The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-23
BRADSTREET and DUN
REPORT ON BUSINESS
Distributive Trade Said to Be
Quieter Than for Several
Weeks Past.

New York. March 2O.-Bradstreet's
Saturday says:
D~istributive trade is still quiet, more
SO perhaps than in recent weeks. be-
cause visiting buyers nave returned
home to await Indications of the trend
of spring retail distributions. The lat
ter branch of trade has been in turn
checked by a cool snap which over
spread a large area Of the west n
north, and which, while not sufficient
to stimulate demand for left-over win
ter goods, a operated to retard those
for spring wear.
OF the leading lines of wearing ap-
parei, perhaps most activity, largely at
wholesale, has been in millinery, in
which the tone is really optimistic.
Staple dry goods AVE sold well n
the tariff uncertainties are a check to
free buying. There Is a feeling in the
wholesale cotton goods trade, however,
h a the line OF resistance to lower
prices has now been reached, and this
is fortified by the closing down or cur
tailment Of operations by many mills
south and north. Collections are ir-
regular, ranging from fair to slow.
In the industries the features are a
rather less eager movement to buy iron
and steel, but against this is a larger
capacity employed in furnace and mills
than for many months. Buying con-
tinues conservative, the-raiiways-are
purchasing in a cautious way, and the
higher prices demanded for pig iron
have apparently s~uperinduced some-
thing of a lull in that market.
AT the same time export trade in
steel products promises to continue Of
goodly proportions. Building trade
preparations are not uniform at all
centers, and decreases about offset in
creases. as compared with a year ago,
with marked dullness noted at tho me-
tropolis. Building materials still lag
at markets wherein the past activities
has been noted at this season.
Business failures in h United States
for the week ending March 16 were
PSI, against $50 last week, 20S in the
like week of 1910, 224 in 1909, 203 in
1908, and 157 in 1907.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 27, which compares with
40 last week and rs in the like week OF
1910.
Dun's review today said:
Recent improvement in trade is very
SLOW, irregular and conservative and
chiefly is in evidence in iron and steel,
in which there is a larger demand for
structural materials, a more cheerful
sentiment regarding pig iron and better
mill conditions in finished materials.
The volume Of transactions is some
what under that Of last year, but is
generally larger than in the preceding
quarter, while business sentiment is
helped by the hopeful outlook 70,
crops.
Encouraging reports predominant In
IRON n steel, Notwithstanding that
buying Of finished materials is on a
slightly reduced scale. The new book
ings are scarcely up to the mark
established in February, but the mills
are more actively engaged, and it is
evident that business this month will
make a satisfactory showing.
From present indications it seems
that some good sized rail contracts will
be received from Canadian railroads
owing to the sold up condition Of the
mills in that country, Inquiries for 25,.
900 tons from n system alone being
noted in domestic markets.