Show AS A TO FAILURES 1 DUNS Ds REVIEW which has just been i issued a Do number of or in fn interesting I statistics s a relative to the busi bust business busIness bustness ness failures In the United States dur during durIng ing log the first six months of 01 1902 The showing IB is not particularly encouragIng lug Ing especially to those who have been Indulging in florid nond talk about the great wave of prosperity in the th United States and rosy for the fu future future ture tare The Dun statements open with the he following figures Reports to R B G Dun Co show com corn commercial mercial failures for fot the half year eat in number with liabilities against 5 57 ro insolvencies in the corresponding months of 1801 1101 Involving Of this years aggregate 1418 were in man manufacturing manufacturing for or llO in trading for and in other ather commercial lines Jines for tor as compared with LS 12 IIiI in manufacturing last year Y ar for in trading for and 30 ElS ous with liabilities ot of Defaults of ot banks and othe other fiduciary In Institutions Institutions 34 a with an in indebted indebtedness indebtedness ness of oC l against nt 45 15 in Ia tho the cor corresponding corresponding corresponding responding six months of DOt 1801 involvInG I A glance at the local figures does not indicate that all aU classes of or business are sharing sh rinG in inthe the prosperity J For in instance instance Instance stance during the first six months of or 1901 there were twentysix failures tOt for fo in Ut Utah h During the corre corresponding period peri 4 in 1902 19 2 the aggregate was as failure for In there were failures for fat In 1902 as against seventeen ev for tor tori i O jO In 1901 Arizona ArIzon shows show a de dc decrease decrease crease in the amount of at liability though hough the total number of at failures in 1902 was exactly the same as the 1901 total otal Colorado seems seems deems to be In J a particularly par bad ad way Its record for the first six months of 1902 was seventy failures for During the first six sIc sl months of f 1301 1901 the failures in Colorado aggregated aggregated gated sat d forty with liabilities s amounting to o 1221 1281 Wyoming had seven Eleven tall tail pres res for In 1902 as compared with one failure for 1000 In the first Sik ix months of 1901 Mon nas figures are exactly the same in regard to num numbers hers bers ers but the liabilities for 1902 exceed those hose for tor 1901 by b Of all the far western and nd Pacific Pacific states the only ones that show improvement over 1901 are Minnesota North forth and South Dakota Oregon and California The total decrease in num numbers numbers bers ers Is and in liabilities The grand total of liabilities for or the far western and Pacific states in 1902 is and for 1901 1 49 a net increase ase in liabilities of The Tha Th net Increase in numbers tor for 1902 as compared with 1901 is l 13 5 |