The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-02
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW
BRADSTREET AND DUN .SUMMAR-
 IZE THE SITUATION.
Wide Spread Cold Wave Acts ns stim- ulus to the Retail Business of the C0untry-Reports from
 Industries Favorable.

New York. Dec. 1.--Bradstreets to- morrow will say:
 While mild weather retarded trade early in the week except in holiday supplies. the widespread cold wave later offered a needed corrective and stimulus to the only lines hitherto backward. Weather conditions now are likely to bring the long continued season for outdoor work to a close and especially affect the building trades, which have had the most active year in their history. Something like sea- sonable quiet Is reported in many ed that tobbers and manufacturers are still very busily engaged on holiday
 All reports as to spring trade are satisfactory Southern holiday trade reports are very good as whole. and the recent advance in cotton has cer- Taken as a whole the reports as to the traffic situation show a small Improve ment but the ordering of locomotives est is alive to the fact that volume of business never heretofore equalled must be handled.
 are still highly favorable. iron and steel leading with unprecedented de- mand and consumption for this season. the highest prices for the year freely prompt deliveries of finished products.
 Rather more unrest, present and prGsRective is N noted 1oI in sSSf hfSng lines as shipping trades. The prospects of an anthracite coal strike next spring Is
 Prices on ali staples are quite firm. in some cases at highest points of the year.. Wheat including -four exports for the week ending November 30 are week and S,loi.77s this week fast year. From July 1 to date the exports are 4s.57s,225 against so,11722o last year bushels against 1.o1O.522 last week and 364,941 a year ago. From July l to date the exports of corn are 23.446.s0a against iisStlo ;airsa in for lsV1 the week end ing November 20 number 1855 against PA last week and 1st in the like week
 In. Canada failures for the week number 25 as against 40 last week and 26 the same week a year ago.
 Dun's Trade Review.
 New York, Dec. 1.--R. G. Dun & more than ever before but in p,auy Company's weekly review of trade to-
 Business it conditions certainly war industries 1t was .d;Sicuit to take q hoiday wth9T stilliffnTthtebr tbs complaints of the importunate purcha- sers.
 of bank exchanges that exceeded last years figures by four per cent which in turn surpassed all previous monthly records Yet unseasonably mild wealth CT in November has postponed retail business in winter goods.
 Christmas trade opens with, q yoi- ume that promises to eclipse all earlier records and the feeling of confidence in the future Is strengthened by the encouraging statement that the strike of the structural iron workers may not become general. Crops supply the foundation of this country's commer-- farm products according 10 the annual report of the department of agricul- ture was even greater than estimated
 Manufacturing plants make most level of prices for raw materials and transportation facilities
 Railway earnings thus far average available for November were 66 per week shows gains of $4,62S,5s5 in ex- ports and $2,S74,907 in imports as com | pared with last years ,n,sIneS ngnpeS' in tba iron and steel industry. Quotations of all forms from ore to finished steel are firmly maintained. small advances
 in the primary market for. cotton | goods it is rather a matter of delivery | than of price. the upward tendency or | quotations having little effect on the | attitude of purchasers. Conditions are | unchanged fin woolens and worsteds:
 Quiet conditions in the packer hide market has become so pronounced that the tone Is less firm, although no definite change in quotations can be
 Failures this week in the United States are 203, against 22s last week