The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-31
TRADE AND COMMERCE.

R. @. Dun & Cos Weekly Review, Show.
Ing the Condition of Trade Throughout
the Country-A Steady Improvement
Noted at Most Points In the Volume of
Trade-Money In Demand and Getting
Easier-Buslness Failures, Etc.
NEW YORK, Oct 24.-R. G. Dun &
CO. weekly review of trade says:
General business Is remarkably active and
increas ng In volume at the west, improving
at the south, and distinctly less dull than it
was week ago at eastern cities. ColIec-
tions are improving in nearly all directions.
The money markets are nowhere strin gent,
at nearly all important points being quito
easy. though with a noticeable improve
ment in the demands. These signs plainly
promise a strong trade for the fall and win
ter unless disturbances which can not now
be foreseen should interrupt. The reports
from other cities are on the whole more IA
vorable. At Boston the Improvement in
trade Is slow. Wool Is steady, with sales of
2,7Is,00o pounds at unchanged prices, and
lumber is in moderate demand At Phila-
ielphia the boot and shoe trade Is satisfac-
tory. groceries are active. with a decline in
sugars, Canned goods are also quite active.
The paper trade Is good. In paints, glass
and lumber business Is quiet Dry goods
iobbers are doing a fair business. At Gin
cinna retail trade Is brisk. and clothing is
active. At Cleveland business is good, and
tho tone confident. At Detroit trade and
manufactures are fully up to last years
mark. At Chicago an increase appears of a
third In receipts of hides. dressed beef and
-four and corn; and receipts Of rye are
three times last years, but some decrease
appears in oats. barley. cured meats, lard,
cheese, butter and wool The dry goods
trade is much larger than yeIr ago. the re-
ceipts of cattle larger. the shoe and clothing
trade large, and business gradually increas-
ing in all lines. At Minneapolis the lumber
trade is very good, prices rising; the flour
mills again beat the record, and general
trade is good there and at st. Paul. At
Omaha and Kansas City business is salts
factory. At st. Louis trade shows encour-
aging strength, and at Memph business Is
very fair. At New Orleans better feeling
is seen. with money in active demand. At
Savannah trade holds well. and at Jackson
Vile trade is steady with bright prospects.
Wheat has fallen AZ cents. with receipts at
the west Of 5,5OO,col bushels In four days,
and exports of 10000 bushels Corn Is
scarce and 3l2 cents higher for spot, and
oats IA cents higher. Cotton receipts sur
pass those Of the same week last year by
81. 90 bales, and the price falls n sixteenth
with sales of $4,000 bales here Coffee Is an
eighth lower, oil one cent lower, lard an
eighth lower. and hogs have fallen 30 cents
per 100 pounds, with no change in pork.
Sugar, both raw and granulated. is some
what lower with n quite active market. In
general the speculative movement appears
to tend toward lower prices for products,
the supplies being unusually large.
The iron industry looks stronger.
with recorded sales of 5000 tons
of steel rails. Bar, plate and structural
mills are fairly employed, but supplies are
low. Boot and shoe manufacturers shows
signs of more active demand The wool
manufacture shows more demand for dress
goods, and stocks of these are relatively
low, while for mems spring goods the orders
of clOthirrs are far behind. The stock
market Is he>ita ting. with little change for
the week. The Paris bourse is disturbed by
heavy selling Of copper shares. But the
Bank of England does not charge its rates.
though losing this week $i.93I.'OI gold Here
the treasury has put out 81, 5000 more than
1t has taken in during the week. The mer-
chandise exports for the past two weeks
have exceeded those of the corresponding
weeks last year. while imports fall far be-
low those OF year ago. Foreign exchange
has declined half a cent during the week,
and money at New York has been easy and
cheap.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days,
number, for the United States, POI, and for
Canada, ~. or u tot Il of 249; as compared
with total of 259 last week, and go for the
week previous to the last. For the corre
spending week of last year the figures were
225. representing 2O3 failures in the United
States and 22 in the Dominion OF Canada