Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-06
BRADsTREEr's REVIEW OF TRADE.
Past Few Days Were Prosperous and
Future is Encouraging.

Future IL Encouraging.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Brsdstreet's to-
morrow will say;
All available data confirm reports of past
good trade and foreshadow as good or bet
ter yet to come. 1t has been essentially a
week of active buying in d~istributive trade.
Reports as to August trade have been all
most uniformly favorable, and the records
OF failures show business mortality to have
been confined to a low summer minimum.
Prices show persistent strength despite the
fact that agricultural products, except corn
and prime cattle, tend lower. Corn is not
yet out of DANCE from frost In the north
ern half of the belt, and this, coupled with
short supplies, imparts strength to cereals
generally; Reports Of cotton deterioration;
shorts and stiffened values of raw and
manufactured cotton, but there is a feeling
that the crop damage talk has been over
Rather less disturbance is noted in labor
matters, some strikes having been declared
of. The anthracite trouble still hangs over
the situation, but the volume of coal ship
ments is slowly and steadily increasing.
Some wage, advances are noted In widely
and west are uniformly good but, while
some improvement is noted in the south.
room for betterment still exists. Jobbing
activity is undiminished at the west, north
west and southwest and is of satisfactory
volume at the east. Dry goods, shoes,
millinery, drugs, hardware, groceries,, cloth
ing and lumber figure actively in the de-
mand. Leather sales are large at the west,
but high-tide prices discourage tanning,
At the east the advance in cotton Is stimu-
lating the cotton goods markets. Good
recorders are noted In wooden goods, but
spring goods are meeting most attention.
Silk goods are good and prices are very
firm. Eastern shoe factories are well en-
ployed, although the complaint of small
and tends up, as stocks are not large.
The fuel shortage is pressing on the iron
furnaces, and now the scarcity OF cars and
motive power Is affecting the movement OF
ore from lake ports to the Pittsburg dis
trict. New demand for pig iron Is. how
ever, light, primarily because buyers have
booked largely ahead. Foundry iron is 81
steel have cut down premiums on immedi-
ate delivery business, but in the. scarcity
of supplies of domestic no particular inter-
est is taken in this. Sales of foreign made
material are very large. In finished prod
ucts business In rails, bars and sheets is
fair and mills are heavily sold ahead. Tin
plates and wire nails are quiet, but a better
of fail trade. Hardware is apparently as
active as ever. Copper is slightly firm,
while tin is lower.
Wheat, including flour, exports for the
week ending September 4 aggregate 6,376. 299
bushels, against $780, $50 last week, 4,406,06l
in this week last year and 1881 100 in 1900.
Wheat. exports since July ! aggregate A.
657, sos bushels. against 81, 500, 662 last season
and 30,317 ISL in 1900.
Corn exports aggregate 21.196 bushels,
against 115, $50 last week, 0,S73 last year
and $685. 71 in 1900. For the fiscal year
exports are S39, $50 bushels, against 10, 743, Si5
last season and IS, 254, $50 in 1900.
September 4 number 1888, as against 40 last
week and 1859 In this week last year. In
Canada, for the week, fourteen, against
twenty last week.