The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-14
Not Since 1892 Have Sales Been So
large as During the Past
Week.
MOn6y Begins TO MOV6 MOre FroeIU
Notable Increase in the Rmount OF Bank OIeadngs-
Railway Earnings Riso Show the Effect of
Returning Confidence.

| NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Bradstreet s
tomorrow will say: Evidences Of wide
spread revival in demand for merchan-
| disc and other products have become
so numerous as to compel general
recognition. The press has therefore
| ceased discussing whether trade has
| really improved or not and have be-
| gun measuring the volume of business
| compared with preceding periods.
a buoyancy of feeling has appeared
among buyers and sellers at New
York, Baltimore, Chicago, ST. Louis
| and Kansas City, where interior mer-
chants have thronged this week, the
like of which has not been seen for
several years. Interior merchants are
buying dry goods, clothing, shoes, gro
ceries and fancy articles far more
freely than at any time since 1892.
Southern lumber mills are not able
to keep up with orders and innuner-
able small consumers Of iron and steel
| throughout the central Western states
are buying raw material as they have
not for years.
| Wheat scored an advance Of &c on
continued heavy exports and "a ten
dency to decrease estimates of the size
of the domestic crop. Wool is higher
on speculative holding and cotton
yarns have advanced again. Hides
and Southern lumber are up, as are
| wheat flour, Indian corn and oats,
and last but not least print cloths, the
market for which has been so long
! depressed. Prices for sugar, coffee,
lard and petroleum remain unchanged,
| while pork is almost the only i'm
portant product quoted lower than last
week.
Exports of wheat, flour included, as
wheat from both coasts Of the United
! States and from Montreal this week
| aggregate 4,460,519 bu, an increase over
last week of more than 1,100,00 bu,
and compared with shipments in the
week year ago of 2,635, 900 bu, 1924 600
bu in 1895, 2,979 900 bu in 1894 and of
8,129, 900 bu in 1898. The world wide
character of the demand for our wheat
and flour is illustrated by the exports
from both coasts of this country to
such far off and infrequent customers
as Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Callao, in
Peru, and Surahaya, in the islands OF
Java, not to mention heavily increased
shipments to Europe, China and the
East. Total exports of Indian corn
this week aggregated 3,275,652 bushel.
against 3,223,000 bushels last week, g.
| $4,000 bushels in the week a year ago
! 944, 900 bushels in 1895, 10000 bushels
in 1894 and 1,734,OOO bushels in 1893.
There are 214 business failures re-
ported throughout the United States
this week, compared with 214 last week,
25S in the second week Of Aug, 1896,
1875 in the like period of 1895, 234 In
1894 and 209 in the like week of 1898.
There are 81 business failures re-
ported from the Dominion of Canada
this week against Al last week, 35 in
the week year ago and 20 two years
ago.
LOOKS BRIGHT TO DUN & co.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-R. G.. Dun
G. Co.'S weekly review of trade to-
morrow will say: Every city re-
porting this week notes increase
in trade and nearly all bright
! crop prospects. The great change in
business is emphasized by the pres
ence of a multitude of buyers from all
parts of the country, by their state
ments of the situation at their homes