Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-17
THE REVIEW or THE WEEK
Evidence of Improvement in Busi-
ness MuItipIies.
Wheat Advances Half q Cent-Heavy Corn
Receipts, but the Price Up n Cent
--Breadstuffs stronger, Pro-
visions Weaker.

New YORK. March 10. R. @. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
Evidence of present improvement in
business multiplies, but confidence IN
future improvement does not seem to in
crease. although there is more business,
and a larger production of industries
! for the season has arrived when greater
activity is necessary if dealers in stocki
are to be replenished, and those who car
not make calculations beyond few
months are the more anxious to crowd
as much trade as they safely can into
these months. In some branches of dis
tributo;i, however. there are indications.
of diminishing demand for goods and
the evident preference for medium and
low priced articles with the known re
duction in wages and family expend
lures lead many TO feel somewhat les.
confident that business will soon recover
its former volume. Undertakings reach
ing beyond a short time are not mads
with greater freedom and in spite OF d
larger present demand prices of manu-
factured goods tend downward.
Output OF Pig Iron Increased.
The most distinct gain is in iron and
steel manufactures The output of pic
iron increased 10 per cent though il /;
still BIS per cent less than year ago
! Trade in bar iron Is very unsatisfactory
rails are fiat, and with larger produc
tion of coke. rails are made at as low
prices as ever. Tin is lower with a fal
at London, being quoted here at 1871
and copper does not improve though lead
is slightly higher.
Shipments OF boots and shoes from the
east are liS per cent smaller than yeai
/ ago for the same week and purchases are
still mainly of medium or low priced
goods In textile manufactures and dry
goods there is increased activity and re
! plenishment of stocks as is natural al
! this season. But the demand thus fal
falls much short of expectations and it,
! character indicates great economy in con
sumption.
Wheat Advances Half a Cent.
! Breadstut1s and oils have beer
stronger; provisions weaker. and cottor
hesitates. Wheat advanced = cent,
western receipts being only 2,1l6,0S1
bushels, against, 1859, 100 last year, and
Atlantic exports, l,l0l,170, against rs,
i92 last year.
Corn receipts at the west We're 1915,
! i55 bushels. against 2,l40,9Sl last year
but the price rose nearly cent. Lar(
and hogs both declined, nevertheless
Sales of cotton Were larger at first, Will
some decline. which was afterward re
covered. The recovery i'll the price O
bar silver. which fell to ed but recov
cred TO 27.3l, has affected prices.
The volume OF domestic trade showp
by clearngs decreases for the week only
ia per cent outside New York and 3it
! per cent here compared with last year
In foreign trade changes are also for tn.
better, exports having Leen large, anC
for four weeks II per cent larger thar
last year, while the decrease III imporu
for February was 81 per cent.
Failures are growing less important
and fewer. For the week ending March
the liabilities thus far reported were
s. 097 0S2. and for the four weeks OF
February Sl4 ,SS6, ,09l, of which 81, 1872 ,6N
Were of manufacturing and S1,691 ,l21 o.
trading concerns. The number of fail
ures during the past week has been %,
in the United States, against 1913 las,
year, and 80 in Canada against 32 lasi
wear