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Show Dun & Co'sTrads Ravisw. R, G. Dun & Co's weekly review of trade says: While industry and business were improving im-proving daily and prospects were brighter bright-er than ever, the sodden alarm about oholera came to cause some hesitation-It hesitation-It is even said that buyers from the south who had departed for New York had turned back because they were afraid of detention by quarantine there. There Is reason for the utmost precaution precau-tion against importation of the disease which city and national authorities are taking with creditable energy.. But there is yet no ground for supposing that the pestilence will gain a foothold here this season. , . In all other respects business prospects pros-pects are clearly better than a year ago nearly all accounts show actual increase in business. - Crop prospects are better, money is in greater demand, but amply supply etery where, and industries are producing more than ever before. Fear that exports may be curtailed by pestilence in Europe with causes previously pre-viously strong has depressed the markets. mar-kets. Wheat has dropped tol78lj) cents, the lowest point since 1883 and recovered to fall off 2 cents for the week. Corn has dropped 6M cents for the week with better western reports. Cotton rose a shade, but has fallen to 7 again with a sale of 686,000 bales. Oats have declined de-clined lli cents; pork 50 cents per barrel, bar-rel, lard 37 cents and hogs' SO cents per 100 pounds and oil cents lower. The greater part of these changes came from the unnatural condition of the markets: prices for some time held up in spite of extraordinary-stock In sight. Wheat receipts in four days were 4,862,296 bushels, bnt exports wjye "Only 903,415. gtociis of cotton on KantiAuUils country equal two months consumption- ahdTin Europe about three months consumption consump-tion of American. - Current estimates of the coming crops are constantly' rising. It has been evident that Europe will take leas'of our products -this year than last, but pestilence there will not greatly great-ly diminish the need for food or clothing. cloth-ing. . - - : Manufacturers In this country have never been In better condition on the whole than that which reports now Indicate. In-dicate. : All textile manufacturers are producing more and eonsnmtng more material than ever, and the demand has rarely pressed so closely on the supply. Most woolen mills are running night and day to meet orders, and cotton mills are crowded while stocks of goods In sight are low. The Iron and steel industry rapidly resumes re-sumes full production, though some mills are yet delayed by.. repairs. De . mand for pig Is lively while all are pressed for bar, plate, sheets and structural struc-tural Iron. It Is enough to say of the woolen maun fecinre that sales at the three chief mar kets since the middle of May have been 104,453.000 pounds against- 83,000,000 last year, an Increase of 25.8 per cent. Boot and shoe shipments-reported by the Shoe and Leather Reporter, show an Increase of 5 per cent, and receipts at the western markets show an Increase of 22 per cent for the week and 15 per cent for the year thus far. Business Is active at Omaha, satisfactory satisfac-tory with large receipts of cattle , an 1 grain at Kansas City, and strong at St. Louis, a general fall trade being assured. as-sured. At Denver business is good, and throughout the northwest reports as to collections are yery favorable. The business failures occurring throughout the conntry during, the past seven days nnmber for the United States 148 and for Canada 28, or a total of 176. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 218, representing 198 failures in the United States and 20 In the Dominion of Canada. |
