Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-29
A TEST FOR TRADE.
Period Of Quietude Gives Time to
Develop Question of Stability.
VIEWS OF COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Belief That Foundation for Larger
business in Future Is Laid More
broadly Each Week Fever
Checks Trade In tho South.

ousAHess III uture 10 Lalu more
| broadly Each Week Fever
Checks Trade In tho South.
New York, Oct. 23.-R. G. Dun & Co.,
in their weekly review of trade, say:
AFTER the heaviest buying ever known
IN many branches during September and
the first half of October. 1t was both natural
| ana desirable that more quiet period
should give time for testing the size and
temper of retail trade, and for distributing
part of the enormous quantities bought. In
textile goods the rush Of orders went far
beyond all distributive demand in August,
/, and represented great replenishment OF
(! stocks and the similar rush for goods has
been correspondingly great In other lines
during the past two months In iron and
! steel and In boots and shoes there was
( actual danger Of a speculative imitation OF
/ prices such as was seen in 1895. but 1t has
been avoided. apparently, for this season
by the solid sense of leading men. who re-
gard time of comparative quiet as es.
sential to the coming and permanence of
prosperity in their lines. AS the buying for
replenishment is partly satisfied and dimin-
ishes, there Is Is some decrease in the vol
ume of transactions, though, at the same
time, the working force has further in
creased, the wages Of labor have been in
numerous cases advanced, and the founda-
ton laid more broadly every week for larger
/ buying and business hereafter.
Lull in the Iron Industry.
"The iron industry waits because possi-
BILE production for the year has been prac-
tically ordered, while neither buyers nor
sellers regard contracts at current prices
/ for next years business quite safe. New
/ business in finished products is almost OF
necessity smaller. since manufacturing
works are nearly all full for months ahead,
l hnv Mat vail 4.
could not compete at all for three Rookie
Teller vessels requiring $500 tons each. The
demand for bars is the best for long time,
and contracts for the East river bridge, for
numerous new buildings and railway
bridges are still pending. The coke output
has risen to 1908 tons weekly, and Is the
| largest known for years. Anthracite coal
Is sold for s415 in New York harbor or 20
| cents below the circular, and conserva-
| tive estimates make the years output 40
| 100000 tons. The only noteworthy feature
In minor metals Is a sensational collapse
in lead of 30 points, with sales of 5000 tons
Price of Cotton Declines.
The severe decline in cotton to 812 cents
from S.25 cents August 30 is due to wide
! spread confidence in large estimates in
| yield. A natural consequence is the fall
IN print cloths to the lowest point in the
history of the market. 2,37 cents, and cot
i ton goods generally are easy, with limited
sales OF staples. All wooden goods are firm,
but there is no new business of note for
spring outside of dress goods.
| The produce market acted with as little
| apparent reason as usual. Although At
iantic exports of wheat were 1916, COZ BUSH
els, flour included, and for three weeks OF
| october, 1O.3O9,908 bushels, against 7,742,2l4
] last year, with western receipts not hair
| a million bushels larger, the price advanced
| "a cents. Corn, with smaller receipts and
exports, barely quarter of last year, de-
| clined a small fraction.
FAILURES for the week were 224 In the
United States. against 274 last year, and SO
IN Canada, against 90 last year.
| From Dradstrcet's Point Of View.
Bradstreet's says:
'Whle the general trade movement ia
somewhat irregular and there are further
evidences of falling off in demand. the
| volume OF business continues of laree pro-
portions Speculation in wool has ceased
ana demand for, the staple is less than for
weeks past. Cotton goods are dull on the
| weakness of raw cotton, and jobbers report
| dry goods slower than a.. week ago, In
| terror merchants in the central west have
not distributed fall stocks as promptly as
expected, and many iobbers at western
eenters find that they overestimated the
| eohsumptlve demand when securing fall
| goods. Unseasonably warm weather has
interfered with the movement of heavy
goods at the west, but rains in Kansas.
Ohiatioliid anu NEBRASKA have improved
| the agricultural outlook. Relatively the
greatest activity in trade is reported by
| Kansas City and Omaha merchants While
! quarantine regulations have been raised in
Texas and modified in Louisiana business
throughout most of the gulf states remains
| practically at standstill. Almost all the
| larger eastern cities report decrea sed
| movement OF merchandise and tendency
| OF collections to fall away, notably Balti-
| more, owing to its southern connections.
Inc industrial situation continues to fur
| nlsh employment to as many persons as n
| any preceding period this year and at
| higher wages. Production of iron, steel,
machinery, stoves, car structural work
| glass and woolen goods continues heavy.
steel mills have orders to carry them into
delivery. This explains the advance in the
price of Bessemer pig iron, while the
foundry grades remain unchanged The
extraordinarily heavy and steadily increas-
Ing production of iron Is starting UP fur
naces long out of blast, and, although con-
sumption is heavy, it is not improba BILE
that production may outrun 1t In the near
future, which constitutes an unfavorable
point in the outlook"
There is more Catarrh in this SEES.
ton of the country than all other dis
eases put together, aud until the last
few years was supposed to be incura-
Die. For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local diseas Sc, and
prescribed local remedies. and by
constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be q
constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by +. j. Cheney g. Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the
market. II is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to teaspoonful.
1t acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any