The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-10-26
CONDITION. OF TRADE.
Wills, Shops, Factories and Furnaces
u Running Full.
PRICES ARE RULING FIRM.
Satisfactory Figures
For Domestic Wheat Larger Than
& Inst Year In Spite of Heavy
Crops-NOt Many Failures.

M New York, Oct. 25.-R. G. Dun &
sEo.'s weekly review of trade says:
mills, shops, factories and fur
(nces assured of full operation until
the end of the year as Il rule and many
aNontracts already running far into
Regarding the industrial situation.
-JobDers are still urgently asking
prompt deliveries by manufacturers of
staple lines, while opening transactions
in fancy goods for the holidays are I'M
usually early. showing that dealers an
ticipate large trade. Retail distribu-
ton of heavyweight wearing apparel
and other seasonable goods is checked
by the hardness of low temperatures,
which is extremely fortunate in many
cases where makers have been unable
Ito fill orders according to specifica-
Hons. Prices of commodities rule firm
nni collections are satisfactory, even
&outhern payments coming forward
promptly now that the tardy cotton
crop has begun to move freely. AL
Though stock market operations were
much smaller than in the same week
IN the two preceding years, bank ex-
changes at this city were 1871 per cent
Ierger than in 1900 and 116 per cent
aboye 1890, while at other leading cit
les the gains are 1879 and 1916 per cent
respectively.
Eastern makers of. boots and shoes
are still engaged on late orders for
n..ts, q.
S Freely from the west for spring lines.
In wooden goods conditions are quiet
on account of the warm weather, but
mills are fully occupied, and producers
ssof knit goods have orders for some
lime. Strength in the raw material is
conspicuous mills buying freely. In
cotton goods the situation is disturbed
by the action of a large manufacturer
Nfwho advanced wages per cent short
time ago and again this week an
6 nounced Il 3 per cent rise to go into ef-
y feet on Nov. T.
81 The Cereal Markets.
~ More satisfactory prices are received
ii by domestic wheat growers, last years
ssGgurcs being surpassed, notwithstand.
y ing the largely increased yield just har.
N vested. Smaller crops of other cereals
y ana hay caused the use of much wheat
i'll fattening live stock, and with lard
more than cents above last years
prices ana mess pork So barrel high
'er, this has been q most profitable pro
3 cecding. Foreign buying is also heavy
exports for the week, including flour
amounting to 4,s04,9SS bushels>against
q 3,954,2G0 last year and 3,1SS,4 1872 in
a lS00. Corn was supported by estimates
Il of reduced yield in. Roumania and q
III splendid increase in Atlantic exports
b to 1,194,009 bushels against sol ,155 il
1.-THE preceding week, but the current
outgo is trihing compared with 2,716,
5S2 bushels last year and 3,554,313 tive
r years ago.
"a Liabilities of failures in three week!
SDf October We're S7,S9S, 563, of which
s$3, 224,992 were in manufacturing ant
,$3, 1p9,S33 in trading. Though n few
VERY large defaults have swelled til,
months losses, there Is but little in
81 crease compared with the S7,0iG,27:
q liabilities in the same weeks last wear
II Failures for the week numbered in thu
81 United States 2l0 against 205 last yea
and 20 in Canada against % last year