The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-10
AN IMPROVEMENT.
The Tone Of Commercial Reports
Throughout tho Country.
COLLECTIONS SAID TO Be BETTER.
The Corner In Corn Did Ma I~Hsrm-fscduc'
ton OF Balance In the Trcasury-Improb.
able That the Drain of Money From
the Country Will 1e Large.

New York, June Ar. q. Dun a
Co.'S weekly review of trade, says that
the tone Of commercial reports from
various parts Of the country indicate
hat business has 10 some extent inn
proved. Collections throughout the
country are better, and excepting the
bursting of n speculative corner in Chi
cage there has been no especial excite
ment Of any kind In business.
The fictitious prices established for
corn ut Chicago lasted just long enough
10 bring into that market enough Of
the actual grain to bury the spectators
and the corner broke with great losses,
not merely to the operators, but also to
the brokers. Wheat has declined half
n cent, the western receipts being un-
usually large, though the exports from
the eastern ports have also been quite
large. Oats are a shade lower, pork
, products unchanged, and oil a little
lower. The stock of cotton In the
country continues far beyond the rec
ord Of previous years, and there Is every
reason TO believe that even II great re-
duction In the yield will scarcely re-
duce the aggregate supply for the year
below the quantity usually required for
consumption.
At Boston business Is more active,
boots and shoes are decidedly stronger
and leather very firm and mt Hartford
trade In wool and cotton goods Is bet
ter, very fair in groceries, and fair in
hardware. At Philadelphia there IL an
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Is quite active, while the dry goods
trade has improved with the weather
and wool Is strong. The trade in
liquors and tobacco is quiet and the de-
mand for chemicals fair.
Trade at baltimore il generally good
with some Improvement In retail busi-
ness and increase in the export trade In
cattle.
At Pittsburgh finished products of
Iron and steel arc In good demand,
though prices are the lowest ever
known and the glass trade is fairly
Activc.
The dry goods trade Mt Cleveland Ia
excellent and other trades fairly active
except In iron and ore. Al Cincinnati,
tobacco sales are unusually large and
whisky is active.
General business at Chicago is greatly
in excess of last years record and while
receipts of other breadstuffs are rela-
lively small, there is great increase In
wheat and -four, cured meats, dressed
beef, lard and cattle. Cold rains still
depress trade Mt Milwaukee, but crop
indications at st. Paul are more favora-
BILE.
Al Omaha business Is very active and
receipts Of grain and cattle are In.
creased. At St Louis the recent great
flood engrosscs attention and interferes
with trade.
Arkansas City business seems healthy.
Business IL very good ut Denver, but
still retarded by bad weather ut Little
Rock and Memphis; improved u little al
Nashville, but very dull ut Savannah.
Cotton strengthens at New Orleans and
there is a better feeling in business
generally, while sugar is in fair demand
and rice steady.
The treasury has been reducing its
balances during the past month, putting
out more money than 1t has taken in,
and In some quarters attention Is called
to the fact that It's cash balances are
lower than at any other time since the
assumption Of specie payments. But
the supply of money abroad Is SO abund-
ant, and the demand in foreign coun.
tries SO moderate that II seems some.
what improbable that the drain from
this country will be large at any time
this season.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
v days number 2O7, as compared
with n total of 1893 last week. For the
corresponding week Of last year the
figures were Pa.