The age-herald., 1897-08-14
WHEAT BOOMING AWAY UP THE LINE From Indications the Shortage Mill Be
 Very Great. FOREIGNERS CLAM0RING
Mastering to Place Orders Before the Rise Is Too Great.
STEEL BELIEFS ON THE JUMP
Eastern and Western Markets Full of Buyers Who Are Making Extensive Purchases aa Feeling of Better Days Acomin' 5f Prevails in the Market.

siS'Ni'o hi stie m"'NSe s-a
 New York. Aug. 1s-Pradetrcet'u to-. morrow will say:
 Evidences of widespread revival in de- mand for merchandise and other products have become so numerous as to compel general recognition. Tha press has there- fore ceased discussing whether trade has really improved or not and has begun. measuring l1e volume of business as com pared with previous seasons A buoy ancy of feeling has appeared among buy. CTS and sellers att New York, Baltimore, Chicago. St. Louis and Kansas City, where interior merchants have throngei this week. the like of which has not been seen for several years Interior mer- chans are buying dry goods, clothing, shoes and fancy articles more freely than at any time since 1892. Crop conditions have improved at Ithe south and south west, and merchants there are encoul- aged. Southern lumber mills are not able to keep up with orders, and innumera ble small consumers of iron and steel throughou5 the central western states are buying raw material as they have nob for years. A nominal advance of 75 cents a ton for steel billets is more than feature as it means the confidence of makers in an early revival of the d:mand for iron and steel, which has been long delayed. Wheat sco.ed an advance of 7 cents on continued heavy exports, and the tendency is to decrease estimates of the size of the domestic crop.
 Wool is heavy. with a speculative de- vanced again.
 Prices for southern lumber are up, as are wheat, wheat flour. Indian corn, and last, but not lease, print cloths, the mar heo for which has been so long depressed, prices for sugar, coffee, hard and petro- leum remain unchanged, while pork is almos.t the only important product queted lower than last week.
 Exports of wheat (flour included as wheal) from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week ag- gregate 4,460,519 bushels, an increase over last week of more than 1,100, 900 bushels, and compared with shipments in the week a year ago of 2,6s5, 900 bushels 1,S24,- 900 bushels in 1895; of 2,979, ,00O bushels Hl 1894 and of e,129,OOO bushels in 1893.
 The world wide character of the de- mand for our wheat and flour is illus trated by the export from both coasts of this country to such far-off and infre- quent customers as Rio deJaneiro in Bra gil and Surabay in the Island of Java not to mention heavily increased ship ments to Europe, China and the east.
 Total exports of Indian corn this week 
 aggregate 3275.652 bushels, against B. 223.000 bushels last week, 23s7 900 bushels in the week year ago, 944,oO0 bushels in 1895, 166,Ooo bushels in 1894 and 1,7S4 OOO bushels in 1893.
 There are 214 business failures reported throughout the United States this week compared with PA last week, 25s in the second week of August. 1896, 195 in the like. period in 1895, 2S4 in 1894. and 2o9 in the like week of 1893.
 There are 31 failures reported from the Dominion of Canada this week against Il last week, S5 In the week a year ago, ands29 two years ago.
 Dun's Review
 New York. Aug. 1s..-R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly review of trade tomorrow will