St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
The Outlook for the Future Is Re.
ported Encouraging.


New YORK, April 17.-R. G. Dun tG
Co.'s weekly review of trade says: With
better weather there is visible improve
ment in trade and collections, and while
it is but slight as yet. the outlook for
the future is generally regarded as ell
couraging. Crop prospects continue eX-
cellent. there is less monetary pressure
at points where some Stringency has eX-
listed. and in the chief industries some
improvement in the demand appears.
Meanwhile, the volume of trade con-
tinues nearly as large in aggregate value
as it was a year ago, some decrease
in quantities of important products
being balanced by an advance in the
level of prices, which was nearly Is per
cent higher than year ago April l, and
is still more than Is per cent higher.
The iron trade shows greater shrinkage
than auy other. There is seen a some
what better demand for finished prod
ucts, especially for structural iron and
rails. The anthracite coal trade still
drags. Consumption of copper is slow,
and tin is quarter weak, with lead
dull. The spinners' takings of cotton
continue slightly greater than year
Wool is dull, and until the new clip
comes forward much activity is not to
be expected. At Boston the de-
mand for merchandise generally
has improved and retail trade
has been quite heavy. In nearly all
| trades collections are slow. Some kinds
| of finished iron at Pittsburg are weak
er, but glass unchanged. At Cleveland
trade is generally inactive, but good in
groceries and hardware, and some i'm
provement is seen at Cincinnati, es-
pecially i'll groceries, and also in gen.
eral trade at Detroit. The sales of dry
goods at Chicago fall a tri1e below
those of last year, and clothing is quiet,
but shoes active and collections in all
| those trades good. Receipts of lard
and butter show a slight decrease, and
of dressed beef and cheese some in
| crease, with considerable gain in wool.
At Omaha. st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Denver trade is fairly good,
prices of lumber and flour i'm
proving. Business is dull at
Kansas City and Memphis, but
improved at New Orleans and Atlanta.
In speculative markets there has been
general advance in breadstuffS, hogs
and lard, decline in oil, and no change
in cotton and coffee. Larger export de-
| mand and reports of scarcity abroad
have lifted wheat 214 cents to S1.1914,
with sales of 46,O00,0 900 bushels here,
and oats have risen cents to 6215 cents,
| and corn 81 cents to S2$4 cents on small
sales. The actual scar city of coru and
oats makes all advance easy, but of
wheat the receipts at Western points
continue larger than year ago, and
the exports. until very lately, have been
much smaller. 1t is noteworthy that in
all winter wheat sectors the prospect
/ is considered exceptionally good, and
the acreage is reported as largely in
creased. Raw sugar has yielded shade
this week, but all refined above granu-
lated is a shade higher With bread
| stutfS and vegetables unusually high
and wool about the same as year ago,
cotton is much lower, drugs and chem-
Gals lower. iron and its products and the
range of manufactured products gener-
ally rather lower Notwithstanding the
expansion of more than 100000, 900 in
the circulation during the year. The
treasury has again paid out this week
more money than it has taken in. The
exports of merchandise are increasing,
and for two weeks at New York exceed
last years by Is per cent. In March the
exports of cotton, breadstuffS, proviS-
ions, cattle and petroleum, all the chief
| chief ports, were in value So, ,499, ,637,
against S52,766. 1862 last year, indicating
no increase in the aggregate
OF exports, while the heavy imports of
sugar raised the aggregate about Sc, ,4OO,-
GOO at New Yo0k alone above that of
the same month last year. Probably
imports began to exceed exports that
| month, AMI an outward movement of
specie may be expected until new crops
come. The business failures occurring
throughout the country during lhe last
seven days number 251, as compared
with total of 243 last week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were PA.