Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-26
WEEKLY REVIEW Or TRADE.
General Business Has Been Brisk In Nearly
All Lines of Trade.

General Business Has Been Brisk In Nearly
All Lines of Trade.
New York, Oct. 2i.-Bradstreet's
says:
Among the notable features brought
cut In trade dispatches TO Bradstreet
This week, are the reports Of stimulated
retail trade, due to cooler, settled
weather and advices OF continued ac-
tivity In all leading Industrial lines, no
tably iron and steel, shoes and leather,
coal. lumber. jewelry and cotton and
wooden goods.
The shipments OF products OF these
industries and OF groceries to consum-
Ing sections continue heavy and are
accompanied by reports of delays due
TO the scarcity OF cars. Another n
Of those slight upward swings In prices
of staples, so numerous of late, has also
occurred. by which the general level
Ut cereals, raw cotton, dairy products
and lake copper has been raised.
Clearings have expanded because OF
an extension OF interests In the secu-
rity market, but also because Of con-
tinued good collections, which In turn
UdNt lIuuttu rather UlOIe tuSC III
money rates at leading markets. Adj
vices from the south are still OF q back
ward cotton crop movement, hampering
fall demand and collections, but even
here there has been an Improvement
noted this week.
Iron and steel consumption continues
fully equal to, and in some cases In
excess OF production. Steel billets have
continued scarce and are practically
unobtainable for prompt delivery. Pig
iron stocks I'm the central west are said
TO not exceed one weeks supply. Or
ders for fully 1000. 900 tons OF rails for
next years delivery have been booked.
Plates, bars and sheets and structural
material are all active. but iron bars
are reported easier. Tin plate mills
are catching up with their orders and
a cut Is reported In the price of wire
nails.
Railroads are in the market for cars
and one western system bought 1000
this week. Export business In iron and
steel is not promising.
Cooler weather and fear OF frosts
coupled with good reports from the
print cloth industry have stimulated
raw cotton, and this In urn Is reflect
ed In higher quotations for nearly all
leading bleached cottons. The convic-
ton seems to be growing that the cot
ton crop this year will not be as large
as hoped for and estimates by leading
authorities point 10 all available pres
and possible future supplies being
needed.
Wooden goods arc rather quiet as re"
CARDS new demand, but the mills are
busy on heavyweights, and when these
are out OF the way a large volume OF
orders for spring weights guarantees
activity. Wool Is steady
firm, with a large consumption pro-
crossing.
The cereal markets were rather apa-
thetic early his week. Reduced specu-
lative interest and liquidation, caused
by larger receipts at the northwest,
weakened prices early. Decreases In
these receipts and smaller Argentine
and poor crop reports
brought n rather firmer feeling later,
by which the early loss was regained
and a slight advance registered on the
week. All estimates agree that the
wheat supply VIII be larger
than n year ago, the increases being
here and In Canada and the decreases
In Europe. but against this Is to be
cited the fact that the rye, corn and
pats yields, not to mention other food
stuffs, are smaller this year than for
some years past.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
the week, aggregate $3.50, 073 bushels,
against 4,7l9, 1893 last week and $780,
$40 I'm this week last year. Wheat ex-
POI Is, July / to date fourteen weeks).
aggregate 95, 104,, 251 bushels, as against
"a, 254, a9l last season.
Corn exports aggregate 64O,O33 BUSH
els, as against 67S, 246 last week n
1856. 1893 last year. July \ 10 date, corn
exports are IA, 945, lib bushels, against
Is. SS9. 926 last season.
Failures for the week number 1913, as
1873 last week and 223 this week
year ago.