Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-11-12
New York.

NHE I0k ing as to the tardy move
A----------------I ment of freight. miles Of
ears being stalled by the lack of motive
power, and many roads refuse to accept
further shipments until the bIockades are
relieved. Lower temperature has stimH-
lated retail sales of seasonable mciehan-
die, but frost comes too late to seriously
injure agricultural products Liberal con-
sumption sustains quotations in most
lines; domestic demands being supple
mented by large exports The foregoing
is from the Weekly Trade Review of Il.
g. Dun & Co. 1t continues:
Operating expenses of the railways
have increased in many cases to such a
degree that net earnings are somewhat
curtailed, but gross earnings for 0ctobe,-
thus far exceed last years by Al per
cent and those of 1900 by 1875 per cent.
Undue significance is attached to the
announcement that the Frick Company
will not advance next years price for
coke above So. Although this is in line
with other conservative efforts of lending
interests to prevent inflated prices, the
probable influence on the outside market
will not be great, as the bulk of output
will go to the various plants of the United
States Steel Corporation. Meanwhile
sales are being made at SIG in extreme
cases, and the scarcity has closed more
blast furnaces. The future course of the
iron and steel industry will be largely
influenced by this fuel shortage, much
business being permanently lost to home
producers. and prices in some depart
ments already show the effect of disor-
ganized conditions. Railway needs have
not diminished. numerous large orders
-seonstantlX. appearing, while the pressure
for locomotives is causing large premiums
. to be offered. Structural shapes for
bridge and ship building are next in point
of urgent demand. Agreement on the
tin plate wage scale may secure lot OF
business that now goes out of the coun-
try, and some reduction in prices is ex-
pected. Wire nails are also cheaper, but
as rule quotations are well maintained.
New England shoe manufacturers are
receiving additional orders at fully sus-
tanned quotations, and many shops are
assured of full occupation well into Jan
uary. Supplementary orders for winter
goods have decreased. indicating that
wants will b. supplied when shipments
are made, and producers are pushing de-
liveries in order to take inventories.
Leather is in hotter demand, with prices
HIIlleT. more Interest mas pSeH suoN II III
Chicago packer hides at recently reduced
prices, but the average of all grades is
again lower.
Conditions at the cotton mills are
healthy. a scarcity of goods being gen
eral, while there is no disposition to force
transactions. 1t is early for supplement-
airy buying Of spring wooden goods and
fall trade is finished, so that these divis-
ions of the market are naturally quiet.
Raw wool is very firm at the leading east
ern markets, which are shipping freely TO
the mills.
Failures for the week numbered 233 in
the United States. against 291 last year,
and % in Canada, compared with q
year ago.
Bradstreets report giving grain figures
says:
Wheat. including -four exports for the
week ending Oct. 80 aggregate 1897 ,G20
bushels, against 7.060,417 last week, g.,
GT2, SSS in this week last year and 3,5l2,-
421 in 1900. Wheat exports since July
aggregate 91.42S,03I bushels, against
JOG, 72S,9 $3.50 last season and G3.S4I ,5G4 in
1900. Corn exports aggregate l53.200
bushels. against S4.564 last week, 60G.-
159 last year and 1920. 10 in 1900.