The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW
EXCELLENT REPORTS STILL COME
 FROM COUNTRY.
Car Congestion Affects Prices, CoIIec- tionn and Freight Movements and to Some Extent Discourages
 New Orders.

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 Excellent reports still come from nearly all lines of trade and industry, the only flaws being complaints that sections affects prices, collections, ce4 real. coke and coal and general freight movements, and to a certain extent Cold weather Is still a stimulus to trade, quarantine restrictions have iis- appeared, filling in orders are numerous year ago. Jobbers and wholesalers re- ported some transference of activity from staple lines to holiday speciaities. working full time: Industry as a whole Is very active. Iron and steel inter- ests report the past month record 4ispiayed marked e strenrtS oe- o diP'e saiP of 100 such articles being higher than a month ago. Reports from the country the demand HS for e crop or move movement gst is Sne nn- precedented. Here car congestion also cuts a figure in prolonsing the time bsforse 6sts the return currency % movement has risen sharply, the highest figure for two years being touched with a discouraging effect upon stock specu eign demand for cereals is noted.
 Iron and steel, lumber, all other building materials. cotton and cotton show strength never heretofore sur passed. In fact the list of prices strong or tending upward. is a verit-
 Business failures in the United States for the week ending November num- Der 166 against 160 last week and 1s4 in the like week of 1904.
 number 30, as against 26 last week and 2s in this week a year ago.
 Dun,x Trade Review.
 New York. Nov. 10.--K. e. Dun and Company's Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say:
 ness situation, reasonable weather having removed the last drawback and pressure for shipment of goods is so holiday of election week put deliveries still further behind and caused much inconvenience. Reports of wholesome nous and improvement in collections is noted in many dispatches Retail trade in wearing apparel food stuffs and terest Is beginning to be shown in hoi- iday goods. of which very large stocks were accumulated in execution of Q more than 2,5OO, ,oOO tons monthly, and this Is one of the best known business
 Footwear forwardings from Boston are within @ few thousand cases of the record established in 1908: textile InIALS GdHnOL ulthc QelINeTlcb WlIn ue- sired promptness and building opera tions are phenomenal. A few small strikes are in progress but are not tn- sufficient to prevent the greatest in- dustrial activity in the nations his tory. Railway earnings thus far re- ported for October show a gain of 2.5 per cent oyer last years. Prosperity Is also evidenced by further rise in prices of commodities. Dun's index number on November 1 being $103,S53, | the highest point of recent years. The per capita amount of money in circu. | iation Is also at a new record of $3l.6S. Foreign commerce Is fully maintained. exports from this port being valued at $3,147,993 more than in the same week last year and imports gaining $1,02s,- 95l.
 l tions are accentuated. there Is nothing new in the iron and steel industry. Prices of hides have moved to new high records for any date since the | civil war. Demand is now absorbing supplies so promptly that poor quail | ties of Iong-haired hides are scarcely less expensive than the choice summer
 Failures this week numbered 1S3 in | The United States against 21S last year and IS in Canada compared with + a | year ago.