Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
THE counTRY's COMMERCE.

The General Condition of Business
X. G. Dun Il Co.'S Weekly Review-The
Volume of Trade Slow in Reaching Ex-
pectations Based on the Great Harvest
Speculative Trade Not Heavy.
NEW YORK. Oct. 17.-R. G. Dun q
Co. IS weekly review of trade SAYS:
Business throughout the west and south
is improving. At eastern centers there Is
less satisfaction, and the expected results
from the harvesting of large crops are more
slowly realized. Yet the volume of all trade,
as shown by payments through the clearing
house outside New York. is as large as it
ever has been, and for October, may even
surpass the unprecedented record OF last
year. The output of furnaces in blast Octo-
Der l, was Isl ,615 tons weekly, against 17oSi6
September /, aud 1925 a year ago. The
largest output of iron ever reported was
1916 December l, 1890 Yet this enormous
production is marvelously absorbed, for
stocks of coke iron are not larger than
month ago, and of anthracite and charcoal
are little smaller. The wool manufacture
is short of orders i'll the mems wear depart
ment, though Chicago clothiers are buy I'M
freely, but on the whole clothiers have not
taken nearly their usual supply of goods,
and many of the mills are closing. The de-
mand for dress goods is strong, and many
superior qualities are offered, while knit
goods are dull well as carpets. The
cotton manufacture ia active without
change in prices The demand for copper
is large, but a rumor of resumption by the
Anaconda put down the price of Lake to
l215 cents, and tin Is weak at "a. 10 cents,
with lead at AS. The market for anthracite
coal is better, but circular prices are not re-
allied. The reports from other cities are
almost uniformly encouraging. At Boston
the boot and shoe and leather trades are
quiet and domestic hides are dull. The de-
nand for wool is fair at firm prices. At
Philadelphia more inquiry is seen for manu-
featured IRON Pipe Is active and structural
iron in brisk demand. Trade in boots and
shoes is satisfactory. and the movement OF
wool is small and wooden goods are dull.
At Pittsburgh the demand for manufactured
iron, and especially for structural forms Is
improving, but the coal strike continues.
At Cleveland trade exceeds last years con-
siderabIy. and is brisk at Cincinnati, espe-
cally in dry goods. At CHICAGO the cloth
ing and dry goods trade are active and the
movement OF farm products large, though
receipts of cattle fall below last years. At
Detroit manufacturing is active and fac
tories running full time: at Milwaukee, st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City,
business is very active, especially in lumber
ut Minneapolis, with advance in prices,
while the output of flour is ieS.oo
year. At ST. Louis trade is un-
usually strong, at Louisville, Nashville
and New Orleans improved. At Montgom-
cry. Charleston and Savannah receipts of
cotton are very large, and business growing.
and at Jacksonville the largest orange crop
ever grown promises Improvement in trade
Speculation has not been very heavy,
though corn and oats are sustained in the
face of great crops, and wheat is a shade
higher. Cotton is quarter lower with sales
of 727 900 bales, receipts being so heavy that
short crop theories are discredited. While
southern prices are relatively too high TO r
Liverpool, pork and produce are lower; cof-
fee unchanged and oil half a cent lower.
Foreign trade though smaller than year
ago, when the movement was extraordin-
airy, is nevertheless larger than in previous
years, and the heavy exports of breadstu ifs
promise further reinforcementJ of gold
from Europe
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days,
number, for the United States, 227 and for
Canada, 81, or Il total of 2a9; compared
with n total of 270 last week, and 230 for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures were
227. representing 1856 failures in the United
States and % in the Dominion of Canada