Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-14

Weather conditions have been favora-
bic for retail trade. distribution OF
! merchandise expanding, while there
we're frequent reports Of larger job
bling fall business than last year Some
caution in selecting goods owing to
| high prices is reported at the west
but this is chiefly confined to textiles,
New ventures are still discouraged by
| the high rates for money, relief in this
respect being improbable until the
crops are marketed and financial con-
ditions become more settled. Labor
disputes decrease, all but one OF the
unions having signed the agreement
in the local building trades, and several
iother settlements have been effected
| thru concessions by boeh sides IN
dustrial success viii be assured If the
advice of Labor day speeches IS fol-
flowed, that labor and capital keep step
/ in the march of national progress.
| Railway earnings in August We're ~
per cent larger than last year and l9.f
per cent greater than il. 1901. Owing
to the lateness Of the crops there Is Ut
llle complaint of traffic congesuoh'
! Foreign commerce at thus port for the
last week was S2,o43,291 smaller than
HI year ago as to exports. ana imports
decreased Sl.934,350. Comparison as TO
bank exchanges is not instructive ow-
ling to the holiday this year and the
speculative activity year ago.
| on Sept. i, for the first time this
wear. furnace stocks of pig Iron eN-
iceeded a weeks capacity OF the iaf-
races in blast. This is statistical cyl
denee of the quiet conditions now nFe-
Iyailing in the iron and steel naustgy
\ Agricultural implement makers hay
again purchased fr2ely of HateE!sl
some plow steel contracts covering de-
Iliveries for five years. Il is worthy Of
note that the lower prices have no.
] been accompanied by reductions IN
/ wages. particularly at the Connels-
! vile coke ovens, but a certain proper
it;on of men in the mills ana furnaces
/ are idle.
/; Prices of cotton goods are slow e
| reflect the reaction in The raw mate
iral. and the demand is not improved
ION the contrary, buyers are encouraged
To delay placing contracts, and mills
are not seeking business, Idle machin-
| cry in cotton mills has reached the
highest percentage since the civil war
but the turning point is in sight, and
next week many spindles will resume
Practically no stocks OF goods are held
nv the mills, and the exhausted condl-
! ton of supplies promises to maintain
quotations after cotton mas fallen, just
las the prices Of goods failed to respond
Immediately to the rise IN raw mate
rial In the jobbing trade large DIS
tribution of merchandise IS in progress,
lthis branch, of the industry reporting
profitable season.
Another week OF fairy good condi-
tions viii put much Of the corn beyond
dagger. and It IS probable that total
pr5xu5 ion OF two billion bushels will.
b. s.-i~.eat Preparations for the new
! wi:l.er wheat crop already promise a
llarge acreage Western receipts of
wheat exceed the CORES onding period
| last wear for the first time this season,
.. o93, S56 bushels comparing with $751;
/ 26S. Total exports from the United
states, -four included amounted to on
lily 2.490.273 bushels. against 4,36S,70l
Hast year. Interior arrivals of corn were
l.263,242 bushels. compared with
l,539,79S a year ago. and Atlantic coast
exports were i34,976 bushels. against
Ss.24s in 1902.
Liabilities Of commercial failures
during the frst week OF Septembe'
aggregated s1.942.907, Of which sS64.4Sl
were in manufacturing, S1.049,S3i In
trading and s2s.592 in other CONNER
cial lines Failures the past week were
| l72 in the United States, against 205
/ last year, and nineteen in Canada COM
pared with twenty-five :, year ago.