The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-04-18
CONDITION OF TRADE
Tardy Spring Weather ths Only
Cause Of Complaint.
WHEAT MARKET RECEIVERS.

Fairly Good Prospects For New Crop
No Definite Check In Iron and Steel
4 industries - Failures For the Week
ard Liabilities So Far In April.
New York, April 1G -R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade says
Tardy spring weather, following an
unusually severe weather, makes it dir.
ficult to restore satisfactory trade con.
ditions, but it is encouraging to find at
many points this unreasonable weather
the only cause OF complaint and there
IS always the hope that early losses
may be made up, at least in large
measure when thermal conditions be
come normal In the meantime sales
Of dry goods are restricted and stocks
in all positions from producer to con.
sumner are larger than is desirable. Al
Baltimore retail trade has improved,
but wholesale business Is quiet and col
lections are slow from country towns
Boston reports retail trade backward
tobbers carrying large supplies. and
lumber sales below normal, though In
creasing Manufacturing Is restricted
at Philadelphia, particularly in textile
/, fabrics, and exports Of lumber are
/ small Weather conditions have re
tarded trade at Chicago, although large
sales of wearing apparel, furniture and
carpets are announced
Aside from the cotton states, where
business is brisk, the weeks dis
patches indicate that early gains were
maintained, but little further progress
occurred. Labor controversies are still
nm adverse factor, new struggles being
threatened for May /, but several i'm.
/. portant strikes have been averted and
y there IS less opposition to lower wages
where conditions render change i'm.
peratiye
Railway Earnings Decrease
Railway earnings in the first week
Of April were T per cent smaller than
last year Foreign commerce at this
port for the last week showed loss
Of S652.12 in value Of exports and a
decrease Of S2.8T7, 144 in imports com.
pared with the same week in 1903
Official returns for March show ex.
ports Of S19,s13.47 and imports Of
!. sol, 302, 235, both smaller than last
I year Gold continues to 60 to Paris
but 1t arrives from Japan and large
corporation borrowing fails to harden
rates for money Security trading Il
!. light, which accounts for the decrease
!. in bank exchanges at New York Of
100 per cent compared with the CORE
spending week last year At othel
leading cities there was a loss Of l..
per cent.
No definite check to progress in tn,
iron and steel industry is discerned
although 1t lacks uniformity, and ii
some departments it Is difficult ia fin,
: encouraging signs.
Wheat Down and Up Again.
For time tie wheat market tende.
e downward despite an official repor
showing a heavy loss ia condition o
winter wheat on April ]. subsequen,
K " the Chicago speculative market re
q covered on dispatches indicating in
jury 60 the growing winter wheat an,
y delay in starting work in spring whea
states. but dispatches from branche
Q Of r. g Dun & Co. indicate fairly goo,
II prospects for the new crop. Statistic
Of movement for the week indicat
. western receipts of 1,7199T5 bushel
Y against .s29,365 last year and export
s OF 9S0,377 bushels, including -four
' compared with 2,409,25O a year ag
and an average OF 100000 In the tw,
preceding years. Corn receipts wer
1888 224 bushels against 1,56S,340, an,
Atlantic coast exports were 790,S9
bushels compared with 1,155,10T Il
1905 Indifference for spinners an,
some aggressive manipulation by tn
short interest forced cotton lower, blu
large spot sales at New Orleans cause,
recovery.
Liabilities Of commercial failures
thus far reported for April aggregate,
s.. 900, 152, OF which s1,546,575 were il
manufacturing. S2,s01s37 In tradinl
and $S56.890 ia other commercial lines
Failures this week number 225 In thu
United Stetes against 212 last year anc
18 in Canada compared with 10 yea
agn