The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-31
TRADE CONTINUES
To SHOW GAINS
Conditions Are Favorable, but
Buying is Classed as Com
SENTATIVE.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say: Cooler weather
mas stimulated retail trade quite gen.
orally throughout the country and this
is reflected In an-fmpFoved recorder de-
mand for seasonable goods, especially
heavy dry goods clothing and shoes.
The movement Of the crops has been
freer Northwest, West and South and
interior collections have improved.
Eastern jobbers in turn note a more
cheerful tone to trade, which has hith-
erto Jagged behind the corresponding
season year ago. Buying is, how
ever, ciassed as conservative, and more
smaller lots are taken than formerly.
The labor situation is rather unset
tied. Radical leaders are inclined to
imperii present advantages in the
building trades at some large centers,
but germs of better future conditions
are found in the utterances of some
more conservative leaders, who foresee
trouble for the unions if they attempt
to precipitate further demands.
There is rather a better tone to the
lumber market and more steadiness
than earlier in the month. The open
fall favors active building at many
eenters and this helps in the absence of
the great activity noted at the larger
cities year ago. Other building ma
terial is steady,for abe same reason.
The great f5ndastries show few
changes for the week. Iron and steel
are weak, depressed or steady, accord
ingly as the crader or more finished
forms are considered. Pig. iron is low
er at the East fairly steady at the
West and demoraiized at the South.
Bessemer steeN b1lfets are nominally
unchanged, butsreports of offerings of
surplus open hearth billets below scale
prices come from Pittsburg. Talk of
export trade EeviVing is heard and
transactions iIi2 Southern pig for Eu-
rope are rumored, while some large or
ders for tin plate for Canada and rails
Tor abroad are reperted offering. Fin
ished products display good strength,
despite the cuts in crude material, and
the hardware trade is reported active.
further curtai1ment of iron produc-
ton, SO far faithfully adhered to, is
foreshadowed. The shut down of the
Amalgamated copper mines has had a
strengthening effect on that product.
Inc window glass industry is depress-
ed and production must be curtailed.
Too much combination, both of en-
ployes and Of factories, is complain
ed of.
Wheat Gncluding flour) exports for
the week ending Oct. 20 aggregate
4,097,S73 bushels, against 4,265, $50
bushels last week, 5,997,62O bushels this
week last year, 6,672,S8S bushels in
1901, and 3,612,421 bushels in 1900. For
seventeen weeks of the cereal year
they aggregate 53,9O1,647 bushels,
against S9,82S,939 bushels in 1902, 1922
2O3,S47 bushels in 1901, and 59.S2S,732
bushels in 1900. Corn exports for the
week aggregate 1,3s2,214 bushels,
against 1.sQ9,S85 bushels last week, and
l53,2O5 bushels a year ago, 6O6,1
bushels in 1901, and 3.92O,110 bushels
In 1900. For the, seventeen weeks of
the present cereal year they aggregate
1s,442.751 bushels. against 1,732,O51
bushels in 1902, 15,245,342 bushels in
1901, and 53,767, 1913 bushels in 1900.
Business failures in the United
States for the-week ending with Oct.
20 number PIT, against. ZIG last week.
lS4 in the like week of 1902, 172 in 1901.
165 In 1900 and 174 In 1899.