The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28
Volume of Business at Many
Points in Southwest
Is Reported to Be as Great as
1t Was in March, 1907.
BUILDING is BRISK.
An Enlargement of Operations
Is Noted in the West.
Bank Clearings Show a Slight
Decline From Last Week.

New York, March 28.-Dun's Review
of Trade says:
retail trade in spring goods has
MADE further progress and the conser-
vatlve buying by dealers in preparing
TOT current distribution is now pro-
vlolng good supplementary demand
from wholesale and jobbing houses.
Unusually advanced weather in many
sections stimulates business and agri-
cultural work is making an early
start. In the leading industries there
is evidence of gradual increase in con-
tracts, many plants preparing for
greater activity on April 1, while pro-
posed reductions in wages have pro-
ouced no threats of strikes. The best
news OF the week as to manufacturing
conditions comes from the leather in
dustry, although shipments of foot
wear through Boston are only about
two-thirds those of the same week last
year. Dispatches from the west and
south are most favorable as to the gen.
eral commercial situation. few cities
reporting the volume of business fully
equal to last years and these state
ments are supported by bank ex-
changes at these points about the same
as in 1907 There still is complaint re-
garding mercantile collections although
Improvement is noted. There is a bet
ter feeling in the hide market, prices
advancing in several instances eSpec-
tally hides suitable for sole leather.
Bradstreet's.
Bradstreet's says: The first week of
spring has seen an expansion in re-
tail trade and an enlargement of op-
erations in building lines, especially
at the west. Conservative estimates
of active needs govern buying and
replacement of broken stocks is the
chief source of jobbing and wholesale
demand. Trade in the primary bran
ches is therefore quiet, and opera
tons in industrial lines are below nor
NAL. Fall trade is backward, await
ing clearer view of the future crop
and price conditions. Industrial con-
ditions are still very irregular and
short or reduced time is practically
universal. The iron and steel indus
try does not show much increase in
activity outside of the seasonable
lines, such as nails, wire and tin plate
which have shown increased interest
for some weeks past.
Business failures for the week end
ing March rs, number in the United
States 2S6 against 303 last week; 166
in the like week of 1907, 176 in 1906,
277 in 1905 and PIP in 1904.
Canadian failures for the week
number 40 as against SO last week
| and FL in this week year ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports
from the United States and Canada
for the week ending March 26 aggre-
gated 2,293,964 bushels against 2,763,-
| 021 last week; 2,707,566 this week
| last year and 2,904,110 in 1902. For
the thirty-nine weeks of the fiscal
year the exports are 165, 547,053
| bushels against 130,591,179 in 1906
OF and 1913, 661.254 in 1901-02.
| Corn exports for the week are S45,-
| 1913 bushels against 1885, last week
and 1,S44,633 in 1907. For the fiscal
year to date the exports are 45,S0S,-
579 bushels against 51,667,S56 in
| 1906-07.