Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-23
GOOD TRADE SITUATION
Recorders From Jobbers Indicate
Business Equal to Any Of
Recent Years.
Complaints Of Car Shortage Are
Still a Prominent Feature
OF Business.
Iron and Steel From so Cents to
ST Per Ton Higher Than
Last Week.

New York, Nov. 23.-Bradstreet' S
Weekly Review of Trade today says:
Mild weather and the car shortage are
leading subjects for discussion in trade
and industry. The former naturally
limits the retail consumptive demand in
some sections. notably the north and
northwest, but complaints come also
from the south, where, however, the
shorter than expected yield and the
lower than-last-year's price of cotton
are additional features. Taken as
whole. however, the recorder demand
from jobbers the country over, and the
inquiry for holiday goods, is equal to,
and In the latter case, superior to re-
Gently preceding years. While com
plaints OF insufficient transportation
facilities come from all leading Ameri-
can. Canadian and even some Mexican
points. the chief tension is noted in that
part of the country between the Ale
rheny mountains and the Mississippi
and between the lakes and the Ohio
river.
The iron and steel market has burst
are concerned, and pig iron is 6O cents
to 81 ton higher at nearly all markets.
Steel works in the Pittsburg district
are, however, reported as being unable
to run to their full capacity owing to
the lack of supplies of pig iron, and the
furnaces producing this latter are IN
turn suffering for want OF coke Chi-
cago rail mills, which produce one-tnlrd
of the country's output, are sold one
wear ahead, and the Providence loco
motive works are likewise booked to
toward the end of 1902. Steel billets are
scarce at s2S per ton. Finished prod
ucts are without much change, but CEN
trail and western mills will not promise
deliveries of steel bars inside Of sixty
DAYS. while structural material is hard
to get.
The strength OF the coarser grains,
particularly corn and oats, Is the
steadying feature in cereals at present.
Wheat weakened early on the record
breaking Increase in the visible supplies
reported in the Bradstreet statement
Northwestern receipts We're also very
heavy, but good export demand is re-
ported at the decline and late firmness
is In sympathy with the strength in
corn. The southwestern drouth is re-
ported broken. The unusual movement
of corn and oats west to the droutn-
stricken states instead of east, is re-
ported still further complicating the car
shortage on the grain trade. Wheat, In
Guiding -four. exports for the week ag-
gregate 5,5lS, $40 bushels as against A.
aSS. 1884 last week and 3,S27,296 in this
week last year Wheat exports. July 1
to date dwenty weeks aggregate 49,
70l, $50 bushels, az against I4.24o,1l3
bushels last season. Corn exports ag-
gregate 4A5,351 bushels. as against 629.-
024 bushels last week and 5.235,56S last
year. July to date corn exports are
is, 52s,119 bushels, against 63,6I5,796 last
sea son.
Bearish manipulations of the print
cloth market. in the shape, of a cut in
prices of leading indigo. shirtings and
mourning prints. has unsettled the en-
tire cotton goods trade and brought
business to standstill.
Wooden goods particularly in heav-
Ter grades. are in good shape. Stocks of
worsted woods are especially small.
Eastern shoe factories are busy on
winter orders, and the call for spring
stocks is so urgent that there is less
than the usual between seasons quiet
ness. Shipments for the week are 26
per cent higher than year ago. Light
feathers are active owing to the scare.
lty of heavy grades and there Is g
rather easier tone to hides which favor
buyers.
Failures of the week aggregate 223,
as against s1a last week and 215 in this
week year ago.