Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-01
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Crop Damage Reports, Real and
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New York, June 1.-R. G. Dun & Co. s
We@kly Review of Trade today says:
While the weather in the east has
hamperea distributive trade to consid-
cradle extent this Week, resulting in
s0me lines rather unsatisfactory, the
west and south report unchanged condi-
tons, With operations We'll up to the re-
cetn average. The labor situation is
little brighter. Many strikes have beer
settled. ard others are expected to ter
inmate shortly
Iron and steel mills are working at
full capacity, and more new plants have
been put in operation. Quotations are
We'll maintained, without any effort to
secure advances. Farming machinery is
a feature Of the domestic business. 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 Australia
ard South America. Railways are I'M
able 10 secure sufficient freight cars and
le;hsr supplies While structural work
proceeds briskly, with little Interruption
from labor Controversies.
Taere il, little less activity among
manufacturers Of boots and shoes some
q the smaller plants reducing time or
osesing down, ostensibly for the purpose
- taking stock. Statesmen in the west
I'D south are sending good orders for
fail delivery, but the local jobbing trade
has received a setback from the contin-
uous rain Leather ia still strong and
active for heavy sole and high priced
upper stock, and offal has been freely
taken for export Medium grades are
quiet. with less demand than the ex-
IRENE qualities.
Extended holidays abroad and a
short one in this country have tended TO
make the grain markets unuaually
quiet. while corn has had the added
drawback OF hesitat ton among traders
who have NOT yet recovered from the
effects of manipulation in the MAJ OPP
ton. Foreign purchasers were driven
out of this market by inflated quota
tions, as shown by Atlantic exports in
five weeks OF only 9.436,2S5 bushels,
against 17,34l 065 bushels last year and
lo.453,s ls bushels in the same week OF
1893. Each reaction in wheat is quickly
followed by recovery, and much support
is found in gloomy reports from grow
ing 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 lesa LOGS thru these influences, and
the splendid condition earlier in the sea-
son gives reason TO hope for an album
dant yield.
Misfortune has overwhelmed cotton
Plantations. according to the pessmistic
views circulated by traders and factors
who are endeayOrinR to sustain nrice G
in the face of heavy receipts and unsat-
isfactory conditions at the New England
mills, where print cloths have been
sharply reduced to 25s cents in order
to dispose of the accumulation. which is
said to reach 100000 pieces. Heavy
brown goods have started under better
Chinese inquiry, but the local retail and
jobbing trade is restricted by unfavora-
BILE weather.
Attic it is between seasons with the
| silk trade. there is a good demand and
| available stocks of the more desirable
lines are reported light. The ribbon
| trade continues brisk despite the lower
| ing skies
Carpets and upholsteries Improve,
and in staple clothing woollens there is
more activity. The accumulation of sup
plies. however. has had a distinctly de-
pressing influence, and in the Philadel-
rhia market the quotations are percepti-
bly, easier. The decline extends to the
entire list of domestic woods, altho moi
/ more than a cent in any grade"
Chicago Iron and Steel Mark cts.
l Chicago. June 1.-Iron and Steel. the