Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-26
Rain Helps Prospects.

Rain Helps Prospects.
New York May 26.--R. q. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review Of Trade today
says:
Ample rains turnout the farming re-
gions provided the most important
commercial factor of the past week
tenance of national prosperity at the
maximum position recently attained
Retail trade responded to the stimulus
OF warm weather, light wearing np-
parel going freely into consumption
and there is an unusually liberal con-
sumption, and there is an unusually
liberal volume of wholesale business
for this time of the year. Mercantile
collections are still somewhat irresu-
lar. but at most cities payments are
improving, and the financial situation
is more encouraging now that the san
Francisco banks have resumed bust
ness without any disturbance. Manu-
featuring plants are we'll occupied and
building operations are heavy, but
there are indications of a lower level
for commodity quotations for The
month of May.
odllN etS tSI IiiIlSss lAuss lai hSl'Ol hNA
for May exceed last years by II per
cent, and foreign commerce at this
port for the last week showed gains of
s1.934.259 in exports nd $1,134,6o1 in
imports over the movement of 1905.
Failures this week were 1873 in the
United States, against 211 last year,
and in Canada, compared with IL a
year ago.
New York, May ESTABLISHMENTS to-
day says: Settled bright spring
weather favors the passage Of large
quantities of products into final con-
sumption as evidenced by the reports
Of expanded retail trade, of enlarged
iobhing recorder business and of trade
at first hands in excess of the volume
usual at this season of the year. Re
ports from the leading industries are
of sustained great activity except in
some few divisions of the fuel and
iron trades where strikes curtail OPP
erations slightly. The crop situation
is. on the whole. quite cheerful the
only drawback being the irregular dis
trlbution of rainfall in different dis
tricts. Fall trade as usual waits on
crop development but is Of larger vol
ume than ordinarily at this season,
evidence that SO far the agricultural
prospects for yields at least equal
to those Of last year, on which he
wonderful prosperity of 1905 was
largely founded. Prices display their
former strength, the slight upward
movement in cereals being based as
much on manipulation of an unwieldly
short interest in the current wheat
option as in the reports of crop de
terioration, common at this period. Ee-
ports as to collections are, on The
whole, fair to good and indications OF
easing money are furnished in the re-
ports Of return flow of currency from
the interior The San Francisco banks
all reopened this week with vastly
larger volume of money on hand than
flow to the east from that city is al
ready of good volume.
Activity in outdoor work, such as
building, with consequent heavy de
mand for lumber, hardware and other
materials, is still feature.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending May "a are 4,334,373 bush
els (large total mainly due to inclu-
sion of Montreal exports since naviga-
ton opened May ~ against 1,22120S
this week last year. From July 1 to
date the exports are 122,7S9,267 BUSH
els, against 57,226,1S4 last year. Corn
exports for the week are S1S,097 BUSH
els, against 1,325,467 a year ago. From
July 1 to date the exports of corn are
107 AIS 300 bushels against 74,521,IT1
in 1906.