The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-08-17
Demand for Their Products Is
Increasing Day by Day.
TRADE IS MOST ACTIVE
All Staples Selling III Large Quantities.
and the Prices Are Holding
Their Own.

New York, Aug. 1O.-Bradstreet's
Weekly Review will say:
The features of the business week
are a continuance of remarkable
strength in the demand for the increas-
ed production of steel and iron, prac
tically all the first-class producing
plants having been put into service
and not a few of the cripples. Striking
as was the demand for an advance in
the price Of wheat, leather, cotton and
other staples for a month or two fol-
lowing March / last no rebound since
the depression of 1894 has been strong
err or more surprising than that in iron
and steel.
OF the same nature is the evidence
of improved business condition shown
by the activity of almost all manufac-
turing lines, more particularly of
course those in which iron and steel
are employed. The center of CONNER
cial activity at the west follows a line
drawn from st. Louis through Chicago,
st. Paul and Minneapolis, with an inn
proving demand also shown along the
Ohio river valley. Wholesalers at Chi
cagO and st. Louis report tho receipt of
good orders for dress goods, hats, caps,
clothing and shoes, to a large degree
the result of personal selection by in
terror merchants.
General trade on the Pacific coast has
improved within month. One Of the
features is the recent improvement
of the foreign trade of Seattle and Ia
coma. The development of commerce
with Oriental, Mexican, Central and
South American countries has a marked
effect upon the cities named. San
Francisco authorities wire that the
wheat crop in California is below the
normal and that fruits in that state
are ripening faster than the Gamers
can handle them.
DUN'S REPORT.
New ork, Aug. 9.-R. G. Dun &
Co. in their weekly review of trade will
say:
Business continues unusually active
for midsummer, and though there is a
! perceptible relaxation. there are no
signs of reaction. The one change of
great Importance which the past week
has brought is the amicable settlement
between coal miners and employers in
western Pennsylvania, Ohio and In
diana. It is said that about 100000
men will have their wages increased
after October by this adjustment, and
while the enlargement Of purchasing
power is of consequence 1t seems even
more important that a chronic case of
controversy has been removed by the
new agreement as to company stores.
| There is no important change in crop
prospects, and at this time no news is
eminently good news.
The industries continue to make pro-
gress, and higher prices for iron and
steel products has not yet outrun the
demand. Bessemer iron is a shade
weaker, but grey forge has advanced
about 60 cents, and finished products
are remarkably firm. Lake copper has
advanced to ~ cents. Tin has declined
about a quarter of cent and is quoted
at s12.4O. Lead is a trife stronger al
1888. The anthracite coal market is
completely demoralized, and prices
have again yielded little to about the
lowest ever known.
Sales of wool are not as much in.
fated by speculation as they were dur
ing the first half of July, but they still
considerably exceed the actual con
sumption, in the aggregate amounting
at the three chief markets to 6259. 3Ol
pounds. Prices are very firm. Som,
staple cotton goods have again ad
vanced in price, and the market is un
usually strong for the season. Failures
for the week were 225, against 264 las
year.
WEEKLY BANK CLEARANCES.
New York. Aug. 9.-The following table
compiled by Bradstreets. shows the tota
clearances at the principal cities and tn
percentage of increase or decrease. a
compared with the corresponding weel
last year:
Inc. Dec