Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-04
More Business in July This
Year Than in Any Other
on Record.
ENORMOUS CROPS.
Heavy Yield of Cottoi, Corn and Hay
-Thi, Means General Prosperity
Increase in The Wool Tradc-im-
ncusc Production of Iron.

! New York, July 29.-R. G. bun q CO..
weekly review of trade Will say tU-luur-
row:
/ Biz business in January is expected nut
bis business in july means more. 1t Is the
month of all others when trade is natu-
rally light New ENGAGEMENTS arc Crdi-
Marty deferred, and men wait for the out
come and moVt mcnt of crops. But more
business Is being done this year Than in
amy previous july Of which there are rec
ords.
10 thc people Of this country the crops
mean more than anybody can calculate.
In spite of some actual and much spcCula-
tive injury the fact remains that the yield
OF wAcdt H certainly much the largest
ever known, and the prospect is good for
Il hcuNy yield Of cotton. with about az
large yIcld of corn as last year. whiic
an enormously valuable crop OF nay has
been saved Considering That the pur-
lchascs of nearly half the people depend
upon the success Of agriculture, ana that
the prosperity Of the entire transporting
interest Is materially affected by the size
OF cr- lbs to be moved. it may be said with
rcas't that the promise Of general pros
pcrty this year is unusually bright.
7 Wheat receipts for the month thus far
have been 1908 bushels against 1862. q
V7l last year, but prices have declined ~
cents. and farmers are holding back their
wheat i'm the hope Of higher prices.
Tho exports tor the week have hoccn
3o7, SD bushels from Atlantic ports ilnur
.mclddcd, against l,7ls.75S last year, and
from Pacific ports l2G,ll7 bushels against
1881 last year, making for the month s.
$50 1872 bushels. against ,.3l2, iG, last year
Corn has a little advance In prices owing
to reports of injury to the crop, and alS'
because exports for the month thus f1l
have been singulury well maintained
amounting to 6,73G9j3 bushels. against s.
'CV,GG last year Wheat on the contrary
, has dropped about o.. cents, with prospect
of further decline.
The prospect Tor cotton is generally
very good, though too much rain Is re-
> ported in some southwestern states. III,
: manufacturers are Il little encouraged bS
, better demand though prices do not i'm
: prove. The effort to curtail production al
l'al! River has been checked 10y the re-
. fusul of mills at other points to cooper
. ate. The sales Of wool show a rcmarl:
: able increase in large transactions fol
: which no prices are named. -four bcin'
quoted at Boston covering 2,G0o,cur pounds
land the aggregate at the three chief mar
, kcts has been 1.O3?, 900 pounds for the wcol
and tor four weeks ia,9l9-Cd, of which T.
III, 100 were dumcsdg, against g. l09,a
, last year Of which 2l,a3N.." were domcsti
- and 33,G99i0 in 1872, OF which 2l,iiS 9r
;. were domestic. The demand for goods Il
4. rather better.
! The official report Of iron production
tor the FIRST half of 1898 shows an in
, crease of over half a million tons com
pared with any previous half year an,
. what Is far more important the cousump
. tion in manufactures appears for the hal
a year to have exceeded the OUTPUT
= Failures for the week have been 225 Ii
- the United States against 13f last ycaI
ana ~ in Canada against IS last year.