Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-13
Volume Of Business Larger
Than in Recent Proceeding
Twelvemonths
COLD WEATHER A HANDICAP
Unusual Temperature Hurts Retail
Trade in Wearing Apparel = Money
Situation Has Promise = Exports in
Corn Fall of - Flour Also Shows
Decrease-Dun and Bradstreet.
New York. April 1s.-Bradstreet's to-

New York. April 13.-Bradstreet's to-
day says:
Trading and manufacturing condi-
tions are in high degree favorable
despite the lull in the demand usual al
this stage Of the spring season. Some
odd cross currents are visible because
of the scarcity of stocks in many lines
necessitating buying in other markets
to exc out supplies sold ahead some
time ago. In retail trade, cold weather
and bad country roads are a bar to
fullest activity, but the volume of bus
~iness doing as a whole exceeds the cor
responding period in other years. A
favorable feature deserving attention is
the renewal of buying of bessemer pis
iron on very large scale for second
half delivery at prices representing a
compromise between buyers and SELL
ers.
he situation of money is toward fur
Their ease. Shipments of currency to
the interior are heavy, but collections
are still backward tho they are said to
have notably improved in the north
west and in the eastern dry goods
trade.
While the situation as regards cop
per prices is perpleXing, the under
tone is probably easier, as consumers
appear to be pretty well covered. I
Business failures for the week end
ing April II number 1914, against 161
!, in the like week of 1906. Canadian
failures for the week number twenty
eight as against fifteen this time a
year ago
Wheat, including -four, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending April II, aggregated L.
S31, los bus, against 2,362,347 this week
last year For the past forty-on
weeks of the fiscal year the exports are
135,SS3,O22 bus against 107,506,919 in
1905-O6.
Corn exports for the week are L.
475,719 bus against l,725,799 year ago
For the fiscal year to date the exports
are 56,O59,579 bus against 1888, 1876 in
1905-06.
Spring Clothing Slow.
New York, April 13.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S review of trade today says:
Erratic weather makes the trade re-
ports irregular, and retail sales of
spring wearing apparel have been re-
tarded by storms and cold at many
points, altho some sections are expert
encing seasonable conditions. The
temporary interruption to retail dis
tribution has had no i'll effects upon the
jobbing and wholesale business. how
ever, heavy transactions and shipments
testifying to the confidence in the fu-
ture, while mercantile collections show
further improvement.
Manufacturing returns are most sat-
isfactory on the whole.
Improvement is noted in the pri-
mary market for dry goods, producers
regarding current purchases as of sub
stantial character, because prices are
now on too high level to encourage
speculative demand.
Footwear producers report trade still
rather quiet, but an Increase is found
in comparison with preceding weeks,
and pretty good returns coming from
the, west on account of early spring
weather in that section.
Vast weeks large sales of leather
were supplemented by a further good
movement, giving the market a better
tone.