Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-08
Business Outlook Grows Better
With Increased Activity
In Trade
CROPS ARE CHEERING
Collections Are More Prompt-ordsrs
For Rush Shipments Are Coming In
and There is Manifest Disposition
to Provideu for the Future in Many
Lines of Trade.

New York, Oct. 8.-R. q. Dun in his
weekly review of the trade today says:
With crops almost beyond danger, pr ICES
of securities at highest since May 1908,
idle machinery resuming at many filct-
cries and mills that have been closed
for months. the business outlook grows
+, steady brighter by far the best feat
ure of the situation is the confid .nce
manifested by an increased dispos. ton
to provide for future requirements,
particularly among dealers In the
agricultural sections.
Mercantile collections are more
prompt and railway earnings for Sep
TENDER were 3.8 per cent larger than
in the same month last year, while for
eign commerce at this port for the last
week shows an increase Of 81. 051,a0S in
imports and $410,74S in exports as COM
pared with year ago. Dispa :ches
from leading cities are almost imam
imous in telling of improved condi tons.
For the first time In many months it
is possible to report that sellers of
vantage. 1t is more difficult to find
evidence of an increased movement Of
steel, although fair tonnage was talk
en- by the railways. Actual business in
finished steel Is still restricted but i'm
provement in the sentiment is mis-
taxable and might be followed very
soon by something more tangible.
Eport Trade Increases.
Export trade is also promising. Foot
wear factories report large demand
for quick shipment of fall shoes, ma
chinery being fully occupied for {. time
on this business but there is SON e UNI
easiness regarding the future because
spring orders come following les fire.
lquent]y.
A little better demand appea -ed in
primary markets for Gotten goods, but
it was checked later in the week when
manufacturers failed to make eonces-
sions Duplicate orders for mem; wear
woolens and worsteds are also coming
to the mills, which are busy making
deliveries on old contracts.
Failures this week in the United
States were 222 as against 239 for the
corresponding week of last year
Distribution is Expanding.
Bradstreets says: Popular es Inmates
of leading crop yields continue to en-
large, corn has passed out of danger
Of serious frost damage in the west,
and distribution, both wholesale and re-
tail, expands as cooler weatK err APP
proaches Additional favorable feat
ures are the continuance of tile good
tone In pig iron, freer buying by rail-
ways of material and rolling stock and
heavy general crop movement helping
collections north and south.
While buying of dry goods, hard
ware, groceries, shoes and ,lothing
continues of good volume part icularly
at the west, conservative influences
find reflection in small but frequent
orders calculated to meet present nee
essi:ies. Transportation movement is
heavy, and railway earnings show an
exanding tendency, the gain Tor Sep
TENDER promising to be per ent over
1903.
There are some flaws in the situation
which stamp this as an off year when
great prosperity. Relatively he most
activity in current distribution whether
of dry goods, shoes, clothing, lumber,
hardware or building mater al exists
in the west and northwest. In the
east business is not so active in some
Industrial centers which hav'. felt the
pinch of the spring and sur inner de-
preston In building or in textile in
du.stry Some eastern indus ries, like
machinery and tool making, jewelry
and silverware manufactu1i are
looking up, however. Coal trs de shows
little improvement.