The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-15
BRADSTREETS REPORT.


New York Sept. 14.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow viii say: All the features of inn
provement in general trade reported a
week ago, are retained, and from a num-
Der Of the more important business cen
tiers still further gains are reported. Com
nercial travellers from Baltimore are
making their second trip TO the south, and
regard the business prospects as exception
ally bright.
At various northwestern centers colder
weather has stimulated the sales in dry
goods clothing and shoes. Wooden dress
goods are not sold as actively as in pre-
Vious weeks, iobbers not carrying supplies
beyond what the public are likely to take
before January l. Encouragement is got
ten from improved demand for money at
Savannah. Augusta and New Orleans. due
TO increased receipts Of cotton and demands
for advances on the crop.
At Chicago. money is also active and
some bankers have withdrawn from the
agreement to pay only 11a per cent. on bal
.tnces in country banks and will pay =
per cent
guaeed by sales at Nashville, which thus
far this month, equal the total sales
during August.
Inquiries are received from the north
for heavy blocks of pig iron. Demand for
pig iron is also marked at Chicago, but
has decreased at Pittsburg and st. Louis
ending with September il, aggregate $685.,
O90.0OO Z per cent. more than in the week
before. and nearly per cent more than
in ths second week of September. 1922
though % per cent. smaller than in the
corresponding week in 1892. From this it
Avill be observed the fortnights clearingS
Record corroborates Bradsteet's previously
Hubhshed reports Of Improvement in the
State of trade during that period.
r. The check in purchases of wool after
heavy buying tends to weaken prices, and
cotton Fas reacted Lie cents after its
Pig iron is o cents a ton lower, and
hardware and dry goods iobbers at west
ern centers report increased sales, due
TO lower quotations.
live stock 81 Kansas City and at Oma-
ha have weakened on heavy receipts of
c0mmoner grades. all of which comprise
the chief decrease in price of staples
They are offset by firmer markets and
advances for leather petroleum and sugar
and for print cloths, due 20 decreasing
stocks in cotton goods owing to the strike
of operatives.
wheat is up u; corn. ~ cents; oats, TX
cents: pork, &c; lard, &c. and coffee. Ac.
Cross earnings of the railroads for Aug
haelag a mileage of 100000 miles of main
line, aggregate $40, $4,000 against $40 lose, $50
in August. 1892. a gain of nine-tenths of
] per cent. This compares with de-
1903. and is the first increase shown in
any month this year over the like month
OF last year.
The Pacific lines report a gain of %
yer cent, and the southwestern roads an
Increase of II per cent. over August, 1898.
Exports of wheat, both coasts of the
\ nited States ard Canada, for six bust
Hess days ending September IL C1our in
naintaine6. the total enualling 2.7S9 900
bushels. contrasted with $4,000 last week,
last year, 900 in the week two years
ago, and with 6,974,coO in the week three
There were 227 business failures reported
fhroughDut the United States this week
against 2oS last week, 800 in the week
year ago.