Show I HEALTHY UNDERTONE Improvement in Trade Conditions Noted by Bradstreet Bradstreets New York York Oct 9 Bradstreets tomor tomorrow tomorrow row will w say Although trade reports are somewhat irregular In character owing largely largely to t varying va weather conditions in different sections of tIme the country and unI uncertainties caused by impending elections the time gen general general eral oral undertone Is toward sustained im improvement Improvement provement Country Count trade has been com corn comparatively quiet because the farmers have been taking advantage or of the ideal weather to complete their harvesting However the heavy marketing of crops has made for an increased railway ton tonnage tonna tonnage nage na e and Improved collections consider considerably considerably Considerably ably while exports of wheat are heavy Iron 1101 and steel are quiet impending elec dee elections tons being bein a deterrent influence but hut pro production production u ton Is increasing in anticipation of forthcoming good business and there Is Ismore ismore ismore I more doing doln In other industrial lines There I I I is less industrial Idleness and In some Instances business Is developing for the tha th first rt quarter of 1909 l and especially In shoes lumber and pig iron The pig iron production for tor September exceeded that tha of August by 42 4 per cent and It was the heaviest total recorded wa since November last while it I represents an Increase of or 33 35 per cent over oer January Januar 1908 19 However the decrease from Sep September September September 1907 19 reaches 35 3 per cent Business failures in the United States State for the week ending Oct 8 S number 2 against 2 last week in the like week of 1907 19 in 1906 19 1 in 1905 and 19 In 1904 19 Business failures for the week In Can Canada Cn Canada ada number 31 against 36 last week and 24 2 in lb this week In 1907 10 Wheat heat including flour four shipments from the United Unite States and Canada for the week ending Oct 8 S aggregated bushels against last lat week and this week last Jast year |