Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-07
OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER
The Prospects for Good Crops
Are Excellent Over All
the States.
Industries Are Active Except
Where InterEered With by
the Strikes.
Close OF the Roer War Has a
Coed Effect on Trade
Conditions.

New York, June 7.-Bradstreets
Weekly Review of Trade today says:
Crop prospects, taken as a whole. are
really brilliant, railroad earnings are
enormous despite the small grain ION
mage, bank clearings are quite heavy
Notwithstanding the speculative dull
ness and failures are fewer in number
than in recently preceding years. The
ending of the Boer war, it is also
thought, will have q tendency to slim
ulate export business in manufactures,
tho interfering with trade in horses,
mules and other articles of export. ON
the other hand, the industrial situation,
tho improved by the ending of blast
furnaces and transfers strikes, is stun
a depressing one, owing to the prospect
OF the anthracite coal strike proving u
long and bitter one, and the general
unrest noted among workers in a num-
Der OF industries.
Corn and cotton crop reports are
positively excellent and in striking con-
trast with year ago. Winter wheat is
turning out better than expected IN
such states as Kansas, tho recent rams
have interfered with harvesting III
Oklahoma. Oats, barley and hay are
doing splendidly in the west and north
west. and spring wheat advices are OPP
timistic.
Warmer. weather has stimulated
spring recorder business in dry goods,
rather more activity being noted oy
inhbarS the country over.
The eastern shoe trade is quiet, tho
reports from the west favor encourage
ment.
Industries are active except where
interfered with by strikers. The fea-
ture in the steel trade is the conserya-
tive action of producers who have
fixed the price of steel rails for next
wear at S2S, this being partly caused by
the carrying over of large orders, de-
livery of which is impossible TINS year.
Wheat, including flour, exports Tor
the week fseven days. aggregate 4'oVV,-
o55 bushels, against 3,900,645 bushels
for five days last week and 6,644,e44
bushels in this week last year.
Wheat exports from July !, 1901, to
GATE (forty- nine weells) aggregate
23s.O25.1S5 bushels, against 1s9,4o1,S65
bushels last season.
Corn exports aggregate S6.254 bush
els, against 71,47s bushels last week
and 2,455,1O2 bushels for the corre-
sponding week last year. From July i.
1901. to date corn exports are 25,9S7,115
bushels, against 166,419,4S3 bushels last
season.
Business failures for the week in the
United States number 1873, as against
1873 last week.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade today says:
Peace in South Africa has greatly i'm
proved the outlook. England's indus
trial markets will quickly benefit by
development in that country, while q
return to active gold mining will have a
helpful influence in monetary circles
Owing to the present exceptional home
consumption producers in this country
may not be able to take advantage of
the opportunity Immediately, but even
the indirect effects must be beneficial.
Domestic conditions still have but the
che drawback of labor disputes, which
have reduced the earning power of a
large force. Outside the limits of this
influence there is little cause for COM
plant. Orders are large and distribu-
ton is less interrupted by the shortage
cs cars. Railway earnings for May
show an increase of 6.S per cent over
last year and ia per cent over 1900.