Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-30
THE couNTRY.s TRADE.

TIE SoOIN nSoGs
The General Condition of Trade Through
out the Country as Shown by X. q.
Dun & Co.'S Weekly Keview-A Notice
able Improvement In the Growing
Crops Acts az a Stimulus to business
Money Generally in Abundant supply
with OnIy Moderate Observation-Disclosures
Failures, Etc.
NEW YORK, June 18.-R. q. Dun q
Co. s weekly review of trade says:
Another week has blessed the country with
great Improvement in the growing crops In
wheat so great change OF condition appears
that men begin to question whether the yields
this year will not closely approximate the un-
precedented crop Of 1891 For other grain and
cotton the outlook is decidedly better. ana
there is reason now to hope for highly salts
factory results from the year. agriculture. In
consequence there is stronger trade through
out the country, especially at western eenters
of distribution. The improvement IS less
marked at the south owing tn the very low price
Of cotton and continued high water in soma
regions. The one point Of anxiety. in regari TO
the wage dispute in the iron manufacture. op-
crates for the present to cause increased trads,
while in other great industries the situation Is
clearly more favorabie than usual. The iron
manufacturers desire revision OF the wazs
scale on the ground that improved machinery
has enabled labor to produce GO per cent more
than I'm former years and has reduced prices so
FIR that the two cent basis Is longer Just.
There Is little more ground for hope that
prolonged strike may be avertsd. and
meanwhile, the demand for all forms
of manufactured from aud steel distinctly
improves. There Is a better demand for plates
and Tor structural iron prices being hrmer.
with some gain in bar iron and even in steel
rails. Pig iron is still weak and feverish south.
ern supplies being large, but northern makers
wait TO see whether a strike Is comiuz bsfore
reducing prices. Copper IS an eighth lower.
and large sales are reported at 1l3s cents. Tin
has Also taken q sudden fall to Ella cents. and
lead is lower. at 4.05 in some transactions.
Coal is dull and outsiders are selling below the
combination prices. The boot and shoe manu-
facture is entering upon a season expected to
be one of unprecedented activity, the years
shipments being already within per cent. Of
the greatest ever known, and gaining every
week. There is fairly large business in low
grade woolens and sales Of wool are batter
than usual for the season. Print cloth,
strong at 33ass cents and soma advance in
prints is anticipated. At Boston the demand
from recently foo led western districts has
fully revived and business Is strong. Lower
prices for bleached shirtipgs hav. caused large
sales and prices have been raised again. The
wooden mills steadily employed and there
are larger orders for fall goods in the boot and
shoe trade that factories are busy with
every prospect for the largest trade ever
known. Rubber is firm and the manufacturers
very busy. Trade in furniture and house sup
plies at Baltimore il excellent and in
lumber and building IN .terials active. At
Pittsburgh thare ars brighter prospects OF
wage settlement but finished iron is moving
fairly. The foun1ries are especially busy at
Cincinnati but machinery is little slow.
Trade is good at Detroit with fair prospects,
large sums going into the country for wool
Trade at Chicago is larger than n year ago,
with receipts double last years in -four. corn,
rye, oats. dressed beef and lard. and even
greater increase in barley, gain Of 50 per cent
in wheat aud some increase in cattle and hogs
with slight loss in wool. cheese and butter
At Minneapolis a marked increase is seen in
trade. with large business in lumber. and build
ing opers tons active Midsummer dullness ap.
pears at st. Louis though railroads are having
temporary blockades since the floods ahate1 and
business is as strong as could be expected. At
Omaha trade is good in all directions, and at
Kansas City in wholesale branches receipts OF
grain being liberal. At Denver business is
fair, at Louisville satisfactory and improving
and at Little Rock prospects are brighter: but
business at Memphis is inactive. and at New
Orleans dull on account of the high water. Al
Savannah trade is above the average in all
branches and prospects are favorable. Specu-
lation has not been especially active. and wheat
is unchanged in price. Corn has advanced
cents and oats cents. Pork products art
unchanged, but oil IS l12 cents lower and coffee
three eighths lower. In cotton no change in
price appears. though transactions have been
quite large. $50 900 bales for the week. and the
weeks receipts have been larger than year
ago. Last weeks great exports of gold have
caused neither trouble or alarm. and shipments
this week are smaller THIN most expected
Foreign exchang, has fallen to 1871 Gold ex-
ports were quite independent of merchandise
balances, fO- the en- nous produce exports in
May are followed by an increase of q per cent.
in exports from New York in June thus far.
indicating ana ggregate for the fiscal year not
far from 81 ,trO000UU In every part of the coun-
try money is in abundant supply and the de-
Iuand at nearly all points il only mo 1erate. col
lee tons being generally quite satisfactory for
the season
Tie business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days. number,
for the United States. l76. and for Canada IA.
a total of 1870: compared with 179 last
week and 1872 the week previous to the last,
and "a for the corresponding week of last year