Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — TRADE HAS DECREASED. [ARTICLE]

TRADE HAS DECREASED.

More Favorable Weather Gives Improved Prospects for Crops. Dun & Co.’s YY’eekly Review of Trade will say: “Floods have abated, and with them much of the estimated losses,, and in river bottoms farmers are busy planting as fast as waters recede. Better weather in most quarters gives decided improvement in crop prospects, but it is still true that wet weather in other localities retards trade and the backward season generally renders distribution somewhat disappointing. Yet the aggregate volume of trade, in spite of all obstacles, is greater than a year ago—about 7 per cent, measured by clearings outside New York and 3 per cent, by railway earnings on all roads reported. Labor difficulties in building trades are passing away, but there is a prospect of a serious contest in iron manufacturing between Western employers and workers. Other industries are satisfactorily active and confidence in the future'is general.”