The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-28
ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE
This a Favorable Feature Outlook
for Business Very Promising.
New York, March 2S.-Bradstreet,s

5s New York, March 2S.--Bradstreet,s OF to-day
weather, crops, distrbutive trade. transpor.
tation and even collections show Improvement
this week. The price situation shows few i'm
portant changes, but so far as actual indications
are concerned. demand shows no curbing as 8
result of increased cost, Railway earnings
continue excellent. those for the third week of
March showing the enormous gain OF II per cent.
III gross .aa
IAN abundance of moisture In the form OF.
rains fell in the west and northwest last week.
This has put the ground In good shape for spring
planting. Jobbing distribution of dry, goods.
clothing, notions, millinery, hardware and shoes
shows a large aggregate, though spring trade
has probably reached its maximum at leading
western centers. 5
| Iron and steel are active and iron still SUR
passes supply. The tendency is. till toward In
| creased strength in finished products, strength.
enlng element being the Upward tendency o.
| british and German markets. Wire and nails
| note marked atrengtb In the cruder forms
the feature Is better demand for pig Iron
at Chicago and pittsburs and higher prices
! for steel billets at leading centers curious
| development Is the sale OF some Lake Superior
charcoal iron to France.
Lumber continues active, with deliveries un.
equal to requirements at many points, and build
| ing material OF all kinds. in fact, is active,
though quotations are 80 to 80 per cent higher
| than few years ago, and labor manifests de-
sire to get all more than all building traffic
| will bear Large sales Of steel rails to traction
companies and OF steel pipe to Texas and Cali
l lorna producers are nOtcU AuOLDcE lutcfESuuS
feature in finished machinery lines is tho report
1 from Providence that large orders for export
\ to italy have been received. Leather is steady
at the east. -: s- = +.
| .'Vool Is firmly held at the east supplies
| are closely held, and London prices are higher.
| ,"Tin is selling speculatively higher, lead and
spelter are frmersan copper alone Of the othef
| metals, Is lower. Cotton has eased ON larger
! than expected receipts, better weather, clear
| err realization Of the fact that planting OF
! large crop Is not only possible but probable, but
! largely also because threatened labor disturb
1 ances give pause to buyers and dullness inter
venes. Eggs are. selling at very low prices Cokt
is still scarce and high, but coal y easier, ant
| spectators unloading, though much lower
| prices are not looked for. -
| wheat, including -four, exports for the weet
ended March %, aggregate 2,401, eS7 bushels
| against 1898, 59S last week 2,904,l ITO In thi
=. week year ago aud 4,494 1886 in 1901: Whea
| exports since July aggregate 172.44S,S1o bush
els, against 1914, as7, TOT last season and 100,
967, sos in 1900. Corn exports aggregate a,6lo,
2IO bushels, against B,O72O 6S last week, 139, 20
a year ago and 3,5S2,843 in 1901. For thu
fiscal year exports are A, 50546S bushels aga1ns
24133,9 900 last year and 15,171,063 bushels Ii
| 1901. ~-'- .-..s..3 =.
Business failures in the United States for tn
! week ended March 26 number LIS against ~
last week, 13S in the like week of l902, lS
i in 1901, 17S in 1900 and 100 in 1899. In Canad
they number 16 against 1t last week and ~ Il
I this week n year ago. -..