The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01
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Dun's Latest Weekly Review Shows an I
 proved State of Trade.

Dun's Latest Weekly Review Shows an I'm.
 proved State of Trade.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-R. q. Dun S Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade to-day says:
 Expressing political excitement in many of the states causes natural slackening in some kinds of business. but on the whole business indications are rather more favorable than they were week ago Gold exports have ceased quite number of mills have gone into operation and the demand for products if not equal to that of prosperous years, is better than It has been most of the time this year.
 The prices of farm products do not improve much and there are still some strikes to resist reduction Of wages so that the purchasing power of the people cannot have materially in creased, but there is a more hopeful spirit which promotes greater activity. On the other hand the record of past transactions is somewhat less favorable than of late
 Cotton has sold for 5sI cents for middling upiands and the large receipts at such low prices indicate clearly that the crop will at least De close to the largest if not the largest ever produced. The anticipated settlement of difficultieS at Fall River has not been realized ana at present a good many spiudleS and looms are Idle, But strikes are temporary; more lasting influence is the largest accumulation of cotton In the worlds markets, the stock of American in sight now exceeding 2,0DO, GOO bales. It is interesting that in spite of the low price of the principal southern crop, man ufacturers and wholesale dealers report rather more improvement in trade with the south than with any other section.
 The wheat market is lower and nothing ap- pears to justify any important change. Vest ern receipts have been 4SI6.I7l bushels against 6,276,6s3 last year and Atlantic exports only 5s4.2 .263 bushels, against i,OB,G66 last year. Corn Is higher, without any very clear reason and It Is noteworthy that at the same time pork Is a cents lower; lard & cents per 100 pounds and hogs 10 cents lower. The contrast indicates how little the provision market de- bends at present on natural relations of supply and demand.
 In iron and steel the west shows weakness, while eastern markets show more encourage ment Nothing of consequence is doing in rails, deliveries for the year to October being only l5O.OO tons which is below ordinary re- quirementS for renewals alone In structural work some moderate contracts are reported but bar iron Is extremely dull, and it is stated that the low prices reported last week 95 cents for iron and sl for steel, have been shaded in some transactions There is decline in wire. l@ being quoted for galvanized barbed and S22.5O for wire rods The best feature is that the heavy increase in the output Of pig does not seem to overload the market and there are rather less signs of pressure to sell than of late
 The demand for wool is not as large as it has been and while prices have scarcely changed for two weeks sales are but 4,S0I2 O pounds against 5.T7s,75O in 1899 and for four weeks i9,- 4Sl ,7i9 pounds against g 7I4 $50 in 1892 Prices were put down before the new tarlf took ef- feet so that results of foreign competition are felt mainly in reduced sales of some domestic wools.
 The failures for the week were s3I in the United States, against Si2 last year and 52 ir Canada, against 4i last year.