Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-09-18
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
STEADILY IMPROVING
Reports From All Business Lines
in the Country Are Highly
Satisfc Glory.
EMPLOYMENT FOR MANY MEN
Trades Union Reports Show Thirty
Four Per Cent More Employed
Than N Year Ago--Ti,e
Price of Grain.

New York, Sept. Is. u q. Dun a.
Co.'s Weekly Review OF TRADE says 10
day:
business grows better I'm all wa g.
A steady increase in production, IN
working force and in power 81 u
people TO purchase Is the feature
which o~vershadows all others. lie"
ports of New York trade unions snow
an increase since one year ago 81 -
per cent In the number of men ~
work. A similar increase among men
i'm like occupations throughout The
country would exceed 3O0 1000, while
every week adds many establish meats
tu the active list. The farmers are
helped by higher prices for wheat,
and while western receipts 40 NJ
show that they have marketed u tentl'
Of their crops assurances oil - Land
some profit to come prepares th'In 70
buy literally hereafter. Becaute of
this and the increase Of hands az work.
dealers throughout the country nave
started TO replenish their stcckS' whhh
is the great force nj present operating
in manufactures and trade, although
distribution by retail trad. has great
~ increased.
A gain Of IL per cen in one month
In the output Of pig iron from i65'Jlb
tons August !. TO 1856. SOC September J.,
with knowledge that half n dozen 9th
err furnaces are preparing to re' IN
md that unsold stocks nave bs'n "a
duced lI,4OO tons weekly in August.
Indicating a consumption OF about
100. O tons. more than explains ~
moderate advance In prices OF hnish'd
products, averaging but q per cent
since the lowest point August ~.
Pig is "A shade stronger at Chicago,
but the proof that the advance Ia
healthy is found in the growing de-
mands of consumers, so that most
prices have advanced 81 per ton. Rods,
sheet and merchant pipe are In heavy
demand. Copper is steady and lead ~
"A shade stronger ut AIS cents. and the
production of coke has reached 1884,
600 tons, with 12,717 ovens in opera
ton.
Wheat has risen ) cents the past
week. not in furry, but i'm answer to
the daily increasing foreign demand,
though reports OF the crop, now al
most wholly out Of danger. indicate "a
yield never surpassed but once. For
eign still strengthen the be-
lief that the deficiency abroad will d.
III ~ ID han
usual. and meanwhile report indicot.
that less corn than was expec,ed LII,
be available for export. It's nr;co -
risen about 5-S of "A cent. Wbaa, ra
ceipts at all The western points ara for
the week a little below last y.ar,s
but Atlantic exports, o.77s 1ss h,,s'
els, -four included, against o-o -.
last year for two weeks. with s.57e.77I
bushels OF corn, against 1870, 1oI last
year. indicate n firm demand appar-
emily limited at present only by shin
room.
Since the small corner i'm August.
cotton has relapsed TO I 1-2 cents.
Northern mills are consuming large
ly, with IA continuing demand for
goods, which advanced the pI ices of
many. With enormous speculative
sales of wool, which appear to- consti-
tute most Of the market at boston.
there is ais more buying there and
are enjoying an exceptional demand
for goods at prices averaging net 10
per cent higher than was paid early
in the year. The advance for the
week in securities has been SLIP per
share for railroads and ~ cents for
trusts.
Failures for the week have been 2l5
in the United States, against 3l5 last
year, and 35 in Canada, against ~ last
year.