The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
COLDER WEATHER IS
 BIG HELP ID TRADE Retail and Jobbing Business Is
 Given an Impetus THE IRON TRADE IS FAIR In Cotton Goods More Optimistic Feeling Prevails as Result of
 CurtaiIed Production and
 Small Stocks
THE IRON TRADE IS FAIE

New York October 2S.-Bradstreets to- l morrow will say:
 | Retail den1and and recorder trade with jobbers in seasonable lines has been ouickened by the weeks weather devel- opments Collections have shown cer- | tain degree of improvement also, and are classed as fair to good. The leading in- dustrial lines show not much new to chronicle In iron and steel a fair busi-
 ness Is doing and trade Is best in finished lines. but in the cruder forms it has not
 developed greatly. Where much Is done
 it is claimed to have been at the expense
 of prices In cotton goods, firmness and | a rather more optimistic feeling are noted as a result of curtailed production ap1 small stocks in all hands and growth of belief in the permanency of about pres ent prices for raw material. In woolen | dress goods demand Is not greatly changed. The leather trade reports fair activity and there are advices Of better orders received by manufacturers O, shoes in the east.
 Rusiness failures for the week ending October 27 in the United States were 22o against lyl ldSI Wcth, 1lb III thN hiiNN ''NN-
 of 1909, 24l in 1908, 223 in 1907, and 16a in l 1906.
 | Business failures in Canada for the week number 30, which compares With S4 for last week and 24 in the corresponding week in 1909.
 Wheat. including flour, exports for the week ending October 27 aggregated s,427' le9 bushels, against 2,S44,615 last year and | A. 200. .4i9 this week last year
 For the seventeen weeks ending Octo- | her 27 exports are Sl, l,42S,346 bushels, against 47.3l6.17s in the corresponding period last year Corn exports are 507,07s bushels, against 1Ss,sSs last week and 5l6,- AS in 1909
 | For the seventeen weeks ending October S7 corn exports are 6,059,i2 bushels against 2.7OO,6s5 last year.
 Dun's Weekly Review | New York, october 2S.-R. G. Dun | & Cos weekly review of trade tomor- row will say:
 While the volume of business IS, still below productive capacity 1t Is note worthy that trade recession has beer clearly checked and a more optimistic view as to the future developed based largely on the great corn and oats crop and the high values of farm products
 It is xEue that no marked advance mas been Saade toward increased activity | but tife mere stopping of the retro grade movement is a notable gain. es- | pecially as the railroad rate contro- versy is still unsettled The power of the railroads for new construction and new purchases of rails and other supplies remains undetermined while
 the period immediately preceding Inn
 portant elections is not generally ia
 vorable to a change of this financia
 situation still largely controls indus | trial and mercantile conditions ant
 much conservatism prevails. While many consumers of iron ant | steel show conservatism in their op erations, signs of an actual improve ment In business are not lacking. IT
 pig iron it is stronger Cast iron pip interests has supplied the bulk of ths new business. Tin plate continues tt
 make the best showing in finished | lines with consumers and dealers talk | ing other productions at fair rate Some business has developed in stan dard rails for export and recent or
 ders for light weight aggregate mod I crate tonnage. The trend of the dr,
 goods values continues upward abou 1 the high price of raw material. Int demand from distributors for spring Ibas been fair but not active. Men.
 wear is showing improvement. while dress goods rule very quiet. Worstet
 and woolen yards are being ordered
 witN more freedom. The cotton good. markets hold steady at advanced price,
 and the mills are gradually getting into working order on full time.
 l Trade in footwear continues to i'm prove although business Is entirely be. How normal Manufacturers and whole l salers however, report material in crease in orders as compared with | | few weeks ago and manufacturers ex perience some difficulty in filling rusl orders for certain varieties. Bushes, | in leather Is more active and price, | trnner In hides some unusually large | transactio were effected. sales of do
 nestle packer hides aggregating 2So. | 0e0 hides, having been made at a breal 1 in prices of from one-half cent tt th rec fourths of cent.