The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-27
DUN& CO.'S WEEKLY REVIEW
With Cessation of Labor Troubles, Gen.
eral Business Prospects Brighter.
Moderate Exports and Better Crop Reports
Lead 10 Lower Pr.ces in Grain-Cho.era
Assists Traders 10 Bear Provisions

NEW YORK. Aug. OR. g. Dun g.
Co.'s weekly review of trade says: In all
aspects the business situation appears
iIore favorable than q week ago. There
has been q general though moderate i'm
provement il distribution. Manufacturers
are more fully employed. several great
labor controversies have ended and crop
reports are some w hat more satisfactory. A
little more gold has gone abroad and i'm.
ports of merchandise are still enormous
for three weeks at New York ASIA per cent
larger than for the same week last year.
In exports from New York the increase foI
three weeks is only about Ala per cent, but
the shipments last year were phenomenal
and it 10 encouraging that they are not
diminished. Excess of imports over ex.
ports continues later in the season
than usual, but money markets are &C
well supplied that some outgo of gold
causes no disturbance or apprehension
Moderate exports and better crop reports
lead To lower prices. Wheat receipts at the
West on four days of this week have been
5.259. 59S bushels. while the Atlantic expora
have been only 1,57460s bushels and the
price has declined &c 10 sOasc for August
ho SoAtututJ tudt 4OAcikn Cfobes hooCfckf
in doubt as yet will, at all events, be much
better than those of last year. helps large
receipts here to depress prices. Corn il
scarce for early delivery and crop prospects
improve but little. so that the price Is uii-
changed at 63l2c. Oats are q shade stronger
At 800. Accounts OF cholera in Russia have
caused heavy unloading of pork which has
fallen 81 per barrel and hogs are l&c and
lard q fraction lower. while oil has also de-
clined fraction. Cotton 10 further de-
pressed To Use by the great accumulation
of unsold stocks and better reports OF the
coming crop, but W hlle In other speculative
market sales have been small for the week,
those of cotton reached 505.UO0 bales.
Boston reports more active trade for the
boot and shoe shops; very busy. with en-
cOnraglng orders from the West and better
Southern collections. Dry goods active
and textile mills worked nearly to their
| full capacity. the clothing demand for
woolens surprising the producers and tax
ing them to the utmost. Trade In oils Is
more encouraging. but in chemicals steady
with slow collections. and In paints and
liquors quiet AT Plttsburg raw iron is
slightly weaker, though some of the works
have not yet finished repairs. and the win
dow-glass-works will not all be in opera
| ton till the end of September. Trade at
Cleveland Is good, with better demand for
money, and at Cincinnati the hardware
| trade is 10 per cent. better than year ago.
and IN paper and paper bags much better,
with general trade fair and collections
| good. Business at Detroit is In some lines
larger and in all equal TO tho last years.
| with collections very fair.
Chicago reports trade better than year
| ago. with favoring crop reports, an increase
! OF 20 per cent. In receipts Of cattle. 25 IN
| oats. 80 in cured meats and 66 per cent in
| -four. compared with last year. but some
| decrease in other articles. Needed rams
have greatly helped crops in Wisconsin.
and manufacturers at Milwaukee are all
busy. The trade IL stronger at SC. Louis.
with grain receipts very large, and 81
| roads troubled by car famine. At Kansas
| City there is healthy activity, with receipts
OF cattle liberal. At Omaha orders for dry
goods and groceries are heavy, and at
Lincoln trade Is healthy, with good collec-
| tions. At st. Paul business 10 brisk. with
good crop reports, and at Minneapolis the
lumber trade is especially strong and the
| flour output 202. 600 barrels against $4,000
lastyear. Denver reports satisfactory trade
| and good collections. Some Improvement IL
| noted at all Southern cities reporting
| and trade at Nashville Is very fair: In
| creasing, with brighter prospects, at Men,
| phis. and in all lines gaining at New Or
loans, with better demand for money.
| All manufactures are doing we'll. Nearly
| all Of the lrOn-mills have resumed work
since the settlement of wages in Pittsbura
| and in Ohio. and demands tor the material
| increase. but production las apparently in
creased more &C pig iron is weaker ut Pitts
burg. There 10 a better demand for finished
| products Copper and tin are steady. and
| lead has a firmer look. The Injunction in
| New Jersey against the Reading coal COM
bination as unlawful came on the SAME
| day with another advance in prices and.
since the leases were made. prices have
| advanced about 81 per ton on the average.
| The WOODEN manufactures is crowded
| with work. and sales of heavy weights of
| the season are thought to have been never
| exceeded. More life is seen in cottons.
| with decided Improvement In South Amer
lean demand, and prints cloth are strong.
| with sales of some works covering Apripa
| production. Hosiery Is quiet. but very
| active. anu the carpet trade good. with
/ prices on the whole as low as ever Sales
| of woel at the chief markets have been
| large for the week, but as stocks are very
| heavy, sellers are somewhat more frea
| The boot and shoe trade Is in volume great
| or than ever, though competition from new
| works is sharp.
| The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days
| number for the United States. 165. and
| Canada Is. or a total of $50. For the corre-
spending week Of last year the figures were
| 226, representing 204 failures In the United
States and % in the Dominion or Canada.
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