Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-13
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DUNNs' WEEKLY
TRADE REPORT
A Normal Movement of Merchandise
at Present, and Future Orders
Satisfactory in Volume.

satisfactory IN Volume.
Minneapolis.-General trade sgis
brisk In Minnesota and. Iowa, but
North Dakota Is not In particularly
good condition, short crops In DIFF
ferent sections for two or three sue
cessive years having left the latter
State. spotted, and both buyers and
sellers appear to regard 1t Is a good
time to liquidate and clean up. The
outlook for 1914 is good for the sea-
son, but it will take one or two good
crops to bring back the mercantile ac-
tivity Of a few years ago. South Da-
kota is in better shape, although q
similar tendency towards conserve
tism prevails in many districts. This
same feeling extends over the line
into eastern Montana and disappears
wholly in Minnesota and Iowa. Com
paratively few failures are reported
from the Dakotas and eastern-M0n.
tana and the present dulness IS at.
tributed to conditions that are work
ing for a decided betterment. C0llec-
lions are fair to good and there is
less year-old unpaid accounts this
March than ever before in the COM
mercial history. of the Northwest.
4St. Paul.-Confdence Is we'll sus-
tanned financial and Industrial cir
cles. Heavy wearing apparel has not
been inquired for as literally as q
year ago, owing to weather conditions
but manufacturers and jobbers In 9th
er lines report a large volume Of bus
mess, which in the aggregate shows
an increase as compared with last
year. A large amount OF building will
be done locally during the year. Some
big contracts have been let and It Is
anticipated that all previous records
will be broken. Collections are fair,
Kansas City.-Continued low tenn
peratnre for the past few weeks has
induced wider demands in the leading
retail lines and trade in general
among the jobbers has also showed In.
creased activity. Collections are about
normal. Tie heavy snow which ex-
tended over this section of the coun-
try, accompanied by severe cold
weather and sleet, did no damage
whatever TO the wheat crop. A gen.
eral improvement, both from the price
and demand standpoint, is noticed in
the -four trade in this section. For.
eign buying is active and prices
more remuneratiye. The output for
the Kansas City mills during the past
week will be about the am as the
preceding week. The production total
ed $4,000 barrels compared vita 49,
800 the preceding week. 'Fhe volume
of spring business in implements is
up to normal. Demand for building
supplies OF all kinds has shown quite
an increase. The volume of building
permits issued during the past month
showed an increase over the same
period of 1913 of about 116 per cent.
In the local live stock market the
supply of cattle Is moderate, with de.
mand brisk aAAsprices higher. The
supply of hogs was in excess Of re-
luirements and prices were somewhat
lower.
( Omaha:-Dealers in groceries and
shoes report about the same. volume
Of business a. last year. The dry
goods trade seems to hayesiHlprOved
and sales show a fair increase. There
is not a very active demand for hard
ware, though sales Of staple articles
seem to about hold their own. The
movement Of implements seems to
have fallen off since the first of the
year, but weather conditions of late
have been favorable and dealers seem
to be very optimistic. Collections, are
only fair.