Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
". a. Settlement of the Goa
NV lOlk strike removes the only Sc

MN IUIk. strike removes the only Sc
- rious handicap to industrial
progress. Five months of restricted fuel
production had begun to check the wheels
AT many manufacturing centers, while
there was pereeptible diminution in
eOhsunptlve demands, as the purchasing
power OF the wage-earnefs steadily de-
creased. Savings have been exhausted,
ana much money has gone out of the
country because of this struggle bur the
nations remarkably strong position as
sures speedy restoration of prosperous
conditions" The foregoing is from the
Weekly Trade Review of Il. G.. Dun 4
Go. 1t continues
Transportation is now the worst fea-
tire, and threatens TO continue disturb
ing. While the grain crops are being
moved the supply of rolling stock and
motive power will prove insufficient. al
though every effort is made at the shops,
liberal premiums being offered for early
delivery. That the railways are well oc-
cupied is evidenced by earnings for the
FIRST week of October 3.5 per cent larger
than last year and 1919 per cent above
1900.
Inadequate supplies of fuel caused fur
Their banking of furnaces, but the effect
OF decreased output of domestic pig iron
has been partly neutralized by larger ar
rivals from abroad. Practically no price
can be named for immediate delivery of
home iron, and there is no disposition to
make concessions for distant contracts,
owing to the abnormal coke situation.
Fortunately there has been little inter
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Of rails, structural material and kindred
lines is well maintained, Consumers not
only lind difficulty in securing steel from
the mills but encounter further delay
on the railways, which are unable to ham
die freight promptly. Orders come for
ward freely for the heavier lines, numer-
GUS contracts being offered for steel rails
for next years delivery, and the plans for
buildings and bridges keep lot of bust
ness in sight in beams. channels and an-
giles. Plates for shipyards are also sought
freely, prices tending upward oil tank
steel Higher freight rates have check
ed imports of finished steel.
Footwear shops are actively engaged,
many producers having added to their
long list of ORDERS and while practically
all the New England manufacturers are
assured full time up TO the end Of the
year, they are also taking orders for de-
llveries in March. Prices are easily
maintained. Leather is slightly weaker
owing TO the sharp fall in hides, which
has been accumulated by the poorer quail
ity now coaing on the market. Large
imports have weakened dry hides In
cotton goods the feature was purchase
OF about 25G.o00 pieces of print cloths.
Failures for the week number 2e6 in
the United States, against 229 last year,
and "a in Canada, compared with 81.
Bradstreet's report says
Wheat, including -four, exports for the
week ending Get. 16 aggregate 5,240.6sS
bushels, against 5,645, 779 last week, -
536,073 in this week last year and 3.T95.-
613 in 1900. Wheat exports since July
aggregate 1871, $50 bushels. against 30
l03,917 last season aud 55,302, 1863 in
1900.
Corn exports aggregate lS0,614 BUSH
els, against 1S0.35S last week, 64O,033
last year and 2.SS6,993 in 1900 Fol the
fiscal year exports are 1,55S.266 bushels,
against l4.944,S43 last season and 50,-
094,69 in 1900.