Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-25

A General Improvement and Ex-
PnnsiOn In business.

New York. Aug. 2i.--Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say; Serious industrial
disturbances In New England, drouth
In central and far western states cur
failing nearly all staple crops and
disposition In all lines to continue buy
ing for nearby wants only fail to great
iy influence general trade throughout
the country, the trend Of which Is tow
ard further Improvement. Northwest
ern states, eastern Missouri and At
lantic and gulf coasts and southern
states report relatively greater gains
In volume of traffic and IN the spread
CT that better feeling and confidence
in large volume of business on which
Improvement In business depends.
Prominent among evidences of ex-
pansion in general trade Is this weeks
bank clearings of $500 600, a gain
over last week of about per cent.
ana over the like total one year ago,
when clenrings got down to about low
water mark. the increase is about 20
peg cent. But compared with the total
In the like week two years ago this
weeks aggregate cloarlngs show n de-
crease of is per cent. 1t is also worth
noting as u sign OF the business move
ment that every oity's clearlugs total
for the week Is larger than "A year ago
except one
Gains in clearings ut whisky markets,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Peoria and Lex
ington, have naturally been expanded
extraordinarily. The greatest apparent
Increase in the volume OF business dur
ing the week Is at 81. Louis, Baltimore,
Chicago, st, Paul, Minneapolis and San
Francisco. At the large eastern cities
there is evidence OF an increased con-
fidence that the autumn will bring a
largely augmented demand In nearly
all staple lines, but Baltimore is the
only city in this group announcing a
decided Improvement, Sales OF wool at
Boston have fallen off sharply and
wool Importers and dealers having the
raw product In store in bond find trans
actions checked because of doubt
whether 1t will be admitted free under
the new tariff. At Cleveland, grocer
les are most active and the outlook for
freight rates IN better, which Is true at
Duluth as well
The least encouraging report IL from
Cincinnati. At Louisville, even though
drouth threatens tobacco, demand for
dry goods and groceries is larger as
Is true also at Detroit From Chicago
word Is received OF heavier mail or
ders and personal buying OF dry goods.
clothing shoes, hardware and iron from
Indiana and Illinois. part OF Iowa and
Northwestern states. Orders from west
or the Missouri river are light owing
TO unfavorable crop prospects prouth
is said TO have curtaled the Illinois
butter and cheese yield and short sun
plies OF hogs west resulted In the
shutting down OF packing houses in
Iowa and Nebraska. Southern MIR.
ohases at St Louis continue heavy
the feature OF the week, more than
ofsetung decreased Eastern pur-
chases due TO drouth, Rains have
helped pasture land In Kansas and
Iowa, but not the yield Of corn KIM
sas City trade is only of fair volume
and that al Omaha is quiet. The mod
crate gain at Milwaukee and the strlk-
ing Improvement In the general trade
at St Paul and Minneapolis improved
shipments from the latter being quick
ana satisfactory. Portland, Ore, re-
ports fall trade good and the Columbia
river salmon pack is $4,000 cases larger
than last year. At San Francisco trade
IL better than for six months past.
chiefly due TO gain In the volume OF
exports in all directions, General trade
at southern cities betrays no change
within fow weeks, the volume Of
transactions on demand OF business ON
the whole being relatively better than
In some other portions OF the country,
Ihere IL a better request for lumber
at Charleston, for hardware and ma
chinery at Augusta. rosln at Savannah
and whisky at Nashville. Prospective
early movement OF cotton is expected
g. stimulate trade in all staple lines.
Jobhers at birmingham. Ala. report a
heavier August trade SO far than wear
age. and the crop outlook in Louisiana
Is expected to help business interests
there generally. Texas coast region
crops are said 70 have been damaged
by excessive rains.
Exports Of wheat (tiour inciuded).
both coasts, this week six days1 eonsi
S,lSS.loo hushels against e,97s 600 bush
els last week. s,ii7.oOo week before last
and as compared with l.seo.0OO hush,
els IN the third week of August one
year age, Two years ago the weeks
foreign shipments amounted to i,sOs. 600
bushels; three weeks ago they were
they were s.5e2ooo bushels.