The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-09-25
NOT MICROSCOPIC.
The Improvement In Business III Snch
That 1t Can BE Easily Dis
covered. ~
Industries Rapidly Rallying 10 Make
Good the Scarcity Caused by Re.
cent InactiOn.
Eighty.Four Concerns Resume During
the Week just Past Dunn O. Co.'S
Report.

NEW 1Ohk. Ccpt. So.--Is. 0s Duu 60
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
There is no longer only microscopic
or sentimental Improvement that can
not be measured. Some increase is seen
both in production and in distribution
of products. True, it is small as yet,
but after the worst financial blizzard
for 20 years it is not to be expected that
all roads can be cleared in day. But
all conditions, except at Washington,
favor gradual recovery. Business goes
on in unquestioning confidence that the
general desire of the people will in
some way prevail. Money has become
easy at 3 per cent here on call and stag
nant speculation fortunately favors
greater freedom in commercial loans.
Stocks and products are dull without
serious fall in prices, the
Industries Are Rapidly Railying
to make good the scarcity of supplies
caused by weeks of inaction, the vital
ity of the demand for goods shows that
the wonderful consuming power of the
people, if lessened for time, has not
ceased, and the shrinkage in the record
Of commercial disease and mortality
shows progress toward health. Neither
nor the small absorption Of gold by the
treasury has been felt, for the market
is long way beyond the point at which
it waited with breathless anxiety for
steamers. Monetary conditions favor
revival of trade and industry. While
renewals are as large as ever, CONNER
cial loans are no longer unknown.
Maturity of large Western obligations
has brought hither
Unusual Sums OF Money
from that section. Foreign trade also
grows more favorable. Exports of
principal products in August were
$44, ,797. .528 in value, or $3. 494 ,846 more
than last year, which, with the>known
decrease in imports here, indicate a
small excess of exports. For three
weeks of September the increase. in ex-
ports has been 4,80O, 600 and the de-
crease in imports ~. 500, 100. promising
larger excess Of exports this month.
The receipts of wheat fall far behind
last years, being 5,685, ,o04 bushels for
this week, against 1851, 400 for the
same week last year, and In three weeks
IA, ITO, 583 bushels. against 1907, 7l7
last year. The Atlantic exports this
week have also sharply decreased,
though Pacific exports are heavy. The
price declined Ia cents here with in
| significant transactions.
| Works Resuming.
The number nj works resuming this
week has been at least SO wholly and n
in part, against only Is cents concerns
mentioned as having closed and re-
ducing force. The gain has been great.
est in cotton, where some goods tonch
the lowest prices ever known. But IL
has been fair in woolen manufacture
week, many concerns having orders
not only for dress goods and specialties,
but some for mems goods, though IL Il
not expected that the seasons. business
will be half as large as usual. The In
dustry which shows least actual gain II
the manufacture of iron and steel, where
the only changes in price are down.
ward, and, in spite of the great decreases
in production, the consumptien sesini
| to increase, as il seen in the demand
for n few nrOducts