Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
A LITTLE SLACK.
Trade the Last Two Weeks Hardly
Up to Expectations,
Weather Favorable Throughout the
West for Active Business-De-
mand Fairly Good.

New York, Oct. 26.-Bradstreet says
of the trade situations:
1.-THE volume of general trade for two
weeks has hardly reached expectations
and now assumes the character of be-
tween seasons. Wholesale dealers in sea-
sonable staples. such as dry goods, CLOTH
Ing. hats and shoes, report only n fairly &C.
tive business. exceptions being at such
points as New York, Baltimore, Chicago,
Kansas City and Duluth. a noteworthy
feature of the week is the revival in de-
mand for pig iron, the upward tendency in
quotations OF leading cereals and the liqui-
dation In the cotton market Sales of cot
ton goods have been helped by favorable
weather and eastern as we'll as southern
mills are we'll sold up. Wool remains steady
in price and holders look for an advance
While the wooden goods market is reported
unsatisfactory, manufacturers generally
are hopeful. although adviccs from Rhode
Island are that unless additional orders
are received an increased number of mills
Will become idle.
Situation at Many Points.
THE weather is favorable throughout the
west for an active business and demand is
fairly good in principal lines, although
there are evidences of falling off. The
greatest activity is shown In dry goods,
clothing and shoes with evidences of q
check In the demand, particularly ut St.
Louis. Omaha and Milwaukee. Duluth re-
ports grain receipts heavy and that the log
cut will not be large. On the Pacific coast
there Is a tendency to Increasing strength
in the demand for staples at San Francisco.
where receipts of wheat, as at Portland
and at Seattle. are frecr, the exception be-
In at Tacoma. where arrivals are said to be
slow. The last named city reports a ship
ment of 100000 feet Of lumber to South
Africa
From Dun's Point OF View.
r. g. Dunn & Co., in their weekly re-
view of trade, say:
Ten days ago gold exports seemed very
near. But the break in cotton which then
began ripened on Monday into q collapse
sufficient to justify hope Of free move
ment. Hides have also dropped sharply at
Chicago. leather Is weaker. and the ADJUST
inent of prices to real instead ofimaginary
conditions progresses rapidly. Already
lower prices in iron have brought out some
important contracts. Labor difficulties.
though including strike of many Pennsyl-
vania coal miners who do not seem to DO
succeeding, are on the whole of no serious
Importance. Money markets cause remark
ably little trouble, considering tho heavy
movement of products. Cooler weather
has generally helped retail trade, and with
increased consumption by the millions the
way will be clear for better business"
exports improve but littlo because for
eign stocks are so large. and the lower
prices give more confidence to mills which
feared to purchase. and manufacture when
decline was reasonably expected. Wheat
has risen three cents for the week, al
though western receipts continue unusual
~ large, and Atlantic exports show plainly
slack demand from abroad. Nobody can
give reason for higher corn. and pork de-
clines Is cents. lard q sixteenth and hogs
ten cents per 100 pounds.
Iron boasts some good contracts this
week, one from Russia for several months
production Of armor plate by the Carnegie
works. one for government appraisers
stores here and others for $500 freight cars,
with prospect of as many more. Bcssemer
pig advances, but finished products on the
whole decline as much. other pig iron not
rising"
Tho Failure Record. f::-!!..s .y:s!!f.
Failures In October thus far show liabill-
ties of s7.624,53l. of which, So, sSS.l75 were of
manufacturing and $3.62l,556 of trading
concerns. Last year the aggregate was
$685. ll. of which 81, 500 671 was of rnanufac-
turing and s2,95S.5s7 of trading concerns.
In 1898 failures the same week were Sl5.-
0I.820. Failures this week are 231 in the
United States against 23l last year"