Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-13
A SLIGHT CHECK.
It Is Shown in the Volume Of
Gen oral Trade.
MANY FACTORS PRODUCE RESULT.
The Principal Ones Are the Excessive
Heat, storms ana Industrial Bis
turbnnces-yiews OF Dun and
Hradstrcet. &

New York, July 10.-Bradstreet's says:
There is only a moderate volume OF
trade throughout the country, the more
noteworthy changes being a checked de-
mand west and northwest, due to the ex
cessive heat and TO storms, continued Ga-
vorable reports as to the cereal and other
crop prospects and disturbance in indus
trial lines due to the strike of about 49,
900 bttuminous coal miners. The reluctance
of West Virginia operatives to join in the
strike complexities the situation.
THE prospect of an early settlement of
the tariff has strengthened the widespread
feeling of hopefulness that the autumn
will bring a revival of consumptlye de
mand. Orders for clothing, shoes and hard
ware for fall delivery are already more
frequent at Baltimore. Chicago and. ona-
ha. The movement of dry goods is Checked
by midsummer stock taking, but retail
business in seasonable lines has been stkns
ulated by midsummer weather There Is
no improvement in demand for cotton or
WOODEN goods, but the latter are higher,
based on the cost of wool.
prices show an advance of one-flfth Of
! per cent. during June and mark the
beginning of a turn in the outward flow of
the tide of prices which continued from
January l to June l."
How 1t Looks to Dun & Co,
r. G. Dun g. Co., in their weekly re-
view of trade, say:
Inc strike OF DltumtnouS coal miners
has taken $4,000 men or more from work
and threatens to restrict supplies of fuel
In some quarters, though the West Virginia
and some other mines which declined to
take part claim to be able to meet the ca St
ern demand for some months. At the,west
the strike is by no means unitedB sus-
tanned, and the impression prevails that
1t will not last long.
The tin plate works have settled. the
wage question and are again bag .aild
show production of 100000 boxeg ytAr-
ly, with capacity of 6,25O,OOO boxes. The
bar mills have more trouble but general
settlement of iron and steel wages is ex
pected without much delay. New orders
are small since. the annual vacation be-
gan, but yet are large enough, the sea-
son considered, to afford some encourage
ment.
THE cotton mills have steady and in.
creasing demand. and the quotation Of
middling uplands has been advanced a six.
teenth, aided by speculative strength on
reports of damage to the crop, especially
IN Iexas and Arkansas. The wooden mills
are getting decidedly more orders for fail
wants and beginning hopefully on spring
goods but are cautious in contracts for
future delivery.
nile the most cautious estimates of
wheat yield have been advanced. that of
the orange Judd Farmer to $4,000 OW.
prices have been lifted nearly 81 cents
mere. The disposition of farmers 10 hold
for higher figures is strengthened by MANY
foreign reports. 1t seems to be the fact
that crops in other countries are less
promising than usual. and the demand for
American wheat is supplemented even at
this season by exports of 2,605,594 bushels
corn, against 6S0,G10 bushels for the anne
week last year. Each week raises the est
mate of wheat yield, however, and If the
weather continues favorable the crop NAV
prove 9 most important factor in the fu-
ture OF national and international bust
more cheerful with each week, and an
immense crop is now anticipated.
Failures for the week have been aO6 In
the United States, against 215 last wear. ana
30 IN Canada. AGAINST 80 last year"