The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-19
DAYS BOOST
The RETAIL TRADE
wholesale Business in Sea-
sonabIe Goods Quiet.
cOl ION MILLS IN A FIX
hey are Harasssd by the Phenomenal Quota.
tons for Raw Material, Being Unable
10 Obtain Even Small conces-
sions From Buyers.
sions From Buyers.
(By the Associated Press.)

tBy the Associated Press.)
New York, May 15.-R. G. Dun & Com
panys weekly review of trade tomorrow
viii say:
Warmer weather has made it posi-
bic for the retail trade to regain part
CT the earlier losses in volume Of trausac-
lions and the level of quotations for staple
lines of merchandise is we'll maintained.
wholesale trade in seasonable goods is
quiet, although there is more or less sup
Elementary business, and jobbers report in.
creased activity in several lines of wearing
apparel. Clothing manufacturers ate
busy on fall samples which are unusually
late. At most points there are indica-
TONS OF Improvement in mercantile collec-
tlons the favorable progress of farm work
having a good influence at the interior.
While heavy sales of fertilizers testify to
the extensive preparations for large crops.
industrial conditions would be exception
ally encouraging We're it not for a vast
army Of men voluntarily idle.
Railway earnings continue to show
the usual gains, May figures thus far
showing a gain over last year of 1874 per
cent and Of 1901 by 1913 per cent.
Textile manufacturing conditions are
extremely irregular, some Improvement
beng noted at wooden mills while cotton
splnners are in a bad position.
Cotton mills are h~arassed by the phe-
nomenal quotations for raw material, be-
ing unable to obtain even small conccs-
sions from buyers of goods who only pur-
chase small quantities as are required
Immediately. Not only has there been
no advance IN print cloths, but a special
sale at three cents occurred. This was
not from producers, but a special resale
OF goods purchased at a higher figure ear
her IN the season. Mills nave not made 4
general reduction IN output although the
subject is under consideration, and sew
cral concerns have decreased the number
0 ~factive looms.
Failures this week were 1876 IN the Uni
ted States, against 22S last year.
HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT.
(By the Associated Press.)
New Orleans, May 15.-Secretary Hes
ter's stateent of the worldm's visible sup
ply OF cotton, issued today, shows the
total visible to be 2,s72,4O3, against g.
975. 125 last week and 1928, $50 last year.
Offthis the total OF American cotton is
1,173, 403, against 1912, 727 last week and
2,2G5, $50 last year; and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc, l.
1919, 600, against 1873, 900 last week, and L.
ops, 900 last year.
OF the worlds visible supply Of cotton
there IS now afoat and held in Great Brit
ain and continental Europe 1867, 900,
against 1885, 900 last year; in Egypt IT,
coo, against 1877 600 last year; in India
| 719, 900, against 551 900 last year, and in
the United States 414,0OO, against 721, 600
last year.
Secretary Hester's weekly cotton state
ment, issued today, shows for the fifteen
days of May an increase over last year
of &c, O0O and an increase over the same
period year before last of 16, 600.
The total movement since September
is 10, 1914 SOP, against $500, 974 last year,
and 1924, 966 year before last.
Foreign exports for the week have been
&C, 203. against &C, 173 last year, making
the total thus far for the season 6,372,1 1879,
against 500, 4S6 last year.
The total takings Of American mills,
North and South and Canada thus fol-
for the season nave been 1886, 925, against
3.459, 925 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 20 lead
ing Southern interior centres have de-
creased during the week IS, 1858, against a
decrease during the corresponding period
last season of "a 200.
Including stocks left over at potrs and
interior towns from the last GRIP and the
rumber f bales brought into sight thus
far for the new crop the supply to date Is
10, 400, e27, against 10, 260, 661 for the same
period last year.
WEEKLY COTTON MOVEMENT.
New York, May 15.-The following sta
~tistics on the movement of cotton for the
week ending Friday, May 18th, were COM
piled by the New York Cotton Exchange:
This year Last year.
Port receipts /. !. 56,OO6 41.eOO
Overland to mills and
Canada =. -. 12,O3S 1851
Southern mill takinpa