Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Wall Paper FIVE to TWENTY cents per roll.
Kansas Linseed Oil FIFTY cents gallon.
Best House Paint ONE TWENTY-FIVE per GAL
LOWEST IN so YEARS.
Is the Record of Raw Cotton
According to Dun'S Report.

New York, Oct. 1.-R. g. Dun q Co.'S
weekly review of trade saws:
Failures i'll September have been about
100000 and for the quarter about
$22,S7j, 700. No report covering the
exact month or quarter is possible
this week for journal which nust go tn
press on Friday, the 3Oth, but the re-
turns indicate smaller aggregate OF
failures than in any other month in many
years except in August of this year and
smaller for the quarter than i'll any
quarter since 1892. In fact, excepting
one quarter in that year no other APP
pears to have shown a smaller aggregate
unless more than ten years ago, when
the solvent business was very much
smaller than it is now. Evidently the
complete returns to he given next week
will show that the state OF business is
in that respect more satisfactory than it
has been unless in this quarter Of 1892.
Changes are all tor the bettereXcepting
the fall of cotton to the lowest point for
80 years and even the lowest prices of
1S4S, considering difference of qualities
were perhaps not lower than prices this
week. II there were not on hand com
mcrcial and mill stocks unusually large
or if manufacturing were more success
full early recovery might seem probable,
but the heavy fall in material has affected
the demand for goods, causing BUYERS to
expect still lower prices for cotton al
though since the decline last week, goods
now average lower than ever before.
While the stagnation i'll wool continues
and sales are smaller than in the same
month in the panic wear, 1898, numcr.
Gus mills have starter temporarily i'll or
der to get out sample pieces. There has
been no quotable decline in wool and
scarcely any in goods, the recent rcdsc-
ton having stimulated large demand.
The demand for boots and shoes seems
a little better and recorded shipments
have been larger than i'll September of
any year previous, except the last, and
larger than in any other year from Jan
uary / TO date. In the minor metals
slight weakness in tin and lead does not
indicate smaller consumption while cop
per is strong at l2l4c for lake and spell.
ter strong at 4,32la Nickel is higher at
30 to 3Sc and tin plates unchanged in
spite of the enormous increase i'll pro-
duction, though the desire to push small
works into the consolidation which now
commands ia mills is said to threaten
temporary decline
With pig iron firm everywhere, in spite
of the traordnarv output, and Besse-
,ner held at Sl0.+5 at Pttsbur2, while
valley producers report 100000 tong
sold for delivery before June next, the
is evidently growing, The
weeks reported contracts include one for
I 1000 tons pipe from Basic steel by the
the STANDARD Oil company, material tor
1000 cars ordered by the Pennsylvania,
structural work for many ordinary and
two large buildings and heavy orders
for plates, partly for two lake vessels,
and partly for eastern ship yards which
have larger business than ever. The de.
uasd for iron bars, owing TO Increased
use Of steel, is in some quarters below
expectation AID shipments are less &C.