The age-herald., 1901-09-14
ASSASSIN'S BULLET
 STOPS PROGRESS For a Time Projected Under takingS Were Abandoned CONFIDENCE IS RESTORED An Analysis of All Departments of Traed Show Every Factor of
 Stability to stand-off Any
 Crisis-Bradstreets

New York, September 1s.-R. G. Dun x l Co.'S weekly review of trade tomorro" will say:
 An assassln's bullet curtaied the prog
 ress of a nation. For time projected un-
 dertakings were abandoned, and orders
 were held back that were about to De
 nlaeed. Speculators sacrificed stocks and onions on grain and cotton. Better news early in the week brought recovery In prices and postponed business was trans acted but anxiety was again in evidence on Friday In the principal manufactur- ing industrials there is a steady gain In the number of active mills and full opera tion is considered near. Less urgency for immediate delivery of goods and less in- clination to pay premiums on the part of well-posted men, suggesting that these consumers anticipate a return to normal activity with little delay. Mills are ac- cepting contracts for delivery of steel rails far into 1902 at s2s, so that no change in price is near. Finished steel Is freely taken whenever producers have goods to offer at reasonable terms, and the en- forced idleness In tin plate mills promise to reduce high prices and decrease im- ports. Instead of large increase in iron furnace stocks, owing to the known de- crease in consumption of steel mills, there appears loss of 10, 255 tons for the month of August Evidently mill stocks have been augmented heavily. Shoe shops still operate full force, and while the large producers of New England have the most noticeable activity, manufacturers all over the country share the heavy de- mand.
 Many lines of cotton goods, both bleached and brown, have gone to high CT level and this branch of the textile in- dustry Is in better position than at any previous date this season, mainly owing to light stocks in first hands. Purchases of woolen and worsted fabrics are largest in staple lines, and while mills have few new orders they are fully occupied on long term contracts An enormous gain in the visible supply of coffee, together with receipts at Brazilian ports fully en- dorsing the largest estimates of the cur rent crop, depressed No. Rio to 51ac which is within a sixteenth of the lowest price ever recorded. Cotton was weak CT. partly on account of full details re- garding the old crop and new spindles, but still more because of the light foreign buying and better prospects for the yield | Just beginning to be picked. Wheat did not respond to a lower government esti-
 mate as the unofficial authorities still anticipated the greatest yield ever har- | vested. Though exports from the United
 States have fallen below the unparalleled
 movement in August the weeks ship
 ments aggregated 4,979.s59 bushels. flour included, against 3,676, 2SS last year, and
 3,510,S4S in 1S99
 | 7 Predictions that the yield of corn will l be the smallest since 1894 did not pre- vent the marketing of 3.17S7S2 bushels, compared with 3,262,265 a year ago, but exorbitant prices made exports from the Atlantic seaboard S43,314 bushels against 2,474629 last year, and 3.013,64S in 1899. Failures for the week numbered 175 In the United States, against 195 last year and IS in Canada against 30 last week.