Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
THE srARB OF TRADE

4 Summary From Bradstreet's. i Notwithstanding unseasonebly warm
 weather and She appearance of yellow
 fever in several gulf ssstes, checking locally the distribution of merchandise,
 business throughout she country has
 increased more than anticipated. The
 center of improvement is Chicago 1 which furnishes the most favorable
 trade report within five years. Advices l from Kansas City, Omaha, Ss. Paul and 1 St. Louis also ,Fefa activity in de- l nand among jobbers and wholesalers. l There is 8 temporary stimulus to busi- ness at Savannah, owing to the with drawal of competition from merchants Us at towns now cut of by the fever quar- sntine. Chattanooga, Memphis, At ienta, Augusts, Galveston and even St. Louis anticipate 8 temporary falling of 1 ia business, owirg u the intsFru psion to traffic in bhe guli states and adjoining 1 territory. The p-29tioal settlement of Jhs bituminous- o1al strike, further rising tide of deua1d for iron and steel products, the vita withdrawal from the
 
 woolen goods, activity generally among manutscsu rsrs of woolens, extTaordin- arily largo bank olearings, and reports that msrchantile collections have i'm proved constitute the features of the week.
 ending with SepbembsF 18th (none estimBted) aggregate S1,3S6 100000 and form She largest weeks total since January, 1893, at the top of the boom which preceded the panic of four years ago, one ot the largest like totals last week is 25 per cent., and fell g peP cent over the total in the second week in SeptempeP, 1896. There is ep increase of more than 27 per cent. compared wish the like total in 1895, nesFly 53 per csns. oontrsssed with the corresponding figures in 1894. and "A per cent. compared with the like total in the panic year 1858.
 There are 169 business failures rs- ported throughout the United States this week. com pared with 175-lasb week. 815 in the week year year ago, 21S two years ago, and as compared with 346 in the second of $ spt. 1893.
 Prices for thirty of she more imports l sant stsples continue eb pronounced strength. only seven being lower than last week-wheat, wheat flower, Indian corn, lard and pork, the cesult of natural reaction from pre- ceding advances, lead and cotton, which ! has been to movs mora freely.
 Nsb railroad earnings for July make 8 good showing and amount to $17, ,75O, 654, sn increase over 3 year SEQ of nearly l5 per can't.
 Stock speculation st Nav York ooR t;nues active and bullieh, wish heavy public buying end manipulative assist ence in various securities. London has bought low-pricsd stocks, but sells in- vesemeuts here. The fact that money $ growing fRmer ard that stocks are held so loossly at present by small 1 spectators crssses apprehension among l people. and during the week the msrkes reacted St times on | bhis anu on S9tioW-LSVes reports.
 Wheat exports are very large and, 1 with one exception Chat of the second l week of Septen Der, 1S91), are the heav- lest ou record. The totsl shipments 1 this week (houR included as wheaO az gregRte 6379. .948 bushels against 5,46l, | 566 bushels last week, 3,566, ,326 bushels last year, 2,539, ,O95 bushels in the cor ondiug week in 1895, 3,537, ,2S3 bush els in 1894, 4,727 ,92O bushels in 1893, snd | 6,974, ,000 bushels (ths hesvIsst on recuFo) ln the week of 1991 Corn ex- ports are 1000, 900 bushels smaller than last week, sggregsting 90l ,000 bushels, | and oompaFe wieh 2,394,O0 bushsls last year, 1,605.OOO bushels in 1895, l54, 900 1 bushels in 1894, and ,195. .555 bushels n 1893.