Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-06
SATISFACTORY.
Such is the Present Condition
of Business.
Dun & Company's Weekly
Review of Trade.

Everything Waiting for the Crops, and
They are in an Excellent Condition.
Harvest Estimates Increasing-A Conf.
dent Feeling in Most Trade Centers.
New YORK, July 8.-R. G.. Dun &
Company's weekly review of trade says
Everything waits for the crops. 1t is,
therefore, of the first importance that
the crop prospects have never been
more uniformly satisfactory at this
season than they are now. From nearly
all western and southern points, reports
refer especially to the improvement in
prospects, resulting from recent rains,
and particularly in the Dakotas and in
portions of the south where rain was re-
Gently much needed.
Reports from interior cities show a
fair but in many respects waiting
trade. At Boston, while trade in boots
and shoes is seasonably dull, more conf
dence is felt, while hides are easier,
lumber unsettled by large supply; rub
Der quiet and firm, and wool in fair de-
mand, sales being 2,438, 200 pounds for
the week. AT Philadelphia chemicals
and tobacco are dull, and a waiting
market for wool slightly favors buyers
At Buffalo the dry goods and shoe
trades are active for the season, and at
Cleveland these, with the clothing and
grocery trades, improve, and manu-
factured iron 10 in good demand.
At Cincinnati the building and ma
chinery lines are quite active, but at
Detroit wool moves slowly, holders
waiting for higher prices. At Chicago
wheat receipts are five times last years;
receipts of wool and hides nearly double,
and gain appears in butter and flour,
but loss of one-half in cured meats and
dressed beef, of two-thirds in lard, of
quarter in corn and cheese, and some
decrease in oats, barley and rye. The
dry goods trade equals last years, while
trade in clothing and shoes much eX-
ceed last years.
At st, Louis trade improves slightly,
and confidence grows as the harvest an
swers estimates. At st. Paul crafty
ing increase in handling of cat
tie is noted, and strong confidence be-
cause of marked improvement in crop
prospects there. at Milwaukee and at
Omaha Trade is dull at Nashville,
holding up fairly at Savannah, sluggish
but strengthening at Memphis, as crop
prospects there improve, and larger at
Jacksonville, where vegetables are NOV
ing in large quantities. Trade is season
ably dull at New Orleans, but refined
sugar is active, with large sales of Ger
man granulated.
Prices of iron are generally. shade
stronger than in May, but vague fear
of the future checks purchasers. Struc-
tural and plate iron are fairly active,
of sol
ments for the half year are placed at
450, 900 tons against 10000 last year.
Coal has been advanced by dealers, but
the independent operators make no
change. Tin is lower at 90 40, and cop
per at 12 rs for lake, with lead in mod
crate demand. Sales of wool at New
York, Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago
for the year thus far aggregate 1873, 144,-
1876 pounds against 124 ,312, ,059 last year,
with some increase in domestic, but
larger increase in foreign. In dry goods
the market is still waiting
The money markets appear on the
whole, little less easy though the rate
on call here has ranged during the past
week between 2 1-2 and B per cent
Somewhat more demand appears at Bos-
ton. and there is shade of stringency at
bL1C 0b SASNClctIt 10 az
tive, and the market is close at Cincin-
well supplied at 6, but with nothing for
speculation at Chicago, and little easier
at st. Louis. Stringency still appears at
a few southern points, but at New Or
leans the supply is very fair, though the
market is firm.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days, as reported to r. G. Dun q Com
pany by telegraph, number: For the
United States 2l0, and for Canada 81,
OF total of 237, as compared Efth a
total of 234 last week and 253 the week
previous to the last For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures
were 1899 representing 1S1 failures in the
United States and 1S in the Dominion of
Canada