The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-10-17
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Business Throughout the West
and South Improving.
RBPoRTsUNIFoRMLY ENCOURAGING
At Eastern Centers There Is Less
Satisfaction, the Expected Result
from the Harvesting OF Large
Crops Being Slowly Realized.
Business Embarrassments.

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Business Embarrassments.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-R. G.. Dunn
& Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
Business throughout the west and south
is strong and improving. AT eastern
centers there is less satisfaction, and the
expected result from the harvesting of
large crops are more slowly realized.
Yet the volume of all trade as shown by
payments through clearing houses out
side of New York is as large as it ever
has been, and for October may even
surpass the unprecedented record of last
year.
The output of furnaces in blast Oct.
was 1S1 ,615 tons weekly, against no.
S46 in September last, and 1928 a
year ago. The largest output of IRON
ever reported was 163,S46 Dec. /, 1890.
Yet this production is marvellously alb
sorbed, for stocks of coke iron are not
larger than month ago, and of anthra-
cite and charcoal iron little smaller.
The Wool Manufacture.
The wool manufacture ID short of or
ders in the mems wear department,
though Chicago clothiers buying
more freely. But on the whole clothiers
have not taken nearly their usual sup
ply of goods, and many of the mills are
closing. The demand for dress goods is
strong, and many new and superior
qualities are offered, while knit goods
are dull as well as carpets.
The cotton manufacture is active
without change in prices.
The market for anthracite coal is bet
ter, but circular prices are not realized.
The reports from other cities are al
most uniformly encouraging. At Bos-
ton the boot and shoe and leather trades
are quiet and domestic hides are dull.
The demand for wool is fair at firm
prices. At Philadelphia more inquiry
is seen for manufactured iron; pipe is
active and structural iron is i'll brisk de-
mand, trade in boot and shoes is salts
factory, and the movement of wool is
small and woolen goods are dull. At
Pittsburg the demand for manufactured
iron, and especially for structural forms
is improving, but the coal strike con-
tinues. At Cleveland trade exceeds last
years considerably, and is brisk at Gin
cinnati, especially in dry goods. AT
Chicago the clothing and dry goods
trades are active, and the movement of
farm products large, though receipts of
cattle fall far below last years. ..
Trade in the South.
At Louisville, Mas ayille and New Or
leans trade is improSng; at Montgom-
cry, Charleston and Savannah receipts
of cotton are very large and busi-
ness growing; at Jacksonville the
largest crop ever grown promises i'm
provement in trade. Speculation has
not been very heavy, though corn and
oats are sustained in the face of bad
crops, and wheat is a shade higher
Cotton is a quarter lower, with sales of
727, 900 bales here. receipts being SO
heavy, that short crop theories are dis
credited, while southern prices are rela-
lively too high for Liverpool. Pork
products are lower, coffee unchanged
and oil half a cent lower. Foreign
trade, though smaller than year ago,
when the movement was extraordinary,
is nevertheless larger than in previous
| years, and the hay exports of bread
stuffs promise further relnforcements of
gold from Europe.
business Failures.
The business failures occurring
| throughout tine country during the last
seven days. number for tine United
/ States 227 and for Canada 3D. or a total
+ Vt 259, as compared with total of 270 for
last week, and $50 the week previous to
the last. For the corresponding week
of last year the figures were 227, repre-
senting 1856 failures in the United States
and 80 in the Dominion of Canada.