Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07

The General Commercial and Monetar,
Outlook Throughout the Country
Shown by Il. G. Dun s. Co.'S Weekly Re
yiew-Busness Failures, Etc.
New YORK. May 3.-R. &. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
The reports of trade on the whole are moro
favorable than a week ago. Boston finds
general business better. though the sales Of
wool are comparatively small. Nilder
weather has he ped retail trade, and whi @
the leather ira Sc is quiet, boot and shoe job
bers receive more encour tging reports. and
hope for an active fall demand A Pitts
burgh the glass business is active, and Bes-
semer iron is 5 cents higher. The Cleveland
market is inactive. but money is in good
demand. and at Detroit the manufacturing
interests are sustained by Il strong demand
At Cincinnati the dry goods season has been
brisk and collections are about AS usual. At
Chicago -four receipts are sma Ter than
year ago, and graz receipts about the
same, but increase appears i'll cured
meats, lard, butter, dressed beef, and about
33 per cent. i'll wool. The trade at other
western and southern points seems to be es
pecially encouraging this week. Better
weather helps at almost all western points,
and au Milwaukee trade was never better, at
Omaha and ST. Paut very fair at hInneapo-
lis -four is dull but lumber trade is active,
and at Omaha fair weather helps business.
Trade IS quiet at Kansas City. improving a
Louisville, Nashville and Atlanta, with de-
cided strength at St Louis, though for the
week barely fair at New Orleans. The great
Industries are in better shape. The price of
p z iron is fairly we'll sustained, and the
demand for finished products of iron and
steel is more encouraging. The wooden man
ufacturers still hesitate, apparently because
the producers are incline to ask higher
prices for the new clip of wool than manu-
facturers can pay, but there is Il belle thai
the consuming demand for goods must be "a
n g.
year. and the clothiers, though very cautious
hitherto, begin to act upon that belief. The
shoe trade is still retarded by the uncrr
tainty to prices for the future, hut is
nevertheless fairly active. There has been
some financial irritation during the week.
owing 10 the statements made by Mr.. Lecch,
director OF the mint, as it by authority OF
the treasury department and the later state
ment by Secretary Foster has not entirely
removed the feeling of apprehension.
The treasury has but little money
money market and has paid out but little
during the past week. The gold continues
to go abroad in rather large amounts, and
while the collapse in speculation in wheat
tends to help exports, it is possibly too late
to have much effect at present. Mcrchan.
disc exports from New York continue much
larger and larger than year ago but i'm
ports are also remarkably large, and there
is a prospect of heavy exports of gold for
some months to come
The business failures occurring through
ont the country during the past seven days
number. for the United States, 22S, and for
Canada %, or a total OF 255; as compared with
Il total of az last week, and PSI the week
prev ious to the last. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 211, rep
resentng 1S5 failures in the United States
and DC in the Dominion of Canada