Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-28
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.

The General Condition of Business
Throughout the Country as Reflected
Through X. &. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Re-
view-Bus iness Failures for the Week,
Etc.
New YORK. July 23.-R. G. Dun &
Co. IS weekly review of trade saws:
Tn re is listi act crop improvement. not only
in Transactions in com rarison 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 vast and south, especially as re-
spects corn. The monetary supply is album
dant, and the demand, though seasonably mod
crate. is at many points improving. while there
is 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 pa cents in spite of western receipts
amounting to 9. I38.OD9 bushels in three days,
against expo-+ OF 5000 bushels. Oats
also rose cent, pork products
shade, ard corn has advanced Ia
cents, notwithstanding wonderful weather
for that crop. In coffee there WAS slight ad-
vance. and in Gil fractional decline. But in
the cotton market decline of one sixteenth
occurred. with sales of $4,000 bales in week,
owing to continued large receipts and i'm
proved crop prospects. Business in dry goods
at Boston is more active than usual in July,
with liberal western orders. Cotton mills are
actively employed. and orders will keep the
wooden mills crowded for some time to come,
while the boot and shoe makers are full: the
rubber works busy. leather firm and wool
freely bought by manufacturers. sales reach
ing 5.400. COO pounds for the week. At Phila-
delphia 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 are still
cautious, but more activity is seen. Manu-
featured 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. an better than
last year The clothing traie at Cincinnati in
creases with orders from the south. and the
trade in shoes improves. In all the leading
lines trade exceeds last yesr's in Chicago, and
prospects for maturing collections are very
healthy. From Minnoa polis 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 -four
were never more satisfactory. AT 81. 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 4 seasonab'e 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 first half of 1892. 47a9 ,055. gross
tons. against 3,3 S.107 for the first half of 1884,
end in the year ending with June g. 7l0,Sl9 gross
tons. against s,279810 the previous year, and
9 2O2, 7G3 in 1890. Unsold stocks increased 49,
Cyl tons for the half year but only 1G,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 il weak with large sales at 1lla
cents, tin lower. at 90 cents, AMI lead
~ cents with pressure to sell. further
advance in anthracite coal is proposed. bat soft
coal has sold at 81 at Philadelphia. Boo. aud
shoe shipments are very heavy, but not enough
tc answer pressing demands. The stock market
has bean little affected by tho vote OF tho Bur-
'.rg.on & Quincy to with draw from the Western
Traffic association. Crop prospects and the COM
ing ad iournm mt of congress give strong basis
for successful campaign against the shorts.
Money is unusually plenty. call declining
from to 2Io bnt exp Actat;ons of better de-
maud restricts time loans. Merchandise ex-
ports in three weeks of July are only half of
per cent. larger than last while in imports
a large increase appears but the final accounts
of foreign trade for the past fiscal year show
exports rising above 1.C3n.f o. coo in value and
exceeding imports by 10 O11.0O1.
The business faiiures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days number
for the United States. les. and for Canada 10: or
total of lss. comnarnd with $50 last
week and 1:6 for the wcpS previous TO the last,
and 254 for the CORRESPONDING week of las. year.
votaries of Dime Novel Literature.
BRAZIL. Ind. July 2S.-Fred Smith
and John Patterson. two boys of this
city, who have made trashy literature
q study. masked themselves last night: