Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-05-12
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bic merchandise at retail. but dry goods
jobbers and commission houses report
only fair trade. Leading manufactur-
ing lines are active, except for some
hesitancy at textile mills. In iron and
steel, footwear, furniture. harness and
clothing there is little Idle machinery.
Structural work is vigorously prosecuted
and supplies of building material are not
allowed TO accumulate. A special can
vass of the white pine situation by cor
respondents of this paper shows low
stocks and high prices, although the sea-
sons cut was large, according to r. G.
Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade.
Continuing, the report says:
Mercantile payments are fairly prompt.
Yet there is less disposition to antiei-
pate payments for cash discount. as
frequently occurred last year Railway
earnings for April were 1872 per cent
larger than last year and 27.6 per cent
in excess Of 1901. Deliveries of coke
on old contracts are now so large that
reSelling frequently occurs. and in so far
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appears no prospect of interruption,
while it is difficult to maintain quotations
of Connellsvihe coke. An anus;elly heavy
ore tonnage has been arranged 10 lower
lake ports, preparations Indicating that
no drninution in iron and steel activity
is anticipated
Disparity continues between current
prices and quotations on deliveries during
the closing n.a2ths of the year. sales of
bessemer pix iron fer late shipment be-
ing recorded at $40, valley furnace Biz
lets remain the prominent feature. do
nestle stocks failing to meet demands,
and efforts 10 secure imports have met
with success. German sellers accepting
large contracts. In addition 10 urgent
railway der lands for heavy steel, there
is steady inquiry for structural shapes
to be used in erection of new buildings,
while pipe mills report much new bush
ness, and in agricultural implements
there is no lack Of orders
Tin plate and wire mills enjoy season.
able activity. Machinery aud hardware
lines are wen employed. and aside from
pending labor controversies the condition
of the iron ana steel Industry as a whole
is most satisfactory
Failures are 203 against 1856 last
week, 2l2 the previous week and 225 the
corresponding week last year. and in
Canada Is, against Il last week, rs tho
preceding week and IL last year.
Bradstreet's Trade Review.
Labor disturbances. particularly in the
building trades, have been an unsettlinc
feature in the lumher trade this week
but the volume Of business in this line
shows no shrinkage. Lake navigation
is in full swing, and the lumber move
ment is a very heavy one. Shoe manu-
featuring is an active industry at pres
ent.
Wheat, including -four. exports for the
week ending April 80 aggregate 3.41S,-
$50 bushels against 3,692, 643 correct
ed) last week, 5,30S 100 this week last
gear and 5,100,763 in 1901 Wheat ex-
ports since July ] aggregate 1SS,30l ,4S3
bushels, against 215.SG4,4SS last season
and 1G,761, l01 in 1901.
Corn exports aggregate 2,2lo,555 busil-
els, against l,499,90G last week, l2S6I9
a year ago and 2,37l,S9 in 1901. For
the fiscal year exports are o0,3T9950
bushels, against 25,J2S600 last season
and 156,63S.437 in 1901.
May ] is past without
| UhlclGO. any strikes or new labor
] troubles Of Importance.
This augurs we'll for a summer of un-
broken activity. Except where tempo
rary conditions have interferrd. the lead
ing industries are active. Navigation is
now in full swing on the great lakes and
the movement Of merchandise is very
heavy. lumber leading all other lines in
the relative increase.
A wave of cold. unreasonable weather
has swept the entire western country, re-
tarding trade. delaying farm work and TO
a considerable extent Interfering with
building operations. In the east fayora-
bic weather has contirued and while the
country trade from Chicago west has
been light this week. country orders in
the east were above the average. Aside
from this unfayorable feature of bad
weather, conditions in the west are IA
vorable and very promising Western
railways are making good showings in
reports Of earnings. Notwithstanding
some minor factors of an unfayorahle
nature.
The wheat market Ms felt the stimu-
lus of less favorable reports FROM the
southwest as to the winter wheat The
cold wave that swept the southwest has
undoubtedly done damage. How seri-
ously and how extensive this damage
may not be definitely determined for a
time. Meanwhile the market has been
strengthened by the reports that have
come. As everyone knows there is very
little wheat in our country. Stocks In the
northwest are extremely light If the
actual wheat available for use and the
prospective requirements for the next
three months were the factors Of main
influence prices would rule very much
higher But this shortage in the ayaia-
bic stocks has been Offset as specua-
tive factor by the flct that we have had
the promise Of the greatest winter wheat
crop ever known.