Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW Storms and Cold Weather Retarded Business in Some Sections New York April ARri 12 R G Dun Cos Weekly ekl Review of Trade tomorrow will wI say Erratic weather makes trade trad reports report Ir in Irregular 11 regular regular Retail sales of ot spring wearing apparel are being retarded by b storms and cold weather eather although some sections section ex cx experience IX seasonable s conditions Tempo Temporary interruption to retail distribution has das no il I iii effects upon jobbing and whole hole wholesale wholesale sale business however heavy transactions tons and shipments testifying to confidence conC confidence dence In the future while mercantile re returns returns returns turns show improvement Several strikes have hae retarded work wor notably In sawmills at Portland Oregon and In shipbuilding at Cleveland but manufacturing returns are It most moat satisfactory on the whole hol Tex Textile Textile tile tie mills mis machine shops steel plants and footwear factories have hae little Idle ma lug machinery chinery forward business appearing more rapidly than the rate of production In Inmany Inmany Inmany many cases Most encouraging news nc comes come from the theIron theIron Iron and steel Industry large sales lales of or pig Iron being made for delivery delver up to the end of or the year ear Traffic conditions are Ie better bet r but the steel mills ml are arc still unable to make satis satisfactory satisfactory factory factor deliveries deleres and new ne business comes forward In greater tonnage than production production tion ton especially for sheets and pipe Structural steel stel is now a notable feature large negotiations being under way a espe especially daily for tor western mining interests |