St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-25
THE TWIN CITIES LEAD.
Business at These Points,
Says Bradstreet's, Shows
Re markable Revival.
BANK CLEARINGS LARGER.
Four Per Cent Increase on
Last Week and 20 on Like
Week Last Year.

NEW YORK. Aug. %. = Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say: Serious industrial
disturbances in New England, drought
in Central and far Western states. cur
failing nearly all staple crops, and dis
position IN all lines to continue to buy
nearfor by wants only fail to greatly in
fuence general trade throughout the
country, the trend of which is toward
further improvement. Northwestern
states east of the Missouri and the At
lanhc and the gulf coast Southern states
report relatively greater gains in vol
ume of traffic, and in the spread of that
better feeling and confidence in larger
volume of business in the fall on which
improvement in business depends.
Prominent among evidences of ex-
pansion in general trade are this weeks
clearings - total. $4,000. Goa gain
over last week of about 4 per cent, and
over the like total one year ago. when
clearlngS got down to about lOW-water
mark, the increase is 20 per cent. But,
compared with the total in the like
week two years ago. this weeks ag-
gregate clearings show a decrease of Is
sign of business movement that every
citv's clearings total for the week is
larger than. year ago, except one.
Gains in clearings at whisky markets,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Paris and Lex
ing, have naturally been expanded eX-
traOrdinarily. The greatest apparent
increase in the volume of business dur.
ing the week is at st. Louis, Baltimore,
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and San
Francisco. Atlarger Eastern cities there
is evidence of an
Increased Conf dence
that the autumn will brinK a largely
augmented demand IN nearly all staple
lines. but Baltimore is the only city in
the group announcing a decided i'm
provement. Sales of wool at Boston
have fallen off sharply: and wool i'm
pOrters and dealers having tie raw
product in store in bond, find transac-
tons checked because of doubt
whether it will be admitted free OF not
under new tariff.
At Cleveland groceries are most act
i've, and the outlook for freight rates Is
better, which is true at Duluth as we'll.
The least encouraging report is from
Cincinnati. AT Louisville, even though
drought threatens tobacco, demand for
dry goods and groceries Is larger,
as is true also at Detroit. From Chi
cagO the report comes of heavier
mail orders and personal buying of
dry goods, clothing, shoes, hardware
and iron from Indiana, illinois. part of
Iowa and Northwestern states. Orders
from the west of the Missouri river are
light, owing to unfavorable crop pros
poets. Drought is said to have curtalled
the Illinois butter aod cheese yield, and
short supplies of hogs West resulted in
the shutting down of packing houses in
Iowa and Nebraska. Southern pur-
chases at st. Louis continue heavy. the
feature of the week. more than offSetting
decreased Western purchases due to
drought, Rains have helped pasture
land in Kansas and Iowa, but not the
yield of corn. Kansas City trade is only
of fair volume, and that at Omaha is
quiet. The moderate gain at Mil
waukee and
The Striking Improvement
in general trade at st. Paul and Min
neapolis continue, shipments from the
latter points being quite satisfactory.
Portland, Or, reports fail trade good,
and the Columbia river salmon pack as
SO 900 cases larger than last year. AT
San Francisco trade is better than for
six months past. chiefly due to gain
in volume of exports in all directions.
Exports of wheat (dour included as
wheat) both coasts this week six days.
equal 3, 1872. 100 blu. against 2.979, 900 last
week, 3,417.O00 week before last. and as
compared with 4.960.000 in the third
week of August year ago. Two years
the weeks foreign shipments amounted
| to 100000. Three years ago they were
6,34S.00 and four years ago they were
2,55O,000 blu.