Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
CONDITION OF TRADE
BUSINESS OUTLOOK REPORTED
GOOD BY COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Bradstreet's reports for the past week

Bradstreet's reports for the past week
follows:
Fall trade, while not yet under full
Roadway, is steadily gathering force. Buy
ers are more numerous. and their opera
lions are more confident than at any pre-
vious time this year. Contributory favor
able influences at leading western markets
have been needed rains in the corn belt,
which all but assure record crop, barring
an early frost. Good weather for harvest
ing and threshing. except in portions of the
northwest, continues to reveal very favor
able results in both spring and winter sown
grains. Combined cereal yields will prob
ably exceed all past years in both quantity
and quality. Relatively high prices for ag-
rlcultural products, manufactured materials
and staple products do not deter buying op-
erations- Collections, on the whole have
improved slightly, and even in the south,
except in small area of the fever-infected
zone, trade and collections are alike better
than anticipated earlier. while the west and
east also return more favorable advices.
Currency Shipments to the country are in
creaslng, but with no particular effect on
money rates as yet. Features this week at
western markets have been numerous ex-
curs.ons of buyers arriving at Kansas City
St Louis and Chicago.
The tone of southern advices is rather
better than last week, and certainly better
than the early stories of cotton crop dis
aster foreshadowed.
Cotton Goods Activity a Feature.
Features at eastern centers are the ac-
tvity of cotton goods and advances in
many makes. 1t is emphatically a sellers
market for cotton goods New York and
Boston. The Pacific coast business is fairly
active at all points. Railway operations.
swelled by large crop and industrial move
ment are of very full volume
Iron and steel trade adVices are If any,
thing, rather more encouraging
BUSINESS failures in the United States
tor the week ended August II number LAT,
against 1G6 last week. DOB in the like week
or 1901; lt6 in 1893, ISL in 1902 and ISL ~
1901. In Canada failures number 30 as
against 81 last week and 10 in this week a
year ago.
Wheat. including flour exports, for the
week ended August H. are !, OliS 5lo bushels
against s65,002 last week. 1.,.,v47 It's
week last year: 1912. $50 in 1903, and ) 594-
100 in 1862, From July to date the ex-
ports are 6."01.1G bushels against $50, SIS
last year. q ,S33,2}3 in 1903. and 81 .339 76I
in 1852. Corn exports for the week are
llIl.0@ bushels. against 1 49, AL last week
aZ73t2 year ago, 503, 49J in 1903 and 81 $40
IN ~ from July l to date the exports
of corn We're 7.077.2i3 bushels. against z
,99 49i in 1904, 1,i5S,975 in 1903 ana $50. 40Y
in 1902" o' wv
Reviewed by Dun's Agency.
r. G.. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
trade says:
assurances of prosperity on the farms
creates confidence in all departments of
trade and industry. Contracts are placed
for distant delivery. and commercial paw
ments are more prompt 1t is also sratify-
ing 10 note that pending and threatening
TABOR controversies are less numerous. a
hsher scale was adopted at glass fac
tories, and the attractive wages paid to
harvest hands have reduced the ranks of
the unemployed to a minimum Jobbing
trade IS brisk. esp ,cially in dry goods. and
an Inc large cities report full attendance
OF OUTSIDE buyers. Prices are well sus-
tanned by the brisk demand interior dealers
preparing for a vigorous fall and winter
distribution.
Mills and factories are we'll EMPLOYED
httie idle machinery being noted IN the
prominent Industries, although iron and
steel dispatches are still somewhat irregu-
lar. Traffic by rail and water is very
heavy, railway earning thus far reported
FOR August exceeding last years figures by
90 per cent, and foreign trade at this port
for the last week showed a gain of 81 7O4.-
$50 over exports year ago, and an in
crease of So 220,357 in imports.
Year of High Records.
1T Is becoming a year of superlatives
in the business world; prices of the sixty
most active railway securities have reached
the highest point on record; output of pig
iron in the first half of 1905 not only far
surpassed any preceding six months pro-
duction, but exceeded every full year Erior
to lS9S; prices of hides are at the highest
position since the civil war; wool quota
tons have not been strong since the
early sos: shipments of footwear from Ros-
ton are close to the maximum, and includ-
ing all shoe centers, the movement this
year is beyond precedent; foreign COM
merce in July surpassed the corresp ondiag
month in any previous year. Bank eX-
changes at New York for the week were
$50 per cent larger than last year, and at
other leading cities the gain averaged 151
per cent.
Commercial failures this week In the
United States are 21S, against pr last week.
30 the preceding week, and 226 the corre-
spending week last year. Failures In Can
ada number %, against 10 last week, 26
the preceding week, and "A last year.
A CHINESE OPINION.