The San Francisco call., 1905-01-16
ANOTHER FINE WEEK IN TRADE.

TRADE conditions during the week of the year
been seen was exceptionally promising The usual mdwnter
u lighter than the ordinary and all sections
very good distribution merchandise except parts of the
South depression industry due the
and sharp decline in prices having de-
influence less pronounced such harder coec
tions, with extensions requested,
The manufacturing sending good reports
many branches that they have orders booked
for several months ahead indicating that production has not yet
overaken consumption The best returns come the iron ana
steel trades though the wooen mills are actively engase WIFI
stocks of wool leading centers lighter than Tor good many
New England and shoe factories report business ana
the mills expect do lively business when the
don the cotton market becomes definitely settled An
encouraging four important industrial lines is the
general employment of labor good and the absence OF large
and troublesome strikes In fact taking the country as WHOLE the
labor situation is more settled than for years
Other current returns point to continued activity general
The railroad earnings show steady increase
corresponding periods last The failures last week
32 against exactly the number in and OF these the
rather than usual proportion owing to
the disturbed condition of the cotton industry which that halt
of the country largely depends bank cearing week
made showing gain 1904 being per with
only Orleans and St Pauout of the first forty
three the list exhibiting decrease from last and these two
losses insignificant being and respectively The
aggregate earngs $o5o33oo showing vast volume OF
general trade throughout the country The only lines showing
asude and provisions but the of the latter market
be slowly improving and there actual depression in it.
An excellent feature of the times the remarkably favorable
condition farm produce Look wherever will find stocks
in farmers hands light while quotations for almost everything
duced the farm above the OF the past ten or fifteen
years. This condition which, in itself alone is sufficient to-
running showing dstrbuve
trade produce and merchandise while the excellent condition of
pointing be done early the
The New York which largely governed by :he
conditions in the industries and rejecting the favorable
outlook by buoyancy buishness which nothing destroy
the fuminaons dire predictions of the enzed Boston
specuao effective month fall fiat and
peciabe effect the market except provoke laugh and
His fell fat 1t pretty hard when
the doing legitimate business with cash
money than really knows what do with and fine prospects
assuring another good make the citizen believe
that the going the dogs Lawson will probably
have give it up a bad game.
On this the conditions fine elsewhere in the
United States We sold all of wheat barley dried
and canned fruits hops beans and other leading products of the
SOIL Our clp has all been sold and the market is bare The
weather farmers standpoint has been ideal since last
September and the all the looking finely Our
banks still heavily supplied with funds collections good the
failures certainly the real and building
operations both and country, extremely active and all
conditions indicate continued prosperity.