The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-01
LOOKS BRIGHTER.
R. @. Dun & Co. Report Improvement
in Labor Situation.

in Labor Situation.
New York, June 1.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says:
While the weather in the east has
hampered distributive trade to a con-
siderable extent this week, rendering
the season in some lines rather unsat-
isfactory the west and south report I'M
changed conditions with operations well
up to the recent average. It is the sea-
son when crop damage rumors are al
ways heard, and they have come from
many quarters, but probably in large
part owe their origin to speculation.
There is nothing as yet to cause any
modification of the general estimates
made recently and founded upon the
special returns from correspondents of
r. G. Dun & Co. The labor situation
is a little brighter. Many strikes have
been settled, and others are expected to
terminate 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 effort to Sc
cure advances. Farming machinery is
a feature of the domestic business and
there is no sign of decrease in the ex-
port movement for these products,
which has attained enormous proper
tons Rails are also going out freely
to Australia and South Africa Rail
ways are unable to secure sufficient
freight cars and other supplies, while
structural work proceeds briskly with
little interruption from labor cOntrO-
versies. There is a little less activity
among manufa cturerS of boots and
shoes, some of the smaller plants re-
ducing time or closing, ostensibly for
the purpose of taking stock Inven-
tories would easily wait a month, how
ever, If orders were abundant Sales
men in the west and south are sending
good orders for fall delivery but the
local Jobbing trade has received a set
back from the continuous rain
Leather is still strong and active for
heavy sole and high priced uppers.
Shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston have shown the expected de-
figures of recent preceding weeks, but
are still very heavy, and since January
1 exceed last years by about 1000 cases.
Extended holidays abroad and a short
one in this country have tended to
make the grain markets unusually
quiet, while corn has had the added
drawback of hesitation among traders
who have not recovered from the m a
nipulation in the May option. Foreign
purchasers were driven out of this
market by inflated quotations, as shown
by Atlantic exports in five weeks of only
9,436,2S5 bushels, against II, 341065 bush
els last year, and Is. 433, 81S bushels in
the same weeks of 1899 Each reaction
in wheat is quickly followed by recov-
cry and much support is found in
gloomy reports from growing sections.
insufficient moisture and low tempera-
ture 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 SPLEEN
did condition earlier in the season gives
reason to hope for an abundant yield.
Misfortune has also overwhelmed cot
ton plantations according to the pessi-
mistic views circulated by traders and
factories who are endeavoring to sl1s-
tain prices in the face of heavy receipts
and unsatisfactory conditions at New
England mills where print cloths have
been sharply reduced to 3-S cents in
order to dispose of the accumulation
which is said to reach 100000 pieces
Heavy brown goods have Steadied I'M
der better Chinese inquiry, but local re-
tail and Jobbing trade IS restricted by
unfavora bic weather although it IS be-
tween 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 lowering skies. Carpets and up
holsteries improve. and in staple cloth
ing Woolens there is more activity. This
brings out raw wool more freely, but
there is not demand enough to advance
prices in the face Of heavy stocks and
a large new clip coming forward. In fact
the accumulation of supplies has had a
distinctly depressing influence and in
the Philadelphia market quotations are
perceptibly easier. The decline extends
to the entire list Of domestic woods, al
though not more than cent in any
grade.
Failures for the week numbered 14s in
the United States. against 100 last year.
and q in Canada against 20 last year.
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