Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — TRADE REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

TRADE REVIEW.

Bistaes* Sltutlon According to Du m*§ New York. March 7.— R. G, Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: **/ “It must yet be broadly stated that bast ness appears to Improve only In prospect, and la the Confidence on which future transaction* may be based, but not aa yet Id attN|<msles accomplished. The tndustrlesSKreport a slightly lower range of prlcesJMcept for iron and steel products. The demand for no dam of Iren product* Is at this time brisk, but large structural business Is expected In the spring, and there Is stilt much hopefulness about . railroad orders, as earnings continue to improve. The reports of the boot and shoe interest are not on the whole more encouraging this week, shipments from the east being still nearly 20 per cent. Idas than last year, but there was no further decline in prices. No important changeappeara in the leather market, and hides are somewhat weaker. "Failures for the week have been *5 hi the United States..against 284 last year, and 68 in Canada, against (8 last year. "The volume of business reflected by clearing house exchanges la not materially improving, the week’s returns showing a gain of only 6.6 per cent, over last year, and a decrease of 17.6 per cent. In comparison with -the some week of 1866.’ 1 Bradstreet’s says: “General trade began the week relatively less favorably; with the change from high winds end extreme cold which checked trading to milder weather. Increased purchases and brighter prospects for business have appeared. Makers of woolen goods report spring trade over, fall trade not yet begun and much men’s-wear woolen machinery idle. Jroaand steel have had an unsatisfactory demand and prices of billets and southern/plg are shaded. There ar,e also reductions in quotations for cotton, print cloths, petroleum, hides, and for wheat, Indian corn and. oats. Mercantile collections are generally unsatisfactory, notably to Chicago, where there are more complaints than for a year past.”