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Show LUSCIOUS WATERMELONS ARE NOW ON THE MARKET Watermelons, the big. luscious kind, and cantaloupes, together with string beans, apricots, ctillflowor and spring squash arc the latest additions among tho stands of the local produco doalors. Melons arc selling a I 50c apiece, while cantaloupes are going at 10c and 15c. String beans arc In demand and aro selling sell-ing at 15c per pound. Sales in all lines of early spring vegetables aro roportca good by all dealers. Strawberries are still in evidence, but tho variety Is not choice. Raspberries axe now coming Into favor rapidly. .Bradstreet's Review. NEW YORK. June 24. Bradstreet's tomorrow to-morrow will say: There has been a little more confidence In ordering from Jobbers nnd wholesalers for fall, but In the northwest thoro Is a disposition to await a clearer view of the crop outlook before calling to tho already al-ready fairly good business booked for fall In dry goods and clothing. Confirmation Confir-mation of the theory that there Is a demand de-mand for goods at a price Is found In tho fairly satisfactory response in the way of orders to the general reductions noted by the manufacturers of bleached rnllntiK rmrt rr unnrls tills wcoV. In industrial lines there is little evidence evi-dence of Improvement to be seen. The" Iron trade is fairly active, but pig iron ; Is lower, and the trade feeling as to tho last half of the year Is hardly as optimistic opti-mistic as In the first six months. In cotton goods tho movement is still In the direction of curtailment. Collections do not show much Improvement. Business failures In the week ending Juno 23 were 1S7, against 17S last week, 232 In the like week of 1909, 25S in 190S, 150 In 1007 and 116 in J906. Business failures In Canada for the week number 26. which contrasts with 27 for last week and 30 In the corresponding correspond-ing week of last year. Dun's Trade Review. NEW YORK. Juno 24. R. G. Dun &. Co.'s Weekly Review of Trude tomorrow will say: "Business confidence gains in strength as crop prospects Improved and congress enacts Its Important bills preparatory to adjournment. "Conditions in tho Iron market are marked by considerable uncertainty. Although Al-though stocks of pig Iron continue to accumulate, ac-cumulate, reduction In production has not reached tho extent though probable a. while ago. New orders received by the leading producers arc said to bo lnrgor than last month, and only thirty blast furnaces nn now announced as idle, compared with Uilrty-onc on Juno 1. Numerous Nu-merous good orders have been placed for structural material, of which the 10t.il for the month Ik expected to reach at least 150,000 tons. Railroads arc asking for bids for a largo number of now cars. In the dry goods market a reduction of half a cent a yeard In bleached cottons cot-tons attracted unusual attention because of tho announcement that prices would bo guaranteed lo October. "General trading showed Improvement and Jobbers aro buying In modorato quantities, hut tho feature of the business, busi-ness, both In woolens and cottons, is tho Increasing curtailment of production at tho mills, to nvold accumulation of stocks. "More favorable weather stlmplalcd Interns! In-terns! at the retail counters In summer merchandise and enhanced the trading for next spring. Although trading Is below normal In tho primary markets. It Ik noteworthy that there Is a larger measure of conlldencc In Importnnt quarters. quar-ters. "Unsa llsfactory conditions contlnuo in the footwear market, Now England manufacturers averaging about one-half the volume of their usual buslnesH. "Encouraging reports were received from the west, business there being relatively rela-tively much bi'ttor than In the east. Further weakness characterized the hide market and sonic of tho large western packers aro anxious to soil hides ahead Into the short -ha lied summer season at presont low p-'"" Boston Wool. BOSTON. June 21. The Commercial Bullet In will say tomorrow of tho wool niarknl: "Continued dullness rules tho market, with prices In huyors' favor. Original bag Arizona Is selling moderately at 53c to 55c scoured, while" line and tine medium me-dium scoured territory Is moving in a similar wny a.t 5502c. "Comparatively Ilniltod transactions )n Ohio and Michigan quarter-bloods aro roportod at 25c. Boston prices arc below be-low tho basis of new clip wools In the west, but manufacturers are generally Indifferent lo local offerings." Evaporated Pnilta. NEW YORK. .June 21. Evaporated apple:., ap-ple:., quiet, with prlcfis steady and unchanged un-changed on the spot, fancy bolng quoted at 101103r; choice, Sft"i84c; prime, 7 "4c: common lo fair. 661c Prunes steady, with a vry quiet Jobbing Job-bing trade, quotations range from 391c for Callfornias up to 30-103, and 4191c for Oregon. Apricots very quiet, and undertone easy; choice. 9410ic; extra, choice, 101 llc; fancy. 103lllc. ,,5ccl,CB' dul1 a'1 featureless; choice. 6563e; extra choice, 771c; fancy, 71 ilc. RalBins are Inactive and prices are mostly nominal; loose muscatel, 355Jc; choice to fancy soeded, 4363c; seedless, 33 Jc; London layors, 51.201.25. New York Flour and Grain. NEW YORK, June 21. Flour, firmly held, with a quiet jobbing trade. Receipts, Re-ceipts, 14.460; shipments, 6161. Wheat Spot, firm; No. 2 red, $1.06 n.51.,,na' ''f to arrive; No. 1 nor thorn, 51.218 nominal f.o.b, to arrive Options Wheat was strong and higher high-er during the morning on active buying on very bullish crop reports from the northwest and predictions of fair wcath-or, wcath-or, but lost part of the gain on reports that It. was raining in portions of the Dakotas. closing at 3 He not advance, July closed- $1.05B: September cloned 51.031; December closed 51.05. Receipts. 42,400; shipments, 7823. Imports and Exports, NEW YORK, June 24. Imports of merchandise and dry goods at tho port of New York for the week ending Juno ,18 wero valued at 518,342,287. 1 Imports of specie for tho port of New York for the wook ending today wero 57G.129 silver and 5118.080 gold. Exports of specie from tho port of New York for the week ending today wero $110,210 silver and 5G155 gold. St. Louis Wool. ST. LOUIS. June 24. "Wool Steady. Territory and western mediums, 1722c; fine mediums, 1617c; fine, 1214c. |