The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-05
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Holiday Goods Are Becoming
in Good Demand.
PRICES A LITTLE LOWER
Cotton, Eggs and Dairy Prod
ucts Have Appreciated.

New York, Dec. Ar. G. Dun & Co..
weekly review of trade tomorrow will
say:
Trade is seasonably quiet and is af-
fected by weather. but those embracing
holiday goods are in good demand. Ac-
tivity is especially conspicuous among
footwear jobbers and retailers. Commod-
tiles are generally lower in price. al
though few important articles, such as
cotton. eggs and dairy products, have
risen so sharply that Dun's index num-
Der on December 1 was $19Sr223, against
Ss7 S25 a month previous. For the year
there is decline of about 2 per cent.
Manufacturing conditions are still irreg-
ular, the best symptoms of the week being
the steadiness of iron and steel. Textile
mills still find it difficult to secure prices
in proper ratio, to the raw material, the
violent advance in cotton adding to the
embarrassment of spinners who have only
limited supplies on hand. Light stocks
mand is moderate. Railway earnings in
three weeks of November were 4.s6 per
cent larger than a year previous. Fail
ures this week were 331, against 25S last
week, 249 the preceding week, and 204 the
corresponding week last year.
New York, Dec. 4.-Bradstreet's tomor-
row will say:
Better feeling. approaching optimism in
some lines. is due 10 improvement in re-
tail trade stimulated by cold weather the
advent of the holiday season and the
more normal tone of public sentiment
Jobbing trade in seasonable goods has
also expanded, as a result of recorders 10
Nil depleted stocks. Back of these, ap-
parently in close connection in its effect
upon sentiment is the strong position of
the agricultural staples Cold weather
has also stimulated the coal trade east
and west.
More confidence is also shown IN the
market for the cruder forms of iron, and
prices are steadier. In the iron and steel
trase shut-downs more than offset the
resumption
Readjustments of wages to meet de-
slands are particularly. prominent in cot
ton manufacturing and steel, but are be-
ing accepted with much less friction than
earlier Winter weather is causing
slowing down in many lines of building
and lumber other building material and
hardware are rather less active for this
reason.
Wheat including flour, exports for the
week ending December 81, aggregated
$500, 600 bushels. against 3,S51,676 last week
and 5,704 i40 this week last year, 4,6O4S46
IN 1901, and 3,4S2. $50 in 1900. For twenty
two weeks of the current cereal year they
aggregated - 929, 299 bushels, against 49,
i5l. Ash in 1902, 127,S9S 4so in 1901. and a.,
e03. 5e4 in 1900.
Corn exports for the week aggregated
e90S.9 bushels, against 1.520.94 last
week. 1,451 .563 a year ago. 362,Ssi in 1891,
and 5,371377 in 1900. For twenty-five
weeks of the present year they aggre-
gate q, e02, 4S6 bushels. against 3974,917
IN 1902. 1902, 7l3 in 1901, and &c. 1850 in
1900.
Business failures in the United States
Tor the week ending with December 3.
numbers $50. against 167 last week, 1S5 in
the like week of 1902, 237 IN 1901, 224 in
1900, and 209 in 1899. In Canada failures
Tor the week numbered 23, as against
Is last week and is in this week a year
ago.