Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-01
Western Cities Prosper Without Regard tc
Business in the East

ouslheSS III the LNst
New YoRK, October 28.-R- G. Dun i Co. 3
weekly review of trade says:
Business continues large in volume and
generally profitable. In many branches
there is noteworthy expansion on account of
the new opportunities which the revised tariff
gives.
Boston finds the boot and shoe trade en-
couraging, and prices in that line are firm.
Sales of wool are rather large, but there is a
distinct improvement in the market for
wooden goods, and manufacturers are more
hopeful. Cotton goods are firm in price,
while the raw material declines. At Phila-
delphia money has become easy, and collec-
tons, are on the whole, satisfactory. At
Chicago there is marked decrease in receipts
of CT ed meats, dressed beef, lard, butter
and DIES, but in cheese and wool an increase
is noted, and the volume of business con-
tinues larger than year ago, with satisfac-
tory collections in dry goods and clothing
At st. Louis the state of business is healthy,
and while money is rather scarce there is no
trouble about collections. The volume of
business at Cleveland is much above last
years, especially in dry goods and clothing,
though the unfavorablO weather retards trade
to some extent, and at PittSburg the manu-
featuring interests are fourishing, though
lower prices are quoted for Bessemer steel
and blooms
at is a remarkable feature of returns this
year that the western cities appear to pros
per without the slightest regard to the con-
aition of business on the seaboard. At Mil
waukee trade is satisfactory, and money I'M
usual active at to per cent; at st. Paul
trade is excellent, and at Minneapolis re-
ceIpts of wheat reach 1900, 900 bushels. At
Kansas City trade is healthy, and at Denver
good. There is rather more indication of
monetary pressure at Southern centers, and
business is only fairly active in the Louisiana
region. The money markets are on the
whole, less disturbed than they we're q week
ago, but there is an increasing scarcity of
funds at some of the western and southern
cities.
''The most important industries are doing
we'll. The iron business is hesitating, be-
Gauss an unprecedented consumption is ap-
paTently cvermatched by unprecedented pro-
auctlon, and Bessemer iron is weak at Pitts
burg and Philadelphia. But the demand for
AL finished products continues so large that
the capacity of the mills has to be strained to
the utmost, and, while no advance in prices
Is reported, the market is everywhere strong.
The n arkets for breadstuffs continue to ad-
vance. Wheat has risen 1Rc during the
week, corn nearly lie and oats nearly &c.
The foreign demand affords no support to
this speculation, and the exports are far be-
low those of the corresponding week last
year. Hogs are steady and pork q shade
lower, but 1t may be fairly said that the spec
ulatlVe markets, though rather less excited
than sual, are at this time singularly unre-
liable as measure of values.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days
number 70, as compared with OF last
week. For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were OBS"