The herald., 1894-09-22
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Improvem snt Over Last Wssk-Favor
able Features Repo rted.

Improvsm snt Over Last wesk-Favor.
able Features Repo rted.
New YORK, Sept. 81. - Bradstreet's 8
tomorrow will say:
The condition of trade this week is an
improvement over q week ago, in that
the favorable features reported have
been maintained. The surprisingly
good reports Of business uouth. and with
some exceptions west. are indicated by
our special advices from Baltimore,
Nashville, Chicago. st. Louis, Portland,
Ore. and San Francisco.
Baltimore jobbers, in all the leading
lines, report the volume OF merchandise
distributed as in excess OF expectations,
and especially dry goods in Georgia and
Alabama, excepting the fruit and coal
regions. Other southern products are
in good supply; orders continue liberal
and mercantile collections easy. One
eale is reported of 10000 tons of south
ern pig iron this week.
The activity reported in almost all
lines at Chicago week ago is contin-
ued, the merchants being satisfed with
the situation. Far western buyers who
used to buy in eastern markets, are pur-
chasing stocks in Chicago. The great.
eat activity is shown in dry goods,
clothing, millinery and shoes. Wool,
too, ia active, one lot of 100000 pounds
having been sold to a Rhode Island
manufacturer.
st. Louis manufacturers and jobbers
of clothing and hats report business
heavier than in the preceding expert
ence in like periods. Sales OF millinery
and dry goods are large. as well as those
OF lumber.
The seasons shipments of wheat from
Portland, Ore, and San Francisco have
begun, one vessel having sailed this
week from the city first named and six
from the Golden Gate.
Sales in the larger cities on the Pacific
coast have increased in all lines. Re-
ceipts OF Alaska salmon have been very
heavy, and exports promise to be CORE
spondingly large.
Heavier exports of wheat from New
York city, San Francisco and Montreal
have further increased the weekly total
OF wheat. and -four as wheat, exported
from both coasts of the United States
and Canada within six days. as ex-
ciusively reported to Bradstreet's, such
total being 1857 900 bushels. Last
week the like aggregate was 2,7S9, 00C
bushels. A year ago it was 4 727. .O0O
bushels; in 1892 it was SILL 900 bush-
els. The year before that 4,7ll, 900
bushels, but in the third week OF Sep.
tember, 1880, it was only 1,l55, 900
bushels.
The price movement this week il
downward. cotton having sold to within
two points OF the lowest price on record,
and wheat having gone off sufficiently to
make another "lowest record" for that
cereal. Other decreases are shown in
hogs and cattle, with western markets
based on heavy receipts of Bessemer
pig iron, steel billets, Iudian corn, oats,
naval stores and refined sugar. In addi
tion anthracite and bituminous coal have
been weak, those of lumber likewise, al
some easter1 markets, and quotations
for pig iron generally. Steady quota.
tions during the week are announced fol
pork and lard at eastern markets and
advances have actually taken place in
leather and coffee, and to relatively
small degree in wool, Notwithstanding
the attendance OF many American buy
ers at London wool sales.
There were 2l8 business failures re-
ported in the United States this week.
against 223 last week, and az compared
with 326 in the third week of Septem.
Der, 1898. In that week of 1892 there
were only LA business failures reported,
but in 1891 the aggregate for the week
was $50.
New YORK, Sept. 21.--In addition to
the large forwardings from the mills di-
rect to markets or purchasers, there is q
large visible movement of goods in the
drygoods district, indicating that many
goods were delivered on msturing or
ders. The order demand and pereonal
selections were for moderate quantities,
still the market reflects that lessening 2
in purchases so usual at this period OF
she season. Print cloths are quiet.