Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30
FINANCE AND TRADE.

The Outlook from the Monetary and
Commercial Standpoints Throughout the
Country as Reported to IL. q. Dun ~
Co., and Consolidated in Their Weekly
Review.
New YORK, April 25.-R. Il. Dun &
Go. IS weekly review of trade says:
But for speculation. this would have been
a comparatively dull week. But sales OF
112,00l,0J0 bushels of wheat in this market
and $4,000 bales of cotton and 2,242 900 shares
of stock have supplied a certain activity,
though not of the most wholesome kind.
In the interior business has been somewhat
improved with more favorable weather, but
many causes combine to prevent great ac-
tvity. Prominent among these is the re-
action from excessive real estate specuia-
ton and building, which have prevailed for
years in some quarters; thus at Philadelphia
depression is explained by the fact that
$4,000 new houses have been added in
eight years. The strikes in building trades
tend to cause dizziness where activity had
been expected, and the threatened strike of
coal miners in several states also retards
operations. But on the whole, the volume
of business is large for the season in amount
of bank exchanges, close up to that for cor
responding weeks last year. and east
bound shipments from Chicago for three
weeks have been 2O0.011 tons, againt 21a,l 08
for the same weeks of 1890. The symptoms
are those of waiting rather than of reaction.
Inc neTcDanulSe movement at boSton has
been fair; in wool slightly larger without
much change in goods. Trade in lumber is
very fair and prices firm. At Philadelphia
the coal and iron trades are more active.
Worsted mills are running full time at good
prices. At Hartford is noted that goods do
not justify the higher prices said to be asked
for the increased clip of wool. At Baltimore
trade is only fair, and at Cleveland better
weather brings some Improvement, with
unusual activity in manufactured IRON Gin
Dntr
finds better trade with better country roads.
At Chicago wool receipts gain a third over
last year and wheat rece pts are larger, hut
decrease appears in flour, corn, meats, lard
and hides. Dry goods sales equal last year
for the same week, and sales of clothing and
shoes show increase. The grip retards trade
ut Milwaukee, but further improvement is
at st. Louis. Trade is fair at Il insas
City and Omaha and better at Denver Cot
ton is quiet and lower at New Orleans ana
sugar active and lower, general trade being
fair. At Savannah trade slackened slightly,
and is rather dull at Jacksonville. The
money markets are generally undisturbed
and comparatively easy with fair to brisk
demand at many points, and little strin-
gency at one or two. Collections appear to
improve, through rather slowly. Prices
have changed scarcely at all in the great in
dustries, but the tone of the iron trade is
better. Unsold stocks appear to be much
reduced, and even at the south are now said
to be unusually small. There is also seen
more life in the demand for structural and
plate iron and the larger rail mills are said
to have orders to occupy them beyond the
end of May.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the past seven days
number for the United States, POS, and for
Canada AZ, or total of PAT; as compared with
total of PSI last week, and 243 the week
previous to the last. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 2ls, rep
resenting 179 failures in the United states
and 80 in the Dominion of Canada.