The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

| placing moderate supplementary orders
| for spring goods.
Leather trade broadens gradually and
the leading producers have advanced
| it's price of sole.
| Western tanners. sell all descriptions
of side. upper and calf skins freely, st.
| Louis shoe manufacturers operating
| extensively.
| Packer hides have again shown great
| activity, sales of 125, 900 being reported
! at unchanged prices. Foreign dry
| hides are improved in tone by stronger
| European markets.
Wheat advanced on reports of small
| interior arrivals. but reacted as the
Argentine crop estimates increase.
Corn had the support of statements
that excessive moisture was affecting
| the quality but shipments increased
and exports continued most unsatis-
factory. Northwestern flour mills have
increased production until there APP
pears an increase over last years fig
ures, but shipments abroad are unsat-
isfactory.
Liabilities of commercial failures
thus far reported for January amount
ed to $5,230,345, of which 1888, 918 were
in manufacturing; $2,530,800 in trading
and $3O5,627 in other commercial lines.
Bradstreet's
New York, Jan. 19.-Bradstreets says:
Retail and wholesale trade industry
and transportation alike feel the effect
of varying adverse weather conditions
which retard or check activity and
make the congestion visible some time
ago in railroad matters even more
acute. The entire Northwest has strug-
gled with snow storms and intensely
cold weather; the central west and
southern states have had weeks of
heavy rains, eliminating in swollen
rivers and impossible country roads.
In the Northwest coal trains have had
the right of way, and grain movement
has been light, one reason being firmer
r1ria xxrhaa w
has been DANA gjng to corn and oats
and has stimulated prices of coarse
grains.
Rela lively the most active line at
present is that of dry goods, particu-
larly cottons. which are strong and
tending upward, with the mills heavily
sold ahead.
Collections are irregularly slow. The
textile markets are strong and fairly
active for an ordinary quiet time. Cot
ton goods are strong, and print cloths,
percales and plain cotton tend upward.
Raw wool is steady. Higher prices
abroad and in the west are sustaining
features. There is some irregularity
in the shoe and leather trades. Cast
is more active and some good sized
contracts have been placed, while adj
ditional business is pending. Demand
for structural material also shows i'm
provement, particularly in the west, |
where specifications are coming in more
freely. Railway interests are the most
advanced its price on shapes to 1S5
cents at mill, which is the quotation
heretofore prevailing at tidewater. Buy
ing of pig iron, chiefly mallea BILE,
foundry and basic, for distant delivery
has progressed still further, the Chi
cago district reporting a particularly
heavy aggregate.
Prices for these grades, except in
isolated cases, are being firmly main
tanned However, bessemer and gray
forge pig are off 90 cents a ton at
Pittsburg.
Spot pig iron brings fancy prices ev-
erywhere. Large orders for steel rails
are said to be pending. but business
for the week was only fair The mills
are well sold up, and 1t is figured that
orders now booked total 2,500000 tons,
in addition to the $50, 900 tons carried
over from 1906. Pressure of offerings
from the new Cuban sugar crop is re-
fiected in the market for raw sugar
here, which Is points lower on the |
week, centrifugals selling at 31R cents !
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending January II number
234, against 2S3 last week, 279 in the like |
week of 1906, 304 in 1905. 226 in 1904 and
253 in 1903. Canadian failures for the
week number %, as against "a last week |
and 80 in this week a year ago.
Bank Clearings.
The following table, compiled by Brad |