The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-09
DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.
Little Relief in Matter of Trans
 portation Facilities.


 New York. Nov. SIR. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 Little relief has been afforded the leading manufacturing industry in the matter of transportation facilities. In fact the situation on the whole is less satisfactory, since inability to secure coke has brought about the banking of harden the market for pig iron, though no actual alteration in prices has oc- cured, except at Philadelphia. where % cents ton more is readily paid. As this industry Is considered the best bus mess barometer. present conditions and future prospects are certainly most en- couraGing. for orders are abundant. and plants are enlarsing capacity in order to handle the growing business. Material Is purchased now for much structural work in the spring and additional contracts are seeking acceptance. Railway needs were never as pressing. every form Of ble that more orders will be placed abroad. Labor troubles and low water have added to the difficulty arising from car shortage. making three retardlng in when the export demand has become d factor of importance.
 Textile mills in New England are busy and there Is no longer any fear of labor controversy at Fall River. Print cloths have ceased to be inflated, standard widths resuming the former quotation of 3 cents and meeting with a fair demand. Domestic buying of all staple cottons Is seasonably quiet and the views of ex- porters are still below those of sellers. Recent declines in the raw material have not weakened prices, as there was no commensurate advance in goods when the cotton market was rising. Reports from the South indicate that spindles are we'll occupied. In woolens there Is a free movement of womens dress goods and orders are plentiful in heavy weight lines for immediate delivery. The season has reduced manufacturers stock Of heavy woolens and worsteds to low point. and recent unprecedented buying of raw material indicates that orders come forward freely. Footwear is hrm at last weeks advance. and Eastern manufacturers are beginning work on spring orders
 Leather is held at the best prices of the season and dry hides rose further on heavy sales.
 Weather conditions were the chief acc- tors in determining prize eaangfS in grain-growing States brought a higher level of quotations, corn rising 29 cents above the figure ruling at the corre- over 1899 These advances of more than 50 per cent. are far in excess of the ratio of loss in production, and estab- fishes a fictitious price level which cur tailed Atlantic exports to 62, !4z busheis for the week. against 2,52O,17o bushels last year and 3.45o.l .l04 two years ago.
 On the other hand, wheat is moving out freely at both coasts, shipments from the United States for the week amounting to 5,6l0,472 bushels against S,- 21O 164 bushels the same week of 1900. and 3.927. .203 in 1899. Vigorous milling and foreign demand caused fair ad- vance in prices to about last years r,I,; fg- ure, despite the difference In output, Cotton weakened still further, port ahd interior movements indicating a better crop than was anticipated. At the low. CT price. however, exports are heavy and | Coffee advanced despite the record breaking supply Failures for the week numbered 243 in the United States | against POI last year and B in Canada l against 2S last year.