Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-23
RRADsTREET AND DUN.
business Situation According TO the
Mercantile Agencies

NEW work. October 22.-Brad-
streets tomorrow viii say: While the
general trade movement is somewhat H.
regular. and there are further evidences
of "A falling off in demand. the Voiuine ol
business continues OF large proportions
Speculation i'm wool has ceased, ana the
demand for the staple is less IMAM Ior
weeks Cotton goods are dull on the weak
utss ~ raw cotton. and jobbers report
dry-goods slower than week ago. me
rior merchants In the Central West nave
NOT distributed fall stocks as promptly ds
expected, and many jobbers at western ,nn
centres find that they oVcresllihatcu IN
consumptiVC demand when securing is
Goods. Unseasonably warm weather mas
interfered with the movement OF ne saS
goods at the West, but rams III hoi t,
oklahoma, and Nebraska nave mp W.
the AGRICULTURAL outlook. ReiatiVely, ,hv
greatest activity in trade is reported 10Y
Kansas City and Omaha meICh9hVo.
While quarantine regulations nave ~"
raised in Texas and modined IN Lo G,,is
ana business throughout most OF tne S S,tm
Almost all the larger eastern cues report
decreased movement of merchahdlSe'
Ind tendency OF collections 10 ran awaS,
notably baltimore, owing 10 its southern
me Industrial situation continues 10
furnish employment to as m&ny peisoIiS
as AT any preceding period TINS year az, @rS
al higher wages The production OF nou
steel ma chinery stoves, glass, anu "oo,,-
ian goods continues heavy. Inc stSol~
mills have orders TO carry them luto TO- 90
and decline contracts Tor next ySat rt.o
livery. This explains the advance III pi, 10
in Bessemer pig. while the foundry grades
me Inc same. The steady production OF
from Is starting up furnaces long vut Va
blast and although consumption IS heaNs,
II Is not improbable that prouuStioh n1.s
OutFun Il I'm the near future, MhiSh ~.
stftutes an unfavorable point III Inc out-
look ,.o,,,doa ne
wheat from both coaHt5 OF the Ddnn t,yu
States ana from CANADA TINS Me snH
10 5.552171 bushels. against 6OS9VJg pushcis
last week. 1867 600 bushels in the SAINT
week a year ago, 265s.0O0 bushels TWO
wears ago. 3.S5S.000 bushels three years age,
and as compared with 3,S-IVp Dusnels III
the like week OF 1893. There has Oeen u
sharn decline I'm the export movement OF
Indian corn--l III sos bushels. comlaI co
with 2224G00 bushels last week, Zv'Svo'
bushels In the same week year aa 49, ~,
1873 zoo bushels two years ago, SzV,vV9
bushels three wears ago and as compared
with $4,000 bushels in the IKE week oi
1&e. . ,sa
United states this week. against 40 ias'
week 29e I'm the same week year hso,
90 two years ago. 22l I'm the ike week OF
1894 and 500 IN the third week OF oc'o-
Der 1898
There were twenty-seven failures re-
ported from Canada this week, tota
considerably smaller than that or Ias,
week or in the third week or OCTOBER AZ
any OF the foar preceding years.
A QUIET PERIOD.
Messrs. n. c. Dun a Co. weekly re,
View OF trade tomorrow will say: AItti
the heaviest buying ever known IN NAM
branches during september ana .ns n,s -
half OF october, II was both natural an.
dcsrable that a more quiet period snoni,
succeed. In textile goods the rush o.
orders went far beyond all dislflpuu re
demand in August. and prevented -, :,
PUNISHMENT OF stocks. and the densh'
he's been correspondingly great m s osne,
lines for the past two months. IN sn en,
and boots there was active demsnu ~,
an infactlon OF prices such as was sss s
In 1885. but 81 has been avcioeu. ap *
ren'lv this season by men who Iesn,,S ;,
time OF comparative quiet as esse aa,. o. :
Prosperity IN their lines. ~ piyahs ~
'.~'--'-h"snt Is partly gattsnea. theFs