Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-20
STEADY As A CLOCK
Business Continues 10 lmprova
Everywhere.
ENORMOUS IMPORTS REPORTED
The Various MeICantils and M3nufsc-
tuning Interests in Healthy
Condition.

NEW NoRK. Aug. l9.-R. q. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade viii ssys
Later sdvlces from the west promise
rather better crops Of wheat aud corn,
and cotton prospects are little better,
though neither yield vii approach
that OF last year. With abundant sEpx
plies brought over. the outlook Is 60
good that business distinctly improves
and the prospect for fail trade is very
good everywhere. The great strikes
ia New York, Pennsylssnis and Ten
nessee appear 70 have scarcely an aB-
preeiable effect on business and though
interruption of tariff ]. threatened on
many important railways. stocks are
generally steady or strong, closing but
small fraction lower than a week
ago. More gold has gone abroad, bat
money Is abundant and easy and co.,
lechons N almost al quarters very
good.
Buysng and SeIiing.
| Speculation IA tn has made little
change and buyers OF copper are 20
slow that lis cents j. quoted. whl.e
lead is higher, copper Is lower. Orders
/ IoT dress goods from the west are large
ana cotton lobbers nave 40 difficulty
al selling the whole production. higher
/ prices for bleached goods being cx-
pected. The print cloth trade ls enoF-
nous. Boot and shoe trade is healthy.
| though profits are small. Woo :
/ fairly active and firm and the outlook
rosy. At Hartford trade improves ia
| all lines except wool anc dry goods;
/ hardware Is lrmer and an advance s
/ expected.
Al Baltimore receipts OF fruits and
vegetables are not 80 Ual tC the demands
/ OF packers and manufacturers OF cloth
/ ing are busy, iron mills al PIasburg VIII
/ soon resume. but az present shipments
are the smallest for some time and
| business IN window glass j. not active.
At Cincinnati trade is quiet, prospects
1 fine and Withdrawals OF whiskey are
unusnslly heavy. Fair activity Is seen
al Cleveland with healthy trade and
rolled iron products very sctive and
firm. General trade al Chicago is bet
ter than IA any other year aud collec-
tions are better.
Increase In the Wet
At Milwaukee collections are slow,
but trade j. largely IA excess of last
| year. ~. Paul reports a slight increase
| in business and the harvest resulting IN
a good yield. At Minneapolis trade q
| good. Business at -. Louis is gener-
ally satisfactory, and at kansas City
| good, with large receipts OF cattle. hogs
and wheat. Improvement is also seen
with brighter prospects al Little Rock
and Nashville, and wnlie trade is quiet
at New Orleans sugar is strong and &C
tive, but receipts OF rye are Light, the
crop having been damaged by rain.
| Western iron mills nave fully recov.
cred. bat the present demand for bar,
plates, sheets and structural iron IL
very active and the mills are full Of
orders Cottons are IN great demand
and firm, though the weather has
| checked the weeks sales. Carpets are
quite active, with an advance OF p per
cent IN Philadelphia Ingraips.
WOODEN Goods apd shoes
In fall wcolens business ls heavy, but
orders FOR spring goods are rather
smaller and more large IN low grades.
| Business ~ dress goods crowds the
| manufacturers, many having sold mole
than they nsy be able 10 deliver. Sales
| OF wool at the three largest markets
since the middle OF Nav have been 9l,-
100000 pounds against 20, soc, 900 last
| year. Production of boots and shoes
rs now estimated at los coo 600 pairs,
and eastern shipments last week
/ Were 6,O00 cases more than a
week ago. Exports from New
/ York for two weeks have sN-
ceeded last years by seven per cent. but
! imports are enormous for the season
for two weeks at New York, - per cent
greater than last year. ks cotton NAV
not be largely required abroad for some
1 time, continued exports of gold are not
surprising, but the week they are not
large.
Business failures occurring through
| out the country during the last seven
dsys number for the United states. IL,
and for Canada, p: total, 1877; ss com
pared with 1872 lsst week and ls4 the
week previous 10 the last and 2l6 for
i.