The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-31
ST. PAUL SHARES IN
THE BENEFIT.
In All the Country Depending the Wheat States
Confidence Reigns Supreme-Trade Reports
Agree That the Future Is Bright.

NEW YORK, July 30.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say: The unprecedented
early fall demand for staple merchan-
disc which Bradstreet's announced
| last week has increased, and, although
not conspicuous at some of the larger
Eastern cities, it is notably so at
points in the Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and in the large wheat grow
ing states. A special investigation by
Bradstreet's this week shows that in
creased purchases by country mer-
chants in the region specified, based
on the prospectively large wheat crop
at home in the face of short wheat
crops abroad, has increased business
with Western jobbers from 10 to 15
per cent compared with fall trade at
a like period last year. The total vol
ume of this new business is not large,
but it is unusual in this the dull month
of the year, and it is growing.
A number of Western implement
factories are unable to fill all their
orders for near by delivery, and one
order for shoes alone at ST. Louis
calls for $4,000 worth of goods. The
depression among woolen manufact-
urers is less pronounced. The greatest
relative improvement among the job
bers and wholesalers in various lines
Is at Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas City,
Omaha, st. Paul and Minneapolis, al
though at other points. notably in
| Texas, there is pronounced feeling
! of confidence in an early revival OF
| demand which is already beginning to
show itself. A number Of large trunk
line railways report that they are car
| rying more merchandise than one,
two or three years ago. Fewer man
ufacturing industries-leSS than ex-
pected have been compelled to close
owing to lack of coal on account of
the strike, the principal check being
due to higher prices for fuel. Iron and
steel and the cotton goods industries
are more unfavorably situated than
almost any other.
Practically the only decreases in
quotations this week are for iron and
steel; prices of oats and print cloths
are unchanged. The list of advances
is longer and more significant, includ-
ing prices of wheat -four, wheat, In
dian corn, lard, sugar, live stock, cot
ton, woolen goods, lead and nails. Ex-
ports of wheat, flour included, from
both coasts of the United States and
from Montreal this week amount to
2,343,02 bushels, compared with 1873
600 bushels last week, 2,64S,000 bushels
in the week a year ago, 100000 bush
els two years ago, 2,977, 600 bushels
| three years ago, and. as contrasted
with 5,622,000 bushels the correspond
ing week of 1893. There is a sharp
falling off in exports of Indian corn
this week, the total amounting to
| 1,482,715 bushels, compared with $685.
| 600 bushels last week, 1,495,000 bushels
in the week one year ago, $4,000 bush
els two years ago, $4,000 bushels three
years ago. and as compared with 1884,
900 bushels in the like week of 1898.
There are 259 business failures re-
| ported throughout the United States
this week, rather more than the aver
age in recent weeks. Last week the
| total was 220, in the week last year it
was 294, and two years ago it was 221
| but in the corresponding week in 1894
| it was 22O, and in the like period of
| 1893 459.