Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-22
IN TRADE
Dun's Review Notes More Satisfactory
Condition of Business.
EASTER STIMULUS Is FELT.
Expected That After July the Situa-
ton In Iron and steel Will Be-
come Almost Normal, Though
Pressure Still Continues.

New York, March OR. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
Evidences of further improvement
are numerous. Labor controversies are
less threatening, many settlements hav.
ing been effected, while others are mo-
mentarily anticipated; wages have
been advanced not only through strikes,
but in some cases voluntarily; traffic
congestion has subsidized until it is pos
siDle to deliver goods according to
specifications; aside from some idle
footwear shops, the leading lines of
manufacture are very fully engaged,
while jobbing trade is Of exceptional
magnitude. Retail dealings are also
very large, the Easter stimulus being
felt In all lines of wearing apparel.
Pressure for iron and steel has not
diminished perceptibly, yet the impress
sion is growing that after July ! the
situation will become approximately
| normal and 1t will be possible to Sc
cure deliveries with some degree OF
promptness. This is the more probable
| as there has been a further stitening
of quota tons and additional importa-
tons, which would have been much
| larger but for the advance in foreign
| markets. For some time to come it is
| probable that foreign commerce sXhib'
| its as to this industry will be less salts
factory, but it is worthy Of note that
imports are mainly Of pig iron, b1llets
and sheets. while the exports of many
lines of expensive machinery and other
finished products are fully sustained
Large contracts are constantly under
consideration for structural material
on domestic account, including railway
bridges, viaducts, car shops and office
| buildings. In this respect the domestic
| consumption this year will far surpass
all records. Open weather has brought
out heavy tonnage of merchant pipe.
| The Cereal Markets.
Grain markets have begun to feel
the effects of weather reports, and for
| the next few months it will be sim
pie matter for spectators to secure en-
ratio fluctuations. Strength was con-
| spicuous on Tuesday, last years serl-
Gus injury to corn making quotations
particularly sensitive to indications OF
drought. Another helpful factor was
the increase in exports Of wheat and
-four to 4.657.625 bushels for the week
against only 2.59S4 72 last week and
1856, O9S a year ago. Western receipts
continued to make an unfavorable
comparison with the movement in 1901,
wheat amounting to 2,S99,990 bushels
against 4,165S33 and corn 1,460,536
compared with 3,074011. Atlantic eX-
ports Of corn increased largely over the
low record of the preceding week to
29S. SS4 bushels, and there is still Sc
we're loss as compared with the 2,3o1.
272 bushels shipped year ago
Cotton showed no response to Mr..
Neill's reiteration Of his early estimate
| placing the yield at 11,25000O bales.
Although 100000 bales more cotton has
come into sight than a year ago, re-
ports from the south are almost unani-
nous regarding the exhaustion of
stocks.
i Roth at the east and west there is a
little more activity in shoeshops, yet
productive capacity is not fully en-
gagged, and new orders come forward
slowly. Lower prices for leather and
hides may make it possible for produc-
ers to accept recent bids, in which case
sales would increase, but thus far only
two staple grades have been shaded
Domestic hides are dull and depressed
although competition between the in
dependent tanners and the combina-
ton caused an advance in dry hides
Il Failures for the week numbered 2Oe
in the United States against 224 last
year and 81 in Canada against 33 last
year.