The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-21
DUNN'S REPORT.
Signs of Business Improvements como
From All Quarters.

From al Quarters
NEW YORK. August Or. G. Dun
4 Co. in their Weekly Review Of Trade
tomorrow will say:
Not for several years have the teiegrapn
reports from various cities in an Darts
Of the country been as ehcouIa6ins a., "a
shaun as uniform Improvement as lllS
week The markets are called crazy by
some. but fairly represent the peop,o
whose coddcnce I'm the future Is strong
and increasing. Nothing appears 10 checA
Rumors Of injury 10 crops are not suf-
dcientiv supported to have much lnilu-
opce. The one temporary hindrance is
the strike of bituminous coal miners
which interiors as yet little with lhdus-
tries and seems likely TO terminate WIFI
in a week.
The demand for money improves tax
inc from New York 10 the interior about
half a million more than was IecelNeu
during the week. and offerings OF com
mercial loans are much larger lncIualns
considerable iron and steel paper. ana tne
course of foreign exchange Is generally
taken as an indication that specie imports
cannot be long delayed.
FARMERS BENEFITED
The greatest gain has been LOT asIlCul-
ture Corn has advanced a niue IN
price but is moving very largely. 80
that the last years surplus may soon De
marketed unless the new crop turns out
better than many now expect cotton
declined an eighth because OF an estimate
promising largest crops ever .ioWn, ~ ~
the goods market Is decidedly improving
and some of the large mills, after rev
weeks of suspension, have resumed work
Other farm products are doing wei also
but wheat has advanced about II 5-o Tor
the week on actual transactions win
purchases for export. Official estimate
of the yield Is entirely disregarded except
as an admission that the crop viii be
larger than that of last year and II is
cOmmOly assumed that the yield VIII be
510O000 900 bushels. or more though recot
reports Of injury indicating the possibility
OF "a somewhat smaller outcome have
helped the advance in prices.
WESTERN RECEIPTS.
Western receipts for the week were
3MA55f bushels, against 3s4.I3 last year
and for three weeks 1l340.26l bushels
against 10 6g1 l37 last year. while Atlantic
exports are about double last years, B.
7O52S7 bushels against lS0s,3h last year
and for three weeks 9S93lS against D.
l02.e6l last year. Flour included Tor
both years
continue more than double last years
in three weeks S5l6,5i4 bushels against
41l92n last year.
The iron and steel industry is push
ing forward IN spite Of the still unsettled
strike OF hituminous coal miners. and the
enormous purchases Of ore at Cleveland
and also Of bilets at Pittsburg show the
utmost confidence I'm the future Many
additional establishments have begun
work during the past week and while no
material change in prices have occurred,
reports indicate fewer concessions ~ Sc
cure business and "a much steadler tone.
INCREASED DEMAND.
The demand fer finished products has
decidedly improved. especially I'm plates.
Vhcets. and bars and in railway supplies
particularly I'm car axles. The sales OF
ore at Cleveland have amounted in two
weeks TO four or five hundred thousand
tons and billets sales are reported nj
Pittsburg have been in three weeks about
10000 tons.
Tin is hrmcr with full consumption
and there is large business in copper.
several million pounds having been taken
for export raising the price of lake TO
II Ia
The old difficulty remains in the boot
and shoe industry dealers being unwilling
"a buy largely at the prices which manu-
facturers now ask though during the
oast week the only change has been
slight advance on calf boots.
The market for hides at Chicago is
again much stronger. prices having ad-
Vanced with very narrow transactions and
buyers are holding off in the belief that
prices have reached the top. In the
wOOlen business a constant Increase APP
years in the number OF establishments AT
work and the demand for goods has
much increased.
Failures for the week have been 223 in
the United States against 2sO last year and
30 in Canada against q last year.