Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-03
49, " Just as the railway col
nH9 IUik gestion began to give wa

49, Just as the railway con-
hey YORK. gestion began to give way
A----A--fore the vigorous efforts Of
traffE managers the situation became
fuftier complicated by the worst snow
st9rla of the season, and the movement
OF merchandise was again interrupted.
Latest hgures of gross earnings show the
usual gains, February thus far surpass-
ing by l1.6 per cent last year, when TN
usual delay was caused by severe storms,
and 1901 By iT.6 per cent Increased
cost of operation, however necessitated
further advances in rates" The fore
going is from the Weekly Trade Review
of X, g. Dun as Co. 1t continues:
Trade was anterlupted to consdera-
biz extent bs The Indictment weather, ex-
cept in certai5 seasonable lines, notably
heavy wearing apparel. Wholesale houses
dealing in staples have received liberal
ofders and much forward business has
been placed. Jobbers urge quicker ship
nSents on old orders, while travellers send
iH many new contracts. Manufacturers
OF paper straw goods and clothing report
conditions fully as satisfactory as : year
ago aside from interruption by labor
controversies.
Conditions in the silk industry are
shown by enormous imports of raw mate
rial and one large throwster has recent
ly rejected crders sufficient TO occupy
hSs plant for &wo years.
Bids are invited for extensive build
irg operations. giving strength and actiy-
its 70 materials and supplies.
Although many new blast furnaces are
nearing completion and others will be
finished within six months, the actual
output of pig iron decreases because fu'
cannot be secarcd. Last weeks mod
aie Improvement in the situation
bren succeeded by decided set
many more furnaces being compe'
bank through lack of coal ReI
agreements to supply quantities
t. favored plants are denied. 70
little disposition to anticipate pig iro,
quirements far into the future. howeveS~
~ there is always the hope of a restora-
ton of approximately normal conditions
Steel billetS are arriving from abroad
aud find a market at interior mills. hut
on domestic business for future delivery
there is some discrepancy between bid
mud asking prices. AS the season ad-
vances there are more contracts availa-
bic for the erection of buildings, bridges
htlJ runway tNlenSlOn, SlrtuEtntHlhS lht
market for structural material, which is
ONE of the frmest features A heavy
tonnage of plates, sheet and pipe has been
sold at full figures, while more Canadian
rpil contracts have gone to European
hills.
Failures this week numbered 247 in
the United States, against $50 a year
ago, and 26 in Canada, compared with
81 last year.
Bradstrect's Grain Figures.
Bradstreet's weekly report on grain
says:
Wheat, including -four, exports for the
week ending Feb. 10 aggregated 2,lI3,-
752 bushels, against 2,S56,439 last week,
5000, 435 in THIS week a year ago and
:, 424 ,302 in 1901. Wheat exports since
July l aggregate 1853, 1876, $50 bushels,
against 1861 ,B53 last season and 49,
CO. $50 in 1906
Corn exports aggregate 3,731, 457 bush
els, against 1850, 1T0 last week, 247, $50
a year ago and 1861, 66S in 1901. For
the fiscal year exports are 2S370,G43
bushels, against 22,S06, 1926 last season
and 127 ,594, 1874 in 1901.