St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-02
TRADE IMPROVED.
Dun.s Information Denotes
Awakening Activity.

New YORK, April 1.-R. G. Dun d Co.
weekly review of trade will say: The bust
ness outlook is distinctly improved. There
has come distinct increase in the market
ing OF manufactured products and greater
activity in many lines of domestic trade.
This is in part due to more favorable weather
in most sections and the improved condition
of country roads, and TO The prospect OF an
early spring. Manufacturers are doing we'll.
PROBABLY the cotton manufacturer has never
turned out as great quantity OF goods at any
other time as this year thus far, with less
quantities of its products in the hand OF
manufacturers or wholesale dealers.
The distribution has been remarkably large
and the results of trade generally satisfactory
as prices of the material have been declining,
while goods, though on the whole as cheap as
at any other time, are fairly maintained i'll
price. Wooden manufacture also SHOWS dls-
tinct improvement i'll some branches. though
not in carpets, nor i'll the lower grades or
mixed grades for mems wear. The better all
wool grades. worsted and dress goods are
more largely produced than i'll the past years
and no describable accumulation IS seen
The boot and shoe business is also increasing
actively, shipments now exceeding lastyears
and orders being large and urgent.
Reports from cities are generally encOur-
aging At Cleveland trade is good in dry
goods crockery hardware, machinery. and
manufactured iron and other trade fair. eX
ceeding last years. AtCincinnatf the cloth
ing trade is better than year ago. the bar
ness strike continues, and Southern mer-
chants are asking extensions because cotton
is low. AT Chicago, large increase is seen
in merchandise sales; good collections IN
dry goods equal last years, while IN clothing
and shoes they are not quite satisfactory,
though no special complaint is made. Re-
ceipts OF grain and -four show great in
crease. but of other products some decrease.
At Milwaukee business is improving, with
money easy.
AT ST. Paul the prospects of an early spring
stimulate trade, and at Minneapolis the job
bling trade is excellent the lumber business
being very good. AT Omaha trade is active
in oil lines Increased distribution in all
branches is seen at ST. Louis. with an I'M
provement in country collections AT Kansas
City trade is improving with better weather;
receipts of grain are heavy and of cattle and
hogs good. At Denver trade is fair, but at
Louisville generally improving, with phe-
nomenal increase in sales of tobacco. At
Memphis trade is dull. at Nashville steady
and at Little Rock slow, with money easy.
At New Orleans business is only fair, cotton
being dull, but sugar strong and actlve ana
at Savannah business is Stacker.
Speculation during the week has not been
yery active Wheat has declined 25sc. corn
Iac, oil fraction and pork 25c per barrel
The decline i'll wheat is mainly due to the
shr.nkage in foreign demand; western re-
ceipts continuing large. AS the hew crop
draws nearer, and the prospects, that II Will
be very large, prices naturally tend GOWN
ward. Although cotton receipts have been
somewhat smaller than year ago, the pres
sure of enormous stocks here and abroad
have caused e further decline of sixteenth.
Coffee is also S4c lower, ana the general ten
dency of prices is toward a lower level.
In the iron trade the bottom seems to
have been reached, although in plates
and struciu al iron the demand is better than
year ago. Copper is unsettled and irregu-
lar; tin slightly lower, and lead dull. The