Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-03
DUNN'S WEEKLY
TRADE REPORT

and wholesale business is confined
mainly to mail order and house trade.
With the year practically ended in
creased business during THE last six
months was of such proportion that
In all lines substantial increases in
sales will be shown over 1911. Wea-
Their conditions have been good and
the holiday retail trade has been
steady and in large volume.
MINNEAPOLIS. - Jobbing houses
ares taking inventories, but there are
the usual fillingin orders. The year
Is closing with excellent promise for
the coming six months. Retail trade
has been very good and has taxed the
capacity Of the stores. Money con
tinues to- SHOW improvement and col
lections keeping up very we'll.
ST. LOUIs.-Holiday festivities
have supplanted business in a great
measure among the jobbers and man
ufacturers and the volume of business
transacted is OF small proportions,
but Is entirely up to expectations at
this particular time. The retail trade
has been extremely active and was
greatly helped by the clear and sea
sonable weather that prevailed, which
made shopping a delight. Many Of
the manufacturing establishments
have shut down, but are to open up
again immediately after New Years
day, as there are plenty OF orders
ahead in all lines OF manufacture.
Business in the paper and stationery
trade has slackened up a little, which
let.lp is temporary, however. Collec.
lions are fair to good. Grain trade is
somewhat quiet. Flour is in better
demand and prices have fimed up
somewhat. Shipments We're $3.50
barrels. Spot cotton is active and
steady. Pig lead and spelter are some
what slow at weaker prices. Cattle
offerings were tll5eral and prices low.
or. while hogs are steady and sheep
higher. Lumber receipts are :noder.
ate, with. good stock in demand at
steady prices. Money is in liberal de.
mand at 5 IL to- 6 per cent.
KANSAS CITY.--General prospect.
~ prevails throughout this SECTION
and bankers and dealers in all Lines
report a very satisfactory business,
with %hattering prospects ahead. The
Christmas spirit was manifest here in
a most liberal manner. Implement
dealers are expecting a very large at
tendance during convention week,
early In January. The locating of a
large distributing warehouse here by
a leading implement manufacturing
company is a great stimulus to that
market. Kansas City mills made A.
600 barrels of -four last week, nearly
twice as much as same week a year
ago. The live stock market lis fairly
active. Collections are reported fair
and a sharp demand for money stiff
fens rates to some extent.
Observation-Disclosures trade rose
to new high record volume, the lis-
eral buying generally strikingly at
testing the prosperous conditions
throughout commerce and agriculture,
and the absorption has produced an
unusual depletion OF merchandise
stocks. Jobbers received urgent calls
for immediate shipment to various
outside points. Wholesale dealings,
however, have mostly lapsed into the
~year-end quiet. Results as a whole
indicate gratifying returns on notably
increased sales for the year and col.
|lections are now unusually good for
the country. Visiting buyers made
considerable selections Of spring and
summer fabrics, particularly those
lines OF textiles which have become
difficult to obtain and may advance in
cost. There was also good demand
for footwear, clothing and house uten-
sis. There are unusually heavy crop
marketings for this period of the
year and gratifying progress OF the
growing Wdnter wheat and rye, the
weather up to this time having been
entirely favorable. Movements OF
commodities again make an unusual
ly good showing and transportation
returns reflect greatly expanded
freight traffic. Manufacturing will
undergo little interruption from the
holidays. New demands maintain en-
cOuraging outlook in iron and steel
and allied interests, and there is a
strengthening tone In general machin-
cry, brass, heather and wood working.
The building and construction activi.
ties r rushed ahead and the ab.orp-
ton Of supplies continues Remarkably
expanded. The markets for raw ma
|terials exhibit firnness In values and
irapdd absorption CT mime and forest
outputs. Money d. quite firm at s to
s IL per. cent for choice commercial
paper. New building, 1884, 800 in val