Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-09-06
TRADE INCREASE.
Condition Of Business at Close Of
2 August a Great Surprise.
Autumn Demand Making Itself Felt
Wheat Harvest and Corn Pros
f' poets Aid Situation. -

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. - Bradstreet's
says Of the trade situation:
Tho concluding week Of August surprises
even the more optimistic with striking in
crease In tho volume OF business with Job
bers In staple lines at such centers as
New York, Baltimore, Boston,, Chicago.
St. Louis, Kan,as City, St Paul, Min
neapoiis, and to a more moderate extent, at
distributing points IN South Atlantic and
guilt states. among them Charleston, Chatta-
nooga. Atlanta. Savannah, Jacksonville, Bir-
mfngham and Dallas In dry goods, millinery,
| shoes, hats, clothing and groceries the autumn
demand is making itself felt. with the pros
pect for q further Improvement In Immediate
ly succeeding weeks ,t,tj 4
ra Encouraged by the Harvests
This situation is encouraged by a practical
certainty of an unprecedentedly large crop OF
lndtnn corn and n phenomenal harvest OF
wheat In the northwest, us we'll as by the ex-
pected upward bound of prices OF steel and
iron. followed by corresponding gain in de-
mand ~
as !tssp Boom In Iron. IT,
1.-THE gain In quotations for steel and iron is
one OF the shar2est withina week on record
aud following. as 1t does. On advance of about
70 per cent from the lowest levels reached In
lS93-o4 ts enough to cause the question of
whether o verttable boom Is impending In
these metals, A jump of nearly s. per ton for
d for charcoal pig, and western mills refus-
Ing to take orders for future delivery except
ot vplue, renders these industries excited
The, total volume OF general trade for the
summon has been larger than in 1894, and In
many instances than in 1893. with the outlook
to-day for even better fall demand than many
had anticipated. The upward and onward
impulse OF this week is noticeable. All win
ter limos Of goods have felt an improved re-
quest, ana manufacturers and jobbers are
preparing to handle largo fall trade. Given,
1t the south, where recovery, from the effects
OF the. late trade depression was felt latest,
jobbcrs In dry goods, hardware and groceries
announce the receipt OF many orders for
September delivery. Even, in Texas, where at
ne south the state has, suffered from drought
and ut the north from continuous, rains, and
where the cotton crop Is to be short in conse-
quence. country merchants report q better
feeling In all lines and o fair demand for
Wholesalers ia Is 1851 Il
From Dpn's Standpoint.
r. New. York, Aug 31.-R c. Dun g.
Co, in their weekly review Of trade,
say: I.,;ls. s,,,fs mn
"1mprovement In markets and prices con-
tfnues and whereas a.few months ago every
body was nursing the fntntest hopes OF rccov-
cry, 1t has now come to be the only question In
what branches II any, the rise In prices and
In tho increase OF business may 60 too far
htrohS' conservative feeling Is fnd-
Ing expression, not Us yet controlhngth the mar
kcts or industries but warning against too
rapid expansion and rise, In some directions
the advance In prices clearly checks future
business The industries are not only doing
better than anybody had expected. but are
counting upon great business for the rest OF
the year. 'HE}'' - 80 tRli @5 fsssE3t
b.. Wheat, Corn Etc. 80 Z!
1.-The prosre ct for wheat has hardly inn
proved this week. thongh the price has fallen
~ cents In the past four weeks Atlantic
exports have been only 4,38s, $50 bushels.
against ! ,iOl 1858 last year, and this alone is
quite enough TO explain the failure to main
t4in the sensational advance in prices which
80 effectively checked the optgo, Corn Is coming
forward more freely, and the September price
has declined quarter With the promise of
grent crop porK and Lard are shade lower.
Cotton Is rising as II there were no surplus OF
100000 bales American carried over to the
new crop year. which begins with next week.
The prico has advanced toS.l9 cents - i
t58 SO u The Failure Record suta5t{
Failures In three weeks of August show liza
bilittes OF s65l9.3 MISUNDERSTANDING. $3,5l7377:
trading, e2,s5asS9. In the same weeks las,
year liabilities were $50 4.47J 7,mauufacturing
t2.S4o3sS. and trading. IS -3s44l4. Failures for
the week have been 1856 in the United States
against 1876 last year, anil a? in Canada. against
~ lust year" t=tta