Show WHAT DUN SAYS Business is More than Holding its Own New York Jan 10IL G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trado tomorrow will say Whether the new year will surpass or keep juice wllh lie old Is time question which gives special Interest to every weeks returns Comparing now with business by time far he largest and most prosperous ever known a year ago more than 10 per cent larger than In I January IttkS which hulls turn had shown heavier bUKlnoss than In any year preceding I It cannot bo expected lust such a gain will bo repeated But the decrease of OG percent per-cent In payments through clearinghouse Is wholly dun to great speculative acllvllv at NowYork Inst year with sales of 12 1 051SITJ hltiires against 5ilSKO to imo t swino date this year for payments oil tltIuu this I city have been 43 per cent greater limn a 1 year ago nnd greater than In the same part of any other monllu The copper onlput nf this country in 1EOD was 2C2vf tons greater by I 91000 or G3i per cent than In ISO while tim foreign for-eign product last year S3MO tons gained In the four yeuis only 02 ions The prices of copper and lend arc unchanged with tin higher at 27 < Perhaps the most Imporlant I Indus I trial event Is the markillng of woolen Uoods at prices averaging isI per cent higher than last year many makes hav ing been promptly aold up and withdrawn while others sell so will as to give great encouragement As wool imitations average aver-age 319 per cinl higher than a year ago limo rise in goods Is not excessive But hopes of wool speculators for a further rise were dashed by the fall of 5 per cent In merinos ai ihu London nalo with crossbrods weakor and considerable sales at concessions of 1c to 3c followed by one of 200000 pounds Montana at 20 cents with numerous orders lo soil consign ments hitherto held off the market Sales 111 threo weeks liy2o I Xi pounds havo bwn smaller than I In I time corresponding weeks of the three previous weeks |