Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Dun's Weekly Review. [ARTICLE]

Dun's Weekly Review.

It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The midsummer reports from all commercial centers indicate distinctly better crop prospects than other official or commercial accounts, a marked increase in retail distribution of products, an active demand for goods, and a general enlargement of the working force, with some advance in the wages of more than half a million hands. At the same time they show that the rapid advance in prices has somewhat checked the buying of a few classes of products. In some parts of the country the outlook for fall trade is considered bright. There were 6,657 commercial failures in the first half of 1895, against 7,039 in the first half of 1894. These commercial failures involved liabilities of $88,839,944 this year, against $101,739,305 last year. Manufacturing failures for the half year were 1.254, against 1,501 last year, and liabilities $40,301,949, against $41,376,102 last year. Trading failures for the half year were 5,335, against 5,402 last year, and liabilities $45,669,830, against $52,345,978 last year. Banking, failures not included in above statements were 63, with liabilities of $16,653,276, against 63 last year, with liabilities of £13,184,461. The details show a decrease in every class of failures in the second, compared with the first quarter of 1895, both in number and magnitude, and defaulting liabilities averaging $34, against S4O for every firm in business, and $3.04, against $4.03, for every SI,OOO solvent payment