Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-09
BUSINESS WORLD.
No Disgusting Changes In Trade
Conditions to Cause Apprehen.
sion For Future.
warlike News From South Africa
Causes Little Stir In Com.
mercial Matters.
Fall Demand the Greatest In His.
Fall Demand the Greatest In His.
tory of Trade Eastern Cen.
tiers Active.

New York, Sept. Or. G.. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade today says:
The sky is still cloudless and no dis
quieting change has come during the
week. In spite of more warlike news
about South Africa, the Bank of Eng
land behaves as if the worst possible
had been fully provided for, and this
country has no reason to fear trouble
from that source, unless English mar
kets have become so overloaded as to
need help. The marketing of domestic
products, both farm and manufactured,
continues surprisingly large for the sea-
son. Failures are few, strikes scarce
and readily settled, and the passage of
September i without pressure means
reasonable safety for months ahead.
Cotton has risen SIG since annual re-
ports, regardless of these, and owing to
bad accounts from Texas. The market
for Goods is remarkably strong this
week and previous prices are fully sus-
tanned.
After sharp decline wheat has risen
a cent this week, with Atlantic exports
29OO.966 bushels, flour included, against
163, 1872 bushels last year. Corn has also
taken start upward, rising q of a
cent, with exports of 3,051,569 bushels.
AGAINST 2,431,0S5 last year. So great a
demand for both grains deserves notice,
but so do western receipts, 5,945,69T
bushels of wheat against 6.774,611 bush
els last Year, and of corn 1925, 437
against 4,20S,352 last year.
Neither philosophical explanations of
the rise in iron and steel nor constant
addition to the number of furnaces pro-
ducing checks the advance, which has
made bessener pig sell for 1923 at Pitts
burg, gray forge for s19.75 there. an
rhracite No. 1 for $3.50 at Philadelphia.
and local coke for s2l5O at Chicago
With the whole output of its furnaces
sold ahead for the year the valley asso-
citation demands s23.65 at Pittsburg on
future contracts, and Chicago is selling
mainly for delivery next year. Finished
products are advanced in some cases 50
per ton at time without checking the
demand, as for sheets at Pittsburg,
with plates advanced 81 and wire nails
W P'-A LII. a1OHlFdclSs even al
these figures are reported, many run
ming into next year. In chicago and
Pittsburg in bars, and in plates at ali
points, with 1000 tons western and large
eastern bridge contracts taken by
works four or five months behind al
ready, and inquiry for twenty miles of
pipe for South Africa pending
Tin is strong; lake copper and lead
quiet.
Preparations for other wooden combi
nations affect the market for goods
somewhat, which is. nevertheless.
strong. although some Irregularities
have developed in worsteds. The wool
market is much less active than of late.
with sales of only 9,225, 200 pounds at the
three chief markets, mostly territory.
and while prices are still, manufacture
ers are buying only for Immediate
needs. Quotations for the week are UNI
changed.
Failures for the first week of Septem-
Der have been s715,56o, against Sill. 5s3
last year; manufacturing, s212,25S,
against s224,602 last year, and trading,
s466313. against s7o3.99l last year. Fail
ures for the week have been 1872 in the
United States, against 1874 last year, and
80 IN Canada, against is last year.