Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-12
DUS'S REVIEW OF TRADE
Business Returns Are Irregular Because Of
Erratio Weather
FREIGHT BLOCKADE PARTIALLY RELIEVED
Mercantile Collections Are Prompt
and High Temperature Greatly
Facilitates Building Oper-
ations I'm East.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-R. O. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of tomorrow will say:
Trade returns are Irregular. because Of
the erratio weather, unseasonably high
temperatures restricting sales Of heavy
while business is mcst satisfactory In
colder sections. Freight blockades were re-
much complaint Of tardy S DELIVERIES sIs Mer.
camille collections are also more prompt
IN some sections than others, but there is
forward business on the books OF manu-
featuring plants and general confidence in
the future. Building Operations have been
weather, maintaining activity in the mar
kets for materials beyond the customary
dates Prices of all commodities declined
almost ! per cent for December. Some
steel mills are now able TO deliver more
promptly, because specifications are less
tural shapes, and few plants are rolling
billets In the structural mills, which re-
heves the pressure very much In that de-
crete construction are rapidly becoming q
leading feature, a single contract for 1900
tons being placed at Chicago. Forward
business i'm pig iron Is very heavy at Pitts
burg, orders covering the output of some
furnaces for almost the entire year, prices
varying according to the date OF delivery,
but sales are not reported az less than
s21.50 to s22 valley furnaces. This strength
is the more remarkable because of the
unprecedented rate Of output, all monthly
records having been ecllpsed in December.
Demand for cotton goods in the primary
markets Is somewhat less urgent, but
there is no prospect for lower prices in
the near future owing to the abundance OF
business on the books OF the mills. Mills
are making good profit on present business
after long period in which dividends were
irregular, and the industry is now In a
most satisfactory position. Improvement
rs noted In wooden goods, considerable bust
ness being accomplished In the mems wear
division, but this movement Is only fairly
started and II Is not yet possible to ascer-
Strength and steadiness mark the course
of the market for footwear. Most New
England producers have all the spring
contracts they can conveniently handle
and buyers are numerous in the Boston
market. taking samples for next fall. Job.
bers and wholesalers report a large distri-
button and the only adverse news comes
overshoes and rubber boots because of the
clement weather thus far Leather iS
quiet, but prices are firmly maintained
Tanners Of sole have no surplus stocks or
freely about the middle Of January, which
prevents any weakness In response to the
present dullness.
Higher prices have prevailed on the lead
was a natural reaction from the preceding
decline, as the short account took profits
and the recovery was carried still further
In response to reports from winter whea
threatened much damage from frost be
cause OF insufficient snow covering. In
terror arrivals of 5000 bushels OF corn
compared with 1895 0s1 bushels. and At
els, against 5970.sl1 bushels In 1906 CottoI
was fairly steady.
Liabilities OF commercial failures thus IA
reported for January amounted to So 26s, $50
1,46o,Hs In trading and s2s7,2s7 in othei
commercial lines