Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-20
Jobbine Distribution and Retail
Trade Both Show Healthy
Activity
FALL ORDERS ARE VERY LARGE
Collections Are Good and Indicate q
Large Supply of Circulating Medium
in the Northwest and West-car
Famine Not So Pronouneed-crop
Situation Encouraging.

| New York. Sept. 20.-Bradstreet's
Weekly Review of Trade today says:
| Jobbing distributions continue very
active and retail business is improving.
Now that the corn crop is practically
made and the only possible changes are
those of quality, the disposition to book
! fall and winter orders is unrestrained
| at the west and northwest. AT the
south the tone of trade reports is not
ably cheerful, largely owing to higher
cotton prices because crop accounts
are not so favorable as week ago.
! Collections are good and the consensus
of reports as to this and as to money
conditions point to good supplies of the
circulating medium in the country at
large.
| The selling position seems to be the
strongest side of the price situation,
except possibly in the cereals and agri-
fcultural products generally. Even here
the fine financial position Of farmers
enables them to make their products
slowly, and no accumulation Of mo-
ment is recorded except in cattle re-
lceipts, which this week surpassed all
records. Notable strength is exhibited
in manufactured goods, the textiles
Leading in volume of demand and in
strength of prices. "A large distribu
ton of cotton goods is going on at the
west, and the firmness in the eastern
trade is notable in view of the relative
lily quieter tone OF demand. Wooden
goods are firm and the mills are ac-
lively employed.
In coal the delay in the ending of the
anthracite coal strike throws increased
pressure on the bituminous product,
and prices for 1t are now at least one
quarter higher than the low point be-
fore the strike began. Anthracite pro-
Iduction is slowly but surely increasing,
but the necessities of some retail buy
ers make fancy prices for what 10
left.
Hides have eased in price partly be-
cause Of tanners suspending work owp
ing to improbable business in the fin
fishing material. Leather is strong as
ever.
There has been a slight easing of the
car famine as to coke and coal sup
I plies, and the furnace situation in the
valleys is. therefore, bettered. but the
eastern mills still complain of delayed
supplies. Foreign iron and steel are
reapiEg the benefit and the European
invasion of iron has now reached the
Mississippi.
Foreign steel is being bought for mill
nIirpr,Sas, I'm the oopt xyoSf ,.cya
quantities of rails these for next years
finished products, except tin plates
Americans have about all the business
that they care to accept. Rails, plates
and structural iron are all heavily sold
ahead The ore trade on the lakesais as
active as ever, every nerve being
strained to handle the business offered.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
the week ending September IS axgre-
gate 5.435,323 bushels, against 5.444,142
last week. 3,S4O,374 in this week last
year and 3,535,S57 in 1900. Wheat exc
ports since July aggregate 55,5S7, O65
bushels, against 72,1S1,S45 last season
and 3s,519.690 in 1900. Corn exports
aggregate 49.509 bushels, against 91,-
Sig last week, Gil, 1858 last year and o.
134.205 in 1900. For the fiscal year ex-
ports are 9SO,S59 bushels, against H.
132,934 last season and 39,719,241 In
1900.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending number 1S2, against
1877 last week, 1853 in this week last
year and 1873 in 1900.
= Dun's Review.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade today says:
Domestic trade continues active, high
rates for money having thus far failed
to check Industrial operations or unset
tie confidence. Stringency is considl
cred only temporary. Crops are MAX
ing encouraging progress, despite some
injury from frosts. Labor disputes are
few, the anthracite coal strike being
the only one that retards progress, and
each week shows some increase in out
put Fall distribution of merchandise
has begun unusually early, while the
volume Of orders already placed indi-
Gates much the heaviest aggregate on
record. At the south and west con-
.ditions are especially favorable. Traf-
fic congestion causes complaint. yet
railway earnings thus far available for
s0eplellOcl SilON4 q 6et1A vi To pei CSlll5
over last years returns and 1871 per
cent over 1900.
The liberal buying in foreign mark
cts continues and testif1es to weli-sus-
tanned domestic consumption, particu-
.larly as to iron and steel, but imports |
of coal are abnormal and will be still |
more of an element in subsequent
statements.
A Certain Cure for Dysentery and
Diarrhoea.
sSome years ago was one of a party
that intended making long bicycle
trip" says r. L. Taylor, of New Albany.
Bradford county, Pa" was taken sud-
denly with diarrhoea,and was about to
give up the trip, when Editor Ward, of
the Laceyville Messenger, suggested
that / take a dose of Chamberlain's |
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
L purchased a bottle and took two
doses, noe before starting and one on
the route / made the trip successfully t
and never felt any ill effect. Again
last summer was almost completely
run down with an attack of dysentery.
! bought a bottle of this same remedy.
and this time one dose cured me-" Sold
by druggists.
Low Rates West.
One way or round trip to Minnesota, !