New-York tribune., 1905-08-19
CONDITION OF TRADE.
"Dun's Review" says:

Assurance of prosperity on the farms generates
confidence in all departments of trade and Industry
Conu acts are placed for distant delivery and COM
mercial payments more prompt II Is also
labor Controversies are less numerous: higher
scale adopted az glass factories, and the al
tracttve wages paid 70 harvest hands nave reduces
the ranks of the unemployed 70 a minimum Jon-
bing trade is brisk, especially in drygOods anu
all the large cities report fun attendance Of out
side buyers Prices are well sustained by the brisk
fall and winter distriDuJlon- Mills ana IactoTles
well employed, little idle machinery being
and steel dispatches still somewhat irregular.
Traffic by rail and water is very heavy. railway
earnings thus far reported for August exceeding
last years figures by SO per cent and foreign trade
at this port for the last week showed a gain or
s3Z2 S57 in imports II is becoming year OF super
most active % railway securities have reached the
highest point on record; output OF pig iron in the
first half of 1893 not only far surpassed any pre-
ceding six months production, but exceeded every
full year prior 70 ISIS prices OF NOES are az tne
tons have not been as strong since the early SSs-
the maximum and Including all shoe centres. the
movement this year is beyond RIeceaenL: IorsisIl
WeVYor ri for the week We're $50 per cent larger
than year. and at other leading cities The gam
averaged 151 per cent.
'Bradstreet's" says:
Fall trade. while not Yet under full headvay. is
Gus and their operations more confident than any
previous time this year Contrle4tory LayoTaoas abe
needed rains in the corn belt, which all but assure
record crop, barring an early 1F0St- Good Weather
for harvesting and thrashing except in portions or
the Northwest. continues to reveal very favorable
results in both spring and winter sOwn grains
Combined cereal yields will probably exceed all past
years in both quantity and quality Relatively hiSh
prices for agricultural products manufactured ma
terals and STAPLE products do not deter buying
operations Collections. on the whole. have inn
proved slightly and even in the South, except II
q small area of the fever infected zone, trade ana
collections are alike better than anticipated sarler
while the West and East also return more favorable
advices Currency shipments 10 the country are in
creasing, but with no particular effect on money
rates as Yet: Stock speculation is broadening and
high price records are being touched.
Features this week at Western markets have
been numerous excursions OF buyers arriving at
Kansas City. St Louis and Chicago. Chicago re-
ports unusually confident buying and stocks
in particularly good demand Kansas City reports
unusually active ,rade in drygooGs. millinery and
shoes st. Louis reports that good crop reports
have stimulated demand at that city. and very
much The same reports from Omaha and 81
Paul The latter city reports retailers buying
heavily. Omaha reports the outlook good for a
large fall trade. Collections 70 have improved
throughout the entire West An exception 20 the
generally favorable Western trade reports Is thar
from Cincinnati which advises that the 1"hoins
trade of that city feels the effect Of the yellow
fever scare. but that the merchants have sought
10 make up for this trade by sending their buyers
into other Territory.