People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — BUSINESS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

BUSINESS REVIEW.

Bradstreet’s Report Upon the Present General Status of Trade. New York, Aug. 27. —Bradstreet’s review of trade says: ‘■Serious industrial disturbances In New England, drought in central and far western states curtailing nearly all staple crops, and a disposition in all lines to continue to buy for near-by wants only fail to greatly influence general trade throughout the country, the trend of which is toward further improvement. states east of the Missouri and the Atlantic tnid Gulf coast southern states report relatively greater gains in volume of traffic and in the spread of that better feeling and confluence in a larger volume of business in the fall, on which improvement in business depends. "Prominent among the evidences of expansion in general trade is this week’s bank clearings total, 4u20.000.000, a gain over last week of about 4 per cent. ..nd over the like total one year ago when clearings got down to about low water mars, the increase is 20 per cent. But compared with the total in the like week two years ago tins week's aggregate clearings show a decrease of 18 per cent.”