Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-08
BAD WEATHER HAS EFFECT
Quantities Of Goods Are Stalled in Transit
by Floods,
BIG PREPARATIONS FOR SPRING TRADE
Iron and steel show No Improvement,
and Cereals Have q Marrow Mar
Ike with Few Chsnges-Fsil-
ures Are Fewer.

NEW YORK, March 7.-R. @. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade tomorrow will
say:
Unsettled weather was the most unsat-
isfactory part OF the business situation, q
sudden thaw following a heavy snow fall
turing and transporting interests suffered
severely and consumers were urgent lot
sSipmert 81 Of d meTsSan SGodS Siec w q stated Ilfisdi
in trs nsit. Preparations for an enormous
spring trade continue undiminlshed. There
is still some uneasiness regarding the labor
situation at the coal mines and at Fall
River there is disagreement as to a cut OF
Not only is there no Improvement to be
recorded In iron and steel, but floods In the
Pittsburg region added to the pressure by
aging much costly machinery. Supplies Of
coke failed to increase, because the. rail-
ways were badly disorssnlEed, and the
week was one of weak outputs. The re-
cent destruction by the elements makes an
unusual demand for structural material
premiums of Sc a ton above list price. The
situation has become so abnormal tina II
is impossible to gauge the market by or.
any value for comparative purposes. The
encouraging feature Is that most grades OF
pig sd iron nss are hish E,r,s Il prices DToa5 Dy fT STs acc acc
tive. Steel rods sell at the highest price
for many months; bar iron Is higher; cut
also been put up. A favorable feature Is
the settlement Of the wage scale agree
ment by. the tinplate mills,
1t has been a narrow market for cereals
with price changes few and the govern
ment crop report of March 10 on supplies
in farmers hands still hanging over the
market. Hog products are slightly weaker
and speculation has naturally been almost
absent Wheat. including -four exports for
against 3,234,54O last week and 4.22s, SIS In
the week last year. Wheat exports from
July ], 1901, to date (thirty-six weeks)l ag-
gTegate lR.l84 PSI bushels. against III. Al. 203
Jos bushels. against 8iS, ss4 last Week and
exported are 2S,4T, $50 buhels, against 1S4,-
53l, 7S last season.
Raw cotton has continued on its upward
march, aided by bad weather conditions,
checking the interior movement, and
shorts have been forced to cover almost
years is more generally conceded, the fact
that exports are larger is taken to indi-
cate that American %spinners are short of
years ago, when foreign manufacturer
held of and lost money. Cotton goods are
T YER o gelhsIHa1 " t strong Fs,i ana Sv tend 6r,U TP% cs0tb
industry is not settled as yet. wage scale
differences constituting a menace to con-
active, plain dress goods and overcoatings
displaying the most interest. Fine WOOL
ems are In limited supply and firmer, with
Australian grades tending upward
The boot, shoe and leather trades are
exceptions to the more or less general ac-
tivlty in ether lines. Shipments from east
ern markets are slightly larger for the
week. and 3 per cent ahead of last year,
but new demand is quiet and leather
shaded prices in February for hides and
for untanned leather M
Business failures in the United States for
the week number III, as against 24 last
week, 208 in this week last year and 1S9 in
1900, III In 1899 and A7 in 1898. Canadian
as against twenty-seven last week and
thirty-three last year.