Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-30
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

The General Monetary and Commercial
Outlook Throughout the Country Ac-
cording to X. q. Dun & Co.'S Weekly
Review-The Volume of business Large
at Most Points and collection, Salts
factory-The Weeks Failures. Etc.
New YORK, Oct. 24.-R G. Dun q
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
Business continues large In volume ana
generally profitable. In many branches
there is noteworthy expansion on account
OF the new opportunities which tue rcViseu
tariff gives Prices of stocks have been IN
dustriously assaulted during the past week,
but have declined comparatively little
Though the Trunk Line Association mas
made no percepiibie progress toward SUI
uement, The rates charged see IN to be rather
more satisfactorily maintained. Mean
"nite the volume of other business - lar
greater than ever before, and the outloo< -
considered satisfactory at all coniuerciat
centers. Boston finds the boot ana shoe
trade encouraging and prices In that iihe
are firm. Sales of wool are rather large.
amounting to 4, 26i. 800 pounds, but there -
distinct Improvement in the market Tor
WOO Ell goods and manufacturers are more
hopeluL Cotton goods are firm in price,
while the raw material declines. At Phiia-
ueiphla the trade is good. The trade In
chemicals is fair in volume and the paint
business is good, while money has become
easy at Gle to per cent At Chicago there
Is a marked decrease in receipts of cured
meats. dressed beef, lard, butter and hides,
but in cheese and wool an increase. and the
volume of business continues larger than Il
year ago, with satisfactory collections In
dry goods and clothing. At ST. Louis the
state of business is healthy. The volume OF
business at Cleveland is much above last
years, especially in dry goods and cloth
ing, though the unfavorable weather re-
tards trade to some extent, and at Pitts
HouriShing, though lower prices are quoted
Tor beSsemer steel and blooms. At MiIwau-
kee trade is satisfactory and money usually
active at = to per cent At st
raul trade is excellent, and at Min neapoli5
receipts OF wheat reached $4,000, bushels.
AT Kansas City trade is healthy, and at Den
yer good There is rather more indication
OF monetary pressure at Southern centers,
anu at Savannah receipts of SO, 44 bales cot
ton and large receipts of rosn and turpen-
tine make money tight, but business is dull
at Jacksonville, and only fairly active in
the Louisiana region. The money markets
are on the whole less disturbed than they
were Il week ago. but there is an increasing
scarcity of funds at some of the Western
anu southern centers. The demand for
boots and shoes contin ues encouraging, and
advances in prices of hides ami leather Is
maintained. The iron business is hesita-
ting and Bessemer iron is weak at Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia, bat the demand for all
finished products continues so large that the
capacity of the mills seems to be strained
to the utmost, and while no advance in
price is reported, the market is every where
trong. The markets for breadstuff5 con-
tnue to advance. Wheat has risen l3s
cents during the week, corn nearly l cent
and oats nearly cents. The foreign de-
mand affords no support to this specua-
ton, and the exports are far below those of
the corresponding week last year. The
market for cotton has yielded a sixteenth,
ana while exports are very heavy, the re-
ports indicate the largest crop ever grown
Hogs are steady and pork IL shade higher
The business failures during the last seven
days number: For the United States, 2 3;
for Canada. p: total, u.s. as compared with
total of 227 last week. For the CORE pond.
ing week of last yeav the figures were 225,
representing IsS failures in the United States
and 81 in Canada