Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-08
New York.

h6G I0Tk. trade is due to weather
------------1 conditions. At most Joints
an early season stimulates business. but
in other sections there has been Interrupt
ton from excessive rains. More uniform
activity is reported in wholesale trade.
with notably large movement of gro
ceries, millinery, paper and builders ma
terials, while conditions are satisfactory
for the season in jewelry. Manufactur
ers of clothing, furniture, footwear and
iron and steel are well engaged. ample
supplies of fuel greatly facilitating opera
tiens, but extensive strikes threaten 10
render idle many New England textile
mills" The foregoing is from the Week
ly Trade Review of r. G. Dun & Co. 1t
continues:
The cut of spruce lumber has been
large, but early breaking up of winter
restricted movement aud high cost of
labor and provisions rendered operations
expensive. Early opening of lake nayi-
CATION viii benefit business, and the rail-
way traffic embargo will be removed.
Earnings of railways thus far reported
for March exceed last years by 12.S per
cent and surpass those of 1901 by 22.9
per cent.
An output of about 100000 tons of
coke in the whole Connellsvile region
for the last week indicates that fuel
troubles are almost ended in the iron and
steel industry. Quotations are sustained
by the vigorous home consumption, and
there is the additional support of strong
er markets abroad. Work is resumed en-
bridges and buildings wherever the places
of strikers can be filed. and several con
tests in this department have been avert
ed.
\ large opening trade in pipe has been
followed by liberal supplementary orders,
lobbegs renewing contracts extensively,
and prices are well maintained. Sharp
competltion for business in bar iron has
caused a slightly lower level of prices.
while plates and sheets are firmer, espc
cially in galvanized lines. A prominent
feature of activity is found in merchant
steel for agricultural implement works
and wagon factories, these orders run
| ming far into the future. Oversold con
ditions at rail mills are sending urging
orders abroad.
No improvement has appeared in the
| dry goods market. The situation is pc
culiarly complicated as to cotton goods;
stocks abe light as a rule and labor trou-
bes Fhreaten to curtail output, yet job
bers are reluctant to undertake contracts
| at present quotations. Meanwhile pro-
ducers are in no position to make con-
| cessions, and a dull market is the result.
Dullness is reported in WOODEN goods,
with new business on a limited scale.
Cancellation of early orders has become
a serious problem. many mills that bad
| disposed of their product for the season
now seeking business. Johbers are plac-
| ing large orders for fall delivery of shoes,
| readily paying the recent advance in
prices, and manufacturers of heavy goods
have booked more business than is Gus
tomary at this early date. Leather is
| quiet but low stocks maintain prices. At
last the turning point has been reached
| in domestic hides, and prices have stead
| led. which is due to the somewhat let
ter condition of receipts.
Failures this week numbered 2l4 in
| the United States. as against 203 last
year. and 26 in Canada, against - a
| year ago.
| Bradstrcet's Grain Figures.
Wheat. including -four, exports for the
week ending March rs aggregate 2,401.
| oS7 bushels, against 2,395,59S last week
! 1904. 40 in this week a year ago and
4.494. 335 in 1901. Wheat exports since
| July / aggregate 172,44S,S15 bushels
| against 194,39S,7 07 last season and $780,,
| 96T ,69S in 1900. Corn exports aggregate
| 3,61S,210 bushels, against 3,OI206S last
week, 139.203 year ago and 3,5S2,943
! in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are
44.5O5, 46S bushels. against "A. 1885, 900
| last season and 145, III 063 in 1901.