The San Francisco call., 1910-04-30
WeekIv Reyiew of Trade

NEW YORK, April 29.-Bradstreet's tomorrow
will say: Cold weather with west and
south have checked retail trade and dulled re
order business in spring goods, while the reports
tended to discourage fall business pending cleared
views of the ultimate crop outcome The re
ports from jobbing and wholesale trade lines and
Industries point to a slowing down demand, and
the downward tendency of many commodities does
not seem to have brought out much new business.
of demand The cotton situation is stlll un-
settled and extension of curtailment is being
advocated, while the wool market is easier both
Tor old and new supplies. In the iron and steel
trades pig iron production is in excess of the
demand and some furnaces are blowing out In
clement weather temporarily checked business
in building operations, but activity in that line
is still manifest The leather and shoe trades
are quiet but eastern shoe shipments are equal to
Prices Of commodities have tended downward
and food products are generally lower at whole
sale.
Business failures in the United States for the
week ending @ April rs were ds agaa5 ns6 i9 IL ,das last
1853 in 1907 and l39 in 1906.
Business failures for the week in Canada num-
Der 81 which compares with 10 last week and p
In the corresponding week of 1909.
Wheat, including -four, exports from the
United States and Canada for the week ending
April :2S aggregate 2,059, ,239 bushels, against
1,2S9,272 last week and S96312 this week last
year For the 43 weeks ending April Is exports
are 122 231 437 bushels. against 100, ,o34, ,295 in
the corresponding period last year.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade
will say tomorrow Conditions of business are
heavy. Certain unfavorable developments have
apparently been exaggerated and their effect on
business sentiment has been out of proportion to
their real significance. Much, usual, depends
this year upon the crops.
No concerted action has been taken to curtail
production of pig iron, but several more fur
naces have blown out their stacks and others
are expected to do proposition has been
advanced among merchant furnaces in some of
the largest Pennsylvania districts to shut down
so days between now and July l. Insofar as
demand for pig iron is concerned conditions are,
If anything, more quiet than in the preceding
weeks, but prices show some resistance TO
the declining tendency except in steel making
iron.
Producers of coke are curtailing freely
In response to the blowing out of furnaces, and
il is estimated the weekly output is 100000 tons
less than at the end of March. In finished lines
/ the situation is somewhat mixed and no great
amo1nt Of business is being done. Important
contracts for structural material pending.
Rail requirements Of railroads apparently have
been mainly filed and two export orders call for
Is. 600 tons.
The primary dry goods markets steadier,
| but still generally quiet Cotton goods are a
shade hrner, as shown by an advance of quar-
ter cent on drills and sheetings and curtaiment
of production Is more pronounced.
A good volume of new orders for the next fall
runs have been received by the manufacturers
in all sections of the country. Shoe shipments
from Boston for the week slightly larger.
Sales of western packers hides during the last
10 days aggregated about 175. 600 hides, and this
| has served to steady the market.