Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-28
REVIEW OF TRApE.
Rradstreet's Weekly Report Shows Bette
Condition of Trade.

t1rdusSrects weekly Report SHOWS q BSEEGL
Condition of Trade.
NEW YORK, June %. Bradstreet's
Review of the state of trade says:
There are indications of moderate improve
ment in various lines and enough instances
to render the fact OF some significance. A no.
tably favorable feature is the practical ending
Of the coal and coke strikes, together with those
In related industries, which VIII put TO work at
once. or soon, more than $4,000 men The
number Of the employees in Industrial lines still
on strike Is estimated at about 5000. There
are sales by 1obberS IN staple lines for future
delivery where nothing but hand to mouth
business has been reported for weeks
AT points tributary to Kansas City and St
Louis grain harvest Is under fun Roadway.
The condition of the wheat is excellent snd the
demand for money to move the crop marked
and the supply abundant Western steeE
works recently started q report OF DISPOSE
ton by capitalists and others push new en-
terprises- Nothing indicating increased de-
mand for staple goods or tendency to sntici-
pate wants is reported from any New England
city. Compare lively large shipments OF shoes
from Boston are due to heavy cOnSignmenes
south based on cut freight rates Shoe facto-
ries at Philsdelphis, on the other hand, ara
largely idle
The settlement Of the coal strike produces =
more hopeful feeling in Pittsburgh Baltimore
merchants report the south Withholding orders
more than previously. Eight western cls1eS
agree that better feeling prevails in business
circles and that the outlook for improved fall
trade has increased This Is true e Cinctn-
natl and Detroit, where good weather has Stln1-
ulated sales in dry goods and other lines, and
at Louisville, which reports corresponding
| Improvement and sales by joboers for future
/ delivery. St Louis advises that SeaSonablo
goods are in better demand and that the end OF
| the strike has resulted in better feeling.
| Kansas City jobbers In dry goods report
better demand, but expect little other i'm
provement during harvesting. Similar adj
vices are received from Milwaukee and St
Paul where late rains have improved the out
look and sales for later delivery have in
creased in number. The volume Of trade is
larger at Duluth and the demand has improved
| At Cleveland business is only fair in leading
lines, although receipts Of coal are increasing
The volume OF business in dry goods and
kindred lines at Chicago is smaller than in the
preceding week, and jobbeFs are preparing to
take stock. Distribution OF merchandise from
Omaha is only fairly steady, and no material
gain is expected until August.
The Nebraska corn acreage is said to be 50
per cent larger than ever before, while the
acreage of oats is only one-han and hat OF
wheat only 20 per cent of an average
Exports of wheat, flour included. both coasts.
amount to only 100000 bushels this week.
against 2.S54 900 bushels last week, ASSOC
bushels in the third week Of June, 1925 and2.-
1000 bushels in the like week Of 1892 There
were l95 failures throughout the United States
this week, against ~ last week, $50 in the
third week of June, 1898 (when the financial
disturbance was beginning to make itself felt
with some severity, and i59 in the like week
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