Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-22
TAKE IT AS YOU LIKE It.
BUSINESS IS GOOD, MAD or IN
DIFFERENT
Some Things Encouraging, some
Thing. observation-disclosures
and Duns Reviews of Trade-rhe
hank CIenring. of the Country.

New York, Sept 2i,--Bradstreets
will say tomorrow;
The condition OF general trade this
week is an Improvement over one week
ago. In that favorable features report
ed then have been maintained. This
surprisingly good reports Of business
south and with some exceptions west,
are indicated by our special advlces
from Baltimore, Nashville, Chicago. st.
Louis, Portland. Ore, and San Francis
CO. Baltimore Jobbcrs In all leading
lines report the volume OF merchan-
disc distributed In excess OF expocta-
ton. especially dry goods In South
Carolina. Georgia and Alabama. .ex-
cept In fruit ana coal regions. Other
southern products being In good sup
ply. orders continue to be liberal and
mercantile collections easy. Nashville,
while reporting no Improvement over
favorable features made last week,
notes their continuance. but that col
leotions are prompt, one sale Is re-
ported OF 10000 tons Of southern pig
tA'h AhAH |NffhH hAAfNANN AAHHA A'h III
almost all lines at Chiea 20 a week ago
~ continued. merchants seing salts.
He'd with the volume. ar western
buyers who used to buy IN eastern
markets are purchasing stocks at Chi
cogo. Great activity In shown Ia dry
goods. clothing, millinery and shoes.
Wool IL active, ono lot OF 1000
pounds having been sold to Rhode Is
land manufacturer. st. Louis manufac-
turers ana jobbers OF clothing and
bats report business heavier than in
their preceding experience in like pc
Rods Sales OF millinery and dry goods
are large, as Won nH those OF lumber.
The seasons shipments OF wheat
from Portland, Ore, and san Francisco
have begun. one vessel having sailed
nus week from the city first named and
Six from the Golden Gate, Sales in
the larger cities on tho Pacific coast
haYo Increased IN alt lines Receipts
OF ALASKA salmon have been very large
and exports promise 10 be- correspond
ingly larger. Heavier exports OF wheat
from New York City. san Francisco
and Montreal have further increased
the weekly total Of wheat land -four
as wheaD exported from both coasts
Of the United States and Canada With
In six days. ns exclusively reported to
fAAheuAfh'A ~ BUM NhAhl uflNk dtunlsNUu
bushels. Last week the like aggregate
was 2,ISg,OO0. bushels a year ago Il
was t727 600. In 1899 It was 3,Ill 600
bushels the year before thnt All 600
but IN the third week Of September,
1880 II Was only l.lGJ,0 900 bushels.
The price movement this week IL
downward, cotton having sold to with
Ia 2 points Of the lowest price on rec-
ord and wheat having gone OFT suhi-
clently To make another Lowest rec
ora for that cereal, other decreases
are shown In hogs and cattle at west
crn mnrketa. based on hcnvy receipts
Of Bohiemer pig IRON steel billetE In
dian corn and refined sugar In addl-
tlun, anthracite aud bitumnous coal
rloea have been weak. those for lum-
Der likewise, at some eastern marketb
aud quotations for pig iron generally.
steady quotations during the week
are announced for pork and lard at
eastern markets, and advances have
actually takcn place In leather, coffee.
and relative small degree In wool
Notwithstanding the attendance of
many American buyers al London wool
sales
There were 2lg business failures re-
ported In the United States this week.
against 223 last, as compared with 9i6
IN the third week u September, 1923
IN that week VI 1899 there were only
Ia business failures reported but IN
1871 the aggregate for the week was