Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-25
ALL INDUSTRIES FLOURISH
Dun's Review Points to Oar Shortage as
Evidence Of Prosperity.
GOOD WEATHER DELAYS DISTRIBUTION
High Temperatures Encourage Asri-
culture and Merely Act as Tenn
pOrary Check on other Lines
of Business.

NEW YORK, Oct. AR. @. Dur & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow Will
No better evidence OF Industrial n COM
mercial activity Is needed than the present
inadequate transportation facilities. Every
rolling stock has been increased and per-
fected during the last few years to an eX-
tent that appeared almost excessive, yet
the nations business has more than Kept
pace. Unseasonably mild weather has re
tarded retail trade at many points, yet the
movement of goods Is fully sustained by
Distribution delayed by high temperature
is not lost. while the agricultural COM
tsSSibss1 viii III FR%TSS sis very IncIes %s5sri tbsSr P Sbil fhs
mills.
any recent date, only small controversies
interrupting.
The money market pressure has been re-
moved and although securities do not re-
spond, legitimate trade is not retarded by
Earnings Of the railways during October
and those OF 1900 by IL per cent,
Coke Is stu the vital factor in the iron
and SnroSvs steel situation c6arT NC Not tS only snb mas mo nf f lmi
is falling further behind and the outlook is
alarming.
Pig iron is in great demand, imports
higher duty on steel will not be enacted
there is reason TO expect a liberal move
| EntHN IIpUl NTtIIlduNs lie uCUldllu " III
ie so large that great purchases abroad are
being negotiated, while practically all rail-
way supplies ind an eager market.
| Structural lines of steel are in a strong
position, but there is evidence Of irregu-
larity in wire rods and actual weakness in
a few lines that are not now offered freely.
Perfect New Methods.
Plate manufacturers are making a hard
night to. secure the foreign business done
here under a drawback arrangement and q
new method Of production Is being per-
feoted that promises to cheaper the cost.
Among the other metals tin and copper
advanced sharply, but the former reacted,
In the cotton goods market buyers are moi
anticipating future requirements, having
apparently confidence in cheaper raw ma
parity with the raw cotton market, which
Is a supporting element from the sellers
point Of view; There Is a steady ABSORB
ton for immediate requirements which pre-.
vents any accumulation of supplies and
the market must be considered in good con-
dition, since it is obvious that much future
business is only awaiting something more
definite as to raw cotton.
Only a small trade is reported in heavy
t HreT large snf buyers b sha q praetic All eHRoF Of
are reported.
ment for mems wear, wooden or worstet
fabrics, new orders being for small quanti'
ties only and not suggestive of a genuine
supplementary demand for spring weights
from first hands Is on a liberal scale, there
are still numerous complaints of late de-
livery.
silk goods are finn, with a scarcity II
many descriptions. Deliveries of foot weai
on old orders are very heavy and New
tracts for staple lines running into mex
March.
Failures. for the week numbered 2a2 II
the United States, against 240 last year, and
twenty-five in Canada. compared witt
twenty-nine last year.