The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-28
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
So Bradstreet Reports It-Greater Activity
in Many branches of Trade.
Sent % brad street :


in Many branches of Trade.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Bradstreets
to-day says:
The condition Of general trade this wsek Is
an Improvement over one week ago. in that
favorable features reported then have been
maintained. The surprisingly good reports OF
business south and. with some exceptions
west are indicated by our special advices from
Baltimore Nashville, Chicago. St Louis. Port
land. Ore, and San Francisco Ball-
more jobbers in all leading lines
report the volume OF merchandise
distributed in excess of expectation, especially
dry goods in Georgia and Alabama, except IN
fruit and coal regions Other southern products
being in good supply. orders continue Hoeral
and mercantile collections easy NASHVILLE
while reporting no improvement over favorable
/ features made last week notes the continu-
ance. and the collections are prompt one safe
/ is reported Of 1900 tons Of southern pig iron
| this week
Activity reported IN almost all lines at CHI
/ cago a week ago is continued. merchants pelns
satisfied with the situation Far western
/ buyers who used to buy in eastern markets
are purchasing stocks at Chicago Greatest
activity is shown in dry goods, clothing. MILL
| merry and shoes. Wool too. is active. one lot
/ of 10000 pounds having been sold TO Rhode
Island manufacturer st. Louis manufactur-
/ ers and jobbers of clothing and hats report
/ business heavier than IN their pFettutHs ca
l periences in like periods Sales Of millinery
and dry goods are larger. 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 PACING
| coast have Increased in all lines. Receipts OF
1 Alaska salmon have been very heavy and e1-
ports promise to be correspondingly large
/ Heavier exports of wheat from New YORK
city. san Francisco and Montreal have further
increased the weekly total OF wheat land -four
| as wheat) exported from both coasts OF the
United States and Canada within six days. "a
/ exclusively reported to Bradstreets, such total
being 3517 600 bushels. Last week the Ike ag-
I gregate was s.5sg. coo bushels. \ year ago II
I was 4.72i 90 bushels In 1872 it was 3.TlloN
bushels. The year before that AN 900 bushels,
but in the third week Of Septem Der, 1899, II
was only l.l55 o)) bushels
The price movement this week is downward.
cotton having sold TO within two points OF the
lowest on record. and wheat having gone OF
sufficiently TO make another lowest record
for that cereal Other decreases are shown IN
hos and cattle at western markets. based on
heavy receipts. Bessemer pig iron steel blllets
Indian corn. cats, naval stores and refined
sugar
There are si2 business failures reported II
the United States this week against 2-3 last
week. and as compared with 346 in the third
week Of September. 1873 IN that week Of l,el
there were only Ia business failures reported
but in 1891 the aggregate for the week was 20