The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-12-05
TRADE VOLUME INCREASES
The Growth as Shown by Reports
Is Slow but Substantial.
Business as a Whole Has Broadened
Showing . Developments of
Confidence, bus Deferred
Orders Have Stopped
New York. Nov. es.-R. e. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says N

New York. Nov. 2S.-R. e.. Dun a
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says I'D
day:
When the rush of orders after election
slackened a began to think bust
ness dwindling. Broadly speaking,
the gain has been greater than anybody
expected, and it Is not surprising If a
small part of 1t Is in excess of the pres
emit consuming demand. Reports from
all parts of the country show clearly
enlargement Of trade, not at all points
in the same branches, but everywhere
helped by a more confident feeling. En-
tremes Of weather lave made the week
not altogether coed for retail trade, hut
in that line also there is improvement on
the whole.
Wheat has risen over G rents for The
week, without material change in for
eign advices, which have been on tn"
whole less stimulating. Western re-
ceipts are falling behind last years and
for four weeks past there have been
only 1902. 2S4 bushels. against q, 902, 5l2
last year. while the exports. flour u.
cluded, have been 6.270, 9Sl bushels in the
same week. against 6,265,01S last year,
and are not large enough to create eX-
citement. But thirteen cargoes left Ia
coma in November. and thirty have left
San Francisco, with twelve more load
ing and forty engaged. The milling de-
milling demand in the Atlantic states is
also large, and at four western cities
the output of -four in five weeks has
been 2,655,4i5 barrels. against 2.6l3. 800 in
the same week last year.
Corn has sympathized with wheat
only a little and is coming in freely. The
most important factor in the wheat mar
ket is that the visible supplies do not
gain as much as has been expected.
Cotton has gained only a sixteenth,
after It's considerable decline, and the
tolerably heavy movement puts the
SPECTATORS for an advance in constant
difficulties.
Wool has been and still is bought
largely for speculation and early pur-
chasers are unloading on the latter,
but the mills are not yet doing much
more than in October. A few more
have been started, but there is scarce
ly more demand apparent for staple
goods. Including speculative opera
lions the sales of wool have been for
four weeks 37,Sl4.100 pounds, of which
2 6,212,00 Were domestic, against 1885,
$50 last year, of which 13, 1881, $50 were do
IlS6llC, liz ,oSl III 1885, u WHICH,
q, 1888. 1856 were domestic. But the pro-
ducing capacity in operation does not
seem to be half the capacity of the
works and the stoppage of several large
carpet mills within the last ten days is
of Importance.
The collapse of the nail combination
and probably of the beam combination
and considerable reduction in quota
tons for nails and beams give reason to
look for a larger demand for products of
iron and steel, but at present the sales
against speculative purchases made
some time ago are depressing prices.
and Bessemer pig has sold at s12.2 % and
according to some reports a little lower
at P%ittsburg. The demand for such pro
ducts as are not controlled by the com-
binations is somewhat increasing, but
by no means as rapidly as expected.
In minor metals tin is scarcely as strong
as it was a week ago. hui copper and
lead are stronger.
Failures for the week have been 800
In the United States, against 279 last
year., and 3s in Canada, against n LAST
year.