Show l FINANOE AND MINING Trade is Very Encouraging for the Season r BIG ORE AND BULLION OUTPUT Lead Steady but Silver Fluctuates Slightly SnIt Later to Operate in Idslio Oeaeral Mining J > ews 1 Trade in Salt Lake during the week just closed was somewhat in advance of the i previous period notwithstanding tho interruption in-terruption of the holiday Merchants generally gen-erally are more hopeful than they have r been for some timo past The fall trdde with the retailers has hardly opened but there is reason to believe that it will be avery a-very good one The situation in Salt Lake compares very favorably with that of the eastern cities where trade indications are entirely favorable The government crop reports for Oct 1 were on the whole muoh more favorable than were expected Money is in somewhat some-what greater demand at most of the commercial com-mercial center but nowhere is thero any stringency tile supply being ample for legitimate ousiness Boston reports active dry goods trade busy shoe factories and very good trade In r furniture At Hartford manufacturing io extremely I active especially of paper cutlery screws and bicycles and in dry goods clothing and narnivsre trade is strong At Philadelphia tho iron market decidedly de-cidedly improves western orders for coal cannot be lilac because the roads are blocked and good orders for the spring f trade are reported in dry goods while the Tvool market continues active trade in y jewelry is fair and paints and oils are active At Baltimore the mf requoncy of southern south-ern failures is gratifying collections are more satisfactory and trade in some lines shows a material increase Pittsburgh reports a stiffer market for pig iron and a good cmand for manufactured manu-factured products with improving prospects pros-pects in the glass business window glass being more active Trade in boots and shoes and hats is satisfactory at Cincinnati sale somewhat exceeding last years At Cleveland rolled iron is in large demand de-mand though pig is lower than over in i price and trade in nearly all lines is good The boot and shoe trade at Indianapolis reports increased sales and at Fort Wayne Bales of merchandise exceed last years building is fair for tho season and manufacturing manu-facturing nealthy At Detroit manufactures are full of orucrs and trade is good Chicago again reports enormousDincreaso In receipts those of wheat oats and barley having doubled while receipts of corn areS are-S about fifteen times last years in wool again a-gain of 40 per cent Is reported in cattle and hogs 25 per cent and some increase in 55 Hour dressed beef butter and cheese Business was never more prosperous and eastern shipments of merchandise aro of S enormous magnitude S Trade is remarkably strong at St Louis the corn crop proving largor than was anticipated S an-ticipated business is larger than last year at Kansas City receipts of products being liberal and very good at Denver jSr At Minneapolis nearly all branches show 5 increase over last year and the output of flour 233000 barrels is the largest over known In a week At St Paul an increased movement in crops is seen and farmers are reported S ploughing for an increased acreage S At Omaha trade In groceries and hardware ji hard-ware is very busy Business at Nashville S is improving but at Little Rock still dull 55 though in dry goods betterS better-S At New Orleans business is active with brighter prospects and money in large doS do-S mand but sufficient supply |