Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-20
DOMESTIC TRADE TRRIvES
Dun'I Review Says High Money Has Failed
to Check II,
FALL DISTRIBUTION IS BEGUN EARLY
Volume of orders Already Placed In
dictates Much the awe Aggre-
gate on R-ecord-sOuth and
West Shipping Active.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1s.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly Review Of Trade tomorrow Will
sayS Domestic trade continues active, high
rates for money having thus far failed to
check industrial operations or unsettle con-
tidence. Stringency is considered only
chiefly Of temporary Importance to specu-
lators. while large imports OF gold promise
relief. Crops are making encouraging prog
ress despite some Injury from frost. Labor
disputes are few, the anthracite coal strike
being the only enc that retards progress,
and each week shows some increase in
output. Fail distribution of merchandise
has begun unusually early, while the vol
ume. of orders already placed indicates
much the heaviest aggregate on record.
AT the south and west conditions are es-
working vigorously and payments are
promptly made. Traffic congestion causes
complaint, yet railway earnings thus far
available for September show a gain Of 40
per cent over last years return and l5.7
per cent over 1900.
Official returns Of foreign dur
Ing August show the Improvement in ex-
ports over the two preceding months that
was indicated by weekly movement OF mer-
chandise and staples, and imports far sur
passed the corresponding month in pre-
ceding years. This liberal buying In for
d,sn o mSrSetS teS B ! 20 %eLL sustaineo q
iron and steel, but imports Of coal are alb
normal and will be still more of an ele-
ment in subsequent statements.
COnnellsville stocks BurdensOme
Relief comes slowly to consumers of coke.
although each week brings a new high
record of output. Stocks are becoming
burdensome in the Connellsville yield, but
facilities for transportation show little inn
proVement despite numerous romise that
coke shall have precedence over other
freight. The worst of 1t is the increasing
importation of pig iron, Great Britain alone
sending 10000 tons during August, while
arrangements are now being made for re-
mote deliveries. Steel is also coming in
freely, German producers accepting orders
at gradually advancing quotations. Esti-
mates of the tonnage on the books Of the
of 100000 tons, covering deliveries nine
months ahead, while new contracts for
railway and structural shapes are con-
stantly offered. The abnormal condition
of this industry bears testimony to the
unprecedented expansion of business in the
such heavy purchases abroad are made
necessary by the Inadequate supply of
fuel. Recent advance in tin and copper
were not maintained, supplies proving fully
equal to demands.
New England manufacturers of footwear
forward more rapidly than old orders are
filled In many cases, so that activity is
assured we'll into the future. Leather is
quiet, with no sign Of weakness, but large
caused a slight reduction in prices of
packer hides from the mountaineering
figures that have prevailed. Cotton goods
are more firmly held, as the raw material
develops strength, and light stocks in first
hands give the market additional support.
because leading concerns have sold their
entire product of staple goods.
Failures for the week numbered 1879 in
the United States, against 157 last year,
and twenty-five In Canada, compared with
twenty a year ago.