River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-14
SHOWS GOOD SIGNS.
Several Lines of Trade Report a LiveIier
Feeling.
New YoRK. June 10. n. q.

| NEN ithhs June IL. Ii. ". Dun ~
Go. S weekly review of trade says;
The outlook for business seems little bet
! ter on the whole, though the improvement is
not great. Moreover ID Is impossible to dis
/ tinguish between mere replacement Of orders
| Cancelled Tor want Of fuel or other causes
/ ana the new business for which works
/ are anxiousiy looking. II is somewhat encour-
! aging that the decreas in payments through
clearing houses in comparison with 1892 is
about 80 per cent Railroad tonnage is larger
than year ago In live stock and moderate In
| cereals, but considerably smaller in coal and
iron products and in other manufactured goods
west-bound.
With only 1891 coke ovens working and IA
$40 idle, with the Cambria discharping half its
1 force, and seven out OF nine OF the gle
/ furnaces at Bessemer out of blast the pro-
duction and manufacture OF iron and steel are
smaller than at any other time for years.
| While IL Is believed deferred work will cause
| heavy production after the strike termt
mates the demand for products is at present
much below general expectations even at the
east Other industries have been less affected.
bGa many OF the textile mills even in New Eng
land have now been closed for lack of fuel or Of
orders, besides other concerns in great num-
Der between the Atlantic and tho Mississip
| river
The returns of failures are still encourage
ing, PIG in the United States for the week,
/ against 322 last year, and 40 in Canada against
q last year. The liabilities In all failures re-
ported in the month OF MAY we're Si3 BOZ, 357.
, about s5420-Oo0 at the east s4,5oo.0o0 at the
south and S3,4oo,0o0 at the west. OF the aggre-
gate S5,l65,025 was OF manufacturing and So 633,
| 400 OF trading concerns"
Bradstreet's saws:
Nearly all the unfavorable business condi-
lions of the last three weeks continue to exer-
else an influence. The few exceptions where
| improvement is noted are OF practically local
4 III Eata aaa h..u
been interfered with by unfavorable weather
ana by further restriction OF the purchasing
power of thousands of wage-earners, by fur
| Their industrial trouble, by shrinkage In
| production
THE see-saw prices tip in the opposite diree-
| ton this week, most strikingly in cereals, oats
having advanced 518c wheat 3ssc and corn &C.
1 Potatoes are zoe higher a bushel at the west,
| bar iron and pig iron are up sharply at st.
| Louis and live stock at Kansas City Lard is
| fractionally higher. Conspicuous decreases In
| prices of staples reported are in leather and
wool due to heavy receipts of new crop. Coffee
! is of he.
AT larger eastern centcrs there is no inn
! provement in general business. New Eng land
cotton mills continue TO produce in excess OF
demands. Southern and Rhode island cotton
/ mills are shutting down for want OF fuel as
well orders. Philadelphia jobbers In dry
goods report better spot demand and the pc
| troleum market there is more active but Bal
| timore jobbers in cloth ng as well as in some
other lines have mol sent out drummers as for
! merry.
| Among southern cities covered Richmond
| Savannah, Jacksonville and Augusta report
| the more favorable conditions. At the first
there Is better depand for groceries and pro-
visions for agricultural implements and Leaf
| tobacco, which Is quite active.
/ There Is little far-reaching attending evil
| dence OF improvement reported from the west.
| At Louisville there is more demand for grocer
les, and the leaf tobacco market is quite active
and business being reported. There is more
doing among jobbers in hardware at Chicago,
although interior merchants tributary to that
marlet have not tegun TO buy in advance OF
J actual needs. and on the other hand the
spread OF TIT coal strike is checking business
| there"