Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-26
|HE TRADE OUTLOOK
Better Crop Conditions Have a
Stimulating Effect on Gen.
eral Business.
Fall Trade Prospects Are Good
and Confidence Is Main
tanned.
Number OF Failure Slightly in
Excess OF the Same Last
Year.

New York, July Bradstreets
Weekly Review of Trade today says:
Crop conditions, particularly as to
corn and cotton. have further improved.
and the confidence in fall trade shows
no diminution, but rather an increase.
from the northwest and southwest. An
Improvement is noticed in shoes and
price. Among the industries iron and
steel are easily first in activity, and re-
lief from the so-called pig iron famine
is sought in freer importations. The
fruit season is NOW in full swing and
sugar consumption is at its full and
promises to lee Very heavy. Anthracite
coal, stove sizes, has reached the PIN
nacle.
Produce is still high, despite fiatter-
ing crop prospects, oats have suffered
the predicted squeeze and reached the
highest price of n generation. range
cattle and Texas hides have surpassed
all records and fine tobaccos have also
reached best on record quotations. On
the other hand, the cereals, cotton and
hog products, rejecting the improved
crop reports, are lower. Coffee, tho gall
vanized by speculation. drags painfully
owing to existing large stocks and good
Brazil crop conditions. AS indicative
of the activity in Widespread directions.
it is noted by western hardware men
that there Will be no dull season this
year. Railroad earnings show gains of
over per cent so far for July. and
bank clearings have begun TO show the
gains earlier predicted over last years
weather and drouth effects on specula-
ton.
Crop reports to Bradstreet's are espe-
cially good from the southwest. where
corn and cotton have been favored by
good growing weather.
The iron and steel trade in the crud-
er forms possesses exceptional elements
of strength. Buyers of structural are
engaging far ahead, steel rail orders are
larfge and bar sheets are large, tho not
as heavy as last week. In hardware
the activity is notable.
Wheat. including flour. exports for
the week ending July "A aggregate j.
9So,969 bushels. against 3,Ii5.222 last
week and 6.974,526 in this week last
year Wheat exports since July l ag-
greeate 1876 500 bushels. against 49,
1864 last season. Corn exports ag-
gregale 1851 bushels against 1862
last week and 1,155,276 last eyar. For
the fiscal year corn exports are 49,
sos bushels, against 7,164,043 last sea-
son.
Business failures for the week ending
July "a, number lis. as against la last
week, 1919 in this week last year, 1S3 in
1900 10 in 1899 and 1S9 in 1898. For
Canada failures number 16 as against
IL last week and 81 in the week last
year.
r. C. Dun & Company's Weekly Re
view of Trade today says:
Each day brings the agricultural pro-
ducts of the nation nearer maturity and
as the possibility of any serious injury
becomes smaller the feeling of conf
dence in fully sustained trade grows
stronger. Storms destroyed much prop
erty in some sections. and the prompt
restoration OF structures has added to
the activity of building trades. Rail
way stocks rose to new high record
quotations and gold was exported yet
money ruled easy. The heavy distribu
ton of merchandise is shown by rail-
way earnings thus far reported for
July. They are 5 per cent larger than
last year and 90 per cent i'll excess OF
the corresponding period of 1900.
Prices of cereals We're fairly We'll
maintained. Meats We're somewhat
weaker on larger receipts and smaller
export buying. Failures of the week
numbered EOS in the United States 19S
last year. and II in Canada against rs
last year.