Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
TRADE AND COMMERCE.

r.. G. Dun Co.'S Weekly Review, Show.
ing the Condition OF Trade ThrOughOue
the Country A Steady Improvement
Noted at Most Points in the Volume OF
Trade-Money in Demand and Getting
Easier Business Failures. Etc.
New YORK. Oct. 24.-R. G. DUN q
Co. IS weekly review of trade says:
General business Is remarkably active ana
increas ,ng in volume at the west, improving
at the south, and distinctly less duii tnan -
was week ago at eastern cities. CoHec-
tions are improving In nearly all directions.
The money markets are nowhere stringent.
at nearly all important points being quito
easy though with noticeable improve
ment in the demands. These signs plainly
promise a strong trade for the fall ana WIN
ter unless disturbances which can not now
be foreseen should interrupt. The reports
from other cities are OH the whole more Ia
yoraule st Boston the Improvement In
trade is slow. Wool is steady, with sales OF
2,74s0,0 pounds ut unchanged prices. ana
lumber is in moderate demand. At Phiia-
delphia 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 quiSt. Dry gooos
jobbers are doing . fair business. AT Cin-
CHM att retail trade is brisk. and clothing 10
active. At Cleveland business is good, ana
the tone confident. At Detroit trade ana
manufactures fully up to last years
mark. At Chicago an increase appears OF
third in receipts of hides, dresned beer ana
flour and corn. and receipts of rye are
three times last years, but some decrease
appears IN oats. barley. cured meats, iaros
cheese, butter and wool. The dry gooas
trade is much larger than year ago. tine re-
cepts of cattle larger, the shoe and clothing
trade large, and business gradually fncreas-
ing in all lines. At Minneapolis the lumber
trade is very good, prices rising; the Hour
mills again beat the record, and general
trade is good there and at st. PAUL Az
Omaha and Kansas City business Is salts
factory. At st. Louis trade shows encour-
aging strength. and at Memphis business 10
very fair. At New Orleans a better feeling
is seen, with money in active demand. AZ
Savannah trade holds well, and at Jackson
vile trade is steady with bright prospects,
Wheat has fallen 40 cents, with receipts ae
the west of 6,bOo,oos bushels In four days,
and exports of 1850, 600 bushels. Corn is
scarce and sls cents higher for spot, and
oats la cents higher. Cotton receipts sur
pass those of the same week last year by
$500 bales, and the price falls sixteenth
with sales of 9l4, o00 bales here Coffee Is an
eighth lower, oil one cent lOwer, lard an
eighth lower. and hogs have fallen 80 cents
per 100 pounds, with no change In pork.
Sugar, both raw and granulated, is some
what lower with 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 $4,000 tons
of steel rails. Bar, plate and structural
mills are fairly employed, but supplies are
low. Root and shoe manufacturers shows
signs of more active demand. The wool
manufacture shows moro demand for dress
goods, and stocks of these are relatively
low, while for mems spring goods the orders
of clothiers are far behind. The stock
market is hesita 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 sI.93l,60o gold. Here
the treasury has put out 81, 900 more than
it 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 q year ago. Foreign exchange
has declined half 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, 207, and for
Canada. AZ, totll of 249; compared
with n total of 259 last week, and 270 for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures were
225, representing 20s failures in the United
tat n nd in "a mi of