Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-31
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Weekly Report from r. g. Dun
g. Co.'s Agency.
Reports From all Parts OF the Nation, and
Especially the Yves 4. Very Cheering
Prices Tending Downward
business Failures.

II. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review Of
Trade SAYS:
General business is remarkably active
and increasing In volume ut the west,
improving ut the south, and distinctly
less dull than 1t was a week ago at east
crn cities. Collections are improving
in nearly all directions, US the liberal
movement OF crops enables the farmers
10 settle their accounts and TO make pur-
chases for the coming season. The
money markets are at nearly all import
aat points quite easy, though with 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 nc tive, with
q 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
third in receipt Of hides. dressed beef,
-four 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 $1,000
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 heat
the record with $4,000 barrels. and
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 At cents, with re-
ceipts at the west OF 500, 900 bushels in
four days, and exports OF l, $50, 900 BUSH
els Corn is scarce and 81 cents higher
for spot, and oats II cents higher. Cot
ton receipts even surpass those OF the
same week last year by SO, 600 bales, and
the price falls sixteenth with sales OF
9l4, 900 bales here. Coffee 10 an eighth
lower oil cent lower, lard an eighth
lower, while hogs have fallen 30 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 AMI shoe manufacture shows
q 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 fall far below those Of 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 $50 last week. For the
corresponding week OF last year the fig