The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-05
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
Report of the Business as Given Out by
 Bradstretts

morrow will say:
 Seasonable weather has stimulated sales of merchandise and increased the prospects of favorable fall trade gem erally, Among the less favorable feat ures are a moderate demand in staples on the Pacific coast reaction in the volume of business at Baltimore and the check to the advance in prices of iron and steel with reaction of about $1 per ton at Ohio va!lcy and pennsyl- vania centres. Prices for iron and steel at western centres are firm, and dealers are said to be sold eight months ahead. Mercantile collections are very generally improved, more particularly south, Georgia and Texas merchants and farmers being conspicuous. September bank clearngs reflect the spread of favorable trade conditions, but more es- pecially where trade has been back ward. Total clearings at sixty-one cit ies for September aggregate $4, 123, S55, 5SS, gain of 6-10 per cent. over Sep tember Compared with 1892 the de- crease is 13 per cent. Gains are heav- fest in eastern and middle states and are larger in the western and northwestern states than in August.
 Among seventy cities comparing with September last year only one quar- ter show decreases. Comparing with September. 1893. only seven cities show losses. The heaviest gain shown by any large city over September last year is at Cleveland, 34 per cent but New York, Boston and other cities show heavy gains.
 The totals for seventy-fve cities for nine months aggregate $3S, ,163, 410253, a gain over last year of 164 per cent which is outside of New York a gain of almost 10 per cent, Price movements this week present as marked contrasts as iii preceding weeks. A further ad- vance in cotton has pushed up prices | for cotton goods, notably print cloths. Coffee and sugar are higher and rosin tends upward. Another advance for anthracite coal is coupled with the an nouncement of fractional increases for | copper, tin and lead.
 | On the other hand wheat, corn and oats have gone off again while heavy 1 receipts of live hogs have further de pressed pork and lard Turpentine is I lower as are petroleum steel bars and | bessemer pig iron. Wheat flour has re- mained unchanged, as have leather and shoes, although the latter are expected 1 to go higher. The general trade in dry goods has improved with more season. able weather Sales of wool at Boston are the heaviest on record, amounting
 to 120Oo,0 900 pounds, 500,000 pounds of Montana have been sold to go to Brad
 ford, England. Chicago sales of dry I goods, clothing and shoes are larger l than last week, and at St. Louis larger business is reported.
 Trade conditions south are reported l improving. Tacoma reports Septem- 1 ber's shipments of lumber the heav- | fest on record. Seattle announces that l it will report million bushels of wheat ! this season; Portland that salmon are running light owing to the low water in the river and moderate volume ot trade, due to mild weather while at San Francisco business generally has remained without change. Exports ot wheat, flour included from both coasts of the United States and Canada amount to 2,61S0O0 bushels One year ago the total was 3,234, 900 bushels.
 Available supplies of wheat in the United States and Canada have increas- ed net only 4630,0OO bushels within three
 months against four, five and six times
 as heavy increases in preceding years Totalavailable supplies here in Canada
 Europe and afloat for Europe have act ually declined a little more than one
 million business since July 1, while 1T six preceding years they increased from
 ten millions to twenty millions in like
 periods.
 Two hundred and thirty mine business
 failures are reported throughout the United States this week compared witt
 215 in the week a year ago.
 General trade at Toronto is of moder
 ate volume and without special feature A like report is received from Montrea
 where prices remain firm and the busi ness is favorable. Rather more activ.
 ity is reported from St. John, N. B., where
 country buyers are attracted by the ex
 position. Only an average volume i: reported from Quebec city. Bank clear ingls at Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto
 Montreal and Halifax aggregate s20,
 054. 900 this week, which is g per cent less than in the week last year. Int l o,,r,Ler of failures reported from Cana