The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-20
IMPROVEMENT IS:TRADE.
Bradstrests Sends out Very Favorable
 Report.

Report.
 New York. Oct. 1s.-Bradstreets to- morrow will say:
 With few exceptions the leading features of the business situation this week have been those of continued moderate improvement. although the total volume of business so far as in- dicated by bank clearings throughout the country will require considerable expansion to compare favorable with corresponding totals two years ago.The volume of the clearings for six days ending with October IS is $s4s, 900, ,0oo, or 2.3 per cent more than in the preceding week, and 2.5 per cent. larger than In the third week of October last year, but nearly 31 per cent. smaller than In the corresponding week in 1892. This relatively favorable bank clearlngs re- port is offset in part by a decline in prices of staples. coffee alone scoring slight advance.
 At Louisville tobacco Is easier under promise of a larger crop, and hides are lower In prices at some of the more important markets, while leather Is quoted lower at western cities. Compe- tition of northern lumber manufactur- CTS has forced prices at Chicago, and all except the best grades at Omaha and Kansas City have sold for less than a ryaalr ,ryt,t ,,,t,a T,,I have also shown declines. The produc- tion of iron and Bessemer steel con- tinued as heavy as heretofore, and quotations have been further shaded. Lard Is lower in price, and the pros- pect of the cessation of textile labor diff faculties at the east has weakened the print cloth market. AS serious as any other decrease is that in cotton, the feature of trade south this week being a check to purchases by interior mer- chants for spring delivery, and slower mercantile collections due to lower prices for cotton.
 Exports of wheat (fiour included), both coasts of the United States and Canada, this week amount to 3,1S2,000 bushels against 2,7O9,00O bushels in the third week in October g. year ago.
 There have been 253 business failures in the United States within a week, con- pard with $40 in the third week of Co., tober one year ago.
 Textile labor difficulties in New Bed ford are reported practically settled, and oneha of the looms at Fall River are again at work. The improvement re- gently reported for New England jewell CTS is maintained, and Buffalo dealers in building materials report more ac- tivity Philadelphia's wooden textile in dustries are more active than year ago, but are not doing business of two years ago. Baltimore jobbers having entended relations south report relative ly greater activity in Virginia and North Carolina. fs
 Nearly all the more important busi- ness west and northwest, report moder- ate activity, but few of them announce new features.
 St. Louis merchants report increased confidence in jobbers dealing there, and expectations of largely increased stocks of spring goods throughout the region tributary. Kansas City and Des Moines both report that warmer and unseason- able weather has served to restrict the volume of business within few days, but at and near Omaha the weather has favored general trade and farm work. Conditions prevailing at Cleveland Gin cinnati, Louisville, Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Paul in preceding week are practically without change. At San Francisco and Portland, Ore, the vol tune of business is fairly satisfactory, and the demand for grain vessels is more active with an advance in rates to the United Kingdom.
 At four southern cities general trade is reported to have shown improvement, Memphis, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Galveston, but at Savannah, Au- gusta, Atlanta and Nashville increased cotton receipts and lower prices have had an unfavorable influence. At Charleston, Chattanooga and Blrming- ham business has been moderately ac- tive.