Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-07-05
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
A Better Feeling Is Reported in
Trade Circles.
In Spite of Scarcity of Fuel and the Big
Railway Strike business Prospects
Are Apparently More
Favorable.
DIN & cos REPORT.

NEW YORK, June 30.-R. G.. Dun &
Co. 5 weekly review of trade says:
The great strike OF coal miners has ended
ct most points, but another threatens to in
terrupt business more seriously for time
though the number Of hands engaged is COM
paratively small. Travel and trafic are we'll
nigh arrested on twenty western roads al
ready and strikes are threateded on all roads
which use Pullman cars. On the whole other
changes during the week have been for the bet
ter. Many manufacturing establishments
which were stopped by want Of fuel have re-
sumed. The depletion of the treasury reserve
has been checked by the voluntary deposit OF
gold in New York banks Exports OF goods
have almost ceased Congress has made much
progress tow ard final disposition of the tariff
question Chop prospects grow better as the
harvest draws nearer,
The resumption Of work in mines and mills
has made good progress, but the demand for
products is IS yet smaller and less urgent than
was expected. Textile manufacturers are much
embarrassed by the near approach of probable
change in the tariff, the effect OF which cannot
yet be calculated. In spite of this reason for
deferring orders and purchases the number Of
mills quitting work is not as large as was ex-
pected, for there appears little more demand
from clothiers and iobbers.
Wheat has declined two cents Corn has de-
clined seven-eighths OF a cent, receipts being
larger than Of wheat. and heavy crop is ex-
pected Pork products are also shade lower.
Cotton has yielded sixteenth, as speculation
against the enormous stocks in sight grows
tiresome.
This week the failures have been PA in the
United States, against 907 last year, and IS
in Canada, against "a last year OF late the
number and Importance of failures have in
creased a little, as is usual near the close of
half year
Bradstreet's Review.
NEW YORK, June 30 Bradstreet's
says:
While there IS no actual improvement in
business throughout the country there are more
favorable prospects and better feeling among
merchants with an increased number Of in
stances where trade has been stimulated.
The ending Of the great bitumin-
Gus coal strike is promptly followed
by a sympathetic strike of railroad en-
ployes, which threatens disastrous effect on
business by reason Of interference with dsstri-
button and travel Losses on perishable freight
in transit are already reported. Other un-
Rhode Island cotton mill owners as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of shutting down, owing
to accumulation of stocks. heavy ar
ri ID 81 wool at eastern markets, where stocks
are already large: delay in settling the coke
strike, which prevents many industrial estab-
lishments from starting up; an extremely re-
strieted volume of business among whole
sale dealers in clothing at Baltimore
43 per cent. of what it was in the
first half OF last year; delayed orders
from country merchants in Georgia and
south Carolina where crop damage has been
threatened, and sharp restriction in the vol
ume OF general trade at Chicago where the
railway strike centers. At New Orleans trade
n ala lines is smaller. At Nashville and at
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