Show 1MERCANTILE MERCANTILE AGENCY REPORT Uncertainty About Crops Checks Demand De-mand for Dry Goods New York Sept Telegraphic ndvlecs to the International Mercantile agency from trade centers throughout the United Stales are summarized as follows I Rant low temperatures and lack of I exact knowledge as to the extent of the damage to cotton corn and spring wheat have tended to chock the retail and Jobbing demand for dry goods and other seasonable merchandise at Chicago Chi-cago SL Paul St Louis Buffalo Dallas and New Orleans and collections arc Interfered with Less In this direction Is noted at Boston Xew York and Baltimore Bal-timore Some uneasiness has been felt among leaders at Philadelphia owing to present and contemplated restrictions restric-tions of production of Iron steel and anthracite an-thracite coal Cotton in now seen to be a month late with more unfavorable weather reports Spring wheat In Minnesota and Dakota Dako-ta has been soaked and much will grade lower The damage so caused in the three States Is placed at 15000000 Drought has Injured the North Carolina Caro-lina tobacco California and Oregon hop crops will amount to 125000 hales against 139000 last year The quality of the former Is superior of the latter i medium Call fornias wine crop is 120 per cent larger than last year The most pessimistic opinion as to Indian In-dian corn does not place the crop at less Limn 000000 bushels The Industrial situation is rather worse than better Thlrl > or more pig Iron furnaces will shut down between October 1st and January 1st reducing the capacity 75000 tons weekly Railways Rail-ways arC buying fewer rails cars and less bridge material Four anthracite coal companies will mine on half time during the rest of the year Wire and rails lead I in activity in steel There in 1 a heavy demand for funds from merchants and manufacturers which the banks are meeting freely An unusual number of small banks are bens ti be-ns organized throughout the South Both Monti cal and Toronto report a falling oil in demand at the Northwest Grave fears are experienced over the efforts ef-forts of the Consolidated Luke Superior I failure on the situation at Sault Stet I Marie The Dominion will send many I thousands of dollars abroad for rails If i the big Soo Steel company Js not revived I vived The Pacific coast salmon pack is said to be a failure Bank Clearings New Yoik Sept j111 following ta ble compiled by Bradstreet shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended September 21th with the percentage of Increase and decrease iu 1 compared with the corresponding week last year Inc 1 Dec Nw York c 07111700 fr Chicago lWi031COt5 SI Jjoston JSoXSGSJO 115 Philadelphia 301210715 G2 St Louis ISW7Si7 Jll Fittsburg 15110727 70 San Francisco 2SSOS510 111 Baltimore h 2li377SO 13 flnulnnatl 2043003 15 Kansas City i v 2IOSii 79 IAS AjiRolcsr 1 t5S2 sWos I SI Joseph li5S77 lS Denver 32173l2 130 Seattle S2IOS 111 SALT JLAICJ3 CITY TOOrK > 232 Portland Or fl7Mll Ifiii Spokane AVsh 2123713 105 Tacoma 1F531el 1 olS Helena r 1GS12S Jl I Totals U 51771717471 = 2TU I Outside N Y 03rCO4ni 2S Totals Canada tflSWGS 71 |