Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-13
DUNN'S WEEKLY
TRADE REPORT
All Mercantile Lines Active-large
Fall Trade Expected Because Of
Fine Crop PROSPECTS,.

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Fall Trade Expected Because Of
Fine Crop Prospects.
MISUNDERSTANDING week of al
most ideal growing weather has pass
ed and the outlook for this years
crop is most favorable. Liberal rains
and cool weather have given the wheat
a good chance to take root and with
warm weather probable from now on
the crops should come forward rap
idly. Trade in nearly all lines is re-
ported developing nicely and sales are
increasing. Lumber continues firm,
list quotations.
St. Paul.-Wholesale business for
May, 1913, exceeds that of May, 1912,
both in current sales and in booked
orders for future shipments. The
weather has been favorable and the
early crop conditions continue most
satisfactorily. Dealers in hardware,
harness, butcher and bar supplies re.
port business active and in whole.
sale paper. Office furniture. printing,
etc, there is a moderate gain as com
pared with a year ago. Building OPP
eralions are active and there is a & W.
demand for materials. Drugs, chem
icals, and oils are moving normally.
Collections are seasOnaDly good.
Onaha.-Dry goods jobbers report
a heavy volume of sales for the month
of May despite weather conditions
that have been rather unfavorable.
Preparations have been made very
generally for a brisk fall business
and the demand for summer special.
ties has been more extensive taar
usual. The hardware trade, while still
fair. has been somewhat les active
during the past week. Grocers re-
port business good and shoe dealers
express themselves as satisfied with
conditions. Collections on the Who'll
arc good. ~
Kansas City.-Activity has charac.
t:rized trade in all lines during the
past week, despite the conflicting
and somewhat adverse reports regard
ing crops throughout this section. The
jobbing trade reports quite an in
crease in business over correspond
ing week of last year especially in
dry goods. shoes and hardware lines,
and collections are somewhat better.
The flour business of Kansas City and
southwestern mills was in compare
lively unchanged volume, with jobbers
in every section of the country dis.
playing a tendency 10 saty out of the
market for flour, except to satisfy
immediate wants, owing to the high
quotations. The Kansas City mills
made 32,700 barrels of flour the past
week compared with 41,000 the pre-.
ceding week and 27,50O barrels the
corresponding week last year. Wheat
reports during the past week have
been the most ~discouraglng of the
season. a general drought being re-
ported in southwestern Kansas and
Oklahoma, and in a portion of the
above section conditions are quite Sc
rious, although an early and heavy
rain will w the crop. In eastern
Kansas the indications still point to
a record year, this section, having had
frequent showers during the spring
The corn planting season has been
longer than usual. Along the south
ern Kansas line and in northern Okla.
homa the plant is up and farmers are
getting into the field for the first cul'
tivation, but in the northern section
of Kansas and Missouri the seeding
is not more than halt done. Jobbers
are we'll pleased with the buggy bust.
ness so far this year, as sale are not
only more numerous. but dealers, as
a rule ARE buying higher-priced We.
hicles. The local live stock markets
report trade on all grades active and
values steady to higher. Hogs and
sheep, however, we're lower. The
supply Of hogs at all the western mar.
ket centers were far too heavy for
the demand.