The Iola register., 1891-10-30
The STATE OF TRADE.
Weekly Report from r. @. Dun
q Co.'S Agency.
Reports From all Parts OF the Nation. and
Especially the wes,, Very Cheering
Prices Teading Downward
-Business Failures.
r. G. DUN & Col Weekly Review Of

r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review OF
Trade says:
General business is remarkably active
and Increasing in volume at the west,
improving at the south, and distinctly
less dull than it was week ago at east
ern cities. Collections are improving
in nearly all directions, as the liberal
movement of crops enables the farmers
TO settle their accounts and to make pur-
chases for the coming season. The
money markets are at nearly all import
ant points quite easy, though With a no
ticeable improvement In the demand.
These signs plainly promise strong
trade for the fall and winter unless dis
turbances, which cannot now be fore
seen. should interrupt.
The reports from other cities are on
the whole more favorable. At Boston
the improvement in trade is slow. AT
Philadelphia groceries are active, with
decline in sugar. At Cincinnati re-
tail trade is brisk and clothing active.
At Cleveland. business Is good and the
tone confident, though iron is inactive.
At Detroit trade and manufactures are
fully up to last years mark.
At Chicago increase appears OF q
third in receipt of hidos. dressed beef,
flour and corn, though new corn moves
slowly. Receipts OF rye are three times
last years, but some decrease appears
in oats, barley, cured meats. lard, but
ter, cheese and wool. The dry goods
trade is much larger than year ago,
the receipts OF cattle larger by 5000
head for the week, the shoe and cloth
ing trade large. and business gradually
increasing in all lines.
At Minneapolis the lumber trade is
very good. prices rising and shipments
for the week 1000, 900 feet more than
last year. The -four mills again beat
the record with 1876, 900 barrels. AMI
general trade is good there and at ST.
Paul.
At Omaha and Kansas City business
Is satisfactory, grain and cattle receipts
being above the average, and trade in
agricultural implements active. At st.
Louis trade shows encouraging strength,
grain coming in faster, and at Memphis
business Is very fair. A better feeling
exists az New Orleans.
Wheat has fallen 4} cents, with re-
ceipts at the west OF 500.00 bushels in
four days, and exports OF /, 250, 900 bush
els. Corn Is scarce and st cents higher
for spot, and oats II cents higher. Cot
ton receipts even surpass those of the
same week last year by So, 900 bales, and
the price falls a sixteenth, with sales Of
914, 900 bales here. Coffee il an eighth
lower. oil cent lower, lard an eighth
lower, while hogs have fallen 80 cents
per hundred pounds, with no change in
pork. Sugar, both raw and granulated,
is somewhat lower, with quite active
market. In general the speculative
movement appears to tend toward lower
prices for products. the supplies being
unusually large.
The iron Industry looks stronger.
Bar, plate and structural mills are fairly
employed, but prices are low.
The boot and shoe manufacture shows
a sign OF more active demand, and the
shipments are close to last years. The
wool manufacture shows more demand
for dress goods, and stocks of these are
relatively low, while for mems spring
goods the orders Of clothiers are far be-
hind.
The merchandise exports for the past
two weeks have succeeded those of the
corresponding weeks last year, while
imports fell far below those of q year
ago, so that the balance of trade In pro-
ducts strongly favors continued imports
Of gold.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days number 249. as compared
with totals Of 259 last week. For the
corresponding week Of last year the fig
ures were 225.