Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-10

throughout the country is not only
remarkably good but the prospects
are excellent. At Cincinnati, COM
mission merchants are unusually pros
porous and trade in tobacco leaf
strong. Business at Cleveland has
improved and is excellent with larger
demand for money. At Detroit bust
ness in some lines is Is to 20 per cent.
greater than last year and prospects
are favorable. General trade at Chi
cago is larger than year ago with
favorable crop prospects.
Receipts of lard, butter and cheese
show some increase over last year,
of wheat, sixth, of wool, a third, and
of hides and flour one-half, while in
corn decrease of third appears and
a large decrease in rye and barley
with small decrease in other articles.
At Milwaukee trade is fairly good,
tobacco having been little damaged
by frosts, while corn is kept back by
cool rains. At Minneapolis crop pros
poets are fair, lumber is active and
strong and general trade good. AT
st. Paul trade improves with brighter
prospects and while average crops are
expected higher prices are also judged
probable. At Omaha trade is active
in groceries and dry goods and fair in
other branches.
st. Louis reports strong trade and
railroads taxed to carry grain. At
Kansas City trade is improving, re-
ceipts of cattle and grain being heavy,
and at Denver business is good.
AT Little Rock business is satisfac-
tory, though merchants buy conserva-
lively. At Louisville trade improves
and at Nashville, as well, crop pros
poets being better. AT New Orleans,
business has somewhat improved, but
it is not up to expectations. Sugar is
very strong, rice is unsteady and mon
ey stiff, though ample in supply.
The iron industry grows more &C,
tive, nearly all works are full oforders
and the output is now heavy. Nails
have advanced 10c per keg, but some
weakness appears in prices of structu-
raj and plate iron. A meeting of rail
makers next week may give that
branch chance for larger business.
Copper is uncertain, with sales at III
c.; business in tin has been checked by
speculation, and lead is weaker at Alb
C. The expected war between the
Pennsylvania and the Reading caused
a weakness in coal.
Boots and shoes in good demand,
Eastern shipments, according to the
Shoe and Leather Reporter, being a.
1926 cases, against 83,817 last year.
Cattle receipts at Chicago for the year
are IS per cent. larger than last year,
and receipts of all live stock there in
August were nearly 25 per cent. larger.
All textile workers are remarkably
busy and a better demand is seen for
medium grade worsteds, and in excess
of supply, while prices of cottons are
very firm, some advancing.
Wheat has sold at 77tc., and, except
ing in two days in 1884, no lowerprice
has ever been recorded here. West
ern receipts have been 100000 BUSH
els in four days, against 100000
bushels Atlantic exports. Oats are &c
higher, but corn is much lower, with
Frightening crop prospects at the
West, and coffee an eighth lower
Cotton has advanced sixteenth
during the week, although the Finan-
cial Chronicle makes the last crop
903S,000 bales and the decrease in
acreage only IL per cent. With re-
stricted exports of products at present
foreign exchange is steadily strong
but the treasury has put out Of new
notes 100000 more than it has added
to its stocks of gold and silver, and
the money markets throughout the
country are amply supplied, while col
lections in all quarters are very fail
for the season. 1t Is expected thai
some more gold will go out this week
but no apprehension appears as yet OF
account Of this unusually continued
movement, because the supplies of cur
rency available are remarkably large
and the interior markets appear to de-
mand less money from seaboard cen.