The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-16
WEEKLY REVIEW
OF BUSINESS
Retail Trade Has improved With
Warm Weather.
LITTLE DOING FOR JoBBERS
UNPRECEDENTED PRODUCTION
OF PIG IRON IN APRIL.

New York. May 15--R- G. Dun & Co s
Weekly Review Of Trade tomorrow viii
say,
Warmer weather has made It possible
for the retail trade to regain part OF
the losses IN volume of trdn5a CtiOns, and
the level Of quotations for staple lines
OF merchandise Is well maintained
Wholesale trade in ScaSOudble goods Is
quiet, although there is more OF less
Supp ementary business and jobbers re-
port increased ACTIVITY IN several lines
of wearing apparel Clothing mdnufac-
Iurers are busy on fail samples which
are unusually late. Furniture and har-
ness factories are notably well supplied
with orders and there is no evidence
of dullnesS in machinery or hardware
Al most points there are indications of
Improvement in mercantile collections,
the faVOra bic progress of fall work haV-
ing great influence at the interior
while heavy sales Of fertilizers testify
to the extensive preparation for large
crops Industrial conditions would be eX-
ceptionally encouraging were it not for
the vast army of men voluntarily idle
railway earnings continue to snow the
usual gain. May figures thus far sur
passing last years by. I24 per cent. and
those of 1901 by 29.3 per cent
An unprecedented production of pig
iron in April was accompanied by
decrease in furnace stocks. testifying to
vigorous consumption and wholesome
conditions i'm the steel Industry
Textile manufacturing conditions are
extremely irregular. some Improvement
being noted at wooden mills while cot
]
Wooden mills are haraSSed by the phe-
nOmenal quotations for raw material be-
ing unable to obtain even small con-
cessiOns from buyers of goods. who only
purchase such small quantities as are
required Immediately. Not only has there
been no advance in print cloths but
special sale at cents occurred
FAILURES this week were 1875 IN the
United States. against 22S last year. and
Is in Canada compared with II year
ago
Bradstreet's Report.
Bradstreet's tomorrow viii say:
Weather and labor conditions have been
far from perfect for the progress of re-
tan trade planting operations and
growth and building, but the tendency to
regard these drawbacks as merely tenn
purary is stu present, though the feel
ing as to labor disputes IS that con
tinued unsettlement viii work serious
damage to all interests concerned. Whole
sale trade also reflects the above fea-
I lures but so great Is the tu-
I ture outlook that optimistic views still
rule Railroad operations, now free from
congestion, are very favorable, fitting
crown to the records of past prosperity
! being found in the April record Of a
| gain of a per cent in gross receipts,
which follows steady and increasing
gains made yearly in that month since
! 1885.
Capital has sought to be made in the
stock market of the weakness of pig
/ iron and reported increases in steel, but
the latter is denied, and while produc-
ton of iron is now in unprecedented
volume, reliable statistics of stocks of
| this material show no accumulation.
Wheat, including flour. exports for the
week ending May a aggregate 4,O91,59
! bushels. AGAINST 3.201. $50 bushels last
week. 5.11263 bushels this week last year
and 8. gSl. g6S bushels in 1901 Wheat eX-
I ports since July ] aggregate 49,. 900
| bushels against pa. S39. 362 bushels last
| season and 1S4 021 al bushels in 1900
| Corn exports aggregate I43l.231 bushels,
! against 1.63l.709 bushels last week. $3.50
| a year ago and 2.704.594 in 1901. For the
fiscal year exports are 5S.4f2.916 bushels.
AGAINST -. 73S. 80 bushels last season and
/ lSG. 925. So bushels in 1901
Business failures in the United States
/ for the week ending Nav u number 1S2.
against 10 last week. 100 in 1902 and 15S
[ in 1901.
I'm Canada for the week. business fail
ures numbered IS. compared with = last
week and - in the week one year ago