The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
INCREASE IS SHOWN
Out there is Room for I'M
provement in Trade.
Wholesale Business Halls Pending D. yeIcC-
men's Affecting Fall Trade---The Plain, of
Cotton Manufacturers.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
New York, May 22.-Bradstreets tomor-
row viii say:
While underlying conditions have m
proved as a whole. there is still room for
betterment in weather, crop and labor
matters. Retail trade has been stimu-
lated by summer weather, but wholesale
business halts, pending further develop
ments affecting fall trade. Collections
nave improved at a number of large cities.
halfway earnings are as good as ever re-
Eorted. Gross reports for the first half
OF May indicate a IA per cent increase
over last year, while net returns f0r
March show the significant increase OF Is
per cent IN net on a corresponding IN
crease in gross.
Iron Is dropping, largely because buy
ers are holding off on future purchases.
Stocks do not accumulate, however, and
are insistent for deliveries on
other orders. Some of the less favorably
situated trades are lumber, which notes
the effect OF building trade labor troubles:
silk manufacturing at Paterson, which is
slack at present, and mems wear woolens.
which are still hating as regards fall
orders. Cotton manufacturing is claimed
to be improbable at present prices.
Stocks of cotton goods in the Western
markets have been marked up in price.
New business is small with the mills. but
jobbers are making money because of ac-
tive retail demand.
Failures during the week number 155,
against 152 in the like week of 1902"
QUOTATIONS OF COTTON YARNS.
New York, May 19.-No. 1851 and 1881
wa 1nG 1f 1tlZ-1e1L. No a. rarr ~
16h-16A; No. 16s-1 warps at 16A-17; No.
2cs-1 warps at 1881; No. 22s1 warps
at 1919; No. 26s-1 warps at 19-19k; No.
26s-1 warps at 1897; No. 6s to los yarn
at 15-15k; No. 12s-1 at 15h-15A; No.
14s-1 at 16-1GA; No. 16s-1 at 1911; No.
2Os-1 at 18; No. 22s-1 at 1918; No. 26s-1
at 1881; No. $50 ply soft yarn at 1919
15A; No. 1882 ply soft yarn at 16; No.
Ss-2 ply hard at 1912; No. 1852 ply hard
at 1G; No. 1872 ply hard at 16; No. 14s-2
ply at 1917; No. 1852 ply at 17-17h; No.
2Os-2 ply at 1917; No. 24s-2 ply at 1920;
No. 2Gs-2 ply at 20; No. 30s-2 ply yarn at
21h-22; No. 1852 ply at 20; No. 40s-2 ply
at &c; No. $50, 4, and 8 ply at 15h; No.
2Os-2 ply chain warps at 10; No. 24s-2 ply
chain warps at 20; No. 26s-2 ply cham
warps at 2OK-21; No. 30s- ply chain warps
at 21h-22;No. 1852 ply hard twist at II;
No. 2Os-3 ply hard twist at 1872; No. 2Gs-3
ply hard twist at 20.
Market very quiet. Prices nominal.
COMPARATIVE COTTON STATEMENT
New York, May 22.-For the week end
ing Friday, May %, net receipts at all U.
S. ports during week, 53,770; net receipts
at all U. S. ports same week last year,
2O,27O; total receipts since September 1st.,
Z, SAC, 946; total receipts to same date last
year, 1858, 9O9; exports for the week, 25,-
500; exports for same week last year, 49,
O70; total exports since September 1st.,
306, 0S7; total exports same date last
year, 6,131. 232; stock at all United States
ports, 80, $50; stock at all United States
ports same time last year, 461 ASP: stock
a tall interior towns. Sc. 7S2: stock at all
towns same time last year, 1S1 ,316;
stock at liverpool. -: stock at Liver
pool same time last year, 1000, 900: stock
Of American afloat for Great Britain,
stock of American af1oat for Great
Britain same time last year. 10000.