The age-herald., 1900-12-01
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS The General Situation is Entirely
 Satisfactory SOME LINES ARE HAMMERED Unsettled Weather and Holiday Season Drawback to Retail and Jobbine Distribution-Another Advance
 In Iron Probable.
SOME LINES ARE HAMMERED

New York, November 30. = Bradstreet's tomorrow will say:
 Unsettled weather and holidays are drawback to retail and jobbing distribu- tion in many markets, but the general sit- uation is still most satisfactory one, and the iron and steel, coal, boot and shoe, hardware and lumber trade are conspicu- ously we'll situated. The industrial situa- ton is also deserving of note because of the striking absence of complaint as to idleness or as to pending of future labor
 troubles.
 While the volume of new orders in crude material continues moderate when com pared with the enormous activity of some time past, business in iron and steel Is steader and as a rule held better in hand. Advices from the West are of large busl- ness doing in pig iron, while rails, struc- tural material, plates and bars are being ordered in heavy volume.
 Mills turning out finished products are very generally ordered six to eight weeks ahead, and January, 1901, deliveries are be- ing called in in some cases. Whatever changes are expected are looked for in the shape of an advanced price. Southern pig iron has sold heavily and an advance from S11.25 for No 2 is predicted for December 1. Tin plates are reported selling well. The export trade in iron and steel is less attractive owing to lower prices abroad and an active demand at home, but Ameri- can railmakers this week have received fiattering endorsements in the matter of price, quality and delivery from English railway authorities.
 Among textiles the situation in wOOlen goods and wool is perhaps the least en- couraging of any, but even here the strength of the raw material in face of the hand-to-mouth demand from manufactur CTS is notable. slight decline in the price of raw cotton, the effect of smaller ex' port movement and realizing by holders of
 cotton goods, is noted but as rule the price is firmly held and the opening of the spring trade Is awaited with confidence.
 The one unsatisfactory feature in cottons Is the depression in the export branch which tends to weaken brown goods. Bleached cottons of many grades have been advanced this week. Silks are rather slow of sale and recent price reductions fail to stimuate business. Relatively, the best trade reports come from the South and Southwest, while the most backward are from sections of the East where unseason- able weather is complained of and from sections of the spring wheat region, which suffered most from the. shortage in acres. It is notable, however, that the better Sit- uation in lumber has stimulated trade in northern Minnesota. The feature in the grain market this week the carrying to successful conclusion of the November corn corner in Chicago. Following the private settlement of the shorts al basis of 50 cents a bushel came drop to fl cents. At New York the influence of this corner one of the few successful corn corners on record-was to advance prices slightly, owing largely to the defection of Suppliecs. Wheat has been irregular but with the un- dertone bearish, because of large supplies and discouraged speculative liquidation Wheat including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 2,497, ,8S0 bushels against 3,S27296 last week, 3699,400 in the corre- spending week of 1S99 959 in 1898 and | 6,499, ,960 in 1897, and 164 in 1896. From | July 1 to date this season wheat exports | are 77,799.267 bushels against S9,167,942 last | season and 96, 0S,042 in 1S9S-99.
 Corn exports for the week aggregate A. | 801 O30 against 5,235,5 ,56S last week, A1,514 in | this week year ago, 4,723,9SS in 1898; 45S5, !? | 806 in 1897 and 1,76S, 102 in 1896.
 From July to date this season corn ex- ports are 74,6S1 591 bushels against 96, 61S OO2 | last season and 65 546, ,750 in 1898-99 Failures for the week number 1S4 as | against 215 last week, IF in this week a | year ago. PIP in 1893, 250 in 1897, and 315 in | 1896.
 Canadian failures for the week number | 28 as against 31 last week, 25 a year ago and | 25 in 1S9S 35 in 1897 and 8 in 1896.