The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-23
rHE coUNTRYs COMMERCE.

The Beherai Conditioh OF Business
throughout the Countrg as Reflected by
R-tG- DUN 3 Co.'S Weekly Review-TEe
Volume of Trade slow ~ Rsaeiiing Ex-
pectations Based on tie Great Harvest
speculative Trade Not Heavy.
New YORK. Oct. FIR q, Din &
Co. 's-weekiv rev1cTv of trade-says:
business throughout the west aud soutl,
Is improving. At eastern eenters there Is
lie - satisfaction, and the Expected results
from the harvesting of large crops arc more
slowly realized. Yet the voinme of all trade,
as shown by payments throngh the clearing z
house outside New York. Is as large as it
ever has been, and for OetobeF INDY eyeh
surpass the unprec edciltetiA record of last
year. The output OF furnaces In blast Octo-
ber I, was ISL, ,6I5 tons weekly, against 1855
September !, and 1929 = year ago. The
largestsoutput- of iron ever reported was
1873 $40 December1, 1890. Yet this enormous
production is marvelously absorbed. for
stocks OF coke iron are ,hkk larger than a
month ago, and of anthfacfke aid charcoal
are a little smaller The wool manufacture
Is short pf orders in the mems wear depart
inent, though Chicago c!othiers are buying
freely, but on The whols cl6tliiers have not
taken nearly tie!r usual supply of goods,
and nlany of the mills are closing. The de-
inand for dress goods is strong, and many
superior qualities are offered, while knit
cotton manufacture 10 active without
change inaprices. The demand for. copper
is large, but a rumor of resumption by the
Anaconda put down the price of Lake to
l2.ls cents, and tin Is weak at 20i0 cents,
with lead at a. As. The market for anthracite
coal is better, but circular prices are not re-
aiiZed 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-
lnand for wool is fair at firm prices. Ae
Philadelphia more inquiry is seen for manu-
factured iron. Pipe Is active and structural
iron ln'brlsk demand. Trade in boots and
shoes ls satisfactory and the movement of
wool is small and woolen 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-
siderably, and is brisk at Cincinnati, espe-
cialy in dry goods. At CHICAGO the cloth
ing and dry goods trad1 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 an Kansas City,
business is'very active, especially In lumber
at Minneapolis, with advance in prices,
while the output of flour Is 1850 o
barrels per week against $4,000 last
year. at St. Louis trade is un-
and New Orleans improE cd. at Montgom-
cry, Charleston and Savannah receipts of
cotton arc 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 arc sustained in til ;
face of great crops, and wheat Is a shade
higher Cotton is quarter lower with sales
OF 7z7 900 bales, receipts being 50 heavy that
short crop theories are discredited. While
southern prices are relatively too high 70 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 extraord II :
airy, is nevertheless larger than in prev ious
years, and the heavy exports of breadstuffs
promise further reinforcements of gold
from Europe.
/. The business failures occurring through.
out the country during the last seven days,
number, for the United States, 217, and for
Canada, 80. or a tot of 20; as compared
with total of 270 last week, and 230 for the
week previous to the last. For the corrc
spending week of last year the figures were
227, representing 1856 failures in the United
States and 20 in the Dominion of Canada.