Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-03-22
WAS A GOOD WEEK.
Nearly All Sections OF Country Report
q GOOD Business.

New York, March .
report says:
The week ends more favorably than
liz began. This is particularly true or
weather conditions and of affairs IN
1ustrlal. which have improved greatly
In various sections OF the country
| Plenteous rains in the entire winter
wheat belt. and more especially In the
drought afflicted section OF the south
west, have given a needed impetus TO
that crop, which has been likewise
favored by succeeding mild weather.
The apparent adven OF the spring
season, and its promise OF earliness has
beeen an important stimulant 10 most
ines OF trade and industry, which
were thus enabled to throw of the
letters placed upon them by storms,
| freshets and the entailed Interruptions
to transportation.
There Is less excitement but more
| strength in iron and steel. Agrlcul-
| tural implement manufacturers nave
bought heavily OF bars, Pittsburg sales
being reported at 100000 tons, almost
all OF II, however, at old prices. New
buyers must pay the OF " per
ton demanded.
Weather calculations and floods linn
tied production In February, n stocks
are smaller than a month ago. What
sales OF pig iron are noted this week
have been at advances Of 30 cents per
ton. Light rails are $3.50 per ton hlgh-
err. Skelp has advanced from ~ TO -
on demand from the pipe trade, and all
IN all the Inmate strength OF n situa-
ton has practically never been sur
passed.
Wheat was buoyed up by the report
Of the smallest reserves In farmers
hands by the government, Bradstreets
calculations, based On the above, polnt-
ing to IA very small increase In The Vls-
lble and invisible supplies In view OF
the record breaking crops In this our
try and in the world at large. rms
steadied prices for a time, but they
weakened later on the report or the
breaking OF the drought in the south
west and OF adequate supplies or mois-
ture TO winter wheat In other sections.
The most active export demand Tor
some weeks past developed at the de-
cline and exercised some influence Tor
later nrmness. Corn and oats for the
nrst time in a long while broke loose
from the premier cereal, reports OF
heavy rains checking receipts. A strons
speculative movement In May oats Is
an additional feature to be noted.
Wheat. including -four, exports for
the week aggregate 2,906, $50 bushels,
against 1895, 944 last week and 4,69O,939
m this week last year. Wheat exports
July |, 1901, to date (thirty-seVen
weeks aggregate 1877, 1852 bushels,
against 142, l72, 145 last season. Corn eX-
ports aggregate 1884, Ala bushels, against
}52, 406 last week n 3~,246,5I5 last year.
July /, 1901. to date, corn exports ag-
gregate %, 655,074 bushels, against 49,
1880 last season.
Cotton has been more irregular In
price, following the recent upward
movement and Influenced as II has been
by the reported intention OF the Fall
River cotton operatives TO strike, re-
verses to British arms In South Africa,
and more speculative disposition to
realize on advances. Receipts OF cX-
ceptionally large volume have, II is
said, been at the expense Of interior
stocks, while exports have been, as
heretofore, very heavy. Print cloths
are stronger, In sympathy with the
general strength OF all cotton goods
nd also because OF the threatened
strike booked for next week. Labor
troubles i'm the wooden goods trade
have been a disturbing feature, but
women's dress goods have continued
IN good demand.
Shoe shipments last week were per
cent larger than a week ago., and the
Increase for the season Is 4 per cent.
Leather is reported generally quiet
and some grades are weak, In SYM
pathy with the dullness In hides.
Failures for the week number PA.
rs against 17S last week and 207 in
his week last ear.