The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-19
ORDERS FOR SPRING
Trade centers Report Activity In
Booking of orders-Inquiry for
Iron and SteeI-cotton
Goods Advance.

New 10rk.-R. u. Dun q 20, 8 WSeA'
ly Review OF Trade said:
Business conditions remain substan'
TALLY unchanged. From different lead
ing cities come reports which indi-
cate a diversity of conditions with,
on the whole, lair degree of activity
While at most Centers, the lull usual
after the holidays is still in evidence
to a greater or less extent, it is no
more pronounced than in previous
years, and at many points there are
signs of reviving activity. In some
lines the receipt Of satisfactory vol
ume of spring orders is already re.
ported.
Interest in iron and steel centers
largely in developments in the export
trade. Recent orders from abroad in
clude an important contract for tin
plate, while a substantial tonnage of
structural material has been sold in
Canada for bridge-building purposes.
In pig iron cast iron pipe interests
are reported to have been active buy
ers Of late, and 1t is understood that
contracts for an additional substan-
tial tonnage will be placed If salts
factory terms can be arranged.
Busy in Dry Goods.
More buyers are in the dry goods
markets attending the openings of cot
ton blankets, mems wear, and other
lines, the operations having been more
satisfactory. There has been consid-
cradle activity in bleached cottons:
and advances were made of one quar-
ter of a cent yard on Lonsdales, and
half a cent on Fruit of the Loom.
Many visiting buyers are in the Bosr
ton footwear market examining the
situation there, and it is believed some
fair orders will be booked owing to
the small holdings in both wholesalers
and dealers hands throughout the
country at large.
New York.-Bradstreet' weekly let
ter said:
Trade shows an increasing disposi-
tion to throw off the quiet OF the post
holiday period, and the business world
is setting its face, with fair degree
of optimism, toward the approaching
spring season. Wholesale branches Of
trade are seeking, with fair success
for spring business, and statesmen on
the road are beginning to send in Or
ders. In retail lines, which as yet
show more activity than do wholesale
or jobbing houses, the clearance sale
is widely in evidence. Except where,
weather checks operations, retailers
are meeting with fair success in dis
posing of excess stocks.
Business Failures.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending January
12 were 1853, against 2S2 last week,
291 in the like week of 1910, 319 in
1909, 431 in 1908 and 234 in 1907
business failures in Canada for the
week terminating with Thursday num-
Der 33, which contrasts with q last
week and with A for the correspond
ing week in 1910.
Export Trade.
Wheat, including flour exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending January IL, aggregate
2,5S2,6 ,655 bush, against 2,56S,914 BUSH
last week and 2,677,1 1855 bush this week
last year. For the 2S weeks ending
January 12 exports are 66,1S1 ,5O2 bush,
against 93,500,419 bush in the CORE
spending period last year.
Corn exports for the week are
1886, ,379 bush, against 2,294,379 bush
last week and 1,5O2,S66 bush in 1910,
For the % weeks ending January II,
corn exports are 15,174,02S bush,
against 1867 ,463 bush last year.