Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-22
RETAIL DEALINGS ARE LARGE
All Lines Of Wearing Apparel Feel Eastern
Stimulus.
NUMEROUS EVIDENCES or IMPROVEMENT
voluntary and strike Advances In
WaEes-storny weather Affects
whest-strong Export Basil
ness In Grains aad steel.

NEW YORK. March AR. @. Dun q
Co.'S Weekly Review Of Trade tomorrow
will say:
Evidences Of further Improvement are
numerous Labor controyersies sns hssn
effected, while others are momentartly an.
ticipated: wages have been advanced not
voluntarily. Trafhc congestion has been
subsidized until 1t is possible to deliver
goods according to specifications. Aside
from some idle ootwesr shops the leading
lines OF manufacture are fully engaged,
while the joeeing, trade Is OF eS1sptionsi
large. the eastern stimulus being. felt In
all lines Of wearing apparel. With domestic
couraging to notice a gain for the last
week in foreign trade at the principal ports.
Pressure for iron and steel.
Pressure for iron and steel has not
diminished there p~erceptiblyi yet the inn
situation will become approximately nor
NAL, and II will be possible to secure DE-
nyyeries VIII ~ some D 1efre he OF r fheTPs ha:
been a further stinening Of quotations ana
additional importations. which would nave
been much larger but Tor the advance IN
foreign markets.
foreign commerce exhibits as to this in
dustry will be less satisfactory, but IL is
worthy of note that imports are mainly OF
pig iron, oillets and sheets; while me eS-
and other finished products are fully sus-
tanned. Large contracts are constantly
on domestic account. including railway
bridges, viaducts, car shops and ONCE
eonsumption this year Will far surpass all
records. Open weather has brought out a
heavy tonnage of merchant pipe.
Activity In shoe shops.
Both at the east and the west there is a
little more activity In shoe shops, yet pro.
new orders come forward slowly. Lower
prices for leather and hides may make "
bids, in which case sales would increase,
but thus far only two staple grades have
been shaded. Domestic hides are dull ano
The independent tanners and the combina-
ton caused an advance In dry hides.
Advanced wages at cotton mills means
a higher cost Of production and the market
has hardened in consequence. Business
under the new conditions has not yet beer
sufficiently large to establish quotations
yet some advances OF ? to > per cent .are
recorded. Export sales are still checked
by III prices. A helpful feature is tbs
Increased demand at southern jobbins CEN
tiers. a.,
fancy grades are fllly sold and out Of th'
market.
Grain Markets Feel weather.
Grain markets have begun to feel thu
effects OF weather reports and for the mex
spectators to secure erratic fluctuations
Strength was conspicuous on Tuesday, las
years serious injury to corn making quo
tations particularly sensitive to tndica
tons OF drouth. Another helpful featur,
was In the exports of wheat and 1our o.
I.457, 2SS bu. for the week, against onlI
2,5eS.f72 last week and 1885, S q year ago.
Western receipts continued to make al
unfavorable comparison with the move
ment in 1901, wheat amounting to $685. 80
bu., against 4,16S,sS3 bu.. and corn l.46o.HS
bu., compared with 3,074,0l1 bu. Atlantl
] exports Of corn increased largely over tn
) low, record of the proceeding week to 296, IS
{ bu., and there is still g severe loss as com
pared with the 2,S1,312 blu. shipped a yea
) ago.
: Cotton showed no response TO Mr.. Neill'
VI reIteration OF his early estimate placlnl
s the yield at u,250,0o bales. Although 400,
: Oo bales more cotton nave come into sigh
than a year ago. reports from the soutl
are almost unanimous regarding the ex
4 haustion of stocks.
Failures for the week numbered 2e 4
the United States, against "a last year, an
4 81 in Canada, against 80 last year.