Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-26
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

The Past Weeks Business and the Out
look, as Reported by II. G. Dun s. Co..
Indications of Slackening Trade in Some
Quarters.
New YORK, March Or. q. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
There are some indications of slackening
trade. At the west cold and unfavorable
weather and the bad condition of country
roads affect distribution and collections.
and the apparent change may be only tenn
porary. At the south the low price of cot
ton is felt, though little improvement has
occurred in the past two weeks. At eastern
cities and to some extent throughout the
country, uncertainty as to the future mone-
tary situation checks operations. But there
is found in almost all quarters a feeling or
confidence and hopefulness rs to the future
Sales of wool at Boston, New York and Phil
adelphla this year thus far show an increase
over last year of 20 per cent. and still con-
tinue large. The dress goods makers have
closed the most prosperous season known
and hope for better prices presently. In
knit goods some complain that they are car
rying too large stocks and that margins for
profit are close, but great many orders are
still received. The boot and shoe business
is retarded by speculation in hides ana
leather, as prices of goods are no higher
than wear ago. The iron trade shows no
change. Rails are sitter and the demand
for structural iron trfle better. The glass
trade is fair, with prices unchanged, ana
lead is firm, but copper is weaker, with lake
at IA cents. Tin has been hoSted by specu-
lation abroad and the ring at Para has again
lifted crude rubber SO that the trade in rub
Der goods is rather unsettled. The anthra-
cite coal trade is much affected by the deci-
sion of the interstate commission in the case
of Cox Bros, the effect of which can not yet
be foreseen, but meanwhile the output con-
tnues to exceed last years very
largely. The general average OF all
prices is still advancing, having risen
half of one per cent. for the past week. Re-
ports from Boston are that general trade in
merchandise is not active, the weather him
dering. At Philadelphia the iron trade is
dull and the trade in liquors and tobacco
quiet. Pittsburgh notes no change in iron
except growing scarcity; the Monongahela
coal mines are busy. At Cincinnati trade is
quiet, and at Detroit trade is very fair,
equallng last year, although country collec-
tions slow. Chicago reports decrease,
compared with last year, in flour, corn, bar
ley, lard and butter, and a decrease of half
In dressed beef, but increase in oats, rye,
cured meats, hides and wool. In dry goods,
clothing and boots and shoes trade is larger
than Il year ago, but collections not SO good
as they were recently. milwaukee, notes
much discomfort among iron miners, who
have several weeks wages unpaid, pending
negotiations for the transfer of large
properties. At all cities west of the Mis-
sissippi trade is fair for the season.
except at Kansas City, where it is DUH,
and in that region generally collections are
improving. At New Orleans trade is barely
fair; at Memphis lethargic, with slow col
lections, and at Little Rock money is tight,
but Savannah has jubilee over the receipt
of 81 100000 bales of cotton in a year and
reports bright prospects. The money mar
kets are easier at most of the interior cities,
including Chicago and Boston.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the past seven days
number. for the United States, 23o, and for
Canada IS, a total of 275; as compared with
total of 273 last week, and PCS the week
previous to the last. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 25S, rep
resenting 215 failures in the United States
and 40 in the Dominion of Canada.