Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-17
TRADE AND FINANCE.
The General Business Conditions Through
out the Country as Indicated by r.. G.
Dun & Co.'S Weekly Reyiew-Business
Failures. Etc.

The General Business Conditions Through
out the Country Indicated by II. G..
Dun & Co.'S Weekly Reyiew-Business
Failures. Etc.
New YORK. Sept 12.-R. G. Dun &
Co. S weekly review of trade says:
All returns of the condition of business
are encouraging. From nearly every city
reporting there comes the same cheering
Information that business is better and
prospects brighter. The government crop
report is one of the most favorable ever is
sued. At Boston business is increasing,
with orders for boots and shoes, larger sales
of leather. dry goods fairly active and
better trade in lumber, while sales of wool
are fairly lar ge and prices firm. At Phlla-
delphia the tone of the iron mark etihas much
improved, hard ware is more active, bette
business is noted in liquors and tobacco,
and in groceries the fall trade opens well,
while chemicals are steady and wOOl in
moderate deman and firm. Business is
encouraging at Buffalo, decidedly improv-
ing at Cincinnati and Cleveland. Receipts
of wheat at Chicago are five times
those of last year. of double.
of rye seven times, and of oats
and dressed beef about third
larger. with some increase of wool, while
decrease of third appears i'll barley and
cured meats. Dry goods sales in August
were the largest ever known, the clothing
trade is very large, with fair collections, and
the shoe trade excellent Money is plentiful
for legitimate trade. At Milwaukee business
is satisfactory. At Minneapolis sales of lum-
Der are large with prices stiff, and receipts
of wheat 100000 bushels against S0O,Ooo last
year. AT st. Paul Improvement is seen and
prospects bright. At ST. Louis ship
ments of money to the cotton States are in
creasing, but the market is comparatively
steady. At Denver trade improves, also at
Kansas City. Even at the south the i'm
provement is general, especially at Louis
Vile, Memphis, Savannah and Atlanta, and
at New Orleans trade is more active, rice
being especially strong, and money in
good demand. The weekly output of
iron September was 170,S4s tons, against
1885 last month, and at the same date last
year III, no tons. Production has been main
tanned for three months within about 10000
tons weekly of the largest quantity ever
reached. \ larger demand is seen for fin
ished products, especially for bar iron and
the plate mills are full of orders, but in rails
change is observed Wool is selling
fairly well at all important markets and
there is better trade for dry goods.
which gives much encouragement to manu-
facturers. The boot and shoe trade is pro-
crossing quite well as it was Il year ago,
with fair prices and encouraging demand.
The financial outlook is clearer.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days,
number for the United States, 1877, and for
Canada. q, a tOttl of PA; compared
with total of PIT last week, and PA for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures were
1913. representing I67 failures in the United
States and 26 in the Dominion of Canada.