St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-22
SOUTH AND WEST PROSPER.
Greatest Activity Being in
Movements of Grain and
Dry Goods.
THE BRADsTREErs REVIEW
Shows Conditions to Be Most
i' Gratifying--Dun g. Co.
p. PesSimistic.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2i.-BradstIeet's
tomorrow will say:
Tho condition of genera! trade this
week is an improvement over one week
ago in that favorable features are re-
ported to have been maintained. The
surprisingly good reports or business
South, and. with some exceptions. West.
are indicated by our special advices
from Baltimore, Nashville, Chicago, st.
Louis, Portland, Or. and San Francisco.
Baltimore IobberS in ali leading lines
report the volume of merchandise dis
trlouted in excess of expectation. espe-
cially dry goods in South Carolina,
Georgia aud Alabama, except in fruit
and coal regions. Other Southern
products being in good supply, orders
continue liberal and mercantile colIec-
lions easy. Nashville. while report
ng no improvement over the IA
vurable features made last week.
notes the continuance. and the
COLLECTIONS are also prompt. One
sale is reported of 10000 tons of South
ern pig iron this week. Activity report
ed in almost all lines at Chicago week
ago is continued. merchants being
satisfied with the situation. Far West
ern buyers who USED to buy in Eastern
markets are purchasing stocks at Chi.
cagO. Greatest activity is shown in dry
goods, clothing, millinery and shoes.
Wonl.- too, is active. one lot of 100000
pounds having been sold to a Rhode
Island nan. st. Louis manufacturers
and jobbers of clothing and hats report
INIy,t fIto
experience in like periods. Sales OF
millinery and dry goods are large. as
we'll as those of lumber. The seasons
shipments of wheat from Portland, Or,
and San Francisco have begun, one ves-
sci having sailed this week from the
city first named and six from the Golden
Gate. Sales in The larger elites on the
Pacific coast nave Increased in all lines.
Receipts OF Alaska salmon have been
very heavy and exports promise to be
correspondingiy large.
Heavier exports of wheat from New
York city. San Francisco and Montreal
have further increased the weekly total
of wheat (and -four as wheaD exported
from both coasts of the United States
and Canada within six days as eXciu-
sively repDIled To BradStreet'S, such
total being 1851 900 bu. Last week the
like aggregate was 2,7S9.000 bu. A year
ago ii was i, 727 900 Ou. In 1892 it was
3.7l1 .009 bu. fne year before that ALL
0jO Du. but in the third week of Scptein-
Der. 1890, it, was only l. 155. 600 bu.
Price movement this week is down.
ward. cotton having sold to within two
points of the lowest price on record, and
wheat having gone Off sufficiently to
make another ''lowest recoru" for that
cereal. Other decreases are shown
in hogs and cattle at Western mar.
kets, based on heavy receipts,
Bessemer zig. iron, steel biIlets,
Indian corn, oats. naval stores anu re-
fined sugar. LII addition, anthracite and
'bitulnlnouS coal have been weak; those
for lumber likewise. at sume Eastern
markets, and quotations for pig iron
generally. Steady quotations during
the week are announced for pork and
lard at Eastern markets, and advances
have actually taken place in leather,
coffee, and to relatively small degree
in wool, Notwithstanding the attendance
OF many American buyers at London
wool sales.
There are 21S business failures re-
ported in the United States this week,
against 223 last week, and as compared
with 346 in the third wee!; of Septem-
Der, 1893. In that week of 1892 there
were only ia business failures report
ed, but i'll 1892 the aggregate for the
week was 25O.