Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-08
A GOOD SPRING TRADE
Business Has Been Good in Spite
of Serious interruption OF
Weather.
West and Northwest Show the
Most Improvement-Ship-
ments Are Delayed.
Floods and Storms Have Seri.
ously Retarded the Move.
ment Of Products.

New York, March S.-Bradstreets
Weekly Review of Trade says today:
Spring trade increases, despite Sc
rious Interruptions in the section adJa-
cent to the Alleghenies caused by
floods, snow storms, interrupted tele-
graphic and mail facilities and crippled
| railroads. Western and northwestern
advices are, of course, relatively the
best received and here dry goods, mil
llnery, clothing and kindred lines of
spring goods are most active. AT lead
ing eastern markets textiles have felt
the quickening of demand and prices
have strengthened in many lines. Inc
strength of textiles generally, but OF
cotton and cotton goods particularly, is
in fact second only to the strength dis
played in iron and steel. All available
measures of midwinter trade point to
exceptional activity despite unfavora-
BILE weather conditions. February
clearings as a whole, Notwithstanding
reductions at the metropolis, due to
dullness in speculation, are slightly
larger than year ago. Failures are no
more numerous, but a few large bank
suspensions, due to mismanagement or
worse, have swelled liabilities one
fourth above year ago. Prices have
felt the quickening first in a slight in
crease in the strength of textiles, dairy
products among provisions, live stock,
coal and coke and building materials.
All signs. in fact, favor the indication
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except in few instances, considerably
more active than a year ago at this
time. Altho there is less apparent ten
sion in iron and steel, the situation is
really remarkable one. Floods and
| high water have interfered with pro-
duction limiting supplies of fuel, ham,
pering productive operations and
checking shipments. Most grades OF
pig iron are higher in prices by from
% to so cents per ton. Finished prod
ucts are active. Steel rods sell at the
highest prices for many months, bar
ii on is higher, cut nails have advanced
| and light rails have also been put up.
A favorable feature is the settlement OF
the wage scale agreement by the tin
plate mills 1t has been a narrow mar
ket for the cereals with price changes
| few and the government crop report OF
March 10 on supplies in farmers hands
| still hanging over the market Hog
products are slightly weaker and spec
ulation has been almost absent. Wheat,
| including flour, exports for the week
aggregate 4.095,944 bushels, against 81
234,54O last week and 4,229,525 this
week last year. Wheat exports from
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aggregate 1s4,262,377 bushels, against
I137,47S,20 last season. Corn exports
aggregate 152,406 bushels, against 312,-
664 last week and 3,956,137 last year.
From July /, 1901, to date corn exports
are 23,4T1,66O bushels, against 1881
/ T35 last season. Raw cotton has contin-
ued on it's upward march, aided by bad
weather conditions checking the inte-
rior movement, and shorts have been
! forced to cover almost continuously.
! Cotton goods are generally strong and
| tend upward. The outlook in the Fail
River print cloth industry is not set
tied as yet, the wage scale difference
constituting menace to continued ac-
| tiyity Wooden goods are fairly active,
plain dress goods and overcoatings dis
playing the most interest. Fine woolens
are in limited supply and firmer, with
Australian grades tending upward. The
boot and shoe and leather trades are
exceptions to the more or less general
activity in other lines. Shipments from
eastern markets are slightly larger for
the week and per cent ahead of last
year. but new demand is quiet and
/ leather shares the dullness, this being
reflected in shaded prices in February
for hides and for union and oak tanned
leather. Failures for the week number
It's, as against 2O4 last week and 2OS
in this week last year"
A Printer Greatly Surprised.
81 never was so much surprised in