The age-herald., 1901-06-15
eRApsTREET,s REVIEW.

New York, June 14.-Bradstreet' to- morrow will say:
 Reports to Bradstreets show a further improvement in the volume and tone of distributive trade, which had It's incep- ton in the better weather and crop con- ditions Following the check given to the crop damage enthusiasts by the June crop report, which can hardly be sug- gested as other than brilliant for wheat, comes assurance that the condi- tions on June 1, good as they undoubt- edly were, have been further improved. What is true of the smaller cereals IS also largely the case as to corn, though tie latter Is backward and needs warm CT weather. Cotton crop prospects have likewise been improved though the low condition is apt to offset some if not all of the increase in acreage A better business Is noted in some lines of men's s wear woplens, and some makes of cheap CT goods are reported heavily ordered ahead While the cereals are lower on good crop reports, quick support has come from the export demand, which has been the largest for weeks past, and the decline has been temporarily at least arrested.
 One of the most satisfactory features of all is that, after quite period of dullness, pig iron has been taken more freely at leading markets, and bars and plates have sold better, the latter even noting an advance.
 Pig iron production is shown to be pro- ceeding' at an unprecedented rate. but consumption appears to await promptly upon output. Railroad earnings continue in undiminlshed volume, and the only de- cidedly unfavorable feature deserving att tention is the prospect that the machin- ists strike will be long drawn out.
 The feature in iron and steel Is the enlarged demand for Bessemer pig iron at Pittsburg for July and August de- livery, with reports that the largest in- terest, the United States Steel Corpor- ation, Is buying heavily in the open mar ket.
 In finished lines the feature is the en- larged inquiry and demand for bars and plates at Chicago. and the advance of S2 per ton noted in the latter. After long absence agricultural implements manu- lecturers are in the market for some good-sized lots Wire and wire goods are in heavy demand, and deliveries are be- hind hand. Machinery manufacturers are cautious as to contracting ahead in view of strike uncertainties. Shoe shipments from eastern markets for the week have again passed the 100000 case mark, de- spite the fact that factories are about through with their work on summer or ders For the season shipments are now LIS, 900 cases ahead of last year. Efforts of heavy leather manufacturers to secure advances on these goods have given some trade to lighter makes, which are more active. All western markets report heavy sole leather firm, and tending upward. Hides are strong and the margin between the raw and finished product Is narrow one.
 Wheat including flour shipments for the week, aggregate 4791,0OO bushels against 6,844,644 last week.
 Corn exports for the week aggregate D. 569, 254 bushels against 2,455,102 last week; 3.634, ,205 in this week year ago. and 8,3S5, ,301 in 1899.
 Failures for the week in the United States were 1S8 against 163 last week; 1S0 in this week a year ago; 150 in 1899; 2U in 1898, and 226 in 1897.
 Canadian failures for the week number II, against 2 last week. g in this week a year ago, 25 in 1899, and 19 in 1898.