The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-04
Expansion of Trade Under the Influence of
Abundant Crops Goes on Unchecked.
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Northwest Booming.
JObbers Unable to Keep Pace
With Their Orders, Brad
streets Reports.

I NEW YORK, Sept 3.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow viii say: Previous activity in
all lines of trade is maintained. There
is q better request for WColen and cot
ton goods and rubber goods and for
boots and shoes. Some wholesale mef'
chants at Western centers report the
largest volume Of August trade on reg
ord. There has been an increased con-
sumption of cotton by Southern mills.
Western iron and steel mills have or
ders to keep them busy until Jan. L.
In the Central Western states the BIZ
luminous coal strike has had further
depressing effect uIOn the general IN
dustrial situation. AT the Northwest
some commercial houses have had TO
work overtime to meet the demand fof
goods and the warm weather is re-
ported to have practically assured the
corn crop. On the Pacific coast wheat
exports have been checked by inablllty
| to secure crews for vessels.
Mercantile collections have greatly
improved in some sections. Last week
general and unprecedented expansion
Of prices for staples is continued, WOOL
cotton and wooden fabrics, hides, leath-
erWhite pine lumber, saShes and doors,
iron and steel bars, billets and rods'
wire nails, barbed wire and Southern
foundry iron, wheat, corn, lard and SUI
gar having advanced, and higher prices
being expected for boots and SHOES.
Lower prices are recorded for cotton,
flour and coffee, while those Tor OATS
pork, print cloths, petroleum ana coal
are unchanged.
This weeks exports of wheat, flour
included, are the largest with two eX-
ceptions, the second week OF Septem-
Der and the fourth week of August,
1891. Total shipments amount to b
26S. 247 bushels, against 5,l49, 653 bushels
last week; 3,369,S6 bushels last year,
:, $50 POI bushels in 1895; 1927, 300 bush
els in 1894, and 1902, 600 bushels in 1888.
SHIPMENTS of corn are also large, ag-
gregating 3,1S5.O64 bushels this week,
against 1852, ASP bushels last week; O.
527, 526 bushels last year; 1,405,37O bush
els in 1895; 127, 900 bushels in 1894 and
672, S75 bushels in 1898.
There are only 1913 business failures
reDOrted throughout the United States
this week, against 210 last week, 35i
in the week one year ago; 1874 two
years ago; 207 three years ago, and as
ccntrasted with 379 in the like week
of 1898.
The Improvement in the iron and
steel industry gains momentum. The
demand increases for sheets and
plates, especially for bridge and ship
building, including 10000 tons at Phil
adelphia Southern and Western deal
ers have united to advance prices of
pig and Bessemer at Pfttsburg has
risen. The demand for cars is press
ing and work for railways increases.
The first shipment of steel rails from
this country to Australia was of 1900
tons by the Lackawana company.
Boot and shoe shipments, not quite
five per cent smaller than last year in
| August, nor four per cent smaller than
in 1895, were ~ per cent smaller than
in 1894. but were little larger than in
1892
There are 80 business failures report
ed from the Canadian Dominion this
week. Last week the total was 80, and
a year ago it was 80.