The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-04
IMPROVEMENT IN TR1
Little Significance Is Attached tod Trade
 in the West.

| shtkAC tb HteSshVs " VI Ns"s' in the West. New York, Aug. s.-Bradstres~- to- morrow will say:
 While little significance Is attached to the moderate improvement in trade at San Francisco. Pittsburg. Baltimore, Augusta and Atlanta when 1t is added
 that clearing house totals for July re-
 port go cities with larger aggregates
 than Tn July last year contrasted with
 the June report. which contained only eighteen cities with aggregates larger than those in June year ago. 1t is per ceived that there are influences at work at the interior favoring an increase Tn the volume Of business. The July clearings total at 5S cities was 2 per sent. smaller than in June and the smallest of any month this year except February. Compared with July last year Boston's July total declined per cent. St. Louis and Pittsburg alone among the more important cities show gains over July last
 improvement duLOaHCCo h 6CilCluA trade at San Francisco is based on in- terest manifested in the war in Asia, provision dealers particularly antici- pating largely increased trade. War between China and Japan has not af- fected the price of tea here yet. al- though an increased demand is noted at New York. Boston and Chicago. Teas are low now and stocks here moderate. If tea ports should be closed high prices would follow quickly.
 Boston reports staple merchandise very quiet, cotton selling at concessions. Added interest in wool has charac- terized the Philadelphia and Boston markets. Slight increases in demand In nearly all leading lines are reported. Advices from Cleveland, Detroit. Louis vile, Omaha, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Duluth are all of more than usual midsummer dullness. A moder- ate tendency to Improvement is noted at Minneapolis. At Chicago only a few lines report improvement, western buyers taking less because damage to crops by drought. There is an improve ment in bar iron sales. Potatoes are being marked up rapidly at the west, at the city last named IF cents bushel, due to drought and small receipts. Travellers are again being sent out from St. Louis and in dry goods, shoes, hats and hardware are said to be doing moderately well. A fair volume of bus iness Is reported from Kansas.
 Advices from southern cities. no fm- provement at Charleston, the trade selling cautiously at Savannah and business quiet at Jacksonville. where collections are slow. There is an im- provement in business at Augusta, and jobbers at Atlanta are filling orders more freely owing to good crop pros poets. Nashville announces an im- proved outlook. Chattanooga,s July trade is reported larger than that for June, but at Birmingham business is quiet and collections are unimproved. Trade has been slack at New Orleans, but the boot and shoe business is i'm proving and manufacturers are busy. Advices from Galveston and other points in Texas continue to report i'm provement.
 Wool remains steady at last weeks one cent advance.
 Wheat exports six days ending Aug ust amount to 2,s77, 900 bushels against 5,622, 600 bushels in the week a year ago. There are 22O business failures in the United States this week against, 459 in the corresponding week year ago, which was a period of extreme unrest in busineSsrl circeS.