The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-06
BRADsrREEr.s TRADE REvIEw


shows Striking Increase in the Volume
of BUSINESS With the JObbers I'm Staple
LInes-A verEtabIe Boom IN Itessemer
Pig, While In Dry Goods, Millinery /,
Shoes. Hats, Clothing and Groceries the
Autumn Demand is Good.
New YORK, Aug sI-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,
at such centers as New York, Balti-
more, Boston, Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City, st. Paul, Minneapolis and to
a 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 a
practical certainty of an unprecdent-
edly large crop of Indian corn and a
phenomenal harvest of wheat in the
northwest, as well as by the unex-
pected bound of prices of steel and
iron, followed by corresponding gain
in demand. The gain in quotations
for steel and iron is ono of the shap-
est within 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-
bic boom is impending in these metals.
A jump of nearly So per ton for Bes-
semer pig within n week, Sl.50 for bill
let's, 81 for charcoal pig, and western
mills refusing to take orders for fu-
true delivery except at value, renders
these industries excited. All 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
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 rams. and where the
cotton crop is to be short in consc
quence, country merchants report
better feeling in all lines and fair
demand from wholesalers.
Increased wheat shipments from Ta-
coma, investments at Seattle, -four
shipments from Portland (since the es-
tablishment 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 the United States and from Mon
treal this week flour included) amount
to only 1871, 900 bushels, against q
$50, 900 bushels last week, 3, 10000
bushels in the corresponding week
one year ago, and 5,O02, 600 bushels two
years ago.
During nine weeks of the current ce-
real year, total wheat and -four exports
amounted to only 5000, 600 bushels, as
compared with $4,000 900 in like por
tion of the preceding year.