The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
TRADE REVIEW.
Leading Commercial Agents Report
Continuance of Our Pros
porous Condition.

New York, Oct 4-Bradstreet's says
Trade activity is widespread, all meas
ures of volume and value testifying to pre-
vailing prosperous conditions. Only good
reports are received from distributive trade
centers, and some MAJ Eets report fall de-
mand as holding out longer than Oected
Railway earnings, bank clearin; eturns
Il and quotations of staple prices &C all en-,
couTaging, pointing as they DO 10 a max:
mum volume Of business for this period Of
the year. Crop returns for October bear
out earlier impressions of shortened yields
of most leading agricultural products
/ Expectation Of more moderate yields OF
leading cereals is rot confined to this Ccun.
Try. The worlds wheat crop will admit.
.edly be smaller, ard rye, barley ard oats
Yields are not expected 10 be 90 large as
gear ago. The higher range of prices o t al
/ staples, and particularly of agriculture
products, however, will furnish profitable
1 balance to producers.
L The liberaIty of foreign dems nd is pa r
/ laps best shown in the September rep-r:
IF exports of leading products. Shipments
1 II breadsluffs were as large as those OF
/ August, and there was naturally a heavy
II gain in cotton exports which are dOuh.E
4 hose of the same month a year ago. To,
/ ais Of leading exports show ar increase o
per cent. over Septe mber year ago, g.
/ yer September, 1896. but a decrease Of -
II = y
.essed very heavy shipments of bread
tufts
General manufacturing industry is rum
ling full, ard activity is so wide spread II At
{ is hard TO prefer one industry 10 anothe r
i tn: respect. Coal production is particu-
arly heavy, but a scarcity of cars is COM
planned of in This and in the coke industry,
With the strength OF lake .freights consti-
uting a disturbing element as regards
he supply Of anthracite in the west. Iron
md steel are active as to production, but
}eW business is limited by the small guam
titles available for nearby delivery. Lib
/ raj orders are still reported for the first
half of next year, and steel rails are report
I'd tending upward at'the west. Shoe man
ufacturers are busy, and leather and hides
are sympatheticaNy strong in price. Lum-
Der is in UrgCat demard at many markets
in spite of the advanced stage of the sea-
ion, and prices are firm"
r. G. Dun Co, in their weekly review
of trade, say: Industrial conditions could
hardly be better. After many months OF
such extraordinary buying that its con-
tinuance seemed impossible, even larger
buying still crowds producing works in
most lines beyond their capacity. Wheat
exports are still larger than from the great
crop of last year, Atlantic, flour included,
having been 1851, $50 bushels in two weeks,
against 6ll6,6S9 last year. and Pacific $780,
i4S bushels, against 1,375C34 last year The
western receipts have been only Il,5lSSs1
bushels, against -, 100, As last year, but the
course OF prices is not calculated to encour-
age a big movement, for, after starting at
1881 cents and falling rs cents, the market
closed at rs, with December options I'M
changed
Failures for the first week of October
were sl,6S70GS in amount, manufacturing
SSS7,s14 and trading $41S,599. Failures for
the week have been 1914 in the United States,
against 205 last year, and q in Canada,
against 70 last year