The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-07
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

n. G. Dun d Co.'s Weekly Review of tn Q
Condition of Trade Throughout the
Country-Business Generally Active,
Money In Ample Supply and Collections
Sstisfactory-A Better Feeling I'm the
South Caused by Slight Advance In
Cotton-Business Failures Etc.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-R. g. DUN q
Co. g weekly review of trade says:
Business continues larger than ever at this
time OF the year. and the commercial sky Is
without cloud. While the season brings the
usual shrinkage in distribution of textile goods
the mills are nevertheless crowded with orr
ders, and the demand for the products of iron
and steel and leather has improved. Money is
In ample supply and collections have very
rarely been more generally satisfactory; so
that the demand for commercial loans is un-
usually light for the season. The outgo of
money from western centers for purchases in
the country is larger than usual, and yet there
10 no embarrassment. Crop reports are uni
formally favorable and the promise Is dis.
tinctly better than 1t was few weeks ago. At
the south trade is nevertheless much encour-
aged by some advance in the price of cotton,
and is therefore more active In general. busi-
ness is not only large and remarkably healthy,
but the outlook for the coming months Is
everywhere regarded with the utmost conf
dence.
At Boston dry goods are active. and the mills
very busy with the demand, such, In some
lines, that they cannot produce goods fast
enough. Collections are excellent, and all sec
tions seem to have money enough for payment
OF bills The boot and shoe trade is very satis-
factory.
At Philadelphia iron improves with large
sales. and hardware, recently quiet, is now
more active. The liquor and tobacco trades
are busy, and also the manufacture of cigars.
The jewelry trade improves with trade In oil
and naval stores. Dry goods are moving
steadily, and trade IN groceries and glassware
Is very busy. Iron is in better demand at
Pittsburg. and the glass business good At
Cleveland trade is improving and larger than
last year, and at Cincinnati the clothing
trade is better than previous years, though
slight decline is seen at the south, for ths
western trade largely exceeds previous rec
ords.
Chicago reports merchandise sales greater
than last year, the harvest progressing well,
money active, with much larger outgoes to the
interior than last year. and all conditions favor
able. Receipts of products show increase IN
everything except rye moderate in -four, pork,
cheese, wool and hides, quarter In barley,
seed. hogs and sheep, two thirds in butter,
twofold in dressed beef. cured meats, lard and
broomcorn, and threefold in wheat, corn and
oats.
At st. Louis business Is distinctly better in
dry goods, shoes, hats and railway supplies,
and collections prompt. AT St. Paul business
y
with increase over last year in many lines. At
Kansas City good. Business at Denver Is
moderate, the weather being warm and collec-
tions slow. At the south generally improving,
though caution prevails at Memphis. Better
prices for cotton bring larger trade at Mont
gomery, and though business is only fair at
New Orleans, sugar is strong and active and
money in good demand
Speculation in breadstuffs is lower wit b
small transactions. Wheat and oats are nearly
cent, and corn 1as centlower and receipts of
wheat at western points have been 6,342 695
bushels in four days. against exports OF only
$50, lie bushels. Speculation In cotton has been
enormous sales reaching 1.360CC0 bales, with
an advance of a quarter during the week, in
spite of better receipts and more favorable
crop reports Pork products are higher. pork
75 cent per barrel, lard 65 and hogs 25 cents per
100 pounds Coffee is an eighth stronger but
oil about two cents lower Western receipts
of cattle are 17500) head, against 145.000 the
same week last year. Coal is more active, but
at cut rates, deliveries having been this month
at May prices and agents decline to make an :
other nominal advance.
The Hebrew holidays cause the usual de-
crease in sales of textile goods, the cholera
scare has diverted many buyers from New
York, and it is between seasons for woolens,
but dealings are still large. The outlook in
woolens is excellent, and sales Of wool improve
here and at Philadelphia, where the consump-
tion is greater than in any other year, though
some concessions on territories and Ohio delaine
are at Boston. at the three markets 233,-
00DO00 pounds have been sold this year against
189, 600 600 last year to date Cottons are less
active and some ginghams a shade lower.
Trade in knit goods is hesitating AMI
production q little below last years.
but stocks of woolens are small, and
trade in carpets is active. Boot and shoe works
are pressed to meet their orders and the thip-
ments from Boston for the year thus far show
an increase of 53 per cent. over last years, and
46.S per cent over those of ten years ago.
Large sales of pig iron are reported, especially
at Cincinnati and some advance in prices is ex-
pected. All works making structural iron are
very busy and the outlook improving, though
bar iron Is still weak. Copper is unchanged at
one fourteenth cents, tin hesitating at 225
and lead dull at 470lo. Though exports from
New York for four weeks have been 22 per cent
smaller in value than year ago, they exceed
ly, and money has advanced to per cent. but
no anxiety is felt, and stocks are shade
stronger than a week ago. The treasury has
paid out $500, ,0C0 more notes against as much
more silver added, and has taken in 5000 600
more gold during the week, but the demand
for money at the west and south continues
smaller than usual
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days number,
for the United States. III, and for Canada 81; or
total of 208, as compared with 211 last
week and 1872 for the week previous to the lass
and 230 for the corresponding week OF last year.