The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-19
puN,s WEEKLY REVIEW.

NEW YORK, April 1S.-R. q. Dun & Co. g
Weekly Review of Trade says:
with better weather there Is visible
Improvement in trade and collections, and
while it is but slight as yet, the outlook
for the future is generally regarded as en-
couraging. Crop prospects continue ex-
cellent, there is less monetary pressure at
points where some stringency has existed,
and in the chief industries some improve
ment in the demand appears While the
volume OF trade continues nearly as large
in aggregate value as it was year ago.
some decrease in quantities of important
products being balanced by an advance in
the level of prices, which was nearly Is per
cont higher than year ago April l. and is
still more than Is per cent higher.
The iron trade shows greater shrinkage
than any other. There is seen somewhat
better demand for finished products.
especially for structural iron and rails.
The anthracite coal trade still drags.
Consumption of copper is slow, and the tin
is hc weak. with lead dull The spinners'
taking of cotton continues slightly greater
than year ago, with exports very much
greater. Wool is dull, and until the new
crop comes forward much activity is not
to be expected. At Boston the demand
for merchandise generally has improved,
and the retail trade has been quite
heavy. In nearly all trades collections
are slow. Some kinds of finished
iron at Pittsburg are weaker, but glass is
unchanged. At Cleveland trade is gen
orally inactive, but good in groceries, and
hardware, and some improvement Is seen
at Cincinnati, especially in groceries, and
also in general trade in Detroit. The sales
OF dry goods at Chicago fall a little below
those Of last year and clothing is quiet but
shoes active, and collections in all those
trades good. Receipts of lard and butter
show slight decrease and of dressed beef
and cheese some increase with considera-
BILE gain in wool. At Omaha, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Denver the trade is fairly
good; prices of lumber and -four improv-
ing. Business is dull at Kansas City and
Memphis. but improving at New Orleans
and Atlanta.
'In speculative markets there has been
general advance in breadstuffs, hogs and
lard, decline in oil and no change in cot
ton and coffee. Larger export demand
and reports of scarcity abroad have lifted
wheat ~ cents to $1.19H with sales of
5000, 600 bushels here, and oats have
risen cents, to 611a cents, and corn 81
cents to S2Z cents on small sales. The
actual scarcity of corn and oats makes an
advance easy, but of wheat, the receipts at
western points continue larger than
a year ago and the exports until
very Lately have been much smaller. 1t Is
noteworthy that in all winter wheat Sec
tions, the prospect is considered excep-
tlonally good and the acreage is reported
as largely increased. Raw sugar has
yielded a shade this week, but ali refined
above granulated is shade higher. With
breadstuffs and vegetables unusually high
er and wool about the same as a year ago,
cotton is much lower, drugs and chemicals
lower, iron and its products and the range
Of manufactured products generally lower.
Notwithstanding the expansion of more
than $50, 600, 900 in the circulation during
the year, the treasury has again paid out
this week more money than it has taken
In. The reports Of merchadise are in
creasing and for two weeks at New York
exceed last years by 1S per cent. Exports
OF cotton, bread stuffs, provisions, cattle
aud petroleum from all the chief ports
were in value $50. 499 637 against S52, 766, ,262
last year, indicating no increase
In the aggregate of exports, while
the heavy imports of sugar
raised the aggregate about Sc, 400, 600 at
New York alone above that of the same
month last year. Probably imports began
to exceed exports in that month and an
outward movement Of specie may be ex-
pected until new crops come.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days numbered 25l as compared
with total of 243 last week. For tho cor
responding week of last year the figures
were 2l4 !"