Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-05-19
| New York.

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MN l0Ek labor has increased rather
------J than abated since May |.
when difficulties of this sort usually cul-
inmate. No single struggle of great mag
nitude is in progress, but the frequency
of small strikes is disturbing and in
the aggregate 4 large force is idle. while
| important industrial undertakings are
checked. Good reports are received from
footwear factories. shipments from Bos-
ton for the year thus far surprising all
records. and clothing makers receive
Implications of spring orders in addition
to getting out fall samples" according to
r. G. Dun & Cos Weekly Review of
Trade Continuing the report SAYS:
Prices of commodities declined slightly
during April, Dun's Index number fall
ing from $99.267 to S9S.561. A year ago
the highest point of recent years was
touched ut $102 $50. Railway earnings
in April were 1874 per cent larger than
in last year and 2S.7 per cent above 1901.
Cancellation of order where deliveries
failed 10 be made according To contract
and new business 1t lower quotations in
dictate tendency toward more normal
conditions in pig iron. This is highly de-
sirable, aud gives assurance that pres
ent activity in iron and steel may be
maintained. Pending contracts for about
10000 tons of structural material have
been closed. and other orders are only
postponed by uncertainty regard4Sg the
labor situation.
Railway requirements aplealF - have
no limit, and the proposed extensions viii
consume large quantities of steel Bill
let's are one Cf the scarce articles NJ pres
ent. even imports being arranged With
difnculty.
Implement manufacturers are surQaSs-
ing all records in their purchases of mer-
chant steel machine shops are working
at full capacity, and there is a brisk de-
mand for plates, pipes and tubes. All
leading machinery markets report salts
factory conditions. Trade in hardware
is of good volume. orders assuring activ-
ity for some time and new business still
coming forward freely. especially at the
South.
Textile manufacturers At the East
have not improved their position during
the past week. Johbers are buying only
small quantities. exercising a diScrimina-
tion that indicates dull markets else
where, and statesmen are being with
drawn from the road With large prn;
mills closed there is no activity in print
cloths. nor is the movement Of brown
sheetings and drills eff any account. Abb
normal prices for raw cotton might be
expected to stimulate inquiry for goods,
but the only effect is to prevent sellers
from making concessions. Higher fig
ures are expected next week at the Off
cial opening of the season in carpets.
More wooden mills have closed. and the
market is featureless, but the new wool
clip is. firmly held. 4 steadier tone is
noted in silks owing to reports that pro-
duction will be curtailed.
=Bradstrect's Trade Review.
Business continues large and industry
active, in most cases surprising preyl-
Gus years at this date, despite unseason-
able cool weather in some sections and
a swarm Of vexatious labor troubles.
Most Of the measures of trade and in
dustrlal volume still make favorable
showings. The simply enormous gain in
gross railway earnings reported for April,
Is per cent over the best in previous
years, is proof that past good reports
o. trade and traffic We're fully justified.
Wheat. including -four, exports for the
week ending May { aggregate 3.20l $50
bushels, against 3,41S2S9 last week,
1902, 240 this week last year and HIS
SD in 1901 Wheat exports since July
! aggregate 191 .J03, 1863 bushels. asl
219 16G, IDS last season and 1S0935.
in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 1,63#
700 bushels. against 2.2l0,i55 last wee
1861 a year ago and 1.5S3, SO in 1901
For the fiscal year exports are 5T011,
$50 bushels. against 25.a553 800 last sea-
son and los, Do ,26S bushels in 1901.