The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-11
MONEY AND BUSINESS.


Condition Of Commercial and Financial
Affairs Throughout the Country as
Shown by II. G. Dun g. Cos Weekly Re-
vfew-TnJury to the Cotton Crop Causes
an Advance i'm Price and Stimulates
Trade in the South-BusinesS Failures,
Etc.
NEW YORK. Sept. 5.-R. G. Dun &
Co. s weekly review of trade says:
Business improves in all sections, at the
south partly because OF an injury to the cot
ton crop and the consequent advanced
price. At the west some injury to corn by
frosts late In the week is reported, the 6x-
tent of which Is not yet known, and If it is
serious the loss may affect trade to some ex-
tent. but at latest accounts businesa was
active and almost everywhere improving.
The wheat crop Is out OF danger and is
enormous, undoubtedly the largest ever
grown, and moving with unusual rapidity.
The corn crop has been saved and is very
large in most OF the surplus producing
states, and even within the range of recent
frosts appears to have been in part beyond
injury. Gotten JAS been damaged seriously
In some states, an AlAbamascorresponden
thinks 80 per cent. and a New York dispatch
says 1925 per cent in Louisiana and Missis-
slppi- The monetary situation is also de-
cidedly clearer and more favorable The
reports from other cities express increased
confidence, and show an actual gain in the
seen at Boston, with large sales of wool,
more demand for dry goods. improve
ment in leather, and larger orders for
boots and shoes At Hartford hardware is
gaining, and groceries little, though col
lections are slow. At Philadelphia improve
ment is seen in iron and coal, steady buying
of wool by manufacturers, especially of
worsteds, and fair trade in tobacco and
chemicals, but collections are generally
dull Manufacturing is active. Clothing
and dry goods respectively are active and
collections are fair at Cincinnati. At Chi
cago wheat receipts are four times last
years, rye nine times. corn and dressed
beef double. and oats show an increase,
while some decrease is noted in flour, about
one half In barley and cured meats, and a
quarter in lard. Sales of dry goods exceed
last years, which were nominally large, and
I'm clothing and shoes the trade is immense.
At ST. Louis the distribution exceeds last
years and orders are free At Kansas City
trade Is fairly healthy. At Minneapolis the
tobbing trade is very good, wheat receipts
being double last years and lumber ad-
vanced one dollar per thousand by the as
sociation and at st. Paul trade steadily in
creases with assurance of unprecedented
crops. At Milwaukee business gains, though
unusally slow collections pinch some OF
the lobbers. At all southern points
higher cotton stimulates trade and
collections are somewhat better and at New
Orleans there is better demand for sugar.
At most southern points money is also cas-
Ter, and at New Orleans in ample supply for
legitimate needs. At the west no complaints
of stringency are noted, though money is
firmer at Chicago. Operations in specula-
tive markets have been more active, and
wheat has declined fls cents, on sales of
$4,000, 900, on account of enormous receipts
at the west. The great Industries are doing
well, though strikes of Importance are
threatened in the cotton mills at Fall River,
and the window glass works at the west.
Distinct Improvement Is seen in the demand
for iron and its products, though prices are
good and also in California, while mineral
metals are firm. Sales of wool at Boston
reached ,317 900 pounds.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days,
number, for the United States, 197, and for
Canada, ~. or a total of 217; as compared
with total of 226 last week, and 216 for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures were
203 representing 167 failures in the United
States and 56 in the Dominion of Canada.