The age-herald., 1901-11-23
HOLIDAY ORDERS
 EXCEED LAST YEAR Mild Weather Limits Retail De- mand in Some Sections CONTINUED CAR SHORTAGE Iron and Steel Market Has Burst It's Bands So Far as Prices Are
 coneerned-More
 railures.
CONTINUED CAR SHORTAGE

New York, November 22.-Bradstreet's
 tomorrow will say:
 Mild weather and car shortage are lead l Ing subjects for discussion in trade and l industry. The former naturally limits re- tail consumptive demand in some sec
 tions, notably the North and Northwest,
 but complaints come also from the South
 where however, the shorter than ex-
 pected yield and the lower than last
 years price of cotton, are additional feat
 ures, Taken as a whole, however, the re-
 order demand from jobbers, the country
 over, and inquiry for holiday goods, is
 equal to and In the latter case, superior to recently preceding years.
 While complaints of insufficient trans
 portation facilities come from all leading American Canadian and even some Mexican points, the chief tension is noted in that part of the country between the Allegheny mountains and the Mississippi and between the lakes and the Ohio river. While 1t is expected that the close of lake navigation will relieve the ten sion and release some cars, no permanent improvement Is looked for until Jan uary 1.
 The iron and steel market has burst it's bonds this week so far as prices are con cerned, and pig iron is 50 cents to $1 ton higher at nearly all markets. The former advance is on Southern grades and the latter is secured for prompt de- livery of much-needed supplies. Steel works in the Pittsburg district are how ever reported as being unable to run to their lull capacity owing to the lack Of supplies of pig iron and the furnaces producing this latter are in turn suffering for want of coke. Chicago rail mills
 which produce one-third of the country's S
 output, are sold one year ahead, Provi-
 oence locomotive works are likewise
 Dooked to the end of 1902. Many furnaces
 are out or blast at Pittsburg and s1 ad-
 vance Is demanded for prompt deliveries
 of Bessemer. Some German steel has
 reached that center and large imports are expected. Steel billets are scarce at $zo per ton. Ftnished products are with out much change but Central Western
 mills will not promise deliveries of steel bars inside of sixty days while structural material is hard to get.
 The strength of the courser grains. par- ticularly corn and oats, is the steady
 feature In cereals at present. Wheat 'N.-SiSN NoiAS Oil Lut TecOrQ-DreaktDR | increase in the visible supplies reported | In Bradstreets statement Northwest- l ern receipts were also very heavy but a | good export demand is reported at the l decline and late frmness is in sympathy
 With the strength in corn. The South | western drouth Is reported broken The l unusual movement of corn and oats west
 to the drouth-stricken states instead of 1 East is reported as still further compli- eating the car shortage in the grain
 trade. Wheat, including flour, exports | for the week aggregated 5.51S, ,930 bushels as against 4,9SS, 7S4 last week, and 8,
 s26.2e6 in this week last year.
 | Corn exports aggregated 1851 bushels | against 629624 last week, and 5235,56 last | year. July to date exports are IS, ,523, | 119 bushels against 163, ,675, ,796 last season. Bearish manipulation of the print cloth | market in the shape of cut in prices | of leading indigo and shirtings and 1 mourning prints, has unsettled the entire | cotton goods trade and brought busi-
 ness to standstill. Little nas been done l in raw cotton this week. but trouble in | the print cloth market Is sympathetcally reflected in the raw material. but small CT movement has tended to make reduced | crop estimates more fashionable. The tone as a whole Is less bearish than a week ago. Woolen goods, particularly
 in heavier grodes, are in good shape
 Raw wool stocks depleted by recent | heavy buying are firmly helu Stocks | of worsted wools are especially small. Eastern shoe factories are busy on winter orders and the cal for spring
 stocks is so urgent that there is less than the usual between seasons quiet ness. Shipments for the week are 2f 1 per cent higher than a year ago. Light | feathers are active owing to the scarcity | of heavy grades and there is a rather l easy tone to hides which favor buyers. | Failures in the United States for the
 week aggregated 223 as against 213 last
 week. Canadian failures are % as against | 30 last week.