The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-09-15
TRADE IMPROVEMENT
WEST AND SOUTH
Expectations Of Greater Business
Activity When Politics
Cease to Disturb.
an IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL EVENT
American Tin Plate srnle Signed
Granting nm = Per Cent All
vance to $4,000 Mands
Long illr.

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Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
The volume of business does not
materially enlarge ut the east, and
there is only moderate improvement
at the west and south, but if expec-
~tntions OF greater activity when poll
tics ceaseato disturb are realized, cur
rent operations will be found to have
laid substantial foundation. The
the industrial world was the agree
ment on she American tin plate wage
scale with the Amalgamated ssocia-
ton, granting about 8 per cent adj
vance to $4,000 hands, long idle. 9th
er metal workers disputes are near
ing settlement.
frices of grain are little altered,
good crop reports coming in freely,
but the effect being neutralized by
foreign reports of the worlds crop
being below requirements. Wheat
stocks carried over We're ample to
meet the discrepancy, and traders do
not seem able to advance prices more
than 5 cents over last years for
wheat and q cents for corn. This diff
ference is apparently satisfactory to
growers. rs f,43O,372 bushels of wheat
we're received at interior cities in the
first week OF September, against
5,945,697 Bushels last year. Exports
from Atlantic ports amounted to only
1,092, $40 bushels of wheat, flour in
cluded as wheat, against 2,900,96
bushels a year ago. The Atlantic
shipments OF corn made u better COM
parison than in recent weeks, $685.
O79 bushels, against S,651,569 bushels
last year. Cotton is strong in the face
of a larger yield than expected.
business i'll iron and steel products
steadily increased, and mills are more
actively employed. Copper continues
firm, with electrolytic higher, at
16 SIS cents bid, and tin advanced
moderately.
Sales of wool at the three chief
eastern markets declined to :, 1888, 500
pounds, against 4,234,7Uo pounds in
the previous week and 9,225,200
pounds last year. The dullness was
not accompanied by any pronounced
weakness, although COATES Bros cir
cular for September l made the aver
age price 20 81 cents for 100 grades,
against 90 1-2 cents Il month earlier.
Failures for the week We're 145 in
the United States, against 1872 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against 80 last
year.
B~raustrect's Review.
New York, Sept. 1O.-I}radstreet's
Weekly Review says:
Trade developments for the week
have been mainly favorable and the
improvement in general distributiye
business IN the latter part of August
has gathered force in the first week
of September. Leading features have
been the widening fall trade reported
Mt nearly all points west and south
and ON the Pacific coast some i'm
provement in the jobbing demand at
the east, with buying Il marked feat.
IRE, rather better reports from the
two great staple crops of the west
and south. Corn and cotton improved
export demand for American prod.
ucts, notably wheat, iron, steel and
cotton. and unvaryingly good returns
by the transportation interests
of the country. The corner
appears to have been turned
in bank clearings, because
the aggregate for the first week of
September, though broken by holt
days, is larger than the total for the
preceding week. The Industrial out
look has been improved by settlement
Of the tin plate scale, the general re-
sumption of operations i'll the glass in
dustry, the predicted satisfactory set
Element of the remaining iron and
steel wage scales and the possibility
that recent large sales of print cloths
will avert Il resort to wage reductions
in the new cotton industry. The an
thracite coal trade outlook, however,
is clouded by the prediction that l40,-
600 men will strike this week.
The iron and steel trade continues
positively cheerful in tone, and a
large business has been and is being
booked. No important gains in prices
are reported. On the contrary, Besse-
mer pig is lower in the week and lit
tie is doing in steel billets, the price
of which is little above that of raw
pig. Export demand is expanding,
however, 10000 tons of southern pig
being shipped this week from Biz
mingham and orders for twice as
much more are reported booked. Iron
production showed a further heavy
decline in August, but stocks again
increased.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 1856, as against 165 last week, 1913
in the week a year ago, 142 in 1898,
ia i'll 1897 and 3OS in 1896. Canadian
failures number 26, as against 80 last
week, 81 in 1899, II in 1898, 81 in 1897
and Al in 1896.
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