The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-10
HIGH PRICES.
Steady Advances Have Ten
dency to Check Trade.
Little Idle Machinery in Manu-
featuring Industries.
RAILWAY EARNINGS.
Continue to Make Notable Com
PARSONS With Last Year.
February Showed a Gain of Dab
Per Cent.
RAILWAY EARNINGS.

New York, March 10-R. G. Dun &
Co.. IS weekly review of trade says:
Some frregularity is noted in trade re-
ports for the past week but not more
than is seasonable. and mercantile col
lections are. generally prompt A little
conservatism regarding forward bust
ness i'm some Industries may be attrib-
uted to high prices. although the great
est strength appears in building mater
ial and preparations for structural work
are beyond precedent. The few minor
strikes do not seriously interfere with
progress and thus far the only notice
able effect o. the coal controversy is
the unusually large demand for this
season Of the year in all fuel markets
and the disposition of small merchants
in the immediate vicinity OF the anthra-
cite mines to allow stocks to become de
pleted Should an amicable result at
tend rl2s meeting Of March 10 these
dealers viii provide wholesalers and
manufacturers with much urgent bust
ness There is little Idle machinery in
any of the leading manufacturing in
dustries and contracts for distant de-
livery came forward freely, except at
the textile mills where purchases are
chiefly for immediate requirements.
Prices Of commodities lose slightly dur
ing February, Dun's Index numbering
$lO4204 on March i. against $104 OIL
month ago and S101 $50 a year ago.
Railway earnings continue to make
Striking comparisons with last years
dgufes. the increase during February
amounting to 24-3 per cent Foreign
commerce at this port for the last week
Showed an increase in exports of $685.
216 over the same week last year while
imports decreased 81. e95 Seasonable
conditions continue to prevail in the
hide market Poor quality of offerings
attracting little attention yet prices
Tule fairly steady. Lea Their is quiet but
steady support constantly appearing as
consumers require shipments. New
England shoeshops are concluding sup
Elementary spring contracts and new
business is rather quiet, but the situa-
ton is considered healthy
Failures this week number 221.
against pa last year. and in Canada q
compared with Is a year ago.
Bradstreet's says.
Spring jobbing trade is as active as
ever, exceeding last year at nearly all
markets: winter wheat crop reports are
excellent. prices except of some Coln-
try produce. wheat and -four among
breadstuffs, and bleaChed cotton goods
show notable strength and building &C
tiVlty- which is of large volume, goes on
without break Offering an opening
for labor employment rarely if ever be
fore witnessed. Industry is active and
mills, furnaces and factories are all
pushed TO I'LL deliveries. but new bust
ness for far-off account. say next fall
and spring of next year. is rather slow
to present itself pending future trade
and crop development. Money is rather
firm as a whole. demand being more &C
tive in regular trade lines. Collections
are irregular, backward in the south
because Of cotton holding. and fair to
good in the north and west CIearings
heavily exceed q year ago, itself a per
Tod Of large trade. All signs point to
large retail business for spring and sum
ner. developing earlier than usual.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending March number
Ia, against $50 last week, 100 in the