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.

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All Lines OF Trade.
New York, Oct. 21.-Bradstreet's
says:
Among the notable features brought
| out 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 duo
10 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
OF 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
have induced rather more ease In
money rates at leading markets. Adj
vices from the south are still OF n back
ward cotton crop movement, hampering
fall demand and collections, but even
here there has been an Improvement
noted this week.
Iron n 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
10 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
q 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 yea will not be as large
as hoped for and estimates by leading
authorities point to all available pres
ent and possible future supplies being
needed.
Wooden goods are rather quiet as re"
CARDS new demand, but the mills are
busy on h~eayyweights, and when these
are out Of the way a large volume OF
orders for spring weights guarantees
activity, Wool is steady and
firm, with a large consumption pro-
crossing.
The cereal markets were rather apa-
thetic early this 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 a rather firmer feeling later,
by which the early loss was regained
and a slight advance registered on the
week. All estimates agree that the
worlds wheat supply Will 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 n
oats yields, not to mention other food
stuffs, are smaller this yea than for
some years past.
Wheat. including flour, exports for
the week, aggregate $3.50, 073 bushels,
as against 4,7l9, 1893 last week and $780,
$40 I'm this week last year. Wheat ex-
potts, July ! to date fourteen weeks).
aggregate 95, 104,,2 51 bushels, as against
"a, 254, S91 last season.
Corn exports aggregate 640,033 BUSH
els, as against 67s. 248 last week and
1876. 993 last year. July \ 70 date, corn
exports are IA, 945, Il3 bushels, against
rs, $50, 926 last season.
Failures for the week number 1913, as
1873 last week n 223 this week
1 year ago.