The age-herald., 1899-11-25
DUN'S WEEKLY
 REVIEW OF TRADE Iron Market Shows a Little
 Advance in Pig. AN INCREASE IN EXPORTS No Indication That Volume of Money Has Not Been Ample All the
 Year Embarrassment to
 Outside Industries
AN INCREASE IN EXPORTS

New York, November 24.-R. G. Dun & Cos. weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 Monetary anxieties have faded with the sales of bonds to the treasury under the recent offer, the fall in sterling exchange in spite of dearer money abroad, and cas- fer here, and the receipt of about $75OOOO net from the interior during the week. There is no trouble in the commercial money market, as there has been none, and loans on securities have ruled at easier rates While the extraordinary volume of business throughout the country requires greater activity of currency than in ordi- nary times, there is no indication that the volume has not been ample all the year and the course of money markets throughout the interior shows that embarrassment here has been due to operations of outside industries and general trade
 The iron industry shows no yielding in material, but little advance in Bessemer pig at Pittsburg with large inquiries for next year. Prices of rails are maintained with one contract reported of 10000 tons for Japan and another pending for South Af- rica A single order for car axles covers SS 900 or $500 tons. Structural prices don't yield, and angles are quoted higher. The
 works which have nearly or quite filled their orders, are seeking others, with con- sessions of $2 per ton in eastern plates, $1 in steel hoops and sheets and in bars at Pittsburg while cut nails are quoted at a lower The general ratio of prices for fin- ished products is now 2.34 per cent lower than November l, though the average for pig iron is l per cent. higher. Copper IS unchanged
 Tin has been depressed to 271a by Lon don's speculation. Lead is unchanged; spelter lower, with sales at 4.4O. and alum dnum is higher at B cents for ton lots
 Heavy orders in the past are reported by shipmemts of boots and shoes, amount ing to PSI 272 cases in three weeks, l6.o per cent. more than in 1897 and S2 more than in 1894. with other years still smaller. New business is checked by continuing rise in prices. w.ch have in some grades been 20 cents per pair, with one large contract in Creole at 221a cents per pair advance
 Sales of wool pass all records, having been at the three chief markets 6l,6Si,2o5 pounds.
 Cotton goods are rising also, ana prFhl cloths have been advanced an eighth, a proposed sliding scale at Fall River nav ing probably averted a strike, though al | other cities higher wages are demanded Cotton advanced 3-16s, the decrease of nearly 300 900 bales in exports this month being more than balanced by light receipts from plantations.
 Wheat has scarcely any change in prices during the week. Though western receipts are 30 per cent below last year for the week and have been in three weeks but It 565 973 bushels against 2S,544,199 bushels last year, the decrease in exports is heavy.
 From Atlantic ports the outso for three weeks, flour included, has been only r. 761, ,lS1 bushels.
 In spite of uce great decrease in cotton and wheat, exports of merchandise from New York have been nearly g, 900 larger for the week than last year and for three weeks only about $900,000, per cent smaller than last year, when from all ports | the value for the month was $129, 191 ,965, the largest ever known, except in December and the excess of exports over imports | was $77,701, 137 Apparently manufactured exports must now be very heavy, although prices have been rising, and the increase | in imports though about S4 per cent fol
 the month, cannot reduce the favorable | balance greatly.
 Failures for the week have been 191 1T l the United States against 1SS last year, ant l g in Canada against 21 last year. BRADSCREET'S REVIEW New York, November A.-Bradstreet's re