The herald., 1896-06-27
COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS
Business Waits on the Settlement Of Pinancla
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| NEW YORK, June 2s.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade, which issues
tomorrow, will say:
The monetary outlook is ont yet clear.
The strength shown in recent conventions
! by advocates of free silver coinage and
the expectation that all the elements favor
ing that policy may vet be concentrated,
incline them to waiting attitude. Their
| uncertainty retards Improvement, not
wltnstanding the more widely prevalent
teeiing that the monetary action at the St.
Louis convention will be sustained by tho
people. But many mills have waited as
| long as they can with safety and sigma
lures have been given by enough cotton
snIils OF FAN River to insure a temporary
aSs1 I'VE u Is stated, the nature of which
she Providence manufacturers. Mean .
w wai the Paeific Of Lawrence and the
anu practically all the southern cotton
MUS Mus VIII be represented at a meeting on
Ni Wootssnw ~ A. the same object;
ou. aourteen are mentioned in dispatches
as paving closed this week. There is no
shouah th ev cement u n other industries
hand in many of them and Import and
e and n}T 9s to wages of iron pudders
nual stoppage in that Industry NAV la ~
longer than usual -""S last
clines s Mieeaknsss Of wheat which has de-
eighth lower for spots though less - FOR or
a rood .o have fun explanation In decidedly
thus ZAP Returns Of
TO WnHe at and the condition of cotton has
'e Wbe eeff'd rsns,I improved by rains.
been asss $50 BUSHES aI western ports haw o
i Jas, year and for the three weeks past
%hiis against 3.s54Ooo last year and
creased amounting to T. SGT 10Y hus h IL. a 80,
IN against 4.9ls, 4a7 for three weeks
doubt sast ye tbs there is reason
ane nay crop has also been exceedingly
e Gooa at the west. 1t is not wholly a wei
nrine. fou necessary conclusion, that
be hi9her 'ne great staples are not likely to
The great combinations. which the Iron
prices reas6es t sI to
nets mets' % 99tn for material and fns;s1 ssSd-
thai 81 ow iron and steel though it is reported
coke owing to betser sen fe made for
pproducts and for nails, owing to the heavy
ae Tbe bi, IN consumption nsY
n"o ptiet pool reports no larger sales
~, M rliN9iaiemen. or outsiders continue to
e er az SCI d It. bBesssmer Pix is shade low
facturerss' as as bb as burg The textile manu-
de,Eising curtai!ment Of production, and ths
OF yo Shdhm sgy Of prices Is downward: Sales
weeks, of which 6iSS rs We're 1n%s a1f TOUR
tho Tfn, rs TOT me week have been 217 in
and q 1 IN states against 25s last year.
BRADSTREETS REPORT
Bradstreets tomorrow will cav.
a more hopeful feeling in trade c;rcles
NV W,eh IN me past few days. explained as
Louis, has been given undue Weight' m IN,
ttervieWs with merchants in staple lines at
t rb,t Y, II OF the more important dis
increased strength Of wool in the hands ,i ~
1pnbtfa1r n holders trefected at Boston ana
hardWare at P ao idRpreve ed demand for
S sfnoes az Baltimore. shoes and dry goods at
tMbe ernp Us ana IN similar lines at st. Louis
AT Cbica as pe tSar no Improvement in trade.
ment. but no increase in business. a nan-
s shs OF leading jobbers at important cities
trade Until after Elections of pey an5 n gen
pom ys no improvemen' is expected Until
no laFser than he Soume Of FOREIGN trade IS
sas City Midsummer d ulinesss an cba Man-
Relative operations ~ at almost all points
among eastern dry goods jobbers Who bsva
sactttlnced prices to reduce heavy stocks ~
print cloths at Fall River is lkeIv r. bn f. 9t
ao"ed by similar action at Providence and
New England rubber manufacturers arc
curtaiiing production and the situation and
ouliook IN the iron and steel Industries is
tha sails Saitsfaetory with prospective cut in
probability, of the billet combination redu ne
lng quotatlons and lower prices for coke
jeaf aq 1ohaon there are reduced prices for
ieal topacco, petroleum and cot tom foI.
wheat Hour. oats. pork. lard, sugar and
Exports of wheat (four jncludede q,
wheat from both coasts Of The TInitaaSs
S States and from Montreal amount to 3 ri
goo bushels, compared with 5000, 90 busheis
last week, and l,9460OO in the week a year
There are 21s business failures reported