New York, only seven cities reporting any
decrease, of which San Francisco,
Minneapolis and St Paul were
the most important. The stock
market has been stronger on ac-
count of the covering of shorts, but more
discriminating in its temper than usual
Most of the granger roads are weaker, and
the failure to get the presidents agree
ment signed by all the companies has g
depressing influence. Evidences that an
agreement is actually evaded are accumu-
lating, and the Baltimore receipts of corr
are especially noticed. The exports ot
merchandise have been larger and show 9
large increase.
The money market has been easy, rate!
on call declining from "a to Ia per cent
and the treasury has disbursed during the
week q, 300 900 more than it has taken in
but the decrease in circulation of silver
continues.