The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-19
| United States, against lat last year, and 30
| in Canada, against IL last year.
CONTINUED DULLNEss.
1t Ii Bradstreet's Summary OF the Cur
rent Business Conditions.

NEW YORK, May 1s.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: Continued dizziness in
many branches and further shading in
several staple lines constitute the leading
features I'm the business situation this
week. The weakness of prices is displayed
in lower quotations for corn, pork, butter,
cheese. wool and cotton among the great
agricultural products and petroleum and
lead among mineral productions. Wheat is
slightly higher. partly owing to less favor
able crop reports here and abroad. Con-
tinued dryness in the Northwest has given
the spring wheat situation a less salts
factory appearance and there is little i'm
provement noted in the winter wheat sec
lions of the central West 1t Is doubtful,
however, If the dry weather has as yet
plant coming from the numbering interest,
which reports lower streams interfering
with the forwarding of supplies The dis
tribution Of dry goods has been within
narrow limits, and wholesale and recorder
business is reported particularly slack On
the other hand, retail business in summer
goods has been helped by the sudden squirt
of hot weather. Jobbing demand for boots
and shoes is quiet but manufacturers are
firm in their demand. Leather is dull and
some shading in hides is reported at the
East.
Inc IOn ana steer SltudliOu Is IO
stronger, and shaded prices fail to de-
velop much new business. Bessemer pig
is nominally unchanged at Pittsburg, but
the same grade of iron made outside of
that city is being offered there below cur
rent quotations. Structural material con-
tinues the strongest feature of the trade.
From Birmingham come reports of con-
tinued large export business, more having
been done in two weeks past than in two
months previously, but quotations are
largely nominal and the outlook is rather
more uncertain.
The industrial situation is on the whole
rather better than for some time past, in
that new disturbances are fewer and some
older ones have been settled, but the prac-
teal tie-up at Chicago is still unbroken.
AT st. Louis all kinds of business has
been hurt by the strike of street-railway
employees, and uncertainty at other cities,
particularly in the building trades, has had
an unsettling effect upon lumber. Anthra-
cite coal production is being restricted to
seasonable requirements, while the settle
ment of bituminous trade labor matters is
regarded as favoring continued good trade.
Notwithstanding fiour-shipments for the
34S0.574 last week. 2,212.20 in the corre-
spending week of 1899, 4.O64. s32 in 1898 and
2,655, o62 in 1887. Since July the exports of
wheat aggregate ia, 6S4, AS bushels, against
205 go $50 last year and 206. SS7 $50 in 1S979S.
Corn exports for the week aggregate
3,437,994 bushels, against 1858, 140 last week,
2753, Ala in this week a year ago, $3.50, 579 in
1888 and 3l9o,O43 in 1897 Since July l corn
exports aggregate Isl, 1S9, 209 bushels,
against ,221 during the same period
year ago and les. 1863. IA in 1S97-9S.
Business failures in the United States
number 155, as compared with TIA last week,
l6S IN this week year ago and I'll In 1885,