The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-01
BAD WEATHER HAS
EFFECT ON TRADE
Hurts Retail Business in Some
Parts of Country.
RUM0RS OF CROP DAMAGE
SLIGHT DECLINE DURING WEEK
IN PRICES OF WOOL

New York. MAY 3h--R. G. Dun & Co 5
Weekly Review OF Trade tomorrow viii
say. While the weather ia the east has
hanpered distribuive trade 10 a consid-
cradle exteut this wees, rendering tfe
season In some lines rather UnsaJisfacL
tory, the west ana south report un-
changed conditions, with eg5eradons well
up to- the recent average 1t IS the sea
SON when crop damage runors are Al
part owe their origin to speculation.
There is nothing as vet 20 cause any
no4lLication OF me sShS e - -
made recently and rounded esfoq the sps-
cIGi returns. from cOFres5llY ilttrlls OF H.
.. Dun & Co The iaoor sss4ll-sitlol is =
little brighter Many strikes have been
settled and others aref expected 10 ter
inmate shortly =
. CAPACITY, and more new plants nave Deen
puE in OpofatiOn. Quotations Ak Wen
maintained, without any EFFORT 70 secure
advances Farming Indctilnefy rs a ed
ture of the domestic business and there
is 10 sign or decrease iu the export move
mCut of these products, when mas at
tanned enormous proportions. Rails are
also going out freely to Australia and
South America Railways are unable 10
while structural WQrh DrOceeqs RISKY
wIln little interruption from labor con
There IS a little less activity among
rnauufac turers of boots and Shoes some
of the smaller plants reducing Time OF
closing, osteusiDiy Tor the purpose q
wait a month, however, If orders were
abundant. Statesmen in the west and
south are sending good orders Tor IAN
delivery, but the local jObDing trade mas
received a setback from the continuous
rain. Leather is still strong and active
for heavy sole and nlgh priced upPSfs-
Shipments of boots and shoes from -BOs-
ton have shown the expected decrease
from the phenomenauy large figures OF
T-ll| rfz7TF
very heavy, and since Jan L exceed last
years by about 1000 cases.
Extended holidays abroad and short
one in this country nave tended to make
the grain markets unusually quiet, while
corn has had the added draw back o.
! hesitation &n1ong traders VINO nave not
recovered from the manipulation in the
May option Foreign purchasers were
driven out of this market by inflated
quotations as shown by Atlantic exports
in tive weeks of only 9,435,2S5 bushels
azaainst 1I,34l.o65 bushels last year and
~ F3, SIS bushels in the same weeks OF
1883 Each reaction ir wheat IS quickly
followed by recovery and much Support
is found in gloomy reports from growing
sections. insufficient moisture and low
/ temperature are the chief causes OF
complaint. and injury from insects Is
( also rumOred but there is always more
or less loss through these influences and
] the splendid condition earlier in the sea
SON gives reason to hope for an album
dant Yield
8iisfortune has also overwhelmed cot
I ton plantations, according to the pessi-
I mistic views circulated by traders and
/ factories. who are eudeaVOrinE to sustain
prices in the face of heavy receipts and
{ unsatisfactory conditions at New Eng
, land mills, where print cloths have beer
sharply reduced to rs cents in order 20
dispose Of the accumulation, which Is
said to reach 100000 pieces
Heavy brown goods have ste lied UNI
! der better Chinese inquiry, but local re-
tan and 1ODbing trade is restricted by
unfaJora Bile weather Although il is be
] yveeEtsseasons with the silk trade, there
+ IS sod demand and available stocks
{ Of the more desirable lines are reported
I lights The ribbon trade continues brisk
] despite lowering skies. Carpets and up
holsteries improve, and in staple clothing
/ WOOfcuS there IS more activity.
Eill5 brings out raw wool more freely
I 5-t there is not demand enough to add
( vance prices ia the ace Of heavy. stocks
I and ~ large new clip coming forward. IN
I fact. The aCcumUla len of supplies has
/ had distinctly depressing influence and
/ in the Philadelphia ma riS@t quotations are
peTcCptibly easier. The decline extends
I to the entire list of domestic wOoIens
( Although net more than a cent in any
/ grade.
I Failures for the wesS numbered 146 ir
I the United States against $50 last year
] and TWEEN y-seVen in Canada, agains
/ twenty last year.