Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-01
NEXT YEAR WILL BE GOOD.
All Branches Of Trade Tell Bradstreet
that Spring Orders Look wen.

NEW YORK, oct. a.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Confidence In the outlook for next years
business Is a notable feature In the trade
situation.
The volume Of orders booked for next
springs delivery Is large for this season Of
the year and Is explained partly by the eX-
ceptionally good business done on fall and
winter accounts and the large crop yields
for the year, and also by the good posi-
ton of the winter wheat crop as cold
weather approaches. The absence Of killing
frosts at the south has allowed Of the ma
turing of q considerable crop Of cotton.
This has helped the trade situation there,
while acting as q brake upon the tendency
Ing account, TIE Pacific coast being re-
ported puying at northwestern markets.
Flour, though demand Is reported less sat
isfaetory, is higher on the week. Cotton
goods are unchanged and quite steady.
Distribution and the outlook in the dry
great rush OF fall buying at the west is
now over, but riders are good, although
SoIaer wsSther Woula oenent retali ira1e
with which buyers take hold Of holiday
goods and give orders for spring delivery.
ness is not good at some southwestern
growing finely.
At the east the retail trade needs cold
weather TO stimulate demand.
WOODEN goods, strengthened more by
higher cost OF raw wool than by current
ready advanced. Spring trade Indications
are promising. Lumber is selling freely,
despite the advanced stage of the season.
The movement of anthracite coal is in
creasing and prices have fallen rather
English coal are large. Bituminous coal Is
Eastern buyers appear to have been over
conservative and are now rushing in re-
orders, hence jobbers are in turn crowding
manufacturers Spring business Is in good
demand. Buying of leather Is not very &C
two az pnGfnTN ~ rlafg hut a nnn6 Nnlln1n
of shipments Is going forward on orders.
Western leather markets are quite active,
Hides and skins show no accumulation.
One industry in which confidence in next
years business has heretofore been marked
shows signs of hesitation. That is iron
and steel, finished products Of which, APP
parently because of high prices, have
tended to accumulate.
Where price reduction has occurred new
business has come In gratifying volume,
For the cruder forms, particularly pig iron,
rails and bridge and structural material, nc
lose of strength is noted. The larger move
ment of anthracite coal has as yet appar.
entity affected eastern iron furnaces but
little and the scarcity of coke holds dowr
production in the Pennsylvania valley. TIL
scarcity of pig iron is illustrated by the fact
that sales for the middle OF next year are
being made for S21. IS, while immediate sup
plies are scarce at SIS. The acceptance Of
reduced wages by tinplate hands will en-
able American mills to capture orders FOL
100000 boxes Of so-called drawback plates
Steel plates and bridge materials have sole
freely this week at Pittsburg. but Chicago
notes weakness and some hesitation.
Hardware is active In nearly all markets
an advance of % per cent over last yea
being noted at Pittsburg. The fixing o
the coke price for next year at s. per toi
by the leading interests Is regarded as
satisfactory feature. but outside producer,
will, 1t is claimed, ask more.
Business failures in the United States TO
the week ending Thursday, October 80
number 1874, as against 1874 last week, 172 II
this week last year, 165 in 1900. ia in 1S9
and 1853 in 1898. In Canada, twenty-four
as against twenty-three last week.
Wheat, including -four, exports for tn,
week ending october 80, aggregate 1897, go
bu., against G,O6O, 4l7 last week, 6,672,SSs II
his week last year and 3,6l2,421 in 190I
Wheat exports since July / aggregate 81,
42S,937 bu., against LOG, 72s 1888 last season ant
673, GAG, 756 In 1900
against 1854 last week, COG, 1853 last year an
$500, 10 in 1900,
For the fiscal year exports are 1,796,03
bu., against 16, 739, 200 last season and $3.50,
452 in 1900.