Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-24
WEEK. |DAI|[ REVIEW
Good Collections and Heavy
Railroad Earnings Features
OF the Week.
An Increased Area OF Corn and
Oats Because OF Wet
Wheat Lands.
All Structural Mills Crowned
With Orders--Wholesale Bus.
mess Rather Slow.

New York, May 24.-Bradstreets
Weekly Review of Trade today says:
With almost uniform good wheat,
corn, oats and cotton crop reports,
improved retail demand caused by
warmer weather. full volume of re-
order business for this season of the
roal earnings, the only cloud on tho
situation would seem to be the con-
tinued unrest of labor and the idlenesa
of large numbers of industrial workers.
as a result thereof. The reports to
Bradstreet point to the greatly IN
creased area devoted to corn and oats is
receiving adequate moisture at time
when greatly needed. 1t will prob
ably be favorable that all of the five
million acres of winter killed wheat
and that lost to spring wheat by heavy
rains in North Dakota will be turned
into coarser grains, high prices for
which have been induced by snort
yields and straitened supplies last
year The winter wheat crop In the
southwest is practically made, the re-
ports as to southern crops, and par
ticularly cotton, are especially favor
able. Eastern dry goods markets are
quiet as usual at this season. Boots
and shoes are slow to sell. Jobbers
stocks are said to be large and higher
prices asked discourage business
~, He+r p1ye- of
accommodating and manufactured leath-
er quiet.
Structural mills are crowded with
orders and the bar and plate mills
have all they can do. Sheet and tin
plate mills alone are able to promise
early deliveries.
wheat is slightly lower on good
crop reports. but straitened supplies OF
corn ana oats ma holders confident
Corn visible supplies are only half
those Of last year and 60 per cent of
the stock is in Chicago.
Cotton was depressed early on con-
fident short selling, but rallied later
Hog products generally are rather
easier, lard is lower and butter is also
off. Copper displays aggressive
strength. Raw sugar is slightly weak
err.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 1872, as against 100 last week; 1872
in this week last year; 167 in 1900; 15S
in 1889. and 231 in 1898.
Failures in Canada number II, as
against 90 last week and "a a year
ago. Clearings aggregate $50,379,8S7.
a gain of per cent over last week and
o. 10 CT
Cun's Review.
New York. May 24-R. G.. Dun &
Companys Weekly Review of Trade to-
day says:
MANY minor labor controversies
have been settled but the situation in
the anthracite coal region has assumed
a more serious aspect Railway earn
ings continue satisfactory. roads re-
porting for two weeks of May showing
gains of 6.5 per cent over last var and
1914 per cent over 1900. No change Is
reported in the iron and steel situation,
former conditions merely becoming in
tensified by the threatened decrease in
supplies of fuel and the labor contro-
versies in certain branches of the in
dustry. The railways are seeking rails,
rolling stock and other equipment while
contractors require much structural
material.
Slight concessions are now obtain
able in some lines of foot wear, altho
the market as rule is fairly steady but
dull. Leather is firmly held, especially
desirable weights advancing, While do
mestic packer hides again made a def
mite gain.
Print cloths are quiet at last weeks
decline.
Quiet conditions have prevailed in
the cereal markets, with only a moder-
ate volume of option transactions and
fractional changes in quotations. Elk
ports of wheat, including -four, We're
only 3.S63,563 bushels during the past
week from all ports of the United
States against 5,525,130 bushels in the
corresponding week last year. Small
receipts of corn, amounting to only L.
263,1SS bushels for the week, against
3,667,O42 a year ago, held the spot
price at about 10 cents.
dispatches from correspondents of
r. Dun & Company indicate satisfac-
tory progress with the new corn crop
and a material increase in acreage.
Failures for the week numbered 1872
in the United States, against $50 last
year, and twelve in Canada, against
twenty two last year.