Show SPRING BRINGS HOPE FOR TRADE Business All Over the Country Picking Up According to Reports MANY WAGE REDUCTIONS i j ij BUT OUT USUAL LABOR TROUBLES HAVE NOT FOLLOWED I New ew York April Apr 2 tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row will say 58 Trade and crop reports are irregular and anti business the country over Is still quiet as asa asa a whole There are however evidences of oC a growth in optimistic feeling partly due no doubt to more weather conditions condition Exports from the leading In Industries are not materially materia II different from last week k Wage AVage age reductions are more nu numerous numerous numerous but strikes are not frequent In 10 Iron and steel there is III more business re reported reported reported ported but evidently at the expense of prices Pig Iron Iran is dull dun and nd lower A strike and I lockout has bas been avoided in the anthracite anthracite anthracite cite coal trade and the annual spring re reduction rEI reduction I in iii prices to Is announced I AilS i t I l m lull t 1 AH r H VA and d leather lesther r trades trade nu are a n quiet q V van C with I a th e little l it business yet et spoken IIII for the Ule fall season Desirable grades grade of sole Ole leather arc ar in demand with oft off grades grade offered freely for forI sale bale I sties silo shipments for the thc first quarter exceeded 1518 by 23 3 3 per tr cent Then Ther Thenis TherIs is evidence of or more business doing dOl In sev sy several oral eral lines of cotton Otton goods omens wear lar goods still hoW hold the th center of the Ute stag as regards activity and nd good Oed reports come conic from Crom the business Collections stilt still Incline to drag Business failures for the week Ik ending with April 1 were ere In the thc United Stat 21 i against last week 41 a year ago ao in 1107 I 1 isi 1 In IA ii 1946 1906 and liO In 1905 10 Canadian failures for or the week weak number a 51 which compares with 05 6 last week and aud audIn 92 32 In Wheat exports from Crom the United States State and Canada for the eek ending April 1 aggregate tc 8 bushels against bushels last week and bushels this week last year For Fw the forty weeks ending April 1 this year the experts are bushels against agal bushels In the corre corresponding spending period last year ear Corn exports for the week k were I H bushels against bushels last laet wed wed and bushels In tt IMS Per For the f nty weeks ending April 1 corn exports were 24 t bushels against bushels bu h 18 last year Duns Report R It G Dun Cos eos Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow tORl will say 58 The stimulating effect of o fine SIne sprig weather Is shown In I the reports from nearly all of or the principal cities clUes Some progress Hegr Is making toward better things In iron and nd steel although conditions as a whole remain very vory unsettled The con continued tInned uncertainty as to prices in some of ot the finished lines is 18 the chief drawback widely ride circulated reports of further price cutting having a depressing effect In the primary cotton goods market manufacturers are disposed to refuse con contracts contracts tracts for future shipment indications pointing to t a higher rather than a reces recession aba sion on in prIe pres The dominant factor is the export move movement moot ment In China Chine which has line not yet et ter terminated as to the aggregate business done since linee the first of the year vear vary from tr bales to bales a avery aery avery very ery large amount for this period In the woolen goods division the dis distribution distribution of sample pieces Is now non com corn completed completed Plated and clothiers el will begin to go so on the roar next week The eastern boot and shoe shot market is quiet wholesalers as all a rule limiting the volume of new MW orders but trade shows how a slight Increase over the past six or eight week weeks The market for hides hid 8 is fairly well main maintained maintained tamed although the demand Is la only mod rood moderate crate erate Sole Sofe leather leaher continues OO quiet although there lies has JeeR bees a slIght Increase in la the demand anti and tanners are holding prices s steady owing ewing to the Ute high market for hides |