The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-22

New York, Sept 21.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say: The condition OF
general trade this week is an improve
ment over last week, in that favorable
: features reported then have been main
AGained. The surprisingly good reports
of business south and, with some excep-
tions, west, are indicated by our spe-
cial advices from Baltimore, Nash
VILE, Chicago. st. Louis. Portland, Or,
and San Francisco.
Baltimore jobbers in all leading lines
report the volume Of merchandise dis
tributed as in excess Of expectations,
and especially dry goods IN Georgia
and Alabama, excepting the fruit and
coal regions. Other southern products
are in good supply, orders continue
liberal and mercantile collections easy.
One sale is reported of 10000 tons of
rpig iron this week. The activity re-
ported IN almost all lines at Chicago a
week ago is continued, merchants be-
ing satisfied with the situation.
Far western buyers, who used to .ouy
in eastern markets. are purhasing
stocks at Chicago. The greatest ac-
tivity is shown in dry goods, clothing,
millinery and shoes. Wool, too, is ac-
tive, one lot of 100000 pounds having
been sold to a Rhode Island manu-
facturer.
st. Louis manufacturers and jobbers
of clothing and hats report business
heavier than in their preceding eXpe-
rience in like periods.
Sales Of millinery and dry goods are
large, as well as those of lumber. The
seasons shipments Of wheat from Port
land, Or, and San Francisco have he
~ called This MA
from the city first named and six from
fhe Golden Gate. Sales in the larger
y cities on the Pacific coast have in
81 creased in all lines.
Receipts of Alaska salmon have been
very heavy and exports promise to be
correspondingly large.
Heavier exports of wheat from New
York city, San Francisco and Montreal
have further decreased, the weekly total
(fiour and Whea0 exported from both
coasts of the United States and Canada
within six days, as exclusively reported
to Bradstreets, such &c | being 1881,
goo bushels. Last week ne like aggre-
gate was 2,7S9, 600 bushels; for the week
q year ago, vas 4,727, 600 bushels; in
1892 it was 3711000 bushels; the year
before that, 4,711.000 bushels; but in
the third week Of September, 1890 it
was only 1,155. 600 bushels.
The price movement this week is
downward, cotton having sold to within
2 points Of the lowest price on record.
and wheat having gone off sufficiently
to make another Lowest record for
that cereal. Other decreases are shown
in hogs and cattle, with the western
market based on heavy receipts. Bes-
semer pig iron, steel billets Indian
corn. oats. naval stores and refined
sugar. In addition, anthracite and
bituminous coal have been weak; those
for lumber likewise, at some western
points, and quotations for pig iron gen.
orally. Steady quotations during the
week are announced for pork and lard
al eastern markets, and advances have
actually taken place in leather and
coffee. and TO relatively small degree
in wool, Notwithstanding the attend
ance of many American buyers at the
London wool sales. There are 21S bust
ness failures reported in the United
States this week, against 223 last week,
and as compared with 326 in the t 'rd
week of September, 1898. In that TX
of 1892, there were only ia business
failures reported, but in 1891 the aggre-
gate fer the week was $50.