The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-19
TRADE ASSUMES
CONFIDENT TONE
Aggregate Years Business Bet.
ter Than Seemed Possible
were FEWER FAILURES
THE PAST WEEK THAN DURING
SAME TIME LAST YEAR-hol.
lDAY AND SPRING TRADE
INCREASING.
BY the Associated Press.


| New York, Nov Bradstreet' S
weekly review of trade is as follows
Reports from Great Basis industries
are more favorable and wholesale and
jobbing trade in holiday and spring
! goods displays more confident tone
Interior buyers appear more willing
to stock up and are meeting with fair
success, despite the fact that unsea.
sonable yeather, activity in fall farm
work and some holding back by farm.
ers retards retail trade and collec,
tons in west and northwest. Trade
generally is showing gains over the
corresponding periods a year ago, and
the aggregate years bufness In
most lines will make better compar.
isons than at one time seemed posi-
BILE. Money displays remarkable ease,
crop moving necessities are about sat.
isfied and the returning flow from the
country is apparently in sight. Gross
railway earnings show a tendency to
increase late gains and swell earnings
for the year to totals above those of
1908.
The coal trade Is improving, iron
and steel are active and buoyant in
price, and cotton textiles. long hest
tant. display more life. Raw wool
is higher on the week, available sup
plies being closely curtailed. This
tends to unsettle the market for men S
wear material There has been ma
terial Improvement in jobbing dis
tribution since the election Cold
weather will help seasonabe goods,
such as heavy dry goods, clothing,
boots and shoes. Hardware and gro
ceries are also active at western
points.
Wheat. including -four, exports for
the week. 100000 bushels, aagins'
2, 1914 900 this week last year July
to date. 26,000.OOO bushels against g..
SIS. 900 last year.
Corn exports for the week, 10000
bushels against l,392,0oo year ago;
July | to date. l0,930,000 bushels
against 22,9S3,00 in 1903
Dun--Business was retarded by the
storms which interrupted telegraph
ic communication, but the loss was
quickly recovered and retail trade re.
sponded to the lower temperature.
while a large jobbng distribution of
holiday goods occurred. Confidence Is
particularly in steel and
textile industries and building opera
tons are very vigorous for the season.
while mercantile collections are more
prompt Farm staples are slightly
cheaper in response, To splendid dis.
patches from agricultural centers,
Railway earnings thus far reported
for November are SO per cent larger
than last year.
Foeign trade Is exceeding the most
sanguine expectations. Official returns
Tor October make the value of ex.
ports sl62, 1888. exceeding every |
month on record with The exception |
IF October. 1900. which reported only |
100000 larger exports.
From the highest forms of machin. |
cry and other finished steel products |
Town TO scrap and pig iron there Is
evidence of better demand and an up |
ward tendency in quotations New |
England shoe factories have large |
contracts on hand for spring deliv.
cries and statesmen will soon start |
vest with fall samples. Progress in.
cotton goods is still very slow. but |
buyers are gradually exhibiting III |
lie more disposition to provide for the |
uture.
Failures this week. 217 In the Unit /
ID States. against 249 last year