The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-17
RAILROADSOYERWHELMED
INDUSTRY RUsHED--WAGE AID
VANCEs GENERAI-GRAIN AND
COAL MOVEMENTS HAMPERED.

New York, Nov. 17.-Bradstreet's today says:
fufther and serious congestion of railway ship
inehts' more advances IN wages, satisfactory re-
orders, large Volume of spring trade, grea ter
activity In retail lines in consonance with colder
weather, a marked development of demand for
monday novelties and persistent requests for do
iheStlc ana foreign iron and steel, are among
week. . e.. '
Complaints of poor deliveries are widespread
and, while the railways are making every effort
to remedy the situation, little progress il being
made In that direction. Because OF these delays
corrections are not so good they might be-
mo most OF the Improvement reported last week
Is maintained.
Shipments of grain probably suffer most from
the congestion, but deliveries Of fuel to manu-.
featuring plants and shipments from iron and
steel mills are also hampered. Industrial
plants are being pushed to the utmost, foreign
iron IS coming in volume, labor Is scarce and
wages, especially those of railway employees,
have undergone further favorable changes.
demand for spot pig iron. domestic and for
elsn, Is as insstent as ever. and the high prices
prevailing have not curtailed consumption. Eng
ilsh and Scotch irons are being ordered in good
ly volume, the feature being the disposition to
contract for future deliveries at about $23. 81
ton New York
Machinery makers are unusually busy Wire
Prouucts are up 81, hoops are 81 higher and
late III the week steel bars were advanced So
ton by the principal INTEREST," coal anthracite
anu bltuminous, is more active and prices are
trmer, and in the west demand for soft coal
production is readily absorbed. Copper is quiet
but hrm, after the active business of recent
weeks
In the speculatively dealt in staples, cotton
has been easily first in the volume Of business
doing and i'll the range of price fuctuation,
At the decline the south Except Texas) seems
to have stopped selling. and overseeing by
shorts caused rally Of so points in four da VS.
of the present week
The grain markets have shown greater fuc-
luatlon: the weakness of last week in wheat
being followed by advance The movement
l. SELL light. and primary receipts of wheat
are still below Il year ago for the season. North
western milers complain of high prices asked
LOT wheat, ana report. export business checked.
trade Is active AS probably never before at
goods Of all kinds, millinery, gloves, jeweiry,
PaioF' confectionery, twine and cordage hard
ware. iron and steel and other melals ma
'hnery, coal and tobacco show speciul strength
Ill demand and prices. Wholesale grocers report
satisfactory trade. Large business is doing
III paper and further advances are announced
Export trade is expanding owing to larger
shipments of breadstuffs, mainly wheat and TO
The beginning of the delayed cotton export move
heit Two items expanded "a and ~ per cent
respectively over October Il year ago
Business failures in the United States for the
week ending Nov. 10 number POI against 1913
E'Si week, 40 i'll the like week. of 1905. 234
IN l?o4 POI in 1908 and POS in 1902. Failures
Ill Iohada for the week number 81 as against
q last week and 2S in this week ii year ago
E. neat, int l"'tins flour, exports from the United
STATE" ana Canada for the week ending Nov 15
l>ah francisco. Tacoma and Seattle missing
owing to wire trouble due to Storm aggregated
D. I423'l bu against 4,155.S11 bu last week
G.'3o2ll bu this week last year and 22So, $40
hH in 1904 and 1858, 1874 bu in 1901 For the
past twenty weeks of ths fiscal year the en-
ports are 1O.JGf.4l1 bu against Al SIS 467 bu
IN t!l,, 2b,6S3.Os1 bu in 1904 and 11S AS S65 bu
IN 1901. ~
corn exports for the week are 1920 $50 bu
against ST0.o24 last week. :. OJ4 633 a year q 90
ana l39'91S hu in 1904 For the fiscal year TO
GATE the exports 16,Tl6,435 bu against
~, '92,4'6 bu in 1905 and 10. 929 SCH bu in 1904