Show DUNS WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE NEW YORK saturday july extreme hot weather for an entire week has checked many kinds of bubines bu sines but has not prevented a considerable excess in the volume of trade over atut oi last year at the same time the wea ther has been extremely favorable for the growing crops excepting in limited dial rids where damage baa been done by violent storms aad the crop outlook is on the whole decidedly improving Gongre aa doea not adjourn as yet but it haa failed thus far to pass the anti option bill or any other measure regarded by the business world with ap and a speedy adjournment is expected money has been abundant and cheap and collections generally good for the season and there are no signs of threatened disturbance the great interruption of iron and steel manufactures at the west contin aes ues i but there are distinct edgna of probable lement ane homestead works have secured a considerable part of the force required tho large lish ment of jones laughin ia expected to atari soon and dl pittsburgh it is believed that the controversy about wages in the iron mills will soon be ended by arbitration finished products of iron ami deteel are stronger and 3 to 5 per ton higher but greater demoralization ia expected in pig iron unless more of the consuming works start speedily bar and sheet iron are very active and manufactures of plate end structural iron have orders than thay can well handle but no improvements ia seen in raila lu woolens there is a batiar demand and more activity ia seen in purchase of wool while the cotton mills to do well boot and aboa ahoa shops are running full of bua buess aal shipments exceed last v ears every week being fur the year thus far c a against to date shipments of hides croaa chicago bava been million ibs against 97 millions last year money baa been extremely easy at 1 percent and from nearly all points lome reports that the markets are well supplied eup plied and the demand generally light though improvement ia seten at some yet the exports of about bood gold this week are not altogether encouraging to thosa who calculate that with congress out 01 the way a better foreign demand american securities iv be expected it often happens chaa ich he pel are unrealized The treasury id gradually strengthening itself as is needful aud comparatively easy at this bragon but when the all demand for money tu move the crops begins in sarnett sar neat pressure in the money markets may speedily appear unless gold comes back from abroad in large amounts american buyers of stocks are enczur aged by improved crop prospects and bv the belief that aba traffic in connection with the worlds fair will help all the trunk lines and during the past week stocks haye been dull but fairly etring the business failures oc currine through out the country during the last seven days as reported to E Q dun co the M candle agency by tee graph num berof the united states and for canada 22 or a total of as cam pared with totals of last week and the week previous to the last for the corresponding week of hect year the figures were representing represent in failures in the united states and 18 in the dominion of canada |