The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-29
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.

The General Condition of Business
Throughout the Country as Reflected
Through r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Re-
~iew-Business Failures for the Week.
Etc.
NEW YORK, July 23.-R, g. Dun g
Co.'S weekly review of trade saws:
There is distinct crop Improvement. not only
in transactions in comparison with the same
time last year, but also in prospects for the
Coming season. Crop prospects improve
greatly with the favorable weather at
most points west and south, especially as re-
spects corn. The monetary supply is abun'
dant, and the demand, though sessonably mod
crate, Is at many points improving. while there
lis but little complaint regarding collections.
Prospects of spring wheat are remarkably good,
Returns from many of the states surpass all
expectations. No important change appears IN
the prospect for foreign demand, but wheat has
risen 2l4 cents in spite of western receipts
amounting to 2,13e,0O0 bushels In three days.
against export of 5000 bushels Oats
also rose / cent, pork products
shade. and Corn has advanced Ia
cents, notwithstanding wonderful weather
for that crop. In coffee there was slight adj
vance, and in oil a fractional decline. But Id
the cotton market a decline of one sixteenth
occurred, with sales Of 100000 bales in a week,
owing to continued large receipts and inn
proved crop prospects Business In dry goods
, at Boston Is more active than usual in July,
actively employed, and orders will keep the
wooden mills crowded for some time to comes
while the boot and shoe makers are full; the
rubber works busy leather firm and wool
freely bought by manufacturers, sales reach
ing 8, 400, 600 ponnds for the week. at Phila-
de1phia trade in most lines is fair, but more
firm in manufactured iron while wool sales
are large and the grocery trade excellent for
the season In dry goods customers still
cautious but more activity is seen. Manu-
factured iron is stiffened at Pittsburg by the
closing of many mills, and works at Cleveland
are pushed beyond their capacity, with some
advance in structural iron. Trade there Is
fairly active for the season. and better than
last year. The clothing trade at Cincinnati in
creAses with orders from the south. aud the
trade in shoes improves. In all the leading
lines trade exceeds last years in Chicago and
| prospects for maturing collections are very
healthy. From Minneapolis reports indi-
cate a portion of last years great crops;
at st, Paul trade is quiet. and at Duluth the
| tone in lumber, building materials and flour
were never more satisfactory. At St Louis
| trade is firm in seasonable lines. and crop
prospects excellent. Receipts of cattle are lib
eral at Kansas City and trade fairly good At
Omaha general trade is excellent. At Denver,
also trade is very good, and at Louisville fair,
but at other southern points a seasonable dull
ness appears. Rain is reported to have slightly
| affected cotton about Savannah, and consider
| able Improvement in trade is seen in New Or
leans, though sugar is strong and rice firm
| The official report makes the production for
iron for the fret half of 1892. 1899 056, gross
TONS against 80 8, ,l07 for the first half of 1891,
and in the year ending with June 9,710, ,S19 gross
| tons. against 8279,S70 the previous year, and
92O2, ,7O3 in 1890. Unsold stocks increased 49,
6sl tcns for the half year, but only 6,255 tons
| for the last quarter. Southern sales depress
| prices of pig, but tiger plates and structural
| iron are very active and temporarily higher.
! Lake copper is weak with large sales at lll9
| cents, tin lower, at 206 cents, and lead
| Al cents, with pressure to sell. A further
| advance in anthracite coal is proposed, but SOFT
| coal has sold at 81 at Philadelphia. Boot and
| shoe shipments are very heavy, but not enough
| to answer pressing demands. The stock market
has been little affected by the vote Of the Bur-
| lington & Quincy to withdraw from the Western
| Traffic association. Crop prospects and the COM
| ing adjournment OF congress give strong basis
| for successful campaign against the shorts.
| Money is unusually plenty, on call declining
| from to 2l2 bnt expectations of a better de-
maud restricts time loans Merchandise ex.
| ports in three weeks of July are only half of
per cent. larger than last year, while in imports
| a large increase appears, but the final accounts
/ of foreign trade for the past fiscal year show
exports rising above 1,030. .C0O,QOO in value and
| exceeding imports by 7O3 000,000
The business failures occurring throughout
| the country during the last seven days, number,
for the United States, 168 and for Canada ID; or
| a total of 1S7 as compared with 1S0 last
week and 1s6 for the week previous to the last,
and 254 for the corresponding week OF last year.