Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-02
TRADE AND BUSINESS.

r. g. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review Reports
General Improvement In Business with
Better Crop Prospects-The Money MAI
ket Well Supplied and Easy-Labor Wen
Employed-Floods Interfering with Bus
mess in the River Districts of the South
business Failures, Etc.
New YORK, May 21.-R. G.. Dun Il
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
The week has wrought quick improvement
in business at many points. Foods still make
| some trouble and threaten more; country roads
which nobody can travel, prevent distribution
and collections, and fears Of short crops In
many quarters still check purchases. But
clearing weather throughout the greater part
of the country has given decided stimulus TO
trade and greatly changed crop prospects
Other conditions are generally favorable La
Dor is quite, on the whole. well employed. with
rather less interruption from strikes than IS
usual at this season. The money markets are
everywhere well supplied and easy and ut sew
er.l points an in reasing demand Is noticed
At Boston cotton mills well supplied with
orders and the export inquiry is larger, the
wooden business is satisfactory. while in boots
and shoes orders are increasing and prices
fii1ner- Rubber works are busy wool fairly
active, with more demand for domestic, and
| leather active with slight advance. At Bal
timore the southern trade holds out beyond
expectations. At Philadelphia some activity ise
seen in WOOL and while the carpet business Is
unsatisfactory, knit goods works are busy with
the outlook more promising than last year.
There is an increasing demand for dress goods,
but iron is at the lowest price ever known. At
Pittsburgh iron is a shade weaker. but the out
put of manufactured iron Is very regular
| though at low prices The window glass works,
will run to the end If June. Clothing business
at Cincinnati for the year Is only fair aver
age. but business in general is somewhat at
fected by the foods. Trade at Chicago has in
creased, though the weather somewhat inter-
fers. but general conditions are much better
1 ~ ,Ir-,,, 1-na fa
stimulated by the weather and the outlook is
less gloomy Cheering weather revives trade
at Minneapolis and dealings are larger than
year ago, the -four output being $4,000 bar
rels, against 1I2.Go0 and the lumber trade ex-
cellent. At St Paul trade is dull AT Omaha,
| trade in groceries and in hardware is ac-
tive and improved in dry goods and
shoes. At ST. Louis the floods have
seriously embarrassed trade. which is other
wise strong, and at Kansas City better weather
brings improvement At Denver improved
weather causes considerable gain. Trade IS
unsatisfactory at Little Rock, floods having
! done much damage in the lowlands. and duh at
| Memphis and Savannah. At New Orleans.
| trade is retarded by the foods and by strike.
and in all lines is quiet, with money in light de-
| mand. There rs little new in the great indus
| tries though other than standard brands of
| iron are much depressed, No southern hold
ing sold at 80 at Philadelphia in soma cases.
| Bar iron is irregular and plates demoraiized,
| LIZ cents having been quoted; but wire rods
| are firmer and mills sold ahead Imple-
| ment makers have resumed their demands and
| the demand for structural iron is large. Heavy
| sales of steel cotton ties have been made at
| cents delivered. the lowest price ever known
| Sales of WOO! continue moderate and limited to
| present needs shearing being retarded by bad
weather, but the dress goods mills have done
| larger business than ever. and there is more
| encouragement in mems wear woolens. The
cotton mills doing more business.
| than in any other year, and print cloths
are frner, for stocks are low Ship
ments of boots aud shoes continue to
| exceed last years and are but per cent. below
| the highest ever known for the year thus far.
Speculation in cotton Las been active with sales
| of $50, 600 bales foods and bad weather tending
| to lessen production. Wheat ia nearly half
cent higher, exports being nearly equal to
| wheat receipts. A speculative corner makes
| the price of May corn fictitious and oats are a
| fraction higher, while pork products have risen
a little and also oil Coffee is an eighth lower,
copper unchanged, tin slightly advanced by
| speculation, and lead stronger at Ala cents.
| Sales agents have advanced the price of an
| thracite coal, though the business is very dull
and lacks confidence. Nothing disturbs the
| money market
The business failures occurring throughout
| the country during the last seven days, number
for the United States. 1s5. and for Canada ID. or
! a total of 1893: compared with 192 last.
week and Us the week previous to the last.
and 247 for the corresponding week Of last year