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Show oo DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE. New York, Aug. 31 R. G Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Advices from leading cities, both east and west, speak of a bigger volume vol-ume of trade, larger advance orders, better employment of lnbor and a growing confidence that the crops will make the future secure In every part of tho country business busi-ness optimism is the rule and all other oth-er considerations are practically ignored ig-nored In the conviction that a period of national prosperity has set In which only some great and Improbable calamity could stop. The advance in the Bank of England Eng-land rate of dlecount to 4 per cent Is an International expression of more urgent demand for money. The industrial improvement Is shown by the fact that the large increase in-crease in September dividends and Interest disbursements Is chleflj duo to the bigger earnings of Industrial corporations Bituminous coal, as usual us-ual In a period of industrial expansion, expan-sion, is active and firm Foreign commerce Is large, but the feature now is in tho growth of Imports. Further advances are generally expected ex-pected in Iron and steel, reflecting the pievalllng conditions In this market. Sheet steel Is In good demand and the larger plants are sold up to next January Similar conditions prevail in wire products and prices on these have been advanced. Railroad requirements re-quirements necessitate the placing of considerable business and a substantial substan-tial volume of orders for rails and other equipment is said to be ponding. |