Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-05
sRADsTREEf.s TRADE REVIEW

yhows StriAIue Increase in the Volume
Of business With the Jobbers In Staple
Pig. While In Dry Goods, Millinery,
Shoes. Hats. Clothing and Groceries tho
Autumn Demand L. Good.
New York. Aug. 3l--Bradstreet's
to-day says:
The concluding week OF August sur
prises even the more optimistic with a
striking increase in the volume of
business with jobbers in staple lines,
ut such centers as New York. Balti-
more, Boston. Chicago, St Louis, Kan
sas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis and to
more moderate extent at distributing
points in south Atlantic aud gulf
states. among them Charleston, Chat
tanoogo, Atlanta, Savannah. Jackson
vile, Birmingham and Dallas.
In dry goods. millinery. shoes. hats,
clothing and groceries the autumn de-
mand is making itself felt, with the
prospect for a further Improvement in
immediately succeeding weeks.
This situation is encouraged by
practical certainty of an unprecdent-
eddy large crop of Indian corn and
phenomenal harvest of wheat in the
northwest, as we'll as by the unex-
pected bound of prices of steel and
iron, followed by a corresponding gain
in demand The gain in quotations
for steel and iron is one of the shap-
est within a week on record, and
following. as it does, an advance
of about so per cent. from lowest
levels reached in 1S93-94, is enough to
raise the question of whether verita-
BILE boom is impending in these metals.
A jump of nearly So per ton for Bes-
semer pig within a week, 81. so for bill
let's. 81 for charcoal pig, and western
mills refusing to take orders for fu-
trne delivery except at value, renders
these industries excited. ALI forms OF
finished iron and steel will tend up
ward in price.
The total volume of general trade
for the summer has been larger than
in 1894. and in many instances than in
1898, with the outlook to-day for even
a better fall demand than many antic-
ipated. The upward and onward inn
pulse of this week is noticeable. All
winter lines of goods have felt an inn
proved request, and manufacturers and
jobbers are preparing to handle large
fall trade.
Even at the south, where recovery
from the effects of the late trade de-
preston was felt latest, jobbers in dry
goods, hardware and groceries, an
nounce the receipt of many orders for
September delivery. Even in Texas.
where at the south the state has suf-
tered from drought, and at the north
from continuous rains, and where the
cotton crop is to be short in conse-
quence. country merchants report a
better feeling in all lines and fair
demand from wholesalers.
Increased wheat shipments from Ia
coma, investments at Seattle, flour
shipments from Portland (since the es-
Enlistment of the China steamship
line) and moderate volume of trade
at San Francisco characterizes the sit
uation on the Pacific coast
Exports of wheat from both coasts
of tho United States and from Mon
treal this week flour included) amount
to only 1871, 200 bushels. against g.
$780, 900 bushels last week, $4,000
bushels in the corresponding week
one year ago, and 5, 092, 900 bushels two
years ago.
During nine weeks of the current ce-
real year. total wheat and -four exports
from the United States and Canada
amounted to only 16. OOo, 600 bushels, as
compared with Is, 600. 900 in a like por-
ton of the preceding year.