The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-19
BRApsTREET's REVIEW.
Continued Activity in All Leading
 Industrial Lines.

NEW YORK, Oct i9.-Bradstreets tomor- row will say. T., trade dispatches to Bradstreet's this week are the reports of stimulated retail trade, due to cooler settled weather and adyicss or , con tinued activity in all leading industrial lines notably iron and steel. shoes and leather, coal lumber, jewelry and cotton and woolen goods The shipments of products of these industries and of groceries to consuming sections continue heavy and are accompanied by reports or de- laws due to the scarcity of cars. Another one staples numerous of late. has also occurred by which the general level of cereals raw cot ton dairy products and lake copper has been raised Clearings have expanded because Of an extension of interest in the security mar kets but also because of continued good col lections, which in turn have induced rather more ease in money rates at leading markets Advices from the South are still Of pack, i, ward cotton crop movement hampering fall demand, and collections, but even here there has been an improvement noted this week
 Iron anG steel consumption continue tn'ly equal to and in some in excess of pro sale by merchant furnaces in the Pttsburg district of 75OOO tons of Bessemer pig iron to leading interests at from ST 5,25 to SI 50 per ton at Valley furnaces. Steel billets have tainable for prompt delivery though S27 and S2s per ton is offered against the 1' nominal iIlI stocks in the Central West are said to not exceed one weeks supply. Orders for fully 900 900 tons of rails for next year deliv1 cry have peen booked. although the principal consuming interest has not yet apportioned Us husiness which is expected to exceed l85, 900 tons Plates bars and sheets and struo tural material are all active but iron bars ported easier. Tin plate mills are catching up with their orders and a cut Is reported Ill the price of wire nails.
 Railroads are in the market for and one Western system has bought 1000 this w=ek. Export business in iron and steel is not prom
 Cooler weather and fear of frosts, co ,pled with good reports from the print cloth indus try have stimulated cotton and this in turn is reflected in higher quotations for nearly all leading bleached cottons. The con viction to be growing that tn cotton crop this year will not be as large as hoped for and estimates by leading authorities point to all available present and possible future CT quiet As regards new demand but the mills busy on orders for spring wcighis guarantees continued activity. Wool is steady ard firm with a large consumption progressing.
 The cereals markets were rather apathetic and liquidation caused by larger receipts at the Northwest weakened prices early. De- creases in these receipts and smaller ArEentme shipments and peer crop reports brought about a rather frmer feeling later by which the early loss regained and a slight advance regis tered the week. All estimates agree that the worlds wheat supply will be larger than a wear ago. the increase being here and in Canada and the decrease n Europe. but against this Is to be cited the fact that the rye corn and oats yields. not to mention other fOodstuffe, are smaller this year than
 Wheat. including flour. exports for the week aggregate 5,536,D73 bushels, as against A. { 7ie ses last week and 3,7e6. 9+4 in this week 1 last year Wheat exports July to date -four ! ten 'weeks) aggregating s5, lo4 25l bushels as against 54. .254. .99l last season:
 | Corn exports aggregating $40, 900 bushels as | against SIS POO last week and 2.996. 9e3 last
 year. July to date, corn exports are l4
 945. % bushels against 4S SS99oo last sea | son
 | Eastern shipments are 24 per cent. larger foi | the week and 3 per cent. higher for tho
 season than they were a year ago.
 Failures in the United StsteS @ for this weel
 number I9S. against S3 last week 22;
 this week a year ago, 22 in 1899 and 2l>
 In 998
 Canadian failures for the week number 2s
 as against 35 last week, 22 in this week ; year ago, 20 m 1899 and 24 in 1898, ard 4E l in 1897.