Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-09-05
The business situatio n.

| RE- Dun Il Co. g. Review for Saturday
says: 'Eyen in cotton goods, which
have baen the slowest TO respond to the
vigorous tone of domestic trade, the
past weak has brought distinct i'm
| provement. Pressure at Fall River
being removed, the print cloth market
became strong, while In the bleached
goods division the gains we're still more
pronounced. In some cases the only
drawback is the lack of available sun
plies for immediate delivery. Against
losses by drought in Texas there is a
compensation in the greatly increased
acreage throughout the entire cotton
belt but an advance of So bale since
the advance began does not appear I'm
reasonable. The crop year ends with
supply close to a million bales, by no
means the severe scarcity estimated
earlier in the season; but still more
depressing fact is the decrease in talk
ings by Northern spinners of about
200 600 bales as compared with the
average of the three preceding ysars.
August ends with horizon that is
almost clear, and each day resumption
OF work at an idle mill adds to the pro.
ductive capacity, while cancelled orders
for merchandise ftom dealers in the
drought section are rapidly reinstated.
"Jobbers and manufacturers report
that orders for fall goods have exceeded
any previous year, with noticeable de-
mand for the better grades, and there
is definite measure of active trade In
bank exchanges at this city IA. per
cent larger than in the same week last
year, and POS above 1899. while at other
leading cities the increase is Sc. 2 and
%. 0 per cent respectively. Quotations
of steel products are still nominal,
owing to the difficulty experienced in
securing prompt delivery. 1t is esti-
mated that not more than 20 FER cent
of the steel compapy's capacity has
been stopped by the strike, and this
proportion daily decreases Consumers
OF tinplate have secured supplies
abroad, go that their work is not badly
handicapped. Footwear shops continue
in splendid position, and the demand
for leather is large at we'll maintained
prices Hides are sharing the improve
ment, with higher prices and activity
at the West. Wooden mills are crowded
with orders, even the smaller concerns
and the wool market is
steady, despite weakness abroad.''
Bradstreet's says: "A further inn
proyement in corn crop advices, conf
dence in the early ending of the steel
strike, further advance in cotton
due, however, to crop deterioration as
much as to the better tone OF dry goods
trade advioes-and last but not least,
the advent OF cooler weather, are
responsible for still further
OF general trade diatribu-
tion at nearly all markets and per-
ceptibiy better and more cheerful tone
Of business generally. Especially good
reports come from such centres as Obi
cago, which reports very heavy bust
ness In dry goods, clothing and shoes;
rom st. Louis, which advises of un-
usual activity among iobbers and the
dry goods trade in August beyond ex-
pectation; from Kansas City, which
reports that jobbers have all they can
10 to handle business offering, and
from Omaha, which reports August
trade larger than last year.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
The week aggregate 6,607, 6l1 bushels.
- against 6,606, 1853 last week ard
J. 24s, 3l3 this week last year. Wheat
exports July 1st to date mine weeks)
aggregate 81, 2s6, 932 bushels, as against
%, 1888, AIT bushels last season. Corn,
Exports aggregate AL, 918 bushels, as
against 1923, 1873 bushels last week and
!, TIT, 400 bushels last year. July lst
o date exports are 10, 1872, 969 bushels,
IS against 30, S97, 214 bushels last sea-
on. Business failures for the week
lumber lSS, against 181 last week, 165
n this week year ago, 131 in 1899,
"a in 1898 and 1913 in 1897. Canadian
ailutes number 80, as against "a last
week, 80 in this week Q year ago, % In.
$50 and % ip 1898, J.