The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-09

rhe Condition 10 Trade throughout tn
tountry as shown By a. q. Hun 4 Co.'S
Weekly Rrvicw--The Recent Isot Wealth
- Retarded Fnii business Somewhat.
HUT u u Improving. and Trade Il Gem
orally Reported Active.
NEw York. Oct. 3-R. q. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade saws:
The iron markets arc distinctly ~tronge r.
there u less pressure 20 soil and concess nns
are more rare. even though any advance In
prices 4 as yet resisted. The demand for bar
iron II not active and weakness Ia stocks
tends 10 check sales IL rails. Large sales
OF copper az liza. arc reported. but tin has
sold ns low n 70 cents. ana sales OF lead nre
snail aud OF tin plates moderate. Tobacco
Inns risen 20 cents In the Connecticut val.
ley. ana the producers are realizing large
profits. sales ~ dry goods are large In the
aggregate. but In light weights far below
last year,. and many looms are Idle for the
present. ON the other hand there IL "a De
cuIiar demand for heavy weights. and OF
dress goods sales are satisfactory. great Inn
provemcnt IN quality being noticed. Cot
ton goods are little less active. Sales OF
knit goods are retarded by the weather ana
hosiery IL duh Sales Of wool az the differ
ent markets are not per cent. below those
Of last year thus far. Boston reports
closer money market and satisfactory trade.
especially In dry goods. since cooler
posnds. with prices firm. At Philadelphia
money IL IN fair demand and Improvements
- seen la NIL lines Of dry goods and cloth.
ing. though there - complaint In these "a
In other branches Of trade OF slow colicc-
tions. At Baltimore the shoe trade exceeds
last years nc Cleveland trade In dry goods
and clothing has been retarded by the
weather, but other trade has been good: and
at Cincinnati some Increase Is seen In re-.
ccipts Of corn. oats and chceac an eighth,
Increase in cattle. third In wool. and wheat
receipts are five times. ana rye receipts
eight times last years; but decrease appears
OF one-half In lard. a third In cured meats,
and a nth in barley. At ST. Louis trade and
manufactures nre active. and money close.
Al Minneapolis and ~. Paul business Il
good and lumber advancing. and at Kansas
City and Denver improvement ~ seen. At
all points at the south trade Is improving.
except ut savannah. where great strike
suspends the movement OF cotton. In spite
OF several more circulars OF advice TO the
farmers to hold their wheat. the price mas
declined about cent. Receipts at the west
have been over 5.0oD.DD bushels
In four days; corn has advanced two
cents. and oats IL cents. and while cotton n
unchanged In price pork products have
changed but little, and coffee and oil are .
little lower. There u more perpIcxlty than
usual regarding the yield Of cotton. but the
most conservative estimates conclude fliata
large decrease In the product IL probable.
making a market for the heavy stocks
which we're brought over from last year
Imports OF mercha ndlse. though smaller
than year ego when the movement was cx-
cepfonai, are quite large. and exports from
>cw York for the past two weeks are nearly
equal 70 those of last year. Railroad earn
ings exceed last years, as do exchanges AZ
the various clearing houscs outside OF New
York. though but slightly. and there are a.
yet no symptoms Of the artificial monetary
pressure which some have apprehcnded.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven davs.
number. for the United States. POI. and for
~. or a tot u Of 80; as compared
= th a total of ga last week. and 2ss for tho
week previous TO the last. For the CORE
spending week Of last year the figures were
~. representing iGS failures Ia the United
states aud y in the Dominion 81 Canada