Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-07-14
DUN'S REVIEW.
Much to Be Thankful For In BUSH
ness Circles.
GENERAL TRADE QUITE ACTIVE.
Facts Mt Chicago Indicating Unprecedent-
ed Briskness In the west-The Iron
Trade an ExceptIon-Tbe Glass
Shut Down-FaIlures.

New YORK, July Or. @. Dun & Co. IS
weekly review Of trade says:
There is stronger demand for fin
ished products of iron and steel, while
pig iron is overloaded and weaker, and
the Thomas company has reduced its
price for No. anthracite 81 TO so per
ton, which is believed to be the lowest
price ever recorded. Sales of 10, 900 tons
of steel rails have been made by eastern
works and the aggregate for the half
year has been 500, 900, with 500, 900 tons
actually delivered, which corresponds
with the decrease in railroad building
and the prospect that the new mileage
for the year will be only about 3, 900.
Bar iron is in heavy demand and struc-
tural also, with an advance Of about 81
per ton.
Textile mills are all we'll employed
for the season and better orders for
wooden goods have given an impulse TO
purchases OF wool by manufacturers
Boot and shoe shops are busy and
pressed for early deliveries and eastern
shipments are now the largest ever
known for the year thus far--1, sea, 900.
against l, 7S3,00O last year and |, $500, 900
In 1890. hitherto the maximum Para
fine rubber is lower at IS cents with
works busy, There are moderate sales
Of copper at l1% cents, tin is inactive,
but lead slightly advanced The last
advance in coal has stopped business,
but the half years output was 10,63s,-
900 tons against IS, 274 900 last year.
Trade at Boston is fairly active.
Wool is quick, with larger orders for
goods and heavy contracts have been
made for frequent delivery. Hardware
was little less firm at Hartford.
At Philadelphia dry goods are quiet.
Trade in wool is active at satisfactory
prices. Coal is dull, groceries and glass
quiet, sales Of paints less than last
month and trade in jewelry light, while
chemicals are steady, the liquor trade
good and tobacco in fair demand.
Baltimore reports some improvement
in shoes and dry goods and much In
millinery. Nearly all the iron mills
at Pittsburgh are closed and pig iron is
weaker, while glass works have stopped
for the summer.
At Cleveland trade in most lines Is
good, except in iron. At Cincinnati
the carriage trade is better Business
at Detroit is good for the season and
crop prospects favorable.
The growth of western trade may be
inferred from Chicago receipts, which
exceed last years 20 per cent in cattle
and hogs, 33 per cent in corn, 80 per
cent. in dressed beef, about double In
flour, cured meats, lard, cheese, hides
and wool and four times last years In
wheat, oats and rye. General trade Is
larger than year ago and the demand
for money, slightly better.
Fine weather helps crop prospects in
Wisconsin and trade is better than last
year at ST. Paul and Minneapolis, with
a good lumber business and the flour
output $4,000 barrels, against 1O4, 900
last year.
Trade in groceries and dry goods is
very active at Omaha and collections
exceptionally good, while money goes
begging H.
At Kansas City trade is good for the
season, and at ST. Louis business is
strong in all lines. The southern trade
Is seasonably dull. Speculation has
been inactive, though $50, 900 bales of
cotton have been sold at decline Of a
sixteenth; receipts still exceeding last
years while exports are fully main
tanned.
Wheat sales have only been 1000, 900
bushels, with a decline of over 1 cent,
and corn and oats have dropped cents,
but hog products are all stronger, pork
rs cents per barrel Coffee is one -eighth
weaker. Foreign trade is fully main
tanned.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days number 170, as compared
with totals Of 1877 last week. For the
corresponding week Of last year tbs eg-
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