The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-18

MUCH IMPROVED
Every Department Of Business
Compares
FAvORABlY WITH 1904
MERCANTILE PAYMENTS MORE
PROMPT, BRIGHTER CROP
OUTLOOK HAVING A
GOOD EFFECT.

New York, uJne l6.-R. c. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade Is as
follows
Moderate improvements is noted In
commercial conditions. although pro-
gress Is along conservative lines and
there is no evidence of speculative
excuses, Seasonable weather has
stimulated retail sales Of light.we' ght
wearing apparel, and jobhers report
more disposition among detlers 10
place orders for fall and winter goods.
Mercant le payments are also more
prompt, the brighter crop outlook hav
ing salutary eject ON all comuler-
cial operations.
steel Mills Are Busy.
Although little new bus ness is
noted in pig iron the steel mills are
busy and confidence Is expressed In
Developments next month. Textile
manufacturing Is In better condition
than at any recent date, high prices
for new material exerting no retarding
Influence as yet. and most OF the idle
mess In the leading industries lii At
tributed to seasonabIe ovcrhauing Ok
machinery and taking Ok inventories.
Railway earnings thus far available
for June average S7 per cent higher
lsehan last year, and foreign commerce
| at this port for last week shows gains
IIof $L3sT,3l2 III exports, and $2,Gs6.-
lSo6 Imports. In every department of
business the past week makes strik-
|ingly favorable comparison with the
: corresponding week In 1904.
II Conditions in the footwear industry
are without material alteration.
Failures this week 229 in the United
States aga nst EST last soar: tx aaty-
hve In Canada compared with sixteen
! q year ago.
What Brads1reet says.
Brads reefs review Is as follows:
Distrihuive trade and crop deval
4 opments, while stEll OF an irregular
I character hold, and have perhaps add
q ed to improvement manifested last
4 week, for which warmer weather III
b, responsible The sale of summer
. goods are more active Confidence I'M
y the future still continues Export
y trade Il good, railway earnings large.
Y building active and steel mills engaged
D on heavier forms Of finished material
II will not close down this summer. The
Q labor situation though disturbed here
and there, is on the whole pleasant
one
Crop prospects In general continue
T favorable although corn conditions are
spotted and the plant is very much
a. behind.
Il. Prices Favor Farmers.
XII Prices on all products still seem TO
n. favor agricultural interests. On the
other hand new business in industrial
It. lines is less active. Pig iron pr'ces
ii. are receding, stocks tend to increase
II and 1t is abuyers and consumers mar
Ut ket rather than one favoring the sell
ar Ter.
1el Cotton Goods Unusually Firm.
Firmness IN cotton goods u a fea
ture cailing IoT nOte. bHysiS htV ~
sisteni for quick deliver es, The re
order business with jobbers has beer
ed fairly good, especially at the west
In woolen goods trade Is seasonabl'
and clothing men report good bust
~ Iness. Wheat. including -four. export
on flor the week s6sS.oi7 bushels, agains
he 2,o4i.25i this week last year. July
ID to date 6o.691 .2S7 bushels against l3i-
liz. i7S,712 last year Corn exports 70
,y. the week 505,099 bushels against 29S
of 9sS year ago; July 10 date 765s2,sl
re. against 50,6ti,Si2 in 1904.