The age-herald., 1901-06-01
WEEKLY REVIEW OF
 TRADE CONDITIONS Nothing 0iScouraging in the Present Industrial Situation CROPS HAVE BEEN HURT By UnfavorabIe Weather-Wheat Has Also Suffered-MIlls Have Orders
 That Will Keep Them Busy
 for Several Months.
CROPS HAVE BEEN HURT

New York, May S-R. G. Dun & Co., weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 The trade in the east has hampered the forward movement to the interior, but operations are well up to the recent aver age. It is the season when crop damage rumors are always heard and they have come from many quarters, but probably in large part owe their origin to spec ulation. There is nothing as yet to cause any modification of the general estimates made recently and found upon the special returns from correspondents of R. G. Dun & Co. The labor situation Is a lit tie brighter Iron and Steel mills are working at full capacity and more new plants have been put in operation. Quo tations are well maintained without any effort to secure advances. Farming ma chinery is a feature of the domestic busi- ness, and there is no sign of decrease in the export movement of these products which has attained enormous proportions.
 Rails are also going out freely to Aus tralia and South America. Railways are unable to secure sufficient freight cars and other supplies. while structural work proceeds briskly with little interruption from labor controversies. There Is a little less activity among manufacturers of boots and shoes, some of the smaller plants reducing time or closing down, os- tensibly for the purpose of taking stock. Salesmen in the west and in the north are sending good orders for fall delivery. but the local iobbing trade has received a set back from the continuous rain Leather is still strong and active for heavy sole and 'high-priced upper stock, and fall make has been freely taken for export Medium grades are quiet, with less demand for the best qualities. Ship ments of boots and shoes from Boston have shown the expected decrease from the phenomenally large figures of recent preceding weeks, but are still very heavy, and since January exceed last years by 1000 cases
 Extended holidays abroad and short one in this country have tended to make the grain markets unusually quiet, while corn has had the added drawback of hesi- tat,on and traders who have not recovered from the effects of manipulation in the May option. Foreign purchasers were driven out Of this market Dy lnlltteu quotations as shown by Atlantic exports in five weeks of only 9436,2S6 bushels against 17,341. .0S5 bushels last year and 1S, SIS bushels in the same weeks of 1S99
 Each reaction in wheat is quickly fol- lowed by recovery and much support is found in gloomy reports from growing sections. Insufficient moisture and low temperature are the chief cause of com plaint and injury from insects are also rumored about greatly.
 Misfortune has also overwhelmed cotton plantations, according to the pessimistic views circulated by leaders and factors who are endeavoring to sustain theories In the face of heavy receipts and un- satisfactory conditions at New England mills where print cloths have been sharply reduced to 2as in order to dispose of the accumulation which is said to reach two million pieces. Heavy brown goods have steadied under better Chinese inquiry but local retail and jobbing trade is restricted by unfavorable weather.
 Carpets and upholsteries improve and in staple clothing woolens there Is more activity This brings out raw wool more freely but there is not sufficient demand to advance prices in the face of heavy stocks and a large new clip coming for ward. In fact the accumulation of sup plies has had a distinctly depressing in- huence and In the Philadelphia market