Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
lOuN's COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

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While Business Has Received No Setback
| this Week. the Volume of Increase Dr.
| minislles, Orders for the Replenishment
of Exhausted Stocks Having Been Largely
Disposed OLA Conservative View of the
Outlook.
| NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-R. G. Dun IL
| Co.'S weekly review of trade issued to-
day says:
Business has met no setback this
| week, and continues larger than early
in August and larger than a year
ago directly after the panic. More
commercial paper is offered; the
| western demand for money in
creases; the iron manufacture greatly
expands its output; shipments of shoes
continue large, and cotton goods still
advance little. In some directions
/ lie postponed business has about spent
: il. elf, and less active trade results,
while the net increase has not been
much more than is usually seen in
assiHg from August to September.
, n comparison with last year the in
come is 10 per cent. in volume OF clear
| rigs, while in comparison with Sep
| TENDER. 1892. the decrease is 25.7 per
| thus far reported are 1.3 per cent. less
than last year, but 15.5 per cent. less
than in 1892, and the tonnage compar-
ison shows substantially the same re-
suit.
The country has now passed nearly
three weeks under the new tariff. and
| all admit that changes have been OF
less Importance as yet than was eX-
pected. II in some branches business
has materially increased, it has gained
little or has fallen off in others. Loss
in some directions is explained by crop
reports, for the most favorable esti-
mate of experts puts the loss of corn at
about 400, 900, 900 bushels, whereas the
government report is by some inter-
preted as meaning loss of 900, 600, 900
bushels. The opinion of the trade
does not favor the official estimate, and
the price has not risen at all during
the week, though receipts have been
very small: exports have practically
ceased, and all realize that the shrink
age of 400, OO0, 900 bushels is serious, it
it proves no greater, since it must az
feet prices of meats for year or more.
Pork is unchanged, but lard has risen
80 cents per 100 pound
Nor are official reports as favorable
to wheat. Western receipts in two
weeks have been 11,1s4,i57 bushels,
against 1864, 761 last year, and Allan
tic exports only 2,O.4. 100, against
5.1OG, 562 last year, and the price is one
half cent lower. Considerable injury
is officially reported to cotton, but few
expect less than $500, 900 bales, which
is more than enough and the price is
sixteenth lower.
Shipments of shoes from Boston in
two weeks have been 16s,915 cases,
against 1Os, $50 last year, and in low
priced goods the market has not been
as bare for years, while purchases
from stocks or for quick delivery re-
fleet depletion Of stocks and consum-
ing demands.
Less activity Is seen in dry goods.
the rush of postponed business having
abated. and there. is more disposition
to defer purchases because of some
what general advances in cotton goods,
and because London wool sales are ex.
pected to make the outlook clearer.
Strikes in cotton mills have not ceased,
and stocks of print cloths shrink rap
idly; but some question wheth her re.
cent advances in prices can be main.
tanned, with important additions to the
present force. There is still a fair
business for speedy delivery in wool
ems, and for cheaper grades, of spring
goods, but scarcely anything is done
in the finer grades. About half the
usual business in the aggregate has
&c hut
three-quarters in the cheaper grades.
Sales of wool have been s,255, 200
pounds in two weeks, against 5,647, 900
last year and 16,42s, 800 IN 1892. The
markets are easier and less active, all
waiting for the London sale.
Speculation in stocks has been tame.
the public being indisposed to sell,
while crop prospects and unsatisfac-
tory earnings hinder any movement by
operators London has sold little,
but the average for railroad stocks has
advanced during the week 80 cents per
share, while trust stocks declined 90
cents, whisky showing most weakness.
Domestic trade reflected by clearing
house returns. naturally about 20 per
cent. larger In September than n. Au-
gust. gains little more than last year,
but less than in 1892.
There is a little improvement: this
week ir offers of commercial paper,
particularly in connection with manu-
features. though the business is still
narrow. The movement westward and
southwark has also improved, and the
scarcity of small notes for use at the
west has enabled the treasury to,add a
little to it's gold reserve. Customs re-
ceipts in September are S9,Os4 ,O37,
against g., $50, 124 internal revenue. and
imports Of merchandise increased less
than was expected. Exports of prod
ucts from New York in two weeks have
been Ks per cent. smaller than last
year; and in August the principal ex-
ports amounted to S35;675,6sl, against
S45, 669- 152 last year. a decrease of 90
per cent, mostly in breadstnffs.
Failures in the first week of Septem-
Der as yet reported show liabilities Of
only 81 .43O,07 OF which S415. 40 were
of manufacturing and $685., 45G of trad
ing concerns. The aggregate of liza
bilities reported for August is s1O,697,-
5l3. This week the, failures have been
201 in the United States. against 314
last year, and A in Canada. against 81
last year.
A FOOL AND HIS PISTOL