The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-31
THE WHEELS OF TRADE.

The General business Outlook Through
out the Country as Shown by r. G.
Dun q Cos Weekly Review-The Com
dition OF Trade Improving and Money
Generally Firm-Crop Reports Encour-
aging from Nearly All Sections-Business
Failures, Etc.
NEW YORK. July 2e.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Reports of the condition Of trade are gen.
orally more favorable than week ago. At
Boston there Is a further Improvements,
more doing IA boots In shoes. Wool is quite
active, with sales over 3,o00,o01 pounds, and
dry goods in better demand at Hartford.
Philadelphia notes improved demand for
wool, some contracts for large blocks and
better prices for fine clothing wool. Iron is
weak hardware unusually dull, but leather
and hides slightly improved. The jewelry
trade is fair for the summer, and paints and
glass comparatively Inactive. At Buffalo
trade improves in some lines, but at Pitts
burgh and Cleveland is quiet. At Cincin-
natl the shoe trade is busy and the demand
for leather goods and at Detroit lumber is
firm and charcoal iron selling more freely.
At the west crop prospects stimulate every
thing. Chicago reports wheat receipts five
times last years, an increase of 30 to so per
cent in dressed beef, hides and butter, but
some decrease In cured meats and lard.
Dry goods sales are trifle smaller at pres
ent, and trade in clothing and shoes season
ably dull. At Milwaukee trade is fairly ac-
tive; at st. Paul Improving and at Mfnne-
apOlis active for lumber and better for flour.
Wheat does not yet move largely at st.
Illinois towns to some extent.
Trade improves at Kansas City, money
being in demand for packers and grain
dealers. at the south little change is noted,
and money is generally tight and trade In
active. But crop prospects decidedly i'm
In, AloI. lo "A
at New Orleans, and trade holds it's own at
Savannah. Suspension of a bank at Palatka
causes some depression in trade there, but
heavy purchases of tobacco at Key West
show unusual activity in cigar making.
Business in Florida is more promising than
last year. Speculation In bread stuffs has
suddenly become active. Sales of 48, ,00o, 900
bushels of wheat here have resulted in an
advance of one half cent per bushel, though
the moderate Official estimate of this years
crop would leave nearly 100000 900 bushels
in the country for export a quantity greater
than has ever yet been taken abroad. Corn
has declined cents and oats la cents
small trade, having been unusually high.
Pork products rise again and speculation
in them Is foreshadowed Coffee remains
unchanged, and oil is one eighth higher,
while; cotton has fallen three eighths to
cents for SPOT with sales of COS, 900 bales, an
enormous trade for this season. Tin is
lower at London, copper in smaller demand
with lake at 1924 cents, and lead unchanged.
The reported Improvement in coal is myth l.
cal, for free selling continues by parties not
named at the May prices. The great indus.
tries show Improvement IN wool and leather
manufacture, but no signs of recovery
In Iron coal. The depression in
iron is serious, though prices are, on
the whole, but little changed. Never
theless some shading is seen, and the New
York reports of cutting in southern iron are
numerous Rails are stagnant, shipments
to July being but Asa, 423 tons; little is do
Ing In bar iron and plates are very quiet,
and the market for structural iron is disap-
pointing. Contracts are expected for six
sea- going steamers, and some bridge con-
tracts are made at very low prices. In the
wool trade the larger sales at eastern cities
and continued large receipts at the west re-
fleet the Improvement which a better de-
mand for dry goods naturally causes. Con-
siderable Improvement is seen in sales OF
fam and winter woolens, and some activity,
for the season, In spring goods Leather is
awakening and manufacturers are laying in
stocks more liberally. The boot and shoe
prospects at the south and west are excel
lent, and Boston shipments again exceed
last years. But the money markets at the
west show increasing demand, and at some
points approaching stringency, and collec-
tions are not, on the whole, good for tho
season.
The business failures during the past seven
days, number, for the United States, 23I;
for Canada, %; tot II, 25I; as compared with
total OF 274 last week, and 2i7 for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures were
l99, representing 172 failures in the United
States and n in the Dominion of Canada.