The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-06
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ACTIVE RETAIL BUYING
DEMAND GOOD IN ALL THE LEADING MER
CAMILLE LINES.

New York, Sept. 6.-Bradstreet's to-day says:
"An avilable data confirm reports Of past good
trade and foreshadows good or better yet to
come. 1t has been essentially week of active
buying in distributive trade, and sellers have
reached enviable position. Reports as to Au-
gust trade have been almost uniformly favorable,
and the records of failures show business NOR
tality to have been confined to a low summer
minimum.
prices show persistent strength, despite the
fact that agricultural products, except corn and
prime cattle, terd lower owing to the growing
strength Of raw textiles and other materials for
manufacture, Corn Is not yet out, Of danger
from frost in the northern half of the belt,
and this coupled with short supplies, imparts
strength to cereals generally. a.. r.
reports of cotton crop deterioration caused by
not, dry weather, have scared shorts and stiff
| fened values Of raw and manufactured cotton,
but there is feeling that the crop damage talk
has been overdone, and that liberal yield is
still possible, though active trade Is expected
to demand all available supplies of the south s
leading product
Rather less disturbance is noted in labor mat
tiers, some strikes having been declared off.
The anthracite trouble still hangs the stu
alton. but the volume Of coal shipments is slow
ly and steadily Increasing Some wage advances
are noted in widely separated lines.
collections in the north and west are Uniform.
ly good, but, while some improvement Is noted
in the south, room for betterment still exists
Jobbing activity is undiminished at the west.
northwest and southwest, and is Of satisfactory
volume at the east Dry goods, shoes, MILL.
merry. drugs, hardware, groceries, clothing and
lumber figure actively in the demand but nigh
prices discourage tanning.
''At the east the advance in cotton Is stimulat'
| ing the cotton goods market. Good recorders are
| noted in wooden goods, but spring goods are meet
| ing most attention SILK goods are strong anC
prices are very firm. Eastern shoe factories are
| we'll employed, although the complaint Of small
| profits continues. Wool is Nc higher and tends
| upward as stocks not large. Eastern rail
| roads and steamships report an unprecedenteC
| business. resulting from returning summer travel
1.-The fuel shortage Is pressing on the iron FUR
| naces, and the scarcity Of cars and motive
power is affecting the movement OF ore from lake
| ports to the Pittsburg district. New demand
for pig iron is, however, light, primarily because
buyers have booked largely ahead. Foundry iro1
| is 81 higher. Heavy imports of foreign 1ro1
and steel have cut down premiums on immediate
delivery business, but in the scarcity OF sup
| plies Of domestic no particular interest Is takeI
! in this. Sales Of foreign made material arc
very large.
ahead. Tin plates and wire mills are quiet, bu
q better business is looked for soon, with thu
growth of fall trade Hardware IS APPARENT!
as active as ever. Copper is slightly hrmer
| while tin is lower.
| wheat including flour exports, for the weel
| 5,436 $50 last week. 4,4O6,O 64 bu In this weel
! last year, and 1878 100 bu in 1900.
| Wheat exports since July aggregate "a,
657 500 bl against 81 500, 662 bu last season AM
| 80 317 S51 bu in 1900. Corn exports aggregat
q. 1856 bu. against 1850 bu last week. Fo
| the fiscal year exports are s39. s39 bu
| against 10 74S S45 bu last season and IS, 254, %
| bu in 1900.
Business failures for the week ending Sept.
| number 1888, as against 40 last week, 100 in thi
| week last year. In Canada, for the week IA
as against 20 last week.